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Life Today with James Robison | Jerry Flowers: Learning To Love | Life Today | April 9, 2026
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- Male announcer: the following program is sponsored by friends
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- Of life outreach international and the friends
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- And partners of tbn.
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- Announcer: when your inner world feels messy and out of control,
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- Maybe your unhealed wounds are clouding your mind.
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- Jerry flowers jr.: is it possible that a word from god is
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- Standing in the long line of your overthinking?
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- So it's not that god isn't speaking, it's behind trauma,
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- It's behind rejection, it's behind bitterness, it's
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- Behind grudge.
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- God is speaking to you, but there's a long line of
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- Overthinking, worst-case scenario, catastrophizing.
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- Announcer: from hurt to healing, next.
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- Randy robison: welcome to "life today," i'm randy robinson.
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- It's great to be with you today.
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- We've got some encouragement for you today.
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- My guest has a book called "heart rehab."
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- It was written by jerry flowers jr., and jerry is the founder of
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- Redefined tv.
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- He's a pastor down in the great city of houston, texas, at a
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- Church called time of celebration ministries church,
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- And so we're glad to have him, because he's got some really
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- Good, encouraging words for you today, so stick around.
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- Jerry, welcome.
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- Jerry: thank you for having me.
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- Randy: how you doing, man?
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- Jerry: i'm doing great, glad to be here.
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- Randy: yeah, is your heart rehabbed today?
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- Jerry: i believe so, i think it's still in the process.
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- Randy: you know what?
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- And that's it, that's it.
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- Tell us a little bit about just this whole concept of heart
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- Rehab, because, you know, a lot of people are dealing with some
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- Real heartache these days.
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- Jerry: yeah, so it started off noticing a pattern that when my
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- Wife and i would have counseling sessions, i'm like we just dealt
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- With that in the sermon, and it was the exact same type of
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- Questions, and i recognized trauma could be so severe that
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- They're not even really hearing what i'm saying.
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- So if scripture tells us to love your neighbor like you love
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- Yourself, but if you don't love yourself, we're gonna have a
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- Little issue with that.
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- So heart rehab is all about discovering the you that god
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- Originally created for you to be, healing so that it won't
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- Eclipse your destiny and your purpose.
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- So that's really the theme of the book.
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- Randy: all right, when you were--you say you and your wife
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- Were in counseling, were you in counseling together, or were you
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- Doing the counseling?
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- Jerry: we do both, we do both, but we were administering the
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- Counseling, and it was just trauma could be so loud, pain
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- Could be so loud that you're not hearing anything, and you're in
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- A place that's trying to spiritually edify you.
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- So this is really the vision behind the book.
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- Randy: we got a lot of childhood wounds that people never seem to
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- Get healed.
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- What are some of the truths from scripture that free us
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- From that?
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- Jerry: yeah, well, of course scripture tells us to be renewed
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- By the--we could be transformed by the renewing of our mind, so
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- It starts with identifying those mind wounds, those
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- Mental wounds.
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- And one of the things i always inform our members, friends, is
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- If you could trace it, you can unlearn it.
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- So there's a difference in coming out of a thing due to
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- Repercussions versus coming out of a thing due to reprogramming.
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- So when your mind is renewed, that is where i could see where
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- The knot formed that was causing for me to respond like that
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- Versus me just having behavior modification i'm trying to
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- Change, yeah.
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- Randy: what you're saying is you need to quit thinking
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- That way, right?
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- Jerry: yeah, if you could trace it, you could unlearn it.
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- And so an analogy i use if somebody burglarizes your home,
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- And they don't have a mask on, it's easier to identify them,
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- But if they have a mask on, then it's harder to identify, and i
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- Think sometimes wounds are masked thieves, they're robbing
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- Intimacy, they're robbing joy, and so with the book we unmask
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- Them, we take the mask off.
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- This is what it is, this is the thief of abandonment, this is
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- The thief of rejection, but how do we get them out of the house
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- So we could be healed?
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- Randy: how much of our healing is--because we can't--i don't
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- Think we can really fully heal ourselves.
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- I mean, we can-- people help, right?
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- Counseling is great, we can read scripture, but ultimately it's a
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- Work of the holy spirit, is it not?
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- Jerry: yeah, it's definitely a process.
