I Woke Up in a BODY BAG After Being Shot in the Face 😳 (Jesus Testimony)
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Credits:
Testimony by Andrew Anderson
Directed by Eric Villatoro
Interviewed by Eric Villatoro
Edited By Joshua Gayle
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Production Assistant, Jaiden Vilson
Testimony Recorded at Ambassadors Coffee
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Chapters
00:00 I Shouldn’t Be Here
01:44 Why Share My Testimony Now
02:43 Being Adopted into a Military Family
05:09 Starting to Rebel, Getting into Crime
08:14 Being Miraculously Healed after a Hit and Run
11:25 Being Fatally Shot and Waking Up in a Body Bag
13:26 God Sends a Nurse to Speak to Me
15:44 The Recovery Process
19:48 My Parents’ Reaction to Me Coming Back to Life
22:52 Giving My Life to Jesus
28:05 Being Launched into Ministry Prematurely
32:39 The Lord Restores My Identity
37:59 Growing in the Word While Hidden
40:32 The Narrow Path
43:05 Who is Jesus To You?
43:55 Prayer
46:20 Gratitude for All God Has Done
47:28 Final Words
47:40 Thank You to Our Donors!
I Woke Up in a BODY BAG After Being Shot in the Face 😳 (Jesus Testimony)
Andrew Anderson’s Testimony
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speak into my life eventually I just
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submitted to it because there was no
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tantrum I could throw or no noise loud
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enough to get her to uncommit from doing
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so and the day that I was being
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discharged you know of course we had
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grown some sort of of tangible
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relationship and she said do me one
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favor um now that you’re walking out of
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here and you know the the least I could
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do was honor a request of hers because
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she had invested so much of her time and
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she said I want you to go to
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church and I want you to just go to a
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service and give God a try and so
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initially I made up my mind I’ll go
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check that box I’ll go check it and that
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way I honor the time that you’ve spent
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so I wandered myself into a
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non-denominational church one Sunday
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morning I did what I feel most firsttime
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guests do is they skittishly walk in
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they sit in the back row which is where
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I was now Drew before before you move to
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that
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part you’re coming out of the hospital
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after getting shot in the face you woke
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up in a body bag yes sir you know what
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what are the doctors and the people
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around you saying or what are you
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hearing because to you you you probably
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don’t remember much from from what
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happened that’s right but from the
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outside looking in it probably looked
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crazy that you were walking out so I
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just just just to want to take some time
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here of what what were you hearing
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around you the doctors your family like
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what was happening through that process
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well while I was in the hospital bed
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there was always a San Antonio police
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officer outside my my room because they
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were afraid that if word had gotten out
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that I had survived and this was some
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sort of a gang related activity and they
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found out that I was still alive that
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someone would try to you know come and
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finish the job potentially doctors were
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absolutely astonished um I had a couple
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of neurosurgeons and a couple of ENT um
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doctors come in Specialists and say
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we’re we’re a little tentative to do
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certain procedures because we’ve only
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done these procedures on people who are
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dead
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and so they were having to Pivot and do
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a lot of different things procedurally
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because I was alive while they were
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having to do it and so one of those
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procedures was that the the capsulation
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around my brain had been severed by the
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bullet and so CSF fluid or cerebral
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spinal fluid was leaking out of my ear
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and so they had to re encapsulate that
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portion of my brain by doing some
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procedure because they couldn’t Stitch
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the brain up and so in order to keep my
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CSF fluid flowing the right way they had
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to do some new trial procedure that
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ended up praise God to work but they
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were telling me along the
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way this is not something we’re used to
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doing and even when we look at you it’s
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an amazing story because we just haven’t
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had to do these things outside of a a
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cold environment which is what they
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called like somebody who was already
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passed like um as far as their training
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had gone so I know for sure that uh my
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situation definitely were was
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challenging to the neurosurgeons the
