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Zac & Jennie Allen: Gather 25 | Praise

February 4, 2025 | 53:30

Matt and Laurie Crouch welcome Zac and Jennie Allen to share their God-inspired vision of uniting the global Church through their upcoming event, Gather25.

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Praise | Zac & Jennie Allen: Gather 25 | Praise | February 4, 2025

Coming up
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Tonight on praise...
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The darkness is not scary to god.
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The darkness is redeemable.
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The darkness is the story that god has always moved
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In from genesis one.
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So when it is dark and i'm not acting like it
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Isn't, and these countries that we're
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Going to show so much hope, the reason that
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Revival is happening is because we're desperate.
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♪♪
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Tonight on praise from dallas, faith leaders,
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Church visionaries and devoted husband and wife,
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Zac and jennie allen. and now your hosts,
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Matt and laurie crouch.
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You know what?
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I used to start thinking gather 25 was a long ways
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Away, and then i realized it's 2025, gather 25 is
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Around the corner.
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Here we are.
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Good lord.
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The last time i even remember sitting and
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Thinking about this, i felt, man, it's so far
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Away that we got all this time to plan.
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And it is upon us.
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It's upon us.
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Gather 25, we're going to get into that.
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Jennie and zac, for one hour. you and i, all of
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Us have something in common.
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A beautiful old timer's, with the lord.
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Now, bill bright,
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Campus crusade for christ now referred to as crew,
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I produced his tv show for nine years and bill
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And vonette were just dear to us.
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They were like grandparents to laurie and
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I, and every time i was around him, i got a
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Sense i was a part of a grand winning team and
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There's this hope that would fill the room.
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There's hope nationally
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It feels like in the united states of america
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That's permeating, and there's just the
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Timing for this seems like it's just been
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Divinely inspired.
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Like momentum.
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There's a momentum, a wind in the sail
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Kind of thing.
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So let's talk about hope.
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Let's talk about, let's goodness, let's talk
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About, we are 2025 now.
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You guys, we want to mention a big event
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That's coming to trinity.
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It's the if gathering or gather 25.
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We're going to be broadcasting it in
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February and march and we are going to
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Talk more about it.
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A lot of the information will be on the screen,
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But start with just kind of the sense that god's
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In this thing.
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The timing's right, there's enthusiasm there.
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Hope.
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How do you want to open this up?
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Well, let me just start by saying what it is,
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Just so there's context.
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We are going live from the united states of
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America and moving to all six continents.
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We're still looking for somebody in antarctica,
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But six continents.
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We have seven events telling the stories of
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What god is doing on earth and we're going to
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Hear the best teaching from each continent, have
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Cultural worship from each continent.
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And here's what's going to happen is everyone's
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Going to be leaning forward and realize
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Exactly what bill bright said.
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We are a part of a ginormous, beautiful,
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Healthy, robust, reviving church.
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It is so fun to be on this team.
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I have gone all over the world and everywhere i go
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I get within one minute, two minutes, i get hugs
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From my african brothers and sisters because we're
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Just a big family, and it is such an encouraging
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Thing to remember that the church isn't dying.
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The church is thriving and we're seeing that all
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Over the place right now.
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I see it and i know we've come out of a season
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Of discouragement.
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I've been discouraged and so many of us have.
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I remember when i sit down with my dad,
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He's so afraid.
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He's so afraid that he's going to leave the world
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Not in a better state for his grandkids and his
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Great grandkids.
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He thinks about that all the time and i sometimes
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Just grab him and i'm like, dad, no. god is
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Still moving and he is doing amazing things
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Right now.
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We are certainly looking at a special decade.
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We've all seen just a momentum, the church even
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In the us recently, and we're looking at a moment
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Where resources and technology and all these
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Things we're able to do things we've never been
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Able to do before.
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So i'm incredibly hopeful.
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I'm excited that the church for 25 hours isn't
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Going to fight.
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We're just going to come together. love on each other.
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And worship god and celebrate what he's doing
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Because there is so, so much to celebrate.
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I love the scriptures that we were even talking
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About yesterday.
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You're going to have to help me, on praise
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Yesterday about his kingdom came as a seed.
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It says this kingdom is everlasting.
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It's growing.
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What were some of those scriptures?
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Well, out of daniel, out of daniel, the dream,
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Nebuchadnezzar's dream and about the head of
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Gold and chest of silver.
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And then you get on down to the feet of the iron,
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Of iron and clay and then a rock crushes that and
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It's an everlasting.
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And that rock builds to its a mountain that
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Never ends,
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So it's never ends.
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It's a prophet, jesus's story.
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So we went from 12 disciples to 2 billion
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Christians. 2.5 billion, and gorowing.
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Here we are, and growing, and we lose sight of
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That sometimes. we do.
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And our common kind of let's say heritage of
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Knowing bill bright, he was infectious.
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He was.
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And every time we were creating a broadcast with
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Him or for him, and i did a lot of producing for
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Him, it was always you felt better about knowing
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What the information that you got because there is
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A big winning team and we're a part of it.
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I mean, everyone likes to win.
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I know.
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And there's going to be so much winning, they're
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Going to get tired of winning.
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And that is ultimately kind of the through line
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Of what we're going to be chatting about.
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But again, at some point you have to, there is a
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Time when testimonies need to be told and there
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Are voices that we're gathering,
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Gather 25, and tbn is going to play a role in kind of,
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You're doing this big 24 hour event.
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We're going to grab and summarize and deploy, and
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We're going to get to see all of this again.
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How it's going to be seen is all on the screen and
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There'll be spots running.
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But we're going to kick it off with four hours
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Live right here on tbn on february 8th at
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Eight o'clock eastern.
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So the praise program on february 28th this year
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Will be coming from a big local church
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In dallas. watermark church.
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What do you kind of attribute this overall
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Sense of hope?
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I mean, we saw an election. maybe you noticed
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That in news. it happened.
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It's been in the news.
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Yeah, it already happened.
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And so there's been this bit of an election thing,
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But at some point that's one little sphere.
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The church is a global entity with assets that dwarfs
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The united states of america's economy.
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It really is a thing.
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And if we could just gather together, but this
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Is a special time. why don't you preach to us
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For a little bit about it?
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Yeah, so first of all, there are
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Certainly struggles.
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I mean i'm seeing it in my own life and my
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Kids' lives.
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Discouragement, loneliness, anxiety.
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I mean this is a part of the story as well.
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So i don't want to miss that.
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We have been in a mental health crisis
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Coming out of covid.
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People feel completely overwhelmed.
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And so that is so real and i don't want to act
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Like this is a fake or naive hope.
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This is a hope that i'm actually seeing move
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Into the darkness.
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The darkness is not scary to god.
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The darkness is redeemable.
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The darkness is the story that god has always moved
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In from genesis one.
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When you think about the very first verse, it's
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Like the dark,
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He moved into the darkness. the light broke
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Through the darkness.
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So when it is dark, and i'm not acting like it
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Isn't. it's dark, and these countries that we're
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Going to show so much hope, we're going to show
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Revival happening.
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The reason in all of these places, including
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My own life, including the ministries i'm
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Involved in here, the reason that revival is
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Happening is because we're desperate and
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There's something about desperation that is so
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Pleasing to god.
