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This program is made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Hello friend. My name is Denise Renner,
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and welcome to my program. Today
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I have a big surprise for you because Rick
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and I, we made our program together
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and it's in his studio and
you are just gonna love it.
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And we're talking about How
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to Have a Happy Marriage.
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All these are such great programs
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with wonderful content,
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and I don't want you
to miss a second of it.
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But I want to begin with this scripture
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because, oh my, this scripture says
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that two are better than one
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because they have a good
reward for their labor.
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For if they fall, one will
lift up the companion.
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But woe to him who is alone when he falls,
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and he has no one to help him up. Again,
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if two lie together, they
can keep one another warm.
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But how can one be warm alone,
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though one may be overpowered by another,
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two can withstand him,
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and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
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Oh, I wanna tell you
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that when we make a covenant
in marriage between husband
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and wife and our covenant with God,
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that three-cord union is not
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easily broken.
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And that's what we're
gonna share with you today.
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That the union that you
have with your spouse
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guarded, it's precious.
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It's not something that
is to be thrown around
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or taken for granted,
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but it is precious that
God gave you that union
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with that person.
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And you need to guard
what God has given you
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and keep it as precious.
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Oh, there may be struggles,
there may be trials,
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there may be storms,
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but I just read to you that a three stranded cord -
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you, your spouse
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and God - is not easily broken.
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And if you need prayer, please
let us know how we can pray
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for you, because we're
there to pray for you.
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And if God's doing something
special in your life
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through these programs, let us know.
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Oh, thank you so much
for being with me today.
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I enjoy all your responses
and stay with me.
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And I'm coming right back
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and I'm going to, you're
gonna go to Rick's studio
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and we're gonna talk about
how to have a happy marriage.
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It's time for big miracles
and changes in your life.
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Join Denise Renner
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and dive into the study of God's
word, which has great power
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to strengthen faith, inspire,
change, heal physically
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and spiritually, and most importantly,
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help you learn about the power
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of Christ Jesus living in you. It's
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Time with Denise Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner,
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and I'm so excited that Denise is with me.
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Thank you, Rick. I am so
excited about this show.
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Denise, you look really
pretty in that jacket.
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Thank you, Rick,
Who got you that jacket,
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My wonderful husband.
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I bought you that jacket in Istanbul.
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He did.
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And you are really
pretty on that jacket.
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Thanks, Rick, - But you are prettier than your jacket.
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You're so elegant.
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Oh, thank you Rick.
And I'm so glad
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that you're with me today.
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And this week, every day this week, Denise
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and I are gonna be talking about how
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to have a happy marriage.
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And by the way, you have
to have a happy marriage
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to be able to talk about that.
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And Denise, we have a very happy marriage.
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We do Rick,
And we've had a happy
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marriage from the beginning.
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But there are things you have to do
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to keep a happy marriage.
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So that's what we're gonna be
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talking to you about this week.
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But please get the five
part series called How
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to Have a Happy Marriage,
comes with a study guide.
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And Denise, look at this.
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For the first time ever,
we're offering the RIVA, first
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and second Peter.
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Oh, yay. Yay. That's awesome.
We've waited and waited.
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And now the second volume
is a, a parallel study Bible
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for people of faith, the
Rener interpretive version,
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a conceptual interpretation
of the Greek New Testament
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with footnotes and commentary
first and second Peter.
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So if you got the first
volume, which was James
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and Jude, now you can
get volume number two.
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And this week I'm gonna be
sharing some things from first
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Peter chapter three about
marriage from the RIV.
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Oh. So that's why we're offering it.
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Well, can I see it?
You sure can.
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Thank you. Because
it's really beautiful.
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Isn't that beautiful? But
anyway, we're, we're so glad
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that you are with us,
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and if you need prayer that
would you please reach out
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to us, Denise, that's, we
really pray for people, don't
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we?
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We certainly do. And we see
miracles and we see healings,
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and we see answers to prayers
and financial miracles too,
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A lot.
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In fact, we have so many
testimonies that have been sent
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to us after people called us for prayer.
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So if you need prayer, you
call the number on the screen
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and write the number down.
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Keep that number nearby so
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that if you ever find yourself in a fix
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and you wish that you had
somebody to pray with,
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you can call that number.
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We'll be waiting for you.
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And when you reach out to
us, we'll be confidential
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and we will really pray with power.
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We'll pray scripturally,
according to one John,
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chapter five, verse 14
and 15, God will hear us
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and Jesus will do what needs to be done.
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But hey, I also wanna say
thank you for being a partner.
