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I think the announcement, so 
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message did a great job. 
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announcement. 
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Valerie Vandergrund and Ron 
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see that she passed away in 
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If you remember, he was heavily 
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and Christian radio stations and
taking people to Israel. 

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He was on fire about Israel. 
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week. 
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family up in prayer, I'm sure. 
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read said that they were 
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presence of Jesus. 
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state than that. 
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so lift them up. 
So good morning and welcome to 

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Bridges and Happy Mother's Day 
for the 10th time. 

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God bless all you mothers and 
grandmothers and great 

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grandmothers, aunts and all the 
ladies, moms or not, who have 

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poured their lives into other 
people. 

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God bless you. 
Pastor Nick and Faye are gone 

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today. 
They'll be back next week, and 

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Pastor Nick will continue to 
lead us out of Exodus. 

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I've given him a hard time about
the length of time it's taken us

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to get out of Exodus, comparing 
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studies where I used to go to 
him and ask him, do you think 

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Jesus will come back before you 
get done? 

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Now? 
Both of them just kind of grit 

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their teeth and smile at me. 
I don't know why they haven't 

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kicked me out. 
But anyway, so he'll be back 

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next week. 
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fortunate that we have a church 
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chapter by chapter. 
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in a church, a dead church, 
which is really got off the 

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rails now. 
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by verse, chapter by chapter was
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It wasn't out there. 
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fortunate to have that and we're
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Bible as closely as we are. 
So we give thanks for that. 

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My name is Mark Jones, and I'm 
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the message today. 
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Day, I'm going to be talking 
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I'm kidding. 
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Mother's Day and I'd like to go 
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But before we do, I want to 
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from Proverbs. 
It says a wife of noble 

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character who can find. 
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guy saying this? 
A wife of noble character who 

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can find. 
She is worth far more than 

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rubies. 
Her husband has full confidence 

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in her and lacks nothing of 
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She brings him good, not harm. 
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children arise and call her 
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Her husband also and he praises 
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Hint, many women do noble 
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all. 
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charm is deceptive and beauty is
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the Lord is to be praised. 
Honor her for all that her hands

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have done and let her works 
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gate. 
All right, let's go to the Lord.

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Father God, we just thank you 
for today and we especially 

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thank you for moms and grandmas 
and aunts and all the women that

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have poured themselves into our 
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Lord, what a blessing. 
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each and every one of them. 
I would just ask that you would 

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bless this crowd. 
Lord, we ask for your presence 

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here and especially anoint this 
message. 

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Lord, we just thank you in your 
name, Amen. 

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Now as a child of the 60s and 
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you my during my lifetime role 
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changed radically just in that 
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detriment of society and to the 
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I can tell you that the Lord's 
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not, and it's not going to. 
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with Bob about being a kid 
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wasn't uncommon if a man or 
teenagers were using coarse 

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language, which is what they 
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was in the presence of ladies, 
that as a minimum, they'd get a 

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rebuke and they might get a 
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what? 
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the Ponderay Cultural Center, 
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And I hear somebody dropping the
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likely as a young lady as it is 
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deteriorated overall, I would 
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changes in large part to the 
loss of biblical motherhood and 

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the teaching of the Lord's 
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Bible. 
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duty here. 
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for me to stay at this point 
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if not a greater duty than the 
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But I'm here to talk about moms 
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that Pastor Nick will talk about
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So by omitting my comments about
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as important or maybe even more 
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Mothers, by virtue of the very 
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newborns, have special access to
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from day one. 
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about what godly wives and godly
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I'm going to Proverbs here. 
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child in the way he should go, 
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depart from it. 
The implication is that wives 

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and moms will be training this 
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critical to the spiritual 
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I suspect that there are many of
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who have found this verse to 
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Many of you know we were, it's 
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our son for about 7 years and 
he's back in our lives. 

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And it was 7 years of prayer and
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Christian School and, and 
hopefully instructions that help

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bring him back. 
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this and for this verse because 
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The importance of the mother 
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nurturing content, but the 
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to the spiritual development of 
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consequently our whole society. 
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women who vote or I'm sorry, 
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If you think I'm condemning or 
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are mistaken. 
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required that women work. 
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not to, and they pay the price 
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But this modeling and teaching 
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but it takes intentionality. 
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intentionally raise that child 
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that child as the child should 
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let's go back to Proverbs and 
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knowledge in Proverbs. 
I don't get it, my son, keep 

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your father's command and do not
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Bind them continuously around 
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Tie them around your neck. 
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you, when you sleep they will 
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they will speak with you. 
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and the law of light. 
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is that there is power in God's 
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children are taught the basic 
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that it will guide them for the 
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And that when they roam, which 
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supervised, they'll do the right
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And that it will be throughout 
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situations, they will be 
thinking about these teachings 

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that they learned as a child. 
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moral building blocks for a 
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to make a huge barrier or 
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individual to seek or find the 
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So give them that extra, give 
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to them. 
Lay that foundation Now the Lord