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neurology department and the ENT
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specialists that were working with me
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through that process how long were you
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uh how long was that process of being in
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the hospital and and the
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healing uh well the process from getting
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into the hospital and coming out of the
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hospital how long was that it was about
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3 months for me um quick yeah it was
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because they had to do several brain
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surgeries they also had to install a
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drain into my head to uh drain fluid
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that was collecting in a pocket that had
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been caused by the bullet of course like
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I said they had to do the the facial
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plastic surgery the ear canal plastic
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surgery and then I had to to sit there
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and kind of be monitored at a high level
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because again a lot of the procedures
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they were trying to do they had never
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done before so I had a CSF leak and you
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know my ear canal since it’s artificial
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it doesn’t lead all the way to the
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inside of my head it literally stops
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about maybe a quarter of my pinky in um
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and so because there was no way for it
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to drain out of my ear any longer they
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started to test whether or not it was
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going to start to drain out of maybe my
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eye my nose or any other opening and so
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there was a lot of procedures they had
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to follow up on regularly um I thank the
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Lord you know for the The Specialist
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Team that’s around me I’ve had them for
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the entirety of the journey even to this
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day um those are the people that I still
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go to for my follow-ups and
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and scans that I do and so I mean
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they’re they’re still to this day
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shocked at a lot of the things that that
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I’ve overcome now of course all credit
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goes to the King of Kings for what I’ve
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overcome but they’re astonished um and
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that was pretty much the testimony of my
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time in the hospital and uh and I have
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to ask this because I’m not going to be
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okay if I don’t ask this but waking up
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in a body bag and very quick if you
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could just like what does that really
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like what does that mean does that mean
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that your heartbeat came back or was it
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that you literally like woke up like
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what did when they say you woke up in
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the body bag so my mom and my dad
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explained the situation like I was they
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have a a room where I was going to be
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identified they had my ID on me but my
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face was very badly mangled and so they
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called my parents of course to to ID me
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and so they were getting ready to ask
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for the identification to take place uh
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it seems very law and ordish but this is
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this is what my mom and dad explain to
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me um they try not to talk about it cuz
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they get very emotional when they do but
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they expected to see their son dead and
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before that curtain got moved back for
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them to identify me I actually came back
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up in the in the body bag I went into
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what’s called breakthrough seizures I
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had 31 of them according to Specialists
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consecutively and that recaus my brain
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to activate and my heartbeat to come
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back and so so you actually physically
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lifted up I was in the bag and they were
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getting ready to identif ID ify me and
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then I came back to life and so they’re
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like why is this bag
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moving and I was alive again and so um
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they had to run the equipment into the
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identification room to stabilize me and
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then moved me to ICU from that point so
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my dad says you know when he thinks on
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it it still haunts him to this day that
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he was waiting on the other side of you
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know a wall preparing to look at his son
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dead and instead he he hears people
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start freaking out like panicking like
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not knowing what the heck is happening
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and now then telling them your your son
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just your son just came back and now him
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having to go through the opposite shock
