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Another Day Of Thankfulness! · Bible Tract Echoes Podcast

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, friend.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to Bible Tract Echoes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Mike McCurry, your host.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for joining me once again today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We are in the middle of a week of thankfulness and I've got so many to get through.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You folks have responded in force.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't mean I might not have time for yours.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Also, worst case, I mean, it sounds like worst case.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We might have to do a single week of thankfulness or even a day or two of thankfulness extra to get yours in.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see how it goes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see if we have the time to make that happen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But if you'd like to text in what you're thankful for, text me at three, zero nine, three, one, six, seven, two, four, zero.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's three, zero nine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Three, one, six, seven, two, four, zero.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm going to try to blitz through a bunch of these and I'll try not to get too bogged down if I can.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You try to hold me accountable with this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I am going to start with a friend of mine named Matt Mayer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Matt Mayer is a good man.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: from horse heads New York.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Did you know there was a place called horse heads?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember why it was called that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you can Google it and find out why it was called that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But a map mirror says this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I'm thankful first and foremost for my Heavenly Father.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He made a way for me to become his son.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By sending his one and only son, I'm thankful that God never leaves or for success.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm also so very thankful for my family.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The family that God has given me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for a pastor and church family.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I can serve the Lord with.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've got so much we thankful for.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But these are the things I am most thankful for.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, brother Matt, we love you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see, brother Ethan says this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for parents that have time and time again stop what they're doing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Clear their schedules and rush to help me with my needs or problems.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They have raised me to please and glorify my Lord to walk close to Him and praise Him with my life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They have set me up for success and all I can say is that I pray.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I will take the things I have been given and go further for the cause of Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a nineteen year old young man from Texas that has it figured out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I love that, Ethan.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Michelle from Wisconsin says this, I'm thankful for our awesome God that is always there for us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He will never leave thee nor forsake me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's thankful that all that needs to be done with a Ken Koski pastor in Iowa says this that all that needs to be done.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what I'm thankful that all that needs to be done for a salvation has been done.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to make sure that came across clear.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Pastor Koski, that's a great thought.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Everything that can possibly need to be done for a salvation has already been done.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not by you, but by God all mighty.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bonnie from Missouri.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord Jesus Christ and my family.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see, Jack from Milwaukee says this, I'm thankful for my Bible study group.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My health is such that I cannot attend church even though my care giver is diligent.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So this Bible study group sometimes has a take its place.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're reading through the Bible in a year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and it's exciting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm learning more in this year that I may be I ever have before.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We pray for each other each Wednesday night and what I'm what I'm blessing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is a blessing for the jack and a whole pray for your health and that you'd be able to not be homebound there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see you're going to Ant April.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is my wife's and good lady from Nevada.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for her family that loves me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful to have a roof over my head.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He loves me always.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I got a text you back in April and just say, love you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here a good evangelist friend of mine, Dwight Smith from North Carolina.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good man says this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for God's people.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They are just the best.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They'll pray for you at the drop of a hat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They faithfully attend the preaching of God's Word.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They generously support God's work around the globe.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're bold in their witness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They seek to be holy and free from sin.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They love to sing God's praises.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They are courageous to stand against the evil.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They are up, not down.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They are positive and idealistic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They long to give God glory with a Smith.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see wander from South Carolina.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for my salvation that I have through Jesus Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for my family who bring me so much joy and love.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see Miss Deena.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's Deena from Arizona.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for everything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Everything God has put in my life where there's been good or bad.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: because the bad and the illness is just help me get closer to him and be strong, green him and trust in him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's blessed with many grandchildren, my family, so many of my family are Christians.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so thankful for that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God is good all the time and that's wonderful.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here Ruth from Pakistan, Illinois says this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I was raised in a religion that taught that salvation came through baptism and living a good life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A works-based belief system.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At twenty-seven, I began truly seeking to know God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I started reading a study Bible and after two years the Holy Spirit used Ephesians two, eight and nine to two chapter two verses eight and nine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll read those in just a moment here to open my eyes to the truth of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Looking back I wish someone had shared a gospel track with me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There were Christians around but no one witnessed to me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For years, I've done this, and even now at age seventy-seven, I gladly hand out gospel tracks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Tools that I never received, but ones I believe God uses to point others to Christ alone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What a testimony.