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Episode 17- Joy Through the Hard Times · Women At The Well: REJOICE

• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to the will.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Good afternoon.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: I am Rose, your host, and thank you for joining me this afternoon at Women at the Will Rejoice.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: I am so glad you've decided to join me.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Today we are leaning into a topic that many of us are navigating right now: finding joy when the road gets rocky.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: It is so important for women to embrace, uplift, and support one another during these rocky roads.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: Women of all walks of life, we are so much stronger when we stand together.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in today's episode, entitled Joy Through the Hard Times, it will hit close to home for many of us.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: Because, see, life has a way of throwing us curveballs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether it's a career shift, a family challenge, or just the weight of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I truly believe that joy is a choice we must make and not just a feeling we're waiting for.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, often when we experience different seasons, we allow those hard times to jade us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We forget how to be happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We forget that joy is on the inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, we often confuse happiness with joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Happiness depends on what is happening to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a situational feeling.
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  SPEAKER_00: If everything's going all right, we're happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's also fleeting.
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  SPEAKER_00: But joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joy is that deep, steady well inside of us that doesn't run dry, even when the clouds roll in.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the strength of the Lord that allows us to keep walking, keep planning, keep lifting our hands high.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this morning we're going to look at John 15, 11, Psalms 16, 11, Psalms 94, 19, and we'll end on Psalms 46.5.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are going to learn how to keep our joy and hard times.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we dive into the word, let's go before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day.
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  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for every sister who has tuned in or will tune in or will tune in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father, whether she is in her car, whether she'll be in her kitchen or taking a walk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, I invite you into this moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father God, we ask that you would quiet the noise of the world around us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for the woman who came to the world today, feeling jaded, heavy-hearted, or just tired of being strong.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, give her some rest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Open our ears to hear your truth and open our hearts to receive your joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, we thank you that you are a God who meets us right where we are, but loves us too much to leave us there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, thank you, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father, let the words in my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father, God, I just thank you this afternoon.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, ladies, let's move forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope you have your tea, your coffee, your water.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't forget your Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, ladies, we become more protective of our peace in these days.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this afternoon, I want you to realize that we don't have to protect our peace because you see, God has already provided for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has given us the antidote for peace and joy for every day, despite the hard times.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today, I want to talk to the woman who feels like she's in the season of horror.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're navigating a transition you didn't ask for, or you're feeling the pressures of being the strong one for everyone else, and no one's there for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to know that it is okay to acknowledge the struggle, but don't let the struggle steal your song.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't let it steal your joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's move into John 15, 9 through 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll be reading from the New King James Version.
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  SPEAKER_00: As the Father loved me, I have also loved you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abide in my love.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Jesus tells us he loves us as his father loved him.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we keep the commandments, we abide in that same love.
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  SPEAKER_00: But let's look a little closer at that word abide.
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  SPEAKER_00: To abide doesn't mean to visit, it doesn't mean we just drop by the well, drop by Sunday school when things are falling apart and then leave when things get better.
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  SPEAKER_00: To abide means to make your home better.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you make your home in God's love, the hard times outside don't change the climate inside your house.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I say that, ladies, please understand, when I say don't change the climate inside your house, I'm talking about that joy that's deep inside of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So see, sisters, when Jesus says he wants our joy to be full, it means he wants us so packed with joy that there is no room for the bitterness of our circumstances to settle.
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  SPEAKER_00: But take a notice.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all want to be filled with joy, but it will cost us something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joy does cost.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, we need to love and keep God's commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: This type of love will cost you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will have to smile when you want to scream, forgive quickly, and be willing to be selfless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even in this time of do you, boo.
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  SPEAKER_00: It costs you your pride, but what you get in exchange is a joy that is full.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Jesus says he wants our joy to be full, the Greek meaning implies crown or link it over.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants you so packed with joy that there's no room for the bitterness of your circumstances to settle.
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  SPEAKER_00: But notice, he links this joy to loving one another.
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  SPEAKER_00: You cannot have full joy while holding on to a grudge.
