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Take His Hand · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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Speaker 1: Hello, my friend, Welcome back, or welcome for the first time.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you just found this podcast. I'm so glad that
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Speaker 1: you did. And if you are a person of faith,
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Speaker 1: I pray this podcast encourages your faith. If you're not,
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Speaker 1: if you've never committed your heart to the Lord, if
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Speaker 1: you've never raised your hand and said yes, yes, pick me, God,
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Speaker 1: pick me. I will go where you send me. I
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Speaker 1: will do what you ask of me. I will make
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Speaker 1: you the Lord of my life. If you've not done that,
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Speaker 1: I hope this conversation, these conversations encourage you to give
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Speaker 1: God a chance. There is always a way to make
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Speaker 1: it through anything, because with God, all things are possible.
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Speaker 1: Our faith in the Lord gives us the strength to
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Speaker 1: endure everything, even when the path ahead seems way too dark,
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Speaker 1: way too daunting, way too impossible to navigate. When you
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Speaker 1: are facing the hardest time in your life, the most
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Speaker 1: painful thing, When the doctor calls and says I want
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Speaker 1: you to come in, when the police show up at
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Speaker 1: your door, when the phone call comes in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the night. You don't know how you're going to
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Speaker 1: take another step. You don't know how you're going to
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Speaker 1: take another breath. But our faith in God can anchor
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Speaker 1: us in hope. Our faith in God can remind us
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Speaker 1: that most challenges are temporary. Some challenges are forever. They
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Speaker 1: don't go away. When you have been able bodied and
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Speaker 1: suddenly you find yourself unable to walk, or to drive,
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Speaker 1: or to stand, that's not a temporary challenge. That's a
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Speaker 1: forever change. But our faith reminds us there is a
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Speaker 1: greater purpose beyond what we can understand. There's a speaker,
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Speaker 1: an author, an artist named Johnny Ericsontata. Johnny was an
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Speaker 1: able bodied, beautiful teenager when she was involved in an accident.
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Speaker 1: I believe it was a swimming accident, a diving accident
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Speaker 1: that left her paralyzed from the neck down, and she
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Speaker 1: had to learn a whole new way of living. But
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Speaker 1: she didn't give up because of that, not in spite
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Speaker 1: of that, but because of that, she has dedicated her
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Speaker 1: life to making life life better for other people with disabilities.
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Speaker 1: That woman has garnered an army of volunteers who rehab
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Speaker 1: wheelchairs and crutches, and then she takes them to developing nations,
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Speaker 1: to warrant toward nations, to nations where children of lost limbs,
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Speaker 1: and she donates them because of her tragic accident and
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Speaker 1: her tragic circumstances, she figured out how to make life
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Speaker 1: better for thousands of people. There was a greater purpose
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Speaker 1: unfolding that I'm sure at eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old,
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Speaker 1: she couldn't see. But now that she's lived a full,
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Speaker 1: rich life and she's been able to see how God
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Speaker 1: has used her to transform the lives of other people
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Speaker 1: and to help bring faith to millions of people, she
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Speaker 1: has touched the hearts of millions of people. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: she understands that God use that tragedy to bless multitudes.
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Speaker 1: There's a greater purpose unfolding. And it doesn't mean that
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Speaker 1: the road's going to be easy. It never is. But
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Speaker 1: God assures us that we're not going to be walking
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Speaker 1: that road alone, or in Johnny's case, not even walking
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Speaker 1: it alone. In the darkest moments, God becomes the light
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Speaker 1: that guides us forward, helping us to rise after every fall,
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Speaker 1: helping us to believe in possibilities when everyone else says otherwise.
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Speaker 1: With God, all things are possible. With God in our hearts,
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Speaker 1: we can find the courage to keep going, one step,
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Speaker 1: one prayer, one day at a time, and right now
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Speaker 1: I'd like you to take the time to pray for
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Speaker 1: my friend Chadroi. Chadrey is a friend I met twenty
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Speaker 1: one years ago in New York City. He was a
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Speaker 1: doctor in his native country, came to America as a
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Speaker 1: young immigrant with his family. Came here legally, did all
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Speaker 1: the right things, but it found out his doctor credentials
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Speaker 1: would not transfer to this country. Unable to attend medical
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Speaker 1: school here, he put his career and his life on hold,
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Speaker 1: went to work driving cars for people so he could
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Speaker 1: support his family, and that's where I met him. He
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Speaker 1: had young children. They're now grown. One of them is
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Speaker 1: a doctor, one of them is an EMT, and one
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Speaker 1: of them is in college. And right now he needs
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Speaker 1: your prayers, desperately needs to be healed. He needs a miracle.
