Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), C A Murray
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR000044B
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00:13 Hi we are back Celebrating Life In Recovery season 4
00:18 All new shows, real life situations. 00:21 We have looked at some powerful, powerful testimonies, 00:24 giving you snips of in the first half. 00:26 There is more yet to come. 00:28 Christian Berdahl is a great singer, a friend of mine, 00:32 we are going to be sharing studio space not too long 00:35 from now, but I didn't know Cheri, 00:37 that he had a background of abuse. 00:40 And that was real interesting about Christian is that we 00:43 had some cancellations and somebody, a friend of mine 00:46 had just done some Myofascial Release therapy on him. 00:48 So he told her a little bit about his background. 00:52 She said to him, you need to talk with Cheri. 00:56 Then we had the cancellation and he walks in. 00:58 I don't know who he is but I am looking for a testimony 01:01 because we have to fill this seat. 01:02 I am thinking do you have a story and 01:04 he starts talking to me. 01:05 Not only does he have this abuse background, 01:09 but it is very, very intense. 01:12 I don't even know how he, you could feel the Holy Spirit 01:15 on him, you can feel him being such an anointed man of God 01:18 and this abuse almost killed him as a child. 01:21 So as he started to tell his testimony, 01:24 I was like how are you standing? 01:26 He said I am standing in joy with the family. 01:29 I have little boys of my own that I am able to love and 01:33 make sure that nothing like that ever happens to them. 01:36 So he literally comes on and shares that stuff with us. 01:40 Everybody has said the same things as you said, 01:42 I didn't even know anything about that. 01:46 He just walks around and he is incredible, 01:48 and people love him and our blessed by him. 01:50 We also have on this particular roll-in we are going 01:55 to see next is that, once a woman named Alta 01:59 that I went to her church in Oregon. 02:02 I think was Oregon or Grants Pass or something, 02:04 so I went to her church and she was talking. 02:07 She is a church secretary, and I'm not hardly paying 02:09 attention, but all of a sudden she was like well you 02:12 know I had my second affair, and I am like what? 02:16 You just don't hear that from the church secretary. 02:19 So I thinking okay you need to tell me the real deal. 02:22 She is standing next to her husband who adores her. 02:26 Adores her and you can feel that. 02:28 He was, she was married to him on one of the affairs. 02:33 She said one day I was watching your program and 02:36 someone said that she was having an affair, 02:39 has relationship addictions and it's trashed 02:41 her entire life, adolescents all the way through 02:43 college, through 2 marriages. 02:45 She said I was watching your program and there was 02:48 a woman Misti Brochin on and was talking how 02:51 God showed her where some of the damage was and 02:54 she really got victory in her life. 02:56 So she said I knelt down right there and I asked 02:59 God show me. 03:00 He showed her a time when she was being molested, 03:03 she was 3 years old, behind a shed and she said I didn't 03:07 even realize, I knew that I was found naked behind a 03:09 shed at 3, but I didn't know anything more than that. 03:12 God just uncovered, for her, the fact that the molester 03:16 had just walked away and her own mom had just found her. 03:18 She said as soon as I saw that, as soon as I realized 03:21 the sexual damaged for me, the stuff that trashed me started 03:25 then and I acted it out all my life. 03:28 She said that victory changed everything and now 03:30 she is the church secretary at the very church 03:33 that almost disfellowshipped her. 03:37 What is incredible is that this is now second 03:40 generation, this is someone who watched 03:43 Celebrating Life in Recovery and it was an integral 03:47 part of their healing and recovery. 03:49 Now they are on Celebrating Life In Recovery and 03:51 healing someone else, so second-generation 03:53 this is really great. 