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Better Together LIVE | Episode 101

September 7, 2020

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In a noisy world full of distractions; chaos; and confusion we seek an anchor. Let's talk about the real source of truth. | TBN Prayer Line: 1-888-731-1000

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Better Together LIVE | Episode 101

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- God's quietest voice
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is still louder thanthe noise of the world.
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He is the source of truth andour anchor in times of chaos.
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Today, we're learning howto silence the distractions
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and focus on thehope of the gospel.
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Come on, join us.
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(light upbeat music)
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- I don't know how, I don'tknow how you've all been doing
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during this pandemicand being at home.
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I mean, for the first coupleof, well, maybe a first month,
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I just thought,"This is amazing."
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I mean, I'm used to beingon the road all the time,
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like most of you.
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I stayed in my jammies,
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I binged watched "TheGreat British Baking Show"
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on Netflix,
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and then I found myselfgetting really discouraged,
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and really, feeling really down.
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And, you know, allsorts of feelings,
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and some mornings,honestly, I would wake up
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with a feeling ofdread in my spirit,
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which I'm really not used to.
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And so, I began reallyasking the Holy Spirit,
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how do I live in these days?
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I know how to live in thedays that I'm used to,
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but how do I live in these days?
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And one of the thingsthat has been helping me
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stay focused on what's true,
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no matter what I mightfeel is true at the moment,
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is I've begun prayingthe Psalms out loud.
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You know, I'll goout every morning,
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we live in a townhome andwe have a little balcony,
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and I'll just goout on the balcony
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and I will praya Psalm out loud.
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And I discovered, it's so good
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for my ears to hear whatmy eyes are reading.
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And I've found thatduring this season,
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and honestly, I think Iwill continue to do this,
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but I think it was, who was it?
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Yeah, Ambrose, the Bishopof Milan, said that,
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"The Psalms are like agymnasium for your soul.
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If you want to know how to pray
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and how to work out your soul,
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then the Psalmsare a great way."
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You know, it's like,
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I feel like God gave thePsalms to the people of God
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so that they couldpray them back to God.
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And I found that whatever I'mfeeling during that season,
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I'll find myself in the Psalms.
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You know, there's lament,
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there's joy, there'sdespair, there's hope,
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that is helping me stayfocused on what's true
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during a season whereeverything seems to be shifting.
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What about you Loriann?
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- Yeah, I love that Sheila.
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The Psalms have beenincredibly powerful for me
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my entire life.
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Psalms 91 is something thatI've been speaking over my life
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every single day.
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So that's how I start my day,then go to Ephesians six,
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and then I go into the Proverbs,
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because I find in thisseason, I need wisdom,
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wisdom unlike anyother time in my life.
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Having been throughSeptember 11th,
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having been throughthe 2008, 2009 crisis,
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this has been differentthan anything else
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that I have ever experienced.
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All of those things haveprepared me for this,
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but I've never been prepared
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for the amount of isolationthrough this season.
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I'm so accustomed, as you said,
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to being on a planeand in boardrooms,
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and now I'm, what Iwould call, zoomed out.
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I'm so tired of being onthe Zoom conference calls.
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The only benefit of beingon Zoom conference calls
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is that I don't have towear very painful shoes,
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which I did for thefirst time this morning,
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and I thought, whathave we been thinking
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wearing high heelsall of our lives?
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But nevertheless, thePsalms opens our heart
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and the Proverbs embedswisdom in our heart.
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Stephanie, how are youfeeling in this season?
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- I love that you eventalked about wisdom,
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because I just think about thescripture that talks about,
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"You shall know the truth andthe truth shall set you free,"
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but then prior tothat, it talks about,
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"When we abide in the Lord,then we would know the truth,"
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'cause in that place of abiding,
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we become thedisciples of Jesus.
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And in that intimacy withhim, now we know the truth.
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And I think in thistime, you know,
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there is the bondage of,even the false perception,
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because just likeyou've mentioned,
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you talked about isolation,
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and if we don't seeisolation properly
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then it could looklike rejection,
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it could look like abandonment,
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it could look like beingforsaken, being alone.
