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Gen Youth Camp 2023 - Session 1: Gotta Have F.A.T.S | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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  Hello, and welcome to the Generation's Church Podcast. We're so excited to have
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  you here today. It is our prayer that God's word will inspire and help
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  you grow in your faith. Now, let's get right into it. Okay.
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  I want to share quickly with you now from a passage in the Bible,
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  and he's found in Genesis chapter twelve, was one to nine. And
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  this is a story of when Abram he wasn't Abraham yet, yeah, you
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  can get not quite Abraham, yet he was still Abraham. Where God called
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  him to go to a foreign place he lived, well, he lived in
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  uh went to a place called Haran, because that's where the father stopped.
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  And then they settled there, and then the father died, and then God
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  called him to get up from there. There's no way you're supposed to be.
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  Turn to a neighbor and say it's no way you're supposed to be.
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  Turn to your other neighbor and say it's not where you're supposed to be.
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  Hah, okay, all right. So God told Abraham, Hey, there's
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  a place where you're supposed to be. I'm asking you to go there.
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  Now, Abraham had no clue where is this place or how to get there,
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  all right, this is the story we're reading. He says. Here
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  now, the Lord say to Abraham, go from your country and your kindred
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  and your father's house to the land that I will show you. You don't
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  know where it is yet, but I will show it to you. Amen.
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  How many believe that while you're in this camp, God's gonna show you
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  some things you've never seen before. God's gonna show you something. Maybe it's
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  a part of Him you've never seen before. Maybe you think God is boring.
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  God is anything but boring. Amen? How many I believe that in
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  this camp God can show you a side of Him that you never seen before.
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  Maybe for some of you, when someone tells you God is a father,
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  can I be real with you? You actually hate that? You actually
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  hate hearing that God is a father because maybe just maybe the father you know
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  in your life is not so kind? Oh? Am I being real?
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  Not so hah? If God is a father, I don't want him.
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  Can he be a mother instead? But maybe God will show you something different
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  this camp. I believe he will do that. Can you be open to
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  that? And God showed Abraham I will show you this place. Just go,
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  I'll show you and I will make you a great nation, and God
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  gives him a promise if you were just listen to my voice and go away.
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  I show you this is I will do this now. Maybe your promise
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  is not exactly like this. Maybe you're not going to be a father of
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  many nations because you're not a father, you're a girl. Ah, but
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  there is a promise. God will give you a promise. Somebody say,
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  promise. The thing I know about my God is he's a promise keeping God.
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  We sometimes struggle to keep promises. Teacher, I will hand up the
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  model, and then we don't mathille, I'll come home by ten o'clock,
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  and then we don't. Right, Okay, I won't do this anymore,
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  and we all right. So but but God is a promise keeping God.
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  Amen, And so God makes these promises. I will make you a great
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  nation. I will bless you, and I will make your name great,
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  so that you will be a blessing. Firstry, I will bless those who
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  bless you, him who dishonors you our curse, and in you all the
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  families of the earth shall be blessed. So Abraham, thank God for him.
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  He did it. He did what God said. He went he didn't
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  know where he was going. He didn't know exactly where to stop. But
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  God said go, and you went. So Abram went, and the Lord
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  had told him a lot where sometimes sometimes people go with you, not every
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  time. The point here is not is everybody coming along with me? Because
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  in this camp there will be moments where you will be felt, you will
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  feel like you need to go, need to take a step forward, whether
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  it's metaphorical or whether it is real word to be for you, or whether
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  it's like like for real you have to step forward, or just in your
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  heart you step forward to something. You got a few moments there, and
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  sometimes you'll you'll be tempted to see, he's my friend going, Is anyone
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  else going? If no one's going, I don't want to be the first
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  one. There might be moments like that, and so sometimes people go with
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  you, sometimes they don't. Not many people in your Abraham just Lot his
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  cousin, Okay, I'll go with you. It's fine, went with him.