03:54 I never even thought of that until then. 03:55 But it is real fun because I think if we could do that 03:59 every season how cool would that be. 04:01 To walk with each other through recovery, 04:04 to edify and lift up each other through this process, 04:07 because for a lot of people that are in recovery, 04:09 you know that this outreach keeps me in recovery. 04:13 Be enabled to tell someone and reach out to them. 04:15 The third person you are going to see on this is Matthew Gamble 04:18 He is the real deal, he is funny, he is out blessing 04:24 people, he is out traveling all over the world as an Evangelist. 04:28 He is incredible with youths, but he was a kid that just 04:33 smoked weed and was in rebellion and wanted to be 04:35 Rastafarian and move to Jamaica, you know what I mean? 04:39 He said he went from atheism to agnostic to Adventism. 04:43 I just think his testimony is amazing, so enjoy this 04:47 roll-in with all these 3 folks. 04:49 The 3 of as boys were like little servants, little 04:53 slaves and it was never consistent. 04:56 One thing I love about God is He is consistent. 04:59 I never had any consistency in my life where I could 05:03 come home and do my chores from school. 05:06 We were latch key kids, we let ourselves in, and you are 05:09 home because both my parents worked. 05:11 My step dad and my mom. 05:12 So we have many hours were we were just free to 05:15 do whatever as long our chores were done and 05:18 our homework was done. 05:19 Then you would hear the car door close, my dad's truck 05:23 door and literally there would be ripples of fear that 05:26 would go through your body, because have I done anything 05:30 wrong, had I not, is everything not kept right? 05:33 Have I done everything just right? 05:35 Even if you had you could still be beaten that day. 05:38 When I say beaten I don't mean, oh bad little boy and 05:42 you would get a spanking. 05:43 I'm talking beaten to where, I will spare you all the 05:47 details, but I know what it means to be scourged. 05:51 I mean literally, I had this whole, I will give you a 05:55 quick idea of the mental games. 05:57 I decided I had enough and I was going to run away. 06:02 I was a suicidal kid, a sad kid, a depressed kid. 06:06 We lived through this oppression and yet when we 06:08 were out and about everything was supposed to 06:11 look like it was okay. 06:13 You know you better not say anything or all hell 06:16 will break loose and I believed him because 06:19 I was living in hell already. 06:21 I was involved in the church and there was a man at 06:25 church that again affirmed me, showed attention to me, 06:29 and we were best friends, his family and my family 06:32 best of friends. 06:34 We did a lot of things together in one thing led to 06:36 another and we ended up involved in a relationship together. 06:39 I left my husband for a short time, 3 weeks, but you 06:43 know emotionally I had left for a lot longer than that. 06:47 We got back together, he actually had prayer groups at 06:51 our church praying me home. 06:54 I knew it was the power of God, my husband did that. 06:56 I knew it was the power of God bringing me home. 06:58 And there it is this church down there, Seventh-day 07:01 Adventist, so I called it up on Monday. 07:03 The Lady answers the phone, praise the Lord. 07:06 I said okay, she said, how can I help you? 07:09 I said my name is Matthew and I live in St. Augustine 07:13 and I would like to come. 07:14 Oh that is wonderful we will be here Saturday. 07:16 Come out, I believe it was 11 o'clock. 07:19 So I said fine. 07:21 I show up on this road, I knew the road, 07:23 but I couldn't find the place. 07:25 It is a small little white building, 07:27 and I just couldn't, and there are a couple big churches, 07:29 and a small little building. 07:31 Finally I find it, I come in late and the pastor is 07:34 up at the pulpit, he grabs the side of the pulpit. 07:38 I come through these bar doors that swing in and out, 07:41 that's at the back of this church, I come through and 07:45 push these doors the first thing I realize is I am the 07:49 only colored person in the building. 07:51 This was an all-black church, which I felt like I was 07:54 at home, because I love being in Jamaica and all that. 07:58 These were all Caribbean-based people, then the pastor 08:02 stops from the pulpit and says, we want to praise the 08:06 Lord for sending Matthew to us today. 