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And so i just have learned not to fear it.
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I think about my little buddy that came up to me
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Recently on a college campus.
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We were on a secular campus and he said,
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Jennie, i want you to know two years ago i confessed
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My sin when you asked me to and i was
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Dealing drugs.
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And i stopped.
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I didn't even go back to my campus.
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And now two years later i'm going into ministry
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And i'm like, that kid had everything.
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He had money, he had prestige on his campus,
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He had everything, but he was so unhappy.
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And i think that's so many of us.
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I think so many of us, it's like why am
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I not happy?
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I feel like i have all the things i need or
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Maybe i'm going through something difficult, but
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I've seen other people go through difficult things
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And they're finding joy still.
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Where is that for me?
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Why does god not feel close to me?
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And i would just say that is a precious place to be.
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In that place of wanting every person jesus
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Touched when he was walking through the
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Streets, he was looking for the people that
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Needed him, that needed healing, that needed hope.
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So before-- we will, we talk about all the hope.
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And i mean i have chills thinking about it because
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I feel like i'm this girl and we are this couple
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That god has allowed to sit on the front row of
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Everything god is doing right now.
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We just had this view and i bet bill felt the same
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Way, and i know y'all feel the same way.
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We just get this view and this perspective.
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And so i was a cheerleader in college.
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No, no, i know.
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It's shocking.
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Big reveal.
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Shocking.
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So i feel like that's my role right now on earth
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Is just to be the girl that says, hey guys, it
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Is not despairing.
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It is dark, but it is not despairing.
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And when it is dark, god loves to bring light and
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He's doing it.
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We are going to show in these 25 hours, we are
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Going to show revival happening on every continent.
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That's beautiful.
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And it is usually happening with young
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People, which is a miracle.
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And it's so funny because i've been with these
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Leaders that are experiencing this and
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I've been on college campuses that i'm
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Experiencing revival and they're coming to jesus,
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They're getting baptized, they're giving their
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Lives away to god.
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They're truly surrendering their lives.
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And then i go over to liberia and he's like,
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Me too.
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Same, same.
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Everybody's really experiencing this moment.
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And so i don't think the world knows.
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I think just like my dad, i think so many people
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Listening right now, they don't know.
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They're listening to me going, i don't believe it.
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And we're going to show it because they're
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Worried about their great grandkids and they're
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Worried about the future
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They're leaving in the church and for their kids.
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And so there is a lot to be hopeful for, but i
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Think we forget-- and let's be fair, the news inundates
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Us with so much negativity, we miss the
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Good stories.
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You can always tell a podcaster, right?
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Because they say listeners,
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They're actually viewers. watchers.
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But i love what you talk about.
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God always worked with nothing.
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He loved nothing.
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He loved emptiness.
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He loved void.
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He loved darkness
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Because then he could make something amazing
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Out of it.
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And i think sharing the testimonies and to be
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Able to see something that we've felt was lost
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Because you kind of hear on the news and things
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Like how the church is disintegrating here in
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America and the pastors kind of falling away.
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I think that's just all a big setup for something
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Amazing that god is going to do because it's not
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About any of us.
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It's about god and showing these testimonies.
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I love to hear what god is doing around the world
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Because it does bring hope.
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It does give you that little oomph to go, yeah,
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There is a great big family of god all over
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The world.
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God is moving around the world.
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It's not something that we can look out our door
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And just see what our neighborhood looks like.
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There might be despair and stuff in there, but
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If we get our eyes a different perspective
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That brings hope, that brings life, that
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Changes, then what i feel like that changes then
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What i go and do in my neighborhood
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And your community.
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And that grows.
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And i think god loves that.
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God loves that despair.
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God loves that emptiness, that dissatisfaction.
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He takes all of that and fills us up.
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That's what he wants to do.
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♪♪
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Imagine
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If the 2.5 billion followers of jesus on the
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Earth right now joined together for one global
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Gathering with one goal, to go and make disciples
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Of all people.
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What you're imagining is a sacred meeting unlike
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Any other in history.
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What you're imagining is gather 25. from every
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Continent and culture,
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Jesus followers are coming together in the
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Year 2025 for prayer, worship, repentance and
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Commissioning. connected live from africa and
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Australia, from europe and asia, from north and
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South america an unprecedented gathering
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Across every time zone,
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Gather 25 is free to everyone everywhere.
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And it won't be a gathering of the global
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Church without you.
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Your community, your congregation, your
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Pastors and leaders from every state,
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From every nation.
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This is our moment of history to come together
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And to carry forth the gospel to every person
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On the earth.
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This is an invitation to every follower of jesus.
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This is gather 25.
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Watch live friday, february 28th, starting
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At 8:00 pm eastern on tbn and tbn+.
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We're in dallas, texas.
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Zac and jenni,.
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There could be some people going,
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I recognize her voice.
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Is that jennie?
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Yeah, that's jennie.
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And these if gatherings. well, if kind of grew and
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Turned into this gather 25 thing that we're
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Talking about.
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But before we keep going down the same railroad
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Track, i'm going to ask you guys something.
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Where do you guys come from?
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Tell your story.
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Wind back.
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Where'd you meet zac?
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Were you the quarterback and she was the--
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Football player.
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He was.
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That's a good guess.
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He was.
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We're such a cliche.
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Let him know.
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Let's kind of wind the clock back and get behind
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The scenes a touch because oftentimes
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There's just a story behind the story that
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Leads to these big events.
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What's your kind of backstory?
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Yeah.
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Well, i'm the son of a legendary texas high
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School football coach.
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And so winning games was what paid his paycheck
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And so competing at the highest level.
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But my dad loves jesus and my greatest memories
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With my dad were praying with him before games in
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Front of odessa, permian, biggest games, 20,000
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People in the stands.
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And he would pray for god's will over victory.
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And so my parents poured jesus into me and i
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Walked with him in high school.
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And then jennie and i met at a summer camp while we
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Were in college.
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We fell in love.
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We could not get through college without
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Getting married.
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I was playing football.
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Yes, i was a college quarterback at a little
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School in east tennessee.
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She moved there.
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She gave up all of her broadcast journalism
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Career and aspirations to go change the hill at
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Washington, washington dc,
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And we lived in married student housing in
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Jefferson city, tennessee and started life together.
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And we both were walking with jesus and we knew we
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Wanted to do ministry with life, with our lives.
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And i knew the gifts of my wife were really
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Unique, but i had no clue at that time how god
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Would use it.
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And where did if come from?
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Yeah, so i remember being in my home with three
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Little kids and i, it was the middle of the night
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And i had this dream about gathering.
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This is crazy to think about now.
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Today. it was--
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What timeframe are we
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Talking about?
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I just turned 30, so this was over 15 years ago and
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I was not writing, i was leading bible studies
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In my home.
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That's what i was doing.
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And i had little kids.
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I didn't have a blog.
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I didn't have a platform.
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We were pastoring a church.
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We had planted a church in austin and she was a
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Pastor's wife of three
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Little kids. a church plant in a cafeteria.
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And so i am sitting there and these are the words
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That god gave me on my 30th birthday.
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It was the night i turned 30.
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This is wild to say
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Now, disciple a generation.