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And so, a false perception
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can actually even keep youin the wrong type of bondage.
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And so, for me, "Youshall know the truth
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and the truth shallset you free,"
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is knowing that Jesus is wisdom
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for every season and every time.
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And so, in a time thatwe did not expect,
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in a time that is nothing likeany of us would have said,
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"You know what?
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In 2020, we're gonnabe in a pandemic."
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(laughs) But the beautiful thing
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is knowing that Jesus iswisdom, Jesus is truth,
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and in the momentswhere I could be bound
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by the false perception of whatis happening in this times,
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that I can seek him for wisdom,
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and that wisdom can set me free
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to really see and grab whatthe season has for all of us.
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What about you, Elaine?
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- Yeah, that is so good.
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It has been so true in mylife to sing out the Psalms,
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just like Sheila said.
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I've actually been in a season
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where I'm rereading the gospels.
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I'm going back to Jesus'time here on earth
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and saying, "What are youteaching me today in your word?"
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And I've been in this, justlike you said Stephanie,
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about being a disciple.
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I've been in this, I knewhow to be a disciple,
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like Sheila said,in that season.
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I knew how to do it whenI was traveling a lot,
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or I was doing a lot,
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but how do I be a disciple
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when there's no one butmy four kids in my home.
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And I just felt lost.
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And so, for me, I've beenback in those gospels,
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of reading Matthew,and Mark, and Luke,
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and just really divinginto God's journey,
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and his teachings,
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and asking the Lord toteach me in those seasons,
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and really be, draw mecloser in what he's teaching.
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And so, I've beensoaking those up
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in this season of relivingsome of those moments.
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So that's really, it'sso true to say, you know,
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I feel so lost.
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And I feel like I can lookat social media for truth,
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I can look at my friends,what their truth is,
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but when I just soak andabide in the presence of God,
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and in his word, and I doexactly what Sheila says.
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I speak it out over mylife, over my family,
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over my situations,over my anxiety,
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and my fears ofwhat we're facing,
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I see that I began tochange from the inside out.
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What's that like for you Lisa?
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- Well, I'm gonna backpedal
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because I have to framewhere I'm going next
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with what a yeah,who I am sometimes.
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My great delight every summer,even this pandemic summer,
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is Shark Week on Discovery,
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and I love Shark Week.
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So Sheila goesstraight to God's word.
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I have to start at Shark Week,
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I'll get to God'sword in just second,
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but Missy doesn't likewatching the shark shows.
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My little girl, she's 11,
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she grew up realclose to the water
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when she was baby in Haiti,
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but never went to the water.
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And so, sharks scare her, theykind of scare and thrill me.
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Well the other night Iwas watching a shark show
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and right as Missy walkedupstairs it cut to commercial.
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And the commercialwas of a movie
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with a really badcomputer generated shark.
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It was very obvious thiswas not a real shark
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in the movie promo.
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And Missy walked in startled,
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and then she went,
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"Oh mama, we don't have to beafraid of that shark, do we?
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It's not real."
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And I thought, youknow, boy, truer words
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have never been spokenabout this season we're in.
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I feel like everywhere welook, we're seeing sharks.
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We're seeing sharksdepending on,
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and it doesn't matter what newschannel is your preference,
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it's like there's thesescary sharks everywhere.
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And I felt the Holy Spirit
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just kind of almost gentlyjab me with a grin and say,
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"They aren't real Lisa.
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These sharks that everybodyis trying to scare you with,
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they aren't real.
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That's not me, that's not theworld I've created you for,
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that's not the mindI've given you,
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that's not where I wantyour heart calibrated."
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And I found myself,it's so interesting
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that we've all beentalking about the Psalms,
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'cause I found myself
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right back at thebeginning of this altar,
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and the Psalms, which Ialways say, Sheila said.
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- Better, but it's like thejournal of God's people,
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it records the dancingand the weeping.
