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Thank you, Lord, today, Lord, 
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We're so grateful, Lord, for the
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house, to be here and gather 
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family. 
Mighty, mighty God, thank you 

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Jesus, praise the Lord. 
Church, you can be seated, 

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please, as long as you promise 
not to get too comfortable and 

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get sleepy. 
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to be here at Mount Carmel. 
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begin Pastor McGee and his 
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As he's mentioned, we were 
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Mcgee's at church camp in any 
events we would see them. 

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We were always so excited to see
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We're so grateful for their 
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growing as a family. 
We're so grateful for your 

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kindness and your love that you 
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We're so grateful. 
I want to give honor, Jerry 

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Mason, perfect on cue, nicely 
give honor to you and your 

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family for all the work you do 
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And I know Pastor Gil always 
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organization, his abilities. 
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that. 
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the the crow's nest. 
They're just hard to keep up 

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with him. 
Thank you all for your, you and 

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your family, for your passion 
for the Indiana student 

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ministries that you have done, 
for the passion you have, for 

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all of that, the work that you 
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Thank you so much. 
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ministry that you have here. 
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It's always fun to see that 
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carry so much of the load of the
district and you guys have 

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amazing leadership. 
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team a big hand? 
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allow me just a couple minutes, 
I'm going to go ahead and set my

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timer. 
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I didn't say I was going to 
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it. 
I'm going to try. 

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I always said it just so we 
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just a couple steps here down 
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cool Friday in March of 2012, 
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attendee of University of 
Southern Indiana here to Mount 

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Carmel for a youth rally. 
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beautiful young lady that walked
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And I thought to myself, man, 
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But I sure hope someday I can 
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And that was none other than my 
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So thank you all for having a 
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rallies. 
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beautiful spot in our hearts. 
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It's such a full circle moment 
being back here. 

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We'll celebrate being married 12
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So God is good. 
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I remember setting about the 
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was just incredible. 
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nostalgic and Deja Vu pulling 
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wife and three children. 
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So thank you all that there was.
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appreciate your church and the 
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church. 
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I'll stop being sappy and we'll 
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We've already lost a minute and 
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So let's talk about not that my 
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half. 
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shovel and I'm going to put it 
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Let's talk a little bit about 
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So I want to give you kind of a 
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You're gonna hear from me for a 
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You're gonna hear from my wife, 
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about our future vision in 
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I'm going to come back. 
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kind of encouraging you with 
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encouraging under the theme 
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So that's kind of the map we're 
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We're going to take us about 41 
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the good Lord willing. 
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about Honduras as a whole. 
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up. 
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some tantalizing, tempting 
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on a nice missions trip. 
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tonight because it's a little 
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Your nose is running as soon as 
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Honduras, I can promise you at 
any day throughout the year, you

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can come. 
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and it will always be nice and 
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Nice and warm, beautiful 
subtropic weather with delicious

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mangoes, delicious bananas. 
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world, coconuts, tilapia, we 
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export. 
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favorite of our exports is 
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So we're going to, I know where 
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now I'm going carnal on you. 
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We're going to we're going to 
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But I want to say if you want to
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Honduras and you leave some 
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when you come back, you can fill
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you can fit in that suitcase. 
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there. 
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we came back and we sold it for 
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If you're into mangoes and warm 
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you found the will of God for 
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Just just throwing that out 
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So let's talk about the 
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There are 11,000,000 souls in 
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11,000,000 souls. 
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Toloteca, which is the 
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There's about 75,000 there in 
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And we have the best base there.
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that city. 
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center in that city, the good 
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And you're going to hear from 
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And then as we move N, we get to
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which has 1.6 million people. 
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operating in there. 
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excited for it, but we need so 
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earnestly believe when God said 
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should perish that includes 
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So we go with the goal, with the
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God can reach 11,000,000 souls, 
He can reach 7300 souls in Mount

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Carmel, He can reach 11,000,000 
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So that is the goal, because I 
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do exceeding, abundantly above 
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I can ask or think, and I don't 
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get into prayer, I can think of 
some wild things to say. 

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I can think of some crazy things
to ask for, like reaching 75,000

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people in Chota Teca, like 
reaching every soul in Mount 

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Carmel, like reaching every soul
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Now, I don't know how it's going
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anything. 
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David and say, really, how's 
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God always seems to find a way 
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You see Daniel and the lions, 
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He just always does it, doesn't 
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He always finds the odds that 
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a way to do it. 
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that we have in the northeastern
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Katakamas, we have one church 
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That's very different. 
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I just threw that in there. 
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There's more starting every day.
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vibrant, it's amazing. 
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going to come. 
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Three of them, I'll let you pick
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some naps on the way here. 
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warming up a little bit. 
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unpredictable part. 
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years old, and now I'd like to 
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In 15. 
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years old and I would like to go
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Deuteronomy 6 and four. 
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Is there a very good. 
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Laser? 
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dead girls. 
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say? 
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May God bless you. 
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you're going to hear a little 
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Praise the Lord, that actually 
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was going to go, so that's good.
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note, but I have a wonderful 
privilege to be able to tell you

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all about the present ways and 
the future plans that we have to

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train and equip our pastors and 
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Honduras. 
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testimony because I believe that
God started preparing me to work

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and teach in a Bible training 
center when I was just a little 

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girl. 
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plan for every single person in 
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And He has taken you through 
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Maybe He's bringing you through 
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desires to use for His Kingdom 
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And my story starts with fear. 
Fear has been a part of my life 

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for as long as I can remember. 
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would just experience just 
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I would be paralyzed with fear. 
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I didn't know how to use the 
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what was happening to me. 
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make me so sick. 
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bringing me to my pastor at the 
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took the time to teach that 
little girl lesson about how the

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Word of God was her weapon. 
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17. 
For God has not given us the 

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spirit of fear, but a power and 
of love and a sound mind. 

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And he told me to memorize the 
Scripture and to quote it every 

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single time I felt fear. 
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I am an avid rule follower, so 
if you tell me to do something 

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and it's going to give me peace,
absolutely I'm going to do it. 

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And this scripture was my 
lifeline when I was growing up. 

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Every single time I felt fear 
enter into my mind, I would 

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quote the scripture and it would
leave. 

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And I use this all the time. 
And I would experience momentary

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lapses from fear. 
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and we had our first child, 
Joseph. 

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We had her second child, Julian.
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to our plan at least until she 
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And at that time, my husband 
started experiencing some really

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weird health symptoms. 
And we're just like, oh, it's 

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probably nothing. 
It's probably just some old 

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injury acting up. 
We'll just go to the ER, we'll 

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get it checked out and it'll be 
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Well, during that ER visit, they
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chronic myeloid leukemia. 
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drastically flipped upside down 
that day would be an 

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understatement. 
And all the while, there were 

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seeds of fear that were being 
planted in my mind, but I didn't

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notice at first. 
I was in survival mode. 

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I had a 2 year old, a nursing 
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husband at home with me every 
single day and I felt completely

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overwhelmed. 
And then just one year later, 

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the pandemic happened and it was
the perfect atmosphere for those

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seeds of fear in my mind to just
completely overtake every single

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thought I had. 
The fear and panic that I 

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experienced was like a vice. 
It's the only way I know how to 

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explain it. 
It was like I was stuck in it 

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and it would just squeeze and 
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no joy, no peace, no hope left. 
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my thoughts. 
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through. 
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where I felt like I was fighting
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I was fighting for my sanity. 
Every single thought I had was a

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lie from the enemy. 
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no future. 
You're going to die. 

