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Unwrapped | Chaos-Mas | Pastor Scott Thomas
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hello hello friend thank you so much for
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tuning in here at Free Life Chapel where
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life in Christ my name is cot and I'm so
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happening at your church there's a
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phenomenal message in store just for you
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I hope you're encour I don't know what
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Christmas is like at your house but
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Christmas is
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highly
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organized at our
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house uh when when you have when you
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have the matriarch of the
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family who runs with a extra special
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dose of OCD just a just a little extra
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special OCD I think everyone needs a
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touch of OCD I think OCD but but she boy
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she's gifted with OCD and and and and
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that gifting is next level our fath
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family the way she has it and and quite
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honestly uh we laugh about it but we are
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also grateful for it because check this
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out um everybody in our family everyone
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has their own assigned wrapping
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paper how many y'all do that anybody
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else say the fact look y'all OCD
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everywhere you know they have medication
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for all this right they do have
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medication for all this no kid watch
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watch like okay so I have my paper
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anything wrapped in something that has a
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a a deer on it that's Scots uh Caleb has
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his Liz has hers Cindy has hers Malachi
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toah they have everything but but you
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don't even have to find a name on it
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doesn't need to be any name because you
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know that paper that paper belongs to so
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and and and that's just kind of how it
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rolls that that that paper is going to
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be there so we're we're that's how we
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roll and and and so we distribute the
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gifts based on the paper it's kind of
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fun but has
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anybody has anybody ever identified
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somebody in your family that when
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they're opening their gift they get on
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your nerves yes like when when when they
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open the gift there's like a few
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different kinds of gift
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openers H how many of you are that are
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that person when they put a Christmas
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gift in your hand you just rip the thing
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to Pieces you're just tearing paper off
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and you're just going at it like it's
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just a flurry okay I'm loving all y'all
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I love all y'all I'm with you okay you
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you you got those people and then you've
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got those you got another another group
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of people that they open it they're just
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they're just not real fast or excited
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about it it's like they just tear hey
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did I tell you all what happened last
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week and like they're just they're just
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working their way through the paper like
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Easter is coming like it's getting
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really close like
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that and then there's there's a third
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group of people and they do make
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medication for these people too I'm just
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saying but my my dad is one of these
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people love my dad love my dad got on
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our nerves growing up when it came time
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to open gifts cuz we would put a gift in
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his hand and my dad would go here's the
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well my goodness who got this for
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me and so he wants to pick it
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up
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well well that's from
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Scott did you get this from me
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son well
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then he would reach in his
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pocket and pull out his little pocket
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knife proceed to look at it and make
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sure he pulled out the right
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blade take the Christmas
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gift and start slicing at the
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tape like the guy was performing heart
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surgery on this gift like it's just
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these little Precision Cuts and we're
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all looking at him I now at the like I'm
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drinking coffee I'm not chewing on my
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coffee mug like would you please get
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this give and he we're not saving the
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paper throw it rip it and and it's
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notorious he would do it knowing it was
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on all of our kids' nerves that we would
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just all of a sudden attack his gift rip
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the paper off and then go from there he
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loved just slowing the whole process I
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medication they they make medication for
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that here's the
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deal the paper the paper is not
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important the paper is the cheapest
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thing in fact it's just
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trash I don't know if you keep the paper
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at your house don't tell me if you do
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God bless you at our house we throw that
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stuff away as soon as it's off man it's
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in pieces it's shredded everywhere just
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bag it up and throw it away there's
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nothing
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special in it's just
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paper but what it's doing is we wrap
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that gift and the paper
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conceals it
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hides what's valuable right it's so
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close but I can't tell what it is it's
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right there but I'm I can't fully get
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into it because I can't see it it could
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be the thing that you've wanted for
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years and finally he listened to you
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y'all pray for your
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boy and and they got it and they wrapped
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it and you're walking by it it's under
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the tree and you glance at it and you're
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like yeah whatever but if you only knew
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what was there you would be dancing as
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you went by this thing and it's so close