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And i remember i wrote the words down and i felt so
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Heavy about them because i was like, how would a
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Stay at home mom with a church plant in a
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Cafeteria with three little kids disciple
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A generation?
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How would that ever happen?
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So that night i went out with my friends and i
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Remember-- i haven't told this story in so long.
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I remember saying it out loud.
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I was so heavy, i was teary.
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I was like, what do i do with this?
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And they said, jennie, if this is from god,
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He will do it.
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And that was good news for me.
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I actually, as ambitious as i look with
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All of these beautiful, amazing things that have
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Happened, i really like just my normal life.
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And so i was like, great, i will let him do it.
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And sure enough, it would be five years later
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Before my bible studies people were trying to
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Publish 'em and they were spreading and they were
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Being sent all over and it just took on a life
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Of its own.
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And so if gathering was honestly an answer to
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That word that night because i was given the
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Moon in publishing.
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I mean i still didn't have a platform, but
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Thomas nelson and huge publisher, he just said,
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They said, we're going to publish you.
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Your bible says your books, everything.
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And i was like, i don't even know if i write
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Books, i don't know what i'm doing.
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And that was over, gosh, now 12, 13 years ago.
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But when i look back at that time, i knew it was
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Never about me.
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I knew it wasn't about my publishing.
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I knew it was about us working together, about
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The church coming together.
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When the words disciple a generation, that was
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So big to me.
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I mean i couldn't have imagined.
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But then i looked today technology i couldn't
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Have imagined back then, none of us could
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Have, the capacity.
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And so if gathering started when i just asked
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All my friends to be with me, to not just each of
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Us live on our island and build our own careers,
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Our ministries, but to really build the
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Kingdom together.
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And so we offered if gathering, pay what you
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Can, gather also is completely free.
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So there was a lot of risk involved and god
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Provided, ang all over the world, women gathered.
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And so gather 25 is now, i mean again, i still
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Didn't plan it.
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It came again from a dream where i woke up and
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I dreamed that jesus was coming back in 10 years.
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And i don't know, that's no announcement.
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I have no idea when he'll come back.
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But the urgency it put in me to be faithful with
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What i've been given, and i had been given a
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Ministry that reached the world.
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We reached 179 countries with if gathering.
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We had women leaders all over the world.
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And so when i woke up, i thought if jesus were
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Coming back soon, we should gather the
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Whole church.
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And it was just a random thought.
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It didn't stress me out, which-- random thought.
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I know. people think that and have those thoughts
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All the time.
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I know. let's gather the whole global church.
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I know, and it should have scared the tar out of me.
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And if i knew what i knew today, it would've.
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But that day i just woke up and i have been the
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Girl that has found myself, like so many of us,
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I'm lucy on the back of the lion.
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I don't know where we're going, but i listen and i
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Say yes, and he's provided.
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And in saying yes to him over and over again, he
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Has always been faithful and he has done more than
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I can ask or imagine.
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And so i am the girl that says yes.
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And then i tell everybody else, you should say yes too.
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Because if we all say yes, if every person just
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Said, i will do whatever god calls me to do in my
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Place, those 5.5 billion people that don't know
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God, i think that's how everything changes.
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I was in a meeting with bishop charles blake and
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We were just getting ready to leave.
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We were heading over to do an event with
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Andre crouch.
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This is years ago.
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And i gave laurie the ticket for the car to go
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Out and we were at a hotel and a big ballroom
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And bishop charles blake and i was having to say
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Some final thing to some technical guys.
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We were getting ready to do a remote over at and
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Crouch's church and i am leaving and charles blake
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Is at the microphone and he yells out from behind.
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I wasn't looking at him, i was leaving.
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Now i'm through the doors of the ballroom into the
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Lobby almost where i can see where laurie is to
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Get the car.
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And he yells out, if your vision isn't big enough,
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God will diminish your resources so that he'll
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Get the glory.
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And i mean, i froze in my tracks and i remember
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Thinking that's the secret to life is to say
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Yes to something you can't possibly do.
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Right?
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It's the secret.
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So when jennie shares this vision with me, my
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Response is this is either arrogant, this is
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Foolish, or this is of god.
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And i processed this starting with arrogance.
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Jennie's courageous and she's bold and she's full
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Of faith, but she's not ambitious and she knew
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This was a dream from god.
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This is not so-- i'm not looking for something
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Else to do.
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I've got a full plate of ministry.
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Or is it foolish?
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So she starts talking to other people, trusted
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Advisors, you guys.
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Yeah.
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Early on. god's given this to me.
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I always say, yes,
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Yes, let's do it.
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Foolish.
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Yes, foolish.
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I wasn't any help by the way, i always say yes.
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Nobody shut it down.
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Yeah, we got
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A lot of yeses. a lot of yeses and a lot of
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Partner organizations almost to the person said
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Not just, yes, it's not foolish, but let's go.
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What can i do?
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I thought you were going to say he-- yes.
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Yeah, i was afraid that you were--
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The coach in me would want to do that.
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But they just affirmed that this is of god as
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Big and crazy as it has been.
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And as a husband watching this every day and
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Watching my wife, what it did not produce in
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My wife was anxiety.
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It actually was,
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She was peaceful.
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She was given the dream and she sat on it.
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Actually, she went into sabbatical after
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Receiving the dream again, trusting that god
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Would do it
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If this was of him. and it produced peace in her.
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He will get it done.
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Well, the reason it produces peace is because
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He's basically asked me to play for the nba.
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And i am a girl that his wife that lives in-- blonde
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Hair-- he's asked me to do the impossible.
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And so what are you going to do?
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It's like, do i show up and play?
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Okay, i'll show up and play.
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I mean, i don't know why they would want me in the
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Nba, but okay.
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And so i think the gap is so big that it's
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Almost fun.
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It's almost fun to just go, god, you got to do it.
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The kingdom is righteousness, peace and
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Joy in the holy ghost.
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So whatever you do, if you're going to be
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Thinking about being a emissary of god's
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Kingdom, whatever you do, it could be anything.
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Whatever god calls you to do, you have to go in the
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Right attitude.
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So righteousness, peace and joy is the attitude
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That he can work through.
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So it's not what he does for you, it's what he
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Does through you that matters.
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And making space for him by saying yes to an
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Impossible thing.
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I think of my mom and dad, lord have mercy.
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We have 17 language networks on anywhere
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There's electricity in the world.
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And it started with one little tv station.
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They just said, yes. the lord said, i've released
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You from your work here. they were working for
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Somebody else, and they quit.
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And a few months later, the lord gave a specific
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Wordm call a businessman, call angel lerma.
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And he called angel lerma exactly as he left a
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Business meeting where he just voted to sell the
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Station and then god had to do miracles for the
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Money to get it.
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But that all happened in the last five minutes of,
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So 7 million miracles later,
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We sit here today, 52 years later and here
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We are.
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But that's what god wants to do for anybody.
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For everybody.
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The kingdom of god is righteousness,
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Peace and joy.
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I'm going to give you an assignment.
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I am going to do it through you. just
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Surrender, surrender to me.
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So fun. relax and surrender and rest in
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Productivity.
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The peaceful productivity of rest in knowing that
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God is going to do something and be
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Expectant of him doing something exciting today.
