🎥 Interview with Debra Gaskill | InspireHive Podcast | Part 2🎙️✨

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You pray it and he can answer it. The effectual

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fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

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God will put the prayer in your heart to pray

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so that he can answer it. Goes into the hearts

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of the people, doesn't return void, it produces

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results. I'm sure you do. You look amazing. Oh,

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back at you. There you go. You gotta work out.

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So, you know, it's like, you know, if you're

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starting a new health, and you want to get in

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shape, well, you know, you begin where you are.

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You start on the treadmill 15 minutes. And then

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after a while, you build a little more endurance.

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And next thing you know, it's 20 minutes, 30

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minutes. And then you begin to see results down

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the road. Prayer is kind of like that, if I could

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use that analogy. You know, you start to pray,

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enter into the presence of God. You don't feel

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him. You don't see him. You're distracted or

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your mind is going crazy. And all of a sudden

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you reach a zone. And that's when the fun really

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begins. Because prayer goes from a sacrifice.

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I'm doing this. Then it becomes joy. Then it

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goes into a desire. I really want to know God.

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To a discipline. Then you discipline yourself.

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Okay, I'm going into this closet, shutting the

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door. I'm going to seek a sacrifice. It goes

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from a desire to a discipline to a delight. Yes.

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Yes. You crave the presence of God. You crave

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prayer. You want to pray. You want to be with

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him. And then you see the fruit of it in your

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everyday life when you're at the grocery store,

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when you're with people. And that's where the

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friendship with Jesus really begins. Amen. That

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is so good because I love the analogy because

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when I first started going to the gym a couple

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of years ago, I can't tell you I was thrilled.

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And I had to tell myself, you're going to like

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this. I actually learned that from Kenneth Copeland.

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He said that he hated getting on the treadmill

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and he told himself, you're going to love this.

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And eventually he did. And I had to really discipline,

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as you said, myself, you're going to drive there.

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You're going to go in through the door. And it

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really helps if you like talk to people or watch

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other people work out or get a trainer and have

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a buddy for a while. And then once you take off,

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it does. It really becomes a delight. And there's

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where you start to see some fruit. And I also

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loved what you said about finding a place in

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your home like where you won't be distracted.

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There's always a dog barking. There's always,

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you know, we have these kids in our neighborhood.

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I'll hear these kids outside like screaming and

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you think that someone is peeling their skin

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off and they're just chasing each other. So I

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actually took a beanbag chair at one point and

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put it in my closet and shut the door. My closet

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is not that big. And leave your phone on the

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outside because it will be so tempting at first.

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Oh, I got to clean that drawer out. Oh, I've

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got to return that email or see if I have an

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email. And so I think what you said, I love it.

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It's got to start out as a discipline, even if

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you have to set an egg timer. And I've done that

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before. I've said back in the day, I would set

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the timer like on my microwave or my stove and

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I would make myself pray for one hour. And you

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really do get to the point where it's like that,

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you know, oh, my gosh, you look at your watch.

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It's like an hour has gone by. You're kidding.

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It felt like five minutes. But I remember Brother

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Hagen would say, that's because, you know, you've

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gotten into the spirit. When time doesn't bother

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you anymore, you know, you're in the spirit.

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Yes. Yes. Just you're in the zone. And that's

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where friendship begins with Jesus and relationship.

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And it's an intimacy. It's not based on works.

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It's based on love and relationship. And so many

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people say, I have to pray. No, we get to pray.

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Amen. Yes. Yeah. Oh, I get to talk to God. No,

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I get to talk to God. It's fun. Wow. And, you

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know. We were talking about the loneliness factor.

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Sometimes I think people are lonely because they

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don't put themselves out there. And I'm not talking

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about a dating app. I'm talking about you get

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involved in something at your church or you go

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for a walk in your neighborhood. Sometimes there

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is a practical side to things. I mean, there's

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someone in my neighborhood. I haven't seen her

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leave the house in like months. She's very reclusive.

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You can't complain that you're lonely. When I

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first joined my church a little over two years

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ago, I purpose, I thought I'm not meeting anyone.

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So when they came up with an offer, would you

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like to teach a connect group within the church?