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- It's similar to when i fractured my shin, if i stump hard enough,
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- I still kind of feel it, and this was when i was what, 22?
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- So certain times there's healing that god gives you the grace to
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- Continue to pursue, and then there are other things where you
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- Could be totally healed from it to where i'm no longer triggered
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- From things.
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- So the goal is to be like a whole glass that could quench
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- Your thirst versus a broken glass starts to cut you.
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- Randy: i know there's no formula, right?
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- But is there--are there some general awareness?
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- Jerry: awareness, that is so huge.
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- Are you aware of your attitude?
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- Are you aware of your trigger, how your mood shifts from day
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- To day?
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- I think that's where it begins.
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- If you can't see it, it's gonna be hard to diagnose it, but when
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- You recognize i need to go to the doctor because this cough is
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- Lasting, it's the awareness part.
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- Randy: yeah, and i think that's where the holy spirit really
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- Comes in, and then we have, you know, sort of church words for
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- Them like conviction, which is key, repentance, which is
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- Agreeing with god that that is a messed up place in my life, and
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- Now i'm gonna turn from it, but god promises to do what we can't
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- Do on our own.
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- Jerry: yeah.
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- Randy: i think some of the red flags are helpful.
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- In other words, if we've got-- our heart needs to be rehabbed,
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- There are some red flags that will definitely say there is a
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- Problem here and that ultimately that's helpful.
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- I got a few that you talk about that come to mind.
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- Is there anything that comes to mind with you?
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- Jerry: in the book we speak about a relational autopsy.
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- What was the cause of death to this relationship?
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- Did i kill it?
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- Did we kill it?
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- Was this a relational homicide?
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- If every single thing you go through is always them, then we
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- Have an awareness problem, you see what i'm saying?
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- So it starts with being aware of what did i contribute to this?
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- How did i miss this?
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- How do i keep falling for counterfeits?
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- And then i think that's the pathway where the lord and the
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- Holy spirit begins to open your eyes to patterns.
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- Randy: yeah, well, we play the victim, right?
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- We blame everybody else, and our culture has gotten really bad at
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- That, it seems like.
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- You've seen quite a bit of that?
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- Jerry: it's always them.
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- Like, no, sometimes the red flag is you.
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- Sometimes the counterfeit is us.
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- Sometimes the lord is protecting them from us, and so i just
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- Think that takes awareness to recognize when you could say i
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- Wasn't healed enough to value that relationship at the time,
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- That shows growth.
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- A relationship will always show you what you're not educated or
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- Don't have skills, and it's amazing, if you wanna be a
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- Doctor, you go to school.
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- If you wanna be a cosmetologist, you go to school.
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- Where do you go to love?
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- And there are so many people who are getting in god institutions
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- And trying to keep god out, but then run to god when i feel all
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- The pain.
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- And so that's what we strive to do, provide the healing and then
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- Also the theology to help them understand the god of the bible.
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- Randy: yeah, you know it's interesting, because 1 peter has
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- This path to the kingdom of god, which is the rule of reign.
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- Jesus said, "your kingdom come, your will be done."
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- So, how does god's will done in our life?
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- And he goes through this whole thing, it starts with diligently
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- Applying ourselves, right?
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- And there's multiple steps, but kind of in the middle of it is
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- Godliness, which i would think would be the ultimate goal of
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- Things, but it's not, it's on the path.
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- The ultimate goal is love.
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- Jerry: come on.
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- Randy: where do we go to learn to love?
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- Well, that is the ultimate source, the only source of
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- Perfect love, which is christ.
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- So, i mean, if someone's dealing with the trauma, if they've got
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- The childhood wounds, they're living out these repeated
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- Patterns of destruction, whether it's destroying themselves or
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- The other relationships, is there anywhere they can go to
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- Learn to break those patterns and to learn to love other
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- Than christ?
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- Jerry: no, no, because here's the thing, let's use marriage.
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- Marriage is a god-made institution, so for marriage to
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- Work, god must be an institution.
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- God is love.
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- So if you're trying to do anything in the name of the
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- Lord, like i want to love her or love him, i need god to do it.
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- And i think that's the disconnect is we're really
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- Confusing lust and infatuation and affection with love, because
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- Love truly is sacrificial.
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- Love keeps no record of wrong.
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- Love is patient. what is patient?
