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Holly Wagner & Robyn Wilkerson: Better Together on Praise | Praise

December 9, 2024 | 56:29

Laurie Crouch, Sheila Walsh, Holly Wagner, and Robyn Wilkerson come together for a Praise Christmas celebration. They share their personal experiences of finding joy, peace, hope, and love in the midst of life's challenges. They encourage viewers to open their hearts to Jesus, who offers forgiveness and a fresh start. The women discuss the importance of focusing on others and investing in acts of kindness, bringing a sense of peace and joy to their own lives. They remind viewers that Jesus is the reason for the season and that through him, we can find the true meaning of Christmas.

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Praise | Holly Wagner & Robyn Wilkerson: Better Together on Praise | Praise | December 9, 2024

Tonight,
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Join laurie crouch, sheila walsh, holly wagner and robyn
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Wilkerson for a praise christmas celebration.
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Hi and welcome to the praise program.
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This is the better together program.
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Merry christmas.
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Merry christmas to everybody.
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We are with you here december 9th.
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And just a couple of weeks ago, sheila
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And i were just sitting around.
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We said, you know what?
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We should do a christmas show just for
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All the world to see all of you around the world.
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I have to say something to our audience
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That is outside of even the united states of america.
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You have been so wonderful.
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And merry christmas to you all around the world.
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This is a beautiful time to come together, to be together.
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And what's so important about better together
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Is that you're here. yeah.
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No matter where you are tonight,
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If you're by yourself, you need to just stay tuned.
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Be a part of.
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Of our little conversation.
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We're just going to talk about jesus.
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One of my favorite
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Things about this time season
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Is probably just remembering emmanuel.
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Yeah. god is with us.
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And that is such a
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It's just such a reminder.
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That's what i it's kind of like
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At christmas time is what i just kind of
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Sit and meditate on.
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God is with us.
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God is with us every day, every hour.
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He is here with us.
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He is there with you.
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And so we just got a couple of our friends together, ones
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That i've known for 45 plus years in my life before, like.
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Sprinkles for real.
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So i think i was born with sprinkles.
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I don't know. sure.
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All grown and grown old together.
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And so i love you guys.
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I love. what's your favorite time?
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Well, you know, it's something i started
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And it was actually what i love
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About the better together community
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Is that we kind of lean in and learn from one another
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And somebody who watches better together all the time.
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So sent me
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This little direct message and said, hey,
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Have you realized that in looks gospel this 24 chapters?
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So if you start reading a chapter of luke's gospel
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Every single night, then i'll take you right to christmas eve.
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So if you're just start to get a wee bit behind,
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But you can catch up.
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And so i've been doing that and it's been it's been great
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Because it's it's the whole story,
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You know, it's everything. that's why jesus came.
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So that we would be with him forever. yeah. yeah.
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The whole five i thought about,
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You know, you started with the thought about emmanuel.
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Emmanuel, he's with us.
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And, and it's not just this vague,
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Like, presence.
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He's.
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He brings joy.
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Like, his presence brings joy.
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So i started thinking, like, for me, sometimes during
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This season, the christmas season, and,
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And again,
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We all have different
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Seasons in our life when we have different jobs
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Or roles or the kids are different ages.
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But i think if we're not careful,
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Sometimes we let the busyness take away from emmanuel, right?
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We let the busyness of the season,
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You know, whether it's shopping or parties or.
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Pop plays.
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Plays like your kids
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Has one more christmas play that you have to attend for or,
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You know, one more office party.
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And so i think sometimes
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We let just the busyness of it rob us of the joy.
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And so i'm giving everybody permission
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To say no to that party. yeah.
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If you need to be in home and just,
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You know, whether it's read
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A chapter in the book or be with your family
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Or have coffee with a friend,
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Whatever it is that's going to remind you,
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You know, just
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Enjoy. yeah.
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This season and recognize i love that
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Actual story of the nativity because you
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When you stop and really look at the scripture,
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It was the shepherds who were told by the angels
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They were the first to get to hear that there was good news.
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They were joyful is what it says in luke.
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And you know, what was so outrageous
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About that is that they were considered
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The least in their world, in that ancient community.
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They were the outcasts, the most unlikely
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To get the big news first. that's right.
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And so that's important,
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I know, to me today, because even no matter what
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You're facing or how the circumstance is, ah,
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God knows exactly where you are and he is with us
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And that you like the shepherds, no matter how you feel
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About yourself.
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As we're in this moment together, as we're going to be
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Talking about joy and peace. yeah.
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And hope and love.
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I'm just so excited because i realized that
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There's joy for me.
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Yeah, there's joy for all of us.
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Just like the shepherds.
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You know,
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I didn't even realize that, robin,
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But i was studying a little bit about that,
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Talking about the fact that when the shepherds
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Even tried to come through the town,
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People would throw fruit and vegetables at them
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And it would totally look down.
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And the fact that god would bring
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That announcement to the boys on the hill.
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So the ones that were never invited
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Just talked to them first.
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Yeah, the ones who were never invited,
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The ones who were looked down on.
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And to me that's the whole thing about emanuel.
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Yeah.
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That god has come to us, to all of us.
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There's a lot there's nothing we can do now.
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He did it, right? yes.
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I think there's like, that difference between i think
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Oftentimes we confuse joy and happy.
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Yeah, right.
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I think
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I think one of the viewers
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Actually wrote in a question about that just
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The joy, a happy conversation, because happy
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And we all want to be happy. hello.
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But happy is usually when all the circumstances
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Of your life are lining up. right?
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Or when everything you're getting comes your way.
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I mean, remember those two times when they happened?
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It was this one's for me.
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But i think sometimes we get frustrated
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When all the circumstances,
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You know, don't line up and and but joy is different, right?
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Joy is that steel rod that hold you straight up,
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Even in the middle of chaos, in the middle of the busyness
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Of a season, perhaps.
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And so i think rather than looking for happy,
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Which is always great, we always want to be happy.
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Yeah.
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But being determined,
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Right, to just have that joy because, i mean,
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The bible is pretty clear that joy is our
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Where our strength comes from. yeah, right.
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And joy is it comes from him, right?
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Right. it comes from my relationship with him.
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Not all my circumstances lining up.
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Right. exactly.
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It's the right to the kingdom of god.
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So, you know, if you look at the new testament,
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Jesus came to bring the kingdom of god here,
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Right?
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He's already ruling, he's already reigning,
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And he preached the kingdom of god.
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So salvation is mentioned twice in the new testament.
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Being born again is mentioned twice.
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The kingdom of god is mentioned 120 times in the new testament.
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He came to preach the kingdom.
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So let him who have ears hear.
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Right.
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And so what is the kingdom of god?
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It's righteousness, peace and joy and joy.
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And so we can live in that because it's here.
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It's here for us.
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If we have the ears to hear and the eyes to sing.
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So true, right?
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Absolutely.
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That christ offers that.
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Because i think that this has been
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I don't know what 2024 was like
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For all of you, but it was kind of, oh, a year.
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Problems at all.
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There was no conflict, no problems, no stress.
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So, yeah, sorry about you, sheila.
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You know, i think it was such a
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For me personally, if you talk about it,
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Everyone is just saying
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It was kind of a butt kicking all throughout the year.
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Right. and so i think and no one's
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Nobody i know was left out of that.
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Right.
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And it's it's either purging. yeah.
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Or pruning. it all feels the same. right.
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And i think we were either purged or burned.
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Yeah.
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During that time.
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I think, i think about both. yeah,
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You're right.
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I was absolutely.
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But that's why i feel
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The promise of peace is not dependent
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On whether things are falling into place. right.
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The you know what?
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I think at that last conversation
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Jesus had with his closest friends
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Saying, you know, in this world, yeah, you will have trouble.
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That little greek word is like a perfect storm in this world.
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You're going to get through the perfect storm.
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But take heart because you have overcome the wound.
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And to me, the nativity god with us.
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Is that a dividing point of human history?
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That was before he came.
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And now we're living in after he came
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And that changed everything.
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Does it what he he came to all right to bring
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Where there had been enmity.
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He brought peace between us and god, right?
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He brought peace.
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And so that's the peace that we get to live in.
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And then i just think about the circumstances.
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Sometimes, you know, you meet somebody
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And maybe some of our
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Viewers are in the middle of a challenging situation.
