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God Never Leaves Us · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my friend. Hello, Hello, and welcome to a new
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  Speaker 1: edition of Have a Little Faith with Delilah. What a
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  Speaker 1: crazy time we live in. What a crazy time we
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  Speaker 1: live in, And I think it's going to get a
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  Speaker 1: lot rougher I do. Why do I say that? Because
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  Speaker 1: I've read the Bible, and God tells us all the
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  Speaker 1: things that are about to unfold. And we can be
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  Speaker 1: terrified and we can be paralyzed in fear, or we
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  Speaker 1: can read his word and remember that he says that
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  Speaker 1: he has us in the palm of his hand. Last
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  Speaker 1: week brought yet another tragedy. The unspeakable violence that we
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  Speaker 1: all wake up to every day is being normalized. It's
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  Speaker 1: being normalized. Murders, assassination being normalized. Guess what it is
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  Speaker 1: not normal. I know that it's been difficult for so
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  Speaker 1: long now to be a person of faith, but really
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  Speaker 1: we enjoy a lot of religious freedoms here that other
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  Speaker 1: people and other parts of the world don't get to enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, it's so important to me to cling to
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  Speaker 1: my faith, to celebrate my faith. My Lord, my faith
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  Speaker 1: is a construct, but my Lord, my God is everything.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about clinging to a religion or a
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  Speaker 1: building or a theology or a set of rules talking
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  Speaker 1: about clinging to the Almighty, the Great. I am the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: in the end, the one who created all that is
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  Speaker 1: and all that ever will be. You have every right
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  Speaker 1: to reason and speak out no matter who you are.
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  Speaker 1: There are probably a lot of good reasons for us
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  Speaker 1: to be fearful. I choose to be bold. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to choose to be fearful. I am not going
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  Speaker 1: to live in fear. I absolutely refuse to live in fear.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to live my faith out loud. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to live it every single day, not by shouting at people,
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  Speaker 1: or arguing at people, or even debating with people. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not interested in debating my faith with you. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: You get to believe however you want to believe. But
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  Speaker 1: if you see in me and my family and my kids,
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  Speaker 1: and my life and my farm, if you see in
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  Speaker 1: me something that looks good, something that looks healing, if
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  Speaker 1: you hear in my voice something that is healing, something
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  Speaker 1: that brings peace, know that that's something is God. Know
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is the only peace we can have in
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  Speaker 1: this world, the only peace we will ever have. In
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  Speaker 1: the midst of the storms of life, as if we
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  Speaker 1: cling to the rock, the rock that is the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Your words matter, especially if you call yourself a Christian.
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  Speaker 1: The word Christian means to emulate Christ, to live as
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  Speaker 1: Christ lived. He always spoke the truth, He never lied,
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  Speaker 1: he never minced words, but he always spoke the truth
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  Speaker 1: in love, and he was never hurtful or hateful. So remember,
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  Speaker 1: choose your words wisely. Do not speak words that will
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  Speaker 1: break the heart of God or the heart of other people.
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  Speaker 1: And remember this God. God tells us to love those
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  Speaker 1: who oppose us. He says, love your enemies, bless those
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  Speaker 1: who persecute you. Love them, do not hate them, and
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  Speaker 1: in doing so, you will be heaping colds upon their lap.