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but yet so far because it's not
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recognized because of the wrapping
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because of the
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paper it's it's much like the story that
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quite honestly churches Christians
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around the world are really recognizing
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and reading today where the Angels Came
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and made this big declaration Jesus has
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come Jesus is born Jesus is here what
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the Angels actually are doing is they
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are unwrapping and presenting Jesus to
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the world he has been concealed for a
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long time and now he's here in fact I
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want to I want to take you and just kind
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of walk you through and show you what
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this is uh in the Bible uh Luke chap 2
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is where we find this the again let me
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set it up for you Gabriel shows up he's
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got his all of his posy with him and
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they're making these big declarations
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can you and and shepherds are in the
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field they're watching sheep B and they
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got all this going on and then all of a
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sudden boom here it appears and man all
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this is going on and and they're they're
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witnessing they never seen anything like
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this before it we sit in the church
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today and we hear this story we go oh
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yeah really cool
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but ladies and gentlemen if if like 40
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Angels popped out of a Poke County sky
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and started talking to you it would not
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be oh yeah really cool you'd be what the
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you'd hit the ground like they did there
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was nothing normal nothing natural about
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this how many you think it would have
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been really weird for all of that to
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happen and the angels go that was so
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cool man that's that's cool and then
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just get back to life no there was
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something that happened that rock their
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world and what rock their world gives
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actually a picture and a message to you
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and I there's three things that happened
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to these Shepherds that I didn't see I
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didn't recognize until Friday as I was
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reading this story again and it just hit
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me different and I want to share it with
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you the angel is making this
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announcement and the first thing that
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happened is when we when the Angel's
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talking to the Shepherds the angel is
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giving it doesn't sound sexy but just
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hang with me information
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information but it's it's good news
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information Luke 2: 11 and 12 Watch what
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it says here look at this today in the
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town of David a savior has been born to
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you he is the Messiah the Lord read this
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this will be no no no no no no no no no
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no no your Christmas morning voice your
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your eight-year-old excited Christmas
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morning voice are you ready here we go 1
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2 3 this will be a sign to you you will
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find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying
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in them the Shepherds were shook come on
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now all of the they're like what is
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going on what is happening they're
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hearing this information information
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information about Jesus the Messiah the
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savior of the world is born in Bethlehem
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you see this they the angel didn't have
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to explain who Jesus was they knew who
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he was because it had been spoken of for
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centuries leading up to this time and
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every one of these Shepherds were raised
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hearing the Prophecies of Jesus of the
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Messiah of the king of kings that would
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be born to Israel this actually started
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watch this y'all this started in Genesis
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chapter 3:1 15 is the first mention that
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a messiah is going to come Genesis 3 why
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that that's kind of early isn't it it's
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it's just right after Adam and Eve
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screwed up bit the Apple it might have a
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little concern about the fact that your
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Apple phone's got that little anyway
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they bit the
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Apple they blew it there's a separation
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from God and God says here's how I'm
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going to rectify
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this the seed of the
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woman she will have a child and the
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enemy will bruise his heel but his heel
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will crush the head of the enemy this
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was a prophecy given in Genesis 3:15
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speaking of Jesus that there would be a
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woman who would have a
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child and that that child would the
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enemy would bruise his heel but that
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child would crush the work of the enemy
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literally speaking of Jesus from Genesis
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3:15 The Book of Numbers uh Isaiah uh
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Micah all of these guys prophesied and
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all these Shepherds were raised hearing
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about this but but everyone kept talking
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one day one day one day one day one day
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one day and now the and Gabriel shows up
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and saying today today today today like
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are you serious like it's actually
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happening it's no longer one day he's
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GNA one day it might one day maybe what
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H what what what do you do when the when
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the news is today it happens today he's
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here he's already born the this is good
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news this is why they were shook it
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wasn't just the fact that they were
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getting a savior you need to understand
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in that time Rome had been so hard on
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all the Jews that this was National
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salvation the oppression that we under
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is being broken that that has controlled
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us and made our life weak and small is