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There is nothing good that's 
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your family ever again. 
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defeated, I felt terrified. 
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this season and he started to 
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Bishop had taught me all those 
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the word of God was my weapon. 
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anxious thoughts that would come
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felt like every second of every 
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scripture. 
I would start praying the 

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scriptures over my mind, over my
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And little by little, what I was
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daily by covering myself in the 
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I was learning how to use the 
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I was learning how to fight. 
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started to speak to our family 
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field. 
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there were some things that died
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perspectives that I had, old 
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go, old expectations of what I 
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looked like. 
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doing something. 
He was renewing me. 

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He was changing me. 
He was giving me a new future, a

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new purpose, and I was learning 
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everything. 
My Peace of Mind, my patience, 

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strength, our family's future. 
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he gave us during that time 
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We have three beautiful 
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So he also blessed us with 
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A promise that God's not done 
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And while the enemy would desire
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called us to by using fear, 
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cancer diagnosis, God's will 
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And she's a gift from the Lord 
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Because we all need reminders 
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promises and of the messages 
that God's been speaking 

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throughout all time in His Word.
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couple minutes about one of 
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And that is that you are that I 
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We are not what the enemy says 
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We are not what others have 
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not even what we call ourselves.
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I'm done, that I have no future,
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fearful and full of anxiety. 
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life I believed every single lie
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But I'm so thankful that God 
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started to speak into my life 
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who I belong to. 
That I do have a future. 

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I'd like to read just a few 
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We can see a little bit of this 
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verses 12 through 16. 
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wheat in the winepress to hide 
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12 says, And the Angel of the 
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unto him, The Lord is with thee,
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And Gideon said unto him, O my 
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why then is all this befallen 
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And where be all his miracles, 
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saying, Did not the Lord bring 
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But now the Lord hath forsaken 
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hands of the Midianites. 
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said, Go in this thy might, and 
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hand of the Midianites. 
Have not I sent thee? 

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And he said unto him, O my Lord,
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Behold, my family is poor in 
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my father's house. 
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Surely I will be with thee, and 
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as one man. 
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I'm so thankful that it's 
included in the word of God 

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because I think it is such a 
human conversation that we have 

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with God sometimes where we can 
lay our fears and our concerns 

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out and say, I feel forsaken, 
Lord, I feel forsaken. 

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Where are all these miracles 
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Where are they? 
How come I haven't seen one? 

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I feel like I should see 1. 
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were going to do something then 
I would. 

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I would see it. 
Now is a good time. 

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God, I'm hiding, hiding in the 
winepress. 

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I'm trying to feed my family. 
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terrified. 
He was afraid to hope for a 

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future that included freedom for
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he was afraid to hope for any 
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I think he thought this is it, 
this is as good as it gets, This

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is all I'm ever going to 
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He had his own ideas as to why 
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being the man chosen to save 
Israel. 

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He says, my family's poor and 
I'm the least in my father's 

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house, and I think we do the 
same thing. 

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We have our own excuses and we 
say, don't you know who I am? 

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God? 
Don't you know what I've done? 

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Don't you know who my family is?
Surely I am just disqualified 

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from being used for your 
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But God wasn't interested in any
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limitations. 
He already knew it all. 

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He knew that Gideon wasn't 
qualified to experience victory 

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because of anything Gideon had 
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He wasn't qualified because of 
his family history, his 

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personality, or his skill set. 
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identity. 
He's saying you're a mighty man 

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of valor. 
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naturally brave, but it was 
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himself, who had never lost a 
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So our identities are wrapped up
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are. 
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God then goes on to tell Gideon,
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is why you and I can be 
victorious today as well. 

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We can stand there and say those
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throughout all time in 
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leaving us, that he's never 
forsaking us, that he's going to

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be with us always. 
Those are still sure for us 

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today. 
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humans, we like to think victory
is when we are already 

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victorious, that the enemy's 
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And then we can relax and know 
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But that's not the case. 
That's not our life in the 

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church. 
We are currently living in it. 

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But we know who's already won 
all the battles. 

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We know that we have victory 
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I know that God wants to use all
of us for His purpose. 

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But I also have come face to 
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with our enemy who would desire 
to do anything to keep you from 

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following God's will for your 
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He has great excuses. 
They're very convincing. 

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He has a lot of lies to tell 
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He has accusations that He will 
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and over again. 
So what can you do in the face 

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of an enemy like that? 
You have to remind yourself you 

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have to renew yourself in the 
word of God. 

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You have to fight. 
So how can we fight? 

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I just want to give you 2 verses
of scripture in case you need 

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something to pull out quickly. 
Deuteronomy 20 And one says, 

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when thou goest out to battle 
against thine enemies, and see 

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his horses and Chariots, and the
people more than thou, be not 

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afraid of them. 
For the Lord thy God is with 

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thee, which brought thee up out 
of the land of Egypt. 

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And Isaiah 43 and two says, When
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I will be with thee, and through
the rivers they shall not 

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overflow thee. 
When thou walk us through the 

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fire, thou shalt not be burned, 
neither shall the flame kindle 

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upon thee. 
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the same promise. 
We don't have to be afraid 

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because God's with us. 
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look dark. 
We may see an enemy that looks 

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like they outnumber us. 
We may see waters that look like

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they're going to overwhelm us, 
fires that look like they're 

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going to burn us. 
But the same promise, forever 

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and ever and ever. 
God's with us. 

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We don't have to fear. 
I all never would have thought 

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that the years that I spent 
battling fear were preparing me 

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to leave everything I've ever 
known to move to a new country 

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with a new culture and a new 
language. 

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But I can see now that God had 
to teach me where my identity 

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was found. 
It's found in God. 

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It's found in Jesus Christ. 
It's it's only found in that. 

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It's not found in my natural 
abilities. 

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Whatever they may be, they're 
nothing without God. 

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They're nothing without the Holy
Ghost operating in my life. 

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And we see that every single day
in Central America. 

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We see ministers, we see 
families, we see young men, 

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young women that are they need 
to know. 

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They need to know where their 
identity is found. 

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And it's not in a corrupt 
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It's not with the overwhelming 
feeling that there's violence 

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all around them. 
No, it's found in God. 

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It's found in God, and I believe
through this Bible Training 

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Center that we're going to talk 
about that God's going to 

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unleash an army in Central 
America of people that know 

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exactly who they are and why 
they are called for such a time 

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as this. 
We have a picture of this 

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property that we've already 
purchased in Choloteca, Honduras

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for the Bible Training Center, 
and we are in the very beginning

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stages of building this school 
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And the goal and vision for the 
school is to train and equip our

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existing ministers and pastors 
and their families, but also all

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of those that fill a call to 
work in the ministry. 

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There is revival that's already 
sweeping through this region of 

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the world, and we need to be 
equipping our pastors and 

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ministers and helping them train
people under them to come behind

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them to take over some of these 
new works. 

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Our greatest need right now is 
to develop this property. 

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We're in the planning stages. 
We're getting estimates for 

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fencing. 
In order to be able to do 

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anything, we have to have a 
fence first, otherwise 

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everything else will disappear. 
Unfortunately, that's the 

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reality. 
Everything will be stolen. 

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Everything will just be gone 
overnight. 

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So we have to have a fence. 
So that's what we're trying to 

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do next. 
We will build missionary 

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housing. 
We will build a multi purpose 

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space for the church and for 
we're going to have a church on 

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the property and we're also 
going to use it as our Bible 

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training center. 
So if you feel called to give to

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this, that is probably the 
greatest need right now that we 

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have in Honduras. 
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through this school that we're 
going to see new ministry start.

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We currently have no ladies 
ministries or children's 

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ministries. 
We are believing that they 

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develop through the classes that
we have. 