08:08 My jaw dropped, because I'm like how does this guy, 08:12 I never met this guy in my life, I made one call on 08:16 Monday, how does this guy even know my name? 08:19 I love these testimonies, I love the stories, I love 08:23 the fact that every single person God wants to use. 08:27 So to me coming off the street, homeless for 10 years 08:31 strung out on heroine, teeth missing, illiterate, 08:34 and you think that God can't use someone like that. 08:37 I travel all over the world so I wanted to say to 08:40 everyone I don't care what your issue is, 08:42 I don't care what God pulls you from. 08:45 It is not that I don't care, you know what I mean, 08:46 because I do have a heart. C. A.: sure! 08:48 It is like I know that God has a plan to step you 08:51 out to help someone else. 08:52 There is so many people when somebody says, 08:55 well who do I help? 08:56 I think pick an age, pick an issue, pick a city, 08:59 it doesn't matter because they are everywhere. 09:03 I don't care if I only want to help newborns, 09:05 there's newborns with AIDS, there's newborns with 09:08 medical issues, there are newborns that are abandoned, 09:11 you know what I mean? 09:12 I only want to work with old folks, there's geriatrics, 09:14 there's Alzheimer's, there's medical stuff, there is 09:16 death, there's disease, there's loneliness. 09:20 I mean I only want to work with teenagers, there's 09:23 cutters there's Goth folks, do you know what I mean 09:25 it's like coming out no matter where you come out from. 09:29 God says you stand up and stop letting the devil mess 09:32 with you with your shame, stop letting the devil mess 09:36 with your just not good enough, let that be surrendered 09:39 to God and I will help you to change the community you 09:42 live in, just by being you. 09:44 What is great about these 3 particular testimonies 09:48 is that they each have been able to deal with their 09:51 situations, their histories to the point now where 09:55 they can truly celebrate. 09:57 They can say this is what I was, this is what I am, 10:01 that has prepared me to do this. 10:03 Our camera person here, Ben was talking about Alta, 10:08 how she can go to a restaurant and talk about 10:10 when I was molested. 10:12 And everybody turns, yeah, she's made peace 10:15 with it and God has given her peace with it. 10:18 Christian Berdahl, to come through such horrendous 10:21 let me go back to Alto, what is really interesting is 10:24 after that healing happens, after God start showing her 10:28 some of that kind of stuff, she decides that I need to 10:31 tell my parents. You know! 10:32 She doesn't want to hurt the molester, it is not even 10:35 about revenge on the molester, it is being able to 10:37 get healing in that area for her and for him. 10:40 But she goes back to her mom and dad and sits there 10:43 and all of a sudden everything makes sense, 10:45 of always finding her naked when this person was around. 10:48 Everybody started putting those pieces together, 10:51 but the mom who watched this daughter out of control 10:54 her whole life, this Christian mom who prayed all of a 10:57 sudden saw, instead of this daughter acting out in this 11:00 horrible behavior, she saw a wounded child and she said, 11:03 I am so sorry for what happened. 11:04 So the healing happened in the entire family. 11:07 I thought oh God, I love you. 11:10 Yeah, yeah and her healing was the healing of 11:13 the whole family and that is what you feel doing, 11:17 looking at the first several that we have gone through. 11:20 Everybody is whole now, everybody is ministering now, 11:24 and I like that idea. 11:25 It's not just I am getting by, I'm making it from day to day, 11:27 but I'm celebrating my life in recovery and 11:29 I'm ministering to other people. 11:31 And I am not constantly falling back with temptations. 11:34 You know what I don't wake up and say, oh I hope 11:37 I don't to heroine today. 11:38 Do you know what I mean it's so far. C. A.: I'm glad! 11:40 All of 3ABN I'm sure. 11:43 No, or my family. 11:45 It is so far removed from that, God has walked me to 11:49 the point where I can stand up and say, you know what 11:52 I hope my speech is honest today, I hope that I stand 11:57 in joy and integrity, I hope that I don't miss what 12:01 God is doing today. 