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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 am really excited that
today we're gonna pick up
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where we left off yesterday in
this brand new series called
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Spiritual Care.
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And the reason I'm teaching this series is
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because of a dream that I had.
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One night I went to bed
and I dream two dreams.
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First, I dreamed a dream
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that I taught a whole series
called the Right Way to Join
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or to Leave a church.
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And like I told you yesterday,
I got up from my bed, ran
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to the room where I read my Bible
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and pray, pulled out my computer
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and began to write down everything I taught in this series
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as I was dreaming it.
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That's how lucid the dream was.
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And I said, wow, the Holy Spirit has just
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given me a message
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I'm to teach to my
friends by various media.
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So I went back to bed thinking
I was just gonna sleep the
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rest of the night, and I
dreamed a second dream.
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And the second dream,
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I taught a whole series on Spiritual Care.
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And once again, the dream was so vivid
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that when I woke up I said, you know what?
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I just received another
teaching from the Lord.
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I got up from my bed again,
went back to my same room
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where I pray and read my
Bible, pulled out my computer,
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wrote down all my notes.
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And the series that I'm
teaching you now is called
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Spiritual Care.
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And the Lord gave it to me
in the middle of the night,
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in the middle of a dream.
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That was quite a busy night,
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but I knew the Lord gave
me something for you.
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This series is called Spiritual Care, it is 5-parts.
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It comes with a study guide.
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It is so wonderful
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and I'm excited
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to tell you about my book called, My Spirit Empowered Day.
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My friends, your day is supposed to be empowered
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by the Holy Spirit.
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And if you've never been filled
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with the Holy Spirit,
today can be your day.
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Call us. We would love to
pray with you, to be filled
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with the Holy Spirit,
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but to know more about
all these resources,
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you can go to our website.
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Just go online or you can give us a call.
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And if you need somebody to
pray with you, here we are.
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We're waiting for the phone to ring right now
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and I really mean that - we want the phone to ring.
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So call that number and write
the number down and save it.
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It might be that one day
you find yourself in a fix,
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but you're not seeing the program
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and you can't remember the number.
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Write it down. You'll always
have the number there.
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And then you can call us
when you feel like you need
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somebody to pray with you.
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We're not supposed to do life alone.
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And if you need somebody
to put their faith together
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with yours, let it be us.
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We'll pray for you passionately.
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We'll pray with you with
faith and confidentially.
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And guess what? Jesus
will really do what needs
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to be done in your life.
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He will. But reach for your Bible.
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And today we're returning
to this brand new series,
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which is called, Spiritual Care.
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And today I want to talk to you about
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what I believe is God's mandate for how we as a ministry are
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to care for people.
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And I believe there's
going to be a lot in this
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that you're going to
learn about how you ought
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to be taking care of others.
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But I wanna go back to my childhood.
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When I was young, as I told
you yesterday, I was a very,
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very lonely young boy.
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By the time that I was 6-years old,
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I just felt like I was an oddball.
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And as I told you yesterday in 1964, I was 6-years old
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and that's when the movie came out called
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Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, which was narrated
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by Burl Ives.
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And I remember sitting in front of my TV, the age 6,
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watching the TV, and I saw Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.
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He was shunned by all of his friends,
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and he went to visit the
island of misfit toys.
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And I remember as a 6-year-old
thinking, that's who I am.
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I belong on the island of misfit toys.
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There's something wrong
with me. I'm defective.
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I'm not like the other guys in my church.
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They all like to play ball and
go bowling and play football
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and basketball and yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I didn't like anything to do with a ball.
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I loved everything having
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and antiquity and history and symphonies.
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And in fact, as a young boy, I would go
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to the museum by myself.
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I can remember my mother dropping me off at the symphony
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before I was even 10 years old by myself.
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And when I would try to tell
my friends at church about it,
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they looked at me like I was such a freak.
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Like what is he doing
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going to a symphony, going
to museums by himself?
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I was just an oddball in my group
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of guys at our church
and I felt very shunned.