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And sometimes you meet somebody, whether they're
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Dealing with a sickness or they just lost a child
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And you see them and you wonder, how are you getting from that?
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Yeah. yeah.
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Because you you think i could never do that?
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Well, you could if you were there
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Because he gives you that peace, then, right?
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The peace that passes all understanding.
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It comes when you need it, right when it's there.
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And so i feel like that's what's being offered to us.
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Or, or maybe that's what we're being reminded of.
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Now, the the emanuel the his peace is available
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Or available to help us navigate family relationships.
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And, you know, hello sometimes this time of year
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Brings out challenges in families.
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Right? you got to go to dinner with
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That uncle or whatever.
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Right?
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And so i feel like we still have the ability to be at peace
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Even then.
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Yeah, right.
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That's the promise is that we can step into situations
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And bring peace and not stress. right.
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And i do think holidays, particularly for ladies, women,
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Mothers, grandmothers,
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I can remember i always felt raising these four sons of mine
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That i've got.
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God bless you, too.
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Yeah, but we're not where they are.
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That's
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All i'm saying is i can recall
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Thinking to myself, oh, no, it's christmas again.
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That's like a whole new second job.
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Yeah, right.
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The shopping, the preparing, the worry.
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And i was always trying to get an a and find the perfect gift.
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I can recall at
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One of those many years, you know, my youngest is now 34.
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They're all grown up, they're all preacher.
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I can remember me leaving the dinner table
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After it all, going into my closet
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In my bedroom
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And truly just laying on the floor
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While the kids are all doing whatever with whatever.
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And here i am so tired i fall.
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Asleep. in the walk in. closet.
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All dressed in my stop.
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Well, all i can tell you is
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I remember thinking to myself, is it new year's yet?
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Yeah, because it was so much for giving.
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And so my heart really goes out
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To families today because there is so much pressure.
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Don't you agree that there is a real crisis?
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And we have viewers right now that are watching
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And we invite you to be part of the conversation today,
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Because as grandmothers,
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As women who have been married all of these many years,
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We've been taking care of parents, taking care of kids.
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We agree you're not wrong.
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It is a stressful time.
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And and god is with us like laurie talked about,
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Because i remember
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Waking up in that closet and thinking, oh, my goodness.
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It is pretty. big. exactly.
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You know, and i remember thinking, no,
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You're with me, lord.
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Yes, i can get up.
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And we were talking about joy.
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And i would teach those kids, you know, what is joy?
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Jesus, i remember that interview.
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And yeah,
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And yet the most simple is the most profound,
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Because as we put him first, like laura, he's talking about
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His kingdom is available to us,
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But we have to open our
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I would call it our mind, our awareness.
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I want to use words that maybe some of our viewers
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Would be more comfortable with that as we lift up
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Our thoughts, as we elevate our thinking,
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We open our heart to the holy spirit.
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And even in that closet, when i kind of woke up
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Out of all my exhaustion, i remember thinking, no,
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I can't do this because you're with me.
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Yeah, you're with me.
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And so today i know we really want to pray
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And we really want to support our friends that are watching
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To let them know that this is a tough time
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And yet it's a wonderful time.
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My favorite. time.
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And nothing has to be perfect
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Because the pressure we put on ourselves.
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Yeah, that's true. that's so true.
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The number of times i've anointed my turkey.
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Yes, yes,
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I'm haven't seen the work of god really happening there.
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But, you know, you want it all to be perfect.
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You want the perfect presents,
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Yet let's just not even worry about that.
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There's something about.
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Okay, let's take a vote.
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Yeah, i'm in.
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But, you know, we do our best.
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But then just to actually enjoy being together,
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One of the things that barry has made us do every year since
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Christian was born was have our christmas photo taken.
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Christian and i call it black tuesday.
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It's so weird.
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Oh, barry.
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But, you know,
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The funny thing was, even though we used to complain about it
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Recently, i can't because we moved a year
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Ago and i came across a box of all the cards
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And i look at them all and i see when he was little.
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And then the year my mom was there that year
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And barry's dad moved in and lived with us for two years.
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And i think those are the moments to celebrate,
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Not whether everything's perfect now.
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Yeah, that's the thing, right?
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It's sometimes we
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Just get distracted by the stuff in the things
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Rather than enjoy the people at the people.
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And yet and yet at the same time, i'm very aware
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And i think there are some,
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Some of the viewers and then just that
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They've expressed a loss this season. right.
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Whether it's the loss of a spouse or the loss of a child.
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And so christmas amplifies all of the feelings.
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Yeah, right.
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Amplifies feelings of great and and sorrow.
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And so,
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You know, i just want to remind
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That person, you know, those of you
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Who are maybe you're dealing with
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Loss, you're dealing with pain, you're dealing with a diagnosis
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That you didn't want. right.
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And so you're feeling
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Like i have a friend who's going to have surgery
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Right before christmas, and it's a life threatening one.
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And so there's a lot of emotions that come with that.
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And so i just want to remind you that he is.
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Emanuel right, that he's there.
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It's his presence that is more important than anything.
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Yeah, right.
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And so and i also want to you know, we're we're with you.
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We're part of your family.
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And i'm really sorry, you know,
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For whatever you might be experiencing and feeling,
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Because i know that this season can make it trickier, right?
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Yeah. one of our viewers wrote in on facebook large.
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You have that, huh? i have. i have one. you go.
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They're actually looking for advice.
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It says,
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What are some practical things in this comment on facebook?
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What are some practical things that move your heart towards
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Joy when that's not where you find yourself?
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Like are any specific things you do in your family
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Or that you intentionally do that move you toward?
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Joy actually, that's a really good question for me.
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I think one of
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The practical things that we did for years with our kids as
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And and even still to this day
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Is that we would find another family
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To someone who's struggling and we would get
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Either the christmas list for their kids
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And we would go shopping or we would take dinner to them,
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Whatever it was.
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We took our eyes off of ourself
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And does have to be a big thing, right?
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But even if you just shop and sing songs to them, it's
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Just like something
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Where you take your eyes off ourself
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And do something for somebody else.
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And i think that changes it.
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It changes everything. yeah, it really does.
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I love it.
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I always want to
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Reach out to bring others joy but never get to it.
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How can i start to make that a part of my christmas?
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Well, in my family.
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Never get to it.
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See that?
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That's an interesting idea. is it?
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I intend, but i don't do it right a lot.
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Oh, yeah, that's the problem.
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That is the problem.
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You know, because it is important that we
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Find a way like you're just talking about.
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Holly, were you invested?
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See, that's really what it's about.
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It's taking our own space, and then we invest
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In somebody else, and something wonderful happens
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When we get outside of our story and we get
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Into somebody else's story because it brings in energy.
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And i really encourage people that that is the secret.
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We're talking about back to that first question
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That sheila just said, what do you actually do?
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And honestly,
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I think that we're always so aware of how we feel.
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It's when we start to recognize that other people
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Are facing the same situation we are
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And that they have to adjust themselves.
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I have to choose it.
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I don't know what you girls do, but i literally this morning
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Said to myself in the mirror, robyn, you're okay.
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You're okay.
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I am whole.
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There's nothing missing in my life.
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I literally say that out loud
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And i changed the atmosphere with my own words.
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You were asking me good ideas.
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Hey, play christmas music.
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Yes. and dance around the kitchen and worship the lord.
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And you'll discover that
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When you're smiling and singing, it will change things.
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Yes, it will.
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So let's think about another big, big word for christmas.
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And that's peace. yes, i love you.
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I mean,
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If there's ever been a time when our world,
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When our churches, when our homes and our families.
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Yeah. i mean, really peace.
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What does that mean? yeah.
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For you at christmas.
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And if somebody is
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Watching right now and everything's going wrong,
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How do you access that peace
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Right now?
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I think when we meditate,
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I was thinking about the scripture yesterday,
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But the meditations of my heart be acceptable unto you.
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So if i'm meditating on something,
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I'm that's when i'm consumed with.
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And meditating is the same as worrying.
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If you can worry, you can meditate.
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Very good. so what we need.
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So what we do is we get a, get a scripture.
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Yeah, you just said the joy of the lord is my strength.
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I have the peace that passes all understanding.
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That means that when my world is hectic,
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My world seems to be going crazy.
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I can have a peace in that that i can't hardly even understand.
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I don't know why i should be all upset about this, but i'm not.