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We were blessed. 
Honduras was blessed to be the 

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very first location that had the
Nations to Nations Conference 

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that Sister Scott had a burden 
and passion for. 

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And we know that was an answer 
to prayer because there has been

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burdens that have come upon some
of these people. 

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We've we've had services for the
youth happening this year that 

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have never happened before in 
the history of Honduras. 

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So I'm believing that as this 
continues to go on, the there 

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will be new burdens and new 
things placed on our pastors 

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wives, our pastors and their 
families to start these in their

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churches. 
The main method we use for 

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training right now is during two
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year. 
We have a national conference in

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April and a regional conference 
in October, and we have some 

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00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,520
pictures of that. 
We've had so many wonderful 

450
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:35,320
ministers come from the States 
and just pour into our families 

451
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,360
there in Honduras. 
It can be a very discouraging 

452
00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:41,320
place to work. 
Like I said before, there's a 

453
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,680
lot of darkness, there's a lot 
of oppression. 

454
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,640
It is not a safe country, it's 
not a stable country. 

455
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,840
So as we have these conferences 
and we're gearing up and 

456
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,600
planning for a one in April, 
please cover these with prayer, 

457
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,120
cover our pastors families, 
cover all of those that are 

458
00:26:57,120 --> 00:27:00,280
traveling to and from. 
We usually rent buses to kind of

459
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,440
help them get there safely, but 
pray for their financial 

460
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,320
provision because most of them 
are self-employed and if they're

461
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,200
not working, they're not earning
any money. 

462
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,520
So pray for that, that God would
bless the sacrifice that they 

463
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:15,000
make going to these conferences 
and pray that they're encouraged

464
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:20,400
because the reality is they are 
the ones chosen for this revival

465
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,840
in Central America. 
They can go places and do things

466
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,720
that we can never go. 
But with the power of the Holy 

467
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,240
Ghost, with them understanding 
who they are and what God has a 

468
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:35,040
plan for this area of the world 
in these last days, I believe 

469
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,760
that is going to be unmatched, 
the revival that we experience 

470
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,760
in Honduras. 
So thank you so much for 

471
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,880
allowing me the opportunity to 
share my hearts for the people 

472
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:51,960
of Honduras. 
Amen. 

473
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,320
So I want to continue in this 
vein of training because this is

474
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,400
where things start to get really
exciting for us because we look 

475
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,040
at the horizon, we look how God 
is positioned and prepared and 

476
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,080
it gets really exciting. 
So let's talk about that. 

477
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,440
We have a picture of when my 
wife and I went to the 

478
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,520
Philippines just about a year 
and a half ago. 

479
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,040
We were able to go just her and 
I and we shadowed missionary 

480
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,880
Mark Namie for three full weeks.
And it was really wonderful 

481
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,000
because he kind of pulled back 
the curtain and showed how they 

482
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,240
do, what they do, the curriculum
that they use, the results that 

483
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,600
glory be to God that they have 
been able to accomplish in that 

484
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,680
region. 
So the reason that's exciting 

485
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,800
for, for us is because they have
been able to in just 17 years 

486
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,200
that they have been in that that
region, they have been able to 

487
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,520
build 100 churches in the nation
of the Philippines. 

488
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,640
So then I start to wonder about 
Honduras. 

489
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,520
We're at 17 churches currently 
and they've cut the learning 

490
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,640
curve with the curriculum. 
They're already translating 

491
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,960
stuff to Spanish with their 
their classes. 

492
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,720
So then that makes me wonder, 
where could we be in 10 years? 

493
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,600
I don't know. 
Could we be at 100 churches in 

494
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,240
10 years? 
I don't know. 

495
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,600
Again, he's able to do exceed, 
like I told you, I can pray some

496
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,560
wild things and that isn't that 
wonderful about the God that we 

497
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,120
serve, that we can pray these 
incredible things about breaking

498
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,160
down principalities, about doing
this and doing that. 

499
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,520
And the God that we serve is the
almighty God. 

500
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,960
He does not get nervous. 
We don't start writing checks 

501
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,880
that we're going to build 100 
churches in 10 years. 

502
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,240
And God's like, oh, I don't 
know, let's, let's calm it down 

503
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,320
a little bit easy. 
But he's the almighty God, and I

504
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,400
believe we can do amazing things
through Honduras. 

505
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,600
We can see amazing things happen
by the grace of God through 

506
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,160
Honduras. 
And what's more, as it's my 

507
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,520
like, nice infomercial tone 
there, like, but wait, there's 

508
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,680
more. 
They have built 100 churches in 

509
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,800
the Philippines in the last 17 
years, but now they're actively 

510
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,240
starting to send missionaries 
out of their training center, 

511
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:45,400
Filipino missionaries, to places
like Hong Kong, Thailand, and 

512
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,600
Italy. 
So then I start to wonder about 

513
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,280
those countries that we're 
positioned close to. 

514
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,720
We could be at the capital of 
either El Salvador or Nicaragua 

515
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,280
in about two hours from where we
live. 

516
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,640
So what about those countries, 
what about Guatemala, what about

517
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,400
Venezuela? 
I know it looks like it's a mess

518
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,040
right now, but remember, God 
always gets the glory. 

519
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,320
So whatever is happening in the 
natural is mirroring what's 

520
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,520
happening in the spiritual. 
And we have prayed that God 

521
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,040
would break down principalities.
So perhaps this is the way it 

522
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,600
happens. 
I don't know. 

523
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,440
But then I think about Belize, I
think about Mexico, I think 

524
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,200
about Panama, Costa Rica. 
We are going to see, I believe, 

525
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:26,000
a revival that will shift the 
entire spiritual climate where 

526
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,880
we have seen things like 
oppression, depression, narco 

527
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,040
trafficking, gang violence. 
They have been there for 

528
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,440
decades. 
Their talents are dug in very 

529
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,640
deep. 
The foundations seem very 

530
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:41,120
strong, but we believe that as 
we take forward the gospel of 

531
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,120
Jesus Christ, everything has to 
move out of the way. 

532
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:49,000
I don't know how, I don't know 
when, but I do know God says 

533
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,800
wherever he goes there is 
liberty, there is not 

534
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,160
oppression. 
Wherever he goes there is 

535
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,120
freedom. 
There is not this, this 

536
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,920
terroristic violence that 
happens. 

537
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:04,120
So we believe that very 
dramatically God is going to do 

538
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:05,800
something throughout all of 
Central America. 

539
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,280
And that's why it's exciting to 
see what God has done in the 

540
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,240
Philippines. 
I believe we're going to see 

541
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,240
something in that vein happen in
Central America as a whole. 

542
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,200
And and Honduras is only the 
beginning. 

543
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,280
The Lord said in Luke chapter 10
and verse 2 that the harvest 

544
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,760
truly is great, but the laborers
are few. 

545
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,360
Pray ye therefore the Lord of 
the harvest that He would send 

546
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,880
laborers into his harvest. 
Now that next picture, if you 

547
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,560
put that up, that is a picture 
of some of our laborers that we 

548
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,680
have currently. 
The top picture is our pastors 

549
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,200
that we have operating in the 
region, and the bottom is our 

550
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,840
licensed LJC ministers that we 
have in that region. 

551
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,720
So our goal is next time we're 
here, you'll see a much bigger 

552
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,960
picture on this wall. 
Next time you won't see 11 

553
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,920
pastors, maybe you'll see 50. 
Next time you won't see 20, some

554
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,200
ministers, maybe you'll see 100 
and some ministers. 