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Speaker 1: And he has a pure heart, a kind heart, a
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Speaker 1: generous heart, and I'm asking you from my heart to
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Speaker 1: please please pray for him. I have talked with many
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Speaker 1: people who have had or who are going through things
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Speaker 1: that would seem impossible for most of us to stand
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Speaker 1: up under, and this episode is all about that, about
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Speaker 1: bringing light to dark situations. There is a way to
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Speaker 1: get through anything when you have God by your side,
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Speaker 1: not as a crutch, not as a band aid, but
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Speaker 1: as the King of kings, who will lift you up
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Speaker 1: and carry you through the floodwaters. Who will hold on
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Speaker 1: to you when you feel like you're drowning under your tears.
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Speaker 1: Who will reach down from on high and grab you
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Speaker 1: and pull you out of the flames of addiction, the
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Speaker 1: flames of betrayal. Who will set your feet on solid ground.
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Speaker 1: When you think you can't take another step, God will
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Speaker 1: take that step for you and carry you. I promise
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Speaker 1: you that, I promise you that I'm about to speak
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Speaker 1: with Courtney. She has been through a lot, but now
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Speaker 1: she is thriving with love. She might have a pretty
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Speaker 1: strong faith and a fierce mama bear. Let's hear from
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Speaker 1: Courtney right now. Hi, Courtney, welcome. What can I do
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Speaker 1: for you?
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Speaker 2: I was hoping to give a shout out to my mom.
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Speaker 1: Tell me about your mom and what you want to
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Speaker 1: say to her.
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Speaker 2: She is up in Canada and I'm currently down in Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 2: She has been my absolute best friend throughout everything, every
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Speaker 2: up and down, She's guided me and kept my head up.
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Speaker 2: And I just want to make sure that I'm making
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Speaker 2: her proud that I'm doing right by her. She's an
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Speaker 2: amazing woman. She's always given the shirt offer back to
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Speaker 2: others without question, and she's given me everything through life,
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Speaker 2: racing us by herself.
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Speaker 3: And I wish I could give the world.
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Speaker 1: You said, she's been with you through everything. What is
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Speaker 1: the toughest thing that you and Mama have been through
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Speaker 1: and come out of the On the other side.
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Speaker 2: We were separated by a country between us, and my
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Speaker 2: ex had put me in the hospital and put me
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Speaker 2: through a lot of court cases, and she couldn't.
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Speaker 3: Be by my side.
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Speaker 2: But every day she was calling, she was making sure
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Speaker 2: I was good, and I know it must have been
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Speaker 2: heartbreaking for her to not be by my side through
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Speaker 2: all of that, and she's just been my complete rock.
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Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, I was expecting you know, when I
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Speaker 1: was twenty one and in college I twisted my ankle
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Speaker 1: and she wasn't there to bring me soup. What the heck?
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Speaker 1: You were in a foreign country and being abused and
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Speaker 1: hospitalized and Mom couldn't get to you. Yeah, this is
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Speaker 1: like a Netflix horror film.
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Speaker 2: I surprised her for her birthday last year. Without warning.
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Speaker 2: I just showed up and surprised her. We had been
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Speaker 2: apart for eight years.
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Speaker 1: And the man that was hurting you out of the picture.
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Speaker 2: Now he took off down the Florida somewhere and I'm
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Speaker 2: living my absolute best life.
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Speaker 1: So no more fear, no more pain.
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Speaker 2: My visual you know, scares here and there. But I
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Speaker 2: talked to Mama Bear and she's got me back to right.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Wow Wow. I want to take my mama bare arms
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Speaker 1: and reach through the airwaves and just give you a
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Speaker 1: big hug. She must have been beside herself while you
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Speaker 1: were going through that.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't imagine. But she just met the man I'm
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Speaker 3: with now.
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Speaker 2: He's three point sixty to what my situation was before,
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Speaker 2: and she adores him.
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Speaker 3: And it's been a blessing that's come.