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Now, maybe it's not true,
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but that's what I felt when I was young
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and I deeply, deeply felt it.
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So in 1969 when Three Dog Night came out
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with a song called, One, it was like my song,
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I really understood that song
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and I sang it for you yesterday.
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I'm gonna sing it for you
just a little bit again today,
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and this is the last time
I'm gonna sing for you.
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But the words are like this -
One is the loneliest number
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that you'll ever do.
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Two can be bad as one.
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It's the loneliest number since the number
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One. I remember thinking, well, that is the truth.
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One is the loneliest number
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and that it ends by saying,
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One is the loneliest,
One is the loneliest,
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One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do.
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And the reason I remember those words is
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because when I was 11 years old in 1969
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and I heard that song,
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I remember laying across
my bed in my bedroom,
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turning the little dial on my radio:
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those were back in the days when we all had radios
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and we listened to them.
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And I thought, that is really the
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description of what I feel.
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I am one, I am lonely. That is my life.
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But at that point, I was really headed in a bad direction.
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But then in 1974, I was filled with the Holy Spirit.
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And that radically changed me.
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I say it was like Kent Clark
walked into the phone booth
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and came out like Superman.
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I mean, when I received the baptism
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and the Holy Spirit,
all those hangups I had
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and all that loneliness,
I just shed it in a flash
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of a second when the power of
the Holy Spirit came on me.
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But because of those early years,
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which really were desperately,
desperately lonely years,
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it created a need in me to be
connected with other people.
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And what was a negative became
a big positive in my life.
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And I determined I'm
gonna be the best friend
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anybody has ever had.
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I'm gonna be so connected
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that people will never be forgotten.
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I am going to take care of people
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and nurture the relationships
that are in my life.
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And I begin to become a checker,
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and I'm still a checker to this day.
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I check on people all the time.
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My mother always said, if
you want to have a friend,
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you gotta be a friend.
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And the loneliest person
is the one who just sits
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and waits for somebody to call him.
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You're gonna be lonely if you
wait for your phone to ring.
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You've gotta make yourself necessary.
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You've gotta make yourself needed.
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And I begin to call on
people and check on people
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and nurture people and
take care of people.
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And God gave me an amazing mother.
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Her name was Erlita Renner,
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and she really had a pastoral gift in her life.
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And my mother, truthfully was
called into pastoral ministry,
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but we were Southern Baptist
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and Southern Baptist didn't believe
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that a woman could be a pastor; but that gift was in her,
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so she pastored everything that moved.
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My mother took care of everybody,
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and no one had a greater
impact on me in regard
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to taking care of people than my mother.
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I learned more from my
mother than anybody else.
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As that pastoral gift just thrived
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and flourished in her life.
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People were calling our home.
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My mother was checking on people,
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and my mother just instilled
deep, deep, deep inside me
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that there is no one more valuable
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than people.
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And I believe that.
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And we are not to use people, we are
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to be involved in people's lives.
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We are to love people.
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And in terms of partnership,
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being involved in other people's lives,
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being involved in something
bigger than yourself so
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that you can make an impact on the world
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and make an impact on people,
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one of my favorite text is founded 1 Corinthians
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3:6-9.
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We reviewed this yesterday.
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I wanna go over it real fast again today
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because I believe it's so important. If you're setting at
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home and you feel you're disconnected,
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and by the way, a lot of people that go
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to church are lonely.
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They are lonely. Maybe it's you.
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They come to church lonely,
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they sit in their seats, same seat
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they're always in with needs in their life.
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They don't know who to talk to.
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They don't know how to open
to those that are around them.
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And in many, many cases, people
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who attend the church don't even know how
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to contact their pastor.
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Or if they did contact their pastor,
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they never got a response.
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And they're very, very hurt
and very disappointed by it.
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Even though they're going to church,
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they're giving their tithe,
they're doing everything
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that they know to do,
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they're lonely. My friends,
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it is not supposed to be that way.