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Because they're all about connecting. I said,

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sure, I'll teach a group on healing because they

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didn't have one. And that's how I started meeting

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people and growing relationships with it. So

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if we're lonely, sometimes. Do you think it could

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be kind of self -inflicted? Definitely. I mean,

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you know, I think COVID created a lot of loneliness

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in people and depression and anxiety. But you're

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right. It takes effort sometimes to get out and

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to break your daily habit and your daily routine

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and put yourself out there. Yes. And even what

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you were saying about working out and going to

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the gym when you said about, you know, you started

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that program. Like working out is wonderful for

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our mental health. Sure. You know, it's wonderful.

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And just connecting with people is good for our

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mental health. So, yeah, you just got to put

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yourself out there. But putting yourself out

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there with the right people. Oh, you read my

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mind. The next thing I wanted to talk about was

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sometimes people get involved in relationships

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out of loneliness. And it's like, well, they're

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better than being alone. So I wanted to bring

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up three great women in Pentecostal history who

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all went down the wrong road because of loneliness.

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And one of them was Catherine Kuhlman. She was

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lonely and we don't have time to go into her

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story here, but she ended up marrying someone

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out of loneliness. She knew she shouldn't have

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done it. Every prominent minister of the day

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told her, don't do it. And she did it anyway

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and knew it was so wrong. She fainted during

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the ceremony. And as soon as the ceremony was

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over, she ran into her friend's hotel room and

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told her that she had made a mistake. And the

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friend said, too late. You did this. And it derailed

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her ministry for 10 years. Yeah. Amy Semple McPherson,

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first husband died. Second husband didn't want

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the traveling evangelist lifestyle, so they divorced.

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And she admitted out of loneliness, she married

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her third husband, who was a con man, and made

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a bet with others that he could infiltrate her

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ministry and infiltrate her life. And he did

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just that. He was very abusive. And she ended

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up dying at 54 years old. Wow. And then of course,

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Mariah Woodworth at her, her first husband. I

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don't know that she married him out of loneliness.

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I don't know the situation, but I know that he

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was very mean to the people. And she always wanted

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to have a revival in Oakland, California. That

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was her dream. And when her ministry was thriving,

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she finally made it out there, had a huge revival.

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And it was discovered during that revival that

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her husband was having an affair. Three prominent

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Pentecostal historians all derailed by wrong

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relationships. Talk to us, Margie, about just

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sticking a placeholder in there. And we don't

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think it's going to hurt us. And it's just, I

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know there is a ministry that kind of claims

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that they can get you hooked up with someone

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and get you married within a year. And they boast

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that that is what they're called to do. I'm not

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saying they're not. But I'm just saying that

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I don't know that we should give people that

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kind of hope. I believe that we can trust God

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for the right people if that is our desire. Some

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people, it's just not. And that's OK. And there's

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nothing wrong with you. But some people who want

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to have someone in their life, we've got to let

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it be God. Yeah, it's got to be God for sure.

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Yes. Especially when you're in ministry. Like

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I have like for me personally. I was on all the

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dating apps and hired the matchmakers on the

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whole thing. And it just, it was, it was kind

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of funny. There's stories. I was kind of wishing

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I had a log on each particular date. It would

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have been a funny book, but it's gotta be God.

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Number one. And you know, it's, you have to be

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healed as well, you know, because sometimes former

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relationships, especially if you've been in an

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abusive. marriage or relationship can cause damage

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to the soul. Absolutely. It's very important.

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Anybody that's listening that you heal your,

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make sure you get therapy, let the word of God.

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I know Deborah, one of her cornerstone scriptures

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is Proverbs four. The word of God will heal you,

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restore you, make sure you get healed. Otherwise

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you're going to attract. the same kind of guy

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that abused you hurt you was mean to you because

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you think that's normal back in my book a love

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like that i talk about that in two of the chapters

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you know when broken wings fly uh that's one

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of the chapters and you know you you just gotta

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get healed and it's gotta be god because what

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does it profit a man if he gains the whole world

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and loses his soul like for me personally i just

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want god i want to do his will I want to fulfill

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my destiny and my calling. And the devil knows

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that. Yes. He'll send people to try to derail

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us and to get us off track. I'm not afraid to

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love again. I believe that God has someone for

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me, but it's just being, making sure it's God,

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making sure you're healed. And then number three,

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being surrounded by the right people. Yes. Yeah.