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I know. and he does it.
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He doesn't need us to really--
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No. we do our thing.
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I think when we surrender to the will of god, we
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Automatically do what we're called to do.
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I think it's that.
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I actually think it's that simple.
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We did a movie years ago on the book of esther.
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So when you do a movie about esther, you meet a
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Whole bunch of people that really care
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About that book.
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That's the one thing you need to know.
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You got to be careful with that one.
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And you meet
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A whole lot of esthers.
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Yeah, you meet a whole bunch of esters and you
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End up kind of realizing when i finally found a
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Jewish scholar that started breaking down
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What the rabbinical writings are about, what
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The point of the book of esther is is it's a very
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Specific book that god's name's not mentioned in
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To remind the jews that he's always working on
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Your behalf behind the scenes.
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So good.
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So that's the whole book of esther there to know
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That you'll be placed before kings and in these
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Very important assignments, but you're
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To know that god's doing all the work
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Behind the scenes.
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That's the whole grasp of the book of esther.
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And that got pounded into us by many women that
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Care about that book and the idea that stands out
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The most so far.
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You're a stay-at-home mom with three kids.
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You're planting a church in cafeteria and you seem
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To get this generational vision.
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So that's connecting to anybody watching right now.
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Talk to them for a second about that moment.
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Go back to that moment when there was nothing
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Going on.
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Go back to that moment.
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That's that's important.
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I think what's helpful for the context of since
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You were 17, you always had a group of women, a
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Group of girls that you were discipling
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In your home.
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That's what i did.
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Still what i do,
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But you controlled that and you never allowed,
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Even maybe knowing the gifts that you had, you
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Didn't allow that to go beyond the living room to
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Maybe use those gifts more publicly.
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I got you.
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That's part of what changed after this vision.
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But i also just believe in the faithfulness
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Of people.
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I think about all of you out there right now
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Watching and going, god's never going to give me a
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Dream like that.
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First of all, you don't know.
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I certainly would've expected it, but i also
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Think he's in the business of helping us
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Jump off cliffs and he will have you jump off
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A cliff.
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I've watched my kids do it when they jump off a
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Little cliff.
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They are so scared.
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The first time they ever did it, i will never
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Forget it.
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It was like a rock.
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It wasn't very big at all.
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And they're all standing over.
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It took them forever, but then they did it
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And they loved it.
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And then they wanted to go up higher and they
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Wanted to go up higher.
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And finally i was like, no, you've got to stop.
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They weren't afraid anymore.
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And i think that's how god works is he will have
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You take a risk.
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And so i just even think about this huge group
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Project with gather 25, you could have some
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People over in your living room. all of us
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Hosting around the world.
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The way it is happening, there's over 10,000
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Events happening.
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The way it's happening is ordinary people saying,
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Okay, i'll be brave.
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I don't know what this is, but i'll invite my
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Friends or i'll tell my pastor, or we'll have
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Something in our church.
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And all of these people have just said, yes,
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10,000 of them around the world.
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And so when you think of each person saying yes in
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Their place and they invite a few people, that
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Is how the church gathers.
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It's not tbn, it's not gather.
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It's you.
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It's you and your places.
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But that's just a start.
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And what will happen is you'll say yes.
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And just like so many of my friends that hosted if
00:31:17.899 --> 00:31:20.401
Gathering in idaho or uganda, all of a sudden
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Now they're leading huge ministries because
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It just grew.
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And i think that's what you've got to realize is
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People actually want god.
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People are craving hope.
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They are craving god.
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And when you go into the world believing that, you
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Invite people into the faith that you have and
00:31:39.620 --> 00:31:43.091
The hope that you have, they're so grateful.
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They're so grateful.
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And i'm not saying every time, but guys, i just
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Think we are in a moment where that hope is best
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Told through each of you, through every single one
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Of you in your places.
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We do our jobs on a big scale that god's called us to.
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And that's part of the domino that is falling
00:32:02.910 --> 00:32:04.779
Into your life right now.
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But you are the domino that is supposed to fall
00:32:06.848 --> 00:32:08.950
Into other people's lives.
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And so we all share the same purpose.
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I don't think of it as big and small.
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I think of it as the same story that your dad did
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With angel the day he obeyed.
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He had no idea the repercussions.
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I think of the story of the shoe salesman that
00:32:20.628 --> 00:32:23.031
Shared jesus with dl moody.
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He had no idea the repercussions of that.
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If each of us just takes our place in the story,
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That is the heart of gather is that the church
00:32:29.670 --> 00:32:31.773
Would be commissioned to reach every person with a
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Love of jesus.
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Not that this would be a big show or a big event,
00:32:35.610 --> 00:32:38.846
But that each of us would realize, oh gosh, i'm a
00:32:38.846 --> 00:32:41.182
Part of a team.
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It's winning.
00:32:42.283 --> 00:32:43.451
I don't want to miss that.
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I hope we all have fomo after this, that we just
00:32:45.086 --> 00:32:47.588
All feel like i want to be a part of the
00:32:47.588 --> 00:32:49.390
Story of god.
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What i love about it is there could be somebody
00:32:50.525 --> 00:32:52.193
Viewing even right now saying, i want to say yes
00:32:52.193 --> 00:32:55.329
To something now.
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And so all that information on the screen
00:32:57.498 --> 00:32:59.967
Is where you can say yes and invite your
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Neighborhood in and watch as much of it as you can.
00:33:03.337 --> 00:33:08.176
I mean, i don't know how many people are going to
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Sit and watch 24 hours with toothpicks in their
00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:15.683
Eyes, but it's meant to shift around obviously
00:33:15.683 --> 00:33:18.853
The globe and to touch everybody.
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What an amazing thing.
00:33:21.389 --> 00:33:24.025
We're grateful that we're a part of it.
00:33:24.025 --> 00:33:25.693
We want to bring a bunch of it to you here at tbn
00:33:25.693 --> 00:33:29.530
And we're a big part of it.
00:33:29.530 --> 00:33:30.965
We have a roll-in that we want you to see.
00:33:30.965 --> 00:33:33.801
That'll help explain a lot about what we're
00:33:33.801 --> 00:33:36.704
Talking about, what we've been talking about.
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Watch this.
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Imagine if the 2.5 billion followers of
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Jesus on the earth right now joined together for
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One global gathering with one goal, to go and make
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Disciples of all people.
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What you're imagining is a sacred meeting, unlike
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Any other in history.
00:34:07.401 --> 00:34:10.037
What you're imagining is gather 25. from every
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Continent and culture,
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Jesus followers are coming together in the
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Year 2025 for prayer, worship, repentance
00:34:19.313 --> 00:34:23.918
And commissioning.
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Connected live from africa and australia,
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From europe and asia, from north and south
00:34:28.322 --> 00:34:31.592
America in unprecedented gathering across
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Every time zone,
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Gather 25 is free to everyone everywhere.
00:34:36.330 --> 00:34:38.766
And it won't be a gathering of the global
00:34:38.766 --> 00:34:41.836
Church without you,
00:34:41.836 --> 00:34:44.472
Your community, your congregation, your
00:34:44.472 --> 00:34:47.008
Pastors and leaders from every state,
00:34:47.008 --> 00:34:49.644
From every nation.