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  Speaker 1: When somebody hates you and somebody despises you, love them,
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  Speaker 1: love them, love them, and bless them. He calls us
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  Speaker 1: to love and pray for our enemies. He calls us
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  Speaker 1: always to love. Show people your faith by your actions,
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  Speaker 1: by your love, Show your faith by your love. There's
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful verse that says, trust in the Lord with
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  Speaker 1: all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding,
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  Speaker 1: but in all ways acknowledge God, and He will make
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  Speaker 1: your path straight. Today I'm going to share two stories
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  Speaker 1: with you, two conversations with two young young women who
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  Speaker 1: are struggling with their faith, mostly because of pain and
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  Speaker 1: hurt from the past. I have Hannah up first. She
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  Speaker 1: is struggling with loss and depression, but mostly she's struggling
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  Speaker 1: with her faith and she knows it. Let's listen to
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  Speaker 1: Hannah right now.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Hannah. I was just calling to tell you what
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  Speaker 2: you meant to me all my life. And I know
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  Speaker 2: you hear this from everybody, but sitting in the back
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  Speaker 2: seat with my mom on our way home from Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: We would go there every weekend. It was where she
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  Speaker 2: grew up, and on our way home, she would have
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  Speaker 2: you on and I would just lean my head against
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  Speaker 2: the window, and just like everyone else talks about it,
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  Speaker 2: it's a passage in life that we've all had with you,
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  Speaker 2: and you just you mean the world to me. And
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  Speaker 2: my mom passed away when I was seventeen, and when
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  Speaker 2: I listen to you, I think of her. It was
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  Speaker 2: just something me and her did, along with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of other things. And I just wanted to tell you
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  Speaker 2: how much you mean to me, and thank you so
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  Speaker 2: much for everything you've done for me and everyone else
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  Speaker 2: that loves you the way we all do, and you're
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  Speaker 2: a light in this world and God bless you so much.
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  Speaker 1: They gonna make me cry. I'm sorry about your mama.
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  Speaker 2: Don't believe them actually talking to you, and I never
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  Speaker 2: thought i'd get through.
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  Speaker 3: But you're wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: You're an angel, you really are, and you mean.
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  Speaker 2: So much to so many people in this world. And
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  Speaker 2: I said, I know you hear it by everybody, but
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  Speaker 2: you deserve to hear it too, and I hope you
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  Speaker 2: continue to hear it all your life. And just thank
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  Speaker 2: you for the wonderful feelings that you give all of us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, and then wonderful memories that you give us.
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  Speaker 2: Because I can get really down sometimes, but I listen
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  Speaker 2: to you and I hear your voice saying you make
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  Speaker 2: it so much better.
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  Speaker 4: You help me brith it.
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  Speaker 2: We're all loved by God and things are going to
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  Speaker 2: get better. So I just want to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Hannah. I'm not an angel, trust me when
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, but I do my best to be
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  Speaker 1: a voice of calm in a world that's gone mad,
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  Speaker 1: gone absolutely crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and Delilah's I know you know this, but I'll
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  Speaker 2: just tell you anything that you have done.
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  Speaker 3: God's forgiven you for already, so well.
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  Speaker 1: He forgives us when we turn around and walk the
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  Speaker 1: other direction, when we say, okay, I'm done with that,
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  Speaker 1: and we decide to make good choices. And sometimes sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I do that, and then other times stuff comes out
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  Speaker 1: of my mouth that I don't even believe. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: where did that toxic nonsense come from? Like I thought,
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  Speaker 1: I dealt with this temper thing twenty years ago, God,
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  Speaker 1: and here I am once again asking your forgiveness.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're human, just like all of this, and just
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  Speaker 3: hearing you say that they'll alla makes me feel better
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  Speaker 3: because I have all those problems too, And I'm sure,
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  Speaker 3: along with everyone else that looks up to you the
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  Speaker 3: way I do, we're all just human.
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  Speaker 1: But I know that God loves me, and I know
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  Speaker 1: that when I truly do repent and I turn from
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  Speaker 1: the things He's asked me not to do, I know
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  Speaker 1: he's quick to forgive me. But man, I just sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I look in the mirror, I go, are you ever
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  Speaker 1: ever going to let go of that that thing that
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  Speaker 1: you know is not good for you? I get why
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  Speaker 1: people are addicted to drugs or to alcohol because the
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  Speaker 1: things I struggle with.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's so hard.
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  Speaker 2: I've lost two friends to addiction, and my dad was
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  Speaker 2: an alcoholic, and it must be a monster to struggle
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  Speaker 2: with things like like drugs and alcohol, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So was it Paul that said I don't do the
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  Speaker 1: things that I know I want to do. I do
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  Speaker 1: do the things I hate. Why?
