Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Rick Warren, and Merry Christmas. You're listening the
Speaker 1: Daily Hope.
Speaker 2: Marry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Today we celebrate the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: the greatest gift the world has ever received.
Speaker 2: So whether you're surrounded by loved ones or spending this
Speaker 2: stay quietly, We're so glad that you've joined us.
Speaker 1: So let's join Rick right now for the final part
Speaker 1: of enjoying a fear not Christmas. How do I get
Speaker 1: the fear out of my life that blocks me, that
Speaker 1: keeps me from becoming all I want to be, all
Speaker 1: that God.
Speaker 2: Wants me to be.
Speaker 1: You do the things that God told them to do
Speaker 1: at the very first Christmas.
Speaker 2: That's what you do. And if you do what.
Speaker 1: God told Mary and Joseph and the shepherds and everybody
Speaker 1: else what to do, the fears in your life will
Speaker 1: dramatically go down, and the joy and the confidence in
Speaker 1: your life is dramatically going to go up. Number one,
Speaker 1: here's the first step. Surrender my life completely to God.
Speaker 2: Every day.
Speaker 1: Surrender my life completely to God. Every day I say God,
Speaker 1: I'm full of fear. I'm giving you the good, the bad,
Speaker 1: and the ugly of my life to you. Right now,
Speaker 1: and you just start the day that way. This is
Speaker 1: how Mary overcame her inadequacy when the Angel unloaded all
Speaker 1: this stuff. You're going to be pregnant, you're not even married,
Speaker 1: and you've never had sex, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: the son of God, and you're going to raise that
Speaker 1: child and all the stuff that's going to happen to him.
Speaker 1: Mary overcame her fear of inadequacy with this statement.
Speaker 2: Luke, Chapter one, verse thirty eight.
Speaker 1: Mary responded, I am the Lord's servant, and I'm willing
Speaker 1: to accept whatever God wants for my life. Have you
Speaker 1: ever said to God, God, you're my creator, and whatever
Speaker 1: you want to do with my life, I want to
Speaker 1: cooperate with it. Have you ever done that? If you haven't,
Speaker 1: you are living in constant tension. That's why you have fears.
Speaker 1: That's why you have anxiety. Because God's going this way
Speaker 1: and you're going this way, and your arms are too
Speaker 1: short to box with God. You're going to lose on
Speaker 1: that one. What if God asked me to do something
Speaker 1: I don't think I can do. God will never ask
Speaker 1: you to do something that he doesn't give you the
Speaker 1: power and the ability to do. God would never ask
Speaker 1: you to do something and then not give you the resources,
Speaker 1: the time, the network, the money, and everything you needed
Speaker 1: to do it. Because God doesn't sponsor flops.
Speaker 2: We do.
Speaker 1: We sponsor flops. We hit dead ends all the time
Speaker 1: with our plans. But God's plan does not have a
Speaker 1: dead end. But your confidence becomes in Him, not in yourself.
Speaker 1: Thirty five years ago, I was twenty five years old
Speaker 1: and I was finishing up a seminary my master's degree
Speaker 1: in Texas, and I felt God didn't say this audibly.
Speaker 1: I just had an impression in my mind and I
Speaker 1: told my wife, Okay, I said, honey, I think God
Speaker 1: is calling us to go back to California, to move
Speaker 1: to southern California, and to start a church with no money,
Speaker 1: no members, no building. And I've never been a pastor.
Speaker 1: What do you think? And I'll never forget my wife's response,
Speaker 1: at twenty five years of age, she said, well, it
Speaker 1: scares me to death, but I believe in God and
Speaker 1: I believe in you, so let's go for it.
Speaker 2: That's faith instead of fear.
Speaker 1: I've often wondered what if we had given into our
Speaker 1: fears and said it's too hard, we're inadequate, we might
Speaker 1: be disappointed and we might lose control. And what if
Speaker 1: we'd given into all of our fears? How would history
Speaker 1: be different? Well, you wouldn't be sitting here right now.
Speaker 1: Peace plan would exist, the Daniel Plan would exist. Purpose
Speaker 1: driven life wouldn't exist, which ten percent of all the
Speaker 1: churches in America have done. Forty Days of Purpose, the
Speaker 1: best selling book in American history and the most translated
Speaker 1: book in the world. Purpose Driven Life would have never
Speaker 1: been written. History would be very, very different if Kay
Speaker 1: and I had given into our fears.