12:02 Instead of I hope I don't smoke, you know that still 12:05 comes up for me once in awhile. 12:06 A smoker will walk by, cause I smoked for so long I 12:09 think could you just hand me one of those? 12:11 No, I can't say never tempted, but it's like the 12:16 temptations are so different so when I get to minister 12:18 to someone else, when any of these folks get to minister 12:21 to someone else there is hope that says you will not 12:24 struggle with this the rest of your life. 12:26 Because you are beyond that and these people are 12:29 beyond that and are giving back. 12:35 Matt Gamble what a cool guy and the idea that Ministry 12:39 has many stripes, many colors, many forms, many ways 12:42 to minister, particularly those who are downtrodden. 12:45 Who may not want the straight up Bible study kind of 12:48 a thing, we've got to come another way, 12:50 and Matt Gamble does that. 12:52 He is so hip in doing that. 12:53 One of the things that everybody covered in this 12:56 program, every single story, every single testimony, 12:59 every single aspect, every single victory you will 13:03 hear on the program says that eventually 13:05 they opened up the word of God. 13:07 So we are talking about prayer and we are going to get 13:10 back to that, were talking about prayer were talking 13:12 about communicating with God but to open up the word. 13:14 If you don't have the Bible, get one. 13:17 If you really don't have one, and don't know how to 13:19 get one, call us! 13:21 I'm telling you call us. we'll find you a Bible. 13:23 We will find you a Bible but it is opening up the word 13:25 of God, understanding who He is, understanding who we 13:28 are in Him, and understanding the promises. 13:30 Because when the promises says I will give you a new 13:32 mind and a new heart and I will restore in you 13:35 everything that was taken from you. 13:36 That you are the delight of my life, you are the apple 13:39 of my eye, you are after my own heart, but God says all 13:42 the sudden I can stand up in Christ knowing that I have 13:44 lied to myself my whole life, that I am nothing. 13:48 God says, you are created by Me, and I love you. 13:52 So we are everything and not everything in our junk, 13:56 not everything in our vanity put everything 13:57 in the eyes of God. 13:59 This whole thing has stopped, whole creation all of 14:02 heaven has stopped just for our recovery, 14:04 just for our restoration, and God says don't 14:06 let anyone tell you are nothing. 14:08 You are everything to me step into recovery, trust Me. 14:11 The next roll-in I want to share with you is very fun. 14:14 Some friends of mine did a program called Girls Night 14:17 Out, they came back and talked about further recovery. 14:21 Because You know somebody says, I recover and just a I 14:25 do it once and it's done, isn't that funny? 14:29 Who told them that? 14:31 Because I hope I am not telling them that. 14:33 I think not and life's not saying that either 14:35 Cheri: exactly! 14:36 Certainly not, certainly not! 14:37 As we get hit with different things, as God unfolds 14:39 different parts of our character, 14:41 He is real gentle with us. 14:42 He will go as fast as we can to let go the stuff. 14:45 We can do it all in a moment, God is so right there 14:48 with us, but most of us can't. 14:50 She is going to talk about further recovery. 14:52 There are a number of girls that on that, Cheri and Joleen 14:55 talking about their recovery which is fun. 14:57 The next one I want to show you is Sarai and Charlie, 15:01 they are amazing they work for Better Life TV. 15:03 They have a Ministry that is unbelievable, she was a 15:05 multiple personality disorder, satanic worship. 15:10 she was growing up, not her but as a tiny baby 15:14 and her family was all out to lunch. 15:15 How did she come through that, how did she integrate 15:19 it with her mental disorder, and now she has a family 15:23 and Ministry of her own that God has His hand on. 15:26 Then the last one is Rick and Barbara Wise. 15:30 They are just amazing, Wide Stretch Ministries. 15:34 She, C. A., her father laughed, she was very 15:39 destroyed by that but decided to over achieve. 