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  Speaker 3: And it's in the in in everything?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? So when God calls me home and I get
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  Speaker 1: to Heaven, and after I hug my boys and my
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  Speaker 1: mom and my dad and everybody that went before me,
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  Speaker 1: if I start looking around for your mom, how am
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  Speaker 1: I going to recognize her? Tell me a quality or
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  Speaker 1: a characteristic that you know she got to keep in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about just one. That she was short.
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  Speaker 2: I got her short qualities. We were both very short women.
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  Speaker 2: We're both only four foot eight. He had beautiful, bushy
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  Speaker 2: brown hair and the most beautiful, I flew eyes you've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen. I kind of deflected from her for a bit,
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  Speaker 2: but I am trying to be more like her.
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  Speaker 4: She was.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone says this about their moms, and and and I
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  Speaker 2: do believe that everyone's mom is the best person in
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  Speaker 2: the world. But she worth just an angel in the
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  Speaker 2: shape of my mom. The way Ed Cheering put it
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  Speaker 2: in a song. I've heard that so many times in
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  Speaker 2: a phone of his, and that's the best way to
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  Speaker 2: describe anyone's mom.
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  Speaker 4: She was an angel.
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  Speaker 1: I think you need to cut yourself a break, Honey.
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  Speaker 3: I am hard on myself, I'll admit it.
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  Speaker 1: I am, But I'm not nearly as hard on myself
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  Speaker 1: as I should be. When I listen like I have
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  Speaker 1: a Bible on tape, When I listen to proverbs and
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  Speaker 1: talking about wisdom and foolishness and wisdom and how you
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  Speaker 1: could should seek wisdom, I'm sitting there going ooh, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be wise God, But why am I
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  Speaker 1: such a foolish knucklehead? So often when I don't read
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  Speaker 1: his word, I think I'm doing pretty good. But when
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  Speaker 1: I get into God's word and realize how much he
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  Speaker 1: loves me and how he wants me to have a
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  Speaker 1: pure heart, and I compare the nonsense that I have
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  Speaker 1: in my heart and my mind to his standard, then
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I need to pray a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more and show a lot more grace.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're doing the thing that I am trying to
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  Speaker 2: do in my life. I've strayed from God, but I
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  Speaker 2: in the past, since I had my daughter, which was
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  Speaker 2: seven years ago, I've tried to do a lot better.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still working, and I know it's always going to
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  Speaker 2: be something to work on, but I'm trying to get
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  Speaker 2: my relationship with him back.
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  Speaker 4: The way it used to be.
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  Speaker 2: He has grown so much the church that I've put
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  Speaker 2: her in, and she's showing me the person that I
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  Speaker 2: need to be in. I know it's supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: the other way around, but she's the one.
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  Speaker 1: That that's leading Mama back home. Yes, here's what I
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  Speaker 1: want you to remember, Hannah. It is far better to
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  Speaker 1: be one thousand miles from the Lord and walking towards
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  Speaker 1: him than standing next to the cross and walking away.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, because I do feel like I'm at a
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  Speaker 3: thousand miles away from him.
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  Speaker 1: If you're walking towards him, he's right there to meet you.
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  Speaker 1: He's running to meet you. So long as you're walking
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  Speaker 1: towards him, he is running to meet you, to embrace you,
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  Speaker 1: to hold you, to restore you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I need to do hear that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say a quick prayer for you before
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  Speaker 1: I hang up, Father God, I thank you, Lord for
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  Speaker 1: allowing this young woman to get through on the phone lines.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for her gentle and tender heart. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for her baby girl, and I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for the sweet memories of her mama. I pray, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: that you would let her see herself as you see her.
