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All Things Are Possible · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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Speaker 1: Hello, my friend. Hello, how are you welcome back to
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Speaker 1: have a little faith with Delilah. I hope that you
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Speaker 1: have had a good week. If you were one of
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Speaker 1: the millions of people looking towards the sky during Rashashana, waiting,
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Speaker 1: waiting with expectation to hear the trumpets, and you might
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Speaker 1: be a little bit disappointed. I'm here for you. More importantly,
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Speaker 1: God's here for you, and we are going to talk
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Speaker 1: about how all things are possible to those who believe.
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Speaker 1: In the Book of Matthew, God says that all things
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Speaker 1: are possible with God. But those were words that came
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Speaker 1: directly from our Lord Jesus. These precious words describe God's
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Speaker 1: infinite power to transcend our human limitation. It also describes
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Speaker 1: that our faith creates the possibility to accomplish great things
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Speaker 1: simply because of our faith. I was talking to Michelle
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Speaker 1: earlier for a few minutes, but because we were having
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Speaker 1: some audio issues with Michelle's phone, we will jump into
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Speaker 1: this call with a little recap. Michelle, you were telling
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Speaker 1: me that you and your friends Snooks are in a
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Speaker 1: program together that helps women and children to get out
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Speaker 1: of shelters and into their own homes. You also shared
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Speaker 1: that both of you have been through a tremendous amount
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Speaker 1: of difficulties in your lives. I know you have recently
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Speaker 1: worked your way into housing a place of your own.
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Speaker 1: I also wanted to know how Snooks is doing. As
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Speaker 1: we pick up the conversation, I just wanted to know
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Speaker 1: if you both have your children with you now.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we both had both had children with us. Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 2: This is the longest, most shying year of both of
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Speaker 2: our lives.
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Speaker 3: And because it's next to hopefully get a home and
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Speaker 3: for her and a girl, and I want you to
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Speaker 3: play something for her because because it took me over
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Speaker 3: a year of through this.
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Speaker 2: Journey and she's got a little longer. But you don't
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Speaker 2: know yet.
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Speaker 3: You know, you never know when it's going to end
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Speaker 3: and you get that rainbow of the home. But I
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Speaker 3: just wanted to let you.
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Speaker 1: Know, So, Michelle, everybody in the world is talking about
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Speaker 1: those who who are unhoused and have opinions about the situation,
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Speaker 1: But rarely do I get to talk to somebody who
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Speaker 1: has been living on the street or living unhoused or
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Speaker 1: living in shelters and actually hear from somebody who has
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Speaker 1: lived that experience. So can I ask you some very
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Speaker 1: bold questions for it. If you could wave a magic
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Speaker 1: wand to fix the problem, where would you start.
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Speaker 2: It starts with really listening to the person.
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Speaker 1: So, how many children, Michelle, do you have?
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Speaker 2: I have three boys, Aiden, Connor, and Declan.
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Speaker 3: They're my life and they are seventeen, fourteen and twelve,
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Speaker 3: and two of them, Aiden and Declan have autism. And
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Speaker 3: so it's an extra special part of the journey. It's
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Speaker 3: a little hard to wow.
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Speaker 1: That's a way to frame it. An extra special part
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Speaker 1: of the journey dealing with special needs children who, if
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Speaker 1: they are on the artistic spectrum, have a lot of
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Speaker 1: sensitivities to a lot of different environmental static and input
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Speaker 1: while you're navigating living in a shelter.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 1: And are the boys with you in the shelter? They
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Speaker 1: with family members.
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Speaker 2: Actually aid in My old host was with me the
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Speaker 2: whole time.
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Speaker 3: Connor stayed with his dad because he chose a different lifestyle,
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Speaker 3: and Declan had something happen where he had to come
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Speaker 3: with me, and so he got to come with me
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Speaker 3: around November.
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Speaker 1: And how did you find yourself after being married for
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Speaker 1: twenty three years, homeless with teenage boys.