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  SPEAKER_00: You cannot have full joy while being indifferent to your sister's pain.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why I say it will cost you something.
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  SPEAKER_00: It costs you your pride, it costs you your right to be right all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what you get in exchange, that's fullness of joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it is worth every bit of the sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look, this type of behavior daily takes a lot of practice and focus.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know so.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gotta be a deliberate action, and you probably are saying having that type of behavior daily will take a lot, and it will, and it does.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Psalm 16, 11, and our New King James Version says, You will show me the path of life in your presence in fullness of joy at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
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  SPEAKER_00: So while we're trying to have this behavior of selflessness, God is gonna show us that path of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And while we're in his presence, allow him to do what he does, transform, recreate, we'll get that fullness of joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the anxieties crowd in and the world feels heavy, remember Psalms 9419.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the multitude of my anxieties within me, your comforts delight my soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: His comfort doesn't just settle us, it delights us.
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  SPEAKER_00: It brings that spark back to our eyes, even when the situation hasn't changed, you will be full of joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I know some of you are listening today and you feel like you are at your breaking point.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've been a strong one for so long that you're tired of being strong.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been there.
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  SPEAKER_00: But listen to the promises in Psalms 46, 5.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is just uh just will fill you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved.
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  SPEAKER_00: God shall help her just at the break of dawn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, sisters, I don't know about you, but that makes me real feel real, real, real good to know that God is in the midst of me and I shall not be moved.
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  SPEAKER_00: He shall help me just at the break of dawn.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, you don't have to hold yourself up because God is in the midst of you, because he is there.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are unshakable, not because you are perfect, but because he is the permanent God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might be in the middle of the hard time right now, but sister, the dawn is coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't see it, but you just gotta know, have that faith that God is right there and he is bringing that break of dawn to you just at that right time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sisters, you gotta understand that God is for us, he's not against us.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants good things for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has a purpose, he has a plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants us to be full of joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, sisters, we must take a moment to rejoice.
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  SPEAKER_00: We aren't rejoicing because the bills are all paid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though we thank God they will be.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're rejoicing because the body feels 100.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though we thank God that there's a healing coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's rejoice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Start by being thankful for all the things God did not let happen to you.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: Thank God for all the ways God made a way out of no way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just as God is for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm rejoicing for every no.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was actually God's way of saying, not that way, I have something better for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm rejoicing because even though I don't see the way out yet, I know the one who is the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am rejoicing because the breakthrough hasn't arrived yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: But guess what?
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  SPEAKER_00: The God of the breakthrough is already in my today and my tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's let the shower praise right where we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not for the victory we see, but for the victory we know.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know it's coming at the break of dawn.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, I believe it, and that settles that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sister, your joy is a weapon.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you choose to rejoice in the hard times, you aren't being faithful.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are being faithful.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are telling the world that your God is bigger than your circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joy is a will, it's not a feeling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace is a promise, not a product of your surroundings.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you are unshakable, not because of your strength, but because of God's strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the name of Jesus, God is with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's close in prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Heavenly Father, we come before you this afternoon with hearts wide open at the well.
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  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for the shift in our perspective today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, we thank you not only for the doors you opened, but for every door you closed to protect us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for the trials.
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  SPEAKER_00: You didn't let us let us walk through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: I pray specifically for my sister who is tired of being the strong one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Father God, please let her feel your presence in her midst right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remind her that she doesn't have to hold everything together because you are the glue.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the one holding her.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help us to abide, to make our home in your love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let your joy, which is our strength, bubble up from inside of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, we trade our anxieties for your comfort.
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  SPEAKER_00: We believe that the dawn is coming, and your help is always right on time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, we thank you because we know that our God is in the midst of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' precious name, amen.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: Say, I'm your host, Rose.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sisters, remember, God is in the midst of you, and you shall not be moved.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, I want you to keep blooming, keep leading, and most of all, keep rejoicing.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God says so, I'll see you next Wednesday morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of love and peace to all of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember, sisters, this one is living, and the well is deep.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the style of everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have a wonderful evening after this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have a wonderful afternoon, easy.