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  Speaker 1: You say, we are fearfully and wonderfully made. You say
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  Speaker 1: that you rejoice over us with singing. You say that
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  Speaker 1: we are beautiful in your eyes. I pray that she
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  Speaker 1: would get a glimpse of how much you love her
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  Speaker 1: and how precious she is to you, and that she
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  Speaker 1: would go to sleep wrapped in that assurance that you
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  Speaker 1: are hers and she is yours. Let tonight be the
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  Speaker 1: night that she knows that she is home, safe in
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  Speaker 1: your arms, and that Lord, you are restoring her and
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  Speaker 1: washing her as pure as the morning sun. I ask
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  Speaker 1: this in your precious and holy name. Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Amen, thank you all.
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  Speaker 2: I did night like this, Tonay, Thank you, Good night, Honey,
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  Speaker 2: Good night, Delilah.
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  Speaker 1: Sophia's call is the one I'm going to share next.
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  Speaker 1: Sophia's story is kind of heartbreaking, but I think it's
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  Speaker 1: good to hear it. Sophia has been sifted. She has
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  Speaker 1: lost a lot, She's been through a lot of grief,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of loss, and in the process she's lost
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  Speaker 1: her faith. She's focusing on tangible possessions things. I know
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  Speaker 1: that she has all that matters. Let's talk to Sophia
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  Speaker 1: right now. Hi, Sophia, I love your name. What can
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  Speaker 1: I do for you?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: My God? And I'd like, I've always wanted to call you.
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  Speaker 5: I'm loveing to you since I was a little girl,
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  Speaker 5: and I remember.
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  Speaker 2: Like stinging in my mom's course, and it was so
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  Speaker 2: great to actually tart to you, so I actually.
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  Speaker 5: My little girl, I would listen to you with my mom.
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  Speaker 2: And I lost my mom whenever I was twenty and
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  Speaker 2: I was pregnant with my son, so my mom never
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  Speaker 2: got to meet my kids or anything. And I had
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  Speaker 2: got married as an adult and everything I had three
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  Speaker 2: I have three amazing kids, and we ended up getting divorce. Well,
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  Speaker 2: for the longest time, I never wanted to get married again.
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  Speaker 5: And I worked at a doctor's office.
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  Speaker 2: And this man kept coming in and asking me out
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  Speaker 2: and asking me out, and I would never go out
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  Speaker 2: with him. And finally the nurthrough, like, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: give him a chance, because I just wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: a mom, and I ended up losing my dad right
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  Speaker 2: after I met this man, and I was very vulnerable
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  Speaker 2: and he said all the right things and we got
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  Speaker 2: married after two months, but he ended up finding out
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  Speaker 2: that I was getting life insurance from my dad, and
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  Speaker 2: once we got married, it was a one eighty.
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  Speaker 4: I was verdly abused, physically abused.
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  Speaker 2: Over the last almost two years, I have been through help.
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  Speaker 5: I lost a daughter at six months pregnant with this man.
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  Speaker 2: And dealt with it alone, and I finally got saved
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  Speaker 2: out of this marriage. He put his hands on me
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  Speaker 2: for the last time, and because I kept calling the
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  Speaker 2: cops and they wouldn't do anything because there was never
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  Speaker 2: a witness and it was just you're saying, and a
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  Speaker 2: teacher ended up seeing him because it was outside of
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  Speaker 2: my house, and he finally got put in jail.
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  Speaker 1: I'm being quiet not because I'm not paying attention, but
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  Speaker 1: because I'm trying to honor your heart and take in
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  Speaker 1: everything you're saying. And that's a lot to take in, honey.