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being broken apart because our King is
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here the king of the Jews the Messiah
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he's coming to rectify everything not
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just get our hearts right with God but
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get our hearts right here and our hearts
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right here and get my mind right and get
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my family right he's going to put
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everything into order he's going
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to he's going to turn your chaos into
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chemistry he's going to make it all work
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for your good your days of struggling
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without purpose are over this is what
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the Shepherds heard and the Shepherds
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went crazy the information gave them
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hope until they heard that they had
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nothing to hope for and now they do but
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then there was a second thing that
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happened
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they then had inspiration that hit them
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it it starts with information you got to
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learn you got to hear what you don't
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know but once you hear what you didn't
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know then it hits you in a different way
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and it brings inspiration look what the
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Bible says in Luke 2:15 this is the a
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couple verses later read this with me
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also here we go let's go to Bethlehem
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and see this thing that has happened
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which the Lord has told us about first
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two words to that verse let's
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go that's how you know when you're
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inspired that I heard something that
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gave hope to me it lets me see beyond
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where I am right now but you know you're
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inspired when you're willing to leave
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where you are and move to a different
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place in life I'm not staying here
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anymore I have a hope that something can
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change I something has touched me deeper
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than I've been touched and something is
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coming alive in me that I've not felt
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shift move kick in a long time do you
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know what the word inspire means it
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means to Exhale or to breathe
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into to you're able to catch your
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breath I haven't breathed deep in a long
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time I haven't laughed hard in a long
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time I haven't had this excitement about
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life and my future in a long
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time I've been
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inspired you see if you're not able to
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be inspired then that means means
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nothing in your life is going to
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transpire and eventually you will
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expire you and I need to hear good news
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about Jesus and let it touch us in a way
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that I believe it enough to leave where
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I am change something and move my life
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I'm not living this way anymore I'm not
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going to have dead dreams I'm not going
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to Bear they're not going to bury them
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with me I'm going to do something I was
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made for more than where I'm living
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right now I know my best days are ahead
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and I'm too young to hang out right here
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the addiction is going to be broken my
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mind is going to be put back together
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God is going to restore this house I'm
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not playing this game life is moving too
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fast my best days are ahead and I'm
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coming after them now I'm inspired let's
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go you should be hyped about being in
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God's house to hear good news
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information that excites your heart and
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makes you want to leave where you've
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been and move forward let me just ask
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you something has anybody heard anything
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good about Jesus that made you want to
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leave where you were and move towards
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where he is has has that done to any
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yeah me too me
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too when you believe you
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move and after they
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moved the Bible says that they showed up
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where Jesus
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was and that was
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information that moved to
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inspiration that became
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transformation this is all by what what
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the angel said look look look look look
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we got to read it let get just a few
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verses
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later Luke 2:20 read it with me the
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Shepherds returned glorifying and
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praising God for all the things they had
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heard and seen which were just as they
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had been
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told what they had heard and hoped for
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now they have seen with their own
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eyes what do you do
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when you've seen a
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miracle that will change you
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forever no one would ever talk these
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Shepherds out of what they saw that
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night people can call him crazy you lost
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your mind I don't know what you're
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smoking drinking man you are you you are
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gone you are BL you don't understand
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what that was like I saw I heard one
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talk and there was like a seven
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squillion of them standing there looking
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at us and talking and singing these
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songs and all I know is what they said
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it touched me different and it made me
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move I had to leave where I was and move
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my life forward I felt life hit me it
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was different it wasn't just someone
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just calling with some good news it
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wasn't just a nice text this is
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different this was holy this was
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something that was going to change
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everything and I felt it hit me deep
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I've never felt unlocked emotionally
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like that before to where I wanted to
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leave and go forward without any proof
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but just the fact that I I had hope that
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something could change it moved me and
