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Heavenly Father, your word has 
taught me that my life is, but a

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vapor that is here for a short 
while and then vanishes away. 

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Lord. 
I know that my life is brief. 

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I know that we are born, we 
blink and then we die. 

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So today this very day, I bow in
your presence. 

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Yes, and thank you that my heart
is beating today. 

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I thank you that today. 
I am alive on your beautiful 

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Earth and I can say with the 
Prophet. 

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Jeremiah that your mercies are 
new every morning. 

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I know the devil would want me 
to focus on my anxieties and on 

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the pain that I am carrying in 
my heart. 

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But I want to praise you and say
this is the day that the Lord 

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has made. 
I will rejoice and be glad in 

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it. 
Merciful god. 

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I know that I cannot hide from 
you. 

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There is nothing. 
You do not see. 

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So I want to confess something 
to you. 

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Yesterday, I failed you. 
Yesterday, I sinned against you 

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the God. 
I love. 

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So now, quietly in my heart. 
I named all the sins I committed

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against you. 
And I asked that the blood of 

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Jesus Christ would Wash Me 
whiter than snow. 

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Oh Lord. 
Thank you for Jesus. 

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Thank you. 
That the most precious gift you 

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gave, me is not my family. 
It's not my house. 

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It's not my job. 
It's not my gifts or my talents 

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with the most precious gift. 
I own is that I can say that the

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Son of God is my savior. 
Everything else in my life may 

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Fall to Pieces. 
But as long as I remember, my 

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name is written in heaven. 
I shall have no reason to 

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complain and I will say the Lord
is my shepherd. 

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I shall not want. 
But gracious God, you know that 

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my heart is broken at the state 
of this world. 

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This wonderful creation that you
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Existence is now populated with 
billions of people who hate you,

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The God Who knitted them 
together in the womb. 

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So I plead with you father, show
them your love, I beg you. 

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Oh God, have mercy on this 
broken World, which desperately 

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needs the Lord? 
Jesus. 

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Father. 
Please sweep your Holy Ghost 

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through the nation's like you 
did in the times of old and Lord

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as we think of this Lost World. 
It's hard for his not to think 

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of our loved ones, our friends 
and our family who do not know 

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you. 
So, again, quietly in our 

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hearts. 
We named them and we remember 

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them before you. 
And we ask that you would unlock

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the key to their hearts and put 
the love of Christ there. 

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Oh Lord. 
As I look at this new day. 

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There is no better way to start 
it and to think on the Risen 

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Lord, as I look at the beautiful
light of this new day. 

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I think of how glorious that Ray
of sunlight must have looked. 

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T' for the Lord Jesus, when the 
stone was rolled away. 

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Please God help me to remember, 
as I face The Temptations of 

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this day, that I am more than a 
conqueror because Jesus is risen

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and living within me. 
Please give me a power and a 

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boldness to live for him today 
in the dark places of this 

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world. 
Please let my light shine 

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before. 
All men that people may look at 

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my life and not praise me, but 
they would see my life and know 

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that I am a child of God. 
Help me to be humble. 

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Help me to be wise, and above 
all help me to be fascinated, 

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not by the things of this world.
But to be fascinated with you 

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and to build my treasures in 
heaven with Christ, fill me with

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your spirit. 
And I Scott that your hand of 

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blessing and protection would be
upon everything I do today for 

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my family for my work and 
everywhere I go. 

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I would know that you are with 
me. 

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So Lord. 
I ask that you would incline 

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your ear and hear the prayers of
your servant this very day. 

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I pray these things in Jesus 
Christ name. 

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Amen. 
In 1968, John Steven a quarry 

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was running a race for his 
country, Tanzania in the 

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Olympics. 
And we've all seen it before on 

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the television, where, you know,
there's a bit of a tussle. 

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There's a bit of a Clyde. 
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John. 
Stephen acquiree. 

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He bashed into another racer, 
and he fell to the ground. 

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He crushed his shoulder. 
He dislocated his knee, and you 

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can picture him. 
Covered in dust blood and Sand. 

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The medical staff at the side 
began to call to John saying 

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come on. 
Come out of the race. 

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A we need to give you medical 
care, but John stood up and 

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dusted himself down and carried 
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Well, in fact a chair tell a lie
didn't run him all sorts of 

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limped all the way to the 
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When he eventually got there. 
The stadium was practically 

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bear, they'd been there to see 
the champions of the day that 

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the mo Farah's of the day, but 
there was one stray interviewer 

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and he called John over and he 
said, John may I ask you why 

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didn't you just quit? 
Why didn't you just give up? 