555
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,680
I don't know. 
But then remember, God can do 

556
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,400
exceeding abundantly above. 
And I have prayed that we would 

557
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,200
see multiplying and multiplying 
in these harvesters because God 

558
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,760
said the harvest is great. 
And in another place he said the

559
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,520
harvest is white and it's ready.
So let's pray for these 

560
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,680
harvesters that we can multiply 
them, that we can continue to 

561
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,400
send them, like my wife said, in
these areas that we can't go but

562
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,280
they can. 
There's a harvest where they can

563
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,040
go. 
There's a harvest in some of 

564
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,360
these villages. 
There's a harvest in this area 

565
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,200
that we're so excited about. 
Now we're going to pick up speed

566
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,000
just a little bit because we're 
at that mark and I want to get 

567
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,400
to the end. 
So if I forget to breathe, just 

568
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,640
kind of like nod at me and be 
like, breathe. 

569
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,200
It's. 
So next, I want to talk about 

570
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,680
three of our laborers, 
specifically if you'll put that 

571
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,200
next picture up about our kids. 
So these were some of the 

572
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,360
biggest prayers that we had in 
2022. 

573
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,960
As we started to navigate this, 
we started to really hear the 

574
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:53,800
voice of God calling us to do 
this. 

575
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,840
These were our biggest prayers 
because we believe that you can 

576
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,800
be full of faith. 
You can believe that God has 

577
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:03,440
everything under control, but 
you can also be aware of the 

578
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:04,720
things that are going on around 
you. 

579
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,960
So that's where we were at in 
2022. 

580
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,960
We believe that God had 
everything under control. 

581
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:10,920
This was His voice, this was His
will. 

582
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,280
He has everything. 
But we also know where there is,

583
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,280
where God is working. 
We will find an enemy working 

584
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,800
where God is advancing. 
We will find opposition. 

585
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,200
Absolutely. 
And there are things that happen

586
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,800
in Honduras as it relates to 
children that do not happen 

587
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,760
here. 
So we were praying very strongly

588
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,840
because we also believe that God
doesn't waste seasons. 

589
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,160
There's no point in time that 
you are walking through 

590
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,640
something, through a season, 
through a trial, through a test,

591
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:41,360
fill in your blank that God is 
not doing it for a reason. 

592
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,880
There's something he's preparing
you for on the other side of it 

593
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,640
that only comes through that 
season. 

594
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,560
And that's what we believe for 
our children. 

595
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,240
And I don't know, it's not my 
business to call them to say 

596
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:53,600
they're going here and doing 
this. 

597
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,400
That's between them and the Lord
in that good time. 

598
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,800
But I know God doesn't waste 
seasons, so I know whatever this

599
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,160
season is, he's preparing them 
for something. 

600
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,080
So not only here we go again, 
I'm going to do this infomercial

601
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,120
thing. 
So not only are we going to see 

602
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,679
hundreds of churches built, 
maybe thousands, we're also 

603
00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:14,199
going to see harvesters sent 
into this. 

604
00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:16,960
We're going to see missionaries 
out of Honduras going all 

605
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,560
through Central America, 
southern South America, who 

606
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,920
knows. 
And we also have 3 laborers 

607
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,560
right here. 
Now, I have a really good head 

608
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,600
start when it comes to Spanish 
on our kids. 

609
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,199
It'll be a long time before they
catch me, but I know they're 

610
00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:33,159
going to catch me and they're 
going to pass me and it's going 

611
00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:36,320
to be ridiculous because they're
going to grow up there. 

612
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,520
I did not have that luxury. 
They're going to grow up there 

613
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,239
with that culture. 
They're going to grow up there 

614
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,719
building churches with these 
other kids that are their age, 

615
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,960
playing in the training center 
while we're doing classes they 

616
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,360
are going to have. 
And I know that God will use 

617
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,480
that. 
And I know that from this 

618
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,520
current present point we're at 
right now, the further we move 

619
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,080
forward, I believe the brighter 
revival gets, the more 

620
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,680
opportunity that God has for 
revival in Honduras and through 

621
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,240
all of Central America. 
So next is I want to honor some 

622
00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:08,840
of our leadership that we have 
in Honduras. 

623
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,360
On the left is Pastor Selvan 
Ruse. 

624
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,040
He's the vice president of the 
work there in Honduras. 

625
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,080
And then on the right is Pastor 
Daniel Hidon. 

626
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,200
He's the president of the work 
there in Honduras. 

627
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:22,120
And these two men have been 
vital to us as we're moving 

628
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,800
because I went as a typical 
American thinking how different 

629
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,000
can it really be? 
It's really not that it's not on

630
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,680
the other side of the world. 
It's so close. 

631
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,080
I can assure you, after six 
months living there this year, 

632
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:34,800
it's a completely different 
world. 

633
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,960
And these men have been vital to
us, teaching us how to walk like

634
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,080
a Honduran or like a cataract, 
or like we say, teaching us how 

635
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,120
to do certain things that seem 
I've done 1000 times, but you 

636
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:47,440
can't do it like that in 
Honduras. 

637
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,040
So these men have been awesome. 
They have always been in our 

638
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,840
corner, encouraging us. 
Their families have been right 

639
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,200
there with us, continually 
encouraging us. 

640
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,880
You're not alone, we're with 
you, we're your family, we love 

641
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,520
you, we're here for you, we're 
watching your back, all this 

642
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:01,720
stuff. 
So I want to give honor to these

643
00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:03,640
two men and their families. 
They're awesome. 

644
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,080
Next, This is what it's going to
look like as we build some of 

645
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,800
these churches, these hundreds, 
if not thousands of churches in 

646
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,360
Honduras. 
The left is one that is in 

647
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,560
construction and just begun, and
the right is one that is 

648
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,920
finished. 
So as you can see, they're very 

649
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,200
simple to put up, very simple to
build. 

650
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,800
So that is a wonderful advantage
we have moving forward. 

651
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,480
We just need some blocks, some 
rebar, some sheet metal and some

652
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,880
concrete, and we have a church 
and it's wonderful. 

653
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:31,440
That's also another side 
advantage. 

654
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,160
I'm going to jump back to the 
very beginning. 

655
00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:37,360
If you like saunas, free saunas 
during service. 

656
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:41,960
So just throwing that out there.
If anybody's into saunas, there 

657
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,280
you go. 
There's mangoes, there's coffee,

658
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:49,080
there's saunas. 
So next picture is just an 

659
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,680
example of what it will look 
like. 

660
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,000
I wanted to show you that my 
wife mentioned about when we 

661
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,560
rent these buses and we bring 
these people in, this is what 

662
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,880
it's going to look like. 
And to give you a little peek 

663
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,960
behind the curtain of the 
cultural differences. 

664
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,240
We were planning for this 
conference in October and I 

665
00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:04,840
asked Pastor Selvin trying to 
figure out exactly how many 

666
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,920
buses we need. 
And I said, well, how many can 

667
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,560
fit in that bus? 
He said, I'm not sure. 

668
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,640
It depends how big they are. 
I said, no, no, how many seats 

669
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,800
are in that bus? 
He said, what does that matter? 

670
00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:16,840
So that's that's how many people
we can fit in the bus. 

671
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,480
He said not in Honduras. 
He said we just keep pushing 

672
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,920
until they can't fit any longer.
So well, welcome to Honduras. 

673
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,560
Here we go. 
And it's not uncommon. 

674
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,480
We don't do this, but it's not 
uncommon in Honduras down the 

675
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,320
main thoroughfare to see 5-6 
people hanging on the outside of

676
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,680
a van just driving down Main 
Street like it's a normal 

677
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,120
Tuesday in Honduras. 
And to see 5 or 6 people of a 

678
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,480
family of five or six on a 
single motorcycle, completely 

679
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,040
common. 
It doesn't seem common, but 

680
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,560
welcome to Honduras. 
You'll see it when you come. 

