(293) “Running with the Fire” with Dorothy Riedford

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I saw there were like six horses and every one

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of them had a huge flame of fire around them.

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They weren't running through the fire. The fire

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was running with them. There's no way to separate

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yourself. Once you've allowed God to envelop

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you, literally, we are that horse running inside

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of his flame. God promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour

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out His Spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global

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Outpouring, where we contend for that promise

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outpouring, we equip for that outpouring, so

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that we may engage in that very outpouring. I'm

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Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to

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the podcast today. We have with us a lady that's

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becoming a friend, and her name is Dorothy Reedford,

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and she just... all of a sudden stopped in for

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a visit. And so we've been visiting at the table

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and said, these testimonies have to be shared.

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This isn't something that's just for us. So we're

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bringing her to you, listeners, so that you can

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be encouraged in your faith, knowing the faithfulness

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of God as she shares testimonies of how God has

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dealt with her in her life as she's been running

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with him, running with the fire. Thanks so much

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for joining us today. We're so glad that you're

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with us. And before we get started with our friend

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Dorothy, we want to encourage you, if you haven't

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got it on your calendar to plan to be with us

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at Convention 2026. We're going to be at the

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Hilton Hotel in St. Louis right at the airport,

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May 21st through 24th. It's going to be a life

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-changing time. going to be a time when you and

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your family can come and grow in the things of

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God and build relationships with people from

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the nations, with people that are going to be

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of like precious faith with you. So Dorothy,

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this is really an amazing thing that you have

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stopped by. You just contacted us yesterday and

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said, can I come by? And now here you are. Just

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driving through. Just passing through on my way

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home. Yes. And God has been taking you on a journey.

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Yes. And wow, I've just enjoyed story after story,

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testimony after testimony that you've shared

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with us today of the things that God has done

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in your life. So give us a little bit of background,

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first of all, about... where you were born, how

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you were raised, were you raised in a Christian

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home? How did things go? Okay. Well, I am Dorothy

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Reedford, and I live in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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And I was raised, born in California, in Sacramento.

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My dad was in the Air Force. And we had a Christian

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-based home, yes. My grandfather was a Methodist

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minister. He raised my dad to be Christian. My

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mom actually gave her life to the Lord because

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of his ministry. So she was 18 when she gave

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her life to the Lord. Glory to God. Well, that's

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wonderful. Hallelujah. But if you're the child

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of someone in the Air Force, you probably moved

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around a bit. We did. We did. I had my beginning

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in Taipei, Taiwan for kindergarten. And through

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the years and some of the experiences, I was

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in 19 schools, kindergarten through 12th grade.

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I loved it, though. I love traveling. Really?

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I love new people. I love new adventures. So

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it didn't break your heart every time you left

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your friends? I was sad. Yeah, I would be sad.

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I always knew there would be more friends around

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the next corner. Well, God designed you for this

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then. That's a good perspective. He did. That's

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tremendous. He did. And so at some point, you

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made your own commitment to the Lord. How was

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that? Yes. Well, I've had... Different experiences

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because when I was a little child, I just knew

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Jesus was real. He would speak to me. I didn't

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realize that other people didn't hear him talk

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to them like I heard him talk to me. I can hear

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Jesus just like I hear you guys talking to me.

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And so when I was little, I believed in Jesus.

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I know I was led to the Lord by my mom when I

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was four years old. I gave my heart to Jesus

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and she knew that I knew that. And then the next

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year. I helped witness to my brother. My brother

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gave his heart to the Lord when he was three.

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And my mom said she wanted to know if he, you

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know, verified that he really understood what

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he was getting into. And she said, well, how

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do you know you have Jesus in your heart? And

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he said, because it feels like warm, hot chocolate.

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Oh, wow. That is so cool. Yeah. And then I did

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have a few years where I just kind of I felt

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a little lost, but it wasn't Jesus that had wandered

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away. It was me. Right. And he, as soon as I

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was fully ready, he brought me right back in

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with open arms like he was waiting for me the

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whole time. Beautiful. Beautiful. He's so faithful.

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Faithful love. Oh, my. Yes. Yes. Yes. So tell

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us about his faithfulness to you when he really

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called you into walking with him. Tell us about

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that. Well. My first knowing that he was calling

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me into something kind of unique was when I was

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17 years old. I was awakened in the middle of

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the night and he told me to pray for somebody

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and I didn't know who that person was. And that

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led me on about a three year journey of just

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privately learning how intercessory prayer worked,

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just Holy Spirit teaching me. And after that,

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I had different experiences with churches and

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stuff. But then a lady minister invited me to

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come join her in Kentucky. And we had a ministry

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in the hotel that she and I managed. And we got

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to witness to truckers and we got to see miracles

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happen. People healed and set free from demons.

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And it was incredible. It was an incredible journey.

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Wow. So was that when you had a vehicle and the

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Lord told you to pray for your tires? Yes. Tell

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us that story. Yes. Actually, on my drive to

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Kentucky from Illinois, where we lived, the Lord,

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I was driving and just singing and worshiping

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and just, I love you, Lord, you know, things

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like that. And I just having a great praise party

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and I hear, pray for your tires. I was like,

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okay, I pray for my tires. My tires need prayer.

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And instantly I saw two demons on the right side

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of the road, right by the yellow line. One was

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tall and thin and the other one was round and

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short and stubby. And both of them had their

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arms long enough. They were just hanging. The

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back sides of the hands were hanging on the yellow

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line. And behind them were long talons. And they

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just glared at me as I passed by. And I said,

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oh. I really pray for my tires. And I know that

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had I not prayed for my tires, those shredded

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tires you see on the side of the road where people

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have their tires just like torn off their car,

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that is exactly what would have happened to my

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tires. Wow. So if you guys ever see that, I'm

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just warning you, you have the authority to pray

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for your vehicle, your tires, and protect yourself

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from these demons. You have angels that protect

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you, angels that warn you. And if you're told

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to pray for something, just obey. Beautiful.

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You know, that reminds me of a story that Sam

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Matthews told us, Dr. Sam Matthews. He's gone

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home to be with the Lord now, but he told us

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when, now he was a Baptist pastor and he came

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into the baptism in the Holy Spirit and he's

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learning all of this stuff about spiritual warfare,

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learning about prayer, learning about, you know,

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the deeper walk in the Spirit. I don't know if

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he had a vision or a dream, but he saw this situation

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where he and his wife would be in the car and

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they were on their way to a certain intersection.

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And he saw in the dream or the vision, this accident

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happened where this truck careened out of control

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and smashed into their car. And so they had to

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go someplace where they would pass this intersection.