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If you're a partner, you're
helping us take the teaching
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of the Bible around the world
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and my friends, I really
mean around the world.
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And if you're not a partner,
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please pray about becoming a partner
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to help us do this ministry.
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And you can become a
partner by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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But today we're gonna
begin talking about How
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to Have a Happy Marriage.
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And Denise, I think we should
begin with our testimony.
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Okay.
Alright.
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So I'm gonna start, and you
can interrupt at any moment.
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I will.
When I was a young man,
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I decided I would never get married.
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I wanted to be single. I wanted to be like the apostle Paul.
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I just wanted to be committed
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and un-distracted so I could serve the Lord freely.
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And I literally had no interest in girls
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or in the subject of marriage,
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but I found myself in a
little college church.
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Loved that little church.
Denise, Wasn't it wonderful?
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Wonderful. - Really filled with the spirit
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and evangelism.
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Wonderful. And one day
I was sitting in church
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and there was a worship service,
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and somebody in the back of the room began
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to sing a prophetic song.
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And I thought, who in
the world is that voice?
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And I turned to see the voice,
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which was behind me.
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And that was the first
time I ever laid my eyes on
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Denise Roberson.
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And it was Denise
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and Denise, you were a
student to the university
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and you were training to be
a professional opera singer.
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But on that day, you just
begin to sing prophetically
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and spontaneously by the spirit.
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And it just gripped me.
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So the first time I ever saw Denise,
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it's when she was obeying the Lord
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and was singing a prophetic song.
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And after the service,
I went back to meet her
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because I was so impressed with her voice.
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And Denise, I'm still
impressed with your voice.
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Thank you, Rick. But from time
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to time you would sing a
prophetic song in that church.
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And Denise and I were both
committed to evangelism.
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So one Saturday we showed up at the church
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and all of our teams
were gonna be dispatched
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to do evangelism.
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And Denise and I ended
up on the same team.
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A team of two was me and Denise.
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And we went to a local
nursing home where Denise
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and I, the first thing
we ever did together.
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Yes. Literally. Yes.
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The first thing. That's the first thing.
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We went from room to room to room
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to room in that nursing home.
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And I remember finally we
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of one corridor, went into the room,
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and there was a man that was dealing
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with brain cancer. His name was Frank.
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Frank, I remember his name too. Rick.
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And you And I led him to the Lord.
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Yes. - That was the first
fruit of our relationship.
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Rick,
Isn't that amazing?
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Thank you,
Jesus. So our marriage,
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our relationship was
born in reaching people.
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Yes. Born in the gospel,
born in the kingdom.
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And Denise was very
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passionately pursuing
a career in the opera.
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Later she auditioned at
the Metropolitan Opera
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and the New York City Opera.
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I mean, Denise really had a
spectacular career in front
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of her, but we got married. But
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Can I tell him about that?
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Well, let me finish this
first, we'll come back
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To it. Oh, okay.
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But before all that happened, I began
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to teach in the church and
our little university town,
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and my gift began to be developed.
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And I ended up at a wedding.
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And Denise was there, it
was during the summer,
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it was the summer break.
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I'd gone back to Tulsa
to work for the summer.
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And I was just being friendly with Denise.
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I had no interest in Denise.
I was just being polite.
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And I said to her at the wedding, she looked very pretty.
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And I said, you ought to come
to Tulsa sometime and see me.
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I did not mean a word of it.
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If I knew she was gonna take me up on it,
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I would've never even offered it.
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I was just being polite.
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So I went back to Tulsa for the summer
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and the phone rang and it was Denise.
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And she said, Ricky,
I'm gonna come to Tulsa.
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Like you invited me.
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And when I hung the phone
up, I thought, oh, my lands,
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what am I gonna do with
this girl for three days?
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What? She actually believed
me. She's coming to Tulsa.
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And the next thing I knew,
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I was parked at the turnpike, yes.
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Waiting for somebody to drop her off.
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And I picked her up
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and I thought, what am I
gonna do with this girl
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for three days?
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And in those three days, we drove a lot.
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We went to church,
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We went and heard Corrie Ten Boom.
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We went to hear Corrie Ten Boom. That's right.
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And we sang a lot of hymns together
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because we didn't know each other,
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but we knew a lot of hymns.
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So we would drive and we would sing, sing.
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And then we would talk and she
would talk about her future.
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And I would talk about my dreams.
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And I found myself saying,
I, I still, to this day,
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I can't believe that I said
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We were having ice cream.
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I said, Denise, if you were my wife,
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I would you marry me?