681
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:53,240
So the next slide is I want to 
show some ways that you can 

682
00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:56,960
become involved if you'd like. 
I do want to make one 

683
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,160
correction. 
That second line, our national 

684
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,320
conference, the Lord moved in an
amazing way this past Sunday and

685
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,920
that is completely funded. 
So glory to God, God is so good.

686
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:11,600
Yes. 
So we do have on that guest 

687
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,960
table, we have some magnets back
there with our faces and that QR

688
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,600
code on it. 
Please take one of those, put it

689
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,000
on your refrigerator. 
And I want to highlight two 

690
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,680
things with that magnet. 
Remember to pray for us first, 

691
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:29,000
because as I said, we believe 
huge things for Honduras, but we

692
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,760
know then the enemy is at work. 
And there where we live down the

693
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,200
southern region, there's 
particularly interesting 

694
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,480
principalities that are working 
there that have continually 

695
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,440
tried to work against what God 
is doing. 

696
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,680
So please be in prayer that God 
that we would be covered. 

697
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,240
And because we do not fit in 
very well, despite my best 

698
00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:51,040
efforts at getting lots of sun. 
If you're white, you're white. 

699
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:57,400
So next is monthly support. 
If you would like to support us 

700
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,040
on a monthly basis, If you're 
like, you know what the mangoes,

701
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,080
the coffee, the saunas that 
didn't do it for me. 

702
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:03,880
I'm just going to stay here in 
Mount Carmel. 

703
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,960
That's fine. 
I breaks my heart, but I get it.

704
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,520
But if you would like to still 
be involved, that's a way that 

705
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,160
you can do that. 
You can say I'll send a dollar a

706
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:16,400
day to Honduras and it doesn't 
seem like much, but it equals 26

707
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,080
limpidos. 
So that exchange rate works in 

708
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,600
our favor very well. 
We can do a lot with just a few 

709
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,440
dollars. 
So we pray that you would 

710
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,360
consider that. 
There's a link in that, in that 

711
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,000
QR code right there. 
There's also some videos that 

712
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,120
show what we have done, what we 
plan to do so that please scan 

713
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,840
that as you put that on your 
fridge so that way you can 

714
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,160
continue to stay connected with 
us. 

715
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,440
So now everybody take a deep 
breath. 

716
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:43,960
Oh, I'm so glad you suggested 
that. 

717
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,200
I needed that too. 
Like I said, sometimes I just 

718
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:48,480
don't breathe enough getting 
that. 

719
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,320
But now we're in the final 
segment we're going to we're 

720
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,560
going to head home here. 
So I want to encourage you for 

721
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,120
just a few minutes here as we go
into our final segment about how

722
00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:00,680
God always gets the glory and 
what a comforting thought it is,

723
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,520
What a comforting promise it is 
that it doesn't matter how dark 

724
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,440
the situation, doesn't matter 
how bleak, it doesn't matter how

725
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:12,280
defeat ridden, how fill in the 
blank that God always gets the 

726
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,280
glory. 
I don't know how He will do it. 

727
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:18,840
I don't know when He will do it,
but He always finds a way to 

728
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,600
take this situation and He will 
be glorified out of it and it 

729
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,400
will bring your benefit. 
So to illustrate this as an on 

730
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,320
ramp here, I want to go to John 
19 and 30. 

731
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,160
John 19 and 30, a familiar 
verse. 

732
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,360
The word says when Jesus 
therefore had received the 

733
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:41,560
vinegar, he said it is finished.
Can you say that phrase with me?

734
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,400
It is finished. 
It is finished. 

735
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:45,480
That'll be important here in a 
minute. 

736
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,720
And he bowed his head and he 
gave up the ghost. 

737
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:50,440
So. 
I know it seems. 

738
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,720
Like, I had thousands of 
scriptures to pick that had a 

739
00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:55,760
lot of them that were really 
encouraging, that were really 

740
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,720
fluffy and nice and wonderful 
and true nonetheless. 

741
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:00,960
But why would I pick this one to
start with? 

742
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,880
Encouragement. 
Because it really underscores 

743
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,520
the point that He always gets 
the glory. 

744
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:10,600
You can pick the situation that 
looks the most bloody, the most 

745
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,120
beaten, the most bound for 
defeat. 

746
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,160
There is no way this thing comes
out successful. 

747
00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:19,400
Jesus said so much that He was 
going to do, but there He hangs.

748
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:23,080
There was so much that we 
followed Him for, but there he 

749
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,200
hangs. 
And with his last breath, he 

750
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,200
said, it's finished. 
It's finished. 

751
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,200
So let's dig. 
It's Bible study night, right? 

752
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,160
Let's, let's dig. 
Just just for a few minutes. 

753
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,120
Let's dig. 
So that phrase, it is finished. 

754
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,960
That phrase means tetelestier in
the Greek. 

755
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:43,840
And what that means is that this
situation had come to its final 

756
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,520
conclusion. 
Or we could say in good old 

757
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,480
Midwestern that this was part of
the plan all along. 

758
00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:53,120
Now Can you imagine that with 
me? 

759
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,760
It didn't look good. 
This was not the favorite part 

760
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,560
of the season right here. 
This was not, you know, he's 

761
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,880
walking on water. 
This was not Loaves and Fishes. 

762
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:07,720
This was the cross. 
He's beaten, bruised, bloody, 

763
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,520
and with just a handful of words
left, he said this was part of 

764
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,560
the plan. 
Can you imagine? 

765
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:18,920
He looked from the very 
beginning of time. 

766
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:20,400
However, he sees the beginning 
of time. 

767
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,720
He looked from the very 
beginning and he said, I need a 

768
00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:27,280
new covenant with my people. 
I need to provide a way that 

769
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:31,280
they can have their sins taken 
away indefinitely and that I can

770
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,200
be with them and they can be 
with me in a way that they 

771
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,680
cannot imagine right now. 
And then he saw the cross as the

772
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,960
means for that to happen and 
said it's worth it. 

773
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,880
That's the plan all along. 
He looked at this beautiful 

774
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,800
covenant, but it came through 
ugly means. 

775
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:52,840
He looked at the beautiful 
promise, but it had a real ugly 

776
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,520
path to get there. 
It was a wonderful season but it

777
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,680
had a real painful Rd. 
Can you imagine that? 

778
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,640
This was part of the plan all 
along. 

779
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,440
From the very beginning there 
was the cross and he said it's 

780
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,880
worth it. 
It's worth it because God always

781
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,480
gets the glory. 
Now I want a sidebar for just a 

782
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:17,480
minute. 
We're going to come right back 

783
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:18,640
here. 
I want to share with you some of

784
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:23,640
my testimony. 
And in 2012, I felt the Lord 

785
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:29,200
calling me to move from my 
hometown to go to Medora IN to 

786
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:33,240
study under Pastor Tim Gill. 
And as I did that, so I'm going 

787
00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:35,280
to be transparent. 
I was 19 years old. 

788
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:39,120
I just met my wife. 
And I thought that the will of 

789
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,600
God worked something like this, 
that when you follow Him, 

790
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,080
everything's good. 
Good. 

791
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,240
Not like it's going to be good. 
Like it's good, it's smooth, 

792
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,520
it's easy, you got plenty of 
money, you got plenty of joy, 

793
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,640
you got peace to pass around for
days. 

794
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:57,600
It's just awesome. 
So I thought that I'm in the 

795
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,920
will of God. 
I'm not only in the will of God.

796
00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:03,440
I feel like I'm moving. 
So like I'm really, I'm really 

797
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,080
help. 
I'm really scratching God's back

798
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:06,520
right now, like I'm really 
helping him. 

