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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 I'm so glad that you're with me today
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and I have a surprise for you.
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And that is that this program I did
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with my husband
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and we're talking about
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How You Can Have A Happy Marriage.
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Rick and I have been married for
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coming up in just a few days, 44 years.
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Isn't that awesome?
I'm so thankful to God.
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I'm thankful to God for my husband.
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I'm thankful to God for our covenant with one another.
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I'm thankful to God
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that in the hard times we didn't give up,
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we pressed through.
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And today I we're gonna
talk to you about how
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to have Purpose in your marriage.
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Friend, I wanna say to you,
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if you're gonna have a
successful marriage, you need
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to have a purpose.
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As a wife, you need to know
what your purpose is in
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that marriage.
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I know you have gifts
and callings of your own,
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but you are bringing
yourself into this marriage.
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And what is your purpose in this marriage?
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How are you going to bring design
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and beauty into this relationship and into your family?
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And if God gives you children to your children.
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The Bible says that a woman,
oh, she has so much power
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because in Proverbs 14:1, it says,
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A wise woman builds up her house,
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but a foolish one tears it
down with their own hands.
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That means that women have the power
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to build up their house.
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You have that power. I'm
speaking to women right now.
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You have that power within you
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to build up your house.
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And today we're gonna be
talking about purpose.
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And you can't just like, well,
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I don't know what our purpose is.
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No, you've gotta pursue it.
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You need to seek the Lord,
look in the word of God.
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Read other books.
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Listen and say, Lord,
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what is my purpose in this marriage?
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And as you press forward, oh,
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the Holy Spirit's gonna join with you.
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So I want you to stay with me,
and we're coming right back
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and I'm gonna be with
my husband in his studio
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and we're gonna talk about how
you can have a happy marriage
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and you need to find your purpose.
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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.
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It's time with Denise Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner and I'm
so happy to be here with you
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and with Denise.
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Thank you Rick. I'm really
excited about these programs.
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Denise, we're talking about
How to Have a Happy Marriage.
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It's 5-parts, comes with a study guide.
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Please go online to order these things.
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It's really good and it's a lot of fun.
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It we're offering Denise's book called Who Stole Cinderella,
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the Art of Happily Ever After.
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And today only,
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we're giving this book to you
as a gift, one per household.
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You can get it by going online
or by getting us a call.
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And Denise, this week we're offering
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for the 1st time the RIV of 1st
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and 2nd Peter, maybe you
have the burgundy volume,
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which is James and Jude.
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Well, now you can get Vol. II. Please get yours now.
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And the reason we're offering this is
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because this week I'm gonna be sharing a little from 1st
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Peter 3,
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where Peter addresses the subject of marriage.
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But Denise, this week we're
talking about marriage.
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And I know that a lot
of people have prayer
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requests for their marriage.
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And if you have a specific
need, reach out to us.
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We wanna pray for you. Maybe
you've got something on your
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heart or you just wish somebody would
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agree with you in prayer.
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Well, here we are. We
want to pray for you.
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So please call the number
that is on the screen
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or give us a call.
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And when we hear from
you, we are really going
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to pray for you.
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And Jesus is gonna do something wonderful.
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Denise, do we believe that?
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I believe that a hundred
percent. A hundred percent,
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because when you call out to him
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and you ask in his name
and you ask the His will,
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and according to the
word of God, he hears you
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and he answers.
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We talked about how our marriage began
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and how you need to make Christ the center of your marriage.
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And when Denise and I walked the aisle
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to marry each other at the altar,
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our 1st Baptist Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas,
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I was a young man.
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Denise was a younger girl.
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She was a little bit older than me.
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And she sang a beautiful song to me.
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And I got on my knees
with a pale of water,
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and I washed Denise's feet in front of
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actually a pretty big crowd
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that came together for our wedding.
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Back in those days, I was the single adult
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pastor in that church.
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And so when Denise and I got married,
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we together became the
single adult pastors.
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Immediately we started in ministry,
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but I washed Denise's feet
as my declaration to God,
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to all of the heavens, to the angels,
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and to all the principalities and powers,
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and to the body of Christ that I was going
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to wash Denise's feet and serve her for the rest of my life.