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Speaker 3: Well, my husband got us a victis from our home
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Speaker 3: for arguing with the landlord, and we went to stay
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Speaker 3: with his mother and I told her who he was
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Speaker 3: really and the things that he wasn't doing that were good,
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Speaker 3: and he denied it, and then they kicked me out
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Speaker 3: and my children chose to come with me, and I
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Speaker 3: had to rebuild.
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Speaker 1: So, what kind of activities And I don't want to
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Speaker 1: embarrass you or him or get anybody in trouble, but
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Speaker 1: what kind of We're not going to mention names. What
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Speaker 1: kind of activities was he involved with that destroyed your marriage?
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Speaker 1: And you thought his mom needed to know the truth.
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Speaker 3: At one point he started drinking, heavily drinking, and he
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Speaker 3: was verbally abusive to me and my children and just
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Speaker 3: kind of believed that he was the know at all
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Speaker 3: and I didn't really matter. And it's been this amazing
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Speaker 3: journey itself toever for me. But the part of it
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Speaker 3: that happened is that sudiful journey. I had strong women
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Speaker 3: supporting me, and between lawyers and judges and advocates and
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Speaker 3: everything on one of them. He hates them because they
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Speaker 3: stood up for me and they said to him, you
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Speaker 3: can't treat people like this anymore. And every time he
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Speaker 3: tried to fight back verbally or anyway in this process,
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Speaker 3: he was shut down. And that was the first time
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Speaker 3: in my life that I ever felt like someone listened
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Speaker 3: to me, you know, like I understood what I have
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Speaker 3: lived through for twenty something years of my life. You
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Speaker 3: have to fight for it, You have to fight for yourself.
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Speaker 1: There's where I can help you. I'm glad you've called
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Speaker 1: me because I can tell you this. Systems will fail you.
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Speaker 1: Husbands and boyfriends will fail you, society will fail you.
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Speaker 1: But God will never ever ever fail you. He will
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Speaker 1: never leave you nor forsake you, and He will get
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Speaker 1: you and your children through this. And the sooner you
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Speaker 1: stop thinking it's all on you and you've got to
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Speaker 1: go this alone, and the sooner you just fall on
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Speaker 1: your face and say, Lord help now. That's all you
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Speaker 1: got to pray, Lord help me now, very short prayer.
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Speaker 3: It's so ironic that you bring this up, and I
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Speaker 3: love that you said this, Solilah. But on last week,
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Speaker 3: when I was gonna with my housing, I went and
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Speaker 3: I prayed for the first time in two years. I'm
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Speaker 3: a raged Catholic, and I went and prayed, and I
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Speaker 3: sat at my grandparent's praid and I prayed, and I
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Speaker 3: just said, whatever's mant to be, please make this happen
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Speaker 3: for my family.
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Speaker 2: And the next day I found out I got it.
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Speaker 1: You're right, that's the beginning. But what the Lord wants.
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Speaker 1: Imagine you hadn't seen your kids, Michelle for a year.
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Speaker 1: Imagine they decided to take off and go with dad
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Speaker 1: and do all sorts of craziness, and then they see
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Speaker 1: you and they come running to you and they say, Mom,
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Speaker 1: can I have some money? Mom? Can I have a
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Speaker 1: candy bar? Mom? Can I have a new backpack? Instead
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Speaker 1: of Mom, I love you, I miss you. I want
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Speaker 1: to catch up. I want to find out what's going
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Speaker 1: on with you. I want to see how your heart is.
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Speaker 1: We desire a loving relationship with our children, and a
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Speaker 1: lot of times we spoil them in place of building
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Speaker 1: that relationship. In the same way we desire a loving
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Speaker 1: relationship with our kids, God desires a loving relationship with you.
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Speaker 1: He will spoil you and he will bless you, just
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Speaker 1: like you would reach in your pocket book and give
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Speaker 1: the last dime you had to your kid. But what
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Speaker 1: he really wants is to set with you and listen
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Speaker 1: to you and share his heart with you. Yeah, So
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Speaker 1: put the phone on speaker so I can pray for
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Speaker 1: both of you.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead, Father God.
