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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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The enemy goes after your mind tonight, Christian.

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The enemy goes after your mind tomorrow morning when you wake up.

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The enemy is always going after your mind.

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Oh, don't worry.

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He'll forgive you.

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Have you ever heard that in your mind before?

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Who hasn't?

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Hibbs.

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Your mind, it is within us, it's us, but from the earliest stages of life,

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the world, our family, living, our external existence, all of these things come together

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to determine and to make the you that you are.

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You and I and the human mind has been engineered in a way to receive input constantly.

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Not only processing, but it shapes our personalities and it shapes our worldview.

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As we grow up, we have a certain perspective on life that doesn't come from the brain.

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It's the mind, the brain's only a tool.

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And that's something that we need to keep in mind because the Bible again tells us and we'll

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look at some scriptures tonight that our minds are alienated from God.

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And yet there's something yet inside of us that makes us wonder.

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Think about it right now.

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Believer or non-believer alike tonight, the thoughts that come into your mind regarding

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is life forever, if I were to die, is there heaven, is there a hell?

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And what about right or wrong?

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What about sin and what about doing the right thing?

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All of these things are of the operation of your mind, of the soul of who you are.

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Listen to what C.S. Lewis, you know, I love quoting him.

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Listen to what C.S. Lewis says regarding man's situation.

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When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.

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Did you hear that?

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It's going to make you think.

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When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

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A moderately bad man knows he is not very good.

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A thoroughly bad man thinks he's right or all right.

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This is common sense, really.

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I love this.

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You understand sleep when you are awake.

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Not when you are sleeping.

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You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly

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while you are making them, you cannot see them.

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Think of that.

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You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you're sober, not when you're drunk.

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Good people know about both good and evil.

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Bad people do not know about either.

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That's a profound statement.

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The very fact that right and wrong and good and bad can be determined speaks to what we're looking at tonight.

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What makes us the way that we are, you and I?

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The Bible says in Genesis chapter 3, verse 1, Genesis 3, 1, the Bible says now the serpent was more cunning

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than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made, and he said to the woman,

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has God indeed said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

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And the woman said, by the way, this is the third time I've read the word sad,

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which is important to where we're going tonight regarding the mind.

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And the woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,

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but the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said,

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that's the fourth statement there, you shall not eat of it nor shall you touch it.

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Let's do die. Verse 4, then the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die.

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Notice that there are numerous statements here where he said, she said, back and forth.

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Why is that important? Because when words are spoken, the mind receives what is spoken and begins

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to process that statement. Satan knows this. Notice Satan attacks Eve via deception.

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Now, I'm not getting into the weeds. The serpent, look, we don't know how Adam and Eve had it.

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It must have been amazing in the garden. Because you say, why do you say that?

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Because Eve is being deceived by Satan, but Satan's using the serpent, which was a magnificent

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animal in the garden. And apparently, it's no big deal to talk to a serpent in those days.

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I don't know about you. If a snake started talking to me, I wouldn't be, I know how that goes.

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I've read the book. It's not going to turn out well. But she's not flustered at all about that.

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This snake's talking except Satan's using her like a puppet and she's carrying on a conversation.

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But notice what the attack is, the mind. The enemy goes after your mind tonight, Christian.

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The enemy goes after your mind tomorrow morning when you wake up. The enemy is always going

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after your mind. Constantly, half God said, did God say, what about this? Listen, it goes on and on.

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Fill in the blank. I feel this. Doesn't matter what the Bible says, God is love.

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Oh, don't worry. He'll forgive you. Have you ever heard that in your mind before?

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Who hasn't? The enemy is speaking. Why? Because that's how he gets into the recesses if I can put

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it that way of your mind. And he goes to work in your thought process. He begins to tamper with your

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progress of how your mind works. In Romans 8, verse 5, the Bible says, for those who live, according

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to the flesh, set their minds on things of the flesh. You got to, everybody get that? If you live

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for this world, you're going to be thinking only about the stuff of this world. If you live for

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pleasure, that's all you think about is pleasure. You just line your crib with pleasure. That's all

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that's you think about. That's what Paul's talking about in Romans 8, 5. Those who live for the flesh,

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to satisfy the flesh, just mark that. But for those who live according to the spirit, the things

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of the spirit. So there's a choice for it to be carnally minded as death. The word carnally

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minded as earthly minded flesh, skin minded, is to live for that. Now look, God made you and I

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with the ability to appreciate pleasure. Aren't you glad for that? That's wonderful.

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Be it food. You know, I got to tell you, those of you who are young, you know when you're young,

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you're picky about food. Let me tell you right now, stop wasting your time.

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Go for it because I'm telling you right now, when you get older, everything tastes good.

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I'm grateful to God that He gave us the ability to taste the things that we taste.

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But when that is handled wrongly, it gets out of control, you can become a glutton.

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You can eat meat for pleasure's sake, throw up and then eat meat because you are addicted to

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the sensation that your taste buds are giving you to the brain of taste. That's sick. But when

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people are doing it, they don't think it's sick because they've gone through the steps so long

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and so deep that it's become ingrained in their minds to the point where you don't even see it

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anymore. You don't even realize it anymore to be carnally minded as death, but to be spiritually

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minded as life and peace. Verse 7 says, because the carnal mind is enmity, warfare against God,

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for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be a carnally mind that's given over to

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the passions of the flesh as an out of control mind. And I don't know and I cannot speak for you.