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He said, you know, that they prayed together

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and they bound this thing, that it couldn't touch

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them. And so they cautiously went through this

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intersection. And he's saying, glory to God,

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we made it through this intersection. And then

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he looked in his rearview mirror and the truck

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that he had seen in the vision careened into

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the car behind him. So he learned from that that

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they needed to not only negate the thing that

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was an assignment against them, but to absolutely

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negate it, completely neutralize it so that it

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couldn't be used against anybody else. So that's

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a little clue for us that God really wants us

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to go deeper. in our intercession, that it's

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not just to protect me and mine, but you can

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extend the border of your mantle over those that

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are around you. You can pray for all the people

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that are on the road at the same time that you

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are. You can pray for, as you're going through

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a city, you can pray for the whole city, for

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God to move. Just let the Holy Spirit move in

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your prayer life. So true. So true. It's amazing.

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So you went to Kentucky and you were there for

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nine months? Yes, I was there helping in the

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ministry as well as managing the hotel that her

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son and a friend had bought for that nine month

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time period. And while I was there, I really

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felt God was telling me I needed to go to Europe.

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And when I was praying about it, I wanted to

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make sure it wasn't just me wishing to travel

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elsewhere. So you were in your 20s, right? I

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was. I was 23 years old at the time. So at that

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point in your life, it's really wisdom to sit

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back a little bit and make sure that you're not

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just wishful thinking, that this is really the

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Lord. So what did you do? Well, I asked the lady

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minister I was working with. Her name was Mary

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Johnson. And I asked her to please pray over

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this with me. Just wanted to make sure that I

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wasn't the only one hearing this. And she prayed

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about it. And not too long later, she said, yes,

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I. feel like God is telling you to go. She's

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like, I'll miss you, but if you got to go, you

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got to go. So then what happened? Well, I ended

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up selling my car, which was only like $900 worth,

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but it ended up paying off bills I had, but that

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took everything I had. And so I prayed more because

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I'm like, Lord, I don't have anything to work

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with here. And so I got a Greyhound bus ticket

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back home to my town in Illinois. How did you

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get the bus ticket if you had no money? Mary

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bought it for me. Oh, God bless Mary. I know.

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She believed in you. Yes, she did. She believed

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in the word of the Lord to you. Good. She did.

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And when I got back to the town, it was like

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Tuesday, and the next day was Wednesday, and

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we had Wednesday night service at the little

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Church of God I attended before I left for Kentucky.

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And God had told me as I prayed on my way back

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that I needed to ask the pastor to see if the

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church would help fund my trip to Europe. And

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to make sure that it was also God, right? Yes.

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And so I did. That Wednesday night I went in

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and I pulled him inside and I said, would you

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do me a favor? I said, I feel like God's asking

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me to go to Europe. I said, but I would like

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you to pray and get confirmation for me as well.

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That's wisdom. And I told him that my friend

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Mary had also received confirmation from the

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Lord. But I also had been told by the Father

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that if I would ask the church, whatever they

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gave me, that provision. would be what I needed

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to go to Europe with. So I asked the pastor this,

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and he said he would pray about it. So that Sunday

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morning, I hadn't heard from him yet, and he

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ended up coming in. We had our Sunday school.

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We had our church service. And it was interesting

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because I was like, okay, he hasn't said anything

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to me. He hasn't barely even looked at me. But

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I was sitting there and he said, well, we're

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going to go ahead and take our offering. And

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I was like, okay, Lord, maybe the answer was

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no. I'm just going to leave this alone. But then

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as service was ending, he said, you guys all

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know Dorothy. I just want to welcome her up here

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because God's given her a desire to go to Europe.

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And I prayed about it, and I feel like she's

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supposed to go. So the congregation and I both

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found out at the same time. And how big was the

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congregation? There were about 17 people, and

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that was including children at the time. And

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then he asked, he said, well, we're going to

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take up a love offering. And she feels that whatever

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she gets is what God's sending her to Europe

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with. So if you guys have anything to give, please

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give it. And they ended up raising $300. And

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I just was so... moved by that. Back in 1993,

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that was a lot of money. And it also was so touching

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that these people would be willing to give of

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themselves for me. Beautiful. Beautiful. And

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then what happened? Well, I ended up calling

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my stepdad like the next day and he said, well,

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we've already kind of figured out that you're

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coming. Okay. Where were they? They were in Bielsko

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-Biala, Poland. Oh, in Europe. In Europe. And

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that's another reason I wanted confirmation because

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I didn't want this to be a fleshly thing of me

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saying I just wanted to travel. And see family.

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Yeah. And Holy Spirit had already given them

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knowledge, a word of knowledge that I would be

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coming. And so he actually reached out to his

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cousin. who I didn't even know, and she worked

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for TWA, Trans World Airlines. We used to call

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it traveling with angels. Oh, cool. I like that.

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And she was able to get a buddy pass for me,

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and he paid for my buddy pass. It was $20. Isn't

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that amazing? I flew to Berlin from Chicago on

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$20. Wow. With $300 in your pocket. Yeah, I didn't

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have to spend it. My stepdad purchased the ticket

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for me. Wow. Wow. And then what happened next?

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Well, you landed in Berlin. I did. And what year

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was this? This is 1993. Okay. Five years after

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the Berlin Wall had fallen between East and West

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Germany. Right. And there were still portions

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of the wall there that you could see the evidence

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of. It was so moving to me. My heart just, it

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was powerful to know I could cross freely from

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West to East. Yes. And just five years earlier,

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it wouldn't have been possible. No, not at all.

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For them or for us. Yeah. The other way around.

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Yeah. Yeah. So that was a moving moment of reality

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for you. It really was. It truly was. And my

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stepdad, Dan Scalf, is who I'm talking about.

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He's always been such a powerful prayer warrior

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and significant supporter of my spiritual walk.

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And I'm just so grateful for him. That's wonderful.

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He and my mom were willing to come pick me up.

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And we ended up going to a cafe for dinner. And

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from that cafe window, I could see the Berlin

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Wall. And I was on the east side of the wall.

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And it just, it was powerful. It was powerful

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to realize that God brought me here and he had

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called me there. Yes. And I didn't know why.

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Well, then when we finished lunch at the cafe,

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we went about two blocks and turned the corner.

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And it came to a T because there was a walkway

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and a wall because there was a canal on the other

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side of that wall. And as we turned the corner,

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there was a terrible scene. There was a bombing

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that had happened. A car bomb had been thrown

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into a police officer's open window. So his sirens

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were going, but it didn't matter because he had

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plowed into tourists and the tourists had flown.

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Some had flown over the boat. One guy was laying

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there with... both thighs broken on a tourist

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boat below. And there was just chaotic scene.

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There were people screaming and crying and running

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and trying to help others that were bleeding

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because the car had plowed into other people

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walking. It had happened so, so soon while we

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were eating lunch that there was no help yet.

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There were no other police officers, no ambulance,

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nothing yet. But once the ambulance came and

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started helping people, we went ahead and went

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down the back alley and kind of got our way out

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of there. But we prayed. We just prayed for an

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hour or so for all those people. Wow. And if

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you had gotten there a moment or two sooner,

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you'd have been in the middle of it. Had we not

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stopped for eating at the cafe, we don't know.