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Speaker 1: I thank you Lord for allowing Michelle and Snooks to
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Speaker 1: get through on the phone lines. I thank you God
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Speaker 1: for having your hand upon these women. It sounds to
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Speaker 1: me like it's a miracle that they're alive. It's a miracle,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, that they have survived being on the street,
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Speaker 1: being in homeless shelters, being abused, being imprisoned, being sold out,
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Speaker 1: being beat up. Father, I pray that tonight would be
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Speaker 1: the night that they would choose you. They both have
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Speaker 1: confessed that they're tired of doing it on their own.
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Speaker 1: I pray that tonight they would say, not another day,
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Speaker 1: not another hour, will I do life on my own.
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Speaker 1: I want the Lord Jesus by my side. I want
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Speaker 1: him to be my Lord, my savior, my advocate, my
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Speaker 1: best friend, my doctor, my lawyer, my confidant. I want
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Speaker 1: the Lord to be the one I turn to in
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Speaker 1: times of trouble, and I want him to be the
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Speaker 1: one I turn to when I'm rejoicing and everything comes together. Father,
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Speaker 1: I am bold enough to ask that you would open
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Speaker 1: doors that both these women would have safe housing, affordable
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Speaker 1: housing for themselves in their children. Lord, they beat themselves up,
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Speaker 1: They feel like failures because they can't provide. And yet
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Speaker 1: our society is structured in such a way that soon
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Speaker 1: only the elite will be able to afford housing. It's
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Speaker 1: an on purpose. It's a system that's broken that is
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Speaker 1: making housing not affordable. The basic housing is not affordable
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Speaker 1: for normal, everyday people. Father, take away that shame they feel,
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Speaker 1: take away any guilt, and let them know, Lord God,
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Speaker 1: that you are with them. Your word says that the
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Speaker 1: righteous will not go begging bread. I pray God that
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Speaker 1: they would receive righteousness that comes from faith in You,
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Speaker 1: not from what we do, not from our acts. God,
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Speaker 1: I am so far from righteousness. But because I know You,
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Speaker 1: because you live within me, I have that righteousness visit
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Speaker 1: upon me. I pray God, these two women would choose
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Speaker 1: tonight to worship You, to believe in you, and to
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Speaker 1: make you the lord of their life. And I pray
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Speaker 1: you would open up the store gates of heaven and
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Speaker 1: pour out a blessing that is so great they can't
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Speaker 1: contain it. I ask the same for their precious baby's
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Speaker 1: Lord be with their children, and I ask all these
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Speaker 1: things in your holy name. We thank you Jesus Amen.
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Speaker 2: That feels amazing. Thank you for believing in us.
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Speaker 1: It's great that you called and I answered the phone.
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Speaker 1: But the main thing is God believes in you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Michelle and Snooks. Please keep in touch and know that
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Speaker 1: I will be praying for you. Most likely so will
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Speaker 1: everyone else who's listening to this call. And remember, all
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Speaker 1: things are possible through Christ. Never ever, ever forget that.
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Speaker 1: Up next, we have Victoria is feeling a lot of
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Speaker 1: what we're all experiencing. She's feeling like there is not
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Speaker 1: a solution to the divide, to the hurt, to the
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Speaker 1: pain of losing family and friends, but mostly she feels
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Speaker 1: the loss of her own faith. I'm about to let
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Speaker 1: her know that all things are possible through your faith.
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Speaker 4: Oh, this is Victoria, and then my daughter Hannah is
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Speaker 4: here as well.
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Speaker 1: Hi. Girls, welcome aboard. What can I do for you tonight?
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Speaker 4: I know you don't talk politics on your show, so
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Speaker 4: I won't bring anything up.
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Speaker 2: But it's all just very scary right now. It's like
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Speaker 2: the world's falling apart.
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Speaker 1: But you know what you want to know the good news.
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Speaker 1: You want to know what lets me sleep at night?
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Speaker 1: What's that God is still on the throne. He has
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Speaker 1: not gone to sleep and left us on our own.