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And at the verybeginning, Psalm 1:1,
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it says, "Blessed,"
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and that word inHebrew is "asher",
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it's actually, "happy",
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is a great translation.
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"Happy is the onewho does not walk
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in the counsel of the wicked,
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nor stand in the way of sinners,
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nor sit in the seat of scoffers.
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But his delight is in the law,of the truth, of the Lord,
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and on God's truth hemeditates day and night."
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So I've just foundmyself going back to,
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okay, I cannot be distractedby what is seemingly scary
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or disheartening, oreven confusing around me.
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I have to go back to the truth.
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And God's word existoutside of time and space.
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Our God is good.
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Our God is always for us.
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And, Sheila, you toldme something years ago.
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Sheila and I,
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I used to get to travel withSheila all around the country.
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We spent 25 weekendstogether every year.
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But, Sheila, I remember youtelling me a quote from Spurgeon
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that said, "Show me someonewho's Bible is falling apart,
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and I can almost promiseyou their life isn't."
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Do you remember when you told me
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how important it is to havea Bible that's falling apart,
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so that your mindwould stay together?
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- I do, I do remember that.
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And, gosh, I mean, I thinkwe mentored each other,
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honestly, I think it wassomething that we were just,
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we were always indifferent seasons,
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and we just encouragedeach other along the way.
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But I am going togo from Shark Week
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to The National Geographic.
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(laughing)
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I was watching somethingthe other night,
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and it was a lion that was,
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it was prowling, it was chasing,
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it was tracking an impala
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that had got separatedfrom the rest of the flock,
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which is very unusual.
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But I watched it.
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And here was a thingthat blew me away.
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It did not blink.
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It just kept it's focusand it didn't blink.
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And I thought of 1 Peter5:9, where we're told
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that our enemy is likea lion prowling around,
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seeking whom he may devour.
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And I think when we have afocused, intentional enemy,
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that's where the strengthof the word of God,
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that's where we needa well-worn Bible,
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because that truth is deep,deep, deep inside of us.
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And that's beenlife-giving for me.
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And interestingly enough,
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I discovered an impala canrun faster than a lion,
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but it becomes frozen in fear.
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- Oh, wow.- And I think that that's one,
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I don't want us tobe frozen in fear.
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I want us to befilled with faith,
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so that we know whose we are.
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- That's such agood word, Sheila.
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We're gonna go fromNational Geographic
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to "Encyclopedia Britannica".
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(laughing)
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So, when I was a littlegirl there was no Google.
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And I was a voracious reader.
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So my mother bought me the"Encyclopedia Britannica".
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Now, Elaine, you'retoo young for this,
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but they don't start you at A.
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They start you with Y.
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So, within a shortperiod of time
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I knew everything aboutYugoslavia and yaks and yams,
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and everything else in between.
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The situation todayreminds me a lot
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of us needing to go back tothe "Encyclopedia Britannica",
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because it is absolute.
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It is truth.
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It is what is stated.
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Now we have Google.
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Now we have social media.
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All of those things aredistractions and deceptions.
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So, instead of usgoing to Google,
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we should be going backto the word of God,
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the unbelievable foundationof where we should
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be getting our truthand our strength from.
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- You know what?
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What's so amazing aboutwhat you just shared,
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and I might take it back
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to the Animal Planetfor a little bit.
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(laughing)
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You know, when I think aboutthese times that we're in,
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there was a dreamthat the Lord gave me,
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and it was somethingthat really moved me.
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So, the whole earthwas flooded with water.
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And in the water therewere these dolphins,
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just having fun and playing,
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and just having aparty (laughing).
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And when I got out fromthe dream I asked the Lord,
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I said, "Lord, whatdoes this mean?"
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And He said, "The times thatyou're in, they're not..."
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First of all, it's not like Godis bringing the flood again,
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but it was that this is atime of purging and cleansing.
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And he said, "Thedolphins represent
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that what is in thisis not to bring harm."
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And so I love that whenyou talked about the shark,
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and it's like,
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no, that's not ashark to be afraid of,
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there's what appearslike a shark.
