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When Strong People Hurt · G. T. Ministries

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SPEAKER_00: Praise God, praise God.
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SPEAKER_00: You want to talk to somebody.
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SPEAKER_00: Especially those are leaders out there today, praise God, and you're trying to be strong.
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SPEAKER_00: But you know the the Bible said be strong in the Lord, not in ourselves.
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SPEAKER_00: We can't do it within ourselves.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: So I want to talk this uh talk to you today about when strong people hurt.
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SPEAKER_00: When strong people hurt.
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SPEAKER_00: In first Kings 19 and 4.
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SPEAKER_00: But he himself went a day's journey until the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree.
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SPEAKER_00: And he requested of himself that he may die.
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SPEAKER_00: This was Elijah, one of the main prophets in the Old Testament.
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SPEAKER_00: The one, praise God, that called fire down on the altar, the one that killed the eight hundred and fifty prophets of Jezebel, wanting to die.
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SPEAKER_00: And you know, it's and it says, It is enough now, O Lord, take away my life, for I'm not better than my father's.
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SPEAKER_00: And the fifth verse says, And as he laid and slept under the Judah tree, behold, an angel touched him and said unto him, Arise and eat.
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SPEAKER_00: The sixth verse.
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SPEAKER_00: And he looked, and behold, there was a cake, bacon in the coals, and a cruise of water at his head, and he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
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SPEAKER_00: Verse 7, and the angel of the Lord came again the second time, touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is great for you.
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SPEAKER_00: And the eighth verse, and he arose and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meal forty days and forty nights in Hamrab, the mount of God.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, there are some people we don't expect to break.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't expect police officers to break because the officer is supposed to protect us.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't expect the firefighter to break because the firefighter runs into what everybody else runs away from.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't expect the soldier to break because the soldier is trained to be tough.
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SPEAKER_00: And we don't expect the pastor to break because everybody comes to the pastor for prayer.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't expect the strong mother or the father to break because everybody in the family depends upon them.
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SPEAKER_00: Be strong, people hurt too.
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SPEAKER_00: But strong people hurt too.
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SPEAKER_00: Elijah was a strong man.
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SPEAKER_00: In first uh Kings 18, he stood against the prophets of Baal.
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SPEAKER_00: He answered uh his prayer was answered by fire.
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SPEAKER_00: Yet, in first Kings 19, Elijah was sitting on a leaf of a tree saying, It is enough.
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SPEAKER_00: That is the language of somebody who had reached his limit.
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SPEAKER_00: The man who called down fire from heaven now is asking at God to let him die.
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SPEAKER_00: Being strong does not mean you'll uh you'll never struggle.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes being strong means recognizing when you need help.
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SPEAKER_00: Are you listening?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm speaking to someone out there right now.
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SPEAKER_00: You you you you you've been serving, you've been working, and look like what you're doing is in vain, and you're getting discouraged and a bit despondent, and you feel like doing something contrary to what God would want.
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SPEAKER_00: But I'm here to encourage you this morning.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm here to let you know that grown people can't become overwhelmed.
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SPEAKER_00: That fourth verse, but he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, came and sat down under the Judaf tree, and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough now, Lord, take away my life.
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SPEAKER_00: Elijah didn't stop being a prophet because he was hurting.
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SPEAKER_00: He didn't stop uh uh belonging to God because he was discouraged, he was overwhelmed.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes the person saying, I'm alright, is not alright.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes the person helping everybody else, somebody needs to help them.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't confuse somebody uniform with their emotional condition.
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SPEAKER_00: A badge doesn't make you immune to pain.
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SPEAKER_00: A title doesn't make you immune to depression.
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SPEAKER_00: A collar doesn't make a pastor immune to discouragement.
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SPEAKER_00: A Bible in your hand doesn't mean that there aren't tears in your eyes.
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SPEAKER_00: Are you listening this morning?
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SPEAKER_00: And then you go down to the uh 1 King 18 and go to the 38th verse.
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SPEAKER_00: The Bible said the five God fell, consumed the burnt sacrifice, the wood, the stones, the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
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SPEAKER_00: 39th verse.
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SPEAKER_00: And when all the people saw it, they fell on their face and said, The Lord He is God, the Lord He is God.
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SPEAKER_00: What a victory.
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SPEAKER_00: But one chapter later, Isaiah said, Elijah said, It's enough.
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SPEAKER_00: Never assume he preached Sunday, so he'll be fine.
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SPEAKER_00: She sung in the choir, so she'll be fine.
