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This Is My Favorite Tract! · Bible Tract Echoes Podcast

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey friend, welcome back to Bible Trek Decos.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Michael McCurray, your host.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so very much for taking your time and joining me right here today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What a blessing it's been.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These last, it's crazy to think five over five years at the helm of Bible and Traxxing Corporate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and look back at all that God has done, but then to look back because of the foundation, not the foundation of the five years I've spent here, but because of the eight years previous to that, to think back to Paul Levine, to think back to all the staff people that made this ministry possible, to think back to Mark Smith, my predecessor, to think back on that foundation and then to look at the future.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: wise man said something along these lines, the future is his bright as the promises of God and what a way to think of it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There are a few things I enjoy more than pausing and reflecting on God's blessings, but there's a really easy way to think about to hear about God's blessings.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's to hear from people like you I love hearing testimonies from God's people and that's what I'm going to share a little bit of
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today, some testimonies from Wisconsin and Illinois, and from Canada, Ohio, I appreciate folks that will share their blessings, specifically about using gospel tracks or leaving someone to the Lord or about Bible tracks incorporated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you have a testimony that you'd like to share, please, please contact us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can contact us through our website, bibletracksink.org.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can send us an email info at bibletracksink.org.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can text me, three, zero, nine, three, one, six, seven, two, four.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's three, zero, nine, three, one, six, seven, two, four.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: zero.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what Justin from Wisconsin said recently.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I just want to say, I'm thankful for your ministry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I listen to your program every morning on VCY America.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I am located in Wisconsin and I am thoroughly and you're encouraged by the teaching of Dr. Paul Avine and yourself when you bring the word.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I just ordered some Bible tracks for myself
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I look forward to sharing the gospel on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, a campus that is in need of a arrival.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I also look forward to your open house event later on this year, and I plan on attending May the Lord continue to bless you all, as you minister the gospel of Jesus Christ across the street.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: around the world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Justin, thank you so very much for your kind words and we look forward to seeing you at our open house just in case I run out of time and don't remind you Saturday October fourth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's sneaking up on us real quick.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What is it less than a month away?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Saturday October fourth you will want to be here in O'Dell Illinois.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our address is, you can punch it in your GPS right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Figure out how far it is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Six, zero, three.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: West Prairie Street.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Dell, Illinois.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Six, oh, four, six, oh.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you have questions, visit BibleTracksing.org.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can do RSVP.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We want to make sure we have enough food.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So RSVP on our website.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Please do that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or if you have questions, you can text me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, that number is three, zero, nine, three, one, six, seven, two, four, zero.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Gale from Illinois says this, I found this tracked card called Charget.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In one of the gas payment sections on the pump where I went to pay for gas, I'd never seen one before.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, my media thought was it's own at loss, they're credit card.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But then I read it and ordered some tracks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I gave some to a couple of friends a pass out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Great idea.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for all you do to spread the word to others.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Gayle, thank you so much.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's Paula.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Talking about BTI, a wonderful ministry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you to everyone involved.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I was saved reading a track and believing them, praying for this ministry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God bless you all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's Charlie from Canada.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good day, Brother Micah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm writing my bike listening to your program on FBN here in Calgary, Alberta.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Love your ministry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, if you have a testimony, please share it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's another one from a friend of mine, Joe Katinsky.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a servant of God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A friend of mine who's answered, God's call into missions, alongside his dear sweet wife Angela.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Joe yielded to God's call to ministry in July of twenty two, and has begun assisting churches and missionaries worldwide.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Outside of ministry, Joe and I enjoyed long conversations over and about food sharing insights from scripture and experiences and service.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Please, I hope you enjoy this encouraging testimony that Joe shared with me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what he said.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Recently, while visiting Greensboro and North Carolina, we enjoyed a trip to the Greensboro Science Center.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As we pulled into the parking lot, my wife and I observed some folks failing to break into a car using the duct tape trick.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, breaking into the car, it was their car.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They had a lot of keys in.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: After many combined years doing security and law enforcement, we have some tricks for our own that actually work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sadly, I didn't have the right toolbox with me, but we made do with what we had.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We worked on it for about an hour, but without our usual kit, which is limited to the things that are legal for us, but still very useful.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We ultimately were not successful, but there's a silver lining.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The employees were very thankful as we got in a lot closer than they had.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We left them with smiles and gave each of them, and it was a pleasure to meet you, tracked.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While inside the science center, we spent some time talking with one of the volunteers about species survival plans, which both of the animals in the outdoor exhibits are part of.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We ask a lot of questions about things he doesn't normally get to talk about.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At the end of our conversations we left him with his own, it was a pleasure to meet you, tracked.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That morning I had asked God to lead me to someone with whom I could share the gospel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I did not expect him to lead me to so many in one place.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the it was a pleasure to meet you tracked is by far the easiest to give out when interacting with strangers or other people you meet for the first time especially if it was a pleasant interaction most people these days are in a hurry and this track encourages the opportunity to just connect with someone for just a short moment it opens with if we had been together a few minutes longer I would have looked for the opportunity to ask you this question