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- It's the ability to survive the season of not yet.
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- Oh, you need the holy spirit to do that.
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- All of these attributes really do require the holy spirit's
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- Intervention in your own life, and i think that starts with
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- Being aware of you.
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- Randy: how do you get past that tendency, that pattern to just
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- See the worst possible outcome?
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- Because half the time it's self-fulfilling prophecy when
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- You live that way.
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- Jerry: i think sometimes we have to identify how is my
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- Overthinking playing the role in my own suffering?
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- In the book i have a chapter, i believe it's chapter 4, entitled
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- "your mind is too crowded," and in the book i said is it
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- Possible that a word from god is standing in the long line of
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- Your overthinking?
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- So, it's not that god isn't speaking, it's behind trauma,
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- It's behind rejection, it's behind bitterness, it's
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- Behind grudge.
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- God is speaking to you, but there's a long line of
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- Overthinking, worst-case scenario, catastrophizing.
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- You start to under-appreciate valleys.
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- I think that's one of the main contributing factors is we
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- Under-appreciate where we are because we're exposed to where
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- Everybody else is.
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- Randy: in other words, if there is something unjust that has
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- Happened to you, and you need justice, trust his justice more
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- Than your own, right?
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- If you need closure from someone who's never gonna give it to
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- You, you get that closure from god.
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- You know, if you need peace, i love my wife, but if my peace
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- Hinged on my wife and my children when they were growing
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- Up, or you know, or even my work, and i work in a great
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- Place, right?
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- With christians, if that's where my hope and my peace and my joy
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- Ultimately comes from, it's gonna be a bumpy ride, because
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- People are people.
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- So in order to to get rid of those things that are in front
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- Of god's word speaking to me, i think the ultimate answer is
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- Surrendering them.
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- Have you experienced that?
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- Jerry: but you have to do the work.
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- See, the word works, but you have to work it.
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- You have to do the work.
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- So, a basic example, if i say picture in your mind a brown
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- Horse, you could do that.
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- If i say now picture a black horse, you could do that.
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- You just showed me you have the power to change your
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- Thoughts, right?
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- So what is overthinking?
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- It's a misuse of your creative self.
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- Look how creative we are, creating horror stories in our
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- Mind that may never happen.
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- So it starts with recognizing just on that basic brown horse,
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- Black horse, you have the power to change your thoughts.
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- It just takes the practice, the discipline, and the number one
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- Way to do that is have a prayer life, because when you pray, you
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- Have to cast stuff down.
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- Who won the game? ah, focus on jesus.
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- What am i gonna eat? ah, focus on jesus.
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- So, people who usually do not have a consistent prayer life, i
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- Notice it's a harder time for them to cast down things,
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- Because prayer trains the mind to cast down.
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- Randy: yes, it does.
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- That's that surrender i'm talking about.
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- And yes, i do the--i did the whole catastrophe thing just
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- Yesterday when my plane hits a little bit of turbulence, and
- 00:11:28.133 --> 00:11:30.802
- Here i go, oh no, you know?
- 00:11:30.802 --> 00:11:32.637
- Where we're going-- there's nowhere, anyway.
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- And that's the tendency, but you know, in order to renew our
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- Minds, and god does the renewing, i really think the
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- Casting, you know, the letting go is just kind of getting out
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- Of his way sometimes.
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- Jerry: yeah, yeah.
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- Randy: how has that changed in your life, even the way you
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- See god?
- 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:50.688
- Jerry: so, in ministry, there's so many unpredictables, right?
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- I understand that the lord changeth not.
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- He's the same yesterday, today, forevermore.
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- My purpose is written in permanent marker.
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- But my--the steps that the lord has taken me are written in
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- Pencil, and i think that's like stop trying to permanent marker
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- How it should be.
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- Render the pen, what you're talking about, that's surrender.
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- Render the pen, lord, whatever you say, which direction you
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- Think, and recognizing that the steps of a good man are ordered
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- By the lord.
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- So, instead of viewing it as disappointment, i view it as god
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- Is ordering my steps.
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- And i think for me, it's all in perspective shifting.
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- Randy: yes, yes.
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- Jerry: surrendering and shifting your perspective.
