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Dina LaFargue Augusti (00:01):
Greetings
and welcome to another episode
of the Drip Line, where love andhealing will flow into your
soul.
Tune in and take a listen, comealong this journey, allowing
love and truth to permeate yourentire being.
Hopefully, the message sharedtoday will touch your heart,
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bringing you closer to yourhealing, empowering you for your
daily life and helping you movethrough this process
successfully.
Today's message is about notbeing buried alive.
We cannot afford to be buriedin our sorrows.
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We cannot afford to be buriedin our sorrows.
We cannot afford to be buriedin our traumatic past.
We cannot keep digging up thebones or make trophies of our
pain.
I truly believe when we circleback over the past or try to
rewrite or constantly considerour past, the shouldos and the
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kudos, we do more damage thangood to our own well-being.
What I'm asking is that are wetrying to accomplish anything
good when we do that?
Do we really expect somethingpositive?
When we keep sifting over thepast, are we trying to
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accomplish or rewrite somethingnew?
So what are we really trying toaccomplish by reliving the
hurts, by reliving the badmemories, by celebrating certain
days as anniversaries that havenothing good for us?
What are we doing when we'rereliving the mess-ups,
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regretting the mess-ups andpersecuting ourselves over our
failures.
I want us to seriously considerthat.
I want us to seriously look athow we spend our time in our
thought life.
Can you truly say that anythinggood comes out of looking at
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our failures?
What's beneficial?
The only benefit I see is thatwhen we remember what God has
brought us out of that, we cansay with confidence we tried our
best, or that we can just bethankful that we're so far away
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from it, that we've actuallysurvived, that we see it as a
positive, that we see ourstrength in overcoming that.
We see a victory, that we putour heart into something or just
got trampled upon, but wedidn't give in.
We didn't give in.
We can look back withconfidence On the lessons
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learned, whether it was yourfault or not.
That's the only good I see inlooking at the past that we
realize our mistakes and wecommit to ourselves that we're
not going to commit them again.
But life is to be lived in thenow.
I truly believe that Life is tobe lived in the now.
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I truly believe that Life is tobe lived in the now with hope
and a prosperous future.
So I want each person listeningto ask yourself what are you
doing now, what are you aspiringto?
What are you thinking now?
What can you do now that youaren't doing now?
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Where is your heart and yourmind right now?
What emotions are you fightingright now or experiencing, and
how are you expressing them?
Are you living them outnegatively?
Are they manifesting and beingdisplaced on someone else?
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Are you judging others oryourself because of all the bad
stuff?
I want you to say, I want you tothink differently.
If that's what you're doing, Iwant you to say I have overcome.
I want you to say I amvictorious, even if you don't
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feel it.
I want you to practice the artof disciplining yourself in the
positives, in the optimistic, inthe God, in his word.
Yes, I have overcome, I amvictorious, I am worthy, I am
prosperous.
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We should not be saying I'm aloser, I can't make it, nothing
will come of it, nothing goodwill come out of it, I'm done
with it all, I can't handle it.
Those are words of defeat andeven if you feel like that, I'm
not saying again that we can'thave emotions, but what I am
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saying is that we've got tofight the negativity, the
negative narrative that we playin our minds, even when we're
not aware.
We have to be more self-awareof how we think about ourselves
and how we're going to travelthrough the situations and the
circumstances that hit us headon and that shock us.
So if you're feeling lost, turnit around.
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Say I have a direction, andthat direction is to overcome
all of it.
The direction is forward.
Otherwise there's no point, andI want you to feel that all is
lost and that there is no point.
What I'm saying today is that weshould always be believing for
the better.
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We should always rest our mindsin hope and the promises of God
.
Rest our minds in hope and thepromises of God.
We should always be remindingourselves that God is
ever-present and foreverfaithful.
When the voice is contrary tohim, when the voice is contrary
to his promises, when the voiceis contrary to his love, we must
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shut all those voices down.
It is essential I can go on andon about the negative things we
say to ourselves Day in and dayout, or the things that we say
amongst friends and family Abouthow we feel in our situations.