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We're to be connected, we're to be interconnected
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with other people and a part
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of a vision bigger than our own.
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And when we really become connected
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with others, rather than just us doing what we're doing
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by ourselves, it's us
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and others doing something together, God then gets involved
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and our lives really become productive.
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Well, let's go to 1 Corinthians 3:6-
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and the ministry of Apollos.
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I love that because Paul knew his part
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and he knew where his part stopped
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and he recognized Apollo's part
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and was not threatened by it.
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I'm a planter. Apollos, he is a waterer.
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Everybody has a different part.
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something really bad is missing.
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but God gave the increase,
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which means God is the most important
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partner of all partners.
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Apollos is the water, but God
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He's the one that really
gave the increase.
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that planteth anything, neither he that watereth,
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but God that gives the increase is the equivalent of saying,
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we can all do our various parts.
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and he that watereth are one.
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God puts them together, he
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according to his own labor.
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For we are laborers together
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with God.
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is a form of the Greek word,
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sunergos. The word sun,
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and the word ergos. The word, sun, carries
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the idea of doing something in conjunction
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with someone else. The word ergos means to work.
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it's not a picture of a person working by himself: lonely,
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but he's connected with someone else.
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He says, we're workers together with God.
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to work together or it pictures two
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or more working together to mutually accomplish a task.
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or when you're a partner with a ministry, you
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and God are connected.
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Whatever you're doing, do it in connection with God.
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He wants to be your partner in whatever you are doing.
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6:1 which says - So then
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as workers together with him.
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It again is the Greek word sunergos,
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and my friends, it means we are to be connected to the Lord.
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We're not supposed to be doing what we're doing lonely.
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It's supposed to be us
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and God on the same
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that we are to be
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lonely is not what God has called us to do.
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which says, two are better than one
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because they have a good reward for their labor.
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Something happens when you become a partner
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with your church.
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You get involved. Something happens when you become a
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partner in a ministry.
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You give your time, you give your money,
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you give your resources, you give your faith,
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you give your prayer, you become connected to that church.
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of partnership and labor.
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is Psalm 133:1 through 3.
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You've heard it before,
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but here's what verse 1 says: Behold.
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The word behold means - wow -
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listen to this.
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Behold how good
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and how pleasant it is for brethren
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to dwell together in unity.
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People focus on the word unity,
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but they miss what it says - to dwell together.
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that are connected to each other.
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but they're dwelling together in unity.
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it is like the precious
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that ran down up on the
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that went down to the
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You know what that's about? It's about
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a corporate anointing.
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where people are connected in partnership,
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they're working together, they're working in
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conjunction with each other.
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They're not living life alone,
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but now they're really connected in the body of Christ.
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They're connected in their
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or they're connected with a ministry.
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Something happens between all of them.
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head that ran down up on the
beard, even Aaron's beard
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that went down to the
skirts of his garment.
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They poured the anointing oil on Aaron
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and it just kept pouring and pouring
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and pouring until it ran down his face.
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It ran down his beard.
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Finally from his beard, it
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ran down his clothed
all the way to his feet
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until he was standing in
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That is so powerful.
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when we are connected,
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when we're in partnership
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it flows down the body of Christ
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and the body of Christ which is unified
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and dwelling together and
doing things together,
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they end up so anointed,
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they're standing in a puddle of anointing. That is powerful.
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and as the dew that descends upon the mountains of Zion
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for there - in this place where people are dwelling together
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and doing things together - the Lord commands the blessing,
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even life forevermore.
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Well, let's think about dew.
What is dew? Dew is invisible.
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It's the moisture that is in the air.
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It's there all the time,
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but you don't see it until it appears in the morning as dew.
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And it doesn't always appear as dew.
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There has to be what's called
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the moisture in the air and
the atmosphere is just right.
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That suddenly boom, all of
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that invisible moisture manifests as dew.
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The car's covered with dew, the grass is covered with dew,
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your plants are covered with dew.
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If your kids left their toys outside, it's covered with dew.