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It might have been us. Yeah. Wow. It was very

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eye -opening. It was just like, wow, okay, Lord,

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I'm not here for playing. This is for real. Yes.

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It was a reality check, wasn't it? A big one,

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yeah. Wow. Yeah. So then you got to Poland. Yeah.

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We got to enjoy some time. My mom and I kind

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of got a little bit of a reestablishment in our

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relationship, and we got to do some small trips

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together. And then my stepdad let me know that

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they were going to be going to the Moscow Bible

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School and turning in the van that they had and

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giving it as a gift, donating it to the Bible

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School because they needed it. That we would

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be going there, but we needed to take the train

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back. Knowing my funds were limited, my mom said

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to me, she said, we're here on other people's

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money. You know, people support us and they don't

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support you. So you need to pay for yourself.

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If you're going to buy that ticket, you're either

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going to use some of your $300 or you're going

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to need to ask God for some more money. And I

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started praying. I'm like, Lord, I don't want

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to break into this money. I don't know how long

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you've got me here. I don't know. Yeah, it was

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open -ended, right? It was open -ended. I actually

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had got rid of everything, gotten rid of all

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my clothing, everything except for one suitcase

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with clothing and shoes and one suitcase with

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my Bible and some notebooks and books I wanted

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to read and all my pens. Wow. Yeah. So I wasn't

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sure how that was going to happen. But, you know,

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you got to pray and you got to trust God because

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he got me that far. So I knew he had a plan.

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So you decided to go with your parents. I did.

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We ended up having a beautiful trip up through

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Poland, up through Belarus and into Moscow. It's

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crazy in Moscow, the driving back in even 1993,

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there were like 14 lanes across. It was only

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supposed to be like four or five lanes wide.

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And they were like, they made 14 lanes. People

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were just willy nilly everywhere. Kind of lawlessness,

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huh? It is a little bit. Yeah, it was. It was

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kind of funny because you never know what you're

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going to do. I had an ice cream cone that was

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dripping really bad. So I sat down Indian style

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in Red Square in Moscow and sat there eating

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with it dripping out in front of me. And some

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Asian tourists took pictures of me. So somewhere

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in this world, there's pictures of me eating

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ice cream in Red Square in Moscow. I think you're

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Russian, you know. Something. Wow. That's amazing.

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So then you're at this Bible school. You don't

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know if you're going to have to break into your

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$300. Then what happened? Well... That was the

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second day that the Moscow McDonald's had opened.

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They had opened the day before. And as we were

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sitting at breakfast, we were all discussing

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what we were going to do. And my stepdad's very

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gregarious and just real personable. And he had

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gotten to know quite a few people. And these

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three American pastors had come and sat at the

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table with us for breakfast at the Bible school

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before our day got started. He had, I guess when

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I got up to go to the bathroom or something,

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had said something to these pastors because this

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one pastor had come up to me on the bus. We had

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gotten off the bus at the McDonald's and he came

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up to me as I sat there and asked if he could

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sit with me. And he said, your stepdad said you've

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got quite a story. Why don't you sit down and

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tell me about it? I said, sure. So I ended up

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sitting there and sharing a meal with him at

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this beautiful. double -story McDonald's looking

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out over the street in Moscow. It was so surreal.

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And he asked about, you know, how I got there

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and explained some of the things that had happened

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and just how amazing it was. And how God works.

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And he was like, well, you know what? I'm so

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proud of you. I'm so happy you did that. He goes,

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I just want to give you something. He pulls out

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his wallet and hands me a $20 bill. And I'm like,

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okay, thank you so much. And so then we get back

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to the Bible school. And as we're walking around,

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I see this bench in this beautiful, almost park

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-like setting out in the campus area. So I sit

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down and just admire nature. And another one

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of the pastors from the morning breakfast comes

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up and sits down next to me. And I did forget

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to mention one of the God moments on the pastors.

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They were three pastors from three different

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states. coming over to see if their churches

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would be supporting this Bible school. And so

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that's why they were coming over to Moscow as

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well. And God had arranged them all to sit together

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on the airplane. They didn't even know each other

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beforehand, but had become fast friends on the

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plane. So this was pretty awesome. And none of

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them knew that the other one was doing this.

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Well, this pastor sits down next to me at the

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bench, and he... asks me to tell him my story.

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Because of your stepdad. Because of my stepdad.

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Again, he said, yeah, you said you've got quite

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a story. What's your story? And so I tell him

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and he's pretty awesome. He ends up telling me

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about his son who's interested in following God

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and that his daughter needed prayer. And it was

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interesting to, you know, just hear the personal

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level. of how people's stories kind of intermesh

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and interweave. And I guess I think that's kind

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of when I started seeing a little bit of the

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tapestry of life, you know? Oh, yes. Yeah. How

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it seems like a mess, but God pulls so many things

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together. Well, as we talked, he's like, well,

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thanks for sharing your story. And he pulls out

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his wallet and he has me another 20. And your

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fare was going to be? 60. Yeah. And that was

00:23:03.009 --> 00:23:05.049
just too much for you to think about taking out

00:23:05.049 --> 00:23:08.539
of here? Out of $300 now. Yeah. That afternoon,

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I had gone back to my room and then come back

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to dinner. And at dinner, that third American

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pastor had come to sit with us. And he asked

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me what my story was because my stepdad mentioning

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it. And again, I explained my story. And he said

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that he had been moved by God and he pulls just

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out of his shirt pocket. He just hands me. He

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goes, I wanted to give this to you. He goes,

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I want to bless you on your journey. By the end

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of one day, I had that $60 to get my train ride

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back the next afternoon. So each of them had

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been moved by God to give you $20. Individually,

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and none of them knew about each other doing

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so. I just love that. That's God. That's so encouraging.

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It is. So encouraging, because you're kind of

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out on a limb, so to speak. I am, because it

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was either use that money and be unsure or trust

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God. Yeah. I mean, we have to obey. Right. And

00:24:01.970 --> 00:24:06.009
it's important to listen. If it was time for

00:24:06.009 --> 00:24:08.569
me to use my money, I would have. Right. Then

00:24:08.569 --> 00:24:10.650
the Lord would have showed you that. He would

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have. And he would have given you the grace to

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do it. And he would have given you the faith

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that he's going to provide beyond it. But he

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doesn't hardly ever do the same thing twice.

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No, no, no. I've tested that one in the past.

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It's never happened the same again. Wow. Wow.

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So you rode the train back with your parents.

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I did. I did. And I ended up staying with them

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for... I think it was about another week and

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a half and a pastor and associate pastor from

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a church in Finspång, Sweden came by and they

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were just coming by to visit and on their way

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kind of thing, asked me what I was doing next.

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And I said, well, I don't know what I'm doing

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next. And so they invited me to ride along with

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them and it was quite a journey. We ended up

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having to help a horse that had been stuck in

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a barn fire. Oh, my. Along the way. It's incredible.