Speaker 2: We weren't adequate for the task.
Speaker 1: We were inadequate, but God was adequate and our confidence
Speaker 1: was in him.
Speaker 2: Here's number two.
Speaker 1: Number two is stop listening to the voices of fear.
Speaker 1: You're going to have to change what you watch and
Speaker 1: what you listen to and what ideas you allow in
Speaker 1: your mind. If you want to move out of fear,
Speaker 1: you got to stop feeding fearful things into your mind.
Speaker 2: Books, movies, tapes, TV shows, and on and on and on,
Speaker 2: all those things.
Speaker 1: Because all around you are naysayers and negative people. Would
Speaker 1: you agree that we're in a pretty negative culture. Is
Speaker 1: it easier to be positive or negative?
Speaker 2: Today? It's easier to just.
Speaker 1: Be against stuff, and the Internet just feeds that. And
Speaker 1: you have negative voices all around you tell you you
Speaker 1: can't do it, You're not good enough, you're not smart enough,
Speaker 1: you're not cute enough, you're not rich enough, you're not
Speaker 1: talented enough. You had all kinds of negative voices around you.
Speaker 1: And by the way, sometimes those voices are inside you too,
Speaker 1: and you have to stop listening to yourself. Let me
Speaker 1: give you a little stress reliever. You don't have to
Speaker 1: believe everything you tell yourself.
Speaker 2: You don't.
Speaker 1: You do not have to believe anything. Why because you
Speaker 1: lie to yourself all the time. You lie to yourself
Speaker 1: more than you lie to anybody else. Sometimes you tell
Speaker 1: yourself things are good when they're not. Sometimes you tell
Speaker 1: you say they're really bad when they're not as bad
Speaker 1: as you think you are. You need a much more
Speaker 1: objective source of truth than your own opinion, because that
Speaker 1: opinion may have come from a bad burrito last night.
Speaker 1: You are not the final authority on truth. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: and I'm not either. By the way, we need an objective,
Speaker 1: outside source because we often get it wrong. How does
Speaker 1: that go for you? When you follow your own way?
Speaker 1: How's that going for you. You're hitting dead ends, you meeting
Speaker 1: every goal, you haven't every dream fulfilled.
Speaker 2: You're not. No, you're not.
Speaker 1: So you got to stop listening to the voices fear.
Speaker 1: Fear is the opposite of faith. When you're walking in faith,
Speaker 1: you're not walking in fear. When you're walking in fear,
Speaker 1: you're not walking in faith. When you invite faith into
Speaker 1: the front door of your house, fear goes out the
Speaker 1: back door. When you invite fear into your life, faith
Speaker 1: goes out the back door.
Speaker 2: They do not exist together.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says in Romans fourteen, who whatsoever is
Speaker 1: not of faith based on faith is sin. I told
Speaker 1: you I've counseled thousands of people financial counseling, personal counseling,
Speaker 1: marriage counseling, career counseling, and I would tell you this
Speaker 1: that I've learned. Fear is contagious. Fear is contagious. It's
Speaker 1: a communicable disease. If you get around fearful people, you
Speaker 1: hang out, all your buddies are fearful, all your buddies
Speaker 1: think the world's going to hell in a handbasket. Then
Speaker 1: guess what you're going to feel that way. You get
Speaker 1: around direct pressed people, you're going to be depressed. You
Speaker 1: get around angry people, you're going to be angry. It's
Speaker 1: that old, worn out cliche. You know, if you want
Speaker 1: to soar with the eagles, you can't run with the turkeys.
Speaker 2: So let me give you a couple of advice.
Speaker 1: Number One, I would say, turn off talk radio and
Speaker 1: the negative TV news shows. Just turn them off because
Speaker 1: they feed on crisis and every day it's a crisis
Speaker 1: of the day. You know, the standard idea in news
Speaker 1: is if it bleeds, it leads, that's what you start
Speaker 1: the show with, and they're constantly feeding negative. Study after
Speaker 1: study after study after university study has shown that if
Speaker 1: you listen to inflammatory, negative, critical, fearful talk radio all
Speaker 1: the time or TV shows are the same, whether it's
Speaker 1: liberal conservative, doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of person you're going to be.
