Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Harmony Dust and Ashley Dodson
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00036C
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00:13 Welcome back!
00:14 Were you blessed, didn't you have a great time? 00:16 I know that when I started speaking about my own life, 00:22 when I started bringing all that stuff out, 00:23 I just healed leaps and bounds. 00:26 Every single time I was so afraid, when somebody said 00:29 I wanted to be rebaptized. 00:31 So I brought all this stuff to my pastor thinking, 00:33 you know I'm not going to lie anymore. 00:34 I'm not going to pretend I'm somebody I'm not. 00:37 I want to tell you every single thing about my life. 00:39 Every single thing about my mom's life. 00:41 Every single thing about my grandmother life. 00:43 My Dad's in a crack house, with a sexual addiction 00:46 that is unbelievable, I'm going to tell you that. 00:47 And if I'm good enough then baptize me, if I'm not just 00:51 tell me to leave the building, because I'm tired. 00:52 I've been here ten years trying to pretend, I'm tired. 00:55 At the end when he said to me, that you know I would be 00:58 honored to baptize you, I almost wept. 01:00 The first time I was getting ready 01:02 to tell the testimony. 01:03 God, what do I tell them, because I'm thinking I'm just 01:08 going to tell you the good part. 01:09 God said, if you don't tell them everything, 01:13 don't tell them anything. 01:14 Because it vindicates who I am. 01:15 It vindicates what I am capable of bringing 01:18 to your life in healing. 01:19 If you are going to be ashamed, then you are still in 01:22 bondage somewhere. 01:23 Work through that before you get up and speak. 01:25 And I'm just like, oh man. 01:27 The more I spoke, the more I healed. 01:32 The more I looked at somebody. 01:34 I would say something horrible, and I'd look at somebody 01:37 and see all this love in their eyes. 01:39 And they say, I'm so thankful that you are 01:41 in the body of Christ. 01:42 I'm so thankful that God stepped into your life. 01:44 And I just would want to cry and I would want to say, really. 01:46 Every time somebody invited me to their home, and weren't 01:50 afraid to let me sit at their table with them, I healed. 01:53 I didn't know how to socialize, so it was really 01:55 difficult to me, my palms would sweat. 01:57 Like I don't even know how to be here. 02:00 But I healed, it was just amazing. 02:03 And I'm going to end with a couple of things. 02:05 One of the things I want you to know is, I read a book 02:07 called The Great Divorce, by C. S. Lewis. 02:10 Incredible, and in the first part of that book, 02:12 he says when you go on a trip you can't take all the 02:16 baggage with you, on every trip. 02:18 And even the smallest souvenir from your previous life, 02:21 will stop you from getting into heaven, will stop you 02:25 from this journey of recovery. 02:27 So this show, when we talk about saying something 02:29 out loud, connect with a body, don't let your 02:33 secrets destroy you, that's why we are saying it. 02:35 It's not that God doesn't love you. 02:37 Because that is a given, God is love, it's who He is. 02:40 It's just saying that anything you hide, anything that 02:43 stays in your pocket, and stays in the closet, will 02:45 somehow get in your way of your recovery. 02:48 In a huge way, so get rid of the souvenirs, get rid of 02:51 all the secret sins that you don't think are getting in 02:55 your way, because it will trash you. 02:57 And remember when I said I am sad that this show is 02:59 going to end, it doesn't have to end here. 03:01 It actually doesn't have to end. 03:03 If you get this message that you need to connect 03:05 with someone, it will go on for every single 03:07 person you connect with. 03:08 Ever single person you help. 03:10 Every single time you get healing in your life. 03:12 And as a church if you hear us, learn to love one 03:17 another, because it's huge. 03:20 The world isn't dying out there because they don't know 03:21 doctrine, not because they don't know what the Bible says. 03:24 It's because they've never been loved, ever. 03:26 They've never been loved by their natural parents. 03:28 They've never been loved by anyone, they've been abused 03:31 in every single way. 03:33 And as they come into the building, all they are asking, 03:35 is it different here? 03:37 Is this place different? |
Revised 2014-12-17