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I have a lot of really good friends. So I'm going

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to tell you something funny and I'm going to

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tell you something I've never said publicly.

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Okay. Like two years in and being single and

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the whole nine yards and I was getting frustrated

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and the whole thing. And I'm sitting here with

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a group of my friends. We were having like some

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kind of Bible study that I was leading. And they

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were all best friends. We were all sitting here

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in my son room and I don't know what, I just

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stood up. And I said, if God doesn't send me

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a husband, I'm going to go find him myself. You

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know, cause it's all about timing. Sure. In my

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timing, I wanted it now, but God knew I needed

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healing. I needed restoration. He knew that.

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We've launched so many things in the last five

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years. We have a podcast. We have our prayer

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calls. I've been speaking. We're getting ready

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to do some things with CTN, Christian Television

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Network, beginning in June. If I had a guy in

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this season, I wouldn't have had the time for

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him to devote to marriage. But there will come

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a time. Because doesn't the Bible say, I am a

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restorer. God is going to restore everything

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that the locust and the canker worm has eaten.

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He is going to restore it. And if it's a desire

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of your heart, my heart, those that are listening,

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God's going to bring the guy. But let the Lord

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bring the guy. Don't be going out there. And

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I'll tell you something a friend said to me.

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And I didn't really realize it because sometimes

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we're pretty and we don't really realize how

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pretty we are and attractive we can be because

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we're just. us sometimes we're maybe critical

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of ourselves at times and we don't really realize

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the power that beauty can have and my a friend

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of mine said to me your biggest challenge is

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going to be um your your beauty as a woman wow

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in dating and i didn't realize what she said

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because i was married for so long i wasn't in

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the dating world right and i realized the guys

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aren't reading they're not reading your profile

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they're looking at your pictures your picture

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yes very shallow thing yes it became very um

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concerning to me and uncomfortable and they were

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more interested in the outward and not the real

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us which is the bible calls it the hidden man

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of the heart which in the sight of god is more

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precious than all of this that we have on the

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outside So it's really, I don't know. I think

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there's a balance, Debra, you know, just letting

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God bring the guy, but also putting yourself

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out there. Yeah. Everyone just has to be led

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by the spirit, you know, and just follow the

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leading of God and also just be practical. Yes.

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Yes. Oh my gosh. That was just such a word right

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there. And it reminded me of a couple of things.

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First of all, if somebody contacts you, social

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media, in person, whatever, and says, God told

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me, you're going to be my husband. You're going

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to be my wife. Red flag, red flag, red flag.

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That's a weird guy. Yes. That's a weird person.

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Yes. You know what? I saw this happen several

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years ago. There was a conference and people

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came even from different countries. And a man

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who had come from another country sat in close

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proximity to a single lady. And she over the

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three days, she started telling people around

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her. That's my husband. It got back to him. Two

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days later, they went on a date. Several months

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later, she traveled to the country he was from

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to see him. And they got engaged. How quick?

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Months. Second meeting, second time they had

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been physically together. And then after that,

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they were married. Once they were married, you

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don't see him on social media. He had a business

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page. You don't see that. It's all, it was a

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giant chokehold. And I have, and what happened

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was these seeds got planted in his mind because

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she's going around telling everyone that's going

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to be my husband and she's an attractive lady.

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And he's probably thinking, wow, we, you know,

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I just hit the lottery because you're right.

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Men are very visually motivated. Yep. And, and

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there you have it. They've like fallen off the

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face of the earth. And so I think it's very dangerous

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when you have seeds like that planted in you

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or when somebody I've received voice messages

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like that before from someone on Facebook I've

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never met. And they'll write me and say, you

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know, God told me this. And I'm thinking, well,

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that's funny because God hasn't told me anything

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about you. And so I think we have to be very

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careful. Yeah. And if we haven't heard it, then

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I think. that needs to just go by the wayside

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but i also want to say that you are so right

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on what you were saying about getting healed

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because i had a lot of anger in me from what

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i went through because i feel like i had really

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given some of the best years of my life buddy

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and i had a lot of anger and um i i did get help

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i went to a friend of mine who's a christian

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counselor of 30 years i was not too proud to

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go knocking on her door And this is what I was

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told from a Christian counselor. They said, it's

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actually a sign of strength when you come looking

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for help. Weak people will just keep it buried

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and keep going through and perpetuate the cycle

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of abuse. And I remember, you know, I went like

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two times and then I said, God, show me, show

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me my issue. Why am I so angry? And I'd had a

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problem with my mom in childhood, just rejection.