Speaker 1: Negative, critical, fearful, defensive, antagonistic.
Speaker 2: Now, if you want to be that, go ahead and
Speaker 2: keep on listening to it.
Speaker 1: I personally want to be a positive, faith filled rather
Speaker 1: than fear filled person.
Speaker 2: And so the other thing I would.
Speaker 1: Suggest you just start hanging out with people of faith,
Speaker 1: get some new friends. It's one of the reasons to
Speaker 1: find a church family. You're welcome here, but there are
Speaker 1: a lot of good churches. Just find one where you
Speaker 1: get around people of faith who have a more positive
Speaker 1: outlook on life rather than such a negative outlook on life.
Speaker 1: That's why you need to get in a small group.
Speaker 1: When you think about all of the negative and fearful
Speaker 1: voices that Mary had to block out of her mind
Speaker 1: in order to hear God. I mean, you can imagine
Speaker 1: a lot of people probably came into marry and said,
Speaker 1: so you're pregnant, huh, yeah, And you've never had a
Speaker 1: relationship with men. No, And God is the father, yes,
Speaker 1: and the baby is going to be the son of God?
Speaker 2: Yes? Who do you think you are?
Speaker 1: That would create all kinds of anxiety and fear and insecurity.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things I love about Jesus
Speaker 1: is that Jesus gave dignity to women in a culture
Speaker 1: that dismissed women, demeaned women, degraded women, and devalued women.
Speaker 2: He raised them.
Speaker 1: Up and gave them great dignity when nobody else in
Speaker 1: that culture did. Nobody else did, and Mary had to
Speaker 1: block out the voices of fear around her in order
Speaker 1: to hear the voice of God. The third thing, fill
Speaker 1: my mind with music that honors, that focuses, that worships
Speaker 1: and praises God. Why, I want you to listen very closely.
Speaker 1: Praise is the antidote to panic. Worship is the antidote
Speaker 1: to worry. Why Because when you're scared to death, all
Speaker 1: of your attention is focusing on you, how I feel,
Speaker 1: how I look, how competent i'm. You're totally focused on yourself.
Speaker 1: And to get rid of fear, you got to get
Speaker 1: the focus off.
Speaker 2: You and get it on God.
Speaker 1: And when you turn your focus on God, that's called praise,
Speaker 1: that's called worship.
Speaker 2: And when your.
Speaker 1: Focusing on how big God is, it shrinks the size
Speaker 1: of your problems. Now, the closer I get to God,
Speaker 1: the more confident.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be in life.
Speaker 1: The further away I get from God, the more scared, frightened, insecured,
Speaker 1: and worried I'm going to be. Why, Because you lose
Speaker 1: your fear when God is near. When you're far away
Speaker 1: from God, it all depends on you if it's to
Speaker 1: be it's up to me. No, it's not just up
Speaker 1: to you. God says, you don't need to be frayed.
Speaker 1: I'll help you. You lose your fear when God is near,
Speaker 1: so by focusing in your mind. One of the best
Speaker 1: ways to do it is through music on God. It
Speaker 1: shrinks the size of your problem and enlarges the sight.
Speaker 1: The bigger God gets in your life, the smaller your
Speaker 1: problems become. We have a Christmas party in our cul
Speaker 1: de Sac every year, our neighborhood, and we invite the
Speaker 1: whole neighborhood. And I was talking to one of our
Speaker 1: neighbor's Sunday night out on the cul de Sac, and
Speaker 1: he said, you know, Rick, when I was going through
Speaker 1: the darkest days of fear in my life, he said,
Speaker 1: I went on TV and saw one of those by
Speaker 1: ten Time Life CD you know, collection of great Christian
Speaker 1: worship songs, praise songs, contemporary praise. So he said, I
Speaker 1: bought the whole set, the Time Life series, and for
Speaker 1: the next several months, I just listened to music that
Speaker 1: helped me focus on God rather than on my fears.
Speaker 1: And he said, it not only comforted me, it made
Speaker 1: me courageous.
Speaker 2: It gave me courage.