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Praise God for that Holy Spirit's wooing, the fact that God used the Bible, His Word, that's why all of our gospel tracks have God's Word, and I'm not just man's words or opinions or stories, but God's Word in them as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ruth, thank you for that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians two eight nine says this, for by grace, are ye saved through faith.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, less than any man should boast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ruth, thank you for using gospel tracks and making sure others don't miss out for the earlier, like you did for the earlier part of your life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for using gospel tracks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're listening right now, and you know you should be using gospel tracks, you can go to bibletracksink.org.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You have no excuse, because we give them away for free.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bibletracksink.org.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's Keras, Cherice, my same name right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I apologize.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: from South Dakota.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's the first time we've had South Dakota this week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She says this, I'm thankful for my goodly heritage being raised in a Christian household with amazing support for my Christian grandparents.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Moving on here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: James from Rockland, Wisconsin.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for God's handing guidance when it comes to my son.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He says my son is starting college soon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard for me to step back, but I have to put it in God's hands.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know we almost take this walk in life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I pray that God gives me strength in guidance through these next four years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't often or always do this, but James could we pause for a moment and pray for your son.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know it's it must be a difficult thing my girls are six and eight right now and they'll come in day when the same will happen for me and could we pause?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't you didn't mention your son's name.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't mention in public anyway.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I'll pray for, and maybe if you're listening right now, James Wisconsin, a man praying for his son, if you could pray with me while I do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Father, we thank you for the opportunity to bear at one another's burdens.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I don't know James well, I don't know his son at all, but you do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I ask you to protect him from influences, and that you would put a head of protection around him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It sounds like he has a father that cares for him, that loves him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God, I ask that you do a work through this young man's life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That would actually only draw him closer to you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for your goodness to us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank for the fact that you care.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There is nothing too small for you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you that you are the God of the impossible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bless now in your sons and we pray.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: James, I would love an update on your son as
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This semester goes along here very soon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see, Toria, Toria, I think.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Is that right from Wisconsin?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm grateful for the word of God that's given me courage and the source that I go to to help encourage others.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The days are evil and God's word tells us exactly why and he promised to keep protecting guidance children.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this is what I believe and gives me hope, amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jonathan from Indiana says this, I am super thankful for two things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The grace of God and a merciful wife.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God has worked in my heart abundantly these last few weeks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I had to do some hard things because of it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And God has shown me mercy and love.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My wife has been with me through it all despite the fact that we're newly wedged.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She's a gift from God and is a clearly is a Christian who wants to be like Jesus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, she said, he said, please use this one as I walk in my wife to hear it on air.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jonathan, hey, I didn't even, I hadn't even read the end of it yet, but I did what you asked, all right?
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you get some, maybe some brandy points and bonus points for, for loving your wife and saying nice things about her.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see Michelle from New Mexico says this I'm thankful for all God has done in my life and all the blessings that I have Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here Moving on moving on moving on moving on Maria says this
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She says, I give all the glory and praise to my Lord and she's praying about she has some eye trouble and she's seeing your saint and she's praying that God would be able to give the ability to drive herself and the ability to go to church and thankful for her church and the opportunity to read her Bible if God helps with her eyes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: we already did once.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We pray again for Ms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Brea, with that be all right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, thank you so much for Ms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maria and her desire.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She wants to drive, and that not, and I'm sure going to the store and all that would be helpful, but she wants to drive so she can go to church.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She wants her eyes be healed so she can read her Bible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What better, what more point you weigh to show her love for you?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of ask you bless this dear lady that you do a work in her life at doctors.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you can't explain.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know the symptoms in the situation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What I ask that we would lift this dear lady up in prayer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for your goodness to us in your sons and we pray.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Miss Maria, thank you so much.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've got a few more here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to try to get to.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for so much Michelle says from New Jersey.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful for the awareness that God has given me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful that God has been so good to me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Amen, Miss Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I apologize.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're very good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Moving on here, Michael from Coachville, Pennsylvania says this, I'm thankful for a goodly heritage to be born and raised in a Christian home.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And to go to a Bible, believe him, about to church with a great man of God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Michael, thank you so much for that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Got about just a minute left here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've got let's see here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just looking to and you folks just keep just keep texting him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is awesome.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna need to do at least another day or two.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Is that all right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: More thankfulness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll sprinkle them into next week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm going to tell you how much I appreciate the fact that you would tune in to Bible track decos.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to ask if you would.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you have something, you're thankful for text me at three zero nine three one six seven two four zero that's three zero nine three one six seven two four zero my prayer is always is that you have a great day for his glory and we'll plan on talking to you soon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God bless.