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And together we have been serving for 44 years.
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This Friday is our anniversary.
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That's so wonderful.
Happy anniversary.
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Happy anniversary. It's been
44 good years,
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44, good years.
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And we saw it yesterday
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that when you make Jesus the
center of your relationship,
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it causes your marriage
to be a threefold cord.
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The Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 4:12,
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And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him.
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And here we see that when
you are united together
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with somebody else, in
this particular case we're
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talking about marriage,
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you and your spouse really have a lot of spiritual power
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to stand against the enemy.
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But the rest of the verse says -
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And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
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Well, from the very outset
of our marriage, Denise,
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we talked regularly about the
fact that it was you and me
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and Jesus in the center
of our relationship.
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It wasn't just you and
me, it was us and Jesus.
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And when Jesus is the very
center of your relationship,
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it makes your relationship strong.
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And in life there are things
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that come against marriage:
events, disappointments,
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financial struggles, all kinds of things
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the devil orchestrates to try to pull you apart
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and just to discourage you.
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But when Jesus is in the center then it's not just you
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and your spouse, it is a threefold cord.
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Jesus is in the middle.
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And when Jesus is in the
center of your marriage,
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it can hold you together regardless of
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what comes against you.
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And we are a 44 year testimony
about that. Amen, Denise?
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Amen. - We've encountered a lot of things in 44 years,
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but here we are and we're happy
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and we're gonna remain happy
for the rest of our lives.
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Amen. - Jesus is in the
middle of our relationship.
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But today I want to deal with the fact
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that every marriage needs a purpose.
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You know, it's interesting that when we first got married,
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I was the single adult minister in a big,
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big Baptist church.
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And we started a ministry called - Starting Over
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back in those days.
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And it was a ministry to
newly divorced people.
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And when we opened the
door for that ministry,
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we did not realize what kind
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of a flood we were gonna
have in terms of response.
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I thought maybe a few people
would show up for our seminar,
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which was called Starting Over.
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But in one year, one year - now think about this.
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Denise and I were brand new
in our marriage, brand new.
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And in the first year of
our marriage we had 1100 new
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divorcees come through our starting over ministry:
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1100 in one year.
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It was a cyclical seminar
which would repeat and repeat.
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And every single time
it was just jam packed
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with lives getting saved,
lives being restored.
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But that year, at the very outset of our marriage, I began
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to study what caused all
these other marriages to fail.
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And one thing I noticed at
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that young age in our
marriage is it seemed a lot
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of these marriages didn't have a purpose.
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Everything needs a purpose.
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And when you don't have a
purpose bigger than you,
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even if you love your spouse,
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eventually you get frustrated
in your marriage, you begin
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to think, isn't there more than this?
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And people begin
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to think about other things
and they begin to drift.
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But when you have a purpose, our purpose holds you together.
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And it gives you a goal for your life,
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it gives you a goal for your marriage.
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When you begin to have
kids, it gives a goal,
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it gives a purpose to your entire family.
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Everyone needs a purpose,
including your marriage.
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And when we come to Ecclesiastes 3:1,
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the Bible says - To everything, there's a season
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and a time to every
purpose under the heavens.
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And here we find that
everything has a season
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and everything has a purpose.
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Verse 2: A time to be born, a time to die, a time
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to plant, a time to pluck up that which is planted.
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A time to kill, a time to heal, a time to break down, a time
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to build up, a time to weep, and a time to laugh,
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and a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
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A time to cast away stones
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and a time to gather stones together.
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A time to embrace
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and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to get a time
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to lose, a time to keep, a
time to cast away, a time
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to rend and a time to sew;
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a time to keep silence and a
time to speak. A time to love.
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A time to hate, a time of
war and a time of peace.
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There is a time and there
is a purpose for everything.
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And just like every person
is born with a purpose,
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when God calls two people together,
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he's bringing together two
people with divine purpose.
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And when he pulls them together,
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like Denise said in the last program,
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there's a divine chemistry
which takes place.
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It's amazing. And the Bible tells us in Ephesians
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4:9, Two are better than one
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because they have a good
reward for their labor.