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  And then Abram was seventy five years old. He was seventy five when
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  he started Guess what a new Adventure. The theme of this camp is new
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  adventer Abraham at seventy five years old. None of you is. You're dead
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  old here. Okay, you're way more qualified, way more prime, way
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  more prepared to go on a new adventure. He's seventy five, he's the
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  age of your grandpa. And he started a new adventure. But he did,
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  he did. When he departed Harun, and Abraham took Sarah his wife,
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  and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered,
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  and all and the people that they had quiet in Haran. They set
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  out to go to the land of Canaan. And when they came to the
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  land of Canaan, where God led him to, Abram passed through the land
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  to the place of Sekhem, to the oak of Moray, all these names
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  that sounds like from Lord of the Rings. At the time the Canaanites were
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  in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abraham and said, to your
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  offspring, I will give this land. So he built there and alter.
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  Someone said alter, we'll come back to his word in a while, but
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  say alter again. There he built an altar the place where God led him
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  to. He built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him.
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  From there he moved to the hill country of the on the east of Bethel,
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  and pitch his hand with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east.
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  And there he built an altar. Someone said, altar. There he
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  is again. Every time he comes to this significant place, he builds and
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  what altar? And then he called upon the name of the Lord. I
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  saw the Lord, and he heard, and he answered Amen. And Abraham
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  journeyed on one adventure to another, one adventure to another. Amen, and
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  still going toward the app Four points I want to give you, because it's
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  not a full message. Four things. Number one, I want to encourage
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  every single one of you, whether it's your first time in a generation youth
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  camp, first time in a camp ever, first come in a church event,
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  ever, these songs are foreign to you. Whatever I need you to
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  have. Somebody say, have slip, say have these four things. Number
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  one, Just like Abraham, we all need to have something called faith.
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  Somebody say faith. I encourage you, I urge you, please in this
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  camp have faith. Faith means the ability to believe in something that you do
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  not see. If you see something and I tell you, hey, I'm
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  handsome, and then you're like, yeah, I believe that's not faith.
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  Thank you. I know, I'm just saying what you on your mind.
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  I'm married, by the way. My wife is over there. Jay is
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  my wife. This is my son's ian. Yes, that's where he God,
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  it's good. Yeah, okay, cool? Yes, yeah, so
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  I'm marry. I'm taken. I'm so sorry, but you gotta have faith.
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  Most of us we want Okay, you show me, then I'll go.
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  You show me where I'm going. Let me see whether there's any crocodiles,
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  any random rhinos there, because you never know what you get with a
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  rhino, right, A rhino that pushes up, a rhino that sits up.
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  I don't know. Is it not true? Show me, show me
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  that this works, Show me that this is there anyone else that tried this
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  thing and then it works for them? Show me that then then now I'll
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  take it too. I wonder how many of you here would care to admit
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  that that's basically our attitude towards anything, especially spiritual things, especially all this
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  God stuff, this religious stuff. Ah, the worker most of us show
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  then I'll go. Is it safe? It's okay, but you know,
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  but God said go, then I'll show Oh my gosh, what the ballet
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  one? How this is so nerve wrecking, this is so scary. Go
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  then I'll show God. Excuse me, God, hello? Is that how
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  it works? If I'm gonna go somewhere, You're gonna show me where I'm
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  going, then I'll go. No, no, no, God says you
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  go, then I'll show you where to go. This is what you need
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  to have in this camp. It's a good have faith. Can I tell
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  you something I just realized on the drive because it was a very long drive,
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  Oh my gosh, so long. I had a lot of time to
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  think, and I just realized, today is eleventh November, Right, eleven
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  November. You know what happened one year exactly one year ago? No,
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  shoppy, let me backtrack fifty three weeks ago. They miss one week before
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  the one year. One week before eleven November. I was at home and
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  I had been praying for over a month for some time now God, because
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  God was telling me this stuff last year in October. Go and I'll show
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  you go. I'm like, go where. I didn't know it was Start
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  Generations Church. One year ago, fourth November. I was at home and
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  God had already put in my heart go go plant this church. I didn't
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  know it's going to be called generations. I didn't know. I didn't know
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  nothing. I didn't know that a year later there'll be fifty over young people
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  in this room. Amen, you know. And there at home, I
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  was in my heart thinking, okay, God, I'll go. Then you
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  show me. Ah, i'll go. You better show me. Okay,
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  okay, God, I say, I say in my heart I'll go.