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So the first man that came along and had two

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donuts and said, here, do you want one? I jumped

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because I was looking for someone to fill that

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void and give me some attention. And if I hadn't

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figured that out, and if God hadn't have revealed

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that to me, I guarantee you, I would have gone

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through a string more guys with different names,

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different truck color. but all the same abusive,

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narcissistic type of relationships. So what you

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said about getting healed, absolutely paramount.

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If there's any of that in your heart that you're

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still from your last relationship, you got to

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get it out. Yeah, and he heals the brokenhearted

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and binds up the wounds. And that's where prayer

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comes in and intimacy with Jesus. I'm hearing

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a scripture right now. I don't know who this

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is for, but there's a scripture that says, He

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will wipe all the tears from your eyes. Good.

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So you've cried a truckload of tears, whoever

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you are. And God said, I'm here. I'm close to

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you. Just yield to me. I'm not like that man

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that hurt you. Yes. This patient, kind. I don't

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boil over with jealousy because that person,

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that man was a very jealous person. That's not

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God. So it's renewing your mind to the fact that

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men. are not like God. Men that were mean to

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you are not like the God who loves you. Yes.

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Understanding that. And yeah, I just see him

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wiping all the tears from your eyes and he's

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held all those tears that you've cried in a bottle

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and he knows all about it. He just wants you,

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whoever you are to come on to me. He, Jesus said,

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amen. All you that labor and are heavy laden.

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You're so heavy. You're just burnt. You're like

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the woman. you know, that was bowed down and

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in no wise could lift herself up. You're just

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heavy laden. Jesus wants you to come to him.

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He's going to heal you. He's going to restore

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you. He's going to put you back together. And

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when he puts you back together, it's you are

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going to be better than you were before. When

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God restored Job, the word of God says in Job

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42, he gave Job twice. as much as he had before.

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Yes. So I just, that was a word for somebody.

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Amen. Amen. And whoever you are, receive that

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word, receive it instead of, I got to have a

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man. I got to have a woman. I got to have, I

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got to have, you got to have Jesus. You got to

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have him first and then everything else will

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fall into line. Margie has some amazing resources.

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She has written 10 books. I'm going to put her

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website in the comment section once the podcast

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is over. But Margie, if there's anything you

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want to tell our listeners about today, I just

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want to give you the platform to do that. And

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then I'm going to ask you to pray. I'm going

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to ask you to pray. I know you're very prophetic.

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However you feel led, I'm just going to ask you

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to minister to the audience. Okay. With respect

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to the resources that we have, the one I was

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thinking about, my most recent book is Contend,

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Stewarding the Hearts and Destinies of Our Children

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Through Prayer. And in this particular book,

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I go into all the scriptures. regarding God's

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promises for our children, that they be saved,

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that they be everything God's called them to

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be, that there's war over the hearts and destinies

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of our children and how to take authority over

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the enemy, how to pray for them, what scriptures

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to pray. I have in the book testimonies of many

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men and women that have prayed for their children

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and how they prayed, which is important because

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we want to pray correctly. And the results of

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their prayers. So contend is my most recent book.

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I get into the benefit and the purpose of praying

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in tongues. Good. Because when you don't know

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how to pray for something or someone, you pray

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in the Holy Ghost. And when you pray in the Holy

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Ghost, you're praying out the plan and the purpose

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and the mind of God for that particular situation.

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I have encountered God through prayer. And that

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prayer. takes the reader from what we talked

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about earlier, begin with 15 minutes. And I bring

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the reader all the way into praying contemplative

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prayer. So I teach people how to pray from right

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from the very get go. And that's a very good

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resource. If you're new to prayer, you don't

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know how to pray. You have a desire to pray,

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but don't know how. Then we have other books.

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I have Mark for intercession. which is the prayer,

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how to pray for another person, how to pray for

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a city or region, how to pray for the unsaved,

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the person who's saved, but they have weights.