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of instead of looking upon your child
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being dead and ready to bury him now
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struggling to live on that same
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identification table but alive
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nonetheless so he tells me that he went
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from radical grief to insane Joy but he
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didn’t know how to posture his feeling
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or his reaction and so he just took some
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time to kind of sort things out mentally
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and my mom shares the same thing my mom
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is and I blessed the Lord for my mom but
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my mom said she was just an emotional
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wreck cuz she was like man I I can’t do
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this to wow you know like what is
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happening and my mom and dad are
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actually the ones that cleaned out my
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apartment um they were there when the
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blood was being cleaned off like walls
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and all like so they they have a lot of
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pictures man and they had the
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opportunity to to get some pictures of
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me while I was laying there and the once
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I was in the ICU with the hole in my
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actual
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cheek and you know it’s it’s definitely
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something that even to this day a decade
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and almost a half later that still
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strikes a pretty emotional cord with
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with my
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parents so the the nurse God puts this
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nurse in your in your room that
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basically starts to plant seeds yeah you
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know you get out of the hospital you
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honor her request of going to church now
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before you continue where you left off
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did you know anything about Jesus what
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was your even did you have any
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preconceptions of who Jesus was before
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going into that church absolutely so my
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mom raised me Catholic and so I went
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through all the I think they call them
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sacraments I went through baptism First
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Communion
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I believe the last one’s called
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confirmation I went through those things
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not happily I I’ll tell you that it
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wasn’t something that I looked forward
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to doing on Sunday was go to you know
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Catholic church and go through this
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process but that was pretty much the end
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of my knowledge of the Lord I didn’t
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read the Bible I said a prayer um dising
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genuinely before I ate you know like I
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said a prayer before I went to sleep
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that my mom taught me that was like a
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nursery rhyme almost and that was really
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it the lifestyle that I lived was I knew
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that there was a God but I didn’t
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care about whether or not or what he
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thought about the life that I was living
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or that he had any control over any
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aspects of those things so my belief or
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my faith was rooted in only my
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understanding of what my mom was forcing
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me to be a part of until that moment so
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tell us about yeah let’s keep going from
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where you left off so you go into this
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church and what is it that you see what
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happens well it freaks me out because
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you know up until this point the only
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thing I’ve ever seen in church was
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robes and you know communion walking up
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to take you know communion and singing
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hymns I walk into this building and
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there’s strobe lights and this huge
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screen and fog machines there’s like
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15 people on the on the stage there’s
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whole drum kids guitar players and I was
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like
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overwhelmed and I didn’t know the songs
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you know so I just kind of was standing
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in the back I was ready again like I
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said I’m going to check the box I’m
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going to honor the nurse’s uh request
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and I’m going to dip and I’m I’m not
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going to ever come back to this and so
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worship now that I know what that was
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worship part of the service and I see an
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invitation come where people come up to
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the Altar and they start worshiping and
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so I was a little tentative about that
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but they did an altar call halfway
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through the worship section and for
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whatever the reason was I ventured