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And when you and your spouse
are working together, you know
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that God has given you a call.
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He's given you a purpose,
and you labor together.
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You have an amazing result
or an amazing reward.
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And Denise, really, when
I look at the 44 years
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of our marriage, it's
44 years of fruitfulness
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because two gifts came together.
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Now, when our gifts came
together, we had to learn how
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to make those gifts work together
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because we're gifted very differently.
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But God showed us,
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and God, by the way,
is still showing us how
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to bring our gifts together
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so we become more
fruitful as a team. Amen.
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Amen. It's so important
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that you recognize that
holy matrimony, Rick,
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because when you get
married, that is a covenant.
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It's a covenant with God,
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and it's a covenant with your spouse.
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And that's the basis of,
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of you building that purpose.
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And when storms come against
the purpose against you,
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you can go back to your covenant.
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You can go back to that commitment
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that you made to one another.
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And Rick, the reason I say that is
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because the purpose is huge and it's big.
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But the foundation is
that covenant with God
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and the covenant with each other.
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And when things do come,
when storms do come,
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and storms do come, if
you have that covenant
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with God and that covenant
with each other, you can go
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through those storms.
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That's right. - And even those storms, not that
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you know, bad things happen
to good people, right?
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But when storms come, it reveals what's on the
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inside of us and we
dig deeper into Christ.
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And that even enhances
your marriage even more.
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And you know, in our marriage,
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the word divorce has never been spoken,
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Never.
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It's just, it's not allowed.
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And I think that when
people in marriage joke
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and they say, I'm gonna divorce
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you. Oh, that is not a funny
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Subject.
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Oh, it's not funny. You
know, we worked with 1100
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divorcees that first year of our marriage,
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and it really taught us
how tragic is divorce
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for the person, for the
couple, for the children.
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There is nothing funny about divorce.
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And you should eliminate that
word from your vocabulary.
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It is not funny.
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And if you've already been
through divorce, then you know
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how destructive it is.
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But Jesus is anointed to
heal the broken hearted.
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And if you've been broken
hearted, Jesus can heal you.
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He can heal any fracture, he
can put you back together.
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But I wanna get back to
this question about purpose,
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Okay?
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Because there's
different kinds of purpose.
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For example, when you and I were married,
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we knew we were both
called to the ministry.
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Well, I didn't have my ministry
and you had your ministry.
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We could have, but God called us together
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so there would be a
blending of our ministries.
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And together, Denise, our purpose has been
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to reach the world, to take
the teaching of the Bible
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to the ends of the Earth and to build up the body of Christ.
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We really have had an apostolic purpose on our life.
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And if you look at what we've
done, what have we done?
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We've worked on the front lines together, we have preached
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and pushed back darkness together.
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We've done what other
people said was impossible,
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but we've done it together with the Lord
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because he's in the middle of all of us.
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Our purpose has been very clearly defined.
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Now, your purpose may not be ministry.
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There's all kinds of purpose.
Your purpose may be business.
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God may anoint you
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and your spouse to make money
so that you'll be blessed
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and so you can fund the gospel around the world.
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We have a very dear
couple that is our friend,
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and they're just anointed to make money
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because they believe they're
called to fund the gospel.
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That is their purpose.
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And wow, they've embraced it
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and they have a good reward for their labor.
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It might be that your purpose is
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to raise up godly children: just to raise up godly children
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that have an impact on the world.
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But it is for sure that
God didn't just call you
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and your spouse so you could
sit in your house and watch TV
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and eat food and go to bed
and wake up and go to work
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and come home and watch TV
and eat food and go to bed.
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There's more than that.
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That is not enough for
anybody to live for,
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whether you're single or
whether you're married.
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You are born to be more than an animal.
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That's what an animal does.
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An animal just gets up,
eats, walks around, does
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what it does, goes back
to sleep, repeats day
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after day after day after day.
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Your life is to be bigger than that.
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And when God calls you
to somebody, there needs
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to be a purpose to that union.
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And there needs to be
a purpose to marriage.
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And Denise, I'm gonna tell you one reason
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that people struggle in their marriage is
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because they don't have a purpose.
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They, they become frustrated,
they become dissatisfied.
