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In 1968, John Stevens, Quarry 
was running a race for his 

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country, Tanzania in the 
Olympics. 

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And we've all seen it before on 
the television, where, you know,

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there's a bit of a tussle, 
there's a bit of a climb. 

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Well, that's what happened to 
John. 

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Stephen acquiree, he bashed into
another racer, and he fell to 

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the ground. 
He crushed his shoulder. 

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He dislocated his knee, and you 
can picture him covered in dust 

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blood and Sand. 
The medical staff at the side 

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began to call to John saying 
come on come out of the race. 

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A we need to give you Medical 
Care. 

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But John stood up and dusted 
himself down and carried on 

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running. 
Well in fact actually I tell a 

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lie didn't run him all sorts of 
limped all the way to the 

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Finishing Line. 
When he eventually got there the

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stadium was practically bear, 
they'd been there to see the 

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champions of the day that the mo
Farah's of the day. 

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But there was one stray 
interviewer and he called John 

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over and he said, John may I ask
you why didn't you just quit? 

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Why didn't you just give up? 
You had no hope of winning the 

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race. 
Why did you carry on running? 

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This is what John Stephen. 
Reset my country did not send 

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me. 5,000 miles to start the 
race. 

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They sent me. 5,000 miles to 
finish the race and my dear 

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precious believer. 
God did not save you to start 

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the race. 
He saved you so that you might 

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finish the race. 
And I believe there's someone 

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watching this today, who needs 
to hear these three words? 

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Don't give up. 
Proverbs 24. 

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Verse 16 says this for a 
righteous man, may fall. 

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Seven times and rise again, I 
believe you're watching this 

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right now because you fallen 
over and you think I don't have 

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the strength to get up or can I 
just say this? 

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You're stronger than you think 
not because you yourself are 

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stronger because, you know, the 
King of Kings and the Lord of 

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lords line, defeated is what the
devil wants you to do. 

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But, you know, that you're 
better than that, you know, the 

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Lord Jesus Christ and he has 
conquered the grave so he can 

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conquer any trial, which is in 
your life and he can guide you 

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through the pain and trouble. 
You're going through right now. 

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If you writing down notes today,
write this down to replay a 

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sorrow is to increase it. 
Let me let you into a secret 

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when I was at school. 
There was something which used 

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to totally gross me out when the
boys and girls would go out and 

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play on the playground 
sometimes, they'd fall over and 

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they graze their knee and then 
their knee would start to scab 

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over the wound would go. 
All hard and crusty to know what

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the boys and girls used to do. 
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 Ever 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 sorrow 

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that trouble you keep thinking 
about it over and over again. 

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It's never going to heal. 
It's never going to get better. 

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So what should we do instead? 
I don't know if you've ever 

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heard of this him but it goes 
like this. 

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Count your blessings. 
Name them one by one, and it 

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will surprise you what the Lord 
has done. 

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And you know what guys? 
That's what I do every single 

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day. 
Every morning I wake up and I 

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thank God that I've got a wife 
that I've got a On that. 

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I've got a Ministry that is 
given me Health today. 

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That I'm able to walk, am able 
to see. 

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And that more importantly, my 
name is written in heaven. 

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Have you ever been in a room 
before? 

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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 when a negative person 

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enters the room and this big 
black cloud of negativity 

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follows them into that room. 
What happens? 

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The atmosphere starts to drop 
who should the Christian be Be 

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the first or the second. 
I think we should be the first, 

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but I do Wonder now if there's 
someone watching this and you've

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actually got tears in your eyes 
and you're saying, 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 calms. 
And you might be in the darkest 

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point of your life. 
And you've no Blackness before. 

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But this is something different.
This is something altogether 

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Dreadful, I just want to tell 
you Daylight is on its way, 

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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 mountains, 

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you've seen Hills, you've seen a
beautiful world. 

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But I tell you, when you get to 
heaven and you fix your eyes on 

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the beauty of God, Wow, your 
breath will be taken away that 

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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 

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one who forgives Sinners, 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. 

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The Lord God has really put a 
Desire in my heart to encourage 

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Christians. 
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