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Yeah, that's great.
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For i am stable because god is our firm foundation
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And we don't have to be swayed to and fro and knocked around.
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And we can sleep.
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We we lack peace because we feel like
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If we get more information
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About a subject, then that will bring peace.
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That's right.
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And all that does is add stress to it. right.
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And so sometimes we're stressed
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Because we feel like if we need to know the whole plan or.
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On the whole story, how it.
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Ends, how it ends, it's just like,
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Right, that's actually not going
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To bring the peace right piece pieces.
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A person hits him.
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Yeah, right.
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He is our piece. yeah.
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And so i started also thinking
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That as a follower of jesus, my job is to
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Relieve stress from people and in the way that
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I to take pressure off.
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So how about when you enter into a grocery store or a cafe
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Rather than being the one that's critical or hurry up or mad at
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Your server who's actually probably an overworked mother
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With kids at home? right. she's stressed out.
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So how about you don't add to her stress? yes.
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You be the peaceful presence in that one,
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And that doesn't cost you anything. yeah, right.
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When we're talking about practical things
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Tomorrow, right. to help bring peace,
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You can step into someone's situation.
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And if they're freaking out about something
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Or they're just you, you be the smile.
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How about just. what? there you go.
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And that's investing in someone you know.
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The viewer said, i don't quite get to it.
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All right.
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Well, the truth is
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There's an opportunity every year where all the time
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When you just kind of say a little no to yourself
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And to be generous with your attitude.
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With your tone. yeah.
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With your.
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Kindness. smile us. yeah.
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And just
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Put yourself a little bit in that other person's shoes.
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It'll bring you peace, right?
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You know, i think so many times
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We're the answer to our own prayer, right?
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God wants to
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Use us to show people yes.
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Yes, in every way. yes.
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And i mean, how many times have you said something nice
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To somebody and go, man, i needed that time. oh, no.
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I needed someone to just say something nice to me.
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Hey, we can we can do that all day long.
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And it doesn't mean and it doesn't mean anything.
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And so i feel like sometimes that's the thing that happens
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This time of year is we get so focused on.
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Stuff.
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Stuff like the presence in the tree in the house
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And, and, you know, the part.
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And we get so focused there that we forget.
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Exactly. what it actually is all about.
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You know, that
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That jesus is the reason for the season, right?
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It's still true. yeah.
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So i love what sammy rodriguez said once.
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He said that as believers, when you're filled
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With the holy spirit, when we walk into a room,
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The atmosphere should shift because of who lives in us.
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Because that's to your point, holy of
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We can either add to the stress or and sometimes, you know,
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When people get frazzled this time of year,
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Kindness can help them and yes. yes.
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And is not a word to set it up, but it can
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It can help,
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You know, because you either up the temperature. yes.
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Or you can bring it down.
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And so i underline this morning in my bible, john 1427 peace
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I live with.
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Yes, my peace i give to you.
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That is a promise
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From jesus to us and write that down somewhere.
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As you said, meditate.
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Meditate on it.
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Yeah.
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And remember, you know,
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I've got all these wonderful young people in my world and,
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You know, there's a lot of trauma outside of our home
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That is we're scrolling, you know,
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We all know about that.
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And there's a lot of bad news.
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And so for some, it's kind of shock thing
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And what's going to happen.
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And we don't know how to control what's in the community
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And in the city and the nation and the globe.
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And it gets bigger and bigger.
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And i love to go back to the scripture
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Because, you know that line peace on earth
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That's exactly
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In the story in luke about what it's all about at christmas.
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And yet,
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Did you know i was studying this week and it was
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Revolutionary in that context to say peace on earth because
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Wrong the global oppressor, they had a whole policy.
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They called it like the roman ramadan,
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And with that they were holding peace.
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And sheila will teach us now about it.
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They in they didn't just make peace right.
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They they put people to death.
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Yeah.
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If they did not conform to what rome said.
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Yes. peace.
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So good. robyn, when you think about that, you think about.
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Now, wait a minute.
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Believers already were facing global
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Oppression and concern and outside.
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And yet today we sometimes think, oh, this is new.
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No, it's not new.
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It isn't just like the angels saying, just like the good news
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Came the maggi peace on earth
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Was revolutionary and that's what we are today.
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We're we're supposed to be.
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The peace makers. yes.
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Blessed are. that.
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And have kindness for others.
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Yeah, but kindness for ourselves.
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Yeah. give yourself a break.
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Say, yeah, you are doing a good job.
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I'm going to stop in one of the big words.
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I think if anything is needed right now, it would be hope.
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Hope? yes, hope.
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Because i think the moment
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That little baby opened his eyes, hope was born.
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We had no hope before jesus. right.
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You know, there was struggle
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And there was so much that was wrong
00:25:42.130 --> 00:25:44.199
And no way to put it right, because on our own we couldn't
00:25:44.199 --> 00:25:46.935
There's no way we could have fixed everything.
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And the fact that christ was willing to leave.
00:25:49.004 --> 00:25:52.574
I was reading through revelation the other night
00:25:52.574 --> 00:25:54.643
One of the books i struggle to understand, but.
00:25:54.643 --> 00:25:57.112
You're not alone in that.
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Come on, sheila.
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But the the worship that goes on all the time
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And the fact that christ was willing to walk away from that
00:26:04.486 --> 00:26:07.522
And be born as a fragile baby with a shoe size.
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So the hope could be born in every one of us.
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The king of the world.
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I remember one time we went to rome and visited the catacombs
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Where some of the early christians
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I mean, there's other ones, but some there were
00:26:23.471 --> 00:26:24.806
Christians were buried and on many of the tombstones
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There were engravings or markings or different symbols.
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There was, you know, a shepherd.
00:26:31.479 --> 00:26:32.547
There was there was a fish and there was an anchor.
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So you think about why why the anchor.
00:26:36.584 --> 00:26:39.387
And so maybe it's from that
00:26:39.387 --> 00:26:41.156
That scripture that are like, our hope is exactly right.
00:26:41.156 --> 00:26:45.694
Our hope is that that anchor and so some you're saying
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And i started thinking so if our hope is that
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That anchor, that is what holds us to him.
00:26:51.900 --> 00:26:55.136
And so what
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What is our hope in its end that the god
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Who started the work and as you finish it.
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Yeah right.
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The hope is that he's going to be with us
00:27:00.642 --> 00:27:03.244
For the whole journey, right?
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That's where my hope comes from. yeah.
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And you know,
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I also think it's so ridiculous
00:27:08.383 --> 00:27:09.751
When people say, don't get your hopes up.
00:27:09.751 --> 00:27:12.520
I think that's ridiculous because i think we should.
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Get our head. totally.
00:27:14.389 --> 00:27:15.957
It faces the evidence of things hoped for. and.
00:27:15.957 --> 00:27:19.861
Then we have to get our hope up.
00:27:19.861 --> 00:27:21.129
And i feel like sometimes that again this season
00:27:21.129 --> 00:27:25.133
It's the busyness of it or just to your point,
00:27:25.133 --> 00:27:27.702
What's happening globally
00:27:27.702 --> 00:27:29.270
That tries to steal our hopes and put fear in us instead.
00:27:29.270 --> 00:27:33.007
And so i think that's why we have to be very diligent
00:27:33.007 --> 00:27:35.877
To not let go of hope.
00:27:36.344 --> 00:27:37.912
And sometimes it's to hands.
00:27:37.912 --> 00:27:39.247
You hang on to hope.
00:27:39.247 --> 00:27:40.181
Well, the god of hope, right?
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Right.
00:27:43.384 --> 00:27:44.586
Roman says, may the god of hope fill you with all joy and.
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Peace.
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As you trust in him so that you may overflow
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With hope by the power of the holy spirit that i love.
00:27:53.862 --> 00:27:59.734
We were doing a show the other day with jason sobel
00:27:59.734 --> 00:28:03.338
And he was talking about the
00:28:03.338 --> 00:28:04.606
Year 2025, and i cannot believe i just said that the year 2025.
00:28:04.606 --> 00:28:08.443
I remember watching those movies back in the early.
00:28:08.443 --> 00:28:12.514
80s and 90s
00:28:12.847 --> 00:28:14.048
He yeah, 12 and all this, you know, it was so futuristic.
00:28:14.048 --> 00:28:17.619
It was crazy.