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when we got there and we saw him and we
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realized that this is real that it's not
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just our imagination it's not just
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something that people are hoping for but
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he's here he's real he's alive it's even
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better than what I thought their hearts
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were
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transformed it was changed the Bible
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says when they went back they were
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glorifying God look their whole
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disposition changed they're now praising
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and glorifying
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God but their circumstances were the
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same
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it's not because life had changed right
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but their heart had changed can I tell
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you something when you get a big drink
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of Jesus when you realize he's as good
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as he said he is when you realize that
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that hope is not wasted when you realize
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that he's he's even better than what
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you've heard about when you realize he
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can actually do what he said he can do
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when that hits you and you experience
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that for yourself ladies and gentlemen
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life can still be chaotic and it could
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be flurries all around you but you know
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everything is going to be all right
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you've got a hope and a strength in the
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middle of the difficulty I know I've got
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an addiction but I know my God is able
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to break this off of my life as well and
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the home is a little crazy right now but
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God's going to heal all of this too his
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peace is coming at us I know he's good
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I've already experienced a change in my
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life and I know more changes on the way
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yes sir you and I have got to lean all
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the way in
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to experience all that he
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is what was it that was so powerful the
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key to all of
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this was that it was true verse 20 says
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it was just as they had been
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told let me just put it this way to
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you God doesn't tease you with his
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promises God's word is
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true God's word is is true he can do
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everything and more than what you can
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imagine or
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think this is word we cannot allow life
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to crush him dumb him down to limit him
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in our expectation in Our Hope because
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what will happen is if you and I begin
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to Discount and push him away what will
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happen is you will hear good news and
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you won't be inspired by it and you'll
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know about the Bible but it can't do
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anything for you because it doesn't move
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you internally or maybe just maybe you
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hear good news I love what I heard in
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church and I'm inspired and I feel alive
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I feel Joy man this is exciting I feel a
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stirring in here but if I don't get up
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and leave and go towards him if I don't
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move my life forward then church is just
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a pickme up it's an emotional bump it's
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not transforming or changing my life
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that's why you can see some people come
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to church get excited about what they
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hear here even give their life to Jesus
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but after hanging out for 4 months 5
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months 6 months all of a sudden the
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honeymoon begins to die off and all of a
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sudden not as excited as I was and I'm
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not moved like I was and I begin to
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drift why because they didn't get up and
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start moving on their own towards Jesus
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to experience a transformation in life
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when you hit transformation ain't
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nothing shaken you lose from Jesus when
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you get transformed when he touches your
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heart and he changes your family and he
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touches your mind and brings peace where
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you had chaos nothing will drive you
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from that if God told you he can do it
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he can do it if he told you he was going
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to bless you for trusting him he's going
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to bless you for trusting him if he told
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you he's going to heal your family then
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he's going to restore your family I'm
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just telling you it's on the way that's
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who he is but here's the challenge
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here's the
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challenge life wraps Jesus in some stuff
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that makes it hard for us to see
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him you can't really see this gift we
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call it a gift but you don't know what
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kind of a gift it
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is can't see it all you see is the
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rapper you see when you've been through
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life fear will wrap itself Around
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Jesus and
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shame will wrap itself Around Jesus to
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hide hi him from you you'll go through
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loss that you can't see Jesus because
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you're blaming Jesus for the
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loss I'm so mad at him I don't want to
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look at him that's why you can't see
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him the Bible says he's a friend that
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sticks closer than a brother he comes
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close to us in our time of need but when
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I've got my issues my past my reputation
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the addiction the anger the frustration
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the Brokenness and it is all screaming
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I've got him so wrapped in that I can't
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even see what he can do in my life and
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I'm walking right by the greatest
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opportunity I could ever have this is
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why we have to unwrap Jesus to see him
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and experience him listen listen ladies
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and gentlemen some of God's greatest
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stories greatest blessings in the Bible
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are all wrapped up in ugly
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circumstances they were
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nasty Ruth Ruth H she was married to