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And so when the Lordshowed me these dolphins,
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it was like, wow, this season,
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it's to bring good,it's not of evil.
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And what I love thatwe are talking about
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getting back to the word of God,
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because when we arerooted in the word of God
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and the foundation of truth,
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then we realize, justlike the word of God says,
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that even what seemsthat is coming as evil,
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God can use it for his good.
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And so what I love about that
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is that now we are rootedin a place of love,
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because when welook at the times
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and we don't understandwhat God is doing,
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because we may not havethe rhema word of God,
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like, God, this is exactly whatyou're doing in this season,
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but when we trustthe heart of God
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and we say, "But thisis what your word says.
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Your word says that you willnever leave nor forsake us.
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Your word says that you willuse all things for our good,
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for those that are calledaccording to your purpose."
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And so when we arerooted in that,
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then I am approaching thisseason from a place of love,
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from a place of victory,
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from a place of knowingthat we've conquered this.
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I'm not approachingthis from fear.
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And I think thatwhen we approach life
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from that place of fear,
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now the enemy gets involvedand the enemy reigns,
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because fear says there'signorance about the situation,
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and there is ignorance aboutmy safety in this situation.
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There's ignorance about
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what is this goingto bring to my life.
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But when we are standingon the word of God,
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we know that thoughI walk through,
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you know, the shadow of death,
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that, God, you are with me.
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You are with me.
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And I think that is themost powerful thing,
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because it's so crazy.
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I think about thestart of the pandemic,
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and the first time I wentto the grocery store,
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you could feel the fear,
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it was so tangible in the store.
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And I was like, thisis not my reality,
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because I know that, despitewhatever is happening,
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that God is with me.
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And so, you know, Elaine,
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I wanna hear yourthoughts on just even like
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the importance of us meditating
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on the word of God right now.
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- Yeah.
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Yeah, I think it's huge.
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And, you know, Iwanna just share.
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I just have thisburden in my heart
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that maybe the Biblefeels overwhelming.
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You feel so broken,
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but you're like, theBible's overwhelming.
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There's this, "Wheredo I even start?"
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And I love that todaywe're telling you
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there's a whole lot of lovein there for you to find.
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And I think that in this season,
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we can go back to,
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"I'm so afraid.
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I'll just open thisand let it speak to me.
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I'll just begin to speakit out over my heart."
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And we're in a seasonwhere fear is rising up
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in our nation, fordifferent reasons,
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for different things,
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and, like Loriann said, thereare a lot of distractions.
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You can get theologyfrom a lot of places,
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but if you'll justopen your word of God
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and you'll open yourBible and you'll say,
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"God, I'm just gonnadeclare this over my life.
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I'm gonna declarethis over my heart.
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I'm gonna declare this in me,"
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I think you'll begin tosee the fruit of that.
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And I think that'swhat it's been for me.
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I grew up, obviously,in a Christian home,
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and I grew up where theBible was a well-known book
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in our home.
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You know, we had lots of Bibles.
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And I love what youjust said, Lisa,
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because I remember the dayI saw Jack Hayford's Bible.
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And I remember he is
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what I believe is an apostleof our generation, you know?
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And I remember he waskneeling down in worship,
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and I was so distractedby his Bible,
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'cause you couldsee it had tears
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that had dried on the pages.
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You could see it had momentswhen he was angry with God,
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or he was joyful,
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or he had all these feelings.
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And I remember thinking,
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"I want to experiencewhat you've experienced
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in the word of God."
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I was so hungry for that moment,
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that I just opened my Bible.
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I said, "God, I don'tknow what's in this word
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that he's experienced,
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but I want to experience it."
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And now I have oneof those Bibles.
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I have one of thoseBibles with dried tears.
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And it just started fromopening the word of God
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and saying, "Lord,teach me this,
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because I'm afraidand I'm overwhelmed,
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or I'm burdened by this."
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And, Lisa, you're one ofthe best people I know
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at teaching us tolove the word of God.
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And your Bible's onethat inspired me as well,
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'cause it is well-worn.