We can speak the truth aboutthem Without condemning
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ourselves and speakingnegatively about the outcome.
We have to catch them before wespeak them.
We have to stop them beforethey become part of our soul.
We can't live in the hopelessand we can't say to ourselves I
just can't live in the hopeless.
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And we can't say to ourselves Ijust can't.
We can't say it's hopeless.
We can't say I refuse to.
We can't say I can't make it orI won't make it.
We have to change our thoughtlife.
We have to change our thoughtlife.
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We have to discipline ourthought life.
Are those things that you'resaying contrary to what God
would say about you or aboutyour situation?
Are they contrary to what Godwants you to say about your
situation and contrary to howGod wants you to feel about
yourself and your life, to howGod wants you to feel about
yourself and your life?
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The battles that we fight aremost critical.
The battles that we fight thatare most critical, believe it or
not, are not the battles in thenatural.
The most critical battles arethe ones that we fight in our
minds, in our thoughts, in ournatural.
But the most critical battlesare the ones that we fight in
our minds, in our thoughts, inour feelings.
The vault of our mind is aplace that can be filled with
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gold or filled with coal?
We've heard many times that thebattlefield is in the mind, and
it is the real, tough battles,the battles that can bring life
or death, are fought right there, as we respond to the traumatic
events, as we respond to thenegative experiences, as we live
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through them, as we fightthrough them, as we fight to
overcome.
So what's in the vault of yourmind?
Is it gold, is it positivityand optimism, or is it death,
coal and darkness?
We can't afford to crumble orrely on temporary fixes either.
We can't put band-aids onthings that need surgery.
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When put to the test, thoseband-aids, we know, get soggy
and fall off underwater.
When we're submerged inwhatever is trying to drown us,
or with the tension of themoving and the extension of our
limbs, they fall off.
They don't protect.
Think about it.
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We may get trampled, we may getbeat, physically or literally,
emotionally or mentally.
We may lose friends, ourfinances may be destroyed, we
may get drugged through the mud,humiliated and shamed.
Tragedies may sneak up liketornadoes and do utter
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destruction.
But I say God, but God, yes, butGod, yes, but God.
As long as he lives, we're goodand he is eternally forever.
So, no matter what it lookslike, no matter what it feels
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like, our truth should be God'struth.
Our truth and hope should be inhim.
His word is truth, his word isfaithful and he tells us so.
He says that he is not a manthat he should lie, nor the son
of man that he should change hismind.
His word is forever and hetells us in Isaiah 54, verse 17,
that no weapon formed againstus shall prosper, that Feed on
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it, eat it, receive it, believeit and speak it.
Yes, the attacks will come, andsometimes back to back, like a
whirlwind, like a perfect storm,but they can only do so much.
It is up to us.
It is up to us how we're goingto handle it, if we're going to
make it.
How are we going to handle it?
If we're going to make it?
God says choose life.
It is our soul and our sanitythat the enemy is really after.
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We must remember that it's notnecessarily the things that we
lose, the people that we lose,though it may be extremely and
utterly gut-wrenching andpainful.
But remember, the enemy isafter our soul, after our minds,
after our sanity.
He lusts for our thoughts, helusts for our lives.
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He only exists to destroy.
It is our soul that keeps ourrelationship with God.
It's our spirit, man's strengthand knowledge of God that feeds
our soul.
It is our right-mindedness thatthe enemy is after.
It is our trust in God and ourfaith that the enemy so
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treacherously and so tediouslyseeks to destroy.
It's his only goal.
The only goal the enemy has isto steal, kill and destroy.
His goal is to take from us,whether it's material, mental,
emotional or spiritual, allthose dimensions he's after, all
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those dimensions he's after.
He wants to kill you literallyand mentally and wreak havoc on
your emotions and prevent youfrom developing in Christ or
growing your relationship withGod.
But we must know and rememberwhat the Lord God says he's come
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to give us life and give uslife more abundantly in him.
So don't cave, don't give in tothe enemy.
I think most of us hate evil,despise evil.