799
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,240
And you can't tell me you've had
some thoughts like that. 

800
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,360
We're not all perfect. 
I know I'm a little little out 

801
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,840
there, but anyway, that's what I
thought. 

802
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,640
So at that time, my most of my 
work experience was working at 

803
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,680
holiday world serving soft serve
ice cream. 

804
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,760
So when it came to like real 
life skills, I had pretty much 

805
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,560
nothing. 
But I thought God is able to do 

806
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,760
exceeding abundantly above all 
that we ask or think I can pray 

807
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,480
for to be a doctor or a lawyer. 
You know, I, God can do it. 

808
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:40,280
He can make a degree up here. 
He can, I know. 

809
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,920
So I'm applying for jobs right 
as I get to Medora and I'm 

810
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,040
applying for jobs at the local 
banks. 

811
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:49,160
I'm applying for jobs that with 
ice cream experience, remember. 

812
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,160
So I'm applying at insurance 
agencies. 

813
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,560
I'm applying at all these 
wonderful, lucrative, 

814
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,400
comfortable, nice, easy will of 
God jobs. 

815
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,080
And unsurprisingly to you, 
probably every single door was 

816
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,560
shut in my face. 
Not literally, but it felt like 

817
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,560
it, like every single door. 
You don't have the experience, 

818
00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:11,920
you don't have the work history.
We don't have ice cream. 

819
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,080
Why are you here? 
Like we got no need for a soft 

820
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,120
serve expert. 
What are you doing? 

821
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,880
So there I am in that familiar 
season that I'm following the 

822
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,920
will of God. 
I really know that I'm following

823
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,600
what God has for me, but it's 
not working out the way I 

824
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,320
thought it was. 
I'm following his will. 

825
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,880
I'm I'm moving, I'm doing all. 
This stuff by faith. 

826
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:34,960
And then all of a sudden, 
nothing's working out. 

827
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,640
I don't God I I followed. 
You to this place. 

828
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,560
But this place just has empty 
doors, just doors that are shut.

829
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,120
Everything's not working. 
I can't pay my bills and I'm I'm

830
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,280
in bad health. 
I don't know what's going on. 

831
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,120
God. 
Well, then one day a gentleman 

832
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,560
from our church came and he 
said, Hey, I got a job for you. 

833
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,560
She just show up and fill out an
application tomorrow. 

834
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:57,840
So then I got my vigor back. 
I was like, yes, here we go. 

835
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,280
What does brother Bobby do? 
Is he, is it Doctor Bobby? 

836
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,120
I've never called him that, but 
is he that? 

837
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:03,600
I don't know. 
But God did it. 

838
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,960
He, he, I may have not had the 
patience to, you know, but here 

839
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:06,600
we go. 
I got it. 

840
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,000
I got it again. 
Well, then I go and I fill out 

841
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:13,080
my application for this 
lucrative, wonderful, 

842
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:19,760
comfortable, amazing, peaceful, 
clean will of God Job and it's 

843
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:24,960
at a chicken farm. 
Have y'all been there before? 

844
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,080
Not not to the chicken farm, but
y'all been there before where 

845
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,560
you're praying, all the doors 
are shut and then God opens one.

846
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:35,640
You're like, I can tell you all 
the prayers I prayed. 

847
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:40,600
I never said chicken. 
I never said farm, never ever. 

848
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,240
No. 
And it was like one of those 

849
00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:44,360
moments where it's like, can you
hear me? 

850
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:48,120
OK. 
I prayed very specifically like 

851
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,640
I maybe too specifically like I 
was, I knew what I wanted or 

852
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:55,800
what God was going to provide. 
But here we are in this stinky, 

853
00:46:56,240 --> 00:47:01,920
rotten, uncomfortable, inhaling 
chicken feathers ankle deep. 

854
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,200
You know where I'm at in this 
chicken farm. 

855
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,120
What is going on? 
My job before this was clean and

856
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:12,440
it was fun. 
I didn't make much but it was 

857
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,720
fun. 
That was most of the currency at

858
00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:16,040
19 years old. 
It was fun. 

859
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,360
But now I'm real confused. 
First all the doors are shut and

860
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,840
now one opens and I don't want 
it to open. 

861
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:25,080
I'm. 
Confused. 

862
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,840
I'm like, God, what are we doing
here? 

863
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,320
I don't get what you're doing. 
I don't. 

864
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:33,640
There is no way whatsoever. 
God that you can take this 

865
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:37,880
rotten, stinky, gross, 
disgusting season. 

866
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:39,440
And make it. 
Good. 

867
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,520
There's there's no way that you 
can do that No way and to make 

868
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,160
it worse, I couldn't talk to 
anybody there. 

869
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:50,120
They all spoke Spanish and I 
didn't speak Spanish at that 

870
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,120
time yeah. 
Y'all see it, don't you? 

871
00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:55,600
I see I see light bulbs just 
being and everywhere I didn't 

872
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:59,000
see it like that at that time. 
I smelled it like that at that 

873
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:00,880
time. 
Uh huh, Uh huh. 

874
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,800
I was walking that farm 
thinking, God, what are we doing

875
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,800
here? 
This stinks. 

876
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:08,920
That means both ways. 
It stinks. 

877
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,800
I can't talk to anybody. 
What are we doing here? 

878
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:16,840
This does not make any sense. 
Well, then I decide I'm going to

879
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,320
learn Spanish. 
So I learned how to say, how do 

880
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,720
you say which is como sedise? 
And I said it and pointed at 

881
00:48:22,720 --> 00:48:26,960
stuff all day long, every single
day, hundreds and thousands of 

882
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,280
things every day. 
Milli como cedise piso. 

883
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,840
Milli como cedise pareb cielo. 
All day long. 

884
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,160
Thousands of times that grind of
God. 

885
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:39,120
I don't understand this. 
What are we doing here? 

886
00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:42,240
I don't understand this. 
What's going on? 

887
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,600
I don't understand this. 
What are you doing? 

888
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:50,200
This season is terrible. 
How are you working in this 

889
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,240
season? 
I don't understand it. 

890
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:53,640
I don't see it. 
Well. 

891
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:57,480
Then I leave two years later 
speaking decent Spanish, and 

892
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,480
then God calls me. 
I go, another door opens to go 

893
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,480
work as an electrician. 
So I worked there for two years,

894
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,960
and then I get another open door
to go work as a plumber. 

895
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:07,600
And I worked there for eight 
years. 

896
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,480
And then ten years later, it all
made sense. 

897
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,440
Ten. 
Yeah, that's a long time. 

898
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:15,720
That's a third of my life 
currently. 

899
00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:21,520
And I'm thinking 10 years, 10 
years after I walk on this 

900
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,400
season. 
I did not like 10 years after I 

901
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,520
walked on this season. 
I did not want to be in the 

902
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:30,440
middle of ten years after this 
stinky, gross chicken feather 

903
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:35,600
chicken nastiness. 
God found a way that it was 

904
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:40,600
perfect all along because you 
remember why He always gets the 

905
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,280
glory. 
It doesn't. 

906
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,840
Matter if you find yourself. 
Ankle deep in a situation that 

907
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:46,800
stinks. 
He. 

908
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:50,200
Is working. 
He never leaves you, He never 

909
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,480
forsakes you. 
He never walks you through 

910
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,240
something that and already has a
destination that is for your 

911
00:49:55,240 --> 00:49:58,480
better and he never walks you 
through a situation that is not 

912
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,560
going to bring you strength. 
It made in the middle of it. 

913
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,320
It's not fun. 
I'm with you. 