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But when you have a purpose,
when you have a goal,
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when you know why you're here,
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when you know why your marriage has been formed by the Lord,
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it puts everything on a different level, doesn't it?
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Oh, it does. And you know, Rick, I was thinking about the
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the wife in that as you were talking,
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that her role is so powerful and
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I'm not diminishing women or their talents
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or their gifts in any, in any way.
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Women are so powerful.
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But in the home you are
particularly powerful
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because you know, the Bible says that..
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woman was made for man.
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Women - men need us.
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It says that we are their glory.
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It says this, but men need us.
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They need our support.
They need our good words.
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They need our consistency.
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They need us to, to clean
the house, to, to take care
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of the children, to,
to love those children,
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nurture those children.
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And that's part of our purpose
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is taking that place.
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And women, I'm just talking to you, taking
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that place in our home.
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And I see some, so many mothers through the years
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and they were waiting for their kids to grow up.
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Then they got, then they
got out of the house,
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then they were worried, then
they, then they get older,
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and now they're worried again.
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Worried about what? - Worried about their children,
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what's gonna happen with them.
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And, and we need to enjoy the purpose
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that God's given us.
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Not just wish that time away
when your children are young,
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but embrace it.
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That's part of your purpose.
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Women are so powerful that in 1 Peter 3,
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and I really cover a lot of this in depth in the RIV -
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1 Peter 3, Peter addresses the
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subject of marriage.
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Well, Peter had been married,
Denise, about 60 years.
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60 years.
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And so when Peter writes about marriage in 1 Peter
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3, he's speaking from a wealth of life.
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And we know that Peter traveled
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with his wife in the ministry. You know, for a wife
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to travel with a suitcase,
she's gotta be a happy woman.
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And so Peter had a very happy marriage
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and they were together
all the way to the end.
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Their story is quite amazing.
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But when he addresses husbands
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and wives, he addresses them in 7 verses.
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The first 6 verses are to wives. You know why?
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That's how much power a wife has. Wives are powerful.
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They are so powerful, very powerful.
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And that's part of the purpose for a wife
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and a marriage, to find out
what she is to be, how she's
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to serve, what she's to do with her kids.
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And in 1st Peter 3:1-6,
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there's amazing, amazing guidance and direction for wives.
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And then you get to verse 7, he speaks very briefly
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to men, which is pretty typical for men.
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He's real straight with the men.
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But while he gives amazing direction to men in verse 7,
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and then he talks about them being called together
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that they might be inheritors of the grace of life.
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Hmm. - It's supposed to be a partnership
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that brings forth great fruit.
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And in fact, it even says
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that when you walk in unity together,
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your prayers won't be hindered.
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The devil will not have the ability
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to disrupt your prayers
when you're walking in
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unity in your marriage.
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It gives you power in prayer.
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But I wanna read a verse, Denise,
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about purpose and a bad vision.
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Okay? - Alright.
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First of all, in Proverbs 29:18, it says,
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Where there is no vision the people perish.
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Perish. And likewise,
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when marriages don't have a vision,
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they don't have a purpose,
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they begin to flounder. They perish.
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But when you come to Philippians 3:13,
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Paul's talking about his own life.
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And he gives us a principle
that also applies to marriage.
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And he says - Brethren, I count on myself
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to have apprehended.
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Well, the word count not
is a bookkeeping term.
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And it is the picture of a bookkeeper
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who has a ledger in front of him.
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And on one page he has all
the original projections,
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or he has the goal or the vision.
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But on the other side, he
has the actual numbers.
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So now the bookkeeper is
looking at the original
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projections, the goal, the vision.
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And then he is looking on
the other side of the page
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to look at the real numbers
to see how they match.
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And Paul says, brethren,
when I look at my life
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and when I look at what God
called me to do, the vision,
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the purpose for my life, it's very clear.
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But then when I look at
the other side of the page,
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I count not myself to have apprehended.
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I see that the numbers
don't match the vision.
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I've done a lot,
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but I haven't really done everything
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that God has called me to do.
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But the only way that Paul knew he hadn't fulfilled it all
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is because he had a vision.
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He knew what he was supposed to do.