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  Then my wife comes to me and say, you don't go on not quite
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  that way. What she's what she actually said was, dear, if you
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  ever go, they must go from where you were. Then if you ever
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  go from this place, I have not left that place for twenty years,
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  quite comfortable, settled, already picked my ten, build my bungalow. I
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  don't have a bunklow. No, I'm quite comfortable. And then my wife
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  says, if you ever leave this place, don't you dare plan a church,
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  don't you dare start a church? Do anything but do that? Don't.
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  I'm like, I'm confused. God. I after the months of praying
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  for all that, all that kind of thing, God, I thought,
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  I thought you you sent people to tell me this is where I'm where I'm
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  supposed to go to. What I'm supposed to do. And here comes my
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  wife, the most important piece of the puzzle. Here comes She's she's at
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  home saying, don'ta don't start a church. You want you go work for
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  another church, or you start an n G O, or start a company
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  and do, but don't start a church. I'm like, God, I'm
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  super confused because you spoke to me through so many different confirmations, like it's
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  like undeniable stuff that happened that tells me I've got to go. Then God
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  show, here comes my wife said, don't go. Super confused, and
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  then I had to I realized I haven't spoken to her about what God had
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  shown me, all the different parts. I thought, maybe if I will
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  share with her, then she will be convinced too, and then go with
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  me. And then I heard a voice and some of you, you're gonna
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  hear voice, not voices, like you're gonna hear this still small voice.
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  It's gonna feel like it's gonna feel like you don't really know this voice yet,
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  but it feels familiar. That's the spirit of God that will speak to
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  you in this camp. And that their voice told me don't talk to her
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  two times out, don't say a word, don't say, ah, how
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  how does this work? You told me to go? My wife said,
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  don't go. I want to try to convince her to go. Now you
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  tell me, don't tell her. I'm like, okay, God, I
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  will I'll just okay, I won't say anything. I'll be steady. All
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  I told her was, dear, I'm gonna fast and pray next week.
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  She said, oh, when are you fasting and praying? I gave her
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  a date and she's like, okay, I'll fast and pray. But we
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  didn't discuss what we're gonna pray about one week later, eleventh November, one
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  year ago, exactly one year ago eleven. Remember we were sitting in a
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  restaurant. She was having carry laxa. I still remember. And then I
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  was like rushing back to the office. And then she took out her phone
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  and said, Hey, before you go, can you please do you have
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  some time to hear my proposal, my ideas for our new church? Huh?
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  Sorry, what do you say our new church? What are you talking
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  about? Last week you said, don't do this, don't you dare do
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  this? I don't want to do this, and now you want to you
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  have you? She got organizational chart, written out, schedule written out,
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  different ministry releases out. She's like, she's got a whole plan one year
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  ago today one you go wow, and I needed faith to do this.
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  To that, I'm so thankful that I took this step because if you had
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  not taken this step, I won't be able to meet all your wonderful people
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  and hear all your crazy cheers and look at your beautiful faces right now A
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  kelp, come on. So I want to encourage all of you to have
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  this thing called faith. Actually you already have it, you just need to
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  activate it. Faith. Faith means okay, God, I will go.
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  Then you show me how it's okay to be like, okay, call you
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  better help me because we are got children, right, but we gotta go.
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  We gotta go even even we don't have all the data, all the
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  details, the whole blue we don't have yet. That's faith. Secondly,
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  is you've gotta have an altar. Someone say alter Abraham build an altar.
