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This program is made
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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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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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's 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've been sitting here
just waiting for this moment
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so me
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and Denise can both share
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with you something very
important we've learned
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about marriage.
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And I'm so glad to be here
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and talk about how you
can have a happy marriage.
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Denise, you look so pretty.
Thanks Rick.
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Thank you for being with me.
Thank you.
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This week Denise and I are
celebrating our 44th wedding
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anniversary on Friday - 44 years.
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44 years.
Denise.
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Yes, Rick.
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Hey, we're gonna live a long time.
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We're gonna, we're gonna
make it to a very golden age.
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Golden
Amen.
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But we want you to order the whole series,
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which is called, How to Have a Happy Marriage.
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And you have to have a
happy marriage to be able
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to talk about this.
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And by the way, along the the
road of life, there's lots
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of bumps, but you can get past the bumps
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and you can walk in
peace, walk in the spirit,
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and you can have a happy marriage.
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And we have one. So we're
sharing this week some
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things that we've learned.
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And we want you to get this series
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that comes with the study guide.
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And we want you to get Denise's book,
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which is called Who
Stole Cinderella, the Art
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of Happily Ever After.
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It is just a wonderful, wonderful book.
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I've read it from cover to cover,
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and we want you to order the RIV
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of 1st and 2nd Peter.
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And today we're gonna
be sharing just a little
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bit from this.
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But you can order all these
things by going online
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or just give us a call.
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And by the way, we wanna pray for you.
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So when you reach out
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to pray for you.
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Call the number on the screen
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and please write that number down.
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Keep it nearby so
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that if you ever find
yourself in a position
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where you wish somebody
was available to pray
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with you, you know who to call.
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Call us because we want to pray with you.
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And we will pray and
pray and pray with you.
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And we will believe for God
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to do something wonderful in your life.
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And we really believe that he will.
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But today we're gonna talk about - are you ready -
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Shutting The Door to Strife.
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Yes. - And I'm gonna tell
you about a little story.
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When Denise and I were first married,
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very soon we found ourself
traveling across the
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United States in a tiny car.
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Denise, was it tiny?
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Tiny, little Isuzu. - It
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was a little Isuzu. I-Mark.
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I-Mark. - It was tiny, tiny.
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And we were starting our
traveling teaching ministry.
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And we were traveling hours
and hours and hours and hours
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and hours across the United States.
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The Lord had given me a
vision when we started
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and told me to go on a
ring of fire crusade.
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Yeah, - I saw a ring of fire
burning around the perimeter
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of the United States.
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And the Lord said to me, follow the fire.
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So that's what we did.
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So we drove up north
through the central part
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of the United States to Minnesota.
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Then we turned West and we
began to drive across Montana
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and Idaho and Washington state
and Oregon and California.
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And then we came down into
Arizona and New Mexico.
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We began making a circle
around the United States.
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That's how our ministry began.
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And then we began coming inward
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to the center part of the States.
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But we were traveling with me
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and Denise, Paul was in the backseat.
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He's two,
He was two years old.
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And Philip had just been born.
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Yes,
He was on Denise's lap.
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Six weeks old.
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That's back in the days
when it was not a law
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to have all your kids in a car seat.
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So Denise had Phillip on her lap. Paul was in the back seat.
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And I'm just gonna tell you, sometimes it got a little
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tense in our car.
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And Paul never wanted
to stay in the car seat.
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Denise, am I telling the truth?
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Oh, that's the truth. We had
to keep putting him back in
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that car seat over and over and over
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Again.
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I mean, it was so bad that
I would pull the car over,
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get out, put Paul back in the car seat.
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By the time I was back
in the driver's seat,
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Paul was already out of the car seat.
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He just refused to stay in the car seat.
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So here we're driving down the road.
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Phillip is on Denise's lap. He is crying.
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Paul is in the backseat, refusing to be in the car seat.
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And we are so close to each other
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that Denise and I are nearly joined at the hip.
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Oh yeah. And those little tiny cars.
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And and we had, I mean the floorboard
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where my feet were was
just covered with things.
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And, and our luggage was,
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was packed on top of the car.
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It was strapped on.
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We looked like the leaning tower of Pisa.
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I mean the luggage was leaning here.
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We're driving down the road. Yep.
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We carried a tape duplicator in the trunk.
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I carried a typewriter in the trunk,
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plus all of our luggage. It
was, it was pretty tight.
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And Rick, you were, I gotta
say this, you were such a hero
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because every time we
stopped at the hotels,
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'cause we lived in hotels there
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for two months, it with straight
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This time.
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Yeah, these trips, these trips were
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typically two months long.
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And Rick, every time would
take down the luggage from the
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roof of the car, unstrap it of course,
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and then put it right back
up there. Oh, you were hero.