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- Randy: yeah, and that change-- that does change the way you see
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- God, because you see he's not someone who's out to get you for
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- The things you've done wrong, but someone who really wants to
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- Finish what he started to perfect you, not to make you
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- Flawless, but to make you whole, which is that heart rehab that
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- You're talking about.
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- How does that change the way you see other people, especially
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- In ministry?
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- Jerry: if i could just share with myself.
- 00:12:55.086 --> 00:12:56.421
- There was a year, 2018, i experienced a whole lot of
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- Betrayal, and i was like i'm done with people.
- 00:13:00.258 --> 00:13:03.995
- Tanisha, that's my wife, it's me and her against the world.
- 00:13:03.995 --> 00:13:07.732
- And through prayer, the holy spirit revealed to me you will
- 00:13:07.732 --> 00:13:11.603
- Never be an effective spiritual physician if you keep getting
- 00:13:11.603 --> 00:13:15.473
- Sick from everybody you're trying to treat, and that
- 00:13:15.473 --> 00:13:19.310
- Changed my life.
- 00:13:19.310 --> 00:13:20.678
- So i don't just heal for myself, i don't just heal for my
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- Marriage, for my children, for my bloodline, but for my
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- Calling, so that every person that i meet new, i don't view
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- Them as judas immediately, right?
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- I view them as this is somebody that the lord is entrusting me
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- To help see him until there's something else seen.
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- So i walk with this relational management skill, 1,000, 72, 12,
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- 3, and i got it from jesus.
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- He spoke to thousands, he sent out 72, he selected 12, but he
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- Was vulnerable with 3, that changed my life.
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- Randy: so what does that mean for you?
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- Jerry: so like how three, peter, james, john, all the disciples.
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- So for me, i have my three, so i don't overshare social media
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- To thousands.
- 00:14:11.095 --> 00:14:12.530
- I don't bleed in front of the 72, i have my 3, so that also,
- 00:14:12.530 --> 00:14:17.468
- Like that's that perspective, also has helped with making sure
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- That a lot of pain isn't recycled.
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- Randy: did god just drop that on you?
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- Jerry: i was studying the lord, man, i just noticed he spoke to
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- Thousands, because there were times where he would only take
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- Peter, james, and john, i'm like--
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- Randy: why would he do that?
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- Jerry: why?
- 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:35.853
- Mount transfiguration, peter, james, and john.
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- Garden of gethsemane, y'all stay here, peter, james, and john.
- 00:14:37.488 --> 00:14:40.658
- And so i said, oh, the lord has relational management.
- 00:14:40.658 --> 00:14:46.397
- But it's so brilliant.
- 00:14:46.397 --> 00:14:47.999
- Judas wasn't at the mount of transfiguration, you see?
- 00:14:47.999 --> 00:14:50.401
- And so just learning, i really study him to learn that even in
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- Life he had skills that if we pick up can help our hearts too.
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- Randy: so, okay, so a lot of what i hear you talking about,
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- You know, in "heart rehab" and just in our conversation is
- 00:15:00.445 --> 00:15:03.815
- Basically saying that you're going to learn how to live life,
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- Navigate relationships, but sort of just work out what god has
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- Done in your life by going to scripture, learning, and putting
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- It into action.
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- Is that pretty safe to say?
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- Jerry: that's it.
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- Randy: and what does that continue to do for your life,
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- For your family, for your church?
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- Because i mean that's formulaic but kind of scriptural and
- 00:15:31.409 --> 00:15:36.614
- Simple in a formula, even though the details a little difficult,
- 00:15:36.614 --> 00:15:39.317
- But what's that done for you?
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- Jerry: it's made me to be honest, for me to present a real
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- Version of myself versus a put-together, customized,
- 00:15:46.958 --> 00:15:52.397
- Well-digestible version of who jerry should be.
- 00:15:52.397 --> 00:15:56.134
- Randy: so, who should jerry be?
- 00:15:56.134 --> 00:15:57.468
- Jerry: who god called me to be, and that's the book.
- 00:15:57.468 --> 00:15:59.337
- So, there was this time i was reading scripture, and this
- 00:15:59.337 --> 00:16:03.041
- Passage of scripture was bothering me when he was
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- Speaking to jeremiah, and he said, "before you were in your
- 00:16:05.643 --> 00:16:07.478
- Mother's womb, i knew you, ordained you a prophet of the
- 00:16:07.478 --> 00:16:10.348
- Nation, okay?"