00:28:17.619 --> 00:28:18.720
Here we are folks, 2025 but that the the 25 the five
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:23.858
Means the year of
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Trust so we can have faith.
00:28:24.993 --> 00:28:28.096
So i think this this year as well.
00:28:28.096 --> 00:28:31.132
Has my faith has.
00:28:31.132 --> 00:28:33.601
Dug yeah.
00:28:33.601 --> 00:28:35.336
So deep this year over the last couple of years it's just like
00:28:35.336 --> 00:28:40.108
I have nothing else but my faith.
00:28:40.108 --> 00:28:42.911
My faith is my shield.
00:28:42.911 --> 00:28:44.979
I am digging my feet in the ground
00:28:44.979 --> 00:28:47.949
And now it's time to just trust and trust that those things
00:28:47.949 --> 00:28:51.653
Will come to pass.
00:28:51.653 --> 00:28:52.554
What god said he will do, he will do.
00:28:52.554 --> 00:28:54.789
He's not left us. he's here with us.
00:28:54.789 --> 00:28:57.158
Yeah. keep going. right.
00:28:57.158 --> 00:28:58.660
And i love when paul wrote that this hope will not disappoint.
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Yes, i remember one christmas when christmas
00:29:02.363 --> 00:29:04.165
Just a wee boy and he was watching an ad
00:29:04.165 --> 00:29:06.401
That said it was a fishing rod and it guaranteed you
00:29:06.401 --> 00:29:09.070
Catch a fish in 10 minutes.
00:29:09.070 --> 00:29:11.105
And i said.
00:29:11.105 --> 00:29:11.840
Oh, i.
00:29:11.840 --> 00:29:12.874
Know that the fishing rod would guarantee you.
00:29:12.874 --> 00:29:14.409
Guaranteed.
00:29:14.409 --> 00:29:15.343
And i said,
00:29:15.343 --> 00:29:16.778
They can't guarantee you'll catch a fish in 10 minutes.
00:29:16.778 --> 00:29:18.780
And he looked at me with these big brown eyes
00:29:18.780 --> 00:29:20.381
And they said, mom,
00:29:20.381 --> 00:29:21.716
They couldn't say on television if it's not true.
00:29:21.716 --> 00:29:24.786
Oh gosh, where have i failed?
00:29:25.420 --> 00:29:26.688
Isn't there.
00:29:26.688 --> 00:29:28.289
But there's so many things that were promised in this world,
00:29:28.289 --> 00:29:30.525
You know, take this face cream, this diet, this that.
00:29:30.525 --> 00:29:33.995
But the hope that we have and jesus is rock solid, nothing.
00:29:33.995 --> 00:29:38.733
It will not disappoint.
00:29:38.733 --> 00:29:40.568
It's not like we will let one another down.
00:29:40.568 --> 00:29:43.137
We'll do all sorts of things.
00:29:43.137 --> 00:29:44.639
But the hope that we have and christ, you can stick your life.
00:29:44.639 --> 00:29:49.477
Yeah. okay. here's a question.
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What big a lesson has god taught you this year
00:29:51.379 --> 00:29:54.582
That has led to a more hope
00:29:54.582 --> 00:29:56.351
Filled life for you and your family?
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That's a good one.
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I'm going to say that god faithfully answers prayer.
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You know, there's been things in our family where,
00:30:04.192 --> 00:30:06.327
You know, even with our son, our son turns 28 next week.
00:30:06.327 --> 00:30:10.665
How is that possible?
00:30:10.665 --> 00:30:11.866
I still see him dragging his little dinosaur
00:30:11.866 --> 00:30:13.768
Through the kitchen.
00:30:13.768 --> 00:30:15.103
But, you know, the prayers that you pray
00:30:15.103 --> 00:30:16.404
For your children, of your family,
00:30:16.404 --> 00:30:18.339
The faithfulness of god.
00:30:18.339 --> 00:30:19.841
I've watched this year
00:30:19.841 --> 00:30:21.309
As the way god has answered prayers in a way that just
00:30:21.309 --> 00:30:24.712
Blows me away. so grateful.
00:30:24.712 --> 00:30:27.248
I think, for me, because like
00:30:27.882 --> 00:30:29.550
You said, i feel like this has been our all season of
00:30:29.550 --> 00:30:32.620
Purging and pruning and challenge.
00:30:33.354 --> 00:30:36.557
And i think for me, it's
00:30:36.557 --> 00:30:39.460
It's purified.
00:30:39.460 --> 00:30:41.162
My faith and in the sense that it's only him.
00:30:41.162 --> 00:30:45.099
Is. right.
00:30:45.099 --> 00:30:46.067
It is only jesus that actually gives me
00:30:46.067 --> 00:30:50.038
Gives me hope for the church, his global church.
00:30:50.038 --> 00:30:53.708
I mean, there's been
00:30:53.708 --> 00:30:54.742
The shaking in the conflict and the challenges,
00:30:54.742 --> 00:30:56.477
But it gives me hope that god is building his church.
00:30:56.477 --> 00:30:59.547
So just me, like that's
00:30:59.547 --> 00:31:00.882
Where this like some hope comes from, just in the middle
00:31:00.882 --> 00:31:04.919
Of it.
00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:06.688
Yeah.
00:31:06.921 --> 00:31:07.922
I would say that for me, this has been maybe,
00:31:07.922 --> 00:31:11.726
Maybe it's been
00:31:12.093 --> 00:31:14.195
One of the hardest years of my life.
00:31:14.195 --> 00:31:16.831
Definitely.
00:31:16.831 --> 00:31:17.699
My husband was diagnosed with cancer.
00:31:17.699 --> 00:31:20.034
Yeah.
00:31:20.268 --> 00:31:21.169
And so that's how we started our year.
00:31:21.169 --> 00:31:24.105
We went to the hospital and i learned something, holly,
00:31:24.105 --> 00:31:29.110
That you're talking about that there's only jesus.
00:31:29.110 --> 00:31:33.815
Yeah, there's only jesus.
00:31:33.815 --> 00:31:36.017
I've served god all my life.
00:31:36.017 --> 00:31:38.052
I'm the daughter of a preacher.
00:31:38.052 --> 00:31:40.555
Everybody's a preacher in my world.
00:31:40.555 --> 00:31:42.690
God's been my.
00:31:42.690 --> 00:31:44.092
I've lived this amazing life for him,
00:31:44.092 --> 00:31:46.894
Providing for me, taking care of me.
00:31:46.894 --> 00:31:50.031
But that doesn't mean that we're exempt.
00:31:50.031 --> 00:31:52.734
No, that's.
00:31:52.734 --> 00:31:53.568
From what happens in the world, right?
00:31:53.568 --> 00:31:56.237
Other choices people make,
00:31:56.237 --> 00:31:59.240
You know, you can think about the holocaust, tornadoes,
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:03.111
The destruction, whatever it is that comes into our world.
00:32:03.111 --> 00:32:06.447
For me, this year, it was cancer.
00:32:06.447 --> 00:32:09.350
It was a cancer that the world would say is incurable.
00:32:09.350 --> 00:32:14.188
Now, we went into that hospital in my testimony and i,
00:32:14.188 --> 00:32:18.259
I just want believe us, who are listening to realize
00:32:18.259 --> 00:32:22.563
That god's with you in those darkest moments,
00:32:22.563 --> 00:32:27.201
You know,
00:32:27.502 --> 00:32:28.669
There could be a christmas tree this year that last year
00:32:28.669 --> 00:32:31.372
There was a whole nother circle of people around
00:32:31.372 --> 00:32:34.475
That there could be an empty chair at the dinner
00:32:34.475 --> 00:32:38.446
Table this year could really be painful.
00:32:38.446 --> 00:32:41.949
And i understand and i know we shared
00:32:41.949 --> 00:32:45.520
Our stories around this group many times with the viewers,
00:32:45.520 --> 00:32:49.424
But it's important that we go back to the point
00:32:49.424 --> 00:32:52.460
Of the christmas story that jesus came
00:32:52.460 --> 00:32:56.064
That he would be like laurie started with.
00:32:56.064 --> 00:32:59.167
Us in the middle of a dark world.
00:32:59.167 --> 00:33:00.802
And in the middle of that icu ward and walking
00:33:00.802 --> 00:33:04.972
Those halls at night and asking god, what is a head
00:33:04.972 --> 00:33:10.078
And how and where and how come.