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Everything, everything everywhere is covered with dew
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because the atmosphere was right.
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There was a dew point, a breaking point, when suddenly
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what was in the air, manifested.
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that when brethren dwell together, when they're in unity,
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when they're working together,
when they're in partnership
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with one another, it creates an atmosphere
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where suddenly the
anointing of God breaks.
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It's like an anointing dew point
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and the anointing of God begins to fall upon everyone
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that is connected and working together.
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God bestows his anointing on those that are co-joined
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to one another in the kingdom of God.
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Now my friends, that is just
powerful. That is powerful.
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I think about our own ministry.
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Our assignment is to take
God's word to the ends
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of the earth and to take
good care of the people
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that God has committed to us.
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I love a verse in Proverbs 10:21.
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It says, the lips of the righteous feed many. I know
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that's God's assignment on me.
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The lips of the righteous are to feed
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many. We're called
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to take God's word to the ends of the earth.
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I think about Romans 15:1.
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to bear the infirmities of the weak
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and not to please ourself,
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which means we've got a God
calling to minister to people
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who are struggling in
any area of their life.
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So No.1: Proverbs 10:21, we're to take the word
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to the ends of the earth and feed many.
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No.2:, were to care for those that are struggling.
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Galatians 6:2 says,
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bear you one another's burdens
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and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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We as a ministry are to help crawl underneath the burdens of
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people are trying to carry by themselves.
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And when people reach out to us for prayer
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or write to us, my friends,
we sincerely to the best
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of our ability crawl into that burden
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to help them spiritually that they can get
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through whatever they're dealing with.
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And then in Matthew 28:18-20,
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we have the glorious great commission
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that is God's call to all of us.
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and spake into them saying - this is verse 18 -
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All power is given unto me in Heaven and Earth.
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Verse 19: Go ye therefore
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and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name
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of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
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to observe all things
whatsoever I've commanded you.
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And Lo I am with you always, even unto the end
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of the world. That's God's call for me
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and that's God's call for you.
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Now, you might be saying - Well, how do I go
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to the ends of the earth?
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How do I feed many?
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How do I help all the
people that are struggling?
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Will you do it by becoming
connected to your church
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and being involved in helping others?
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Or you do it by becoming a partner
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with a ministry like ours?
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You say, well, I wanna help the word
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of God go to the ends of the earth.
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I wanna help strengthen people.
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When you become connected to a ministry
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and you become a coworker
in the kingdom of God
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with your prayers, with your
attentions, with your faith,
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and with your finances,
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suddenly you step into the big picture
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as you dwell together in
unity with other people
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and spiritually, you become co-joined:
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real partners in the work of God.
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And God bestows his anointing upon that.
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And guess what else God does?
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It says in Matthew 28:20 -
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And low, I'm with you always, even into the end
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of the world. That word lo, means - and wow, wow, wow.
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Hear this. If you will
do what I have just said,
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my power will show up in your life.
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Will I ever be with you?
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Which means God is so blessed
by partnership and cooperation
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and those that are giving
of their time, their life,
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their faith, their finances,
to partner with those
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that are reaching the world.
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God says, I'm gonna bestow my power on the
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person that does that.
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Wow, low watch out.
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My power is really gonna
show up in your life.
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And that is a promise you can lay claim to
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when you're connected
to a community of faith
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or to a ministry.
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Do you see how powerful this is?
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And we as a ministry are very
serious about caring for those
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who have partnered with us.
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They are our partners. Well,
how do we care for them?
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How should a pastor care
for his congregation?
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How should you care for others
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that have connected themselves to you?
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What is spiritual care?
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That's what I'm gonna talk
about in the next program.
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It's gonna be good, but I'll
be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray for you.
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Loneliness is a horrible
thing to experience,
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but God never meant for you
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to be alone. From the very beginning,
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He said - It is not good for man to be alone.
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In Rick Renner's 5-part series, Spiritual Care,
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you'll learn about God's design for people
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to live in partnership, community
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and spiritual connection with each other.