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This is our moment of history to come together
00:34:50.912 --> 00:34:54.615
And to carry forth the gospel to every person
00:34:54.615 --> 00:34:57.685
On the earth.
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This is an invitation to every follower of jesus.
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This is gather 25.
00:35:04.425 --> 00:35:06.194
Watch live friday, february 28th,
00:35:06.194 --> 00:35:11.799
Starting at 8:00 pm eastern on tbn and tbn+.
00:35:11.799 --> 00:35:21.742
When you were saying just a moment ago, jennie,
00:35:21.742 --> 00:35:25.546
About this kind of analogy, a couple of
00:35:25.546 --> 00:35:30.451
Things popped into my head.
00:35:30.451 --> 00:35:32.653
Your kids were afraid to jump off the rock and
00:35:32.653 --> 00:35:35.489
Then they wanted to go higher and higher and higher.
00:35:35.489 --> 00:35:38.159
I feel you.
00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:40.294
Oftentimes people need to hear stories that we all
00:35:40.294 --> 00:35:49.570
Feel that way. when we say yes to something, we
00:35:49.570 --> 00:35:53.507
Realize we're in for this kind of radical
00:35:53.507 --> 00:35:58.546
Ride of some sort.
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And it's always kind of scary and intense all at
00:36:00.748 --> 00:36:05.052
The same time.
00:36:05.052 --> 00:36:07.488
But you get used to that level of scary,
00:36:07.488 --> 00:36:10.124
Then you need a higher position and then you
00:36:10.124 --> 00:36:12.426
Just keep going.
00:36:12.426 --> 00:36:14.228
I don't think there's any shortcuts.
00:36:14.228 --> 00:36:16.163
So if somebody wants something volunteering to
00:36:16.163 --> 00:36:19.967
Just say yes, to have a gathering with gather 25 and
00:36:19.967 --> 00:36:23.204
To participate is a really good start.
00:36:23.204 --> 00:36:26.140
It's a great start.
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Yes.
00:36:27.942 --> 00:36:28.943
It kind of hearkens back to you being a
00:36:28.943 --> 00:36:30.645
Stay-at-home mom with three kids and how can i
00:36:30.645 --> 00:36:33.047
Do anything to quote, what was the exact word,
00:36:33.047 --> 00:36:38.286
Pastor a nation?
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Or-- disciple a generation.
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Disciple a generation.
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That's a jump.
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Yeah.
00:36:43.958 --> 00:36:44.759
Big, big jump.
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And we were sitting, laurie and i were sitting with
00:36:47.628 --> 00:36:50.031
Some friends of ours.
00:36:50.031 --> 00:36:51.699
He's a businessman, his name is mason.
00:36:51.699 --> 00:36:55.036
And mason told us the most incredible
00:36:55.036 --> 00:36:57.805
Kind of vision.
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This is a really great story.
00:37:00.474 --> 00:37:02.443
And he was telling this story that one of his
00:37:02.443 --> 00:37:08.649
Friends had a, they were in prayer and mason said,
00:37:08.649 --> 00:37:14.822
Did you see anything?
00:37:14.822 --> 00:37:17.224
He goes, i actually did.
00:37:17.224 --> 00:37:18.759
Lemme tell you what i saw.
00:37:18.759 --> 00:37:21.362
So he said he this vision, he saw a guy, it
00:37:21.362 --> 00:37:26.067
Was him climbing a think of a cliff with the
00:37:26.067 --> 00:37:30.271
Crashing, raging waters
00:37:30.271 --> 00:37:33.040
Down below him below.
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You can't fall into that, you'll die.
00:37:35.343 --> 00:37:37.545
I mean, so he, he's climbing up, he's
00:37:37.545 --> 00:37:40.247
Climbing up, climbing up.
00:37:40.247 --> 00:37:41.549
Strength is coming out of his arms and he's
00:37:41.549 --> 00:37:45.386
Getting tired.
00:37:45.386 --> 00:37:47.655
He's asking jesus to help him.
00:37:47.655 --> 00:37:50.391
Lord, if you were only at the top of this thing,
00:37:50.391 --> 00:37:53.761
I'm almost to the top.
00:37:53.761 --> 00:37:55.329
I'm not quite there.
00:37:55.329 --> 00:37:56.630
If you were just there, you could reach down
00:37:56.630 --> 00:37:58.966
And get me.
00:37:58.966 --> 00:38:00.334
And you could a hand and you could just, and sure
00:38:00.334 --> 00:38:04.805
Enough, as soon as he was kind of praying that sure
00:38:04.805 --> 00:38:09.110
Enough, a hand reached down.
00:38:09.110 --> 00:38:13.614
He's reaching up towards the hand.
00:38:13.614 --> 00:38:15.549
Jesus looks into his eyes from above and the next
00:38:15.549 --> 00:38:18.386
Thing he knows, jesus jumps off the cliff.
00:38:18.386 --> 00:38:22.690
And as he's falling next to him, he says, follow me.
00:38:22.690 --> 00:38:27.294
And he lets go of the cliff and falls backwards
00:38:27.294 --> 00:38:30.531
Into the waves.
00:38:30.531 --> 00:38:32.867
This is my life.
00:38:32.867 --> 00:38:34.034
And he found that it wasn't a boiling sea, it
00:38:34.034 --> 00:38:36.937
Was the endless love of god that he had dropped
00:38:36.937 --> 00:38:39.106
Into, but he had to let go.
00:38:39.106 --> 00:38:43.944
So the analogy i've been living lately that i most
00:38:43.944 --> 00:38:46.881
Relate to is for so long in this journey, you can
00:38:46.881 --> 00:38:51.185
Imagine bringing together seven continents, men,
00:38:51.185 --> 00:38:54.121
Women, children, all over the world, the cost
00:38:54.121 --> 00:38:56.624
Of technology.
00:38:56.624 --> 00:38:58.125
We're doing 80 languages.
00:38:58.125 --> 00:38:59.927
We have production teams and speakers and worship
00:38:59.927 --> 00:39:03.364
And openings that are dramatic with drummers.
00:39:03.364 --> 00:39:06.133
And all these details, you can imagine how big
00:39:06.133 --> 00:39:09.136
This is and how much it has cost and our team and
00:39:09.136 --> 00:39:12.640
Just all of it in every single way and just
00:39:12.640 --> 00:39:15.676
Spiritual warfare that would accompany something
00:39:15.676 --> 00:39:17.945
Like this has been a part of this story as well.
00:39:17.945 --> 00:39:19.613
And so for so long, i would tell my team, we're
00:39:19.613 --> 00:39:22.783
Standing in front of the red sea and we are just
00:39:22.783 --> 00:39:24.985
Going to beg god to part it and for him to do it.
00:39:24.985 --> 00:39:28.155
Well, then miracles started happening.
00:39:28.155 --> 00:39:29.590
Things you can't imagine started happening.
00:39:29.590 --> 00:39:31.692
I mean, i sit down with a guy i've never met and he
00:39:31.692 --> 00:39:33.627
Was like, listen, i didn't come here to give
00:39:33.627 --> 00:39:36.597
You money, but i think i'm supposed to help and
00:39:36.597 --> 00:39:38.632
Ends up being one of our very biggest donors from
00:39:38.632 --> 00:39:41.168
One meal and didn't even understand it all.