914
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:07,360
I'm still looking at a situation
from 2019 where I'm like. 

915
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:10,120
God, how do you take chronic 
leukemia and turn it for your 

916
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,000
good? 
He's doing it, though. 

917
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:16,480
I'll let you know he's doing it 
because I've learned to trust 

918
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:19,120
the storm. 
I've learned to trust those 

919
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,400
moments I don't understand 
because you see when I can see 

920
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:23,680
it when I can understand. 
It. 

921
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:28,120
He's doing about this much work,
but when I can't see it, his 

922
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:32,120
ways are above my waist, his 
thoughts are above my thoughts. 

923
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,760
And he is doing things. 
In ways that I cannot imagine. 

924
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,880
So there we are in the chicken 
farm and everything's starting 

925
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,880
to make sense. 10 years. 
Later after that. 

926
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,720
Thinking thing, it's starting to
be beautiful. 

927
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,360
He's taking that season that 
looks so ugly. 

928
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:55,800
It looked like there is no way 
he can do anything here and he 

929
00:50:55,800 --> 00:51:01,120
makes it beautiful and equips me
and trains me, gets me ready. 

930
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:03,960
So then I want to go back to 
where we started with our 

931
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:05,840
scriptures. 
You remember because he said 

932
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:09,840
it's part of the plan all along.
It looks, it looks bleak, it 

933
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,320
looks bloody, it looks bruised. 
I don't understand it. 

934
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,560
But in that particular 
situation, if we give it about 3

935
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:19,920
days, then it really looks nice.
It may not look good now. 

936
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:23,040
It looks dead, it looks dying. 
It looks like there's nothing 

937
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,640
God can do here. 
But then three days later, it 

938
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:29,400
all makes sense because there 
would be somebody in Mount 

939
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:33,600
Carmel, there would be 7000 
somebodies that need access to 

940
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,400
that blood, that need access to 
that new birth. 

941
00:51:36,720 --> 00:51:38,320
And it only. 
Comes to the cross. 

942
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,800
It only comes to the cross. 
So what? 

943
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,280
We may look at the situations in
our lives that look like 

944
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,000
crosses. 
They will get the glory. 

945
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,120
He will find a way to prepare. 
He will find a way to get you 

946
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:50,840
ready. 
So, so now look, we're going to 

947
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:52,000
dig one more time. 
You ready? 

948
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:53,360
We're going to dig one more 
time. 

949
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,400
That phrase that we learned to 
tell us TA, it's part of the 

950
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,760
plan all along. 
Final conclusion. 

951
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,400
Now it's really important to see
the tense that it was written in

952
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,040
too. 
It was not written in the 

953
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,680
present tense like it's over. 
It was not written in the future

954
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:08,280
tense like it's going to be 
over. 

955
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:12,960
It said it is finished. 
So what that tense is in the 

956
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,800
Greek is what they call the 
perfect tense. 

957
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:20,560
And what the perfect tense means
in that language is that that 

958
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,240
particular action had been 
completed. 

959
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:27,720
But the effects of that action, 
we're going to go on forever. 

960
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:33,280
The effects of that season that 
are hard, that are painful, that

961
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:37,080
are frustrating, that are 
confusing, that I don't see what

962
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:41,120
God is doing The effects of that
season in my favor are going to 

963
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:44,800
continue to cascade because 
remember the blood doesn't come 

964
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,640
the access to Jesus name blood 
doesn't come without the cross 

965
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,080
resurrection in Jesus name 
doesn't come unless he. 

966
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,640
Dies, so I want to encourage. 
You God always gets the glory. 

967
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,920
So when you see yourself in this
situation, that looks like it's.

968
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,360
Just meant to kill me. 
It looks bleak. 

969
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,320
It looks bruised. 
It looks bleeding. 

970
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,960
It looks like I'm just finding 
myself in a hospital bed. 

971
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:07,040
God, what are you doing? 
He's working. 

972
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:09,640
He never stops writing your 
story. 

973
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,400
So even in the seasons that are 
painful, even in the seasons 

974
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,400
that are rough, that are hard, 
that are bleak. 

975
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,120
That you feel like I'm just 
fighting to just get 1 foot in 

976
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:22,520
front of the other. 
He always gets the glory and we 

977
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:26,800
can hang on knowing these waters
won't overflow me, this fire 

978
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,360
won't burn me. 
If I see Chariots and the people

979
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:33,560
more than me, they won't 
overtake me because more they be

980
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,320
that are with me than they to be
with him. 

981
00:53:36,720 --> 00:53:42,040
Can you stand up with me and can
we just start to to just apply 

982
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,600
this? 
And I want you just to say it 

983
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,120
honestly. 
Like my wife talked about 

984
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,040
earlier, we can have these 
honest conversations with God. 

985
00:53:50,240 --> 00:53:52,160
We can have these conversations 
like God. 

986
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,760
I don't see it. 
I don't understand it. 

987
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:58,400
It hurts. 
It's hard, it's frustrating, it 

988
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:00,200
stinks. 
I don't get it. 

989
00:54:00,720 --> 00:54:03,560
But I trust you. 
I don't know what you're doing 

990
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,200
right now, but I know you've not
failed me yet. 

991
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,720
I don't see the way you're doing
this right now, God, but I know 

992
00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:13,080
you've never lost a battle. 
It feels like my enemy is about 

993
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:16,480
to destroy me, but I know you've
never lost a battle. 

994
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,640
God, it looked rough. 
It looks like I don't know what 

995
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:22,440
you're going to do, God, but I 
know you're going to work all 

996
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:26,000
things together for good to them
that love you and that are 

997
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,200
called according to your 
purpose, God, I know that you're

998
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,600
calling me to something bigger 
and better. 

999
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,440
You're preparing me in this 
season that is painful. 

1000
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:38,000
You're preparing me in this 
season that I don't understand 

1001
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:39,720
God. 
I don't see it, but your ways 

1002
00:54:39,720 --> 00:54:42,320
are above my ways. 
I don't understand it, God, but 

1003
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,640
your thoughts are above my 
thoughts. 

1004
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:51,760
I want to share one more 
scripture with you in 

1005
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:54,480
Ecclesiastes 3. 
It's a it's a it's a chapter we 

1006
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:59,120
all know well that talks about 
verse one talks about that there

1007
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:02,680
are times to every season and a 
reason to everything under the 

1008
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,240
heavens. 
And it talks about these seasons

1009
00:55:05,240 --> 00:55:08,920
of life we walk through, that 
there'll be times to be born and

1010
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:13,400
times to die be, times to break 
down and to build up, times for 

1011
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:17,200
despair and times to dance, 
times for mourning and times for

1012
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,520
rejoicing. 
It'll be all these ebbs and 

1013
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:22,840
flows that we see in life. 
And it culminates beautifully in

1014
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:28,960
verse 11 where it says that he 
has made everything beautiful in

1015
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,840
his time. 
So even though I might find 

1016
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:36,840
myself in a season of despair, 
of fighting with fear, fighting 

1017
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,920
with insecurity, not 
understanding who I am, God is 

1018
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,400
forging an identity. 
And pretty soon he's going to 

1019
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,520
flip the page and I'm going to 
have a season of rejoicing. 

1020
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:47,400
I'm going to have a season of 
dancing. 

1021
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:51,360
All I see right now is death. 
All I see right now is 

1022
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,600
frustration. 
All I see right now is I don't 

1023
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,360
understand it. 
But He will bring the day 

1024
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:02,080
because He says everything will 
be made beautiful in his time. 

1025
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,640
So if it doesn't look good yet, 
just hang on. 