When people are mean to us, wedespise it.
The source is the enemy, a willthat has been overcome by the
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enemy, by evil.
So don't cave, don't give in towhat you don't like.
As long as we have God, we win.
We are always, always, alwaysvictorious in Christ Jesus,
always, always, alwaysvictorious in Christ Jesus.
It's a must remember.
It's essential.
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Triumph comes in that breaking.
Triumph comes when we continueto trust and believe.
Triumph comes when we dream andseek God's face.
Triumph comes when we dream ofa future in him and with him.
So we must seek to live inGod's will and in his presence.
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Peace is there, hope is there,strength is all there in him.
Perseverance will find youthere.
You see, even though part ofour lives gets destroyed, god
rebuilds, god restructures, godrearranges, god restores, god
reassures, god refreshes andrenews.
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That's his business.
He is our never-ending sourceof life.
In him is life.
Christ is life.
In His Word we find life, wefind truth, the secrets of
prospering and living in healthis in Him, meaning we can find
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our purpose, our peace, our joy,our future.
Our strength to continue and tokeep continuing on, even when
we don't want to, is in him.
When we look to him, even whenwe want to just quit life and
check out, when we look to him,to the hills where our hope
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comes from, we can make it.
Yes, when we look to him wewant to just throw in the towel,
we find we can make it.
The word of God Jesus tells usto choose life.
In Deuteronomy, chapter 30,verses 19 through 20,.
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It states I call heaven andearth as witnesses against you.
This day that I have set beforeyou, says the Lord.
Life and death, blessings andcurses.
Choose life that both you andyour descendants may live.
See, god is invested in us.
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What this means is to make achoice to trust God.
Trust him enough to trulybelieve in him and follow him,
to let him lead and guide youeven when we don't understand.
Let him lead us through everyhill, every valley, up every
treacherous mountain to thesummit and through every dark
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place.
Is being obedient to hisfaithfulness and to his love.
That's the key.
Being in him, obedience tofaith in him, is key.
It's a command God tells us.
It's impossible to please himwithout faith.
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Therefore, if we want to move inour lives successfully, if we
want to experience successes inour life, if we want to overcome
in our lives and not justsurvive but to thrive and
prosper, we have to trust him towalk us through it.
His aim is to see us as part ofhim In his image, faithfully,
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lovingly, believingly, movingthrough this life in him.
That pleases him.
We can only fulfill ourdestinies and live successfully
when we wait on him.
We're not to get ahead or lagbehind.
We have to stick with him.
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Have our hands in his.
Say Lord, hold my hand, carryme when I can't walk, open my
mouth when I can't talk, be mystrength when I am weak.
He says in our weakness is hisstrength.
He can only please us orfulfill in us what we need when
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we wait on him.
What I'm trying to say is, whenwe get in the way, we block our
blessings.
When we get in the way we don'tsee him as God, we don't allow
him to answer our prayers in themost profitable way, in the
most proper way, in the mosthealthy way, in the most
properest way, in the mosthealthy way, in the most perfect
way.
When we don't call on him, lessis what we get.
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When we don't wait on him, lessis the result.
So I urge every listener towalk in him, to wait on him, to
keep your ear inclined unto hiswords and to feel your heart and
soul with his truth, with hisfaithfulness and love Meaning.
We need to know what he saysabout our life.
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We need to read his word, eventhough it might not be the
easiest to understand, but wehave to take the time to dwell
in it, to rest in it, to soak init.
Now I always say put his wordto work.
Work the word, make his wordwork for you.
He is there for us.
His word is for us.
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God is not slack in fulfillinghis word.
He is not slack in loving us.
He is not neglectful.
He does not abandon us, eventhough others might.
In Psalm 145, it states I liftthose up who fall down and I
uphold those who have fallen.
In Isaiah 42, it says I willtake you by the hand and keep
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you.
Oh my God, those words are socomforting.
Oh my God, those words are socomforting.
There are times when I've justhad to wait or taste each word
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one by one, and allow thosewords to minister to my soul in
my most despairing moments.
I will take you by the hand andkeep you.