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myself up there almost thinking maybe
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this is part of the service maybe this
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is what you’re supposed to do so I kind
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of ventured up there I still stood kind
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of in the as far back as I could at the
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altar and I just kind of stood there
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this part’s a little funny I don’t mean
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to make light of it but then I see this
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guy come off the stage and he starts
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touching people on their
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heads and then people are falling over
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and I’m like you
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know I’m like what what is happening and
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then there’s there’s ladies running
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behind them covering them with sheets
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and I’m like yo like maybe I shouldn’t
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have come up here and so he reaches for
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my head and I Matrix him I’m like no
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like there’s no way I’m letting you
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touch my head
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and he looks at me and I remember so
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clearly he said
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Son God has a plan for you and I had
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only heard that one other time and that
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was out of the nurse’s the nurse’s mouth
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uh when she had poured into my life and
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so it caught my attention and he ended
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up praying for me in that moment I
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didn’t truly understand what what
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praying for somebody was and he was just
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speaking life and telling me that he had
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known that that he saw that I had been
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through this and been through that and
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been through much and the title of the
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sermon that day was I didn’t know at
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that moment but it was going to be a
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second chance and what I found myself
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doing at the altar that day after I was
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prayed for I didn’t know the lyrics of
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the song but man I got literally wrecked
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at the altar that day and I didn’t even
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understand it I went from being very
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nervous at the altar and kind of in
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Uncharted Territory to weeping
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and I couldn’t explain why I was weeping
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I couldn’t stop weeping but I will tell
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you this that that day there was no more
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alcohol for me there was no more vaping
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for me no more cigarettes for me no more
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pornography no more Lust For Me the
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things that I struggled with I radically
27:46.840 –> 27:51.000
had no appetite for after that moment
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and that moment caused me to literally
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leap dive into head first into whatever
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I had encountered and searching that out
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and that’s really where my relationship
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with the Lord started and the narrow
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path for me
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began can you expand a little bit on
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that on that process for some people
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it’s a it’s a radical moment but there’s
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always usually a process what did that
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process look like for you so for me I’m
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I’m just going to be as transparent as I
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can um a lot of people found out about
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my testimony pretty quickly and
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because of my testimony I was put in
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positions that I wasn’t ready for um but
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the ideal was because of his testimony
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and because people know of it in this
28:40.640 –> 28:43.200
city people will come to find out or
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talk to the guy with the testimony so we
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should give him some sort of public
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position or be put him in the public eye
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so my process for me when I look back on
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it was terrifying because I had
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literally just come to the Lord
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I had had my first encounter with with
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the Holy Spirit I felt like I was free
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for the first time in my life and I was
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being asked to meet with people and
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counsel people from positions and titles
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that I didn’t even understand the
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meaning to and so to use it as as plain
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and simply as possible the body um or
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people in the body of Christ were
29:24.799 –> 29:27.039
attempting to utilize my testimony as a
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way to grow their own Ministries and I
29:30.279 –> 29:33.559
remember being so now I know the word is
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convicted but I would be sitting in
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these rooms telling people to pray for
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things that I didn’t even understand how
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to instruct them to do so so I was
29:42.760 –> 29:46.039
giving them very generic info and I
29:46.039 –> 29:47.919
realized in that moment man I I really
29:47.919 –> 29:51.760
got to step away from all this and get