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Every person needs a purpose.
Every person needs a vision.
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Your marriage needs a purpose.
Your marriage needs a vision.
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It gives you drive, it gives you energy,
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it gives you something to pray about.
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And it gives you the ability to know
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where you are in your life.
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Are you doing what God
has called you to do?
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How far have you come along in fulfilling
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what God has called you
and your spouse to do?
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And Paul goes on to say - So
here's what I'm gonna do.
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I'm gonna forget what is behind and reach forth
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to those things which are
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before; I press toward the mark for the prize
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of the high calling of
God in Christ Jesus.
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That applies to you
personally as an individual,
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but it also applies to you as a marriage.
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Denise and I can look at each other
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and we can say, we're not done yet.
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How do we know we're not done?
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Not just because of our age,
because we know the vision.
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We know what God has called us to do.
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And when we look at what we've done
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and compare it to what
God has told us to do,
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we know we've still got some work to do.
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The vision is not done yet.
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So it's not time for us to
sit on the couch and retire.
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We have a purpose. We've got a purpose.
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And Denise and I are
gonna live our purpose
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to the very end. Amen.
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Amen. And you know you like he said,
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I press forward. Well you got,
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because there will be opposition against your purpose.
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And you've got to press
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and you've got to embrace
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what God has put in your heart to do as a couple,
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as an individual.
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The commitment that you
have to prayer for your kids
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and what you need to do for your kids.
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You have to embrace it.
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And it doesn't just happen accidentally.
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But we're out of time. But Denise,
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and I'll be back in just a
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moment and we're gonna pray for you.
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How did you understand
the Lord was calling you
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and your family to move to the
former Soviet Union in 1991?
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Well, at that time it was
not the former Soviet Union,
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but I was invited on a mission
trip that I did not want
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to go on, but I said yes.
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So I decided to keep my word.
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I found myself in the
Soviet Union standing in
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front of a group of students,
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and it was the first above
ground Bible school in
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70 years.
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And when I opened my
Bible to speak to them,
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the Holy Spirit said,
welcome to your new home.
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Well, Joel, I just about lost my breath
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because I know the voice of God.
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And I knew that was the Holy Spirit saying, "Welcome
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to your new home."
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And that was the moment I became aware
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that God was calling me
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and our family to leave the United States
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and move to the territory
of the former Soviet Union
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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,
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Rick 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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How to let the Holy Spirit guide your tongue -
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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 Rick's book, The RIV of 1st & 2nd Peter,
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Who Stole Cinderella, free today only when you call
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Well today, Denise, we've had a good time.
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We have Rick. - We've been
talking about having a purpose
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individually, and
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that when two people come
together in holy matrimony,
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then they have a purpose as a marriage.
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They bring together their two purposes
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And the two of them
working together according
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to Ecclesiastes 4, they have a good reward
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for their labor.
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But my friend, you need
a purpose personally,
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and God has one for you.
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You just need to wake up to it.
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And you need to have a
purpose for your marriage.
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So it'd be good for you and your spouse
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to pray together and say, Hey - What
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is our marriage for? Is it just about us?
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Or is there something bigger
than us that God wants us
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to achieve with our marriage?
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And when your marriage has a purpose,
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it gives you direction,
it gives you power,
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it gives you energy, it gives
you something to work for.
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It is amazing what a purpose
will do for your marriage.
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But please order the series, which is called, How
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to Have a Happy Marriage, comes with a Study Guide.
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And today only we're offering you Denise's book called, Who
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Stole Cinderella, the Art of Happily Ever After,
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1 per family,
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free today only.
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And we also want you to
be sure to order your copy
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of the RIV - 1st & 2nd Peter.
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It is amazing.
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And finally, it is available for you to order.
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Thank you for being with us today.
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You can order all these
things by going online
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and please let us know
how to pray for you.
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And Father, we pray right
now in the name of Jesus
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for our friends to have
spiritual ears to hear
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what the Spirit has to say
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to them about the purpose
of their marriage.
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Amen. - Holy Spirit, give them a vision,
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give them a goal, and help
them to rally around it.
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In Jesus' name, Amen. - Amen.
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But 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.