15:42 She was in college looking at a career and doing 15:45 everything right and she is a little sexually active, 15:49 you know 19, she slept with someone and a few more. 15:52 She always felt bad and she came back to Christianity, 15:55 fell a few times, but it was just like she was back 15:58 and forth on trying to do the right thing. 16:00 Marries this guy, or falls in love with this guy, 16:03 a virgin, abstinent, wants to do the right thing and 16:06 ends up getting tested, 16:09 only because she is going to the doctor to get a clean 16:12 bill of health, because she wants him to know that I've 16:14 changed my life. 16:15 I'm kind of like a Virgin now because I have 16:18 surrendered to God, and finds out that she has AIDS. 16:20 Yeah, powerful, powerful! 16:22 This last group in here of Charlie and Sarai Romani, 16:27 I have met them just recently, 16:29 what a Godly, wonderful couple. 16:30 You would never know that they had the backgrounds that they do 16:34 It is a testament to the ability of God to clean you up. 16:38 And Matt, in a psychiatric hospital. C. A.: yeah, yeah! 16:42 Both crazy as anything. yeah, yeah! 16:44 Both struggling with all kinds of stuff, and I'm thinking 16:47 only God can take a couple in a psychiatric hospital, 16:50 and say you guys from across the room, gaze at each other 16:53 because this is your mate. 16:54 Right! Cheri: And I'm going to bless you. 16:57 Yeah, and give you a worldwide Ministry, 17:00 and they are doing such a fabulous job. 17:03 And I met their children, Jordan, their son 17:06 just stole my heart. 17:08 I worked with him at his school, and I worked 17:10 with him here, stole my heart and incredible. 17:12 So that whole generational break with these 2 people, 17:15 because God stepped in. C. A.: yeah! 17:17 Yeah, of all places. 17:18 Imagine meeting in a psychiatric hospital? 17:21 Exactly, enjoy this I'm thrilled besides God. 17:24 You see your mother as what was going on with her, 17:27 or what was going with your father, or whoever wounded 17:30 you, you could see their wounds and so you do not blame them. 17:33 But He showed me, when it began to pray this, that my 17:36 father was being very, very abusive with me one day. 17:40 I was probably 4 years old, and I had turned to my 17:43 mother to help me and she was laughing. 17:46 Now I don't know that she was laughing at me, but in my 17:49 4- year-old mind that is what I perceived. 17:51 I was being traumatized and it crushed me. 17:54 Jesus took me back there and said, look what happened 17:57 and that day, and I remembered this already it wasn't 18:00 anything suppressed or anything like that but I 18:04 remembered it differently. 18:05 I would have told the whole story, I would have told it 18:07 in it would have been, your father isn't a very nice 18:10 person is he? 18:11 But it was my mother that day who had done the wounding. 18:14 She did not mean to. 18:15 That's what in my mind I perceived, well if my own mother 18:19 doesn't love me enough to protect me 18:20 from this kind of abuse. 18:21 I just must not be worth, I came to believe that 18:24 Satan took that and he convinced me that 18:26 I was not worth very much. 18:27 My mother had instilled in me that all woman is made for 18:31 is to sexually please her husband and keep him there. 18:34 Okay and it was all about what she looks like and how 18:37 she can perform. 18:38 So not being able to have children was huge. 18:40 That was a real, even trying to make it a non-abusive 18:45 world, trying to get out of that seemed impossible to 18:49 me because of my view of how people are. 18:53 So I went from that husband, ended up getting a 18:57 divorce from him and within a few weeks was married 19:01 again, to my second husband. 19:03 He ended up, he was in the Army, we got stationed 19:08 in Las Vegas, he started seeing prostitutes and my 19:13 way of vindicating myself is well if you rather pay money 19:18 to see a prostitute, then I'll just become one. 19:20 And the counselor calls me in, looks at me and says, 19:24 you're HIV test, it came back positive. 19:36 I just stood there and kept thinking, 19:38 this can't be me, right? 19:39 This kind of thing just happens to other people, 19:44 It can't be me I'm only 27 years old, I'm in love and I 19:48 want to get married, so how can this be me? 19:55 So I am trying to figure it out, so I thought well maybe 19:58 okay, there is just some big mistake somewhere, right? 