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Boaz and her goes Boaz Boaz okay I'm not
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mad at Boaz good for Boaz that's a cool
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story but the truth is Ruth's marriage
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to Boaz was wrapped up in the loss of
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her first husband and the loss of her
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home and she had to move she had to run
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Israel had to tear through the packaging
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of Giants and fear in order to get into
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the promised land do you understand
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Joseph Joseph had to rip through the
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covering of betrayal by his family in
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order to get through that and become the
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governor of of all of Egypt he had a
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reason if Joseph had gotten angry and
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blamed God why did you let this happen
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why didn't you stop my family from doing
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this this is wrong I don't deserve this
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it's Injustice and you keep on
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complaining and play the victim you will
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live in that prison for the rest of your
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life but Joseph said I was made for more
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than this and I don't like the
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circumstances but it's not God that did
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this I got 99 problems but Jesus ain't
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one of them you understand I got issues
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in my life but he's the answer in my
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life and so I'm not going to get mad at
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the answer and stiff arm his involvement
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in my life I'm going to call on him in
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the midst of what I don't like what
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doesn't feel good what I don't
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understand what seems completely wrong
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but I'm going to start digging and
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ripping at this package I've got to get
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past the rapper and I've got to get to
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the gift that's where you and I are
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we've got to get through the issues that
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are trying to show you and lie to you
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and tell you that Jesus doesn't care
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he's not there he doesn't work for you
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this is just for a few people but not
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you all the lies are coming to prevent
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you from actually reaching the gift
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Proverbs chapter 25 verse 2 here's what
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the Bible says it is the glory of God to
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conceal a matter and the Glory of Kings
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to search it out what does that mean
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Scott this is what it
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means God's glory his
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majesty is whenever you have some hell
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going on in your
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life he says I'm going to I'm going to
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put a gift inside of
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it I'm going to put purpose to the pain
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so that you're not wasting your time and
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just crying for no reason and fighting
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and praying for no reason whatever
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you're going through I want to put
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something beautiful up inside of here
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that if you will just stay on it baby if
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you will just keep praying if you'll
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just keep trusting me I'm going to make
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it work for your good I'm going to make
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it pay you back with interest it's going
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to blow people's minds who were angry at
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you didn't want you to have it never
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thought you should be around it I'm
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going to have you walk out of it looking
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good just keep digging stay in the game
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the Bible says God will shroud he'll put
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that gift inside of things that are
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hidden so that you and I kings are there
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to search it out you got to have a
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king's mindset you got to have a queen's
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mindset to dig for stuff that I'm not
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just hanging out I'm not just here and
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I'm not just a victim of life I'm going
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after something something because here's
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what I know he calls us Kings because
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kings and queens are those who walk in
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authority in arenas it is those who want
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to walk in authority that keep going
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until they get their hands on what is
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right so I get past my feelings and my
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emotions and my pity party and my blame
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games and stop blaming everybody and
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pointing fingers and crying myself to
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sleep and I'm going to start looking to
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him as the answer as the author and the
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finisher of everything in my life I'm
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not quitting until till I get a handful
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of Jesus I'm getting through this with
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some days it feels good some days it
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doesn't feel good but my faith is not
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circumstantial I'll trust him when I
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understand I'll trust him when I don't
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I'm digging I'm ripping I'm digging I'm
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ripping I'm not letting up I'm going to
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stay faithful I'm going to show up the
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church again and I'm going to lift hands
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and worship again I don't feel like it
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but I don't care I'm going to lift those
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hands and I'm going to worship my way
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through this thing I got a messed up
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mind but he's going to give me a piece
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that passes all understanding everything
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is going to be fine but I'm digging and
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I'm not letting go until I see him for
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myself ladies and gentlemen that's where
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you're
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transformed and when you're transformed
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ain't nothing taking you back when you
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experience two handfuls of Jesus that
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changes
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everything 2 Corinthians chapter 3:18
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says that we are being
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transformed into His Image the same
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image from glory to glory what the heck
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does that mean I'm glad you
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asked it literally
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means from fight to
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fight from from frustration to
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frustration but I ain't quitting would
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you turn to three folks and tell them
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I'm not quitting I'm not quitting just