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actually says in Isaiah 6613, as
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will I comfort you. 
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that with the, the understanding
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but I'm telling you, if the Lord
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care of a mother, it tells you 
how first of all, important that

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comfort is, but it tells you 
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how the Lord loves us. 
So you are when you impart to 

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that child the love, the 
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you're, you're doing the same 
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US. 
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amazing. 
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component of this is that a 
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is a prayer warrior. 
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When she had weaned him, she 
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bowls when he fed a flower and a
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the House of the Lord in Shiloh.
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Then they slaughtered a bowl and
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was the priest. 
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your soul lives, my Lord, I am 
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praying to the Lord for this 
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I prayed and the Lord has 
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ask of him. 
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Lord. 
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lent to the Lord. 
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She was barren and she was 
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And if you remember, she was in 
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or quietly praying and her mouth
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And so he confronts her and he, 
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adamantly praying for a child. 
She's been barren. 

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But you know who heard her? 
The Lord heard her and she gave 

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birth to Samuel who she 
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was faithful to the Lord. 
Hannah lived her faith and so 

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does this godly woman. 
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maybe the most, one of the most 
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the teaching and nurturing is 
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And certainly that's something 
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maybe you're even, you never had
a child and you just know people

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and you're concerned about them,
you can become their prayer 

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warrior. 
You can kind of become their 

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grandma or their mom, depending 
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And you can provide prayer and 
uplift them. 

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It doesn't matter if you're in a
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really get around your nursing 
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people online. 
If you guys, even if you say, 

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well, I can't get to church, I 
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If you know people in your 
spirit of influence that that 

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need prayer by God, pray for 
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you need to be a prayer warrior 
for these children. 

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You need to be praying for your 
nieces and nephew and you need 

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to be praying earnestly and 
frequently for them because it's

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a nasty world out there and 
these kids and these families, 

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mom and dad, actually need it. 
Next, moms are encouragers and, 

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and this is one that really 
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lost my mom 13 years ago and my 
mom was the biggest encourager 

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of my life. 
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we got married. 
She absolutely loved my my son 

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James. 
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important that was in his life 
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And we miss her. 
I know she's in the presence of 

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God and I'm happy for her, but 
you know, we still miss her. 

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And so I would tell you that a 
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encourager. 
And so I would encourage you to 

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do that. 
And kids need that. 

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I mean, you look at you look at 
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now, the evil or crap, the, I 
mean, just the most unbelievable

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stuff need to be encouraging. 
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a little bit of the Bible in 
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church, hey, you know, God 
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you or whatever. 
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why being a godly mother and 
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because we're talking about that
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I'm going to Timothy. 
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and we're actually seeing this 
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America, Second Timothy 3. 
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days perilous times will come, 
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themselves, lovers of money, 
boasters, proud blasphemers, 

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disobedient to parents, 
unthankful, unholy, unloving, 

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unforgiving, slanders without 
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of good traitors, headstrong, 
haughty, lovers of pleasure 

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rather than lovers of God having
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its power. 
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For of this sort are those who 
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captive of gullible women, and, 
I would assume, men too loaded 

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down with sins, LED away by 
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and never able to come to the 
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Now as Janice and Jamberries 
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resist the truth. 
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concerning the faith, but they 
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their folly shall be manifest to
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But you who have carefully 
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life, purpose, faith, 
long-suffering, love, 

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perseverance, prosecutions, 
afflictions which I have, which 

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happened to me at Antioch and 
Icon and Lystra, what 

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prosecutions I endured, and out 
of them all the Lord delivered 

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me. 
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godly in Jesus Christ will 
suffer prosecution, but evil men

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and imposters will grow worse 
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deceived. 
But you must continue in these 

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things which you have learned 
and have been assured of knowing

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from whom you have learned them,
and that from childhood you have

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known the Holy Scriptures which 
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salvation to Jesus Christ. 
All Scripture is given by 

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inspiration of God and is 
profitable for doctrine, for 

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reproof, for correction, for 
instruction in righteousness, 

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that the man of God may be 
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for every good work. 
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you that it's so important your 
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that it really can't be 
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God bless all of you who have 
poured your lives into your 

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children or grandchildren and 
others around you. 

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You have a great reward in 
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But I also know in this church 
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number of women who had 
miserable childhoods or they had

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horrible relationships with 
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Now, I don't know everybody 
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women that I'm thinking about 
who have put aside their 

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childhood experience and are now
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I won't say who, I won't say 
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because I don't want to 
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witnesses now to the unsaved. 
I saw that here and I saw it in 

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Israel. 
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younger women and children I see
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kids seeking them out. 
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they're the same age. 
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But I see them and I see these 
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the importance that older women 
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setting an example. 
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life, by the witness by word and
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example. 
May God bless these women and 

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all women who have overcome 
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And I know there's people here 
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have done that. 
There's people listening online,

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but if you've been blessed by 
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the woman who gave you a life, 
but somebody who's poured 

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themselves into you, I would 
tell you, go tell them thank 

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you, give them a hug and just 
love on them because they need 

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it now. 
Last year I had the privilege to

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give the Father's Day message. 
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It just happened. 
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book book in today, the other 
book in and with this message 

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about Mother's Day. 
It just happened. 