20:01 That's it there's just a big mistake, but I asked the 20:04 counselor, couldn't there be a big mistake? 20:06 He said, we'll do a retest and I said great, 20:08 can I find out tomorrow? 20:09 He said, no it will take a week. 20:10 I said, A week I have to wait another week? 20:13 He said yes, this was 1993 and it would take a week 20:15 to get the results. 20:16 So he took out a needle and drew more blood, 20:17 and I get up, I think we are leaving, 20:21 but instead he takes me in another room and we 20:23 get in this room and there is a woman in there. 20:26 She said, I am from the Colorado State Health Department. 20:30 This disease is so dangerous the only way we can keep 20:33 this disease from spreading is to get anyone who might 20:36 have been exposed, we need to get them all tested. 20:39 She says, we need you to give us the names of anyone 20:42 who might have been exposed. 20:43 Again, this is the kind of stuff that 20:46 touches your heart, Cheri, to spend so much time 20:51 in the world, and then come to the Lord, 20:53 and then to have HIV, and yet be so strong, 20:56 and so solid in Christ, 20:58 to know that this life is not everything, 21:00 that there is more coming. 21:01 You know what was real interesting is she spent, 21:04 it took them 9 years to just sit with this. 21:08 When God said, I want you to tell people, she said 21:11 I don't feel clean anymore, I feel like a leper. 21:14 I don't feel like I could do that and He just opened 21:17 eyes and also Rick's eyes too, a number of kids 21:22 that are starting sexually active now, very early on 21:25 because we are in such a sexualized society. 21:27 All of Hollywood and everybody just says is this is 21:31 okay and everything is okay, not realizing that folks 21:34 are coming down with HIV is one that is a trigger for us, 21:38 Genital warts, that causes all these cancers. 21:41 You have got Chlamydia, Syphilis coming back you've got 21:45 Gonorrhea, you've got, and we're not even talking about just so 21:48 many relationships damaging our view on marriage, 21:53 or any of that kind of stuff. 21:54 We are talking about physical issues that 21:56 will take you out. 21:57 And He said so please stand up, so when she finally 22:00 responded to God, so God is when somebody has had an 22:03 affair and God says please stand up and tell somebody, 22:06 you are saying, you know what, I don't want to. 22:09 Not me! 22:10 I have met even pastors that have issues with 22:15 same-sex things, or their porn addictions or 22:17 whatever and be enabled to even say to them 22:20 stand up and tell somebody. 22:22 They will tell me absolutely not, so God really 22:25 wants us in our recovery to brag on Him. 22:29 It is not just about exposing yourself, it is about 22:33 exposing who God is and His ability to heal, 22:36 and that is what we saw in all these stories. 22:40 Well, certainly in these last 3. 22:43 You know in the days that we that we find ourselves, 22:46 the challenge is, Cheri as you well know, are not going 22:48 to get less, they are going to be greater. 22:50 We are going to find that there are people suffering 22:53 from all kinds of things and the tension that this 22:56 show has always walked is to expose the depth of sin 23:01 so that you can celebrate the depth of recovery. 23:05 You don't want to bask in the fact that your 23:09 life was a wreck, but you have got to say it. 23:11 You have got to understand it and explain it, 23:15 so that when you talk about what God is doing now, 23:17 you can look at the difference, and see that God 23:20 has the ability to take you from the gutter most, 23:22 to the uttermost. 23:23 From the outhouse to the White House, as it were. 23:26 From as you were, to what He wants you to be. 23:28 So that is the tension that we have but we got to let folks 23:31 know people are hurting, and God can take that hurting 23:34 person and turn them into a jewel for Him. 23:36 And there are people watching this program, 23:38 that are weeping the entire time because they are so 23:41 stuck there and somebody said, I was too. 23:44 And I don't even remember who that person was. 23:48 Because of what God has done in my life, and they 23:50 are weeping and this is not only in this country. 