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Speaker 1: I can sleep at night at the end of my
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Speaker 1: show because I know that he's going to be up
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Speaker 1: all night and that nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing is
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Speaker 1: too difficult for the Almighty.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I love your show.
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Speaker 4: I drive for Uber, so there are times when I'm
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Speaker 4: out late at night and your show is always on
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Speaker 4: in my car.
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Speaker 1: So you kind of are used to being scared and
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Speaker 1: on edge at all times.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: How old are you?
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Speaker 4: I am forty three and I have twins that are nineteen, and.
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Speaker 2: My daughter Anna lives with me.
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Speaker 1: So mom, you gotta be careful because this much stress
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Speaker 1: and this much anxiety is not good for your heart.
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Speaker 1: It's not good for your soul, but it's not good
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Speaker 1: for your health.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I definitely know that.
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Speaker 1: So you got to take care of you. Do you
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Speaker 1: have a faith in the one that's in control or
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Speaker 1: are you just white knuckle in it?
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Speaker 4: I have faith, but I've kind of, I guess, been
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Speaker 4: hurt by people in church.
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Speaker 1: Did I say a single thing about having faith in people?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: No, did I say anything about a church.
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Speaker 2: No, No, I do have faith.
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Speaker 1: Yes, because people are corrupt, because people want power, want authority,
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Speaker 1: want to control others. The church is the perfect place
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Speaker 1: for bad people to do really horrible things, and they
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Speaker 1: do it in the name of God, and then God
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Speaker 1: gets blamed. That is true when all those horrible things
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Speaker 1: that are being done in His name are completely and
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Speaker 1: utterly contrary to His word and to his spirit.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: If God says, don't hit someone, don't hit someone, don't
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Speaker 1: hurt someone, don't hit someone, don't hurt someone, don't abuse someone,
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Speaker 1: and then somebody hits and hurts and abuses someone and
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Speaker 1: says God told me to do it. Who are you
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Speaker 1: going to believe the liar or the almighty?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I don't belong to an organized religion anymore. Okay,
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Speaker 1: for all the reasons you probably are uncomfortable. But I
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Speaker 1: love the Lord Jesus with every fiber of my being,
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Speaker 1: and I will ever praise his name, and I cannot
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Speaker 1: say enough about the peace he gives me in the
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Speaker 1: midst of the craziness going on. Yeah, so it's okay
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Speaker 1: to walk away from abusers and from establishments and from
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Speaker 1: controlling organizations. Just don't ever walk away from God.
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Speaker 2: I will remember that.
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Speaker 1: Thank you all right, and you sound like a sweetheart.
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Speaker 1: I send you hugs, I send you love, I send
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Speaker 1: you prayers for peace via the airway.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: And the last call I want to share with you
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Speaker 1: on this podcast is from Daniel. Daniel is a walking,
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Speaker 1: talking example of how all things are possible. Let's hear
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Speaker 1: from Daniel right now. A.
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Speaker 5: Hi, my name is Daniel. I would love to give
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Speaker 5: my beautiful wife a shout out and a request to
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Speaker 5: play a bon Jovi living on a prayer if you
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Speaker 5: didn't mind tell.
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Speaker 1: Me about your beautiful wife, tell the world about your
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Speaker 1: beautiful wife.
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Speaker 5: Well, we've been married for going on seventeen years now.
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Speaker 5: We have three beautiful girls, ages fourteen, twelve, and soon
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Speaker 5: to be two. We've the song is a special to
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Speaker 5: us because when we first met, we were, you know, struggling.
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Speaker 5: I was going from making four dollars an hour or
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Speaker 5: two now owning our own home and opening up a
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Speaker 5: small business. And that song is sentimental to us. And
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Speaker 5: I've been trying to call for a while now to
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Speaker 5: get on the show.
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Speaker 2: So it's the night speaking with you.
