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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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but dive deep revealing a
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that
touches the world. Let's
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join Rick 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 this damn bull you
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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
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so glad 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
parts 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
renter 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,
would you please reach out?
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That's to us, Denise. That's, we really
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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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That's, and we see answers to prayers
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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 a 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 your 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 undistracted 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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It's wonderful.
Really filled
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with the spirit and wonderful evangelism.
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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, 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 at 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 to 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. The first
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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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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 in
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, I
was parked at the turnpike,
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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 and heard a Cory Timboon.
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We went to hear Cory
Timbo. 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
sings, and then we would talk
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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
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to this day, I can't believe that I sing.
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We were having ice cream.
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I said, Denise,
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if you were my wife, 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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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, I took her back
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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 I gotta stop you.
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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 out of 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 page.
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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 one day.
Yeah. Just for one day, day,
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Probably 10
Days. 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 begins 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 undistracted, 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
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of what a jerk would do.
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But I was just afraid. 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 wasn't 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, I, I memorized it.
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They said, impressive
tall 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 art opera.
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It was, it, 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 GI 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 course
my teacher was not very
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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.
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But our relationship was confusing
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because I was on again, off
again, on again, off again.
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Finally. Yeah, finally
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 at 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 you said, I want to
love you as Christ. Love the
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Church, love 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 this sickness
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that you've opened the door to the devil
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because you are not in my will.
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And when you're not in my
will, you experience bad things
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and you're sick because you're not doing
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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 bed
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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 the third, 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 chapter four.
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And when you come to Ecclesiastes
chapter four, verse nine,
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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,
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because they have a good
reward 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
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Marriage,
Wow, look what the Lord has done
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through our labor together.
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It is amazing. 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 on
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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 his 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 into 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, someone began
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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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and 2nd Peter: order today.
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How to Have a Happy Marriage,
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and the books, Who Stole Cinderella for $17.
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And the RIV of 1st and 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
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Hey, this is Rick Renner
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and I'm standing inside the Partner Care
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department of our ministry.
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And this is where the action takes place.
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Thousands of phone calls every day
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and every month come into
this place from people
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reaching out to us.
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And this is my precious
mother who is in heaven,
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and she established this
part of the ministry.
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But these are the
principles we are dedicated
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to: To feed the entire flock
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God has brought to this ministry,
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to strengthen those who
are diseased in any area
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of their lives, to bring healing to those in need of
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any type of healing, to bind up those
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who are broken in any area of their lives,
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to bring back those that
have been driven away,
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to reach the lost, and to take the gospel
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and the trusted teaching
of the Bible to the ends,
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the earth, to shepherd the
flock that God has caused
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to hear the voice of this ministry
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and to help them grow in
their relationship with Christ
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and become powerful
Bible-based believers equipped
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for these last days.
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And to thank and minister
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to partners whose sacrificial
gifts have enabled this
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ministry to fulfill his
call around the world.
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And we are very committed
to these principles.
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And if you're a partner, you know,
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we're very serious about that.
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But hey, right now we're trying to pay off this facility.
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And those who are part of the
Ministry Expansion Project are
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helping us to do that.
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And if you're a part already, thank you.
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But if you're not part of that
giving team yet, we need you.
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So would you please become a part
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of the Ministry Expansion Giving Team
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so we can pay off this facility
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and then keep taking the gospel to the ends of the Earth
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where people really are
crying out for someone
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to bring them trusted
teaching of the Bible.
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And that's us. That's our call.
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And my friends together, we can do this.
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And I want to say "thank you" so much.
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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.
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And by the way, we also talk
about it in our autobiography
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called Unlikely. Our Marriage is Quite Unlikely.
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But you know, God does
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, and
it comes with a study guide.
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And Denise, today's the 1st day we're offering the RIV
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1st and 2nd Peter, and I'm so excited about this.
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So if you ordered Volume 1, be sure
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and now to order Volume 2. You will just love it.
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And this week I'm gonna be
sharing a little bit from
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1 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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What's fine, 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 we're praying
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that you strengthen their marriages.
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Amen. And Lord, we thank you
for this in the wonderful
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mighty name of Jesus us.
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Amen. Now, when we come
back tomorrow, Denise,
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we're gonna talk about having
a purpose for marriage.
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You gotta have a purpose
for your own life.
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But then when God calls you to be married,
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God gives a purpose to that union.
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And we're gonna talk about
that in tomorrow's program,
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and I believe it's gonna be helpful.
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So don't miss tomorrow's episode,
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but until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says,
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"Where the word 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, I repent
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of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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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.
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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.
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Discover the many ways you can
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We invite you to partner with
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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