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Speaker 1: And is it hard for you to open up and
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Speaker 1: trust again after going through that?
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Speaker 2: It is, it is, But he's been nothing but patient
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Speaker 2: and understanding and wonderful.
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Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. I don't even know you, and
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Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. What's your mama's name, Kathy? Are
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Speaker 1: you held the chairs back this whole time? He got
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Speaker 1: through the whole conversation and now just picturing her face
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Speaker 1: and you become a puddle.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know the what I'll do without her.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's never find out, Okay, I hope not. Uh, Courtney,
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Speaker 1: I'm so happy for you, and I'm so happy for
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Speaker 1: your mom. I know those were rough, rough years, but
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Speaker 1: I'm glad they're in the past and you're moving forward. Courtney,
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Speaker 1: you are so fortunate to have a mama bear that
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Speaker 1: loves you fiercely. You are even more blessed to have
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Speaker 1: a fierce, strong faith. I wish you continued recovery and
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Speaker 1: life filled with love. Up next, we have Anastasia. She
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Speaker 1: has a story of overcoming generational trauma. It doesn't get
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Speaker 1: much harder than conquering meth amphetamines, but Anastasia is absolute
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Speaker 1: proof you can get through anything when you give your
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Speaker 1: life to God. Come aboard, Welcome to the Delilah Show
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Speaker 1: and the Stagia. What can I do for you? Hi?
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Speaker 4: I just wanted to let you guys know on Earthie,
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Speaker 4: I've been listening to your show for twenty three years.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Whose I was thirteen years old?
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Speaker 1: And what do you do now? Are you working? Are
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Speaker 1: you in school? What's well?
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Speaker 4: We just me and my fiance just moved back to Springfield, Missouri.
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Speaker 4: We were in Kansas City for five years. We got
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Speaker 4: a house here in Springfield now and we are block.
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Speaker 1: Employed and still listening at night. Oh yes, oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: thank you. I got lots of people in Springfield, Missouri.
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Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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Speaker 1: All my mama's family lives there. So what can I
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Speaker 1: play for you tonight? My old friend, Well.
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Speaker 3: I do not have a song. Were our idea bus
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Speaker 3: song for our wedding And I was hoping that you
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Speaker 3: could kick one out.
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Speaker 1: And big wedding or small wedding.
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be. It's gonna be kind of small.
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Speaker 1: And tell me about the one you love.
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Speaker 4: Oh he's absolutely amazing. He is funny and outgoing and
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Speaker 4: he's really helped me. I was a drug addict for
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Speaker 4: most of my childhood and he got me out of
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Speaker 4: a very dark spot in my life. And our anniversary
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Speaker 4: is actually my clean day.
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Speaker 1: That is amazing. Usually when people get clean within, you know,
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Speaker 1: a relationship, as soon as the relationship has problems, there
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Speaker 1: goes the sobriety.
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Speaker 3: You Well, we have our problems, you know, every relationship does.
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Speaker 3: But we get through it everything.
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Speaker 1: And you get through it without using.
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Speaker 3: Yes, we get through it without using. I have not
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Speaker 3: I have not had a desire to you probably in
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Speaker 3: two years.
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Speaker 1: Good for you, Good for you? What was it about
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Speaker 1: this man that made you go, you know what? I
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Speaker 1: would rather see the world through through clean and sober eyes.
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Speaker 3: Well, there's a little backstory there with a He was
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Speaker 3: with my best friend for three years and we had
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Speaker 3: built over our friendship.
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Speaker 4: And my best friend actually died January twenty first, twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 4: which was about four months before we got together.
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Speaker 1: What did you lose your friend too?
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Speaker 3: She had comjes a hearttailure. How old she was going
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Speaker 3: twenty six?
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Speaker 4: She was born with it, and they told her that
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Speaker 4: she was not going to live past thirteen, and she
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Speaker 4: grove them along and she went to be twenty six
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Speaker 4: before it finally took her.
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Speaker 1: Wow, I'm so sorry.
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Speaker 4: During all that, we kind of, you know, mourned together
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Speaker 4: and it was kind of unexpected.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, I put away to drugs.
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Speaker 1: Forever for good.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, forever.
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Speaker 1: Now you were supposed to say, Delightah, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: only one day at a time. I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: say forever.