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Speaker 5: And I've always enjoyed your positive messages that you've said
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Speaker 5: throughout the radio. And I would always tell my wife
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Speaker 5: to listen to what you had to say, because we've
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Speaker 5: found to be influential and it's an honor to speak
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Speaker 5: with you and to give my wife a shot at
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Speaker 5: the same time.
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Speaker 1: Oh sweet Okay, of all the things you've heard me
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Speaker 1: say on the air over the years, what was the
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Speaker 1: best wisdom you gleaned from one of our listeners, from
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Speaker 1: something they shared or from something I shared.
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Speaker 5: Don't give up on your dreams. You said it recently,
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Speaker 5: no matter what it is, to don't give up. And
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Speaker 5: my wife and I opened up a small little reef business,
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Speaker 5: and she's had, you know, doubts that she was good enough.
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Speaker 5: And in one of those doubtful days, that's when you
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Speaker 5: relate your message to never give up on your dreams
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Speaker 5: and to keep remaining positive. And my wife was with
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Speaker 5: me at the time when we were listening, and I
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Speaker 5: looked at her and I told her, you see, even
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Speaker 5: Delilah's telling you don't give up on your.
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Speaker 1: Dream Christmas wreaths, wreaths with like eucalyptus. What are we
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Speaker 1: talking about here?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you caalyptus wathes basically all seasonal. You know, she's
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Speaker 5: like Easter, Spring, the Hollidays, they come around, so she's
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Speaker 5: going to be making those as well. But yeah, ever since,
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Speaker 5: you know, she's been doubtful that she was good enough,
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Speaker 5: and your message really got through to her. And so
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Speaker 5: I thank you for that.
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Speaker 1: Whenever you hear something like that, know that that's not me,
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Speaker 1: that's God borrowing my voice. Sometimes I'll come in here
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Speaker 1: and I'll be planning on, you know, I take notes
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Speaker 1: throughout the day, and I'll plan on talking about, you know,
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Speaker 1: my kids packing the lunch for school. And I sat
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Speaker 1: down with my notes in front of me, and I
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Speaker 1: turn on the microphone and out of my mouth comes
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Speaker 1: something entirely different that I hadn't even planned on sharing.
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Speaker 1: But God's like, no, you're going to talk about this.
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Speaker 1: You're going to talk about using your creativity and weaving
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Speaker 1: together a wreath that's a symbol of love, a circle
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Speaker 1: that has no end, and displaying that to welcome people
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Speaker 1: into your home. That's what you're going to talk about.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, okay, So when you hear me say
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Speaker 1: things like that, please know that that's God that said.
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to borrow your vocal cords, since I
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Speaker 1: own the airwaves, I just I need somebody needs to
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Speaker 1: hear this right now. D So I'm step aside, step
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Speaker 1: aside and share this.
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Speaker 5: That means so much more to me, because, to be honest,
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Speaker 5: a few years back, my faith was not as strong
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Speaker 5: as it is now. And I'm it's been going on
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Speaker 5: seven years since my last drink. I've been completely sober
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Speaker 5: and that has been with God's help and me finding
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Speaker 5: my faith. My life has completely changed. I've been with
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Speaker 5: a company for twelve years. I was unhappy. I was
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Speaker 5: on third shift, and I've asked God for help, and
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Speaker 5: I've been praying very much, very hard, and that my
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Speaker 5: bond with God has been like before, and I found
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Speaker 5: a new career and life has I've never looked back.
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Speaker 5: I I'm firing on all cylinders and you know, taking
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Speaker 5: my family along the way, and we've never been happier.
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Speaker 5: And to be honest, at this new job, we just
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Speaker 5: started listening to your show for I want to say
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Speaker 5: three years now, and it's our favorite show to listen
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Speaker 5: to nowadays. To be honest, and yeah, you know your
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Speaker 5: messages are strong and they're very influential, and it's an
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Speaker 5: honor to be speaking with you, and this is I
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Speaker 5: don't know if you heard me, a little one speaking right.