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And I look at yourlife, and you aren't.
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You are strong and steadfast.
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So, tell us, how didyou get to that point?
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How did the Biblebecome that for you?
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- Yeah, you know, forme, it was desperation.
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I mean, just like you,Elaine, I grew up in church.
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I think I heard my firsthymns when I was in utero.
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You know, we were in churchevery time the doors were open.
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But when I was a little girl
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I thought of theBible as punitive.
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I thought this waskind of this rule book,
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and if I stepped out of line,
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you know, God was just gonnasmack me over the head with it.
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And it wasn't until years later,
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when I went through a realdoubting season in college,
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because I thought,
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"What does this mean thatwe're actually loved by God?"
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Because I envisioned God askind of a unibrowed librarian
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just waiting to disciplineme if I step out of line.
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And I began this long search of,
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"Does God really love me?"
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I know I needed salvation.
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I know I'm a sinner.
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But does He love meor did He just save me
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'cause He felt sorry for me?
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And that's when I reallypicked up my Bible
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with something Iwanted to learn.
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You know, sometimes Ithink we read our Bibles
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like it's a textbook,or a rule book,
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or maybe a collectionof morality tales.
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It's a love story.
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- I love that you mentionedtheology, because I think
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oftentimes one of the mistakeswe make as Christ followers,
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we think it's just a bunchof smart, mostly dead guys
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who made up theology and that'snot at all what theology is.
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but all of us are theologians.
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We have thoughts,words about God.
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We have to take all thosewords from social media
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and your favorite podcast,spiritual podcasts.
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And we have to runthem through this grid.
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Otherwise, it's notgoing to be truth.
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When you talk about truth,that has to be filtered
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through the word of God,God is for us, He loves us.
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This is a love story,but all too often,
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I hear people say thingslike, well, the Bible says,
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and I'll think, yeah,actually that's not in there.
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We had a little
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tragedy at our house this week.
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My HVAC system went out and itwas 81 degrees in our house,
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which was a little toasty,
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and so the HVAC guy came andwe have a system upstairs
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and a systemdownstairs, and he said,
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where's your filterfor your upstairs HPAC?
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And I was like, oh,it's right over here.
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And he said, no, that's yourfilter for your downstairs
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system.
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He said, where's your filterfor your upstairs system?
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I was like, oh, I'velived in this house
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five and a half years, Ididn't know there was a filter
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for the upstairs system.
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Let's suffice to say, I'm notgreat with mechanical things.
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So anyway, long storyshort, this stranger,
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this HVAC man who was very nice,
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but he finds where the filteris in my little girl's closet.
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And y'all, I was mortified.
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Cause when he bringsthat filter out,
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I mean, there was dog fur,
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there was variousassundry of decorations,
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filthy decorationson the filter.
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And he said, youhaven't changed this
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in five and a halfyears, have you?
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And I was like, no, sir.
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And he said, well, I'vegot to hand it to you.
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This is probably the dirtiestfilter I've ever seen,
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and I've been doingthis for 20 years.
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And I thought, you know,that's why half the time
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we walk around in fear,you know, Stephanie,
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you mentioned just sensingother people's fear
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in the grocery store, and it'sbecause we aren't filtering
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truth through thisperfect, clean,
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loving filter of God's word.
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We're hearing somebodyrepeat something,
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we're looking atsomething on social media
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and we're saying well, that'swhat God says about me.
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And I'm like, did you runthat through this filter?
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Because this filter willclean out all the impurities
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and you'll be leftwith the truth.
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And the truth is that wedon't serve a far away God.
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We are absolutely adored bythis up close personal savior.
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And this isn't a rulebook, it is this love story
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just permeated with truthsabout how much he loves us,
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how he delights in us.
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I was reading thismorning and second Samuel,
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and there's this little verseI'd never noticed before.
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It's in second Samuelchapter 22 verse 19.
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And it says, "butGod stuck by me".
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And I thought, wow.
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And I really neededto hear that,
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I had a hard night last night.
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I was less than patientwith my daughter.