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SPEAKER_00: He went to work and be fine.
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SPEAKER_00: She was laughing yesterday and she's fine.
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SPEAKER_00: People can function publicly while suffering privately.
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SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
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SPEAKER_00: Exhaustion can change how you see life.
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SPEAKER_00: In that fifth and sixth verse, uh 19th chapter now, and as he laid and slept under the juniper tree, behold, an angel touched him and said to him, Arise and eat.
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SPEAKER_00: And he looked, and behold, there was a uh a cake bacon in the coals, and a cruise of water at his hand, at his head, and he did eat and drink and laid down again.
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SPEAKER_00: Notice something powerful.
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SPEAKER_00: God doesn't begin by rebuking Elijah.
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SPEAKER_00: God Elijah, Elijah, to rest.
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SPEAKER_00: Then God gave him something to eat.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometime a person's spiritual condition is affected by physical and emotional exhaustion.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you just need to take a rest.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you just need to take yourself out to eat.
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SPEAKER_00: The Bible said David, when they were talking about stoning him, the Bible said he encouraged himself in the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: It's all in the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not in our script, it's in the Lord's script.
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SPEAKER_00: The script that the Lord uh gives us.
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SPEAKER_00: Hasama.
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SPEAKER_00: And Psalms 127 verse 2, it is vain for you to rise up early and set up late and eat the bread of sorrows.
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SPEAKER_00: For so he giveth his beloved sleep.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll say that verse again.
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SPEAKER_00: Psalm 127 verse 2.
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SPEAKER_00: It is vain for you to rise up early, sit up late, eat the bread of sorrow.
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SPEAKER_00: For so he f for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you need to take a day off from the work.
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SPEAKER_00: If you got the time, take a vacation.
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SPEAKER_00: Get too overwhelming.
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SPEAKER_00: Sit down, rest.
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SPEAKER_00: Eat a masa.
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SPEAKER_00: There are times when you need prayer.
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SPEAKER_00: There are times when you need counseling.
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SPEAKER_00: There are times when you need medical attention.
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SPEAKER_00: And sometimes you need some rest.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: And Galatians 6 and 2 tells us don't suffer in silence.
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SPEAKER_00: The Bible says in Galatians 6 2, bear you one another burdens, so fulfill the law of Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: If God intended us to carry every every uh everything along, He wouldn't have told us to bear one another burdens.
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SPEAKER_00: There are burdens that become lighter when somebody helps you carry them.
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SPEAKER_00: Ain't nothing wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell somebody.
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SPEAKER_00: Especially someone you can uh confine in.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm struggling.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not doing well.
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SPEAKER_00: I need somebody to talk to.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm afraid of what is what I'm thinking.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not weakness.
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SPEAKER_00: That may be the decision that saved your life.
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SPEAKER_00: Are you listening here?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh Hasha.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: And night in the verse number nine of 1 King 19.
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SPEAKER_00: And he came and he came hither and came to a cave and lodged there.
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SPEAKER_00: And behold, the word of the Lord came to him.
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SPEAKER_00: And he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
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SPEAKER_00: Elijah God gave Elijah an opportunity to talk.
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SPEAKER_00: Church must be a place where people can tell the truth.
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SPEAKER_00: Not how are you?
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SPEAKER_00: Blessing highly favor.
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SPEAKER_00: When in inside you fell you're falling apart.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: God can handle your honesty.
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SPEAKER_00: And sometimes we have to be honest with each other.
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SPEAKER_00: Especially when we're dealing one-on-one.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to tell the world.
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SPEAKER_00: But there's some people that God put in uh uh in the body of Christ that we can always talk to.
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SPEAKER_00: Are you listening?
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SPEAKER_00: Psalm 62 and verse number eight.
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SPEAKER_00: Trust in him at all times, you people.
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SPEAKER_00: Pour out your heart before him.
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SPEAKER_00: God is our refuge for us.
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SPEAKER_00: Pour it out.
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SPEAKER_00: Pour it out.
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SPEAKER_00: I I have good sometimes.
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SPEAKER_00: Good talk with God.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell him you're angry.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell him you're tired.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell him you're afraid.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell him you're confused.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell him you're hurting.
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SPEAKER_00: God would rather hear your broken prayer than to lose you in your silence.
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SPEAKER_00: Are you listening here?
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Be strong not in yourself, but be strong in the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Take your burdens to the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: And then we can bear one another burdens.
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SPEAKER_00: We can talk to each other.
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SPEAKER_00: Now I'm not saying you talk to everybody, because everybody, you talk to people.