God will keep you.
See, god's word is continuallyabout us.
His love for us, his love isfaithful, unending.
He has unending desires for us,unending desires for us.
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His love never fails and it isperfect.
He shows us that even when wefall, he is there for us to pick
us up and he shows us how tostand and he helps us stand up.
God's word is filled with hiseverlasting love, his
faithfulness, his wisdom, hislong suffering and his
encouragement, his how-tos andhis what-nots, and it's all
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about us prospering in him.
So my message today is that welearn to trust him even when it
hurts, even when we're impatient.
It's that we learn to trust himin every moment, even when
we're too tired.
We must learn from him and lookto him.
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Isaiah 40 reads he gives powerto the faint and to him who has
no might.
He increases his strength.
Even when young men shall faintand be weary, and young men
stumble and fall, they wait uponthe Lord.
They shall renew their strengthand mount on wings like eagles.
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They shall run and not be weary.
They will walk and not faint.
That is for us.
That is for us.
We may be faint and weary andbe on exhaustion, but call upon
the name of the Lord and berenewed, be made over, be
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refreshed, For God never sleepsnor slumbers.
He is reminding us of who he isevery day.
Yes, we are going to be tired.
Yes, we are going to believethat some things are seemingly
impossible, but with God, allthings are possible.
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Yes, we may stumble and fall.
It is inevitable.
But yes, with God, we will bepicked up.
Yes, we might trip and tripover ourselves and get injured
in it, but he says look to him,look to the hills where all your
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hope comes from.
Renew your life, renew yourfaith, renew your belief, renew
your hope in his word and indoing so you will overcome.
Period.
It's inevitable.
So you will overcome.
Period, it's inevitable.
So remember.
In Isaiah it says we will soarin the wings of eagles.
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And there's no bird in the skylike the eagle.
Nothing can overcome an eagle.
The eagle flies the highestheights, above all the clouds.
The eagle knows how to dealwith adversaries and soars above
the storms.
The eagle knows how to dealwith adversaries and soars above
the storms.
And it's God's word that sayswe shall mount on wings like
eagles.
So choose God in your weakestmoment and soar.
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Never be too tired to considerhim, never be too far from him
to ask him, to open your mouthin prayer and praise.
Remember he's always with us.
Don't be the one to turn away.
Open your heart and keep yourmind stayed on him.
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It's one thing that I want toetch into your hearts and minds
is to choose your words wisely.
I've been talking about how thebattlefield is in our mind.
But we can also speak wordsthat are life or death.
It says so in Proverbs thatlife and death are in the power
of the tongue.
We must choose our medicine.
We must choose our words wisely.
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Talk about what's etched in ourhearts and minds ends up
spilling over into our life,into our words, into our actions
.
So we have to choose wisely.
We have to discipline our minds.
Let God's word be your doctorand your saving grace.
Let God's word run through yourmind day and night.
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Remember Philippians.
It says pray without ceasing.
Meditate on God's word, speakhis word.
When we're speaking God's word,it's a form of prayer.
So be very careful how youspeak to or about your own
situations or of anyone else'ssituation.
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If you want good, speak good.
If you want an optimum outcome,believe it, put God's word to
it.
So choose God's word about yourown life.
Choose God's word.
Choose wisely about yourcircumstances.
Choose God's word over it.
Correct and purify your ownlife.
Choose God's word.
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Choose wisely about yourcircumstances.
Choose God's word over it.
Correct and purify your thoughtlife.
Ask God to do that for you.
He will, it's his will.
He wants us to have the mind ofChrist.
He's given us all the weaponsof warfare that we need, and
most of it is in his word.
We want to come into agreementwith his word, with him, about
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our lives, so make that a goal.
It is a necessary and essentialdiscipline when we choose to
accept and apply his promises.
It is then that we can see thelight at the end of the tunnel.
It is in that place that we cansee all that he has created us
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to be.
What he has created you to be,remember, we are created in His
image.
You are created in His image,and though the world seems to be
a dark place, we are in it, butnot of it.