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I didn't like myselfvery much last night.
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And I opened this book thismorning in this love story,
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and the first thing I seeis, but God stuck by me.
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And I just sensed him sayLisa, on your worst day,
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I love you.
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So Sheila, you were one ofmy favorite Bible teachers
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as far as mining outjewels of God's love.
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I'd love for youto share with us
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and to everybody who's listening
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some of your favorite truths,
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because I bet you a nickelsome of the people watching
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Better Together today we'rejust scrolling channels
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and Shark Week wasn't on, sothey landed on Better Together,
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and some of them are thinkingwhat Elaine just thought,
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"oh the Bible's kind of obscure,
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I'm not sure how to evenunderstand the Bible".
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And so we want todemystify truth for you
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and tell you it's actually anamazing love story to peruse.
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So tell us some of your favoritetruths, absolute truths,
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that you've gottenout of God's word.
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- Well, you know,it's interesting.
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I've been writingrecently on prayer
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and then writing foryounger girls on prayer.
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And I found myself, I wasrecording an audio book
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and I found myself reading them
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with tears rolling down my face
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because there werethings I wish I'd known
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when I was 10, 11, 12,
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that you get to cometo God as you are,
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not as you wish you were.
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That God is not lookingfor perfect words,
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He's just inviting our presence.
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And Sunday I was watching,
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our church is kind ofsemi-open, and some online.
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And so I was watching onlineand our teaching pastor
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was talking about whatLorianne mentioned, you know,
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going from the Psalmsto Ephesians six.
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I mean, it was talking aboutEphesians six that Paul wrote
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that he was probablychained to a Roman guard.
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So he has this picture ofwhat that would look like
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while he's writing aboutfull spiritual armor,
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putting on thewhole armor of God.
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But you know, that first piece,the belt of truth, you know,
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he was showing anillustration of how the belt,
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even though itmight not look like
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the most significant piece,
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is the thing that holdsall the armor together.
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That that belt holdsthe breastplate ofrighteousness on it,
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holds everything together.
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And so truth holdseverything together.
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And I'm just thinking of anyof you watching right now,
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and maybe you justtuned in and you think,
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what are they yacking on about?
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I just want you to know thatthere is a God in heaven
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who loves you, who seesyou and maybe you think,
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well, lady, you don't know me.
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Nope, nope, here's the deal,God has seen your whole movie
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and he loves youjust the way you are.
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And I don't know where you findyourself, right this moment,
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maybe on a place whereyou're just thinking,
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I don't know what to do.
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Maybe you feel despair orfear, or maybe you're angry.
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Do you know what you get tobring all of that to God?
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You don't have toclean yourself up.
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That's one of thethings I said to my son
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when he was just a little boy,
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you don't clean yourselfup to come to your mother,
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because you don't clean yourselfup to come to your father.
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And maybe you're a believertoo and during these days
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you're like, you know what Idon't know about this anymore.
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And scripture says in thelast day, some will fall away,
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but not you, not you.
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It's no accident thatyou're watching right now.
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So I would justabsolutely love the power,
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the privilege ofpraying over you.
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Father, I ask rightnow, for everyone
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who has somehow stumbledacross this program,
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Lord, we can share ourhearts and our words,
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but I ask that youthrough your Holy spirit
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would touch each lifeso that they would know
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that they are seen,that they are known,
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that they are loved and theyget to come just as they are.
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I pray that in the powerfulname of Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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- Amen.
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Thank you so much, Sheila.
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Our better together communityis always here for you.
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Please connect withus on social media
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and let us know howwe can pray for you.
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We have prayer all the time.
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Thank you so muchfor joining us today.
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And we sure hope you willcontinue all week with us.
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Perfection is overrated, y'all.
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God did not designus to be foolproof,
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He created us forrelationship with him.
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Tomorrow we're going tobe talking about that,
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how it feels to be fullyseen, warts and all,
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maybe I should say Spanx andall, by our Creator, Redeemer,
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and still be perfectlyloved by God.
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We hope to see you then.
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