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The pastor and the associate pastor were bigger

00:25:07.059 --> 00:25:09.500
than me, but they were afraid of this huge, like,

00:25:09.539 --> 00:25:11.519
percheron -style horse. Oh, yeah, that's a big

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horse. And he had tried to get... away from the

00:25:14.940 --> 00:25:18.339
raging fire and his front half was over top of

00:25:18.339 --> 00:25:21.079
the gate that was locked and the back half of

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him was still on the other side. So I ended up

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getting him unwedged and pushed at the same time.

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And I ended up getting this gate unhooked and

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getting this horse back into his corral, which

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actually wasn't by the fire, thankfully. There

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were two horses that had been in the barn fire

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that had escaped. They ran past us the other

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way. But by the time we left and I... got that

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horse back in his actual corral, the fire trucks

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were starting to show up to spray out the fire.

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So it's just, you never know what you're going

00:25:50.680 --> 00:25:54.019
to have to encounter in life. Really? Wow. So

00:25:54.019 --> 00:25:56.319
had you had any previous experience with horses?

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Yeah. I mean, I've been around horses a lot.

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And one of my good friends in high school had

00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:04.740
horses, so I was able to ride a lot. So it wasn't

00:26:04.740 --> 00:26:06.859
a big deal to you to handle the horse? It was

00:26:06.859 --> 00:26:10.740
the biggest horse I'd ever seen in my life. I

00:26:10.740 --> 00:26:13.640
just prayed in tongues. Encourage the horse the

00:26:13.640 --> 00:26:17.819
other way. Wow. I love that. So then you went

00:26:17.819 --> 00:26:20.619
to Sweden. I did. I did. One of the main reasons

00:26:20.619 --> 00:26:23.160
the pastor was excited to have me join them was

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because they were going to be repainting the

00:26:25.180 --> 00:26:27.019
church and it was a pretty large building. So

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I was willing to help. God provided a place for

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me to stay. They had an apartment at the top

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of their home. And so I had a living room, a

00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:40.740
kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom and a sitting

00:26:40.740 --> 00:26:43.779
area for eating my meals if I would just help

00:26:43.779 --> 00:26:48.960
with their laundry. Wow. They fed me. They provided

00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:51.500
home for me. I stayed for three months. Wow.

00:26:51.660 --> 00:26:53.960
And all I had to do was their laundry. His wife

00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:57.380
hated doing laundry. Oh, my goodness. It was

00:26:57.380 --> 00:26:59.980
a beautiful place to be. It was a lovely experience.

00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:02.480
And I got to read some of my books and learn

00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:04.900
a bit more in my Bible and just kind of spend

00:27:04.900 --> 00:27:08.839
time with God there. Wow. Wow. That's a great

00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:12.000
thing for a young person to do. It is. So then

00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:14.579
what happened? You didn't stay? Well, the only

00:27:14.579 --> 00:27:17.579
other thing I do want to add to that is, to encourage

00:27:17.579 --> 00:27:19.799
those who are on a journey that feel like they're

00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:22.400
not getting where they want to be with God is

00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:25.319
seek the healing and help that you need. Because

00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:29.279
I also learned that no matter where I go, there

00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:33.099
I am. That's true. In the problems I was having,

00:27:33.259 --> 00:27:37.069
they were following me. Yeah. So my problem with

00:27:37.069 --> 00:27:39.390
the heart attitude, a little bit of anger issue,

00:27:39.529 --> 00:27:42.210
they didn't stay back in America. They followed

00:27:42.210 --> 00:27:46.130
me where I had gone. It's your own baggage. Yeah.

00:27:46.130 --> 00:27:50.049
Your inner baggage. Yeah. I think what I've really

00:27:50.049 --> 00:27:53.210
learned the most is just forgiveness is key.

00:27:53.809 --> 00:27:58.170
Absolutely. In order to grow into the loving

00:27:58.170 --> 00:28:00.109
person that God wants you to be, we've got to

00:28:00.109 --> 00:28:03.230
learn how to forgive others and ourselves. Very

00:28:03.230 --> 00:28:05.710
true. And receive the forgiveness that God gives.

00:28:06.250 --> 00:28:09.269
Very, very true. Well, where did God take you

00:28:09.269 --> 00:28:12.609
after Sweden? I ended up in the Czech Republic.

00:28:14.410 --> 00:28:17.890
uh sklenarska which is a little house that they

00:28:17.890 --> 00:28:20.630
had for a czech bible school that was kind of

00:28:20.630 --> 00:28:23.190
out in the middle of nowhere about four four

00:28:23.190 --> 00:28:27.650
miles from town and um they needed help with

00:28:27.650 --> 00:28:30.750
the housekeeping and cooking and so i learned

00:28:30.750 --> 00:28:34.069
how to cook for 60 people three meals a day it

00:28:34.069 --> 00:28:36.769
was actually really fun because and god has used

00:28:36.769 --> 00:28:39.029
that over the years to be able to just kind of

00:28:39.029 --> 00:28:42.690
you know cater parties or make sure things are

00:28:42.690 --> 00:28:45.539
still flowing If I end up at a banquet or something,

00:28:45.660 --> 00:28:47.960
I've really just enjoyed being able to just use

00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:52.039
what he taught me along the way. But during the

00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:54.680
time that I was at the Moscow Bible School, I

00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:58.579
had a coat. Oh, yes. This is a good story. That

00:28:58.579 --> 00:29:01.880
God had allowed me to fall in love with when

00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:05.160
I was still in the United States. taken my time

00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:07.960
and put it on layaway, spent three months or

00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:10.980
four months paying for this $99 wool coat. It

00:29:10.980 --> 00:29:13.259
was one of those, oh, I've got to have it kind

00:29:13.259 --> 00:29:16.240
of things. And that was one of the things I had

00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:19.599
saved room for in my suitcase. And when I ended

00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:22.559
up meeting one of the ladies at the Moscow Bible

00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:25.400
School, she was going to be graduating in like

00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:27.700
a couple of weeks and she was going to be heading

00:29:27.700 --> 00:29:32.750
straight. to Uzbekistan. And she said that it

00:29:32.750 --> 00:29:34.269
was going to be so cold there and she had no

00:29:34.269 --> 00:29:38.410
coat. And when I thought about my coat that I

00:29:38.410 --> 00:29:40.789
had in my suitcase, I thought, you know, I actually

00:29:40.789 --> 00:29:42.190
am going to need that because it's going to get

00:29:42.190 --> 00:29:45.009
cold. I got up to my room that night and Holy

00:29:45.009 --> 00:29:47.609
Spirit had asked me to give her my coat. And

00:29:47.609 --> 00:29:51.549
I said, I didn't want to give her my coat. That

00:29:51.549 --> 00:29:54.990
I had taken time to pay for that. And I wrestled

00:29:54.990 --> 00:29:56.809
for a couple of days. And finally, Father said,

00:29:56.869 --> 00:30:00.069
if you give her your coat. I will replace it.