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  Every time got l him to a place, he goes there, he builds
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  an altar. Amen. An altar is a place of worship. It's a
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  place of worship. I want you to build altars in this camp moments of
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  worship. You're gonna have a lot of fun. Trust me, We've done
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  camps seventeen years quite fun. Even I like my camps. So it's gonna
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  be great. It'll be great. It'll be fun. You have a lot
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  of fun. You're probably gonna be talking about all the all the crazy stuff
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  happened in your life in this camp. Great, wonderful. The T shirt
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  is nice, you let your goldie bag, the com Ludles is awesome,
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  talk shop is amazing, your angel is handsome. Whatever, Okay. But
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  in the middles of all that build an altar and alter is a place of
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  worship. So when it comes to worship, give it all you've got.
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  Amen, you could have had an altar. These are the moments that will
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  change your life. These are the moments that will change your life. You
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  will know what hit you, okay, God, Wow, You feel all
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  kinds of things. For some of you will feel peace and you can't explain.
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  Your life is in the term, or your family's messed up, but
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  you can feel peace. Somehow can explain it. Some of you will feel
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  so loved you never felt so loved before. Some of you will feel for
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  the first time you're not alone anymore. I don't know about you feel,
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  but in God's presence as you worship him, he really is gonna show up.
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  Building an altar and all. There is a place of place of prayer.
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  Allow yourself to pray, even you have never prayed to this God before,
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  give yourself a chance, O man. Prayer is not a formula.
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  Pray is not some kind of like mumbo jumbo some are you Okay, it's
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  not one of those. Pray is just this. It's not the words,
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  it's not the language you pray in. Prayer basically is dependency of God.
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  We pray because we need your God. I need your help. You're bigger
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  than me, You're stronger than I am, You're cleverer than I. So
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  I pray because that thing called prayer shows that I depend on you, rely
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  on you. I need you God. Amen prayer. So in this camp,
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  allow yourself to have moments of prayer morning, nine, afternoon, before
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  you eat, just before you fight, in water, war, whatever,
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  pray, pray and also allow people to pray for you. Sometimes it helps
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  somebody prays for you. Sometimes the words is given to another person for what
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  you feel in your heart. Okay, something you're gonna experience that. You're
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  like, you come up here and people pray for you, Like, how
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  do you know everything? You're stalking me out? You know, it's a
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  holy spirit who knows what's going on in your life. Gave the words to
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  the other person, and then the other person prays for you. Can you
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  allow yourself to have moments of prayer? Author of worship? Auto of prayer?
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  Is that okay? And all? There is a place of remembrance to
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  you know why they build altars in the olden days. Basically they do not
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  have Google Maps. They're gonna Google map to pin the rappin an you know,
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  the rappin Google mat rappin. This is the rippin those days, the
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  opinion authors. So then when they want one day pass, you know,
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  ah, yeah, this is where God. Hey, this is where God
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  touched me. This is where God answer my prayer. Hey, this is
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  where God hear me. And author is a place of remembrance. Can I
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  challenge you encourage you to build memories in this camp? I mean significant memories.
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  They come memories where if you maybe just one year later, we do
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  came here again, you come back here. You remember this is where I
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  cry my eyeballs out and let everything out like I don't care, Like I
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  don't care who watches anymore, who thinks of what of me? Anymore?
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  I don't care because not about I don't care who thinks one of me?
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  I said, it's just me and God here right here, or even the
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  stand is do there? Altars are places of remembrance. I don't want you
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  to look batter in your life one day and have nothing to remember. I
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  mean nothing significant. I remember the time I fell into a long gun.
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  I remember when I hunted cats down. I remember all those things too,
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  But I also remember where I cry my eyeballs out. I remember those auto
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  calls. Okay, when you come up to the front, it's called an
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  auto car. Remember those auto casts where someone said, hey, how of
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  you believe that God is calling you to serve him full time, like as
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  a bastard or something like that. I remember walking out there as a young
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  person and say, yes, Lord, I am. I remember those moments.
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  I remember those moments where you know I was addicted to pawn for like
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  thirteen years and could not break it in my own strength, in my own
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  way. What porn blockerls Okay, it didn't work like, okay, yo,
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  find a way one, but it's not. It wasn't until God delivered
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  me, and like, oh break free. Those moments are precious. Those
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  are my altars. What's yours? You got to have these altars of remembers
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  that okay, build moments of worship. Alters are place of beginnings. He
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  comes to a place, he builds an alter, he starts a new adventure.