23:53 I just found out we are very popular in Australia, 23:58 New Zealand and different parts of the world and 24:01 people are dealing with the same issues and thinking, 24:03 and not popular because we look good, we have a great 24:06 set, or we are so together, because we are none of that. 24:08 All though we do have a great set! 24:10 We do have a great set! 24:11 I will take that back, but what they're saying, 24:14 thank you because they thought they would be there 24:17 the rest of their life and somebody is saying, 24:19 oh don't let the devil lie to you. 24:22 I love the fact, the view I'm getting on God just by 24:26 doing this in hearing these over and over, 24:28 and now I look for them. 24:30 You know if somebody is in the grocery store and they 24:32 have a testimony, I'm saying, will you come 24:33 and be on the program? 24:35 You know what I mean because I'm just looking for them. 24:37 I heard a thing that at the end of all this, we are 24:41 going to be at the end of everything and we are going 24:43 to look at the devil and say, is that him? 24:44 Are you kidding me? 24:46 You know that God is so much bigger than our junk. 24:49 So much bigger than even what the devil himself 24:51 can do to us. 24:52 We need to get a clear picture of who he is, 24:54 and the way we do that is through our love for 24:56 Jesus Christ and the word of our testimony 24:59 that it says the Revelation. 25:00 Yes, yes, yes, powerful, extremely powerful. 25:02 You know there is a text, you can't get through a 25:04 program without a text, but this kind of speaks what 25:08 this program is about. 25:09 1 Corinthians 6:9, "do you not know that the 25:14 unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? 25:16 Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, 25:20 nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomizers, nor 25:22 thieves, nor covetous, nor drinkers, nor revilers, 25:24 nor extortioners, will inherit the kingdom of God. 25:26 And such were some of you. " 25:30 You know He is telling the truth you guys used to be 25:32 that, "but you are washed, but you are sanctified, 25:35 you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, 25:37 and by the Spirit of our God. " 25:39 That's what this show does, it says these kinds of 25:43 things can not inherit the kingdom of God, and these 25:46 people used to be this but they are not that anymore. 25:49 They were washed, they were sanctified, and if you are 25:52 sitting in your room and you are recounting the list 25:56 of sins in your life put the list down and open up the 26:00 word of God because God has something to say to you 26:03 and that is that the list doesn't count anymore. 26:06 It doesn't matter because I have a whole new future 26:08 for you, I've got plans for you and they don't include 26:11 what you were, they are what you are going to be. 26:13 We talked about, on this program we talked about 26:15 the fact that, exactly that. 26:18 We all came from those backgrounds, but God says 26:20 I can't wait to you get to a point where we can stop 26:23 looking at that and I can show you who you are. 26:26 Because you are fabulous, your talents are fabulous, 26:28 your giftings are fabulous, but the way you laugh 26:31 without all that junk is fabulous, and I don't want 26:34 you your whole life to be looking at this stuff. 26:36 So we are going to move right on past that and 26:39 I want to teach you how to walk outside and say, 26:41 man is it good to be alive. 26:43 Man does it feel good to take a breath and know that 26:45 I am a child of God, clean and in my own rights standing 26:49 in the holy of Holies in the presence of my Father. 26:52 He invited me in here, I'm here because He invited me. 26:56 I'm adopted into the family. 26:58 Now I'm going to leave for a little bit and go tell 27:02 someone, because you know what He says, get everyone. 27:05 There is a place in the Bible that says get everyone. 27:07 The wedding table is set and everything is ready, 27:10 the feast is ready. 27:12 Go to the highways and the byways and bring them here. 27:14 I just think that God wows me, I have a crush on Him, 27:18 I can't even help it. 27:19 We will be right back, Stay with us! |
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