00:39:41.168 --> 00:39:43.971
And so i've just watched again and again and
00:39:43.971 --> 00:39:46.707
Again, god provide, god provide, god provide.
00:39:46.707 --> 00:39:48.876
But he still, i'm at the end of the cliff.
00:39:48.876 --> 00:39:52.546
I'm weeks away and there's still things.
00:39:52.546 --> 00:39:55.449
This is so scary and big.
00:39:55.449 --> 00:39:58.486
And so i've told my team, i said, i think now we're
00:39:58.486 --> 00:40:03.157
In the middle of the red sea and it turns out the
00:40:03.157 --> 00:40:06.160
Middle of the red sea is kind of scary too.
00:40:06.160 --> 00:40:08.929
And the water's hitting our faces and the walls
00:40:08.929 --> 00:40:10.764
Of water on both sides.
00:40:10.764 --> 00:40:12.233
We can't go back.
00:40:12.233 --> 00:40:14.902
It's weeks away.
00:40:14.134 --> 00:40:15.536
It's happening.
00:40:15.536 --> 00:40:16.504
We're here to tell you it is happening.
00:40:16.504 --> 00:40:17.905
Be there.
00:40:17.905 --> 00:40:19.273
And it's scary.
00:40:19.273 --> 00:40:21.308
And i want to say that vulnerably because i
00:40:21.308 --> 00:40:24.678
Think people can talk a big game and act like,
00:40:24.678 --> 00:40:28.148
Yes, i did this great thing and this was amazing.
00:40:28.148 --> 00:40:31.218
This is not my thing.
00:40:31.218 --> 00:40:33.687
This has been god from the beginning.
00:40:33.687 --> 00:40:35.589
And it's scary.
00:40:35.589 --> 00:40:37.424
And we're all that kid on the side of the cliff
00:40:37.424 --> 00:40:39.627
Hanging on for dear life and willing to keep going
00:40:39.627 --> 00:40:43.564
And willing to grab the hand.
00:40:43.564 --> 00:40:46.433
And then, i mean, i'm so ministered to by the
00:40:46.433 --> 00:40:48.235
Story because i do feel like he's saying, jennie,
00:40:48.235 --> 00:40:50.738
Let me finish this job.
00:40:50.738 --> 00:40:53.407
Let me do it.
00:40:53.407 --> 00:40:55.242
Going to-- i can't gather the world.
00:40:55.242 --> 00:40:56.944
I have a lot of followers.
00:40:56.944 --> 00:40:58.212
I don't have that many.
00:40:58.212 --> 00:40:59.380
I can't do it, but he can.
00:40:59.380 --> 00:41:02.116
And so he keeps helping and he keeps doing it.
00:41:02.116 --> 00:41:05.553
I'll encourage you, oddly encourage you by saying
00:41:05.553 --> 00:41:10.457
This, it feels like most of our lives in making
00:41:10.457 --> 00:41:17.932
The nine theatrical motion pictures that we
00:41:17.932 --> 00:41:21.835
Did and right as peter o'toole and omar sharif
00:41:21.835 --> 00:41:24.905
For showing up on set, our indian crew
00:41:24.905 --> 00:41:28.108
Hostaged, the shoot.
00:41:28.108 --> 00:41:30.444
But what i think is what's happening is the
00:41:30.444 --> 00:41:34.081
Lord loves it when he simply doesn't show you
00:41:34.081 --> 00:41:40.421
Where you're going.
00:41:40.421 --> 00:41:42.823
And you get so far down the road that you just,
00:41:42.823 --> 00:41:46.093
Laurie and i have said, and we're a few years ahead
00:41:46.093 --> 00:41:49.663
Of you guys, we have said so many times, oh, for
00:41:49.663 --> 00:41:53.267
God's sakes, it would be harder to turn around
00:41:53.267 --> 00:41:56.403
And go back.
00:41:56.403 --> 00:41:57.738
Why do we always have to walk on water?
00:41:57.738 --> 00:41:59.940
We're just stuck.
00:41:59.940 --> 00:42:01.976
So you might as well just for get up tomorrow, put
00:42:01.976 --> 00:42:03.677
Another foot in front.
00:42:03.677 --> 00:42:05.412
Just do it.
00:42:05.412 --> 00:42:06.280
Just walk on water, baby.
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:08.182
And it just ends up being that here we are sitting
00:42:08.182 --> 00:42:13.087
There telling our inner motivations instead of
00:42:13.087 --> 00:42:19.860
Saying, hey, we've got it all together.
00:42:19.860 --> 00:42:21.395
We're just saying yes to god.
00:42:21.395 --> 00:42:23.097
And that's
00:42:23.097 --> 00:42:23.998
All there is.
00:42:23.998 --> 00:42:25.265
And gary, his hat.
00:42:25.265 --> 00:42:26.200
And it's not easy.
00:42:26.200 --> 00:42:26.900
Yes.
00:42:26.900 --> 00:42:27.735
It's not easy believing.
00:42:27.735 --> 00:42:28.769
Well, that's a good word for us right now.
00:42:28.769 --> 00:42:29.937
All i've said for many years, it's just easier
00:42:29.937 --> 00:42:31.338
To keep going.
00:42:31.338 --> 00:42:32.706
It'd be harder to unwind it.
00:42:32.706 --> 00:42:34.942
It's a walk of, and all they know in that moment,
00:42:34.942 --> 00:42:38.145
All they know is that there's chariots
00:42:38.145 --> 00:42:41.682
Following them into the red sea.
00:42:41.682 --> 00:42:43.517
They don't know how the story ends.
00:42:43.517 --> 00:42:44.952
And so i keep thinking and finding hope in that,
00:42:44.952 --> 00:42:47.154
He has always been faithful.
00:42:47.154 --> 00:42:49.757
I remember somebody told me about a quote, i think
00:42:49.757 --> 00:42:51.425
It might've been hudson taylor that said, if you
00:42:51.425 --> 00:42:53.794
Do god's will god's way, everything you need is
00:42:53.794 --> 00:42:56.897
Going to come.
00:42:56.897 --> 00:42:57.998
And that has been true so far.
00:42:57.998 --> 00:43:02.936
So i can't wait to get to march 2nd and watch how
00:43:02.936 --> 00:43:05.506
It all proved true.
00:43:05.506 --> 00:43:06.573
When laurie and i were in cesarea, israel with a
00:43:06.573 --> 00:43:11.011
Big group that we had taken, and it was
00:43:11.011 --> 00:43:14.615
Probably the last time my dad spoke publicly before
00:43:14.615 --> 00:43:19.086
He passed, and he was placing the mantle of tbn
00:43:19.086 --> 00:43:24.558
On laurie and i.
00:43:24.558 --> 00:43:25.826
Wow.
00:43:25.826 --> 00:43:27.161
And standing in front of that amazing place where
00:43:27.161 --> 00:43:31.365
Agrippa said, paul, you have almost persuaded me.
00:43:31.365 --> 00:43:36.470
I mean we're standing, we're right there
00:43:36.470 --> 00:43:37.271
In that same place.