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Day after day after day after day,
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He row.
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And the ministry was just
starting. We were young.
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We didn't have much money.
So I'm believing God for,
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I'm believing God for the gas,
for every mile we traveled
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and to pay for all the hotels,
to do all the ministry.
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It was just all so huge.
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And it got a little tense in the car
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because Paul was not in the car seat.
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Philip was crying and it was just tense.
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And every once in a while, Denise
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and I, who really loved each
other, it would get tense.
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And in the middle of that situation,
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sometimes it was like a spirit
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of strife would come between us.
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Well, Denise and I are not strifeful people.
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That's just not who we are.
We are peace-loving people.
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We're not strifeful people.
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But when we would get into strife,
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Denise, what would happen?
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The kids would get sick.
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The kids would get sick.
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And finally we woke up one day
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and we realized, you know what?
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Every time we get into strife,
one of the kids gets sick.
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And we begin to understand
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that strife was a door for the enemy.
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Now I'm gonna give you a verse in Ephesians
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4:27,
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it says - Neither give place to the devil.
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And that word place, in Greek, is the word topos.
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It describes a real geographical location, just as real
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as any door or any window or any crack.
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And here we understood that when Denise
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and I would get in strife with each other,
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somehow it opened a door;
it gave place to the devil
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and the devil would begin to get in
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and our kids would get sick.
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Our kids would get sick.
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And one day we had a
really bad event take place
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where Philip reached over
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and put his hand into a cup
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of piping hot coffee
in a moment of strife,
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and it melted all of the
skin off of his hand.
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And we ended up having to go
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to the hospital every single day,
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everywhere we went.
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If we went to a new town,
well first thing we had
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to do was find out where
was the emergency room.
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Because every day they
had to cut off dead skin.
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They had to treat his hand
day after day after day
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after day after day.
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And every time we went
to have his hand treated,
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I was reminded that it took place during a moment of strife.
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And Denise and I just
realized strife opens the door
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to the devil.
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And I wanna read a verse to
you. Are you ready for this?
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In James 3:16,
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it says - For where envying and strife is,
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there is confusion
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and every evil work. And the word evil,
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here's the Greek word, phaulos.
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It describes foul things.
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And so Denise made, and I made a decision,
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and here's what it was -
that we were gonna have a
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no strife policy.
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You said, well, have you
really lived by that?
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Actually we have. There have been very few moments in our 44
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years of ministry that we've had strife.
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You say, well, how do you
keep strife from entering your
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marriage or entering your home?
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It is a decision. Strife is an emotion.
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You know, I'm gonna make a statement.
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I don't want you to
remember this statement.
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Emotions are expensive
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and you have to decide how
you're going to spend them.
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And if you spend your emotions on strife,
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it's gonna open the door
for some bad things.
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You can choose to reserve those emotions
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for something positive.
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Emotions are in your control.
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And the devil works through emotions
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that are not under control.
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That's how strife gets at.
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Now you can control yourself
and you can control strife.
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I know you can, because when you
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and your spouse are in a big fit
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and you're fighting with each other,
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and suddenly the phone rings,
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you change your behavior immediately.
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Hello. Well, hey, I'm
doing great. How are you?
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You know, you're not doing great at all,
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but you're able to pull it under control
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because you choose to.
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You choose to. And Denise
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and I made a decision
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that we're gonna have a no strife policy.
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And so when our kids were growing up,
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they didn't see strife in our home
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because we had a no strife policy.
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Now that does not mean
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that we didn't have the
opportunity for strife.
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Of course, strife is a spirit by the way.
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You can feel it when strife comes -
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it tempts you, it lures you.
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You have to say no to it.
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And my friends, if you
make no room for it,
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then you won't get into strife.
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If so, if Denise
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and I were tempted to get into strife,
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sometimes we would just say, Hey,
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I need a few minutes by myself.
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You know what? I just need to
be quiet for a few moments.
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We'd get alone by ourself or take a walk
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or do something to get
away, to calm ourself down
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and pull ourself into control.
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when you get into strife,
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you open the door for
bad things to take place.
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Or like James 3:16 says, for every evil work,
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and this was so powerful in our life,
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that we carried the
policy into our ministry.
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ministry that is large
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and you have a lot of
employees, there's opportunity
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for people to have disagreements.
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There's nothing wrong with disagreements,
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but the way you deal with disagreements is very important.
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And strife is never helpful.
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Strife always opens the door for the devil.
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So even in our ministry
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and in our churches, we
have a no strife policy.
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And guess what, Denise? When
you have a no strife policy,
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people don't get into strife it.
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It doesn't happen because you
don't open the door for it.
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It requires people to pray.
It requires people to grow up.
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It requires people to discuss things maturely,
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but we don't allow strife in our marriage.