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Speaker 3: It's post me one day at a time. It is
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Speaker 3: actually sometimes one second of the time. But you know,
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Speaker 3: it is difficult.
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Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you.
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Speaker 3: It was definitely a hard road, for sure.
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Speaker 1: So can I ask what your drug of choice was?
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Speaker 3: Not Competa means wow.
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Speaker 1: And you didn't burn your brain out?
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Speaker 3: No, you are blessed, I know, because I've lost a
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Speaker 3: lot of friends along the way.
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Speaker 4: And my uncle he's still alive, but he's not right
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Speaker 4: in the head, like it fried him. Now that I
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Speaker 4: look back in her thing, you know, it's I and
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Speaker 4: a lot of my fuld friends are so amusing and
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Speaker 4: it's sad, but I have to you know, I don't
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Speaker 4: talk to learn anything anymore. I had to cut everybody off,
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Speaker 4: you know, out of my you know, out of my
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Speaker 4: social life.
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Speaker 1: People, places and things. If you don't change the people,
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Speaker 1: places and things, you don't change exactly.
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Speaker 4: And I guess you know, I tried to get clean
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Speaker 4: off and on for probably like two years before I
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Speaker 4: actually finally did it.
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Speaker 3: But my problem was I didn't want to get rid
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Speaker 3: of my people.
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Speaker 1: So you thought, you you could stay clean but just
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Speaker 1: hang out with users.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly how it was.
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Speaker 4: And then I thought, oh well, and then it was
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Speaker 4: just that one time and everything, you know, Oh yeah,
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Speaker 4: well I can just do it off and on everything,
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Speaker 4: you know, here and there.
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Speaker 3: Then it'll be okay.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, have you ever met a meth head who could
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Speaker 1: just do it off and on? Ever? Ever? Ever, ever?
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Speaker 3: Nope, you will never. Never.
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Speaker 1: And so many people think that it's that it's willpower
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Speaker 1: that gets you clean. It's not. It's willpower that keeps
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Speaker 1: you using because you think you can do it, You
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Speaker 1: think you got the power to control it. You don't, no, ma'am.
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Speaker 3: And it's sad. It's really sad watching you know, people
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Speaker 3: around you just drop dead. They're gone.
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Speaker 1: We lost my stepson in twenty nineteen, and he had
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Speaker 1: been clean for a couple of years, but convinced himself
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Speaker 1: that you know, I can I can control this.
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Speaker 4: You know, me getting clean actually inspired my little sister
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Speaker 4: to get clean as well, and she has a year
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Speaker 4: and ten months on her own.
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Speaker 1: Now, how did your family like, are your folks addicts
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Speaker 1: or my whole.
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Speaker 3: Family was addicts? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I grew up with, you know, a broken family, you know,
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Speaker 4: my mom taking care of us and yeah, so but yeah,
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Speaker 4: all my mom said, family, all my uncles and everybody
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Speaker 4: nursing were all drug addicts, got it, And they weren't
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Speaker 4: just drug addicts, they were cooks like it would you know,
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Speaker 4: I give it supported.
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Speaker 3: In our family. Yep, it was a way of life,
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Speaker 3: Yes it was, but I broke the generational curses.
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Speaker 1: Amen, amen, amen, and amen.
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Speaker 4: And I get it from my sister as well, because
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Speaker 4: we get when I mean, I was going with her
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Speaker 4: role model. You know, I'm the oldest of there are
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Speaker 4: three of us studying.
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Speaker 3: My brother never got into drugs. He was never, he never.
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Speaker 3: He watched me in my sister book down in the
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Speaker 3: dark hole.
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Speaker 4: My sister was away, my shadow pretty much joys followed
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Speaker 4: me every you know me down my car and she
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Speaker 4: funk really bad and her thing into it. And when
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Speaker 4: I got clean, it was hard for me to stand
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Speaker 4: back and watch her, you know fully pretty much kill
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Speaker 4: herself and her thing. And she finally, finally, she is
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Speaker 4: now a year and ten months clean, thanks to watching
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Speaker 4: how I have.
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Speaker 1: Developed, thanks to God getting her attention and saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: if your big sister can do that.
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Speaker 3: Look look what And now she uh got her NA license.