00:30:00.569 --> 00:30:03.450
So I gave her my coat that morning and she just.

00:30:03.470 --> 00:30:06.109
At the last minute. It was like three minutes

00:30:06.109 --> 00:30:09.710
before they were leaving. I finally had obeyed.

00:30:09.849 --> 00:30:13.849
Well, thank God you did. I'm so grateful I did

00:30:13.849 --> 00:30:16.670
because she just, she fell into a pile weeping

00:30:16.670 --> 00:30:19.250
just because that was really her greatest need.

00:30:19.470 --> 00:30:22.369
It really was her greatest need. And it was a

00:30:22.369 --> 00:30:24.390
coat that would really keep her warm. It was

00:30:24.390 --> 00:30:29.079
a long wool coat. Beautiful. So I'm in the Czech

00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:32.900
Republic, and I'm helping, just serving. I've

00:30:32.900 --> 00:30:34.799
only been in the Czech Republic about three weeks

00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:39.059
at this point. And a lady came who was one of

00:30:39.059 --> 00:30:42.740
the Bible school head people. His mom, she had

00:30:42.740 --> 00:30:48.259
come to visit. Day after she arrived, she called

00:30:48.259 --> 00:30:51.339
me up to her room, which was a sweet little room

00:30:51.339 --> 00:30:53.779
up at the very top, kind of a little secreted

00:30:53.779 --> 00:30:58.579
room at the top of a staircase. And she said,

00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:02.480
I just wanted to give you something. She said,

00:31:02.500 --> 00:31:06.259
God made me bring this with me. And as we were

00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:10.660
talking, she started uncovering this beautiful

00:31:10.660 --> 00:31:17.609
mink coat. Oh, wow. And I said, I kind of caught

00:31:17.609 --> 00:31:19.869
my breath and she said, well, God told me to

00:31:19.869 --> 00:31:21.990
bring it. She said, I didn't know who he was

00:31:21.990 --> 00:31:24.589
going to go to until I saw you yesterday. And

00:31:24.589 --> 00:31:28.750
he said, it was you. He replaced my coat with

00:31:28.750 --> 00:31:31.410
a beautiful mink coat from one of the best furriers

00:31:31.410 --> 00:31:37.410
in Sweden. Wow. Yep. God is so faithful. He is.

00:31:37.569 --> 00:31:41.410
And he doesn't, I remember Sister Gwen, our founder

00:31:41.410 --> 00:31:44.150
used to say, and she was quoting her dad, that

00:31:44.150 --> 00:31:48.089
God is no man's debtor. And that whatever you

00:31:48.089 --> 00:31:50.490
give to God, he'll give back to you, but he has

00:31:50.490 --> 00:31:55.390
a bigger shovel. So true. So true. Like he's

00:31:55.390 --> 00:31:59.490
dumping gold. Beautiful. Yeah, it was incredible.

00:31:59.910 --> 00:32:03.589
God is so faithful. Yes. I just love that. Tell

00:32:03.589 --> 00:32:05.730
us some more stories about his faithfulness that

00:32:05.730 --> 00:32:09.910
you've experienced. Oh, well, he is definitely

00:32:09.910 --> 00:32:13.069
faithful when it comes to finances. Anytime that

00:32:13.069 --> 00:32:15.390
he has called me to do something. Oh, wait a

00:32:15.390 --> 00:32:18.210
minute. Did you finish what happened in Europe?

00:32:18.390 --> 00:32:21.970
You were there for 10 months. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

00:32:22.089 --> 00:32:23.789
You were there for 10 months. How many nations

00:32:23.789 --> 00:32:27.190
did you go to? Ten. And how much money did you

00:32:27.190 --> 00:32:30.150
come back with when you left? When I came home,

00:32:30.289 --> 00:32:33.009
I came back with one of the original $100 bills

00:32:33.009 --> 00:32:35.509
not spent. Isn't that amazing? Not even broken.

00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:39.700
Look at that. $200, 10 countries, 10 months.

00:32:41.180 --> 00:32:43.000
Faithfulness of God. I remember our founder,

00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:46.359
Sister Gwen, went to, it was Indonesia. Yeah.

00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:49.140
And the Lord spoke to her, says, you're not going

00:32:49.140 --> 00:32:51.480
to have to buy anything. Yeah, she was going

00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:53.680
to change money. Change money. At the airport.

00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:55.460
And she didn't have a lot of money anyway. No.

00:32:55.880 --> 00:32:57.960
Yeah, she went on the shoestring, says, going

00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:00.640
to change money. And she changed just enough

00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:04.519
money to buy some stamps. And then later, somebody.

00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:08.519
I think gave her some stamps. And she didn't

00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:11.160
have to use any of her money at all. God took

00:33:11.160 --> 00:33:14.099
care of everything. She wouldn't have even had

00:33:14.099 --> 00:33:18.279
to buy the stamps. But that was just God's faithfulness.

00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:21.680
Right. Yeah. So tell some more stories about

00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:25.859
his faithfulness. Well, right now I'm on a journey.

00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:29.640
I've been gone since October 27th, and today

00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:33.640
is November 24th. And he told me to go on a 29

00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:35.980
-day journey. So I'll be going home tomorrow.

00:33:36.940 --> 00:33:39.980
And when I left home, I really didn't have much

00:33:39.980 --> 00:33:41.900
in the bank account to leave with. I shouldn't

00:33:41.900 --> 00:33:43.640
have left. If you were going to look at man's

00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:46.599
standards, I shouldn't have left. And the day

00:33:46.599 --> 00:33:50.339
before I left on the biggest part of the journey

00:33:50.339 --> 00:33:53.680
that he sent me on, there was four times my husband's

00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:56.960
paycheck in our bank account. Wow. Glory to God.

00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:59.200
It just showed up. It just showed up. And my

00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:01.099
husband has no idea why that money was there.

00:34:03.500 --> 00:34:06.920
I love it. It's been a blessing for me and for

00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:08.739
other people because I've been able to share

00:34:08.739 --> 00:34:12.800
the wealth. Glory to God. He's so faithful. He's

00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:17.000
so faithful. Tell about the perfume. That's such

00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:20.840
a sweet story. It's a sweet thing. Back in December

00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:23.719
of 2020, I gave my heart back to Jesus. I had

00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:25.679
been kind of wandering for about eight years.