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  Speaker 2: I need to talk deeper hour just the stuff that
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  Speaker 2: I've been through, me and my kids, that I dealt
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  Speaker 2: with behind closed doors and he drained my bank account
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand I got from my dad for me
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  Speaker 2: and my kids, and I just drained me, and the
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  Speaker 2: lower the money got, the worse of the verbal and
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  Speaker 2: the physical abse got. And they finally she got caught
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  Speaker 2: this time because, like I said, a teacher, I was
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  Speaker 2: going outside to take my son to school and he
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  Speaker 2: came out there and she ended up seeing it, and
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  Speaker 2: she called the copsin because there was a witness. He
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  Speaker 2: finally he's bonded out now that they are actually going
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  Speaker 2: to take it to trial and try to get this
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  Speaker 2: man in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So it sounds to me like it has been
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of heartache and trauma for your whole
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  Speaker 1: adult life.
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  Speaker 4: It has.
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  Speaker 2: And that was part of the thing because he knew,
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  Speaker 2: like I didn't have any I don't have any family.
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  Speaker 2: My mom was my whole world, and when I lost
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  Speaker 2: her when I was pregnant, it really crist me.
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  Speaker 5: And so my dad was like my last walk, you know,
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  Speaker 5: beside my kids.
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  Speaker 2: And when I lost him two years ago, I was
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  Speaker 2: at my lowest. And this man knew what he was
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  Speaker 2: doing and said all the right things.
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  Speaker 5: And once we got married, like I said, it was
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  Speaker 5: a one eighty. When I met this.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I had a house of five acres, I had
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  Speaker 2: a great job at a doctor's office.
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  Speaker 4: I had my whole life.
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  Speaker 5: I was going to church and my kids volunteered at places.
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  Speaker 2: And I look up tapears of myself and how fool
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  Speaker 2: of life I was before I met him.
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  Speaker 4: And I have lost so.
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  Speaker 2: Much weight, down to ninety pounds and I was at
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty and just seeing how much he
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  Speaker 2: sucked the life out of me and my kids.
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  Speaker 1: And now are you away from all of that?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, they there's a no contact order.
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  Speaker 2: They're in a protective order, and like I said, they
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  Speaker 2: are trying to take it to trial.
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  Speaker 1: What matters is your heart. I hurt right now. You're
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  Speaker 1: so busy beating yourself up, you can't see what a
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  Speaker 1: strong and competent and capable mama you are. But you will.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to get through this, and your kids are
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  Speaker 1: going to get through this, and you're going to come
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  Speaker 1: out the other side healed and stronger than before. You
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  Speaker 1: can do this. You can do this, honey, You can
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  Speaker 1: do this.
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  Speaker 4: I can do this.
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  Speaker 1: God's got you. Oh when was the last time you
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  Speaker 1: spent time praying?
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  Speaker 5: I mean we an actual good prayer.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a long time.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to church and everything, but I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I not so much walt my faith.
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  Speaker 4: My mom was a Sunday school teacher. We were raised
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  Speaker 4: in church. But it was I was angry.
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  Speaker 2: After all off my dad and then after everything that
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  Speaker 2: I've been through with this man, I was angry and
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  Speaker 2: I kind of stopped going to church.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't ask when it was the last time you
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  Speaker 1: went to a building. I asked, when was the last
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  Speaker 1: time you talked to the Lord. Going to church is
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  Speaker 1: a great place to spend time with other people who
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  Speaker 1: love God, but that's that's not where I meet the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know when the last time I've done that.
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  Speaker 1: Can I pray with you? Yes, Father God, I lift
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  Speaker 1: this young woman up to you, and I pray your
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  Speaker 1: healing hand upon her heart. Lord, I pray you would
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  Speaker 1: reach down from on high right now, right now, as
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  Speaker 1: she's in the car with her child, reach down from
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  Speaker 1: heaven and touch her. Lord, touch her, Send your holy
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  Speaker 1: spirit to cover her, shower her with your grace and
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  Speaker 1: your love. Let her feel your presence in a new
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  Speaker 1: and powerful way. I pray that tonight would begin the
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  Speaker 1: healing process, the process of letting go, letting go of
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  Speaker 1: the abuse, letting go of the lies, letting go of
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  Speaker 1: the conversations she has over and over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over in her brain when she's trying to reason things
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  Speaker 1: out with an unreasonable person. She thinks, if I just
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  Speaker 1: say it different, if I just present the truth, he'll
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  Speaker 1: finally see what he's doing. Father, I pray you would
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  Speaker 1: bring those conversations to a halt, and every time her
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  Speaker 1: brain starts to go back in that pattern, that instead
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  Speaker 1: she would speak with you. Lord. Your Bible says that
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  Speaker 1: you will restore the years. The locust of eaten locusts
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  Speaker 1: are horrible bugs that don't leave anything living. When they
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  Speaker 1: come through, they take everything. And everything has been taken
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  Speaker 1: from Sophia, Lord, her dignity, her faith, her mother, her father,
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  Speaker 1: her money, her peace of mind. It's all been stripped bare.