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back to what my mother and father taught
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me coming up which was man I need to
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study who this Jesus is I need need to
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know his word properly and so I devoted
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time away from all public Ministry away
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from church attendance to get to know
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the Jesus that had that had uh rescued
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me before I came back to you know the
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four- wall system and being a part of
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any sort of weirdness like that that way
30:18.720 –> 30:21.120
at least I was prepared to Steward what
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God had done for me in the right way how
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long had it been when you receive that
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that realization that man I need to step
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away how long had it been from the
30:31.240 –> 30:32.799
moment that you gave your life to Jesus
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to that moment less than half a year and
30:35.640 –> 30:38.360
so it was I walked into the church
30:38.360 –> 30:40.120
radically encountered the Lord turned
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from everything and then God what I was
30:42.880 –> 30:47.159
told was well God wants to use you in in
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this way and I know that to be true now
30:50.039 –> 30:52.000
but it was much too early I was not I
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was
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process itself the process that you that
31:00.039 –> 31:03.559
you mentioned I felt like I still was a
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kindergartener in it all but because of
31:06.120 –> 31:08.039
my testimony I found myself just kind of
31:08.039 –> 31:10.360
sharing that but not knowing how to
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transition that to telling them about a
31:11.960 –> 31:15.200
good God or about what Jesus had done or
31:15.200 –> 31:17.799
those other things like that so process
31:17.799 –> 31:21.399
for me went from coming back to life
31:21.399 –> 31:24.240
people finding out about it and being
31:24.240 –> 31:26.480
thrusted into position that I had
31:26.480 –> 31:28.679
probably no business being in
31:28.679 –> 31:31.080
and then realizing through my own
31:31.080 –> 31:34.080
Integrity like this is wrong and having
31:34.080 –> 31:36.960
to separate myself from from that and
31:36.960 –> 31:38.600
you know I won’t I won’t dive too much
31:38.600 –> 31:41.159
into the response to that but me wanting
31:41.159 –> 31:45.039
to become stronger in my faith before um
31:45.039 –> 31:47.159
operating in such things I mean it
31:47.159 –> 31:48.919
wasn’t always received well yeah you
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know and Drew at this time you’re How
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old uh that’s the next year so 24 20
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yeah 24 Yeah it’s you’re I mean you’re a
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baby basically yeah just in general in
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life um you lived many years mhm in the
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world doing what you wanted to do drugs
32:09.039 –> 32:11.840
all of these different things yes can
32:11.840 –> 32:14.399
you talk to me and and sometimes it can
32:14.399 –> 32:16.080
be hard to explain and maybe it’s just a
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few words but man what was God doing in
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your heart cuz there’s one thing of you
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can say all of these things just started
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to go away and and God is the only one
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that can really do that so I believe it
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but what was he doing man behind closed
32:31.679 –> 32:35.919
doors in your life what was God doing
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that made him that made God real to you
32:41.120 –> 32:42.880
once I encountered the Lord the way I
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did God started to really activate
32:46.080 –> 32:48.200
self-reflection and I started to find
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God in in everything that I had been
32:50.240 –> 32:53.279
through so abandoned at Birth like
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struggled with identity and I started to
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see the relation between what he had
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done for me and what his word said in
33:00.519 –> 33:02.919
comparison to what I had been through in
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my life and the more examples that I
33:05.240 –> 33:07.799
were was able to tie to the word the
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more examples I was able to tie to his
33:09.679 –> 33:12.519
love for me the more he became he became
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realer and realer more tangible and more
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tangible to me every every moment
33:17.639 –> 33:20.760
because I was like I struggled my whole
33:20.760 –> 33:23.279
life to even explain all the things that
33:23.279 –> 33:27.000
I felt I had to go through for no reason
33:27.000 –> 33:28.679
and then end up at a point where I’m
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like man there was a reason and it was
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so that God could be glorified in my
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life and having that understanding shift
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where it was no longer you know what I
33:38.000 –> 33:41.519
saw and what I had been through but now
33:41.519 –> 33:44.399
who had paid the price and why I had to
33:44.399 –> 33:46.760
go through it that changed my mind and
33:46.760 –> 33:49.960
my mentality radically when it came to
33:49.960 –> 33:52.720
all the things that I counted as pain
33:52.720 –> 33:54.159
and struggle and
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unnecessary um being unloved being
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unwanted not knowing who I was to
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knowing that it wasn’t that I was absent
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identity it was that I didn’t know where
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to look and so as the more that I grew
34:06.120 –> 34:08.280
my personal relationship with him the
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Greater Works he did not just in my
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heart but in my mentality when it came
34:11.919 –> 34:15.000
to thinking about and and and
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understanding the things that I had gone
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through in my life up to that point can
34:18.639 –> 34:21.119
you can you give us some specifics of
34:21.119 –> 34:24.879
how God re made you come into
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realization of who you are like your
34:27.280 –> 34:28.679
identity because you talked about it
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being an orphan and and experiencing
34:31.320 –> 34:33.639
even those encounters even at school of
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rejection and all of these things or
34:35.200 –> 34:37.399
people making fun of you or being at the
34:37.399 –> 34:39.159