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You had no, hope of winning the 
race. 

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Why did you carry on running? 
This is what John Stephen 

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acquiree said? 
My country did not send me. 

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5,000 miles to start the race. 
They sent me. 5,000 miles to 

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finish the race and my dear 
precious believer. 

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God did not save you to start 
the race. 

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He saved you so that you might 
finish the race. 

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And I believe there's someone 
watching this today who needs to

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These three words don't give up.
Proverbs 24. 

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Verse 16 says this for a 
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May fall. 
Seven times and rise again. 

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I believe you're watching this 
right now because you fallen 

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over and you think I don't have 
the strength to get up or can I 

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just say this? 
You're stronger than you think 

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not because you yourself a 
strong but because, you know, 

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the King of Kings and the Lord 
of lords line, defeated is what 

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the devil wants you to. 
I do but, you know, that you're 

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better than that, you know, the 
Lord Jesus Christ and he has 

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conquered the grave so he can 
conquer any trial, which is in 

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your life and he can guide you 
through the pain and trouble. 

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You're going through right now. 
If you writing down notes today,

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write this down to replay a 
sorrow is to increase it. 

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Let me let you into a secret 
when I was at school. 

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There was something which used 
to totally gross me out when the

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boys and girls would go out and 
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Sometimes, they'd fall over and 
they graze their knee. 

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And then their knee would start 
to scab over the wound would go.

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All hard and crusty to know what
the boys and girls used to do 

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these still wet their finger and
they used to pick at that wound.

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Now, why is that a bad thing to 
do? 

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Because if you keep picking at 
that wound, it's never going to 

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heal. 
It's never going to get better 

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and likewise my dear friends. 
If you keep replaying that 

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sorrow that trouble you keep 
thinking about it over and over 

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again. 
It's never going to heal. 

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It's Ever going to get better. 
So, what should we do instead? 

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I don't know if you've ever 
heard of this him, but it goes 

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like this. 
Count your blessings. 

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Name them one by one, and it 
will surprise you what the Lord 

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has done. 
And you know what guys? 

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That's what I do every single 
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Every morning I wake up and I 
thank God that I've got a wife, 

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that I've got a son that I've 
got a Ministry that he's given 

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me Health today that I'm able to
walk. 

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I'm able to see and that more 
importantly, my name is written 

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in heaven. 
Have you ever been in a room? 

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Or when a really joyful positive
person enters into the room and 

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suddenly the atmosphere Rises 
and everyone feels happier 

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because that person's entered, 
have you done that before and 

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likewise? 
Have you been in a room before 

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when a negative person enters 
the room and this big black 

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cloud of negativity follows them
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What happens? 
The atmosphere starts to drop 

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who. 
Should the Christian be the 

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first or the second? 
I think we should be the first 

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but I do Wonder now if the One 
watching this and you've 

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actually got tears in your eyes 
and you'll say, I can't even 

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smile anymore. 
Joe let alone lift any positive 

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atmosphere will see you my dear 
friend. 

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I want to say this. 
Even in the darkest of nights 

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morning, always comes and you 
might be in the darkest point of

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your life and you've no 
Blackness before, but this is 

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something different. 
This is something altogether 

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Dreadful. 
Like I just want to tell you 

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daylight is Let's way there is 
light at the end of the tunnel. 

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And if you fix your eyes on the 
Lord Jesus Christ, whether you 

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suffer every single day for the 
rest of your life, there is a 

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hope beyond the grave which 
Christ in his glories promises 

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to us in heaven. 
Some of you you've traveled the 

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world and you Sim beautiful 
Starlit. 

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Skies, yusin, beautiful 
Caribbean beaches, you've seen 

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mountains, you've sinned Hills. 
You've seen a beautiful world, 

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but I tell you, when you get to 
heaven and you fix your Rise. 

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On the beauty of god. 
Wow, your breath will be taken 

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away that day. 
And if there's someone watching 

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this today, and you have not yet
bowed the knee to the Lord Jesus

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Christ, you have not yet, come 
to the one who forgives Sinners,

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who died on the cross, so, that 
you. 

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And I might have a 
righteousness, which is not our 

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own I plead with you today. 
Come to Jesus, find eternal 

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life, find the strength, which 
can keep you going through this 

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life and can give you another 
life beyond the grave. 

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I'll be honest with you guys. 
In the last few months, the 

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Lord. 
God has really put a desire in 

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my heart to encourage 
Christians. 

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