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Speaker 1: Think of how many other people if you reach out,
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Speaker 1: if you keep working the program, if you reach out
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Speaker 1: to newcomers and say, look, here's where I was, here's
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Speaker 1: where I am, and I can I can shine the
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Speaker 1: light on the path for you, if you want to change,
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Speaker 1: if you want to get healthy, if you want to
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Speaker 1: make positive choices.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I really like that. Used to be my
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Speaker 3: My desire was to be a life coach or addict.
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Speaker 1: I can't think of a better person to coach people
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Speaker 1: who are stuck in darkness than somebody who's been in
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Speaker 1: the darkness and come out on the other side.
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Speaker 3: That's a good hetimony right there.
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Speaker 1: Who better than you to light the path for somebody
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Speaker 1: who's struggling tonight.
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Speaker 3: You're right, that's very inspirational.
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Speaker 1: I think you need to think about going back to
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Speaker 1: school and becoming a drug and alcohol counselor.
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Speaker 3: I will give that a very very heartfilled thought.
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Speaker 1: It's destroying our nation.
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Speaker 5: You know that.
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Speaker 3: I know it is. Maybe it is, and it's only
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Speaker 3: getting worse.
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Speaker 1: Yep, every day, day by day, step by step.
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Speaker 3: You know, this is like amazing.
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Speaker 4: I've been able to actually talk to you, and it
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Speaker 4: is like been my dream for a long time to
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Speaker 4: be able to get out of phone with you.
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Speaker 1: So tell me about your fiance. He inspired you to
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Speaker 1: get clean and sober. You're starting your life together, yes,
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Speaker 1: and love of your life kind of thing. Or you
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Speaker 1: said you were friends first.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were friends first and it kind of just
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Speaker 3: happened like we just fell him up. We just we
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Speaker 3: just I don't know, it just quite it just sparks.
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Speaker 3: We got to spark.
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Speaker 1: There a friendship that caught fire. Yeah, and he clearly
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Speaker 1: supports you in your sobriety.
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Speaker 3: Yes he does. He's my biggest support system. Him and
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Speaker 3: his mom and his sister have been my biggest supporters
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Speaker 3: for the last six years.
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Speaker 1: God bless you. Thank you for calling. I am so
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Speaker 1: proud of you. And tell your little sister I'm so
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Speaker 1: proud of her too.
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Speaker 3: I sure will.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully the rest of your family will take notice and go, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know what this uh, this clean and sober thing
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Speaker 1: is working out pretty good for the girls. Maybe we
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Speaker 1: should try it. Yes, what do you think?
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Speaker 3: I definitely think that's amazing.
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Speaker 1: You've broken generational curses. Keep going.
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Speaker 3: I sure will.
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Speaker 1: You have a great night. Me, Phil, Each night I
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Speaker 1: open up the phone lines so that I can talk
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Speaker 1: to you, so that I can listen to you and
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Speaker 1: hopefully be an encouragement to you. My goal is to
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Speaker 1: make sure that anybody who gets through on my phone
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Speaker 1: lines has a good experience, feels uplifted when they hang up.
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Speaker 1: Even if I veheimently disagree with your decisions, which I
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Speaker 1: do sometimes, and I tell you that honestly, I hope
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Speaker 1: I do it in a way that you know I
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Speaker 1: love you, I respect you. I can disagree with you
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Speaker 1: and still respect you. But sometimes I have to be
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Speaker 1: very careful when people call and they're in pain, because
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Speaker 1: I never ever ever want someone to be hurt potentially
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Speaker 1: by anything they share with me on the air. In
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Speaker 1: just a moment, I'm going to have a conversation with
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Speaker 1: a young woman who's going through some tough stuff, and
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Speaker 1: I'm going to find, hopefully a way to encourage her
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Speaker 1: heart and maybe speak hope into her situation. Stay tuned
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Speaker 1: for that coming up next. Danielle, Welcome aboard. What can
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Speaker 1: I do to make your autumn night a little brighter? Mile?
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Speaker 3: I would love a song to just show strength for
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Speaker 3: myself and my children.
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Speaker 1: How many kids?
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Speaker 3: Five children, three are grown and two are still young.
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Speaker 1: So Mama Bear is used to a very full plate, yes, ma'am,
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Speaker 1: And you're going through this alone. It's just you raising
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Speaker 1: these littles. Yeah. Is there a song that is on
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Speaker 1: your heart or you would like me to pick one
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Speaker 1: that can become your anthem.