- 00:16:10.348 --> 00:16:11.682
- Before you were in your mother's womb, i knew you.
- 00:16:11.682 --> 00:16:13.017
- Then we see jesus later say, "many on that day will say lord,
- 00:16:13.017 --> 00:16:16.888
- Lord," and then at the end of that he said, "i will tell them
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- Surely i never knew you, depart from me."
- 00:16:19.457 --> 00:16:21.893
- Hold on.
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- Before you were in your mother's womb, i knew you to part from me
- 00:16:23.961 --> 00:16:27.598
- I never knew you, and so i'm sitting there chasing it, and
- 00:16:27.598 --> 00:16:30.868
- I'm like, man, i wonder if jeremiah was ordained to be a
- 00:16:30.868 --> 00:16:34.338
- Prophet, any other version of himself that he would have
- 00:16:34.338 --> 00:16:37.608
- Became is not the you that god created him to be.
- 00:16:37.608 --> 00:16:40.711
- So it's possible for you to become a version of yourself
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- That god never ordained for you to be.
- 00:16:43.848 --> 00:16:45.817
- This version of you was never intimate with me, this version
- 00:16:45.817 --> 00:16:48.319
- Of you never surrendered to me, this version of you is what
- 00:16:48.319 --> 00:16:50.955
- Culture called you to be, it wasn't who i called you to be,
- 00:16:50.955 --> 00:16:53.724
- So you lost you.
- 00:16:53.724 --> 00:16:55.793
- So the beauty of this book is to get you to a place where i'm the
- 00:16:55.793 --> 00:16:59.063
- Original version of myself that god called me to be.
- 00:16:59.063 --> 00:17:01.766
- I'm in a relationship with him so that he can remind me and
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- Show me who i'm discovered to be, who i'm called to be.
- 00:17:04.569 --> 00:17:07.238
- So i think that for me has been like mind-blowing, like it's
- 00:17:07.238 --> 00:17:10.641
- Possible for you to take on another version of yourself
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- Because of what everybody else said.
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- Randy: and you know what's sort of the most ironic part about it
- 00:17:16.247 --> 00:17:18.516
- Is the only way you can find the true you is to quit looking at
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- You and look at jesus, because he created us.
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- Jerry: yeah, absolutely.
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- Randy: all right, what do you say, in the short time we have
- 00:17:29.026 --> 00:17:32.029
- Left, to the person who's kind of watching this going, man,
- 00:17:32.029 --> 00:17:35.333
- He's saying some things that are messing with the way i'm
- 00:17:35.333 --> 00:17:37.335
- Thinking, i don't even know where to go from here?
- 00:17:37.335 --> 00:17:41.038
- What do you say to encourage them today?
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- Jerry: i would say you're at the best place that you could
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- Possibly be, because when the lord starts to do a wrecking
- 00:17:45.143 --> 00:17:48.779
- Ball in your life, this means he begins to tear down what you
- 00:17:48.779 --> 00:17:52.083
- Thought was truth so that he can introduce the real truth to you.
- 00:17:52.083 --> 00:17:55.553
- So, usually if you find yourself feeling wrecked, i think that's
- 00:17:55.553 --> 00:17:57.955
- Beautiful, because god now can start to rebuild, so embrace it.
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- Randy: i love it. that's so true, though.
- 00:18:02.460 --> 00:18:05.263
- I mean, and we don't--it don't always fit the way we think,
- 00:18:05.263 --> 00:18:07.331
- But it's like, yeah, the best place to be
- 00:18:07.331 --> 00:18:09.700
- Is the end of me, more of him.
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- Jerry: that's it.
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- Randy: that's it. man, thanks for sharing that.
- 00:18:13.971 --> 00:18:15.606
- All right, the book is "heart rehab."
- 00:18:15.606 --> 00:18:17.141
- It's available wherever you get books.
- 00:18:17.141 --> 00:18:20.011
- And we're gonna show you something that if you're a part
- 00:18:20.011 --> 00:18:24.482
- Of our mission outreaches, then you understand this.