counter at the grocery store and you’re
34:39.159 –> 34:40.639
seeing you’re hearing these comments
34:40.639 –> 34:42.359
that are totally cat catching you off
34:42.359 –> 34:43.919
guard that deal all everything deals
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with identity how how did Jesus Christ
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um help you in that man I remember the
34:50.240 –> 34:51.760
first time I ever read through the book
34:51.760 –> 34:54.919
of Romans and I looked at it and it said
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you know what can what can separate you
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from the love of the Lord and I remember
34:58.520 –> 35:01.079
asking myself the question audibly I was
35:01.079 –> 35:02.960
like what is what is the love of the
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Lord and of course everyone goes to John
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316 but to me John 3:16 means so much
35:09.160 –> 35:11.720
more than you know just the the the
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first memory verse that you would
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probably attest to memory uh and so God
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so loved the world that He Sent His only
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begotten son for me is something I
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didn’t understand at that time to a
35:23.560 –> 35:25.240
point where it caused me to reflect so
35:25.240 –> 35:28.200
much on it I was like what I do
35:28.200 –> 35:32.160
that and the answer was was no and so
35:32.160 –> 35:35.320
for to know that there was somebody who
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cared enough about me somebody who
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didn’t feel like a son who didn’t feel
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like he was wanted who had parents that
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abandoned him without ever trying to
35:45.240 –> 35:47.760
reach back out not ever getting the
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answers or the closure that you know as
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a young person um that I wanted you know
35:53.440 –> 35:56.280
and then to realize that this whole time
35:56.280 –> 35:58.400
well I thought I was unwanted
35:58.400 –> 36:00.119
there was somebody willing to pay such a
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high price just to have fellowship with
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me blew me away and so for a lot of
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people I thought that that verse to them
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was reminding them of the price paid for
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me that helped me find identity and who
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I truly was like while he sent his son
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so I could be engrafted into his family
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tree it wrecked me it messed me up it
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changed my entire perception of what um
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love truly meant and that’s how I was
36:26.760 –> 36:29.640
able to find identity and not my
36:29.640 –> 36:33.680
circumstance not my situation not the
36:33.680 –> 36:37.319
the crappy or the the sad story of of my
36:37.319 –> 36:39.119
life up to that point but I was able to
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find purpose and the identity that I was
36:42.200 –> 36:45.000
truly lacking just in those simple words
36:45.000 –> 36:47.599
for God so loved the world and it
36:47.599 –> 36:50.599
literally gave me this context of what I
36:50.599 –> 36:52.760
was missing this whole time wasn’t
36:52.760 –> 36:56.440
missing and man it it man still to this
36:56.440 –> 36:58.440
day I you know the clean Xbox is right
36:58.440 –> 37:00.839
here but still to this day man it it
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gets me that I lived so
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long not realizing you know
37:08.200 –> 37:12.079
that you know I I had
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parents and I was adopted by by good
37:15.920 –> 37:20.200
people but there was a God that loved me
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before then and to to know that he saw
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fit to rescue me not just from
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death and eternal life and
37:30.760 –> 37:33.599
sin but that Esau fit to give me a
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chance to wake up on a table that not
37:35.839 –> 37:37.880
many people wake up
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on has been a burning coal of a reminder
37:42.599 –> 37:45.640
of how important it is to live a life
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that honors the Lord and to tell as many
37:48.280 –> 37:51.560
people as possible that there is a Jesus
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that is not only real but knows and is
37:55.240 –> 38:00.309
it is able no matter the situation
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H when you went into that process of uh
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just
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learning about God stepping away from
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well for lack of better words we’ll say
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the limel you know yeah besides this
38:13.520 –> 38:16.200
identity factor which was so important
38:16.200 –> 38:19.319
man what what begin to happen as you
38:19.319 –> 38:21.520
stepped away from from the noise from
38:21.520 –> 38:25.440
the Limelight and just focused on Jesus
38:25.440 –> 38:28.240
what happened in those moments
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I mean even now to this day um I’ll say
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this the more of the Bible I read the
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more I know that we truly have no idea
38:36.400 –> 38:39.760
the greatness or I can’t even still to
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this day fathom the goodness and his
38:42.400 –> 38:44.240
faithfulness and so you think you have
38:44.240 –> 38:46.760
it all together but man you think you
38:46.760 –> 38:48.680
know it all you think that there’s
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nothing you can learn but truly the more
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I studied the scriptures the more I
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spent time in his presence the more I I
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learned man this is scripture is true it
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says apart from him you can do nothing
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and I learned that progressively as as
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my life unfolded and as that process
39:04.960 –> 39:07.640
unfolded it was man I’ve been doing this
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thing on My Own Strength my own
39:09.680 –> 39:12.880
understanding and my own way for so long
39:12.880 –> 39:14.400
and now I understand that there’s a
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greater way there’s a greater
39:16.200 –> 39:18.119
understanding but it’s found in a in a
39:18.119 –> 39:22.079
faith a hope and a trust in me removing
39:22.079 –> 39:24.960
myself from the equation me giving a yes
39:24.960 –> 39:28.040
unto a sovereign God instead of me
39:28.040 –> 39:30.520
deciding what I want to do or not do and
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so I had to choose humility and honor
39:33.040 –> 39:35.640
instead of my own ways and learning that
39:35.640 –> 39:38.520
has taught me again early in the process
39:38.520 –> 39:40.440
all the way to today that if you ever