00:33:10.078 --> 00:33:14.449
And i don't want to do this isolation, isolation,
00:33:14.449 --> 00:33:20.054
Months.
00:33:20.288 --> 00:33:20.788
Peep oh, yeah.
00:33:20.788 --> 00:33:21.889
We were in he was receiving stem cell therapy
00:33:21.889 --> 00:33:26.761
And it's an amazing world of healing and opportunity.
00:33:26.761 --> 00:33:32.667
And today
00:33:32.667 --> 00:33:33.835
I need to give the testimony that richard's doing well.
00:33:33.835 --> 00:33:37.438
And so thank you for praying for him.
00:33:37.438 --> 00:33:39.941
And we're so grateful that god is with us in this journey.
00:33:39.941 --> 00:33:45.279
Now, what do i want to say about that?
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:47.648
That like you said,
00:33:47.648 --> 00:33:50.051
In the worst of the worst, he's right.
00:33:50.051 --> 00:33:53.588
It's the hardest year i've ever maybe endured
00:33:53.588 --> 00:33:57.992
For sure in this decade.
00:33:58.526 --> 00:34:00.661
And yet
00:34:00.661 --> 00:34:02.730
I honestly, i wouldn't.
00:34:02.730 --> 00:34:05.266
Trade it.
00:34:05.266 --> 00:34:07.201
Because i discovered heard,
00:34:07.201 --> 00:34:10.004
You know what?
00:34:10.338 --> 00:34:11.272
We're all going to heaven, right?
00:34:11.272 --> 00:34:13.307
We just don't want to go to night.
00:34:13.307 --> 00:34:16.110
Isn't that the case?
00:34:16.110 --> 00:34:17.512
So knowing that god is working in our lives
00:34:17.512 --> 00:34:22.250
And there is a plan.
00:34:22.250 --> 00:34:24.252
And the other thing that's recently happened to me
00:34:24.252 --> 00:34:27.488
This year is, i had to say goodbye to my mom
00:34:27.488 --> 00:34:31.492
At her bedside just two weeks ago.
00:34:32.226 --> 00:34:35.530
Right.
00:34:35.730 --> 00:34:37.064
So i'm
00:34:37.265 --> 00:34:39.500
Very aware
00:34:39.500 --> 00:34:42.603
Of the
00:34:42.803 --> 00:34:45.973
Supernatural.
00:34:46.340 --> 00:34:48.609
I know it sounds a little crazy.
00:34:48.609 --> 00:34:50.444
Okay.
00:34:50.444 --> 00:34:51.445
I'm a little crazy today because i've learned
00:34:51.445 --> 00:34:55.416
That god is real.
00:34:55.850 --> 00:34:57.084
Yes. yes.
00:34:57.084 --> 00:34:58.619
And he's with us. yes.
00:34:58.619 --> 00:35:01.055
And he is not going to leave us
00:35:01.055 --> 00:35:04.759
In our worst moments.
00:35:05.259 --> 00:35:08.229
No, no.
00:35:08.229 --> 00:35:10.998
You know, when.
00:35:11.365 --> 00:35:12.166
I walk through the valley of the.
00:35:12.166 --> 00:35:13.434
Shadow of death and.
00:35:13.434 --> 00:35:15.069
There you are with me, you know, it's interesting.
00:35:15.069 --> 00:35:18.272
In the original greek,
00:35:18.272 --> 00:35:19.840
It just says, i will not be afraid for you.
00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:22.710
Me with added with you are with you.
00:35:22.710 --> 00:35:25.613
Make it make sense in english.
00:35:25.613 --> 00:35:26.881
But the original hebrew is just i won't be because you need me.
00:35:26.881 --> 00:35:30.985
Yeah.
00:35:30.985 --> 00:35:31.786
You can█t get a thread between us
00:35:31.786 --> 00:35:34.522
Because he's in us with this.
00:35:35.156 --> 00:35:38.025
And i want to encourage and encourage viewers.
00:35:38.025 --> 00:35:40.995
You know,
00:35:41.295 --> 00:35:42.463
When my mom went to heaven just this couple weeks, what
00:35:42.463 --> 00:35:45.733
Were her last words?
00:35:45.733 --> 00:35:48.269
Open the gate.
00:35:48.603 --> 00:35:50.004
Oh. open the gate.
00:35:50.004 --> 00:35:53.074
See everything we're talking about here today?
00:35:53.975 --> 00:35:56.978
Like holly said at the beginning, there's only jesus.
00:35:56.978 --> 00:36:01.749
There is nothing else to really talk about.
00:36:01.749 --> 00:36:04.518
But there's only jesus.
00:36:04.518 --> 00:36:07.355
And we all.
00:36:07.688 --> 00:36:09.724
All are in this together.
00:36:09.724 --> 00:36:12.760
Yeah, and we're all going.
00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:15.429
And if you love the lord, today will see you forever
00:36:15.429 --> 00:36:19.800
And eternally
00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:21.535
So i'm so thankful, lord, that we can be here
00:36:21.535 --> 00:36:24.138
And we can encourage people to know that there's
00:36:24.138 --> 00:36:28.142
Hope, there's joy, there's peace in this.
00:36:28.142 --> 00:36:32.013
There's promise. yeah.
00:36:32.013 --> 00:36:34.282
That means that there is a purpose in our people.
00:36:34.282 --> 00:36:38.953
Yeah, yeah.
00:36:38.953 --> 00:36:40.521
A purpose in our pain.
00:36:40.521 --> 00:36:41.789
And what happened to me
00:36:41.789 --> 00:36:43.491
Just two days ago this week, i had a new grandson.
00:36:43.491 --> 00:36:47.361
You talk about promise, right?
00:36:47.361 --> 00:36:49.764
Right.
00:36:49.764 --> 00:36:50.798
So god is always renewing and beginning again.
00:36:50.798 --> 00:36:55.803
Yeah,
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But we have to open our heart to his plan
00:36:56.771 --> 00:36:59.440
And his purpose and say,
00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:01.042
Okay, god, the worst thing that ever happened to me
00:37:01.042 --> 00:37:03.978
Is the best thing that ever happened to me.
00:37:03.978 --> 00:37:07.114
Or at least in the
00:37:07.114 --> 00:37:08.549
End, the worst things.
00:37:09.016 --> 00:37:11.285
Look for the best from god. yes.
00:37:11.285 --> 00:37:14.288
So good. i feel like.
00:37:14.288 --> 00:37:16.057
I feel like there are those moments that i you know,
00:37:16.057 --> 00:37:19.593
I remember
00:37:19.593 --> 00:37:20.828
Just whether it's navigating health battles or betrayals or,
00:37:20.828 --> 00:37:24.231
You know, all the pain that we all go through.
00:37:24.231 --> 00:37:26.067
Right. i remember
00:37:26.067 --> 00:37:27.268
If you focus on the pain, that's all you'll see.
00:37:27.268 --> 00:37:29.570
But god is very faithful.
00:37:29.570 --> 00:37:31.038
I would get a random
00:37:31.038 --> 00:37:32.573
Text message from somebody with just an encouraging word
00:37:32.573 --> 00:37:35.443
Who had no idea
00:37:35.443 --> 00:37:37.345
About the situation i might have been in the middle of.
00:37:37.345 --> 00:37:39.380
And so i think sometimes it's
00:37:39.380 --> 00:37:41.816
You have to be intentional about where we look like.
00:37:41.816 --> 00:37:43.951
Look for the
00:37:43.951 --> 00:37:45.052
The handfuls from god, the gifts from god in the midst.
00:37:45.052 --> 00:37:48.255
And so
00:37:48.255 --> 00:37:49.557
I think we had a viewer write in about that, that they're
00:37:49.557 --> 00:37:52.760
Navigating their empty nesters for the first time.
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:55.229
So they're used to having a family,
00:37:55.229 --> 00:37:57.164
You know, a bunch of kids around.
00:37:57.164 --> 00:37:58.532
And and so they're saying they're struggling
00:37:58.532 --> 00:38:00.668
And so for me,
00:38:00.668 --> 00:38:01.769
I would just say, again, you can focus on the fact
00:38:01.769 --> 00:38:03.938
That those kids are somewhere else now or maybe
00:38:03.938 --> 00:38:07.108
Bring somebody else to your table.
