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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time for our community connection right
here on K one, the one

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you trust. I have a very
interesting guest here. Some of you might

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remember the Reverend Jean HEWITTT. And
if you are new to town and you

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have it, well, I want
you to make a friend here because he's

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the pastor of the Renewed Church in
Dewey, Oklahoma. He's also an author,

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and he's also very much a human
being. We're going to find out

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just how human we all are.
It's got a brand new book. I'm

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gonna hold it up here for the
camera for you to look at. It's

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called A Bag full of Rattlesnakes.
Fastor welcome back, Thank you, sir.

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It's good to be here, It's
good to be anywhere exactly so,

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a bag full of Rattlesnakes. It's
a story of triumph over tragedy, right

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right, t us a little bit
about it myself. Well, I'm I

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was born and raised right acrossed over
here at Chickasaw on Chickasaw Street, and

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went into the ministry, and I
was at a wife and I pastored in

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Dewey for several years and we ended
up going to Arkansas to pastor. While

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we were in Arkansas, there was
a lot of circumstances took place, and

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honestly, as you said, very
human, I ended up with a moral

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failure and committed adultery. I can't
put any other way, and it caused

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my wife and I to be separated
and took me out of the ministry for

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five years. This isn't a woe
is Me story. If anybody was really

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damaged, it was my wife but
the worst. But I called a friend

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my wife and I praised God.
God finally put our marriage back together,

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brought restoration to our marriage. Eventually, five years later, brought restoration to

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my ministry and I passed her again. Now, but a friend that lived

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here in Bartlesville, I was talking
to him on the phone, said my

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wife and I got I told him
my wife and I got back together,

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and he said, trying to be
funny, he said, let me ask

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you a question. Said, if
you had your hand and a bag full

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of angry rattlesnakes, you woke up
in the middle of the night that way,

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and you worked all night to get
your hand out of that bag without

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getting bit. And he said you
finally got your hand out of that bag.

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He said, why would you stick
it back in? And I said,

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well, first of all, I
didn't have my hand in a bag

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full of angry rattlesnakes. My wife
did, and she got her hand bit.

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So it's not about me sticking my
hand back in. It's about her

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grace and forgiveness and bringing herself to
stick her hand back in. But even

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more than that, it's we as
human beings, as you said, Tom,

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we as human beings. God has
his hand in a bag full of

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angry rattlesnakes with us every day we
are handful. We are a handful.

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And you know what, the really
cool thing about God, the really really

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awesome thing about God is he never
takes his hand out, and he gets

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bit over and over and over again, but he never quits. He never

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gets up gives up on us,
and he never abandons us. Why do

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we do that to ourselves? Flesh, a weak flesh, the attack of

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the enemy. I think sometimes we
have a tendency in the church world to

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blame Satan when Satan's standing over somewhere
going I didn't have anything to do with

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this, It was your own,
Yeah, it was your own weak flesh

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that did it. So that's where
the book came from, and that's where

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the title came from. I've caught
some flak from different corners over the title,

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but the title describes exactly what went
on. And so God, God

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in pro ask me I'd never written
a book before, and God put it

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up on my heart to write this. Not. Here's the thing I tell

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people, this book is not about
telling you how bad I was. This

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book is about telling you how good
God is, and we serve a good

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God. Took you while to figure
that out, again, didn't it.

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It took me a while to figure
out that I could serve God back the

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way I had before, probably even
greater, in a greater way. God

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didn't just restore me, He restored
me to better than I was before.

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So if you look at this,
that's what I want to encourage people.

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Don't let your fall, your failure, your sin of the past. Don't

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allow it to keep you down.
You know, get back up, come

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back from the failure, and know
that God, just as much as you

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want to come back from the failure, God wants you to come back from

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the failure. And you know,
the cool thing about God I talk about

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it in the book is can I
read a play for it? I read

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you a part of the book.
It says, this is what I hear

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God saying, I see where you
are. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean

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that you've fallen. You could have
been wounded by somebody. People all the

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time are wounded in church. Right. You could have never come to God,

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and you've never been in that place
of relationship. And we use the

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terms that renews of Christ follower,
and we use the term relationship. And

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I wrote in on page fifty eight, this is what I hear God saying,

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I see where you are. I
see you falling, bloody, hurt,

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wounded and damaged. Yes, damaged
and wounded by your own actions.

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I could easily walk away and leave
you. I could throw at my hands

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and say I've had enough. It
wouldn't change me one bit. I would

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still be God. But I don't
just want to be God. I want

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to be your God. And I
think that's the key. Wow, that's

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amazing. Yes. One of the
portions of the book was how did they

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get here? How did I wind
up in this mess? Yes? And

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you know you and I were talking
about different ways people just kind of just

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wander in. Well. I wasn't
looking to cause any trouble. I wasn't

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looking to hurt myself or anyone around
me. It just wow, did you

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have to really examine how you know? I think part of it is the

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lies that we believe, whether whether
it's I call it the enemy of our

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soul tells us lies, or our
own flesh tells us lies. It's lies.

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I talk about it in the book
Neither of My Thoughts. I preached

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this Sunday morning on being defeated by
your thoughts. Oh, we do that

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every day, Yes, And you
know I was being I felt lies come

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in, whether it was myself or
the enemy of my soul lying to me

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your wife doesn't love you anymore,
or your wife doesn't care about you anymore.