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Speaker 3: I would love for you to pick one to become
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Speaker 3: my anthem.
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Speaker 4: You have.
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Speaker 6: I'm forty. I've listened to you since I can remember.
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Speaker 6: I've had many trips back and forth and you've kept
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Speaker 6: me awake and you've listened to you, and so I
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Speaker 6: would love for you to pick one.
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Speaker 1: I know the perfect song. I'm going to play it
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Speaker 1: for you and the kids, and it can become your anthem.
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Speaker 1: It's by a beautiful young lady. She's been here on
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Speaker 1: the show with me a couple of times and on
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Speaker 1: my podcast. Her name is Rachel Platton and it's ten
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Speaker 1: years old now, I think. But it's called the Fight Song,
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Speaker 1: and when you listen to the words of it, it
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Speaker 1: is an anthem for anybody going through tough times, but
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Speaker 1: especially a DV situation.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. That's actually my boy's favorite song. See see
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Speaker 3: how that is. Yes, he works in mysterious ways. So
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Speaker 3: thank you so much. You know what that was?
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Speaker 4: That was?
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Speaker 1: Some people call him God winks you know where he's
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Speaker 1: just winking at you saying I got you, I see this,
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Speaker 1: I acknowledge this. He knows what your heart needs. Mama.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I've been trying to get through to you for
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Speaker 3: forty years, So I totally agree.
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Speaker 1: So I would totally say that whatever it is you're
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Speaker 1: going through right now, it's a bigger fight than you're
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Speaker 1: acknowledging to anybody, or he would not have let you
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Speaker 1: get through tonight, and he wouldn't have put that song
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Speaker 1: on my heart.
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Speaker 3: I fully agree with you, Delilah. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: So I want you to hear me. Don't just listen
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Speaker 1: to me, hear me.
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Speaker 3: I'm hearing you. God is with you.
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Speaker 1: He will never leave you nor forsake you. When you
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Speaker 1: pass through the waters, you will not drown, you will
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Speaker 1: not be overcome. God has got you.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I needed to hear that today.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Can I say a quick prayer for you before you
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Speaker 1: hang up?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely?
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Speaker 1: Father God, I thank you Lord for allowing this caller
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Speaker 1: to get through. And I thank you God for putting
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Speaker 1: Rachel on my heart. Even before she started talking, You
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Speaker 1: just put that song in my head. And God, I
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Speaker 1: thank you. I thank you that you are the one
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Speaker 1: that battles for us, that we don't have to go
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Speaker 1: into battle, that you do it the same way you
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Speaker 1: did it for David when he stood up against a
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Speaker 1: ten foot tall, giant Goliath, and you said, here, just
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Speaker 1: take a rock. That's all you need, one smooth stone.
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Speaker 1: Thank you God, that you're going to fight these battles
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Speaker 1: and that this family is going to come out on
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Speaker 1: the other side unscathed. I pray you would give my
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Speaker 1: sister peace, the peace that surpasses all understanding. Whatever is
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Speaker 1: tormenting her right now and causing her to be anxious
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Speaker 1: and have fear, to take it away, wash it away
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Speaker 1: like leaves floating down the river, and give her that
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Speaker 1: perfect peace that comes from you. I asked this in
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Speaker 1: your holy name. Amen.
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Speaker 3: Amen, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: You're going to be awesome. Mama, thank you because.
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Speaker 6: I woke up the night that I had called my
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Speaker 6: pastor back in North Carolina to see if she could
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Speaker 6: do prayer with me over the phone, that she wasn't available,
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Speaker 6: So I kind of went through the whole day.
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Speaker 3: I did it with you. It couldn't have.
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Speaker 1: Been any better, all right, God, bless you here to Delilah.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: The last call I want to share is from Danny.
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Speaker 1: Danny actually had God speak to him, and the beautiful
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Speaker 1: thing about that is that he listened the first time.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear from Danny right now. Hi, good evening. You
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Speaker 1: called it Elilah show.
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Speaker 3: Who is this? It is Danny. I wanted to share
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Speaker 3: my story with you. I can't believe I got through.
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Speaker 3: I tried it for years.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you made it through. Welcome aboard. Tell me
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Speaker 1: your story.