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just just just witness to somebody just
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I'm not quitting I'm not quitting watch
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watch watch watch I'm showing up again
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I'm serving again I'm worshiping again
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I'm praying again I don't feel like it
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you're not a child get up let's go come
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on here let's lean in maturity reaches I
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heard something that's amazing I got
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some information it has inspired me I
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believe better days are ahead I was made
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more from where I'm living right now my
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dreams are I'm still dreaming they're
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still alive and I'm going to be
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transformed into his image from glory to
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glory that means the fact that you
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showed up again today you're one step
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closer than you ever were before because
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you just keep showing up you don't even
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understand how close you are to getting
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through the final rapper and seeing
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Jesus on the other side that's why you
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got to stay in the fight that's why we
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keep showing up that's why we keep
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serving that's why we keep worshiping
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and honoring God because you're on the
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brink of reaching the Heart of Jesus in
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your
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life we don't
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quit but here's what I
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know you and I are going to face some
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push back when we start
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this but you just can't let the paper
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cuts keep you from unwrapping the
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package cuz fear is going to cut you
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what if it doesn't
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work you you you you can have you can
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have the paper cut of but my past is so
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bad well my reputation is you don't I
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got people No One Believes I'm doing it
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by myself well my spouse well well I'm
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I'm single well well I've got a
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situation you you it's going to throw
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all kinds of excuses to keep you from
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reaching those are just paper cuts
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trying to kill you with a thousand paper
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cuts if you'll keep digging through it
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baby let me help you with something if
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you're digging towards Jesus and you get
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paper cut let the blood fly keep on
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digging the truth is if we could open
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our spiritual eyes there's folks
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bleeding all over the place in here
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starting with the guy up here I'm
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bleeding I'm dripping because I've had
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issues hitting my life but I've just
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decided there's nothing to turn back
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towards I'm going forward I've heard
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from God I got great news I've been
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inspired by his word I'm being
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transformed day in and day out I'm not
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the guy I used to be I don't think you
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would have liked him but I'm getting
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stronger and I'm getting better because
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I'm giving him my heart I've seen some
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things and you can't tell me he's not
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real because he's been too good in my
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life my heart has been changed oh I
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still glory to glory I still got my
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struggle I still got my battle I still
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got my questions I still have my
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frustrations I still go through doubts
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just like you do but none of those are
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able to stop the goodness of God and the
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progress that I have in my life because
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I'm searching for something that makes
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me a
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king you got to stay in the game you got
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to keep pressing you got to keep moving
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forward you see Jesus Jesus did
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this for
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you Jesus looked at a package that was
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offered to him and he didn't like the
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paper and he had to decide to keep
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digging because he saw you below the
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paper for the joy set before him he
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endured the cross father let this cup
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pass from
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me I don't like what I see
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coming you see your salvation my
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salvation from
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sin the hope that Humanity has today was
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wrapped in a whip a cross and a
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grave that Jesus is willing to keep
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digging and he kept pressing
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and he didn't like it but the Bible
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tells me that it took him 3 days but he
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tore all of it off to reach the gift of
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New Life to hand to you and I anybody
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glad that he kept unwrapping that he
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kept
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digging Don't Let
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Jesus hide from
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you inside the paper I will not be
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denied the way that you discover Jesus
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is you have to
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disover
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him you have to uncover
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him and that's where you're going to
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have to rip off things that are trying
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to get in the way I I'm convinced that
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when the Shepherds finally got to the
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cave can you imagine Mary and Joseph
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sitting there near Jesus perfect
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baby you got Eeyore over here you know
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you know you got all the
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animals and the Shepherds come running
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in Mary's like
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hello yeah we knew you were here what do
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you mean you knew we were here angel
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told us yeah he's blabbing it everywhere
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like he told all of us we were all out
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there we all heard it and we had to come
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see for oursel we heard Emmanuel God is
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now with us it's already happened it's
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been prophesied from the very beginning
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of time and now here he is
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Mary you just got to understand
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something I want to see
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him well here he is no Mary you're