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I came to Jesus at the age of 19, but my mind was in that place. And because my mind was in that

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place of being carnally minded, I lived, planned, made allotments for carnally minded living.

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That's the lost soul. That's the lost mind. It is God's desire. He wants to transform our minds

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by the power of the Word of God and that's what he does. And when I heard the gospel for the first

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time, it began to unlock God's love to me, God's forgiveness, but of course, as I told you last

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week, I also exposed my depravity and how bad I needed God. Let's take another verse. In 1st

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Corinthians 2, verse 12 to 14, 1st Corinthians 2, 12 to 14, it says, now we have received not the

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spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been

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freely given to us by God, verse 13. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom

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teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

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But the natural man, this is the unsaved man, with the unsaved mind, does not receive the

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things of the spirit of God for their foolishness to him, nor can they know them because they

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are spiritually discerned. So I want to, in light of that, I want you to hear this tonight,

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your mind tonight, whatever, if tonight you're a victim of abuse, maybe tonight you're here and

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you were the abuser. You need to know something right now. And through the gift of faith and

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repentance given by God, you ask Him for it, your conduct as an abuser can be forgiven and God

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can give you a new mind. He can give you a new life, he can forgive you and get you starting over.

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If you're a victim, if you've been abused, God wants you to have a new mind regarding the way

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that you view things. The data comes to you, it could be words. You know, listen, when your

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abuse and somebody then tells you later on in life, I think you're beautiful, I love you. They don't

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hear it like you think. When somebody who really loves somebody else and they've experienced that

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hurt and that abuse because the mind is still held captive. And you see, but Jack, I love the

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Lord and you're describing me, but I love the Lord. Listen, I understand that. Just know this. He

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wants to set you completely free. He doesn't set you kind of free. He doesn't get one leg out of the

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trap and leave the other one. He wants to renew your mind and he wants to have you understand

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something that God has at work and he's going to take that damage and that attack and that hurt

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that has been perpetrated against you and he's going to clear up your thinking by the power of

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his word as you immerse yourself in his word and believe his promises when he says to you,

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I'll make all things new. You're a new creation. You see, but Jack, I struggle every morning,

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I wake up and I'm reminded of this. Absolutely. I understand.

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You keep going back to his promises and you hang on to those promises and you say, Lord, I don't

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feel it. I'm not getting it, but your word says I'm new in Christ. Your Bible tells me that you

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will renew my mind in Christ Jesus and I'm asking you to do that now, God. And you might say, I've

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prayed that a thousand times. Then listen, you keep praying it a thousand times more.

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You just keep doing it because listen, he will change you and set you free. And again,

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if you're the perpetrator, he will change you if you repent and seek him.

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Just turn to him. Our minds can be changed. Thank God. If you don't,

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if you don't, brain wash, mind wash, listen, your mind, if you don't, if you do not occupy your mind

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with the word, listen, the past will come back. That's why Paul the Apostle said, you need

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Christian to reckon the old man dead. You know what that means? Every time that stuff comes up,

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now look, I'm describing me. You've got your thing that comes up and you hate it.

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The Christian fights it. It's tough. But listen, greater is he that's in us than he that's in the

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world. It's absolute victory in Jesus. Listen, to the man I say, don't give up. Keep fighting,

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fight, fight. Women, I've never been a woman to a plan to never be in one. So I don't know what

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to say to you. To you, I don't know. Maybe it's words. Maybe it's memories or this person.

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Oh, I'm heavily married and everything's great. But I remember back then when so and so said

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this and he was that way and oh, the romance of maybe that's it. Don't think about it.

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When the thought arises, grab it and cast it over to Jesus. Constantly, constantly fight it.

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Fight, fight. Today, listen, many are not fighting. They're not fighting. They're giving up.

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There are so many Christians in the state of depression because the world has gotten

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inside and it's hammering. And this poor man you saw on the screen began to deny his own

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life's existence. Maybe Satan is saying to you, has God said that you're his child?

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Did God say that you were saved? I don't know. God told you your sins were forgiven.

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Why would he forgive you anyway? You know what you are. It wouldn't be heaven. If you were there,

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and he begins to sow this seed, listen, Christian,

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washed as the Bible tells us. In fact, the Bible says in Ephesians 5 that the husband is to

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wash his wife with the water of the washing of the Word of God. You know that? Speak God's love,

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God's truth, God's healing, God's Word over your wife. Well, how about your own life?

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How about your kids? How about your situation? Isn't this true and we're going to end?

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Is this true? Lord, you know everything about me and you know all the things that trip me up.

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Are you know the things that I just cannot get victory over? Lord, I'm asking you right now,

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you, Lord, have pointed out to me those things are, are traps. I know it's your will that I'd

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be set free. You put it in your book. I'm asking you now God to do a miracle in my life. Can we

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just close our eyes and pray right now? Every one of us right now? Can we just agree?

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Lord, I'm asking you right now to do a miracle in my life in the lives of these here tonight.

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