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Speaker 5: You were talking a while back about drugs and how
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Speaker 5: home and how they all be worth a person, but
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Speaker 5: they're going families. I got caught up with the wrong
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Speaker 5: clouds and I was addicted to cocaine. The family didn't
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Speaker 5: know what's going on. I was more like a functional
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Speaker 5: addict and they had to drive into the adversity though
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Speaker 5: they didn't know I was overdose things. Thank God, I
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Speaker 5: made it through, and I felt God talk to me
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Speaker 5: and said, Daniel, I love you, but this is matter
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Speaker 5: of me.
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Speaker 3: This has to go and coming up will be four
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Speaker 3: years clean and sober.
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Speaker 1: And how does the world look through sober eyes? Danny.
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Speaker 5: It's not being behind the cloud, it's not lying to
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Speaker 5: the world. It's about on and when you people see
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Speaker 5: your virtue and see your truth sell without hiring anything.
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Speaker 5: You can open up to everybody. You could show everybody
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Speaker 5: God's love, the love you have, and you see their love.
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Speaker 3: And I think it's wonderful.
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Speaker 1: And have you been able to repair the relationships that
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Speaker 1: the cocaine that the drugs stole? Have you been able
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Speaker 1: to rebuild bridges? Everything came full circle, so everything is
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Speaker 1: being restored.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and I changed my life all around.
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Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you. I wish I could reach
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Speaker 1: through the phone lines and give you a big congratulatory
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Speaker 1: hug and a four year coin.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 5: I'm getting a little motion on my car in a
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Speaker 5: little bit because I'm still here and I know I
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Speaker 5: have a purpose and I know God has the path
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Speaker 5: lit up to me, and it's incredible.
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Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you, Danny. God bless you and
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Speaker 1: watch over you and keep you safe. You have a
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Speaker 1: good night, my friend. Thank you Eliah to God you Wow, Danny,
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Speaker 1: you hit it right on point. Addictions don't just ruin
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Speaker 1: the addict they destroy families. I am currently experiencing that
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Speaker 1: truth in my family right now. Some people that I
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Speaker 1: love very much are in the grip of addictions. Three
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Speaker 1: of the people that I love so much are in
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Speaker 1: the grips of addiction, and they refuse to submit their
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Speaker 1: will to God. They don't want to go to meetings.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to go to church, they don't want
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Speaker 1: to pray, they don't want to read the Bible. They
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Speaker 1: want to have the joy and the thrill of their addiction,
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Speaker 1: and they want to pretend like it's not killing them
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Speaker 1: and their children. If you are in the throes of
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Speaker 1: bad choices, self sabotage, addictions, alcoholism, whatever it is that's
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Speaker 1: causing you to lie, to live a lie, please know
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Speaker 1: that God is desperately trying to get your attention, desperately
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Speaker 1: screaming I am here, I love you. Turn to me.
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Speaker 7: I will save you, I will rescue you. I will
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Speaker 7: pull you out of this mess. All you have to
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Speaker 7: do is ask, So ask, please ask, and I will.
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Speaker 3: Pray for you.
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Speaker 1: Father, God, have your hand upon anyone who is battling
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Speaker 1: addictions of any kind, anyone who is battling any stronghold,
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Speaker 1: any generational trauma. Have your hand upon them, Lord, and
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Speaker 1: set their feet on solid ground. And please, God, have
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Speaker 1: your hand upon my friend CHADRAI please, God, reach down
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Speaker 1: from on high and touch him in his hospital bed,
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Speaker 1: and heal him completely, increase his faith a millionfold, and
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Speaker 1: let him see your face, Let him see you in
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Speaker 1: his dreams. Let him see you when he awakens. Let
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Speaker 1: him see you and know know that you are the
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Speaker 1: King of kings, the Lord of lords. Thank you Jesus. Amen. Wow,
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Speaker 1: that was a powerful episode, at least for me. Hope
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Speaker 1: it was for you. I am so moved by people
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Speaker 1: who are so willing to share their stories, to be transparent,
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Speaker 1: to be vulnerable, to be honest. I mean, transparent is
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Speaker 1: the popular word, but the truth is they're just being real.
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Speaker 1: They're being honest. If you would like to share your
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Speaker 1: story or your support, or you just need a prayer,
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Speaker 1: next time. Remember, my friend, to have a little faith,
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