00:34:26.199 --> 00:34:30.730
And during the time that... that was happening

00:34:30.730 --> 00:34:34.150
i was really really depressed and honestly december

00:34:34.150 --> 00:34:36.389
17th i was either going to kill myself or i was

00:34:36.389 --> 00:34:38.730
going to give my heart back to jesus fully wow

00:34:38.730 --> 00:34:41.730
those were my two options i was really at rock

00:34:41.730 --> 00:34:45.530
bottom the good thing is i found that the rock

00:34:45.530 --> 00:34:49.429
at the bottom is the rock of jesus he is the

00:34:49.429 --> 00:34:52.750
solid rock and it took me about three months

00:34:52.750 --> 00:34:58.309
of of going through learning who he saw me as

00:34:58.309 --> 00:35:00.750
before I would even believe that he loved me.

00:35:01.409 --> 00:35:03.889
I couldn't receive love. I couldn't accept love

00:35:03.889 --> 00:35:06.949
at the time. I was really just in a broken state

00:35:06.949 --> 00:35:11.809
of mind. And when he finally started convincing

00:35:11.809 --> 00:35:15.460
me that he loved me, it was number one. absolutely

00:35:15.460 --> 00:35:18.900
necessary for where i am today yes and where

00:35:18.900 --> 00:35:22.119
we all need to be in receiving his love but as

00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:25.280
i was going through the bible and especially

00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:27.920
the book of proverbs and he said he calls us

00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:32.659
his beloved i hated that i i'm gonna be honest

00:35:32.659 --> 00:35:35.840
it was like hearing somebody call their girlfriend

00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:39.710
baby Come on, baby, baby, baby. You know, I just,

00:35:39.809 --> 00:35:42.570
I find it so offensive. And I was literally offended

00:35:42.570 --> 00:35:45.250
when I would read the word beloved in the Bible.

00:35:45.670 --> 00:35:50.050
And I was writing out the Proverbs and that I

00:35:50.050 --> 00:35:52.389
came to those words. And every time I did, I

00:35:52.389 --> 00:35:53.989
would leave it blank. I wouldn't even write it.

00:35:54.050 --> 00:35:56.570
I would, I literally told God, I said, God, I

00:35:56.570 --> 00:35:59.570
cannot, I can't, I can't stand you calling me

00:35:59.570 --> 00:36:02.889
that. And finally, one day, Holy Spirit says

00:36:02.889 --> 00:36:07.469
to me, he says, Dorothy, I said, what? Yes, I

00:36:07.469 --> 00:36:12.349
had an attitude. I said, what? And he said, you

00:36:12.349 --> 00:36:14.690
love words, right? And I said, yes, I do. You

00:36:14.690 --> 00:36:17.750
know I do. He says, well, can you do me a favor?

00:36:17.929 --> 00:36:21.809
I'm like, what? And he said, can you break it

00:36:21.809 --> 00:36:26.570
apart? I said, what? He said, can you be loved?

00:36:27.210 --> 00:36:32.070
Be loved. I said, I don't know if I can. I don't

00:36:32.070 --> 00:36:34.900
know if I want to. I'd been hurt so many times

00:36:34.900 --> 00:36:38.920
by so many people. And he said, I'm not a man

00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:43.880
that I should lie. And I had to get to that point

00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:47.179
where I believed him, that he really truly is

00:36:47.179 --> 00:36:50.519
not the man and the men and the women who have

00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:55.199
lied and hurt me. And so I finally got to a place

00:36:55.199 --> 00:37:00.039
that I love to be his beloved. And he is mine.

00:37:01.380 --> 00:37:04.079
Amen. Song of Solomon, I am my beloved and he

00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:09.000
is mine. My beloved is mine. Yes. So from that,

00:37:09.059 --> 00:37:12.639
he started giving me times where I would have

00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:14.639
an outfit on and he'd be like pointing something

00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:17.300
out in my closet with more flower, more color,

00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:19.800
more beauty. And he'd be like, don't you want

00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:22.710
to wear that? And so I'd be like, I'm just going

00:37:22.710 --> 00:37:26.449
to the grocery store. And so, but I would change

00:37:26.449 --> 00:37:28.070
clothes because of course it's a cute outfit

00:37:28.070 --> 00:37:30.630
or whatever. So I'd change into it and he would

00:37:30.630 --> 00:37:33.159
be like. Well, why don't you go over there to

00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:35.199
that coffee shop? Or why don't you go over there

00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:37.420
and have lunch over there? I hadn't intended

00:37:37.420 --> 00:37:39.519
on staying out and having coffee or staying out

00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:42.000
and having a lunch. But he would take it and

00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.079
he would turn it into a date with Jesus. Okay.

00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:49.280
So if anybody sees my Facebook posts, they would

00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:52.059
see that I have occasionally. One of the only

00:37:52.059 --> 00:37:54.739
things I actually post are Facebook dates with

00:37:54.739 --> 00:37:58.599
Jesus. Oh, sweet. So he would take those moments

00:37:58.599 --> 00:38:01.219
and he would highlight somebody, either my waiter

00:38:01.219 --> 00:38:04.960
or waitress or a server across the room or a

00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:07.559
person that's sitting there eating. And he would

00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:10.360
have me find out their name and write an acrostic

00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:14.139
word for them about their name or about their

00:38:14.139 --> 00:38:16.719
identity in him or about who he sees them as.

00:38:16.900 --> 00:38:19.239
So an acrostic, just explain that for somebody

00:38:19.239 --> 00:38:21.780
who doesn't understand. So like if your name

00:38:21.780 --> 00:38:24.960
is Laura, I would take the name. But I would

00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:27.059
spell it all the way down like I was writing

00:38:27.059 --> 00:38:29.360
a paragraph. So each line is a different letter.

00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:34.599
So you take L. Let me give an example. L -A -U

00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:41.480
-R -A. Love isn't always what we expect. Usually

00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:47.559
you see rightly after God's love hits your heart.

00:38:48.860 --> 00:38:51.559
Something like that. So it would be the word

00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:54.000
Laura written straight down instead of across.

00:38:54.980 --> 00:38:58.280
And then a word would be given from those letters.

00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:03.159
Yes. That's so beautiful. So he would give me

00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:06.159
those moments, and it would just encourage me

00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:09.340
also, not just those people. I can't tell you

00:39:09.340 --> 00:39:12.179
how many places I've gone. I don't even remember

00:39:12.179 --> 00:39:15.579
who it was I got the word for. But if it's a

00:39:15.579 --> 00:39:17.659
server, they'll open up their little book and

00:39:17.659 --> 00:39:20.719
they'll say, see, look, I still have it. And

00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:23.440
I couldn't believe they would remember me because

00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:26.340
a lot of times I would sneak out. Like I didn't

00:39:26.340 --> 00:39:28.849
want them to know who had left it. Well, one

00:39:28.849 --> 00:39:31.849
day I was writing and I like to use little Sharpie

00:39:31.849 --> 00:39:33.829
markers and it's got a little stand and it flips

00:39:33.829 --> 00:39:37.030
up and then the whole marker package stands there.