1026
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:08,480
Because he says the rivers won't
overflow me, the fires won't 

1027
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,520
burn me. 
The trial that I'm walking in 

1028
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:13,880
right now will not destroy me. 
This thing that I'm walking 

1029
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:17,280
through that I don't understand,
it will bring glory to God. 

1030
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:19,920
It will equip me. 
It will strengthen me. 

1031
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,080
It will equip me and get me 
ready. 

1032
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,960
For the times that are ahead. 
So I wonder right now if you can

1033
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:29,080
just throw your hands up and 
say, God, I just need you. 

1034
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,440
I need you right now, Lord, I 
don't understand what you're 

1035
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:36,000
doing. 
I don't see the ways in which 

1036
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,680
you're working, God, but I trust
you. 

1037
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:40,440
I don't understand what you're 
doing, but I trust you. 

1038
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:45,160
I don't know, God, how you're 
going to work this season to 

1039
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,760
anything but pain and a 
heartache, but I trust you. 

1040
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,400
If you want to step out once you
step out and come to the front 

1041
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,440
right now and just start 
surrendering this season because

1042
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:57,200
if I hang on to this season, he 
can't change this season. 

1043
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:00,600
If I hang on to this despair, he
can't give me joy. 

1044
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:03,880
If I hang on to this 
frustration, He can't give me 

1045
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,800
clarity. 
If I hang on to this stuff, he 

1046
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,600
can't turn it over. 
He can't turn it and make it 

1047
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:12,920
beautiful if I'm just holding on
to it with anger and 

1048
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:16,600
frustration. 
God, I pray in every heart right

1049
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:21,200
now that you would begin to give
joy, that you would begin to 

1050
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:24,000
give peace where there has been 
hopelessness. 

1051
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,320
I pray you begin to give hope. 
I pray God on each and every 

1052
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,480
heart right now that you would 
begin to restore. 

1053
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:31,320
That you would. 
Begin to reach down in some 

1054
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:36,200
hearts that are calloused, that 
are hurting, and you would begin

1055
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:39,600
to give hope, and you would 
begin to give life, God, new 

1056
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,800
life that they have never seen. 
New life, God, that they have 

1057
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,240
never seen. 
But you have been working all 

1058
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:47,640
along. 
But you have been forming all 

1059
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:49,720
along. 
You have been riding all along 

1060
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:52,480
in these seasons that have been 
hard, these seasons that have 

1061
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:57,600
been painful, these seasons that
have found me with nothing but 

1062
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,200
despair. 
God, you've been working joy. 

1063
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:05,360
You've been working something 
wonderful, God, I pray over this

1064
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,320
church. 
I pray that you would continue 

1065
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,400
to bless them. 
I pray you would open the 

1066
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,520
windows of heaven upon them. 
I pray, God that you would bless

1067
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:16,720
them to be an influence in this 
community like they never 

1068
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:19,160
thought possible. 
I pray God that you would give 

1069
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:23,520
this family and this leadership 
blessings, that you would help 

1070
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:25,760
them, God, everything they 
touched to be blessed. 

1071
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:29,840
Let everything they do, God in 
this community, in sowing and 

1072
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:32,360
reaping, let it to be blessed. 
Let it be multiplied. 

1073
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:36,440
I pray God that they would begin
to bust at the seams, to burst 

1074
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:39,480
at the seams and the sanctuary 
that they would have to build a 

1075
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:43,360
new, that you would provide the 
property that they need, that 

1076
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:46,640
they can build something new and
bigger that will be more 

1077
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:49,280
adequate for the revival that 
you had prepared for them. 

1078
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:52,320
I pray in the name of Jesus that
you would touch every heart that

1079
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:55,080
you would birth missionaries for
this county, that you would 

1080
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:59,480
birth works and ministries 
throughout this sanctuary. 

1081
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:01,520
Everyone that's. 
Here is a vital piece. 

1082
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,560
Of what you want to do in this 
city, everyone that's here is a 

1083
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:07,400
vital piece of what you want to 
do in this county, of what you 

1084
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,760
want to do in the hospital 
system, of what you want to do 

1085
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:13,040
in the school system, what you 
want to do God in the healthcare

1086
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:14,680
system. 
Of what you want to do God in 

1087
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,960
each and every facet of it. 
And I pray that you would help 

1088
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,200
them to see that. 
Help them to see the purpose 

1089
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,640
that you've been forming in the 
seasons they don't understand. 

1090
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:25,240
Help them to see the purpose in 
the seasons that you've been 

1091
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:27,920
working in the times that have 
been hard, that have been 

1092
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:30,920
frustrating that you that they 
don't understand. 

1093
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:34,160
They don't they haven't seen. 
I pray in the name of Jesus, you

1094
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:36,720
would continue. 
Oh God, you have a perfect will 

1095
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:39,160
for this church. 
And I pray you would continue to

1096
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:42,520
unravel, that you would continue
to open in the name of Jesus, 

1097
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,680
that there would be souls like 
we could never imagine, that 

1098
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:50,440
there would be a harvest like we
cannot wrap our minds around 

1099
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:53,280
God. 
I pray in the name of Jesus, 

1100
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:56,040
your blessings would flow 
through this place. 

1101
00:59:57,080 --> 01:00:01,120
God, I pray that your gifts 
would flow and multiply. 

1102
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:04,520
I pray, O God, that you would do
amazing things. 

1103
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:07,520
I pray that you would reach into
each and every heart right now, 

1104
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:09,320
God, and you would speak a 
purpose. 

1105
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:12,240
You would speak a beautiful, 
specific thing. 

1106
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:15,360
God, I pray right now over each 
and every heart. 

1107
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,680
Lord, you're doing something 
special in this place. 

1108
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:23,680
You're still doing something in 
this place. 

1109
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:29,040
Jesus, help us to follow you 
tonight. 

1110
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:32,320
Help us to follow your will. 
Help us to follow your anointing

1111
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:35,280
in this place. 
Lord, you have a will and a 

1112
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:38,240
desire to turn some lives around
in this place. 

1113
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:41,720
If you just throw your voices 
up. 

1114
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:43,120
Just lift your voices up right 
now. 

1115
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:46,560
I don't know why, but I don't. 
I feel the hesitancy to move 

1116
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:51,080
forward. 
God, we yield to you right now. 

1117
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,800
There are some seasons that you 
would like to turn, God. 

1118
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,400
There are some seasons of pain 
that you would like to turn to 

1119
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:03,280
peace. 
There are some seasons that you 

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would like to turn in lives 
right now, those that have been 

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walking for far too long in this
valley. 

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They've been walking for far too
long in this desert. 

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And God, you have a way to pull 
them out right now. 

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I pray that we would let our 
hearts to be submissive right 

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now in your presence, that you 
would begin, oh God, to pull out

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of this valley. 
You begin to pull out of this 

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desert that we've been making 
lapse in. 

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And then you and oh God, begin 
to bring out the purpose that 

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you would begin, oh Lord, to 
bring out the purpose in this 

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season. 
That you would begin, oh Lord, 

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to show that there has been a 
plan all along in this season 

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that's been hard this season 
that's been dark and painful. 

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Jesus name, I pray your will be 
done this house right now you're

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adding some strength and some 
hope and some lives right now 

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you're adding some peace and 
some joy in this house right 

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now. 
Those that have been wandering 

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are going to begin to start 
moving forward. 

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They're going to begin to see 
the purpose, God, that you've 

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been forming all along. 
They're going to begin to see, 

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oh God, the wonderful works that
you have been preparing, that 

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you have been readying in these 
seasons that have been hard, 

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that have been painful, in the 
name of Jesus, I pray would be 

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so in the name of Jesus, Lord, 
right?