00:38:07.842 --> 00:38:09.210
Yeah, it's just like invite somebody else to the table or
00:38:09.210 --> 00:38:12.580
So where can we where do we focus?
00:38:12.580 --> 00:38:14.582
I feel like that's the choice that we have.
00:38:14.582 --> 00:38:16.584
Yeah, right.
00:38:16.584 --> 00:38:17.618
And certainly this time of year is not a choice.
00:38:17.618 --> 00:38:20.020
I was thinking to,
00:38:20.020 --> 00:38:21.188
As any of you are watching and you think, well, you know,
00:38:21.188 --> 00:38:23.958
I stayed tuned because i saw
00:38:23.958 --> 00:38:25.059
The christmas trees don't look pretty.
00:38:25.059 --> 00:38:27.128
But maybe even as you're listening,
00:38:27.128 --> 00:38:28.696
You realize that you really don't know jesus.
00:38:28.696 --> 00:38:30.931
I mean, the absolute very best christmas gift
00:38:30.931 --> 00:38:34.068
You could ever get on this earth,
00:38:34.068 --> 00:38:36.537
Whether you're the richest person
00:38:36.537 --> 00:38:37.905
Or the person in them, was challenging circumstances,
00:38:37.905 --> 00:38:41.075
Is the gift of eternal life.
00:38:41.075 --> 00:38:42.410
That's what christmas is all about.
00:38:42.410 --> 00:38:44.011
That is why jesus came
00:38:44.011 --> 00:38:46.747
And and maybe was thinking, well, you don't know my life.
00:38:46.747 --> 00:38:49.150
You don't know some of the things i've done.
00:38:49.150 --> 00:38:50.785
You know, i don't think god would really
00:38:50.785 --> 00:38:52.219
Welcome me in the church.
00:38:52.219 --> 00:38:53.621
I just want you to see his arms are open.
00:38:53.621 --> 00:38:56.290
There's a place at the table for you.
00:38:56.290 --> 00:38:58.058
And honestly, it's a simple
00:38:58.058 --> 00:38:59.827
We're told in the book of romans chapter five,
00:38:59.827 --> 00:39:02.263
Whoever calls on the name of the lord will be
00:39:02.263 --> 00:39:05.466
Saved, not might be saved, but will be saved.
00:39:05.466 --> 00:39:08.669
Says if you believe in your heart
00:39:08.669 --> 00:39:10.671
That jesus is the son of god and you believe that
00:39:10.671 --> 00:39:12.873
God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
00:39:12.873 --> 00:39:17.011
And it can be something as simple.
00:39:17.011 --> 00:39:18.312
You don't have to fancy words.
00:39:18.312 --> 00:39:19.647
You don't have to
00:39:19.647 --> 00:39:20.815
Have a fancy prayer language, because simply by saying
00:39:20.815 --> 00:39:24.084
I like jesus,
00:39:24.084 --> 00:39:26.220
I want to be saved.
00:39:26.687 --> 00:39:28.556
I want to be part of your kingdom.
00:39:28.556 --> 00:39:30.891
I want this to be
00:39:30.891 --> 00:39:31.859
The first christmas when i'm a born again
00:39:31.859 --> 00:39:34.929
Believer, where you write my name in the book of life.
00:39:34.929 --> 00:39:37.965
I know i'm a sinner.
00:39:38.432 --> 00:39:39.633
Please forgive me for my sin,
00:39:39.633 --> 00:39:41.869
But i believe you're the son of god.
00:39:41.869 --> 00:39:44.271
I believe that you came, that you died and you rose again.
00:39:44.271 --> 00:39:48.209
And so i just want to say i'm all in.
00:39:48.209 --> 00:39:50.611
I want to give my life to you and let you know
00:39:50.611 --> 00:39:53.180
That for the rest of my days.
00:39:53.180 --> 00:39:54.682
That's what every single one of us
00:39:54.682 --> 00:39:56.150
Here at some point in our life.
00:39:56.150 --> 00:39:57.785
Yes, there was a turning point for me.
00:39:57.785 --> 00:40:00.054
It was when i was 11 years old.
00:40:00.054 --> 00:40:01.422
It's different for all of us,
00:40:01.422 --> 00:40:02.790
But it's the greatest decision you could ever.
00:40:02.790 --> 00:40:04.925
And you wonder where peace, hope and joy come from.
00:40:04.925 --> 00:40:08.629
They come from jesus. self has a name.
00:40:08.629 --> 00:40:10.965
Yeah, his name is jesus. right.
00:40:10.965 --> 00:40:12.700
There's and i think sometimes this,
00:40:12.700 --> 00:40:15.336
You know, the new year is coming up, right?
00:40:15.336 --> 00:40:18.572
We have a new year and it's
00:40:18.572 --> 00:40:21.509
A great time to start over.
00:40:21.509 --> 00:40:25.446
But you know, you don't have to even wait until then.
00:40:26.514 --> 00:40:29.049
The bible says that his mercies are new every morning.
00:40:29.049 --> 00:40:31.852
So you get a chance right now to do what sheila just said.
00:40:31.852 --> 00:40:35.222
Maybe this is the time for you to start to start.
00:40:35.222 --> 00:40:38.459
It started all over with jesus.
00:40:38.459 --> 00:40:40.694
Maybe at one point you were following him, but
00:40:40.694 --> 00:40:44.198
If you're honest, you'd say
00:40:44.798 --> 00:40:46.600
You've just grown a little cold in your heart
00:40:46.600 --> 00:40:48.068
Maybe, or you've just gotten weary.
00:40:48.068 --> 00:40:49.570
Or maybe all of the stuff that's gone on
00:40:49.570 --> 00:40:51.472
This last year has just created bitterness and cynicism.
00:40:51.472 --> 00:40:55.509
And i i've actually been there.
00:40:55.509 --> 00:40:57.444
I get that.
00:40:57.444 --> 00:40:58.579
And so this is a chance to do it again, to start afresh.
00:40:58.579 --> 00:41:01.849
You don't have to wait till january 1st.
00:41:01.849 --> 00:41:04.118
You can start fresh.
00:41:04.118 --> 00:41:05.319
This is your chance to do that.
00:41:05.319 --> 00:41:07.354
So just take a deep breath and begin this relationship
00:41:07.354 --> 00:41:10.724
With the god who loves you so much that he sent jesus
00:41:10.724 --> 00:41:13.928
For you, for you and he offers you that forgiveness and hope
00:41:13.928 --> 00:41:19.233
You won't find peace outside of him.
00:41:20.034 --> 00:41:22.269
Yeah, i learned that the hard way.
00:41:22.269 --> 00:41:24.104
Yeah.
00:41:24.104 --> 00:41:24.805
Shandra says, i have a hard time
00:41:24.805 --> 00:41:27.741
Getting past my past and all the things i have done.
00:41:27.741 --> 00:41:31.812
How do i start again? hmm?
00:41:32.379 --> 00:41:35.783
Robin well, it's never too late.
00:41:35.783 --> 00:41:38.919
No, to start again.
00:41:38.919 --> 00:41:41.288
That's right. it's never too late.
00:41:41.288 --> 00:41:43.824
And i think that we are our own worst enemy.
00:41:43.824 --> 00:41:49.063
I think we are so full of self
00:41:49.663 --> 00:41:54.101
Criticism, especially women.
00:41:54.101 --> 00:41:57.104
I think we're comparing i think we're
00:41:57.104 --> 00:42:02.142
I think there's almost a
00:42:02.676 --> 00:42:05.879
I maybe it's going to be shocking what i'm going to say.
00:42:05.879 --> 00:42:08.649
But i almost think while we're so concerned about
00:42:08.649 --> 00:42:13.887
How i'm not doing it right, it really is a form
00:42:13.887 --> 00:42:18.125
Of self-centered
00:42:18.125 --> 00:42:20.928
Because we're so focused on ourself
00:42:20.928 --> 00:42:23.797
That that's exactly what brings us down.
00:42:23.797 --> 00:42:27.635
It's when we go back to what we were talking about
00:42:27.635 --> 00:42:30.738
Earlier, it's when we invest in other people
00:42:30.738 --> 00:42:34.775
And we see how we can be their answer to prayer.
00:42:34.775 --> 00:42:40.347
We can be the person that can step into their world
00:42:40.347 --> 00:42:43.651
With a kind word
00:42:43.651 --> 00:42:45.452
Or with some personal investment in somebody else.