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SPEAKER_00: Talk to people that that that uh can help you.
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SPEAKER_00: Nothing wrong with going to counseling.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Especially Christian counselors.
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SPEAKER_00: They won't tell you nothing wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: Your present pain does not cancel your future.
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SPEAKER_00: In Jeremiah 29, 11, I know the thoughts that I think towards you, said the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Thoughts of peace, not of evil, to give you an expected end.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, Elijah thought it's over, but God said, in effect, No Elijah, I still have something for you to do.
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SPEAKER_00: In 1 Kings 19 and 15, and the Lord said to him, Go return on your way to the willingness of Damascus.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, hallelujah! Go and return.
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SPEAKER_00: Elijah said, Take my life.
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SPEAKER_00: But God said, You still got life to live.
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SPEAKER_00: Elijah saw an ending, but God saw another assignment.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't make a permanent decision because of a temporary season of unbearable pain.
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SPEAKER_00: Stay long enough to see what God has next.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: I told him Sunday, the darkest hour, just a little bit before day.
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SPEAKER_00: Weeping may do it for night.
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SPEAKER_00: Joy got to come in the morning.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm holding on.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, I'm in pain.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, I'm going through my night a time.
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SPEAKER_00: But yet I'm going to believe God.
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SPEAKER_00: Yet I'm going to trust God because I know, amen, what God said.
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SPEAKER_00: He would make a way out of no way.
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SPEAKER_00: Put my trust and my dependency totally in him.
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SPEAKER_00: Because it is in God I live, I move, and I have my being.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: That's where I love to talk with him, especially when I'm going through some things.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a song that have a little talk with Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: And he'll make everything all right with you.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: That when we talk to the Lord, when we come and pour it out before him, being honest with God.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_00: God, amen.
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SPEAKER_00: He loves, praise God, when we are honest with him.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell him, tell him all about your troubles.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell him about your pain.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Get it off you and give it to God.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: And when you get it off and give it to God, I remember Hezekiah.
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SPEAKER_00: God told him, set his house in order.
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SPEAKER_00: He was going to die, not live.
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SPEAKER_00: But you know what Hezekiah did?
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SPEAKER_00: The Bible said that he turned his face to the wall.
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SPEAKER_00: In other words, he shut out everything.
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SPEAKER_00: If he had a cell phone that day, he would have cut that off.
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SPEAKER_00: He had a phone or whatever.
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SPEAKER_00: Social media, he would cut out.
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SPEAKER_00: He turned his face to the wall.
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SPEAKER_00: Just like we have to do today.
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SPEAKER_00: We have to turn to God.
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SPEAKER_00: When we turn to God and talk to him about, amen, our families.
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SPEAKER_00: Talk to him about your financial situation.
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SPEAKER_00: Talk to him about that you're not able to meet the needs.
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SPEAKER_00: You look at your money, praise God, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: And your money is not able to take care of the necessary bills.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_00: And some people they lose it.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_00: They lose it.
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SPEAKER_00: Some of them even take their life.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to do that.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to take your life.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: You can come to God.
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SPEAKER_00: Come and talk to God about it.
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SPEAKER_00: Let Him lead you and guide you.
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SPEAKER_00: You talk to the Lord, and the Lord leads you to sit down and talk with somebody.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: God put people here.
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SPEAKER_00: We are God's mouthpiece.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_00: We are God's hand.
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SPEAKER_00: We are God's feet.
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SPEAKER_00: He put people here on the planet so we can help each other.
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SPEAKER_00: The Bible said, I and Sharpie for I we're here to help each other, not run away from each other.
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SPEAKER_00: And God put the mothers in Zion, even the mothers and the fathers, amen, in the church of God.
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SPEAKER_00: He put gifts in the body of Christ, word of wisdom, amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Word of knowledge, the zerning of spirits, and the various different gifts, praise God.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: God had put place within the body of Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise God that would help you.
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SPEAKER_00: No man is an island.
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SPEAKER_00: We try to take it upon our own selves.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: But I'm tired, tired of trying to be strong in myself.
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SPEAKER_00: Be strong in the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: And the power of his might.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Put on the whole armor of God.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes, Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: I love that book of Ephesians.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, I do.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_00: That sixth chapter of Ephesians tells us, praise God, what we can do.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Sixth chapter Ephesians and the uh tenth verse.
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SPEAKER_00: Finally, my brother, be strong in who?
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SPEAKER_00: Be strong in the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not me.
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SPEAKER_00: As long as I'm with God, as long as I talk with God, He will give me the script to take me through.