Speaker 1: Now, any of you who've ever gone through a tough
Speaker 1: time and then listened to music that helped you get
Speaker 1: the focus on God.
Speaker 2: Know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: My youngest son, after struggling with mental illness and entire life,
Speaker 1: took his life. It was the worst day of my life,
Speaker 1: our family's life. And for months after that can I
Speaker 1: didn't even want to turn on the TV. The pain
Speaker 1: and the grief was so intense in our lives. But
Speaker 1: what we did do is fill our house and our
Speaker 1: car and our lives with worship music that helped us
Speaker 1: focus on God, and it gave us comfort, and it
Speaker 1: gave us courage. Do you know what Mary did when
Speaker 1: she was so frightened about the job that God had
Speaker 1: given her. She wrote a song and sang it. And
Speaker 1: that song, called Mary's Song, is actually in the Bible.
Speaker 1: Part of it is there on your outline, Luke, chapter one.
Speaker 1: Then Mary sang, this is how she dealt with her fears.
Speaker 1: Then Mary sang, with all my heart, I praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: I rejoice in God, my Savior, for he notices me.
Speaker 1: He cares for me, a simple servant girl. He has
Speaker 1: blessed me. And He is the mighty one. The bigger
Speaker 1: God gets in your mind, the small your problems get.
Speaker 2: He is the mighty one. Your fear shrink who is Holy.
Speaker 1: He's all powerful, he can do anything, He meets all
Speaker 1: our needs, and he keeps all our promises.
Speaker 2: It is no accident.
Speaker 1: That Christmas is the most musical of all holidays. No
Speaker 1: other holiday in the planet comes close to having the
Speaker 1: most songs. There are literally thousands and thousands of Christmas songs.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are some stations they start playing Christmas
Speaker 1: music and a lot August, you know, and by that
Speaker 1: time you're sick of it, you know, and they just
Speaker 1: keep playing it. Why Because at the first Christmas everybody sang.
Speaker 1: Mary sang to get rid of her fears, Elizabeth sang
Speaker 1: to get rid of her fears, the angels sang, the
Speaker 1: shepherds sang. Even Zachariah writes a song. It's in the Bible.
Speaker 1: I highly recommend that you do that, that you start
Speaker 1: listening to music that builds you up, not tears you down.
Speaker 1: It focuses on the solution, not the problems in life. Finally,
Speaker 1: there's the fourth way to defeat your fears. Base my
Speaker 1: hope on the promises of God. Let me ask you
Speaker 1: personal question, what do you put your hope in? What
Speaker 1: gives you any hope for next?
Speaker 2: Year.
Speaker 1: If I don't put my hope in myself, I don't
Speaker 1: put my hope in the economy. I certainly don't put
Speaker 1: my hope in any politician. I don't put my hope
Speaker 1: in political correctness or conventional wisdom, or public opinion or
Speaker 1: cultural values. I put my hope in what God has
Speaker 1: promised in his word right here now? Did you know
Speaker 1: that in this book, the Bible? In this book there
Speaker 1: are over seven thousand, seven thousand promises of God from
Speaker 1: God to you.
Speaker 2: Do you even know one of them?
Speaker 1: It would be silly to go through life not knowing
Speaker 1: what God has promised to do in your life. That's
Speaker 1: why you're filled with anxiety. You know, if I were
Speaker 1: to have us major surgery needed and I was worried
Speaker 1: can I afford this? I'd go get my insurance policy,
Speaker 1: my medical policy, look it up, and if the policy
Speaker 1: says this procedure's covered, I don't sweat it because I'm
Speaker 1: not going to pay for it. Because the insurance company
Speaker 1: has promised to pay for it. So I'm not anxious.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried. Even if it's a million dollar surgery,
Speaker 1: They'll handle it. The reason you are fearful and anxious
Speaker 1: and worried is you don't know what's in the policy
Speaker 1: manual right here. You don't know what's in here. And
Speaker 1: so in this book there are promises from God to
Speaker 1: you about your finances.
Speaker 2: Did you know that?
Speaker 1: About your health, about your sex life, about your relationships,
Speaker 1: about your career, about your past, your present, your future,
Speaker 1: about forgiveness of sind about eternal life. They're all there,
Speaker 1: but if you don't know them, you can't claim them.