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And she said, well, if God called me
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to be your wife, of course.
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Well, at that time, Denise was
really looking for a husband.
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She, her dream was
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To marry a preacher,
To marry a preacher,
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Not to be an opera singer.
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It was to, I felt a call to the ministry.
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And here was an, a young preacher.
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And so it looked like the
two of us were put together.
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But I didn't really have
a desire to be married.
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I really had no interest at all.
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In fact, when that question
came outta my mouth, I,
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I just wished I could grab
those words and take 'em back.
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I thought, what in the
world are you saying?
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And before I knew it, I had proposed,
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I wasn't even 20 years old,
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and Denise was a little bit older than me.
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I thought, what in the
world have you done?
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So when the weekend was over,
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I took her back to the turnpike.
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Somebody picked her up, she
went back to the university.
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And for the summer I continued working. My job,
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I gotta stop ya.
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Okay, go ahead. - Because at the turnpike, when you in
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that little green car
and you let me out, but
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before I got outta there, I literally
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like heard wedding bells.
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I know that sounds kind of corny,
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but I really did hear wedding
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sounds.
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And at that moment, that's when I knew
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that Ricky was my husband.
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Well, that summer I
wrote her a lot of letters.
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I'm a writer. And so this is one reason
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that I don't keep a journal,
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because if I kept a journal,
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it would be pages and pages and pages.
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I just don't know how to stop writing
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For one day.
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It would just be, yeah,
just for one day. One day
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Probably 10
Pages. It it was,
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And then I would edit it
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and re-edit it to make it perfect.
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Exactly. But that summer I
wrote Denise a lot of letters,
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and the Lord began speaking
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to me prophetically about Denise.
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And guess what? I still
have all those early
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documents where the Lord spoke to me.
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I still have them, but
I just could not deal
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with the issue of marriage.
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I was not interested in marriage.
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I was the man that was going to be un-distracted uncommitted
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to marriage, just committed
solely to the Lord,
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Like the apostle Paul,
Like the apostle Paul.
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So at the end of the
summer when I went back
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to the university, I just
blew the whole thing off
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as if it never happened.
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And I ignored Denise.
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In fact, I actually said, Denise, can,
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can we just please forget that I proposed?
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Can we just kind of erase that
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and wipe that out and just move on?
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Like we never had that conversation.
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Yes, you did say that,
Denise. I really did that.
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You really did.
And Denise kind
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of thought I was a jerk.
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And actually what I
did was, it was kind of
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what a jerk would do,
but I was just afraid.
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And I was young. I was young, Denise,
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That's for sure.
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I was young and I wasn't, praise God.
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We didn't get married at that moment.
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Amen.
I was not ready for that.
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I wasn't either.
So several years went by
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and I knew that I was in disobedience.
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I knew that. And during the time
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that I was in disobedience is
when Denise went to New York.
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Okay, Denise, tell that part of the story.
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Oh, so I went, my,
my teacher was amazing.
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He was a true opera singer. He sang in Europe.
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And he just believed in me
and believed in my voice.
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And so he took me to
the Metropolitan Opera
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and to the New York
City Opera to audition.
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So in the, in at the Metropolitan,
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I sang and they said,
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Major talent,
Major talent.
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And then they, they, I, it, they said, impressive tall
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and major talent.
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And so, and they told me
to come back in one year
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and sing for James Levine,
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Who was the director
of the Metropolitan.
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Exactly. - But at the New York City Opera,
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you auditioned for Beverly Sills.
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Yes, I did. And
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so I was in the process of
learning all the arias for
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that particular opera.
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It was, it was Macbeth. And
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For your audition?
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Yeah, for my audition.
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And it was the Opera Macbeth from Giuseppe Verdi.
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Well, so I was, I was working
so hard on those arias,
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and I'm telling you, they are difficult,
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very difficult role.
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Working, working, working, working.
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Well, I went to our little church
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that Rick just spoke about,
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and it had become little, it was like 120,
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and now it was like 18 people there.
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And, but I was sitting there
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and the Holy Spirit said
to me, I didn't call you
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to aspire to the Metropolitan Opera,
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but that the praises of God would come out
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of you over this pipe and
give glory and honor to me.
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Well, at that moment, I received that call from the Lord.
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So I changed my whole summer.
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I had a full paid scholarship
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to an opera camp in Europe that summer.
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And I told Rick, of course,
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my teacher was not very happy about this.
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And, and then Rick, and Rick was so sweet
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because he respected my talent.
