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352 | Throwback - Help is on the Way: Trusting God's Perfect Timing · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the
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  well in John chapter four.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org,
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  we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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  about God and to strengthen and your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  When you are in trouble, call on Jesus. He is always there and he will always answer you.
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  More importantly, his answer will be right.
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  You have the blessed assurance that when you call upon him, he will answer you
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  and that answer will be just perfect.
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  Perfect he is in time on time
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  every time join us in this program help is on the way as kim miller of woman
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  at the well ministries takes us through psalm 86 7 which says in the day of
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  my trouble i will call upon thee for thou wilt answer me hello and welcome to
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  this broadcast of woman at the well Ministries,
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  when we look at Psalms 86,
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  verse 7, we see three things that just jump out at us in the very beginning. In the day of my trouble.
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  Well, I believe that probably affects all of us. At some point in our lives,
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  we have something that disturbs us.
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  We may have true troubles that everyone would recognize were troubles,
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  or it may just be something that is troubling to you.
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  But no one within the sound of my voice can escape an entire lifetime of not
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  feeling the pressure and the stress of trouble.
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  The second thing he says is, I will call upon thee.
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  So the psalmist david in this verse
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  tells us that when you're having a problem and when you're
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  in stress his model that he gives to us
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  is that he calls upon the lord he
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  doesn't say he tells it to his family members he doesn't say he tells it to
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  his wife or husband he doesn't say that he goes to a psychiatrist or a psychologist
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  and some people need that i'm not knocking that i'm just saying that that's
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  something you need to do in addition to calling upon the lord and you need to
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  go to the Lord with your problems.
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  He tells us so many times to call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee
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  great and mighty things which thou knowest not in Jeremiah 33 3.
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  In Hebrews chapter 4 beginning in verse 14 and continuing through 16 we are
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  invited to come to the throne of God that we may find help in time of need.
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  He tells us that if we ask we'll receive if we seek we'll We'll find if we'll
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  knock, it'll be opened unto us in Matthew 7, 7.
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  Throughout the scriptures, we are invited to come to him.
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  In Matthew, he tells us that his burden is light and he'll exchange that for our heavy burden.
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  He also tells us that we are to pray without ceasing in Thessalonians.
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  He allows us the opportunity to be in a constant communication with him and
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  our heart to be in such preparedness that we will speak to the Lord,
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  especially in times of trouble.
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  And then the third thing we see is that he will answer him.
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  The Psalmist David recognizes his situation.
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  He knows where to go for help and he has confidence in the Lord with whom he
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  has just gone to for help.
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  Now, for many of us, we need to just stop for a second and we need to take a
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  look at our heart because some of us have a heart condition that no earthly medicine can touch.
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  And I'm not talking about the pump inside of your body that allows your blood
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  to flow that many people do need help with.
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  I'm talking about your heart towards God.
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  Many of us, we say we love the Lord, but there's no fruits to back it up.
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  Many of us talk about trusting God, but when the chips are down and the rubber
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  meets the road, he's not the first person we go to with our problems and our cares.
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  We usually make a mess out of things, and then when we've done all that we can
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  possibly do, then we turn it over to the Lord.
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  But the psalmist David in this scripture gives
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  us us the recipe for success
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  and victory over our problem because greater
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  is he that is in us than he that is in the world and all things are under the
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  Lord's feet and he wants us to tell him about the things in our life so that
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  we can show him that we have confidence in him and that it is he we are putting our faith in.
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  And so this process of praying to the Lord in time of trouble is one that we
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  need to carefully understand.
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  The Lord wants to hear from us constantly. That's why he says pray without ceasing.
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  The Lord wants to have a relationship with us. That's why he said,
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  behold, I stand at the door and knock.
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  If you'll open the door, I'll come in unto you. the lord wants
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  to have a true relationship where
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  you know him and where you delight in him
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  in fact he says if you'll delight in the lord he'll give
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  you the desires of your heart he wants to be
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  where you turn in good times where
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  you turn in bad times where you turn when everything's
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  just sort of going along even keel the lord
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  wants to be your all in all and he
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  has paid the price to be that he has
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  proven his love for you and he has proven
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  his ability to care for you he has
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  proven his ability to provide for you and he
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  has promised in philippians that he would provide all
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  of your needs he has provided you the.