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feel like you’ve reached a point where
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you can’t learn something from the
39:43.359 –> 39:46.359
scripture or that you’ve made it already
39:46.359 –> 39:48.720
that man I would get right back into the
39:48.720 –> 39:50.240
word and into his presence because he
39:50.240 –> 39:52.920
shows me daily that I I still don’t have
39:52.920 –> 39:55.560
a great grasp of everything that he is
39:55.560 –> 39:58.640
truly capable of not in his word but in
39:58.640 –> 40:02.119
in who he is as as a good
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God how long has it been now since
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you’ve been uh Faithfully Walking With
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Jesus Christ so I’d say confidently over
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a decade 12 going on 13 years that I’ve
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walked this thing out with not of course
40:17.040 –> 40:18.960
Perfection but with a definite
40:18.960 –> 40:21.880
commitment and a consistency to to stand
40:21.880 –> 40:24.319
on the foundation of Truth and to share
40:24.319 –> 40:26.599
what God has done in my life unto the
40:26.599 –> 40:29.240
door opening to a conversation uh to
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talk about the Jesus that is able to do
40:31.119 –> 40:32.680
the the same things in the lives of
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those that I speak to you know Walking
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With Jesus is uh is totally contrary to
40:39.599 –> 40:41.720
what the world does what’s you know what
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culture as we know it does um for you
40:45.319 –> 40:47.240
what did that what did that look like in
40:47.240 –> 40:49.880
these last 10 years Walking With Jesus
40:49.880 –> 40:52.319
being a part of that weird crowd you
40:52.319 –> 40:55.040
know that you once saw in that church
40:55.040 –> 40:58.280
service um yeah what is that look like
40:58.280 –> 41:00.280
for you picking up your cross
41:00.280 –> 41:03.079
surrendering your life to Jesus Christ
41:03.079 –> 41:05.319
trusting in Him what does those 10 years
41:05.319 –> 41:08.040
have looked like a lot of gain
41:08.040 –> 41:10.960
internally a lot of loss externally and
41:10.960 –> 41:13.680
so I’ve lost a lot of friends that I
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thought were friends because of the
41:15.480 –> 41:18.200
lifestyle I’ve chose to live now um I’ve
41:18.200 –> 41:20.800
lost a lot of opportunities because of
41:20.800 –> 41:23.920
people that look at my life now as
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unable to be monetized for you know
41:27.440 –> 41:30.200
their own gain and so walking the narrow
41:30.200 –> 41:32.720
path that the more narrow it gets the
41:32.720 –> 41:36.319
less room for for people with weird
41:36.319 –> 41:38.400
motives have kind of surrounded me and
41:38.400 –> 41:42.720
so it gets it’s not exactly the the most
41:42.720 –> 41:44.560
fun thing to do because you don’t have a
41:44.560 –> 41:47.040
whole lot of people around you um but I
41:47.040 –> 41:49.760
can tell you confidently that the change
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the peace uh the comfortability and and
41:53.319 –> 41:56.280
the joy that I have internally is worth
41:56.280 –> 41:57.920
the things that I that I’ve lost for
41:57.920 –> 42:01.359
sure but over this long process now and
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the the narrow path with Jesus and and
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doing my very best to honor him as I do
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so um externally it looks like being
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willing to walk away from and lose
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things that you know aren’t part of the
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next level and the next step and the the
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next part of the journey and being okay
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with it you know and and I’ll I’ll be
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honest and say that that that took some
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time for me to get used to there there
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were moments where I wanted to look back
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there were moments where I wanted to
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drag people with me that that God was
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clearly saying you got to let go there
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were times where I struggled to to be
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alone and the enemy would try to whisper
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and say this is just how it was when you
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were you know little or younger and you
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know what benefit is this for you if all
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you did was receive Christ to go back to
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feeling the same way you did and so I’m
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not going to say it’s been a you know a
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skip through the the flower patches and
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you know Sunshine the whole time but I
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can say
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unequivocally uh that it has been the
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most worthwhile Choice I’ve I’ve ever
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made in my
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life Drew who is Jesus to you man Jesus
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it’s going to sound cliche but it
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literally is everything to me um he’s
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served as Savior to me now he serves as
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Lord of my life but if you look at my my
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story and what he’s done in my life he
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has literally been the Lifeguard he
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promises to be whether I was Faithfully
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stewarding what he had paid for me or
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not he remained faithful he never
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changed despite me being ever changing
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and man I I can truly answer that
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question with the word he’s everything
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to me because there’s not a single thing
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he has yet to be for me uh except a
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failure and so man he
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is he is the reason I’m sitting in front
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of y’all right now telling you about the
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goodness um that he has to offer us and
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not just his word but his character
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Drew can you pray for the people who are
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watching and um keeping in mind that
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there’s those who are watching who are
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in the church who are hearing your
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testimony are