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Speaker 5: Nazi's in the background with their bottle of milk, But yeah, no,
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Speaker 5: it's what you said, is just it. It gave me
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Speaker 5: the chills, you know, And yeah, I just know that
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Speaker 5: your positive messages reaches out to more than you know.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you are clean and sober, and you're working
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Speaker 1: a program, and you're doing the steps and you're doing
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Speaker 1: everything possible to have a clear mind and a clear vision,
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Speaker 1: trust me, you will be hearing the Almighty and everything
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Speaker 1: you see and do, you'll feel that guidance, that presence
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Speaker 1: of love of the Almighty every day. That's why alcoholism exists,
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Speaker 1: That's why drug addiction exists. Is because just like there
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Speaker 1: is an Almighty who wants to lead us in goodness
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Speaker 1: and love, there's an adversary that doesn't want us to
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Speaker 1: experience those things. So if we're high, if we're drunk,
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Speaker 1: if we're gambling, if we're putting ourselves in compromising situations
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Speaker 1: where we're not being valued and honored, we're not going
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Speaker 1: to be able to hear the voice of the almightds
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Speaker 1: We're going to stumble and fall flat on our face.
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Speaker 5: I've realized that, and it's I can't believe I've been
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Speaker 5: a fool so long. But you know, we were all
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Speaker 5: young at one point and made mistakes. But I'm glad
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Speaker 5: I finally made the right decisions and the family and
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Speaker 5: I have never been happier.
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Speaker 1: All things are possible when you have just a teeny
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Speaker 1: tiny little speck of sand of faith. If your faith
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Speaker 1: is no bigger than the head of a pen, you
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Speaker 1: can accomplish so much. All things are possible for those
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Speaker 1: who have faith.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more so all.
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Speaker 1: These conversations with Michelle and Snooks and Victoria and Daniel.
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Speaker 1: Very different people, very different situations, very different walks of life.
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Speaker 1: But one thing we all have in common, those four
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Speaker 1: people and myself and probably you, and that is this,
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Speaker 1: we cannot do it on our own. I can't do
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Speaker 1: anything on my own. I can't make my heart beat
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Speaker 1: on my own. I can do so little on my own.
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Speaker 1: But with Christ, I can do all things. Through Christ,
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Speaker 1: who strengthens me, I can pick up and carry on
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Speaker 1: even when I don't feel like it, even when I
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Speaker 1: feel like giving up, even when I feel like tossing
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Speaker 1: my hands up and saying I don't want to do
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Speaker 1: this anymore. I can take care of the five kids
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Speaker 1: that God has placed in my life right now, even
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Speaker 1: though I'm tired, even though I'm sixty five, even though
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Speaker 1: I have been parenting for forty two years, I can
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Speaker 1: keep going. I can do all things through Christ, who
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Speaker 1: strengthens me, and so can you. But that begins with
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Speaker 1: putting your faith in Christ. If you have not done that,
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Speaker 1: if you have not taken that step of faith, can
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Speaker 1: I encourage you to do that today? Make today the
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Speaker 1: day that you say, you know what, I'm tied tired
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Speaker 1: of doing this on my own. I'm tired of trying
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Speaker 1: to come up with all the answers on my own.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to trying to balance everything, trying to keep
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Speaker 1: all these balls up in the air. I'm tired. And
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Speaker 1: I am going to lay it down right now at
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Speaker 1: the foot of the cross. I'm going to lay it down,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to leave it there, and I'm going
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Speaker 1: to choose to give my life, my will, my strong,
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Speaker 1: stubborn will turn it over to a power greater than myself,
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Speaker 1: turn it over to the Lord. And when you pray
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Speaker 1: that very simple prayer and say Jesus, come into my heart,
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Speaker 1: write my name and your book of life, and be
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Speaker 1: with me and guide me. Once you make that choice,
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Speaker 1: trust me, he's there. He's never going to leave you,
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Speaker 1: he's never going to forsake you, never ever, ever, ever ever.
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Speaker 1: He loves you, and there's nothing you can do to
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Speaker 1: change that love. It's a gift. God bless you, and
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Speaker 1: I will see you again soon. Here on, have a
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Speaker 1: little faith with Delilah. Delah