00:39:37.070 --> 00:39:39.389
Well, one day I looked over and there's the little

00:39:39.389 --> 00:39:42.650
muted rectangle and inside is the shiny word

00:39:42.650 --> 00:39:45.309
Sharpie. And I was like, I never paid attention

00:39:45.309 --> 00:39:48.030
to that before. And Jesus said, well, that's

00:39:48.030 --> 00:39:50.610
what I call you. Oh. I said, what do you mean?

00:39:50.650 --> 00:39:53.190
He said, your nickname. I call you Sharpie. Oh,

00:39:53.250 --> 00:39:56.230
that's sweet. And I said, well, I don't think

00:39:56.230 --> 00:39:59.119
that's a good. thing is it a sharpie i mean all

00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:01.219
i had ever heard was like a pool sharp or something

00:40:01.219 --> 00:40:03.679
you know somebody who's kind of a scammer and

00:40:03.679 --> 00:40:06.300
he said well look it up so i go to look it up

00:40:06.300 --> 00:40:09.320
and he goes look it up in the slang in the american

00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:13.039
slang dictionary a sharpie is an ostentatiously

00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:20.539
stylish person oh and i love fashion i love Dressing

00:40:20.539 --> 00:40:23.619
up and just, you know, feeling freely. And he

00:40:23.619 --> 00:40:27.159
would encourage you to dress up nicely. Yeah.

00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:31.760
So it's so fun. So this cruise ended up becoming

00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:35.199
an ultimate date with Jesus. I ended up going

00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:38.300
on a cruise just a few days ago, getting off

00:40:38.300 --> 00:40:41.699
the cruise, I should say. And it was a revelation

00:40:41.699 --> 00:40:45.500
of a promise that he had given to me years ago.

00:40:45.619 --> 00:40:48.840
But during that cruise, I smelled the smell.

00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:51.619
And it was this beautiful perfume kind of smell.

00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:54.280
Well, I smelled it two times in the first day.

00:40:54.380 --> 00:40:56.659
And then finally that evening, I was like, is

00:40:56.659 --> 00:40:59.099
there a perfume shop around here somewhere? And

00:40:59.099 --> 00:41:00.860
one of the stewards was like, yes, there is.

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So I ended up going down and finding this perfume

00:41:04.539 --> 00:41:07.420
shop, sniff bottle after bottle. And I finally,

00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:10.199
about the sixth one, I found it, the smell that

00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:14.300
I'd been smelling. And it was a perfume called

00:41:14.300 --> 00:41:20.219
I Want You. C -H -O -O. And it was made by Jimmy

00:41:20.219 --> 00:41:22.420
Choo. Well, I didn't pay attention. I just thought

00:41:22.420 --> 00:41:24.460
that was so cute. And I bought the perfume and

00:41:24.460 --> 00:41:26.860
I get it back to my room. And as I open it and

00:41:26.860 --> 00:41:29.059
pull it out, it's a gold bottle, which, you know,

00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:31.400
God in his royalty, all that gold is beautiful.

00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:35.740
And on the front of it, all it says is JC. Yes.

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So it's put there by Jimmy too, but we know it

00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:43.039
means Jesus Christ. He made me search out that

00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:46.780
scent and it was just added in addition to just

00:41:46.780 --> 00:41:49.440
the beautiful time that I got to have just intimate

00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:52.119
time with him and learning more about how he

00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:55.800
loves me. It's just, it's so God is, God is just

00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:59.940
so good to us and he can be just as good for

00:41:59.940 --> 00:42:02.179
you if you just give him the opportunity to.

00:42:02.710 --> 00:42:04.670
To know your heart and for you to know his heart

00:42:04.670 --> 00:42:07.909
for you. We had one of our interview we did with

00:42:07.909 --> 00:42:10.610
Cheryl Sempers. I was thinking the same thing.

00:42:10.650 --> 00:42:13.969
Go ahead. She says, OK, Lord. Yeah. So, you know,

00:42:13.969 --> 00:42:16.989
she had grown up in a home where her father was

00:42:16.989 --> 00:42:19.650
a Bible teacher. So, you know, Bible, Bible,

00:42:19.769 --> 00:42:22.309
Bible all the time she's growing up. But she

00:42:22.309 --> 00:42:26.269
had had kind of some rough situations that went

00:42:26.269 --> 00:42:30.000
on. So she was trying really hard to live life

00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:32.880
without God. And then finally she says, all right,

00:42:33.039 --> 00:42:37.760
God, I'm going to date you for one year. And

00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:40.880
if this is really real, then I'll know. And then,

00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:43.300
you know, if it's not, then I'm walking away.

00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:47.360
I think that was in her mind. So the next day

00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:52.059
she lost her job. So she had plenty of time.

00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:56.599
For one year, she was alone with God. Wow. And

00:42:56.599 --> 00:42:59.760
then God gave her a job and put her to work as

00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:03.820
an evangelist. And, you know, because she took

00:43:03.820 --> 00:43:07.960
that time to be alone with God, it developed

00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:11.099
a relationship where, you know, she's a seer

00:43:11.099 --> 00:43:14.360
now. She hears from God, just, you know, like

00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:20.239
you are. Letting him get into your heart, letting

00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:22.719
him get into your senses, get into your eyes

00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:25.579
and your ears and your feelings and, you know,

00:43:25.579 --> 00:43:29.340
really have this walk in the spirit with him.

00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:32.699
Right. It will help you get out from walking

00:43:32.699 --> 00:43:36.099
in the flesh if you'll take time to let him love

00:43:36.099 --> 00:43:39.519
you. Amen. So beautiful. So tell us about what

00:43:39.519 --> 00:43:42.099
you saw as we were praying before we started

00:43:42.099 --> 00:43:45.880
on this podcast. Just as you asked Holy Spirit

00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:51.139
what he wanted, I saw horses, dark horses running

00:43:51.139 --> 00:43:53.320
through and they were running with flames of

00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:55.900
fire. There were like six horses and every one

00:43:55.900 --> 00:43:58.380
of them had a huge flame of fire around them.

00:43:58.460 --> 00:44:00.400
They weren't running through the fire. The fire

00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:04.050
was running with them. And that's really what

00:44:04.050 --> 00:44:06.650
your life has been as you've walked with him.

00:44:06.869 --> 00:44:09.789
And express how that works. There's no way to

00:44:09.789 --> 00:44:11.909
separate. There's no way to separate yourself.

00:44:12.030 --> 00:44:16.329
Once you've allowed God to envelop you, literally,

00:44:16.590 --> 00:44:19.969
we are that horse running inside of his flame.