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In these lessons, Rick teaches - How
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to build lasting spiritual strength: How to strengthen,
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heal, and restore others in Christ's love:
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How partnering with others unlocks God's blessing -
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and more - available in digital
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or physical formats starting at just $11.
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Spiritual care will reinvigorate your relationship
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with your coworkers
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in the kingdom of God. There's something great and mighty
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that Jesus wants to do for you.
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In addition to this teaching series,
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you can order Rick's book, My Spirit Empowered Day,
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for just $20.
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Every day of your life is
meant to be spirit empowered
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and you can really learn
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and practice what it means
to go deeper with the Lord
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through this 31 day devotional.
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Don't miss this special offer:
the series, Spiritual Care
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and the book, My Spirit Empowered Day.
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Visit renner.org to order.
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Call the number on your screen
or scan the QR code now.
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Call or go online now.
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Hey, this is Rick Renner,
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and right now I'm standing
in the reception area
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of the Tulsa Ministry Headquarters.
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And this building is just so wonderful.
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You know the Bible tells us in Proverbs 10:21, The lips
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of the righteous feed many.
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And I know that is our assignment.
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God has called us to feed many
people the trusted teaching
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of the Bible.
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And together with you and all of our partners,
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we really are taking the trusted teaching of the word of God
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to the very ends of the earth.
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Right now, we've paid off about 82% of this facility
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and that is just wonderful.
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And my friends, we can
only do it with your help.
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So thank you if you're
already a part of the team.
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And if not yet part of the
team, please join us as a part
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of the Giving Team to pay off this facility
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so we can be finished with it
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and use these funds to
take the gospel further
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to other places across the world.
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We have covered so much today,
my friends, God has called us
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to be connected to somebody.
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We're not supposed to do life alone.
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And the Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 3,
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that when two are working together,
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they have a better reward for their labor.
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My friends, God wants
your life to be productive
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and you can always do
more when you're doing it
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with somebody else.
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But this whole series is called, Spiritual Care.
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It is a 5-part series that comes with a great study guide
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that's loaded with all the points
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and the principles that
are in this series.
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And I'm so excited
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to tell you about my book called, My Spirit
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Empowered Day.
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God wants every day of your life to be empowered
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by the Holy Spirit. But I want to remind you
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that you can find out more about all these things by going
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to our website or give us a call. And when you call us
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or if you want to send us an email, please let us know how
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to pray for you.
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You're not supposed to face what you're facing by yourself,
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and we would love to be
the ones that pray with you
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and crawl into that burden with you.
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And so fulfill the law of Christ
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and my friends, we really will.
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We will really pray for you,
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and I believe Jesus will
do what needs to be done.
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And Father, in Jesus' name,
thank you for helping us
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to be connected and
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to not do life alone in Jesus' wonderful name,
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Amen.
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Well, I'll see you in the next episode,
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but never forget Ecclesiastes 8:4 tells us,
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"Where the word of a king is
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there is power."
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Hey friends, my wife
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and I are coming to the United States
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to hold some wonderful meetings
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and I want to tell you about them,
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but please be sure to go to our website
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to affirm all these times and dates
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because sometimes things change.
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On Friday, Saturday, Sunday, January 30th, 31st
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and February 1st, we're coming to Mesa, Arizona,
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to Vida Church to be with Pastors Ben
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and Kara Diaz. On Sunday, February 8th, we're coming
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to Southfield, Michigan to be at Word of Faith
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with Bishop Keith and Pastor Deborah Butler.
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On Sunday, February 15th, we're coming to Tulsa, Oklahoma
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to be at Millennial Church with Pastors Paul
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and Karen Brady.
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And on Saturday and Sunday, February 21st
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and 22nd, we're coming to Midland, North Carolina
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to Encounter Church to be with Bishop Alan
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and Tera DiDio
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and friend, I want to invite you to come to one
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of these meetings.
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We're waiting to see you there.
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If you've never received Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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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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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.