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encouraged uh but are in need to
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continue to keep moving forward and then
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there’s those that are watching that are
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not walking with Jesus um and you get an
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opportunity here to pray for them could
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you just pray for those people who are
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watching right now absolutely my
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pleasure
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dear heavenly father Lord we just we
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step into your throne room today God and
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we come humbly Lord and we just thank
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you for the opportunity to share the
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goodness and your faithfulness with all
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those who have tuned in Lord God and
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whether the person that’s watching right
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now whether the person listening right
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now is Faithfully serving you Lord God
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lord maybe they’ve drifted from your
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presence or maybe they’ve yet to receive
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the revelation of of your love for us
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God or what the price was paid for Lord
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God but I just ask that whatever their
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situation is wherever they are in the
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process Lord that you would remind them
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today God of your goodness Lord would
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you embrace them where they are would
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you say that you can come as you are but
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that Lord remind them that you love them
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too much to stay as they are so Lord I
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just thank you that you’re doing a a
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work in the lives of those who are
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watching God would you reignite the fire
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of their first love Encounter With You
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Lord if they have drifted from you God
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would you remind them that as far away
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as they’ve drifted from you that it is
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one step away to come back to you and
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God would you
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radically step into every circumstance
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and situation would you break down every
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last barricade in the way of those that
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have yet to encounter you as Savior and
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Lord of their life God I just pray that
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Lord what you’ve done in my life would
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encounter and minister to somebody who
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may be going through a season of death
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in their own life Lord and remind them
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that no matter what the diagnosis is no
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matter what it may look like and no
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matter what people may say or think Lord
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that you are the final say so in all
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matters of life and so God I just pray
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right now that you would touch those who
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are watching Lord that your favor would
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cover them Lord that you would encourage
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them where they are Lord and that you
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would lift the hands of those who feel
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like their arms are dropping in Jesus
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name
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amen
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amen Drew is there anything from your
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testimony
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that maybe you’ve missed that you would
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like to add on or share with the people
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who are watching I mean I I would just
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like to to share kind of a celebratory
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part of my testimony is you know now I’m
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sitting in front of you guys sharing you
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know what I went through as a young
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adult a child that I’ve survived some
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things that people shouldn’t survive but
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I’m sitting in front of you now serving
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God Faithfully um with a loving wife of
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almost three years I have three
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beautiful sons that all love God with
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all their heart and man I’m just telling
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people about the good news of Jesus and
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so man all the stuff that you heard God
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do in my life I’m I’m doing my very very
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best out here nowadays to to truly honor
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and Steward the opportunity that God has
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given me uh to tell people about the
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goodness of God but man love my family
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is my first Ministry and it would be not
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a testimony of his grace and mercy to
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not share with you that people do change
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life can get better and God is able amen
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uh Drew any last words uh for people
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that are watching right now and I just
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pray that you would remember less my
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name and more what God has done in my
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life hey everybody this is Eric vioto
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president and founder of mission deaf
47:47.800 –> 47:49.839
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