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And he said, Denise,
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I can't take your quote
unquote voice from the
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world, but he didn't have to
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because the Lord called
me to sing his praises.
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So I told Rick, and then we began to pursue our relationship
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more. - But our relationship was confusing
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because I was on again, off again,
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on again, off again. So finally,
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Yeah, he proposed one more time.
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So I proposed again
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and I said, Denise, I'm so sorry
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that I was erratic the first time.
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And Denise cried and cried and cried.
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We were a breakfast,
having breakfast together.
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And I said, Denise, I know
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that God's called you to be my wife.
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Would you please marry me? And we
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Had to, you said, I want to love you
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as Christ loved the church, love
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The church.
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So I left that breakfast
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and didn't call her again for a year.
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I got terrified again, just
scared the wits out of me,
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the idea of getting married.
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And finally I ended up in
the hospital very, very sick.
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And I said to the Lord,
what opened the door
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for this sickness?
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And the Lord said - you're disobedience. And I said, what
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disobedience? He said, I told you to marry Denise Roberson.
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He said, I didn't give you the sickness,
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but you've opened the door to the devil
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because you are not in my will.
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When you're not in my will.
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You experience bad things and you're sick
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because you're not doing
what I told you to do.
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And you've opened a door for
this sickness to attack you.
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So right from the hospital in my
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bed You did.
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I picked up the phone
and I called Denise,
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and I called her just at the right time
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because she was in a
very vulnerable moment
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with another situation.
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And we just connected.
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And finally the day came
when we walked the aisle,
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October 3rd, 1981.
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Yes. - And Denise, you
were so beautiful that day.
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Thank you, Rick. You were very handsome.
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I was looking at your
picture the other day.
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Oh, Denise and Denise sang
to me, and I washed your feet.
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You did I, I got on my knees
with a bucket of water,
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and I committed to the Lord, to you
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and to the body of Christ
that I would serve you
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for the rest of our life.
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And that began our marriage together.
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Now I wanna read a scripture.
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Let's go to Ecclesiastes 4.
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And when you come to Ecclesiastes 4:9,
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it says - Two are better than one.
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I didn't believe that.
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I really thought I was
sufficient by myself,
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but God told me that
you were to be my wife.
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But the truth really is
two are better than one.
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And it goes on to say, because
they have a good reward
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for their labor.
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And when we come back in the next episode,
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we're gonna talk about having
a purpose for your marriage.
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Every marriage needs a purpose.
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And one reason that
marriage is flounder is
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because they just marry each other
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and that's all there is. Well,
eventually that's not enough.
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And people become disappointed.
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They begin to feel frustrated.
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Isn't there more to marriage than this?
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Marriage needs to have a purpose.
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Actually, everything
needs to have a purpose.
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And this verse says,
two are better than one
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because they have a good
reward for their labor.
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And Denise, when I look
at our marriage, Wow, look
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what the Lord has done
through our labor together.
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It is amazing.
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And then verse 10 says, for if they fall,
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the one will lift up his fellow.
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But woe to him that is
alone when he falleth
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for he hath not another to help him up.
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And guess what? This week,
this week, on Friday,
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Denise and I are celebrating
our 44th wedding anniversary.
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And for 44 years we've
been helping each other.
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And when we've stumbled,
we've helped each other up.
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Amen. And Denise, you've
Helped me a lot,
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And you've helped me a lot.
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Well, I sure pray I have.
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And then verse 11 says
again, if two lie together,
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then they shall have heat.
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But how can one be warm alone? Verse 12.
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And if one prevail against
him, two shall withstand him.
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And it's really true that when
you are united in marriage,
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you have spiritual power
to stand against the enemy.
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And then the next part
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of the verse really became
foundational to our marriage.
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And a threefold cord is not quickly broken: a
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threefold cord.
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So it's not two, it's three.
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A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
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And from the very beginning
of our marriage, Denise
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and I always said to each
other, here are you and me.
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But Jesus is in the middle.
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It's not just you and me,
it's you and me and Jesus.
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And you know Denise, I can
really say God called us together
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because we were not in
pursuit of each other.
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I wasn't in pursuit of
anybody except Jesus.
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And Jesus just revealed
to me that you are my wife
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and you were my partner in ministry.
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And from the very, very beginning,
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God has had a purpose for our lives.
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And from the day we said I
do, 44 years ago this Friday,
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we have really been very focused in
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what God has called us to do.
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Oh, we have. And
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and Rick, I know there's gonna
be, there's gonna be a lot
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of people in heaven
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because of how God has blessed this team.
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And you know, there's a chemistry
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that God puts together.