Speaker 1: They're like somebody writing you a billion dollar check and
Speaker 1: you never cash it. The fourth key to overcoming fear
Speaker 1: in your life is to stop listening to the things
Speaker 1: around you and start focusing on what God has promised
Speaker 1: to do in your life. This is what gave Mary confidence.
Speaker 1: Elizabeth noticed this, and in Luke chapter one, Elizabeth said
Speaker 1: to Mary, you are blessed because you believed that the
Speaker 1: Lord would do what he said. You believe God will
Speaker 1: keep his promises. That's what gave this young peasant girl
Speaker 1: enormous confidence in the face of an incredibly fearful situation.
Speaker 1: She believed God would keep his word. And when you
Speaker 1: start doing that, you will be blessed too. Now, as
Speaker 1: a pastor, I want you to be blessed. It's why
Speaker 1: I do this. It's why I'm teaching all these services today.
Speaker 1: Nobody pays me to do this. I do it because
Speaker 1: I want you to be blessed. I want you to
Speaker 1: be fearless. And saw I'm fifty six. David says this.
Speaker 1: When I'm afraid, I put my trust in God. And
Speaker 1: when I put my trust in God, I'm not afraid. Well, duh,
Speaker 1: it's kind of obvious there.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 1: I praise him for what he has what promise circle
Speaker 1: that word. I praise him for what he's promised. Now,
Speaker 1: as I said, they're over seven thousand promises in this
Speaker 1: book from God to you. And if you've gone through
Speaker 1: life not knowing these promises, you've had.
Speaker 2: A lot of worry.
Speaker 1: You've had a lot of fear, You've got a lot
Speaker 1: of frustration, fatigue, and failure too. I don't have time
Speaker 1: to go through seven thousand promises. Let me just give
Speaker 1: you on Christmas the most important one. It's the promise
Speaker 1: that when you die you can go to heaven if
Speaker 1: you trust in the sun that he sent at Christmas.
Speaker 1: That's called the promise of eternal Life. It's in John
Speaker 1: chapter three, verse sixteen, the most famous verse in the Bible.
Speaker 1: You've seen posters John three sixteen, probably at every football
Speaker 1: game in your life. And here's what it says. Look
Speaker 1: up here on the screen. For God so loved the world.
Speaker 1: He did it out of love, not out of anger
Speaker 1: fear of judgment. God so loved the world that includes me,
Speaker 1: that includes you. God so loved you that he gave
Speaker 1: his one and only son. That's what Christmas is all about.
Speaker 1: He comes to earth in the form of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: He gave his one and only son that whoever believes
Speaker 1: in him. Notice, then say believe and be perfect, believe
Speaker 1: and never sin. He just says, believe. Whoever believes in him,
Speaker 1: that's the one condition, shall not perish, but have eternal life.
Speaker 1: That's the greatest promise. Now, Jesus Christ came to earth
Speaker 1: at Christmas to die for your sins, so you don't
Speaker 1: have to pay for your sins. He was hung on
Speaker 1: the cross, so you can quit hanging yourself on a
Speaker 1: cross and feeling regret and resentment and rejection and shame
Speaker 1: and all that guilt stuff like that. But Jesus didn't
Speaker 1: just come to earth to forgive your sins. That's part
Speaker 1: of it. He didn't just come to earth to get
Speaker 1: you into heaven. If you've trust in him, he also
Speaker 1: came to eliminate your fears.
Speaker 2: Here and now, last verse on the screen, it says this.
Speaker 1: Jesus came to die for us so that he could
Speaker 1: free us from living all our lives as slaves to
Speaker 1: the fear of death. That's the universal fear, because the
Speaker 1: last time I checked, the mortality rate in the world
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: We're all going to die someday. Now.
Speaker 1: It would be foolish, really, it would be foolish to
Speaker 1: go all through life unprepared for what you know is inevitable.
Speaker 1: That's called denial. Friend, are you ready to die? You're
Speaker 1: not ready to live till you're ready to die. Do
Speaker 1: you know what's going to happen to you after you die?
Speaker 1: Have you believed so that you might have eternal life?