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missing it the angel told me we would
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find him
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wrapped in swaddling
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cloth and lying in a in a in a in a
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Manger I want you to unwrap him so I can
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see
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him I want to see his arms I want to see
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his hands I want to I I want to see his
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pull that little blanket back and let me
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see I want to see how oh cute onesie
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that's so nice I want I want to see show
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me his feet I I want to look at his I
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want to see him in other words I didn't
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come this far to live off of just a
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glimpse of
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Jesus I'm not just trying to get a peak
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of who he is I'm not trying to just live
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off of a quick experience and then walk
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away oh no no no no no no no no I I want
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to see all that he is all that he has I
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don't want to settle for a little bit I
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have been through too much in my life to
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play with this game I am ripping
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everything I can find off of Jesus I'm
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not going to leave a little tag hanging
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I want all of it gone I don't want
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anything held back I want to see that's
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a really nice gift I want to I want to
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see who he is I I want every miracle I
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want every promise I want I want
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everything his word tells me and then
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some I want him to heal my family I want
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him to touch my mind I want him to give
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me direction for tomorrow I need wisdom
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on how to handle this situation I'm in
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right now I need him to guide me and
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Lead Me and people aren't going to get
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it I need him to do what only he can do
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but I've got to unwrap him I've got to
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get over my emotion get over the feeling
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so I can reach the truth of life and
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once I hit that then I can know what I
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can't know any other way I'm not playing
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I've been living in way too much chaos
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but I was made to unwrap him and see him
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for all that he is so I can have all
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that he promised I want it
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all would you stand to your feet in this
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room somebody say I Want It All I Want
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It
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All I Want It
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All why would you leave part of the gift
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under the tree I want it
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all you give me a gift that says part
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one part two part
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three baby I'm going to open all three
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of them and maybe another
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one I want it all yes sir I'm not
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leaving anything
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hanging ladies and gentlemen he paid a
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price for
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you don't leave the gifts hanging on
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that cross he paid for it
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all your peace your
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healing
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salvation in fact that's the greatest
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gift of
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all knowing that you can be forgiven
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that your
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past can be wiped away
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cannot be held against you
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anymore Gone
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Forever that's what he
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promised ladies and gentlemen that is
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one of the greatest Gifts of all would
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you bow your heads in this
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room I want to give you a chance today
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to to receive that
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gift I just want you to pray a simple
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prayer in your own words something like
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Jesus Come into my heart forgive for me
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I accept you as my Lord and my savior
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that's all it
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takes it's not a big professional prayer
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you don't have to pray it in my words
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you just got to mean it from your heart
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he hears you he understands and and and
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it means you're just as saved as I am
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there's no degrees of Salvation it's
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just it's all the same we're in it
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together so take the next 20 seconds and
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pray that prayer in your heart invite
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him in ask him to forgive you ask him to
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change you ask him to reveal himself to
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you father these prayers being prayed in
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this room right now I know are touching
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your heart you're hearing every one of
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them and I ask you God to let your peace
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your love your joy your strength let it
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flood their hearts today throughout this
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week with the realization that you heard
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them that you understand them that
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you're for them you're holding nothing
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against them but you've leveraged Heaven
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on their behalf you love us you're on
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our side you don't have a scorecard
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you're not throwing things at us but in
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fact you're just covering us with your
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grace and your mercy and today we say
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thank you God lift my friends in this
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room let them feel your love your peace
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your strength as we move towards you let
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us hear the good news and be inspired by
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it but inspired enough to be transformed
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by your power by your love move inside
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and do what only you can
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do I pray that this season will be the
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greatest season of their entire life
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as we finish this year and move into the
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next I pray your increase of blessings
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and presence to show off and remind them
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that you're for them and not against
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them that you're a friend we love you
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and honor you today in Jesus name amen
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did I or did I not say you were going to
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be encouraged yeah feel free to check
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more encouraging messages until then I
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hope you have a great day