- 00:18:24.482 --> 00:18:27.418
- But if you're new to this, i wanna invite you into looking
- 00:18:27.418 --> 00:18:31.689
- Beyond yourself in a way that will actually help you find who
- 00:18:31.689 --> 00:18:35.760
- God has created you to be, because god has called us to be
- 00:18:35.760 --> 00:18:39.297
- Generous people.
- 00:18:39.297 --> 00:18:40.998
- God has called us to be a reflection of his light in a
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- Dark place.
- 00:18:46.037 --> 00:18:47.371
- He has called us to help heal others in every way, including
- 00:18:47.371 --> 00:18:52.843
- In this case the physical.
- 00:18:52.843 --> 00:18:54.779
- We want you to be a part of a $600,000 project, because that's
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- What it'll take to renovate this hospital.
- 00:19:00.184 --> 00:19:03.788
- We're calling it the hope for children project, because that's
- 00:19:03.788 --> 00:19:08.059
- Exactly what it is.
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- Randy: i want you to take a look at those two children.
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- When you look at the before, you see how difficult it is for
- 00:19:12.630 --> 00:19:17.735
- Those children.
- 00:19:17.735 --> 00:19:19.070
- I don't know how they're walking, but they get around.
- 00:19:19.070 --> 00:19:21.439
- But you know what?
- 00:19:21.439 --> 00:19:22.974
- It's difficult.
- 00:19:22.974 --> 00:19:24.308
- When you see those after pictures, the children running,
- 00:19:24.308 --> 00:19:29.080
- That is such a beautiful picture of what's happening right now
- 00:19:29.080 --> 00:19:33.684
- With our partners there in zimbabwe at that hospital.
- 00:19:33.684 --> 00:19:37.255
- But listen, they need more space, they need more surgical
- 00:19:37.255 --> 00:19:43.661
- Rooms so that they can accommodate more children.
- 00:19:43.661 --> 00:19:46.163
- Those doctors are so dedicated.
- 00:19:46.163 --> 00:19:50.001
- Those brothers and sisters in christ with you and i who are
- 00:19:50.001 --> 00:19:53.271
- Followers of jesus, the first thing they do with a child who's
- 00:19:53.271 --> 00:19:57.441
- Coming in for surgery is they pray with them, they share god's
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- Love in word and deed.
- 00:20:02.913 --> 00:20:06.217
- I love those doctors who say we are tools in god's hands, and
- 00:20:06.217 --> 00:20:10.655
- You know what?
- 00:20:10.655 --> 00:20:12.023
- Their skill, their time, their expertise, they give freely.
- 00:20:12.023 --> 00:20:17.628
- Those children, the families of those children, they don't pay a
- 00:20:17.628 --> 00:20:22.533
- Thing for those surgeries.
- 00:20:22.533 --> 00:20:24.335
- Their lives are changed because of the love of god and the
- 00:20:24.335 --> 00:20:28.873
- Support of people just like you.
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- You can give hope, you can give a new opportunity at life for so
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- Many children.
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- Will you do it right now?
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- We really need to hear from you.
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- Announcer: many children in africa are born with severe
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- Deformities or suffer life-altering injuries,
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- Conditions like club feet, windswept legs, and untreated
- 00:20:56.467 --> 00:20:59.904
- Fractures force them to live in pain because help is out
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- Of reach.
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- But you can offer healing today.
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- Our mission partner in zimbabwe runs a children's hospital now
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- Randy: i do hope you'll call right now.
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- Pick up that phone, go to the website, and just be a part of a
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- Beautiful outreach.
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- And we need to hear from you soon, because this is a
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- Short-term thing.
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- We gotta get this thing going.
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- We gotta get those kids in there and get them healed.
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- So i appreciate you being a part of it.
- 00:22:34.532 --> 00:22:36.000
- Appreciate you listening today, and jerry, i appreciate you
- 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:37.935
- Being on the program.
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- For anybody who wants to follow up with you, see what's going
- 00:22:39.270 --> 00:22:42.173
- On, what's the best website for them to hit?
- 00:22:42.173 --> 00:22:43.908
- Jerry: redefinedtv.net.
- 00:22:43.908 --> 00:22:45.576
- Randy: redefinedtv.net, all right.
- 00:22:45.576 --> 00:22:47.178
- So, man, i appreciate you and the word you're sharing,
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- Blessings down there in houston and all the people that come.
- 00:22:50.114 --> 00:22:54.018
- Hey, we appreciate you being here.