00:42:45.452 --> 00:42:49.990
And that shifts how we feel about ourselves.
00:42:49.990 --> 00:42:53.927
Well, that's not that's not an accident.
00:42:53.927 --> 00:42:56.230
You know, we're
00:42:56.230 --> 00:42:57.431
Talking about being mothers and it cracks me up because,
00:42:57.431 --> 00:43:01.035
You know, you can do for others what you can't do for yourself.
00:43:01.035 --> 00:43:04.672
How many have ever tried to get to the gym?
00:43:04.672 --> 00:43:08.876
You don't can't you can't quite get there.
00:43:08.876 --> 00:43:11.545
But when my little boy,
00:43:11.545 --> 00:43:13.247
You'd hear that tiny voice down the hall in the darkness,
00:43:13.247 --> 00:43:16.750
Mom and boy, i could be out of bed and shot,
00:43:16.750 --> 00:43:20.254
But i couldn't
00:43:20.254 --> 00:43:21.455
Get up and get to that gym if my life depended on it. why?
00:43:21.455 --> 00:43:25.426
Because we're hardwired
00:43:25.426 --> 00:43:27.628
To do for others what we can't do for ourselves.
00:43:27.628 --> 00:43:31.231
That's not an accident.
00:43:31.231 --> 00:43:33.767
That is actually god's way
00:43:33.767 --> 00:43:36.570
Of helping us to step out of our problem.
00:43:36.570 --> 00:43:41.141
To step out of our yesterday,
00:43:41.141 --> 00:43:44.078
To let go of that, not live in the rearview mirror
00:43:44.078 --> 00:43:48.849
Of how it was and,
00:43:48.849 --> 00:43:50.617
You know, holly,
00:43:50.617 --> 00:43:51.251
You're talking
00:43:51.251 --> 00:43:52.453
About empty nesters or you're talking about other people
00:43:52.453 --> 00:43:55.723
And how they're doing it.
00:43:55.723 --> 00:43:56.890
And what i've learned this year in particular is that
00:43:56.890 --> 00:44:00.594
I need to set people free around me
00:44:00.594 --> 00:44:03.430
And to make their own choices and then to honor them.
00:44:03.430 --> 00:44:08.168
Maybe there's new family traditions
00:44:08.168 --> 00:44:11.171
That can come into place,
00:44:11.171 --> 00:44:12.940
But i've got to be willing to let go,
00:44:12.940 --> 00:44:15.776
Not look in the rearview mirror, not try to reconstitute
00:44:15.776 --> 00:44:20.214
It the way it used to be, but instead look for that truth.
00:44:20.214 --> 00:44:24.418
Sometimes i
00:44:24.418 --> 00:44:25.652
Feel like we get so sentimental about kind of what was done
00:44:25.652 --> 00:44:28.555
Or how we might have handled
00:44:28.555 --> 00:44:30.491
Things, or it's like it's time for how.
00:44:30.491 --> 00:44:32.359
So-and-so did it. right.
00:44:32.359 --> 00:44:34.161
Said it's okay to start fresh traditions.
00:44:34.161 --> 00:44:36.797
Brand new, you.
00:44:36.797 --> 00:44:37.865
Know, do something different and and to your point,
00:44:37.865 --> 00:44:40.267
You know question you ask laurie about that
00:44:40.267 --> 00:44:42.436
The shame right someone so you know that would just be
00:44:42.436 --> 00:44:45.272
My encouragement is don't let the shame of your past
00:44:45.272 --> 00:44:48.475
Keep you isolated
00:44:48.909 --> 00:44:50.978
Because one day you're going to use what you went through.
00:44:50.978 --> 00:44:53.347
Yeah.
00:44:53.347 --> 00:44:54.214
That the trauma that you experienced,
00:44:54.214 --> 00:44:55.783
The sins you committed and turned from,
00:44:55.783 --> 00:44:57.651
You're going to use all of that to help someone else. yes.
00:44:57.651 --> 00:45:00.087
So don't let the shame of your past
00:45:00.087 --> 00:45:01.955
Keeps on giving somebody else a future. right.
00:45:01.955 --> 00:45:04.358
Because you sharing that at some point is
00:45:04.358 --> 00:45:07.394
Actually what's going to open somebody else to freedom.
00:45:07.394 --> 00:45:10.397
So do not let the enemy keep you so bound
00:45:10.397 --> 00:45:14.301
And trapped in shame that you isolate yourself.
00:45:14.301 --> 00:45:17.671
Don't do that.
00:45:17.671 --> 00:45:18.472
Jesus blood was was for you, too.
00:45:18.472 --> 00:45:20.741
Yeah. it's interesting.
00:45:20.741 --> 00:45:22.242
I crept into the studio the other day.
00:45:22.242 --> 00:45:24.244
Matt laurie.
00:45:24.244 --> 00:45:25.078
We're recording a couple of programs
00:45:25.078 --> 00:45:26.180
And i snuck in and i was listening.
00:45:26.180 --> 00:45:28.015
And you were interviewing dr. robert jeffress,
00:45:28.015 --> 00:45:30.050
And he said something that really impacted me.
00:45:30.050 --> 00:45:32.319
It talks about that
00:45:32.319 --> 00:45:33.353
When we ask for forgiveness, our sin is moved,
00:45:33.353 --> 00:45:35.355
Removed as far as the east is from the west.
00:45:35.355 --> 00:45:37.491
And he said, have you ever wondered
00:45:37.491 --> 00:45:38.559
Why it's not the north of the south?
00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:40.761
And he said, because if you start off
00:45:40.761 --> 00:45:42.062
In dallas and you head north, eventually
00:45:42.062 --> 00:45:44.264
You'll get to the north pole.
00:45:44.264 --> 00:45:45.432
You can pop in and say hi to santa,
00:45:45.432 --> 00:45:47.568
But after that you're going south.
00:45:47.568 --> 00:45:49.837
But if you start to go to the east, you're never going away.
00:45:49.837 --> 00:45:53.373
You never it's
00:45:53.373 --> 00:45:54.441
You continue all the way around the globe.
00:45:54.441 --> 00:45:56.510
And so that's that's how far
00:45:56.510 --> 00:45:59.079
That your sins have been removed.
00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:00.781
When you've asked for forgiveness,
00:46:00.781 --> 00:46:02.583
You don't the anybody would love to drag it back up again.
00:46:02.583 --> 00:46:04.785
A sin is our own self condemnation,
00:46:04.785 --> 00:46:07.087
But it says that he removes our sun as far as the east
00:46:07.087 --> 00:46:10.290
Is from the west and he remembers it no more.
00:46:10.290 --> 00:46:13.493
You are free.
00:46:13.861 --> 00:46:15.095
That's what grace is all about.
00:46:15.095 --> 00:46:16.697
And that's what's what christmas is about.
00:46:16.697 --> 00:46:18.465
Yes, that's. right.
00:46:18.465 --> 00:46:19.700
That he came into the middle of our darkness and our failures
00:46:19.700 --> 00:46:23.270
And our weaknesses and said, peace.
00:46:23.270 --> 00:46:26.206
Yeah, yeah.
00:46:26.206 --> 00:46:27.274
See, jesus,
00:46:27.274 --> 00:46:28.442
When jesus came, he came as the king of the world.
00:46:28.442 --> 00:46:31.478
Yes, right. with a kingdom.
00:46:31.478 --> 00:46:34.448
And that set the whole new covenant that we live under.
00:46:34.448 --> 00:46:38.785
Sacrifices were no longer needed because he was the lamb slain
00:46:38.785 --> 00:46:44.925
From the
00:46:45.192 --> 00:46:46.126
Foundation of the world to pay the price.
00:46:46.126 --> 00:46:48.896
And so he takes that sin consciousness.
00:46:48.896 --> 00:46:51.765
So we shouldn't be thinking about all the sins
00:46:51.765 --> 00:46:54.635
We've committed because his blood paid for that.
00:46:54.635 --> 00:46:58.906
So it's not what you've done, it's what jesus has done.
00:46:58.906 --> 00:47:03.911
And he's come to establish this beautiful kingdom here on earth
00:47:03.911 --> 00:47:07.247
That we get to live in
00:47:07.247 --> 00:47:08.582
This righteousness, this peace and this joy that is ours
00:47:08.582 --> 00:47:12.920
If we'll live and it's available for us.