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SPEAKER_00: And the power of His might.
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SPEAKER_00: Put on the whole armor of God.
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SPEAKER_00: The 11th verse of 6th chapter, Ephesians.
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SPEAKER_00: That you be able to stand against the wiles of the enemy.
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SPEAKER_00: But we wrestle not against flesh and blood of against principalities, unseen forces, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places.
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SPEAKER_00: Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God, that you might be able to stand in that evil day, having done all to stand.
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SPEAKER_00: Stand therefore, having your lurns girded about with the truth, having on the breadplate of righteousness, your feet sharp with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Above all, take the shield of faith, whereas it quence all the fiery dots of the wicked, take the helmet of salvation, the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
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SPEAKER_00: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: I praise God this morning.
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SPEAKER_00: We praise him today.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Give God the praise.
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SPEAKER_00: Verse number 19 in 1 King.
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SPEAKER_00: So he departed and found Elijah, the son of Sepak, and who was ploughing in the plowing with twelve yokes of oxen before him.
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SPEAKER_00: And Elijah passed by him and cast his marrow upon him.
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SPEAKER_00: Elijah had been said, I even I only am left.
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SPEAKER_00: But God showed Elijah, you're not alone.
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SPEAKER_00: Ecclesiastes 4, 9 to 10.
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SPEAKER_00: It says two are better than one.
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SPEAKER_00: Because the one has a good reward for their labor.
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SPEAKER_00: For if they fall, the one will lift him up.
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SPEAKER_00: But woe unto him that is alone when he falls.
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SPEAKER_00: For he has for he has not another to help him up.
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SPEAKER_00: Everybody needs somebody who can help them get back.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: When strong people praise the Lord's bread.
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SPEAKER_00: The help of God we bear one another burdens.
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SPEAKER_00: We lift each other up.
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SPEAKER_00: We help each other.
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SPEAKER_00: We encourage each other.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: When we do that, Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: We see the handiwork of God.
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SPEAKER_00: You might be a police officer, a firefighter, a soldier, a pastor, a strong mother, or a father.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to let you know that God is witch.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to let you know Praise God, yes, you can hurt.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, most our vulnerable time is when we are hurt.
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SPEAKER_00: I look at the word hope.
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SPEAKER_00: Our most vulnerable time.
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SPEAKER_00: And the hope is hurt.
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SPEAKER_00: The A is when we're angry, the L is when we're lonely.
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SPEAKER_00: And the T is when we're tired.
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SPEAKER_00: That is the most vulnerable time that the enemy attacks us.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: And our mind tell us to give up.
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SPEAKER_00: What's the use?
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SPEAKER_00: But I'm gonna tell you.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: You shall live and not die.
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SPEAKER_00: And declare the works of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: So give your life to Jesus if you listen to me now.
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SPEAKER_00: Come to Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Peter preached on the day of Pentecost.
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SPEAKER_00: Said, repent.
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SPEAKER_00: Said come to God and tell God about it.
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SPEAKER_00: Repent of your sins.
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SPEAKER_00: Take on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_00: Go down in the water in the name of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Take on Jesus' name.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_00: When you go down in the water and representing God, you're taking on the name of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: You're burying your old lifestyle.
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SPEAKER_00: And when you get up, it's like a resurrection.
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SPEAKER_00: And let God fill you with the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, we will get hurt.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, we will get knocked down.
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SPEAKER_00: But God has made a way for us to get back up.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_00: A just man may fall down seven times.
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SPEAKER_00: Get back up again.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: God bless you.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for joining in here on GoPartyonline.org.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm Bishop Gregory Tucker of the GT Ministries of the One Way Church of Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: May the blessings of God be upon you all day long.
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SPEAKER_00: Be encouraged in Jesus' name.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Be encouraged.
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SPEAKER_01: You see, when no one ever sees is shaking hands behind a steady smile.
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SPEAKER_01: The heart that keeps beating while quite breaking.
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SPEAKER_01: I try to be strong for everyone.
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SPEAKER_01: To hold it all together to carry weights that were never mine to bear.
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SPEAKER_01: But you never asked me to be the hero.
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SPEAKER_01: You just asked me to be yours.
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SPEAKER_01: So here I am, God.
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SPEAKER_01: No more pretending, no more madness.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm not okay.
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SPEAKER_01: But I know you are.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm weak, but I know your strength never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: When my courage runs out, you become my courage.
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SPEAKER_01: When my voice trembles, you sing over me with peace.
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SPEAKER_01: There's a mercy for you still.