00:43:37.271 --> 00:43:38.806
It was a big moment.
00:43:38.806 --> 00:43:40.741
He said, the mantle that the lord placed on your
00:43:40.741 --> 00:43:44.445
Mother and i so many years ago, i now with
00:43:44.445 --> 00:43:47.314
Love and joy place on you.
00:43:47.314 --> 00:43:51.552
And there was this moment there that that was happening.
00:43:51.552 --> 00:43:57.191
He had spent about 15 minutes speaking to
00:43:57.191 --> 00:44:04.031
Make one point.
00:44:04.031 --> 00:44:06.100
And he said, why does god always wait till the
00:44:06.100 --> 00:44:08.368
Last five minutes?
00:44:08.368 --> 00:44:10.637
Why does he do that?
00:44:10.637 --> 00:44:12.539
The last-- why is he?
00:44:12.539 --> 00:44:14.808
And he used that exact thing, the egyptian
00:44:14.808 --> 00:44:17.044
Swooping down and the red sea.
00:44:17.044 --> 00:44:19.747
And why?
00:44:19.747 --> 00:44:20.581
Why?
00:44:20.581 --> 00:44:22.082
And it was the only time that-- i had heard him use
00:44:22.082 --> 00:44:26.954
That kind of sermon a couple other times.
00:44:26.954 --> 00:44:31.625
But it was the only time that he ever said, he
00:44:31.625 --> 00:44:34.228
Followed up by saying, one time in quiet time, i
00:44:34.228 --> 00:44:36.797
Really pressed the lord for an answer.
00:44:36.797 --> 00:44:40.267
And he actually answered me.
00:44:40.267 --> 00:44:42.236
And he said it was simple but profound so that no
00:44:42.236 --> 00:44:46.373
Man can get the glory.
00:44:46.373 --> 00:44:48.375
That's right.
00:44:48.375 --> 00:44:50.277
So out the idea that you say yes, and then you
00:44:50.277 --> 00:44:54.081
Say, okay, god, but you have to do it.
00:44:54.081 --> 00:44:56.750
But worry is simply doubting that.
00:44:56.750 --> 00:44:59.620
Right?
00:44:59.620 --> 00:45:01.288
So lemme explain something to you.
00:45:01.288 --> 00:45:02.823
The spiritual warfare is right here.
00:45:02.823 --> 00:45:04.925
That's right.
00:45:04.925 --> 00:45:06.493
Amen.
00:45:06.493 --> 00:45:09.463
It is true
00:45:07.861 --> 00:45:10.964
For all of you too.
00:45:10.964 --> 00:45:13.000
If you are going to say yes, then you have to win
00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:15.068
The war right here.
00:45:15.068 --> 00:45:16.270
Believe well.
00:45:16.270 --> 00:45:17.604
The battlefield is the mind and believe
00:45:17.604 --> 00:45:20.274
Well. david didn't beat goliath because he was a
00:45:20.274 --> 00:45:23.410
Mighty warrior.
00:45:23.410 --> 00:45:24.745
He believed well, okay.
00:45:24.745 --> 00:45:28.382
He believed that if i took care of the lion and
00:45:28.382 --> 00:45:31.285
The bear-- god delivered me from the lion
00:45:31.285 --> 00:45:34.421
And the bear.
00:45:34.421 --> 00:45:36.890
So what's with this now?
00:45:36.890 --> 00:45:39.126
So it's always where you place your trust.
00:45:39.126 --> 00:45:43.964
And he's never late.
00:45:43.964 --> 00:45:46.066
It's beautiful actually.
00:45:46.066 --> 00:45:48.368
He's always right on time.
00:45:48.368 --> 00:45:50.537
He's always right on time.
00:45:50.537 --> 00:45:52.739
And so it's beautifully actual that we are
00:45:52.739 --> 00:45:56.076
Talking about a global event.
00:45:56.076 --> 00:45:57.911
Gather 25, tbn is a part of broadcasting this.
00:45:57.911 --> 00:46:02.616
So you're going to get a big chunk and kind of
00:46:02.616 --> 00:46:05.619
Tbn+.
00:46:05.619 --> 00:46:07.120
Yeah, tbn+ is 24 hours.
00:46:07.120 --> 00:46:08.956
25 hours,
00:46:08.956 --> 00:46:09.923
25, 25, 25 hours
00:46:09.923 --> 00:46:11.758
And all of that.
00:46:11.758 --> 00:46:13.927
But we're talking about it in a way that we're
00:46:13.927 --> 00:46:17.764
Not sitting up here kind of going, wait a second,
00:46:17.764 --> 00:46:21.768
We've got this all figured out and doing one
00:46:21.768 --> 00:46:24.037
Of these things.
00:46:24.037 --> 00:46:25.606
It's like, oh god, right?
00:46:25.606 --> 00:46:27.875
Help. oh god.
00:46:27.875 --> 00:46:29.977
And by the way, i was having a oh god moment
00:46:29.977 --> 00:46:34.314
Not long ago, and my pastor the next sunday
00:46:34.314 --> 00:46:38.485
Said, and by the way, literally pointed at us
00:46:38.485 --> 00:46:42.656
And said, oh by the way, god loves it when you
00:46:42.656 --> 00:46:44.691
Say, oh god,
00:46:44.691 --> 00:46:48.762
That's right.
00:46:48.762 --> 00:46:50.831
And i went, he does.
00:46:50.831 --> 00:46:53.433
Yes, i could do that really good.
00:46:53.433 --> 00:46:56.803
Yeah, exactly.
00:46:56.803 --> 00:46:58.272
I send that a few times.
00:46:58.272 --> 00:46:59.840
Oh, you guys have been god help has been
00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:01.108
My, oh god.
00:47:01.108 --> 00:47:02.542
And i say it in the car all the time.
00:47:02.542 --> 00:47:03.977
I mean, sometimes i just don't even know what to pray.
00:47:03.977 --> 00:47:05.846
It's just god help, god help this little fire
00:47:05.846 --> 00:47:07.114
That came up in this other country and the
00:47:07.114 --> 00:47:08.582
Logistics that are going with that.
00:47:08.582 --> 00:47:09.783
God, help with the finances, god help with
00:47:09.783 --> 00:47:12.786
The worship leader that canceled at the last minute.
00:47:12.786 --> 00:47:13.787
God, help.
00:47:13.787 --> 00:47:15.722
And i just find he has been helping.
00:47:15.722 --> 00:47:19.459
Of course he's made this happen.
00:47:19.459 --> 00:47:20.894
But you're right about the glory.
00:47:20.894 --> 00:47:23.263
I mean, let it be said as clearly as i can say it all.
00:47:23.263 --> 00:47:26.733
The only thing that i did was say, yes. everything
00:47:26.733 --> 00:47:30.404
Else has sprung up around me.
00:47:30.404 --> 00:47:33.340
Even our relationship, we sit down together
00:47:33.340 --> 00:47:36.810
18 months ago and the fact that this is getting
00:47:36.810 --> 00:47:38.245
Aired on tb and i couldn't have made
00:47:38.245 --> 00:47:39.313
That happen.
00:47:39.313 --> 00:47:40.447
Favor of god. and every little part of this story
00:47:40.447 --> 00:47:43.283
Has just been his story.