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know for sure that when you die you will go to heaven and then lays out the gospel in a clear, concise manner.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Many people may be nervous about sharing the gospel with a stranger.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This track does so in a way that makes it clear you care about the person.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Without them feeling like you only stopped to quote unquote sell them your religion.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This track is also available with a version that has space for a personal note as well as a version Spanish.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Joe says, I value the, it was a pleasure to meet you, tracked as such a valuable tool for sharing the gospel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I never leave my house with less than three in my pocket.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Joe Katinsky from Stowe, Ohio.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you'd like more info about the Katinsky family, you can go to your fellow servant.com, your fellow servant.com.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Joe is wonderful.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a
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  [SPEAKER_00]: good Christian man and if you're you as a church are interested in a missionary that is apparently a good writer but it's also just a good human being and a good Christian.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to want to know the Katinsky family.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now for just a moment here as we're talking about God's blessings let's talk about some things God has done around the world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know one of the most exciting parts of the ministry of BTI is watching out God's word travels farther
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  [SPEAKER_00]: than we ever could.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks to your faithful partnership, twenty twenty five has already been a year of incredible international gospel impacts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ukraine has remained a focus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We continue to print and send tens of thousands of tracks to that war torn region where the need is urgent.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Your support makes it possible to keep reaching people in the middle of crisis with the never-changing gospel of Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We also recently shipped sixty thousand tracts to Antigua with plans for them to reach across the Caribbean to islands like Barbados.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you so proud is Angu Guila.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe Domenica.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: St.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Kits and St.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nevis.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: St.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Martin and St.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Martin.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think of
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not mistaken there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Also in Australia, the tracks we sent earlier this year have arrived and are already being distributed including through a brand new church plant in Brisbane.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What a joy to know.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These tools are being used in such a fruitful way.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just a few weeks ago, we our team from BTI returned from Panama, where we had to privilege a filming a new gospel film with a wonderful partner ministry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're excited to share more about this powerful resource very soon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the United States, we continue to reach across the country.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We sent thousands of tracks to churches in the
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Navajo Nation, where faithful ministries are doing vital work in a vast and spiritually needy area.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We plan on sending more soon, and we'd be honored if you would partner with us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Across the Pacific, we just shipped a large tract order that will soon be on its way to Papua New Guinea.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Those tracks are set to arrive later this year, and we'll go directly into the hands of soul winners ready to use them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every shipment, every film, every track tells the same story.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God's Word works.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So many open doors are on the horizon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We would count it a great privilege to partner with you in this work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Please, please consider giving as Lord leads.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to thank you for helping us send the gospel to the world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you've never partnered with Bible tracks incorporating, first, I'd ask you to use our gospel tracks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd ask you to consider becoming a gospel witness, but there's something actually I would rank just above that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd ask you to pray.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When God has your heart, he has everything else of you as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought you could ask for money, brother Micah?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Money, if it's even on a list, is a distant third.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: First, we ask for prayers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then we ask for you to be a witness to use our gospel tracks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then, if the Lord would lead you, we would love to partner with you financially as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have well over a quarter million tracks that we have just printed in the English language to refill our inventory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's going to cost about eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: that gospel fill in Panama cost about five to eight thousand dollars to travel and all the things to make that possible, but that's going to reach that nation of five million people in an incredible way.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And because it's a Spanish language production, it's going to be accessible to the entire rest of the Spanish speaking world as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Caribbean I already mentioned that, sixty thousand tracks cost by five grand all in.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You crane.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We sent tens of thousands of tracks there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Popping new guinea mini tracks Australia.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We sent two hundred thousand tracks about a cost of ten thousand dollars.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But God owns a candle on a thousand hills.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe he's taking some of the gold under those hills that he also owns, and he's put it in your pocketbook.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If the Lord would lead you to partner with us, we would absolutely love that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: not so we can enrich ourselves, not so we can crow about it, know it's so that we can reach further and do more for the cause of Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My prayer today is that God would burden you in one or more of three ways that you'd pray for the ministry of Bible tracks incorporating.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We take prayer exceedingly, seriously.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd ask you to consider using our gospel tracks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We print gospel tracks and ship them around the world including right here in America for free.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: To the tune of millions every year, BibleTracts Inc.org is our website.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can order some for free today, BibleTracts Inc.org.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd ask you to consider partnering with us and also our website, multitudes of ways to donate if we want to engage in that matter.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I care as always is that you have a great day for his glory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll plan on talking to you tomorrow and share more about how God has blessed this ministry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God bless.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for tuning in to Bible Tract Echoes, the radio ministry of Bible Tracts Incorporated.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Want to see our gospel tracks and other resources?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Visit us online at BibleTracksInk.org.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's BibleTracksInk.org or follow us on social media to learn how you can partner with this ministry.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks again for listening.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: May the Lord richly bless you as you live for him.