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  Speaker 1: And Father, I know she feels very alone right now.
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  Speaker 1: I pray God that you would bring good people, godly
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  Speaker 1: people to surround her, to protect her, to encircle her.
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  Speaker 1: Send somebody who will be a mother figure to her.
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  Speaker 1: Send somebody who will be a father figure to her.
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  Speaker 1: Send somebody who will be a sister and a brother
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  Speaker 1: to her, a family, Lord, that you create to help
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  Speaker 1: her and her children to grow stronger. Father, I pray
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  Speaker 1: that tonight she would finally finally be able to sleep peacefully,
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  Speaker 1: that the corticol levels that are through the roof, the
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  Speaker 1: anxiety that's through the roof, the peace that she desperately
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  Speaker 1: tries to find, Lord, that you would take away the stress,
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  Speaker 1: take away the noise, and bring her peace. I ask
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  Speaker 1: this in your precious and your holy name, Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Nam Pollokle currently needs a lie.
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  Speaker 1: God loves you. He doesn't want you to be anxious.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't want your mind racing and your heart racing.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't want any of that for you. He wants
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  Speaker 1: you to have peace and have it in abundance. He
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  Speaker 1: wants you to know that you know that you know
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  Speaker 1: that you are safe in His arms.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much for answering.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome. God bless you, Honey. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: hear me carefully when I say this. If you've listened
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  Speaker 1: to this podcast up to this point, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to listen very carefully what I'm going to share with you,
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  Speaker 1: and I want you to hang on to it for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of your life. God will never leave you
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  Speaker 1: nor forsake you. Let me say that again. God will never, never,
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  Speaker 1: ever ever leave you, nor will he ever forsake Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it feels like it. I can remember all too
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  Speaker 1: clearly learning that my son had passed. But even in
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  Speaker 1: that moment, when I was screaming from the depths of
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  Speaker 1: my soul, I felt God holding me. I know he
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  Speaker 1: was with me, and I know he has never left me.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we find ourselves in difficult situations. Sometimes we have
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  Speaker 1: to realize that we put ourselves there. It's a hard
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  Speaker 1: thing to admit. Boy, I have had to admit that
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  Speaker 1: I have put myself some really bad situations, and I
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  Speaker 1: have hurt people along the way. God's asking you to
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  Speaker 1: turn it all over to him. He is watching over you,
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  Speaker 1: He is waiting for you. He is waiting for you
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  Speaker 1: right now to reach up and say, Lord Jesus, I
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  Speaker 1: need you, I need help. I need you to help
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  Speaker 1: me sort through this. I can't do it on my own.
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  Speaker 1: Ask God for the guidance, Ask him for the help,
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  Speaker 1: Ask him for the love that you are missing. Ask
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  Speaker 1: him into your heart, Ask him to be your lord
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  Speaker 1: and savior. Ask him to write your name in the
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  Speaker 1: Book of life. Ask him to be with you, to
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  Speaker 1: join with you, to never leave you, nor forsake you.
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  Speaker 1: Ask him, I promise he will respond. He's already responding.
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  Speaker 1: He's been waiting for this moment. He's been waiting for
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  Speaker 1: your heart, patiently waiting. God bless you until next time.
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