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  Amen. So I pray that all of you here will have a new
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  beginning. Whatever, whoever the person you was when you came, I pray
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  you will leave this place different than you came, not in a bad way,
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  in a very good way. Amen. Alters a new beginnings. You'll
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  be very sad if we if any of us go home and don't have a
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  new beginning, you wouldn't be Why we did cam. We didn't spend all
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  this money for us to go back to same old same. We didn't do
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  all of this so that we can oh just go back to same old same.
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  We want to be a new person. Amen. Alters are places of
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  beginnings. Alters is where fire comes upon it right the sacrifice. Fire talks
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  about purpose, passion, power. These are things that you will discover and
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  experience in this place. If you allow God to set you on fire,
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  you become the altar. Say got here, and I'm here, worshiping you,
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  praying to you, building memories with you, God studying you and fresh
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  with you. And here I am or the altar. Set me on fire,
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  Set me on fire, not literally like clambering. Set me on fire,
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  from a cold heart to a heart that burns. Young people are supposed
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  to be known for passion, but many young people today don't have passion for
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  anything because it's just too tiring to a passion. Because how many times do
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  you want to dream of something when you keep on having your dreams crushed?
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  Right, So we get very tired at dreaming anymore, at wanting to believe
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  a better nation, or better life, or better family. It's fair tiring.
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  But I pray that that will all change. There will not be the
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  case for any of you. Here go back home with this new energy to
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  dream. I don't talk about I'm not talking about like a dream to be
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  the best footballer, best car racer. All that is good, it's good.
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  But I'm talking about like dream bigger things, like God, something's good,
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  It's gonna happen in my family. Something good is gonna happen in my
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  relationships, my friendships, something's gonna go something, something is gonna happen in
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  my studies. Good stuff. God, you gotta do it, fi Oh
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  God, and his power is gonna release that. Amen. Because you've gotta
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  have faith, You've gotta have and alter and altimates all those things. You've
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  gotta have sensitivity. Somebody says sensitivity. To do this, you need to
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  learn to not be so distracted, especially in moments like this. I want
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  you to tune in as best as you can and ask this a few questions.
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  What is God saying to me? Even right now as you listen to
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  what I'm saying, What is God saying to you through what I'm saying to
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  you? The question is not what I'm saying to you. I know what
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  I'm saying to you, like you know, I gonna have faith all that,
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  But what is God saying to you in all of this? I pray
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  through every session you're asking God, God, I want to be sensitive.
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  What are you saying to me? What does God want to do in my
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  life? What do you think God wants to do in your life? What
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  does he want to remove from you? What does he want to add to
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  you God? What are you saying to me God? What you want to
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  do in my life? Be sensitive? Third one is what does God want
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  you to do to change? To stop? What does he want? I
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  pray? Be asking this question throughout this camp and be sensitive. I guarantee
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  you God will speak. And then the final one is you could have trust
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  and then you obey Abraham trusted completely. I don't know where I'm going.
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  I will go. Then your show trust and obey. Just do it.
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  Just do it. You're feel in your heart I should go out for prayer.
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  Just do it. You're feeling how you should confess with somebody. I
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  will tell you, oh my dear, the secrets, the way I keep
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  my mother's shoes. Okay, just do it. You'll cry. I will
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  just do it. We have tissoes. Don't worry, you feel like kneeling.
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  Just do it. Good things, bad things, don't do it,
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  just do it, trust and obey. Amen. You gotta have FATS.
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  I want to have you remember this message. You gotta have FATS. FATS
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  is faith, alter, trust, and sensitivity. I know I can make
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  it fast too, but it won't be as sticky. FATS is better Okay,
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  in this camp, fat is better than fast. You gotta have fats
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  everybody. Faith alter one A alters A place of worship, a place of
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  prayer, a place of memories, remembrance, a place of beginnings. I
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  pray to all of you will have a new beginning through this camp, a
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  place of fire. God's power come and changes you. Amen. Thank you
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