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THE GRACE FOR SPEED THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF REDEMPTION · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: Blessings, grace and peace. My name is Ashton Lang. I
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  Speaker 1: was born in America, but raised in the Bahamas. Came
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  Speaker 1: back to America and came from a very dysfunctional family.
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  Speaker 1: My father was a drug dealer and ended up on
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  Speaker 1: crack cocaine, so on and so forth. I followed that
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  Speaker 1: same pattern, unfortunately. I was to a point where I
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  Speaker 1: was eaten.
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  Speaker 2: Out of garbages.
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  Speaker 1: I was in mental institutions, walking around the streets of
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  Speaker 1: America in Miami barefoot. I wouldn't shower for near months.
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  Speaker 1: You name it, been through it. I've been kidnapped three
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  Speaker 1: different times. Taken out into the woods.
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  Speaker 2: Beaten. So on and so forth. But God.
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  Speaker 1: However I was raised in a Christian home. Even though
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  Speaker 1: there was still a seed. A righteous seed. And then
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says. And the Bible tells us that. Before
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  Speaker 1: you was in your mother's womb.
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  Speaker 2: I knew you. And I ordained you. A prophet unto
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  Speaker 2: the nations. And so.
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  Speaker 1: He said. Tween up a child in the way she go.
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  Speaker 1: And in the end it will not depart. So I
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  Speaker 1: knew to run back to him. So in 2020.
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  Speaker 2: I came. I ran into prison. And I said, okay, God,
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  Speaker 2: I need you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, from 2020 to 2022, I was fighting, but I
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  Speaker 1: was zealous and passionate.
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  Speaker 2: However, Paul talks about being zealous, but without knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: And so even though there were people in my family.
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  Speaker 2: Sincerely, they didn't have what was needed.
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  Speaker 1: So in 2022, after falling down and getting back up
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  Speaker 1: and falling down and getting back up, I came to
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  Speaker 1: the end of myself.
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  Speaker 2: I say, God, something has to change.
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  Speaker 1: I'm desiring you.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Sometimes we follow that pattern.
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  Speaker 2: I'm jumping. I'm sowing seeds. Bam, bam, bam. Nothing just working.
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  Speaker 1: I keep on falling down. But one day, my girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: at the time, she said, babe, I need you in 2022.
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  Speaker 1: She said, I want.
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  Speaker 2: You to listen to someone. And I was like, who
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  Speaker 2: you need me to listen to now?
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  Speaker 1: Note that this is in prison. This is, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: on TV, I'm watching TV.
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  Speaker 2: This is in prison. And she said, this is an
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  Speaker 2: African preacher. I said, man, I don't want to hear
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  Speaker 2: no African preacher right now, man.
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  Speaker 1: And so she says, she says, no, babe, I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: from the minute I heard Apostle Joshua's voice, I thought.
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  Speaker 2: About Koso, I thought about her. I thought about her.
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  Speaker 2: I listen to the message.
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  Speaker 1: When I listen to the message, I say, babe, I
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  Speaker 1: found him. That's the real deal. From that minute on,
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  Speaker 1: for months, it's not cheap to use the phone in prison.
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  Speaker 2: But I listened to him over and over. And now
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  Speaker 2: watch this.
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  Speaker 1: I came out of prison last year, February.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: I end up, because I don't have any education, so
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  Speaker 1: on and so forth, I had to work.
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  Speaker 2: At waste management, throwing garbage.
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  Speaker 1: And so even though the money was okay and I
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  Speaker 1: was taking care of my home and everything, eventually working,
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  Speaker 1: I became very laborious. I would be working, garbage juice
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  Speaker 1: would be splashing in my face. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to put earbuds in my ears.
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  Speaker 1: And so while I was listening to the, while this
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  Speaker 1: was going on and I was going through the struggle,
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  Speaker 1: I would listen to three, four sermons per day by
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Joshua Selman.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember when he said, he talked about how
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  Speaker 2: he had a condition in his head.
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  Speaker 1: And he was in the back of the class, but
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  Speaker 1: he would speak in tongues.
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  Speaker 2: He would talk about how he.
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  Speaker 1: Was driving a bicycle in the rain.
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  Speaker 2: And so I said, oh, now I understand.
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  Speaker 1: When I encounter trials and tribulations, I can, I can
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  Speaker 1: battle with the word. That when men said there's a casting,
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  Speaker 1: men said there's a casting down.
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  Speaker 2: You said that there's a lifting up.
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  Speaker 1: And I can do all things through Christ that's fended me.
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  Speaker 1: And so I would listen to the sermons. And when
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  Speaker 1: I connected with him, I connected with Nathaniel Bassey.
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  Speaker 2: And so I was just listening to music.
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  Speaker 1: My wife, I listened to the music so much, she said, Baby,
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  Speaker 1: you soon be an African.
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  Speaker 2: I say, it is what it is. So, but this
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  Speaker 2: is the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is talking about the grace of favor.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to talk about the grace for speed. Remember. Hallelujah, Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Jesus. Remember.
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  Speaker 2: Apostle always tells us, he.
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  Speaker 1: Says, these are not cunning devised fables. Earlier, remember when
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  Speaker 1: he said, there are people that can be in ministry
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  Speaker 1: for 20 years. And you can have someone who is
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  Speaker 1: submitted to transformation in one year and overtake the person
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  Speaker 1: in 20 years.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. I now have two businesses.
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  Speaker 3: I was homeless and I now own my own home.
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  Speaker 3: Me and my wife and my mother-in-law We are now
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  Speaker 3: in the process.
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  Speaker 2: Listen.
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  Speaker 1: In less than 15 months, we are about to build
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  Speaker 1: a homeless shelter. And one last thing.
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  Speaker 2: One last thing. We are winning souls for Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Hey. This is Koinonia. Who did it? Who did it?
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  Speaker 1: Who did it? Not a man that he should lie.
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  Speaker 2: Hey!