00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:15.656
Yeah.
00:47:15.889 --> 00:47:16.590
And i think i think as we start
00:47:16.590 --> 00:47:19.293
Learning about stuff like that and learning the concepts
00:47:19.293 --> 00:47:22.796
Of what we truly are, who we are in christ,
00:47:22.796 --> 00:47:27.200
That he's not coming back to rescue us yet again.
00:47:27.200 --> 00:47:31.238
He already did that right?
00:47:31.238 --> 00:47:33.340
He made god move once.
00:47:33.340 --> 00:47:35.342
He already. did.
00:47:35.342 --> 00:47:36.276
Really big and it was called the cross.
00:47:36.276 --> 00:47:38.845
Or something that really helps me
00:47:39.579 --> 00:47:41.348
Is that i have gone to retreats and we've done an exercise
00:47:41.348 --> 00:47:46.420
And we've walked to a cross
00:47:46.420 --> 00:47:49.856
And we've gotten under the cross and stood there
00:47:49.856 --> 00:47:54.895
And said, jesus, here i am.
00:47:54.895 --> 00:47:59.032
And laurie, what he did for me, even as a grown woman,
00:47:59.032 --> 00:48:03.670
An adult christian, because i recognized maybe
00:48:03.670 --> 00:48:07.341
For the first time that god only sees me
00:48:07.341 --> 00:48:11.445
Like you're seen through the blood of jesus.
00:48:11.445 --> 00:48:15.582
So i may never be perfect, but he is already perfect.
00:48:15.582 --> 00:48:21.254
And that's the only way god even sees me
00:48:21.254 --> 00:48:24.691
Sitting here right now through jesus blood.
00:48:24.691 --> 00:48:28.862
It is the cross that changes everything.
00:48:28.862 --> 00:48:32.232
Yeah.
00:48:32.232 --> 00:48:33.667
Everything.
00:48:34.001 --> 00:48:35.168
And i'm so thankful that i'm never going to be enough.
00:48:35.168 --> 00:48:39.072
I can let go and we can let go of the idea
00:48:39.072 --> 00:48:42.976
That i can't do it because he has already done it
00:48:42.976 --> 00:48:46.747
Like you're saying.
00:48:46.747 --> 00:48:47.647
I love the fact that we'll never be judged
00:48:47.647 --> 00:48:49.416
By the last thing that we do or judged by the last thing that.
00:48:49.416 --> 00:48:52.886
That jesus did. oh, my gosh thing.
00:48:52.886 --> 00:48:54.888
Yeah.
00:48:54.888 --> 00:48:55.856
It's just that when he said it is finished,
00:48:55.856 --> 00:48:57.391
Bill paid in full freedom and the kingdom of god
00:48:57.391 --> 00:49:01.128
Said, wouldn't it be wonderful that.
00:49:01.128 --> 00:49:02.496
But why don't we pray for our viewers?
00:49:02.496 --> 00:49:04.164
That's for those who are watching. and just
00:49:04.164 --> 00:49:06.666
To say, we just want to lift you up.
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If you feel like you're alone right now, you're not alone.
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You're part of this family here. yeah.
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How did this matter together? family?
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Part of the tbn. family.
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Part of the family of god, part of the church of jesus christ.
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So i'd like to pray for you.
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And then john, read the scripture before we pray.
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I would. love that. okay.
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That's for unto us, a child is born unto us.
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A son is given,
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And the government will be upon his shoulder
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And his name will be called wonderful counselor, mighty god,
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Everlasting father, prince of peace.
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That's who we're praying to you.
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Let's pray.
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Father. god, we just.
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We come to you now in the powerful name.
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Jesus christ.
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We're overwhelmed at the sacrifice
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That he made for us.
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We're overwhelmed that you provided a way
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That we could know you,
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That we could be known fully known as fully loved.
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And lord, as four sisters here today,
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We're going to pray for every single person who's watching,
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For those who feel alone,
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That they would suddenly realize they're not alone,
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That we're part of we're part of your kingdom.
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We're part of the body of christ, part of your church.
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For those who feel sad because of loss during this season,
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I pray that you would bring the comfort
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That comes from your holy spirit,
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That you would just breathe
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Peace for those who need healing.
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Lord,
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We ask in jesus name
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That you would touch their lives right now
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From the top of their head to the bottom of their feet.
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Wherever there is a need, the lord jesus
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That you would bring healing.
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If you bring holiness and you would bring hope.
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Where there's been condemnation from the enemy.
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We pray that the life
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That you've given us in your work speak as father.
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I pray that
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Even as we contemplate moving into a new year,
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That we would understand who we are in here,
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That this would be a year of moving it to trust,
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A year of open windows, where we would see with eyes
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That are not dictated by the things
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That are going on around us or in the news,
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But that we would find our map, in your words,
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That we would find our companionship
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And your holy spirit, that we would find our hope in your son
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And it would find our joy and be part of your family.
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We pray for your anointing and blessing to follow
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Each home, for each prison cell, for each forever.
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People are watching this make your peace fall upon us.
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Hope has come.
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Jesus has come.
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Joy to the world to
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Thank you, father.
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I just i,
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I pray for those who are just in fearful situations
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Where just the outcome seems very unclear.
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And i think that as the prince
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Of peace that you will invade, that situations,
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You know the names, you know, you know who they are.
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And i think you spirit of god, that you will be present
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Filling each one with your peace, that
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That fear won't be what's overtaking
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But peace, the peace that passes all understanding.
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And there would be people around them
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Questioning how can you have peace,
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But because they know you, they'll have peace.
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And so i just pray
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For that peace.
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And i just remind
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The spirit of fear to go in jesus name, in jesus name,
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That the king of kings is greater than fear.
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Thank you.
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I thank you, god for peace, filling every viewer
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Just a fresh sense of peace.
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Thank you.
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Thank. thank you.
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You know, that's a new year.
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You know, what really happens is
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It's a it's a fresh start
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In so many ways, but yet it's just the next day to.
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Right.
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And so the problems
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That maybe you have today, tomorrow might still be there.
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But but with god, when he says
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My mercy is new every morning,
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Every day that you wake up can start, you start over.
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You get the opportunity to trust and believe.
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To believe god is with you.
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God is for you.
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There's nothing.
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If god is for you, who can be against you?
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No one.
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And so all the things
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That we go through in life, all the opportunities
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That we get to believe god and to believe well into things,
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There's
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So many people going through through things.
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My i have my little auntie and
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She's she's wanting to make a move
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And she's by herself, you know,
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And she's got i problems that she needs to get.
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And she's got a shoulder operation and she's got it all.
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And one other major thing i forget before
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And before she can leave phenix, you know, and she's by herself
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And it's just like, what do i do?
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What can i can i help her?
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You know?
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But god has a peace and she walks in this peace.
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Beautiful.
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That just that that is just kind of shocking to all of us.
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And so that's what we get to live as believers.
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We we get to believe well, we get to stand firm in our
00:54:48.308 --> 00:54:52.645
Faith and watch god do wonderful things for us and give us,
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You know, good, good
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Things from the doctor.
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That report, you know.
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But i just want you to know that you have a family here.
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Our better together friends and our family here
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Is just amazing.
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And we have an amazing producer.
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Her name is lauran holton, and she's standing right over there.
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And god, she has just been such a gift from god to us.
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And we pray for you. and we we pray. for you.
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Get your questions and and pray for you.
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And there is such power in prayer that when we
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When we all agree together, there's
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Nothing like it in the world.
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And so we always want to add our faith to yours
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And we bless you this christmas season.
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I pray your families are blessed this year.
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I pray that your families are blessed
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Even this christmas season, and that you will see
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God's faithfulness in ways you never dreamed possible.
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I pray that he exceeds your expectation
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Because he does that all the time.
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Exceedingly, abundantly.
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Above all, we could ask, pray, or even hope for.
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That's what god can do.
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And god will do that for you.
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He's no respecter of person and we love you.
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We love you for being a part of this big, beautiful world
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Of faith in christ as christ followers.
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God bless you.
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We send all of our love to you today.
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Merry christmas and we love you.
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Holly Wagner & Robyn Wilkerson: Better Together on Praise | Praise

December 9, 2024 | 56:29

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