Speaker 2: That's the whole purpose Christmas.
Speaker 1: It's why the whole world's going to shut down tomorrow
Speaker 1: and celebrate, because God's flit history into eighty and BC.
Speaker 1: The last line of that famous carol, A Little Count
Speaker 1: in Bethlehem goes like this, The hopes and fears of
Speaker 1: all the years are met in thee you Jesus.
Speaker 2: Tonight, I'm going.
Speaker 1: To close this with what I call a fear not prayer.
Speaker 1: And if you've ever had any anxiety and problems like that, the.
Speaker 2: Stress in your life's been building.
Speaker 1: God, I highly recommend you pray this prayer that you
Speaker 1: begin the journey of getting to know God.
Speaker 2: This Christmas.
Speaker 1: Why celebrate Christmas if you don't know the God who
Speaker 1: sent his son.
Speaker 2: That didn't make sense. Why celebrate Christmas and not open.
Speaker 1: Up his gift to you? So let's bow our heads
Speaker 1: for prayer right now. And as I pray this prayer,
Speaker 1: you can just in your mind go meet to God.
Speaker 1: You don't have to actually say the words. What matters
Speaker 1: is the attitude of humility. It says God, I need you.
Speaker 1: So just pray this. Dear God. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be fearful. I want my life to be full of faith,
Speaker 1: not fear. And I admit that I've struggled with some
Speaker 1: of these fears inadequacy and the fear of disapproval, and
Speaker 1: the fear of change, and the fear of losing control,
Speaker 1: and the fear of being disappointed. And I've been afraid
Speaker 1: to believe. I've been afraid to trust. I've been afraid
Speaker 1: to hope. I've been afraid of you, and yet you say,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid. So starting today, I want to surrender
Speaker 1: my life completely to you. Every day, Your God, I'm
Speaker 1: not I want what you want for my life. You
Speaker 1: know it'll make me happy more than anybody else. Will
Speaker 1: help me to stop listening to the voices of fear,
Speaker 1: to hang out with people of faith, Help me to
Speaker 1: fill my mind with music that gets the focus off
Speaker 1: me and onto you, and help me to base my
Speaker 1: hope not on some flimsy idea, but on the rock
Speaker 1: solid promises of God. Lord, You've said that if I
Speaker 1: believe in your son, I will not perish but have
Speaker 1: eternal life.
Speaker 2: I want that, and so right now.
Speaker 1: As best as I know how I say, I ask
Speaker 1: you to accept me into your family. I humbly ask
Speaker 1: you to accept me in your family. Jesus Christ. I
Speaker 1: don't understand it all, but as much as I know how,
Speaker 1: I open my life up to you. I want to
Speaker 1: get to know you, and I want to know your
Speaker 1: purpose God for my life. And I humbly ask this
Speaker 1: in your name.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 1: If you prayed that prayer for the very first time.
Speaker 1: Would you let me know about it? Write me Rick
Speaker 1: at pastor Rick dot com and say, Rick, I prayed
Speaker 1: that prayer of commitment and I'll send you some material
Speaker 1: that will help you on your journey with Jesus, and
Speaker 1: I'll also pray for you. Wow, some powerful words from
Speaker 1: Pastor Wreck And now here's Rick with a very special message.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, everybody. Do you even know why we give
Speaker 1: Christmas gifts to each other? It's because God gave the
Speaker 1: first Christmas gift, the gift of his son. God has
Speaker 1: been using you and your generous support to literally transform
Speaker 1: the lives of so many people who've never heard about
Speaker 1: the hope that we have in Jesus Christ. We couldn't
Speaker 1: do any of this without you. Without your support, we're
Speaker 1: one hundred percent listener funded, and I want to thank
Speaker 1: you for being obedient to God. When he tells you
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Speaker 1: after month after month that God multiplies, and thanks to
Speaker 1: all of you, we are reaching more and more people
Speaker 1: with the good news every day. So let me just say,
Speaker 1: at this time of the year, I want to appreciate
Speaker 1: your partnership in this ministry. Any success that we have
Speaker 1: is because God working through us together. Your prayers make
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you to do. Would you continue to
Speaker 1: pray for me? I really need your prayers. Pray that
Speaker 1: God will give me just the right words to say
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