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We don't allow it with our kids. Even
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we don't get into strife with our adult kids
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and we don't allow it in the ministry
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because strife opens a door
for every evil work - Denise.
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You know Rick, I'm just
looking at that scripture,
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verse 16 where it says envy, where envy
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and self seeking exist confusion
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and every evil thing are there.
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And strife really comes from self-seeking,
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like how important you are and your rights
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and your boundaries.
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And I'm gonna hold my line
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and I'm gonna show you that I'm right
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and I'm gonna show you that you are wrong.
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And so that opens the door for strife.
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But I just want you to see it.
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Who wants confusion
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or every evil thing?
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So you have to look at
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It brings destruction.
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It absolutely brings destruction.
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And you know, sometimes strife takes place when you get
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involved in a conversation
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and you begin just talking back and forth.
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And the Bible calls it railing for railing.
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So I want to refer to 1 Peter 3:9.
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And I'm referring to some of my work in the RIV of 1st
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Peter. Listen
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to this; in 1 Peter 3:9.
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Now Peter has been addressing
husbands and wives.
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He's continuing to
address all relationships,
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including husbands and wives.
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And at 1 Peter 3:9,
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listen to what he says -
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Not rendering evil for evil
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or railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing,
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knowing that you are there unto called
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that you should inherit a blessing.
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And when he says, not
rendering evil for evil,
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listen to this.
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It means you absolutely must not try to get even
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to get revenge or to pay someone back for what he did to you
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or to someone else.
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Don't try to settle the score by repaying.
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That is a literal interpretation of this verse. Wow!
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And it says evil for evil.
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The word evil is a form of the Greek word kakos,
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which describes what is bad, evil,
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malicious rotten attitudes and behaviors.
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Wow! And when it says for evil, the word
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for is the Greek word anti - means in exchange for.
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And if you put all this together,
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here's the RIV of this verse.
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Are you ready for this, Denise?
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This is the RIV of 1 Peter 3:9.
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You absolutely must not try
to get even to get revenge
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or to pay someone back for what he did
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to you or to someone else.
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I think of the times in
marriage that people, I mean
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before they're supposed to be
listening to the other person,
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but they're already thinking about how they're gonna respond
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to what the person is saying.
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They're not really listening
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because they're thinking
about how they're gonna pay
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that statement back.
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And Peter says, you absolutely
must not try to get even
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to get revenge or to pay
someone back for what he did
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to your to someone else.
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Don't try to settle the score
by repaying someone's bad,
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evil, malicious rotten attitudes
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and behaviors in exchange for bad, evil,
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malicious rotten attitudes and behaviors.
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Or if someone has verbally abused, berated, damaged,
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debased, harassed, humiliated,
insulted, or misused you
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or someone else, do not
make it your business
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to pay them back with the
same kind of verbal abuse.
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That is a literal interpretation.
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Now, Denise, if we stopped
right there, that's enough
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for you to work on for a long time.
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But Peter goes on to
say, but country-wise,
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Blessing. Blessing,
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Knowing that you are there unto called
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that you should inherit a blessing.
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And the RIV translates it like this.
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But on the contrary, into
the farthest opposite end
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of the spectrum - I love that -
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you must instead speak
a verbal blessing in
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response to them.
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For it is for this very purpose
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that you have been prestigious
called that you should be the
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recipients of blessing.
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And even in your marriage,
God wants your marriage
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to be the recipient of a blessing.
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And so here's what Denise and I do.
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If we're ever tempted to get into strife,
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I will intentionally just
start saying, Denise,
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you're such a blessing to me.
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Or she'll say, well, here's
what I have to say to that.
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I love you. We make a decision contrary wise
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to speak a blessing.
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And it doesn't say to
think a blessing, it says
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to speak a blessing.
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Blessings have to be verbalized.
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So rather than pay each other back
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and say, well, I know how
I'm gonna answer that.
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Well, I'll tell you what,
that's what you think.
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But wait until you're quite,
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I'm gonna tell you what I think about.
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Rather than pay each other back
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and just get into a dragged out,
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prolonged conversation,
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that's not gonna take you anywhere positive,
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just put on the brakes
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And remember that you're called to this.
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There's a calling to to bless one another
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that's on the inside of your spirit.
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And on the inside of your
spirit is a call is a
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place for you.
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It is from that spirit of
love that's on the inside
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of your heart that it says in Romans 5,
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that when you got born again,
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it was shed abroad over
your heart, the love of God.
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From that place, you have the power
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to look at your spouse,
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if they said something ugly and say, I love you.
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You're such a blessing to me.
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And the Bible says in Proverbs 15:1, it says
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that a soft answer will turn away wrath.
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Or what's a soft answer?