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But I want to talk about 
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And just as with Father's Day, 
this holiday brings tremendous 

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amounts of emotion for me. 
It's the loss of my mom. 

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I know she's in heaven. 
I know she was saved, but it 

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still doesn't make it any 
easier. 

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You know, I still think 13 years
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road, I had to give my mom, you 
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call. 
She's dead. 

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So, but I had a positive 
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For me, the the memory of my 
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of that is what I remember. 
But for others, it may be a 

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horrible childhood, a horrible 
childhood or a horrible 

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childhood memories or the 
realization that they, your 

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mother failed as a mother. 
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emotion. 
I think there's people that you 

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know, may stick away from their 
stay away from the church during

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this because it's so painful. 
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difficult childhoods and 
difficult experiences with your 

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mother, I can tell you there's 
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And his name is Jesus Christ. 
And for your own will being, you

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have to forgive that mom or that
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You have to. 
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your mom or the bad actor. 
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You have to take out that bit of
poison in your life that has 

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not, that was not self created 
and allow you to to grow 

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spiritually and to heal with 
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You have to forgive that person,
but remember why you have to 

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forgive that person. 
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And so this is very important 
for you to understand and let me

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be very clear, you have to 
forgive that person, the abusive

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person or the rotten mom, but 
you do not have to forget what 

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someone was physically abusive 
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yelling and you know, absent 
some absolute life changing 

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salvation that's occurred and 
you can see indwelling spirit of

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Christ, don't expose your kids 
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Don't repeat the cycle. 
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you can, but don't expose your 
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As I say, you have to forgive 
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forget. 
It would be the same with sexual

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abuse or anything like that. 
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Christ, he, he will, he will 
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go to him. 
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Jesus, this is my situation, 
this is what I feel, this is 

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what I think and he will help 
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And whether you choose to tell 
them that you forget them 

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forgiving them, that's up to 
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You have to wait and see what 
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Now, the next level and the 
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are women who may have made poor
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This is a new level and they may
be listening online, they may be

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here. 
I don't want to know. 

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Maybe they're just horrible moms
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Again, there's only one 
solution, and His name is Jesus 

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Christ. 
If you're wracked by guilt and 

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you close your eyes and are 
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implications of Mother's Day, go
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Jesus will forgive you. 
He is waiting for you to come to

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Him and be asked for 
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granted. 
At no point in human history has

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someone come to Him and confess 
to sin and have Him go. 

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What he knows already the sin to
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He knows it. 
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condemnation on Mother's Day or 
you, you, this, you, you think 

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about whatever this bad event 
was, this bad choice was at some

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point it's him saying, hey, come
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I've got the cure. 
It's me. 

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And so I would, I would just ask
that if you're feeling 

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tremendous guilt and you say to 
yourself, Jesus will not forgive

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me for what I did, that is a 
voice of Satan. 

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Jesus already knows what 
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He knows what occurred. 
This is not a surprise. 

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Satan will try to get you to do 
anything but go to Jesus to 

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confess your sin and to ask for 
forgiveness. 

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That voice that you hear, that 
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whatever you're experiencing, if
you have this guilt in your life

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is proof that Jesus is calling 
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And He wants you to come to Him 
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And He will. 
He will place His indwelling 

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spirit in you and He'll 
eventually begin to work in you 

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and you will be able to deal 
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I'm sure it's tearing you up and
there's no reason to go through 

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it. 
You can't undo it. 

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You can only go to Jesus. 
Jesus absolutely loves you 

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despite all of your sins, and 
I'm living proof of it. 

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If you're here and you want 
prayer and would like to pray 

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with one of us, just ask. 
And finally, I'd like to talk 

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with the ladies who maybe never 
had children, maybe never got 

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married. 
Guess what? 

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I got great news. 
You can still be that mom or 

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grandma figure in someone's 
life. 

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It's never too late. 
If there's someone in your life 

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and you feel led to try and help
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Don't ignore it. 
The simplest way to start is to 

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begin praying for that person. 
Pray that you can see an 

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opportunity to support them. 
God will provide that 

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opportunity. 
I warn you, if you do this, you 

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may have so many people on your 
list. 

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You're going to have to write it
down, and I hope you do. 

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But this is an opportunity that 
you can become a supportive, 

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Godling woman in their lives. 
Ask how they're doing with 

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sincerity and be there for them.
Degenerate. 

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Be generous with hugs if they 
will accept them. 

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You're never too old, you're 
never too disabled. 

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You're never too tired to make a
difference in someone's life. 

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And again, I just, I want to 
honor all of you ladies who have

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poured your lives into someone 
else. 

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God bless each and everyone of 
you. 

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You have a great reward in 
heaven, and that's all I've got 

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to say about that. 
All right, So thank you. 

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So we're going to do one more 
song and then I'll close in 

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prayer.