- 00:22:54.018 --> 00:22:55.886
- Come back, we've got more great guests.
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- I want you to be a part of it next time on "life today."
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- [music]
- 00:23:02.593 --> 00:23:08.265
- Jennifer rothschild: hi, i'm jennifer rothschild.
- 00:23:08.265 --> 00:23:10.434
- I have something with me that i love and treasure.
- 00:23:10.434 --> 00:23:14.104
- It's my dad's bible.
- 00:23:14.104 --> 00:23:15.439
- I wonder if you have anything like that that's special to you?
- 00:23:15.439 --> 00:23:19.043
- The reason this is so precious to me is my dad was my pastor,
- 00:23:19.043 --> 00:23:24.281
- And i remember as a little girl, you know, this was back in the
- 00:23:24.281 --> 00:23:27.852
- Day when church would end and the pastor would stand outside,
- 00:23:27.852 --> 00:23:33.090
- And he would shake everyone's hands as they would leave.
- 00:23:33.090 --> 00:23:34.892
- And i remember my daddy handing me this bible while he would
- 00:23:34.892 --> 00:23:38.095
- Shake hands.
- 00:23:38.095 --> 00:23:40.030
- I wish you could smell the leather.
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- It's so fragrant.
- 00:23:43.133 --> 00:23:45.002
- And the sound of the pages, the same.
- 00:23:45.002 --> 00:23:47.671
- But here's the thing, when i open this bible to look at it,
- 00:23:47.671 --> 00:23:51.442
- My eyes can't see this bible.
- 00:23:51.442 --> 00:23:54.144
- I became blind as a 15 year old girl.
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- And so now i've lived in physical darkness longer than i
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- Ever lived in physical sight.
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- So, i can't see the words in this bible, but it's still
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- Precious to me.
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- And here's why.
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- My dad went to heaven in 2018, and i thought my heart would
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- Break into a million pieces.
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- You may know what that feels 'cause you've lost somebody
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- You love.
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- And we feel like sometimes when that happens, our hearts are
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- Never going to heal.
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- When we came home from the funeral, my mother gave me this
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- Bible of my dad's.
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- I didn't know that he had left instruction with my mom that
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- When he passed, i should receive this particular bible.
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- It was his first preaching bible, the one i held as a
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- Little girl at the end of church, the one i watched him
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- Studying every saturday before church on sunday.
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- I love it.
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- It's such a treasure.
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- And i carry it with me as a reminder of my dad.
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- And in some ways it helps me feel, you know, just close to
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- My dad.
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- And i know as i share this with you, there's someone in your
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- Life you're thinking of.
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- And so i wanna encourage you with this.
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- Yeah, when i hold this bible, it makes me remember my dad and
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- Feel closer to him.
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- But you know what else really ministers to me and helps me
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- Feel close to my daddy is when i worship.
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- Because do you realize that when we worship here on earth, when
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- We're fixing our gaze on jesus, when we're either alone in our
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- Own prayer closet or in our congregation at church with our
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- Brothers and sisters, when you're alone in your hospital
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- Room, when you're in your car listening to christian music and
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- Praising, when you are worshiping here on earth, you
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- Are doing the exact same thing that is happening even now
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- Around the throne.
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- I am never closer to my dad who is in heaven than i am when i'm
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- Worshiping because right now, right now around the throne,
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- According to revelation chapter 7, there's a multitude from
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- Every tribe and every nation and every tongue, and they are
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- Worshiping, singing, "salvation belongs to the lord," and they
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- Are crying out, "holy is the lamb," so if you're missing that
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- Person who you love, if you're missing the loved one who's gone
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- Ahead of you and is already in heaven, maybe one of the best
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- Ways that you and i can handle our grief is to worship because
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- When we worship, we are never closer, never closer than we are
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- In that very moment to the loved one we've lost because our
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- Hearts are fixed on the same thing, and that is jesus, the
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- Lamb, the treasure of heaven, the one whose death allows us to
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- Be reunited with the person we loved and lost.
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- So, let's be people who love well, who grieve well, and who
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- Never stop worshiping.
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- Chad prather: whether it was the bottom of a bottle of alcohol
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- Or the bottom of a bag of drugs, wherever i could try to find
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- That reality is where i was looking.
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