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You know, thirty years of ministry
at that time, and things are

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not what they were when you were
eighteen and twenty, right, No,

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never are, yeah, brand,
And so every little thing proves those lives

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to you and seem to prove those
lives to you. And so you hear

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lie after lie after lie, and
before you know it, Adam and Eve

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enemy came to him in the garden
and said, you know, can't you

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eat this? And they said,
we're not allowed. We can eat of

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every tree, but not this one. And he said, oh, if

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we eat this, we will surely
die. And the enemy says, no,

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you won't die. So they really
believed a lie the first of all,

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when he mistranslated what God said and
said God said, you can eat

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of every tree, leaving off the
except for the tree of the knowledge of

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good and evil. They bought into
that, and then Eve bought into you

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won't die. And so we hear
these lies, they lead us down the

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wrong path. And the only way
to overcome lies is truth. And the

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truth that I know is the truth
of the Word of God and the truth

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of the Holy Spirit. So you
know, when we look at this,

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how did I get there? One
of the stories I use is the prodigal

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son, and I talk about the
prodigal son. You know, he wanted

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to leave his father. He wanted
his father's riches, to leave his father's

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house. And so he was one
that was living in his father's house but

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wanted to leave. He goes out, and the Bible tells us he lived

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wildly and spent all of his inheritance. And the next thing he knows he's

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eating with pigs, which if you're
a young Jewish boy, you don't do

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that. So he's eaten with the
hogs. And I think that's where he

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had to go. How did I
get here? All I did was walk

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away from my father to house.
All I did was take my inheritance,

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and he woke up in that place. Praise God that Luke fifteen says,

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there came a moment when he came
to his senses and said, let me

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just go back to my father's house. And so I believe the lies that

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I believed led to my fall and
my own ignorance stupidity, not ignorance,

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stupidity, and the lies that I
believed kept me in a falling condition longer

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than I should have. The prodigal
son could have went home much sooner than

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what he did. His father was
waiting for him the whole time. I

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came back into a relationship with Christ, got into a deep relationship with Christ

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again. But still I believe the
lies that I could never pastor again,

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I could never preach again and lie
as you told yourself. Now, I

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told myself, yes, And I
will tell you this. There's a part

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in the book that talks about not
everyone's in your corner, and that's something

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you got to overcome to come back, because you think, if I come

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back from a fall, or I
come back from a mistake, people know

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I used to preach, and now
I'm not preaching anymore. And you think

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everybody's going to jump up and down
and cheer you on and be ready for

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you to preach again. And there's
a part in the book where I talk

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about the twos, the lie of
the twos, and that lie says you're

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too damaged, you're too falling,
you're too sinful, You've made too big

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a mistake, You've fallen too deep. You can never come back. And

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the great thing is what we forget
is Matthew nineteen twenty six. Jesus says,

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humanly speaking, it is impossible,
but with God, everything is possible.

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Oh boy, you know, folks, this is a remarkable book and

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remarkable story and it can be shared
by simply picking up this book. A

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bag full of rattlesnakes, a story
of triumph and tragedy and gene faster.

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You're going to be doing a book
sighting and a book release coming up on

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Saturday, Yes, Saturday, Where
are you going to be ten to twelve.

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We are going to be at Michael's
Carpet and Sleep Center if you don't

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know where. That's at one of
the most populshedly next door to Hobby Lobby,

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just to the east of Hobby Lobby. We will be set up there.

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We will have plenty of books available, We will have refreshments and snacks,

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kind of a celebration time. If
you can get a book on Amazon

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or I've got a couple of hundred
of them. If you have one already

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and you want to bring it by
and let me sign it, that would

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be terrific. If you don't have
one, you want to come by and

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pick one up and let me sign
up. My wife will be signing as

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well, and we will do that. If you don't want a book and

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you want to come by and get
something cool to drink and maybe grab a

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cupcake or a cookie or something like
that and just say hello, we would

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love that my goal. Somebody said, Tom, I didn't if you knew

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the finances. I didn't do this
to get rich. I wrote this book

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because I want to minister to people. I want people to get a hold

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of this book. If I was
rich, enough, I would have them

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print as many as ease as I
couldn't pass them out. I can't do

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that, but I would a matter
of fact. But here's the thing.

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I wrote this book to minister to
hearts and lives, to minister to people

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that think I'm too sinful to ever
come to God and let them know,

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no, you're not. And to
minister to people that's had a failure that

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was in the church, that got
hurt, wounded or damage and have left.

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God wants you back. The prodigal
son got close to his home,

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the father was already standing out there
waiting for him, looking for him,

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and he ran to where he was. God has not left you. You

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walked away from God. He wants
you back. Wow. How powerful is

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that? And that is the truth. Yes, God wants you back.

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Amen, And there is a way
back from all of this if you will,

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Folks that go on to Amazon dot
com and you can order the book

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where you can get it at the
book release and signing that'll be at Michael's

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Carpet and Sleep Center here in Bartlesville. That'll be ten am until noon on

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Saturday. Of course, Amazon dot
com they're open twenty four to seven.

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I know I got the boxes.
They can get them to you quickly.

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It amazes me. I had friends
that had the book before I got it.

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That's just so I want to thank
you very much and continued success.

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Reverend Geen Hewitt, thank you,
Thank you, sir. The flower lands

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