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That's right. - And then God's anointing comes on that,
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that that couple.
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And when you're united,
there's so much you can do
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and so much he can do through you.
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And the devil's
against you being united.
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He wants to pull you apart.
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He wants to make sure that
you never find your purpose
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as a marriage.
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But really, when you find
your purpose as a marriage,
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it gives you spiritual power
to stand against the enemy.
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And there's a good reward
for your labor together.
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It is just amazing.
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But this week, we're celebrating 44 years of marriage.
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So in this series about How to Have a Happy Marriage,
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we decided that we would tell you
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how our happy marriage began.
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And really, in the first
years of our marriage,
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we never had a word of strife.
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We were just happy as could
be in the ministry together.
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Now, eventually life woke up
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and we had to learn to
work through some emotions.
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We had to learn how to
be nice to each other.
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That's a part of the process.
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But when we come back in the next episode,
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we're gonna talk about having
a purpose for your marriage.
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Everything needs a purpose,
but we're out of time.
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But Denise and I will be
back in just a moment,
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and we're going to pray for you.
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How did you meet Denise, my mama?
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Well, that story is very interesting
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because I didn't really first meet her
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I heard her. I'd gone to the university
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and I had discovered that
there was a small fellowship
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of students that were
filled with the spirit,
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and they moved in the gifts of the spirit.
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And that's where I wanted to be.
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So I came one of those
services one Sunday afternoon,
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and I was seated toward the front.
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And all of a sudden, from
the back of the room,
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someone began to sing a prophecy.
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And I remember thinking,
who is that voice?
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Because it was so magnificent.
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And I turned to see the
voice that was singing.
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And that is the first time
I ever saw your mother.
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And I actually met her much later.
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But my first encounter
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with your mother was when she
was singing a prophetic word
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in our little fellowship at our University Church.
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Want a marriage filled
with peace, purpose, and joy?
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In this new series, How to Have a Happy Marriage, Rick
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and Denise Renner share biblical wisdom
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and real life lessons
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that have helped them
strengthen their relationship
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with one another, overcome strife,
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and experience the joy of
a God-centered marriage.
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In this 5-part series, you will learn - How
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to find purpose in your marriage: How to eliminate strife
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and maintain peace: The power of forgiveness:
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How to let the Holy Spirit guide your tongue -
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available in digital
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or physical formats, starting at just $11.
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This series will equip you
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to strengthen your marriage on
a solid biblical foundation.
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In addition to this teaching series,
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you can order Denise's book, Who Stole Cinderella?
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and Rick's book, the RIV of 1st
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& 2nd Peter: order today.
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Don't miss this special offer
of the bundle of the series,
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How to have a Happy Marriage, starting at just $11,
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and the books, Who Stole Cinderella, for $17.
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And the RIV of 1st & 2nd Peter for $38.
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Call the number on your screen
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or go online to renner.org to order.
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Call or go online now.
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Well, today, Denise
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and I have told you how our
marriage first got started.
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It's quite an amazing story. By the way,
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we also talk about it in our
autobiography called Unlikely.
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Our Marriage is Quite Unlikely.
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But you know, God just
loves to do unlikely things.
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But please order the whole series, which is called, How
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to Have a Happy Marriage.
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And it comes with a study guide.
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And Denise, today's the first
day we're offering the RIV
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of 1st & 2nd Peter, and I'm so excited about this.
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So if you ordered Vol. I, be sure now
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to order Vol. II.
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You will just love it.
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And this week I'm gonna be sharing a little bit from 1st
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Peter 3 from the RIV.
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It's gonna really be good.
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But Denise, it's been a pleasure
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to share the beginning of our story.
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Was fun, Rick.
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Denise, thank you that you
were patient as I proposed
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to you three times.
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Well, I'm thankful
that you kept proposing.
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Well, I'm thankful that you said yes,
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and we're glad that you're with us today.
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And Denise and I wanna pray for you.
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And please remember to
order all these things
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by going online or by giving us a call
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and let us know how to pray for you.
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We want to pray for you. Denise, we mean that - don't we?
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Absolutely. So if you've
got a need on your life,
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just call the number on the
screen or send us an email.
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But Father Denise and I together, we pray for our friends
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and Father, we pray that you would bless them.
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Amen. - Lord, we pray you would strengthen them.
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particularly this week,
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we're praying that you strengthen their marriages. Amen.
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And Lord, we thank you for this in the wonderful,
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mighty name of Jesus,
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Amen.
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Remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord,
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I repent of my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life. Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation.
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We would love to connect with you.