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  Means by which you can live
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  the life that he means for you to live and he
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  said i came that you might have life and have it more abundantly but
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  it requires trusting existing in him
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  and obeying his word
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  his commandments and what he tells you
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  in your heart as you read his word and as you pray this requires that you understand
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  who he is and that you believe that when he said in romans 8 28 that all things
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  work together for the good to them that love the Lord,
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  to them that are called according to his purpose, that you believe it when he said,
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  I am the way, the truth, and the life.
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  That when you say, I am a Christian, that you fully have committed your life
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  to following after the Lord.
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  And the wonderful The wonderful thing about following Christ is that he's not
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  a dictator so far away just screaming down do's and don'ts, but he's as close as the whisperer.
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  And the mention of his name. And he wants to have a real working relationship with you.
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  He wants you to know him. He says, I have written these things that you might know.
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  He wants you to trust him.
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  And he's proven himself over and over and over and over again.
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  And sometimes I believe we find ourselves in predicaments. so that the Lord
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  can show us what he can and will do.
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  Because for some reason, when things are going along wonderfully,
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  we often forget who he is.
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  Sometimes we even forget we have a relationship with him.
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  But when things go bad, at some point, we'll work ourselves around to where we remember he is God.
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  How much more simply would it be for us to live a life that magnifies the Lord
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  and glorifies the Lord in such a way that in the good times,
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  the bad times, the even kill times,
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  that our life shows all of those around us that we love in God,
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  that we believe in God, that we trust in God, that we have full assurance that he is on the throne.
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  It never ceases to amaze me that as life goes on and more and more of the revelations
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  of the word of God come true and we begin to see things happening in the world
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  that shake the spirit of those who don't know the Lord.
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  It amazes me how many Christians walk around wringing their hands, worried and fretting.
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  Hey, look, he told us that there would be these things that happen.
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  There's going to be perilous days.
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  But he's got me. He's holding on to me.
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  He has a plan for me, to prosper me, to give me a hope and an expected end.
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  If you are a child of God, he has the same kind of plan for you.
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  Listen, he knew your need of salvation before you were ever born.
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  You're trusting him to take you to a place you've never seen and a place you've never been.
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  A place you've never had an opportunity to have a conversation with somebody who's been there.
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  And yet you'll trust him for your salvation and you have problems trusting him
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  to supply your food, to supply your money, to supply your protection in this
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  world that is just falling apart.
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  Hey, I know Jesus lives in me. I know that he loves me.
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  I know that he has plans to prosper me. I know that his blessings will not run out.
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  I understand that he owns the cattle on a thousand hills and the hills thereof.
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  I understand that he can protect me.
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  I watched in the scriptures as I read and it unfolded in my mind and heart as
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  there sat Paul and Silas in the jail and they needed to be freed.
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  They were in a place they didn't belong because they hadn't done anything to
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  get there that was deserving of that punishment.
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  And the Lord shook the jail and the shackles fell off.
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  I can see that in my mind. The Lord took care of them and they were singing
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  his praises. They never gave up on who God was because the circumstances around
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  your life should never dictate the faith and the love you have in Christ.
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  This valley that you might be walking through, they have nothing to do with you.
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  It may be so that somebody else can see Jesus glorified in you.
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  It may be so that you can have a fresh anointing of the realization that Jesus
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  is the same God in the valley that he is in the mountain.
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  You see, sometimes we have to use and exercise our faith to appreciate it.
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  Sometimes we have to exercise our faith to grow it.
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  But God has never changed anything due to somebody's circumstances.
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  But your circumstances can always be changed due to God.
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  For the Lord, he walks by you and he walks around you and he loves you and he
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  watches out for you and he supplies
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  your need and the circumstances that you're in, he's already there.
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  They're not surprising him. They're not startling him.
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  They're just something you're going through.
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  Sometimes he doesn't deliver you from something, but he delivers you through
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  it. But he's always there helping.
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  He said, I'll never leave you nor forsake you. His love cannot be separated
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  from you. You have a God that loves you.
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  And help is right there all around you.
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  But you got to believe. Believe you got to reach out and take it.
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  You've got to trust in the only thing that will never fail you.
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  And that is Jesus Christ. Reach out and trust him today.
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