00:44:20.289 --> 00:44:23.670
Yes. That's beautiful. Yes. I love how the Passion

00:44:23.670 --> 00:44:26.469
Translation puts it, that his presence is your

00:44:26.469 --> 00:44:29.909
wraparound shield. Yes. And we've heard Dean

00:44:29.909 --> 00:44:32.300
Braxton. the man that we know that went to heaven

00:44:32.300 --> 00:44:35.980
for an hour and 45 minutes, he talks about how

00:44:35.980 --> 00:44:39.739
it's like you have this bubble around you. So

00:44:39.739 --> 00:44:42.380
it literally is a wraparound presence, like a

00:44:42.380 --> 00:44:45.659
sphere around you. You know, it's his presence

00:44:45.659 --> 00:44:48.119
and he's present inside of you if you've asked

00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:50.559
him to come and be present inside of you. So

00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:54.079
you're kind of like sandwiched with his presence

00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:57.739
inside and outside. You are in him, right? And

00:44:57.739 --> 00:45:01.860
he is in you. letting him love you because he

00:45:01.860 --> 00:45:05.960
is love. He is love. And another thing that Dean

00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:10.000
helped us understand, I had had this experience

00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:12.960
a number of years ago where I was just really

00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:15.539
lost in the presence of God. And I felt like

00:45:15.539 --> 00:45:19.599
he was showing me that originally when he made

00:45:19.599 --> 00:45:23.019
Adam, he made him so that he would breathe in

00:45:23.019 --> 00:45:25.139
the presence of God and breathe out worship,

00:45:25.300 --> 00:45:28.300
that that was the original intent of respiration,

00:45:28.460 --> 00:45:31.480
you know, before the fall. Then I also saw at

00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:34.480
the same time, I saw that the presence of God

00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:37.639
is like oxygen. You can't sense it with your

00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:40.659
senses, but it's all around you and you can't

00:45:40.659 --> 00:45:43.239
live without it. Yeah. And that's really what

00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:47.219
the presence of God is. And he made us. we are

00:45:47.219 --> 00:45:49.860
his people and the sheep of his pasture. You

00:45:49.860 --> 00:45:52.860
know, he's intimately involved in our lives in

00:45:52.860 --> 00:45:55.559
so, so many ways. And your testimonies today

00:45:55.559 --> 00:45:59.420
have helped us see some of the little details

00:45:59.420 --> 00:46:02.699
that he loves to see too. He just loves, he's

00:46:02.699 --> 00:46:06.559
in the details, right? So we made the acquaintance

00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:10.559
of Ivan Tuttle, who also had an experience outside

00:46:10.559 --> 00:46:13.440
of his body. His body died and only he went to

00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:17.579
hell. And God, delivered him from hell. He heard

00:46:17.579 --> 00:46:20.500
this voice ring out that you can't have him.

00:46:20.699 --> 00:46:24.059
It's not his time. I made a promise to his mother.

00:46:24.460 --> 00:46:27.599
And he was caught away to heaven, to the gate

00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:30.179
of heaven. He wasn't ready to go in, but he had

00:46:30.179 --> 00:46:33.139
a little bit of a heaven experience. So I told

00:46:33.139 --> 00:46:37.079
him what I just told you about this idea of oxygen

00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:40.400
being like the presence of God. He said, oxygen

00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:43.760
is the presence of God. So then I asked Dean

00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:46.500
Braxton about it. He says, well, I guess you

00:46:46.500 --> 00:46:50.179
could say that oxygen is the presence of God,

00:46:50.239 --> 00:46:52.039
but I think it would be more accurate to say

00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:57.380
that oxygen is the love of God. So the very thing

00:46:57.380 --> 00:47:01.840
that gives us life in our breath, you know, our

00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:06.159
spirit, the word in Hebrew, ruach, and the word

00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:09.699
in Greek, which is pneuma. both of them have

00:47:09.699 --> 00:47:14.139
three meanings, and it's breath, wind, and spirit.

00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:18.719
All three of those in one word. Well, we have

00:47:18.719 --> 00:47:22.320
three words for it, so we kind of lose the continuity

00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:25.079
of all those things really belonging together.

00:47:25.619 --> 00:47:30.780
So our very breath is bringing in the presence

00:47:30.780 --> 00:47:33.760
of God, is bringing in his love. And so, listener,

00:47:33.880 --> 00:47:38.190
if you are having trouble sorting out well, I

00:47:38.190 --> 00:47:42.070
don't feel the love of God. Well, it's all around

00:47:42.070 --> 00:47:45.230
you and you can't live without it. Just breathe

00:47:45.230 --> 00:47:49.550
in his love and accept it. Accept it. It's there

00:47:49.550 --> 00:47:53.250
for you. Would you pray for our listeners? Sure.

00:47:54.030 --> 00:47:56.530
Father God, we just thank you so much for everything

00:47:56.530 --> 00:47:59.789
you do for us. We just ask right now that your

00:47:59.789 --> 00:48:01.610
love would surround those who are listening.

00:48:01.869 --> 00:48:04.150
Father God, we just thank you so much for everything

00:48:04.150 --> 00:48:07.019
that you do for us. for your favor, for your

00:48:07.019 --> 00:48:09.679
protection, for your angels that guide and help

00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:12.360
keep our foot from falling on stones. Father

00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:15.280
God, we just ask right now that you would continue

00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:20.119
to impress upon everyone how much your Holy Spirit

00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:23.269
is meant for their comfort. their friendship

00:48:23.269 --> 00:48:26.570
and their guidance, Father, that they would not

00:48:26.570 --> 00:48:29.369
rely upon themselves, that they would learn to

00:48:29.369 --> 00:48:33.389
lean on Jesus and rely on him for their direction.

00:48:33.489 --> 00:48:35.389
If they need direction, all they need to do is

00:48:35.389 --> 00:48:38.610
look at the footsteps of Jesus. Mirror the Father.

00:48:38.769 --> 00:48:41.230
That's what he said. He said, I do what I see

00:48:41.230 --> 00:48:44.409
my Father doing. And Father, all you do is love.

00:48:44.590 --> 00:48:47.829
You direct, you guide, you help. So I ask, Father

00:48:47.829 --> 00:48:50.550
God, that you would help us to follow you, to

00:48:50.550 --> 00:48:53.000
mirror you, to copy you. We give you all the

00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:54.739
glory and the honor and the praise, and I just

00:48:54.739 --> 00:48:56.480
thank you so much for these beautiful people.

00:48:56.920 --> 00:48:59.639
I ask, Father God, that you bless them in their

00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:02.280
ministry and bless them in every turn, everything

00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:05.219
that they need to do to further the kingdom of

00:49:05.219 --> 00:49:07.400
God and to bring the kingdom of God to earth.

00:49:07.619 --> 00:49:09.900
I ask for your assistance in their lives and

00:49:09.900 --> 00:49:12.880
your provision in their life and in their walk

00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:15.460
and in their ministry. I ask, Father God, that

00:49:15.460 --> 00:49:18.239
you continue to bless. everything that they've

00:49:18.239 --> 00:49:20.920
choose to do for you. In Jesus' name, we just

00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:46.230
thank you. Amen. Amen. Check out our website

00:49:46.230 --> 00:49:49.409
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00:49:58.769 --> 00:50:02.010
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00:50:02.010 --> 00:50:03.889
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