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A soft answer comes from a
soft place, not a hard place,
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not a place that I'm gonna get you back,
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but a place that I, that
I'm gonna bless you.
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And Ecclesiastes 3 says, there is a time to speak
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and there's a time not to speak.
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There's a time to embrace
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and there's a time to
refrain from embracing.
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And sometimes when you're
tempted to get into strife,
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it's okay to say, you know what?
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This is a time for us to be quiet.
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This is a time for us to
refrain from embracing.
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We just need a little distance
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and calm down, do whatever you have to do
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to maintain peace in your home.
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Because when you open a door
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to the devil, he comes in.
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He really does.
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And in fact, in Peter 5:7,
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Peter says, be sober,
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be vigilant because your adversary - the devil -
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walks about looking for victims to pounce on and to devour.
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And one of the entryways that
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that evil enemy finds entrance is
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through strife - is through strife.
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And that's very often
when accidents happen,
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that's when people get sick.
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That's when things begin to go haywire.
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If you look at it and really study it,
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very often bad things happen
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around an event of strife.
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And you know, Rick, if
you'll go and get by yourself
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and seek God, he'll show
you what's inside of you
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that causes you to be resentful, to be
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so self-seeking
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'cause that's what James said.
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It says it comes from self-seeking.
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Well, why are we so self-seeking?
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Well, the root of that is fear.
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But God, he's given us that love.
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And from that love on the inside, we are,
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as we just read, we are
called to bless one another
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And to inherit a blessing
And to inherit a blessing.
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And I want to tell you something else.
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When you're tempted to say something ugly
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and to get into strife,
you need to remember
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who you're talking to.
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You're talking to the person
that God called you to.
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You're talking to a person that's forgiven you of a lot
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of things, a person that has overlooked a lot of things.
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And maybe it's just a moment for you to give somebody grace.
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And that's what we're gonna talk about in the next episode,
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the power of forgiveness in marriage.
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It's gonna really be good.
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But Denise, we're out of
time that this has been good
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and we hope it's been a help to you,
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but we'll be back in just a moment
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and we're gonna pray for you.
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Does our family have very
many family traditions?
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Well, we do, but they're a little
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different than other people.
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For example, 4th of July we lost that tradition
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because that's an American
holiday and we live in Russia.
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They don't celebrate the
4th of July in Russia.
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In fact, the 4th of July is just a work day.
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So we kinda lost that one over the years.
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But we do celebrate
Thanksgiving even though
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that is not a Russian tradition.
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And in fact, when you guys
all got married, we had
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to explain to your wives
what Thanksgiving was
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because they had never heard of it.
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But we have retained Thanksgiving.
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We have retained Christmas,
albeit not the same day
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that the western world celebrates.
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The western world celebrates
on December the 25th,
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but Russian Christmas is on January the 7th.
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We do celebrate Easter, but it's on a different calendar.
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So we celebrate usually 2-weeks later than Western Easter.
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But we do celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
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Those are our primary family traditions.
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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
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of 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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of 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 its
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
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of the Ministry Expansion Project are 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 this has really been
a great program today.
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And Denise, you have something to say.
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There's a couple and you're listening
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and you're even contemplating
divorce. Right now,
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the Holy Spirit is so
there upon both of you
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to recognize the union
that you have together,
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the covenant you made together before God
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and with each other.
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And that your marriage is not, is not
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just something to throw away.
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Your marriage is precious
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and to reevaluate what you are thinking
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and come together
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and recognize the good things in one another.
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Amen. Thank you, Denise.
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That was a word of knowledge for somebody,
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so take it and act on it.
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But hey, we're almost out of time.
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We want you to get this series called How
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to Have a Happy Marriage.
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It comes with a study guide
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and we want you
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to get Denise's book called -
Who Stole Cinderella.
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And we want you to be sure to order the RIV of 1st
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& 2nd Peter.
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But Denise when one we come back tomorrow,
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we're gonna talk about the power of forgiveness in marriage
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because forgiveness plays a very big role in marriage.
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It's gonna really be good.
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But Father, we thank
you in the name of Jesus
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that today you've allowed
us to be together.
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And thank you that you've
given us the power to say no
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to a spirit of strife.
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Amen.
And I pray for every person
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and every couple listening right now
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that you would make a decision
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to have a no strife policy in your life.
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You just need to make that decision.
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And the Holy Spirit will empower you to make it
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and he'll help you fulfill it,
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and he'll teach you how to
speak about things maturely
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and not in a spirit of strife.
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And we thank you for this in Jesus name - Amen.
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Well, thank you for being
with us. Don't miss tomorrow.
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It's gonna be good. But until then,
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remember Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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it says, "Where the word of the king, the king is
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where 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 repented 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. Renner Ministries
is proclaiming the gospel
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of Jesus Christ through
every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the Earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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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.