00:47:43.283 --> 00:47:44.618
And so i really am, thank you for the word.
00:47:44.618 --> 00:47:48.255
I will leave here and probably have a good
00:47:48.255 --> 00:47:50.023
Little cry because as it gets closer, the
00:47:50.023 --> 00:47:52.893
Intensity picks up.
00:47:52.893 --> 00:47:54.561
And i do trust him.
00:47:54.561 --> 00:47:56.530
He's been faithful.
00:47:56.530 --> 00:47:58.198
But yeah, it is scary still.
00:47:58.198 --> 00:48:00.300
Well, so there is something that you
00:48:00.300 --> 00:48:01.735
Can do today.
00:48:01.735 --> 00:48:02.936
You can pray.
00:48:02.936 --> 00:48:03.837
Yes.
00:48:03.837 --> 00:48:04.638
You can pray for this.
00:48:04.638 --> 00:48:05.706
This is happening starting february 28th,
00:48:05.706 --> 00:48:08.108
Right here on tv.
00:48:08.108 --> 00:48:09.910
And it starts live from watermark church at
00:48:09.910 --> 00:48:13.513
7 o'clock. 8:00 pm,
00:48:13.513 --> 00:48:16.650
8:00 pm eastern.
00:48:16.650 --> 00:48:17.484
Yeah.
00:48:17.484 --> 00:48:18.385
Seven o'clock here in dallas.
00:48:18.385 --> 00:48:20.153
And we'll go 25 hours, four live on the
00:48:20.153 --> 00:48:24.157
Network that day.
00:48:24.157 --> 00:48:25.425
I know it airs the next day with some, but on tbn+,
00:48:25.425 --> 00:48:27.327
It's the whole 25 hours across the world
00:48:27.327 --> 00:48:30.364
And this thing is going to happen.
00:48:30.364 --> 00:48:33.100
I love though that sometimes when someone
00:48:33.100 --> 00:48:36.103
Drops out or that you just have to go, okay,
00:48:36.103 --> 00:48:40.874
What's next?
00:48:40.874 --> 00:48:42.142
Yeah, okay, that's the will of god.
00:48:42.142 --> 00:48:44.778
Let's see what god does now.
00:48:44.778 --> 00:48:46.613
And he has done
00:48:46.613 --> 00:48:48.248
That, yes.
00:48:48.248 --> 00:48:49.449
And so you can pray, you can pray for all the team.
00:48:49.449 --> 00:48:52.119
God has put together an amazing team, the
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:54.087
Gathered 25 team, the tbn team that has been
00:48:54.087 --> 00:48:56.923
All over this.
00:48:56.923 --> 00:48:58.291
We're all ready, willing, and able, and let's go.
00:48:58.291 --> 00:49:01.928
We're excited.
00:49:01.928 --> 00:49:03.063
I want to
00:49:03.063 --> 00:49:04.264
Give you guys the final word, but i want to say
00:49:04.264 --> 00:49:05.699
Something that it's almost like where we
00:49:05.699 --> 00:49:08.635
Started this broadcast and where
00:49:08.635 --> 00:49:10.137
We're finishing.
00:49:10.137 --> 00:49:11.338
I kind of just got this thought that it almost is
00:49:11.338 --> 00:49:15.942
What i did with bill bright and how your lives
00:49:15.942 --> 00:49:20.414
Were affected by campus crusade and dr. bill
00:49:20.414 --> 00:49:24.418
Bright and that it feels like this giant episode
00:49:24.418 --> 00:49:29.122
Of the tv show that i used to do with him
00:49:29.122 --> 00:49:32.092
Called new life 2000.
00:49:32.092 --> 00:49:33.994
And it was always this encouraging thing and
00:49:33.994 --> 00:49:37.998
Everyone always, it was bill bright's intention
00:49:37.998 --> 00:49:41.868
That when you finished investing the time
00:49:41.868 --> 00:49:46.173
Watching the program, new life 2000, that you were
00:49:46.173 --> 00:49:49.843
Encouraged to say, i didn't know i was on a
00:49:49.843 --> 00:49:53.213
Winning team.
00:49:53.213 --> 00:49:54.581
Almost like when the prophet said, open the
00:49:54.581 --> 00:49:57.551
Eyes of my servant so that he can see there are
00:49:57.551 --> 00:50:00.821
More for us than against us.
00:50:00.821 --> 00:50:03.390
And it feels like that was new life 2000.
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This is gather 25 and it is a unveiling of
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What is happening.
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It's exactly what god's doing.
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In the earth.
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His glory revealed for 25 hours gathered 25.
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Final thought is your guys.
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Yeah, i mean, i just want to say you are a part
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Of the story.
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This isn't about special people and special places
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Doing special things.
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The bible wasn't about that either.
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This is his story.
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God's story is about every day people saying
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Yes to him and god doing the impossible and
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Miraculous through them.
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And so don't count yourselves out.
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And yes, being a part of gather 25 and hosting
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People will give you everything you need.
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It's a scary venture that is a part of it.
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You can sign up@gathertwentyfive.com
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And you can see the way that god could use you in
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This story, in this moment in time.
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It's historic.
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The church has never been able to gather like this
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Before, but it's so much bigger than that.
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The prayer of this whole thing is that every one
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Of us would leave this gathering and believe
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That god can use us in our places because we
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Don't know when he's coming back.
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And it could be in our lifetime.
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And if he were to come back in our lifetime, i
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Am this girl who thinks i just want to have left
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Everything on the field.
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I want to get to heaven.
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And as much as it concerns me,
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I'm out of breath.
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And i'm like, i'm here.
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I did my best.
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And he's like, yeah, i got you girl.
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Thank you.
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And that was fun, wasn't it?
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I think that's how it's been.
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And i think if there's one thing my story can do
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To encourage you is that saying yes to god is
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Scary as heck, but it is also, there is no other
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Way you want to live.
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It is so full of joy and so full of abundance and
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I mean we both can't imagine any other way
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Of living.
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It has just been a wild, risky adventure.
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Final thought.
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Yeah.
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I think of that one believer in a tough to
00:52:08.415 --> 00:52:13.453
Reach country that's tuning in and says,
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I'm all alone.
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Or that widow that's in an apartment in america
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And they don't have any community around them and
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They're discouraged and in that closed country
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That that guy says here, it may not be hard to
00:52:29.202 --> 00:52:33.707
Become a christian, but because of the
00:52:33.707 --> 00:52:35.609
Persecution, it's really hard to stay a christian.
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We want that guy watching,
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Those people watching to be encouraged like you are
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On the winning team and god is on the move
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All around you.
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Let's be obedient in our places
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And watch god work.
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There are more for us than against us.
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That's right.
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We're going to prove that on february 28th at 8:00 pm.
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That's when it starts. all the next day.
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There's a whole bunch of information that you're
00:53:03.169 --> 00:53:05.405
Going to get about this.
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We're encouraged to be a part of gather 25.
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Thank you guys.
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Great to be here.
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I'm so excited.
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Let's do it.
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See you next time.
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Bye-bye.
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♪♪
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Zac & Jennie Allen: Gather 25 | Praise

February 4, 2025 | 53:30

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