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And then I have focus, eliminating distractions

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for enhanced spiritual vision. Some of the weights

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and the things that keep us distracted. So needed.

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Right? For example, distracted at the noise of

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the enemy. That's warfare. If you don't know

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it now, know this. Not all your thoughts are

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your thoughts. Say that again, Margie. Say that

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again. Not all your thoughts are your thoughts.

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Yeah. There's warfare that comes at your mind.

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There's accusations that come at your mind. All

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kinds of things that come into your mind. It's

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not all your thoughts are your thoughts. So I

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talk about the different distractions, the lesser

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road. The list just goes on and on. But we do

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have a lot of books. And you could go to my website

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at margieflaurent .org. Okay. Do you want to

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lead us in a time of prayer? Sure, I would love

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to. All right. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus.

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So Father, I thank you for this time. Yes, God.

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Thank you for your presence. I just sense that

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the Spirit of God is manifesting himself with

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a tangible presence on many of you. And he just

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wants to bring to you the healing that you need.

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And the Spirit of the Lord is here. And he's

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here to heal the brokenhearted and bind up the

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wounds. And the greatest... thing that God could

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do is manifest his love right where you are,

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because it's the love of God that brings the

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healing. So Father, we just thank you for your

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love. We thank you for your presence. And Father,

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those that are listening, I just pray that there

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would be a release of your love, the tangible

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love of God upon their lives and wherever they

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are as they're listening. In the name of Jesus.

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Yes. Father, I also pray that you would grant

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unto our listeners a spirit of wisdom and revelation

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in the knowledge of who you are, in the knowledge

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of your heart, in the knowledge of what your

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heart looks like. So I pray that you'd open up

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their eyes, that they may see the reality of

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who you are in your heart. And therefore, it'll

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cause them to draw close to you and not be afraid

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of drawing close to you. Yes. We thank you. We

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praise you, Jesus. Praise you, Lord. Thank you,

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Lord. Thank you, Jesus. We worship you. We praise

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you. We thank you, Jesus. Worship you, Jesus.

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Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you.

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Amen. Amen. I just feel as you were praying that

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there's somebody who knows they are playing with

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fire. But out of loneliness, you allow it to

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continue. We've all been there. We have all been

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tempted to fill the void. But I just heard these

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words that if you play with fire, you get burned.

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And instead, allow the fire of the Holy Spirit

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to burn that desire out of you for just trying

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to put a placeholder in. Allow the fire of the

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Holy Spirit to burn that out of you and heal

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you so that he can bring someone that's on fire

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for God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yeah. Oh, hallelujah.

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He wants to bring you someone who's not dangerous

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fire. He wants to bring you someone who's on

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fire for God. Then you burn together in the right

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way. Amen. Amen. Amen. A lot of times the enemy

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will bring a counterfeit before the real comes.

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Yes. Yes. Amen. That's why it's very important

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to be spirit led. Listen to your heart. Your

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heart will not. guide you the wrong way. Your

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heart will guide you the right way. Just be quiet.

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Yes. Yes. Amen. Anything else, Margie? I think

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we're good. I think we're good. I encourage the

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listeners to develop intimacy with their creator.

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Amen. He wants, you know, he wants you to come

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to him. I second that. I second that. That is

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the number one. Walking with God is fun. It seriously

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is. It's fulfilling and fun and adventurous.

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And it's just, it's everything. I love something

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Keith Moore says. And he says, prayer will give

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you previews. When you spend time in prayer.

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You get previews that you wouldn't get about

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you, about your situation, about your children.

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I want to get that book about praying for your

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children. That sounds amazing. About which job

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to take. Listen, don't just take any job. Don't

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just buy any house. Prayer will give you previews

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for the next step, any step of your life. Amen.

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Archie, I can't thank you enough. Thank you so

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much. Thanks for having me, Deborah. thank you

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for your wisdom thank you for bringing your anointing

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and your ministry to this program today god bless

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you and god bless you all for watching us thank

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you so much have a blessed day god bless you

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thank you so much for tuning in to today's podcast

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it has been such a joy sharing this time with

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you for more inspiration and resources on today's

00:28:11.339 --> 00:28:13.940
topic please visit our website at margiefloran

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