In Romans 12, we are remindedthat we're to renew our minds in
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Christ.
It says do not conform to thepatterns of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing ofyour mind in Christ.
Then you will be able to testand approve what God's will is
his good, pleasing and perfectwill.
So, yeah, it's too easy tothink negatively because we've
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been programmed by the enemy ofour souls.
But always go back to Romans 12and say do not conform myself,
do not conform to the patternsof this world.
Dina, I'm speaking to myselfright now but be transformed,
dina, by the renewing thepatterns of this world.
Dina, I'm speaking to myselfright now but be transformed,
dina, by the renewing of yourmind in Christ.
Then I, dina, will be able totest and approve what God's will
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is his good, pleasing andperfect will.
See, you can put your name inGod's word and make it
applicable to your own life.
Again, it's essential.
So, to everyone listening whocomes across this page or this
podcast be vigilant for your ownlife.
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It is God's command.
We go through ups and downs andsome of the valleys are darker,
more, more treacherous andscarier than others.
But God says do not fear, for Iam with you, I will keep you by
the right hand of myrighteousness.
He says he loves us with aneverlasting love.
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And he says if a natural fatherknows how to give gifts to his
children, would not the God ofall creation not know how to
care for you?
He will carry us when we aretoo weak.
He will carry us when we can'twalk on our own, when we feel
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like we're drowning.
He will steal the waters.
He will see us through if wejust put our hope and trust in
him as we walk through thevalley of the shadow of death.
He says we shall fear no evil.
God's rod and staff shallcomfort us and he will set a
table before us in the presenceof our enemies, in the presence
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of our circumstances, in themidst of any event that is out
to destroy us.
He says he will anoint ourheads with oil and cause our cup
to overflow.
That's an excerpt from Psalm 23.
I urge everyone listening toread Psalm 23 over and over
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until that peace that's beyondall understanding overcomes.
You Read it word for word andline for line, because in that
psalm is peace, in that psalm isrest and in that psalm we're
reminded that it is only theshadow of death, because God's
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light shines through.
God's light is always shining.
His strength and his powernever wane.
They are always there for us totap into.
He will feed us, he will bethere for us, he will be that
for us.
He says he is the great I am.
I am your healer, I am yourprovider.
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I am your strength, I am yourstrong tower.
I am your ever-present help inthe time of trouble.
I am your provider.
I am your strength, I am yourstrong tower.
I am your ever-present help.
In the time of trouble, I amyour provider.
Whatever you need, I shallprovide.
He will establish us in thepresence of everything that is
trying to take us out.
His goodness and mercy shallfollow us all the days of our
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lives.
Remember that In closing, I amgoing to read a poem.
Of course, I always try to havea little poem or something that
I've written or come across fora specific moment.
That applies to the message.
The poems that I write werereal, things that I felt, things
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that I contemplated, moments ofdarkness and moments of joy.
I call it to be or not to belife or death.
I watched the water run downthe drain.
The shower is running fast andso is my life.
It's being poured out.
It runs there, it runs throughmy soul.
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My body just lets it go, mybody lets it pass.
I'm at the point of checkout.
I lay near the drain, a witnessof it slipping away.
Then I whisper.
I hear Satan, not today.
My soul responds to the voiceof the divine Rest and be
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released from the chains, moveon and find your peace.
Be free my soul it's overdueand linger no more in the dark,
despairing tower.
You must find your happiness,your joy.
There's a journey beyonddeath's door.
It's in God's presence.
In his presence is your power.
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No, don't wait.
Don't linger with your uglyguest, don't entertain him.
His gift of death, his shell,is of lust and it will become
your grave.
So don't let the reaper becomeyour ghost.
Your saver died for your soulto save.
So gently, fly.
The sun is always shining.
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So gently fly.
The sun is always shining.
Above the clouds, lay the painand your pining so you may save.
In the flight, faith andcourage be food for the flight.
It is the good fight of faiththat wins each battle.
It's despair and hopelessnessyou have to tackle.
Your destiny cries.
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It's a life to resuscitatethose demons and the devil's
chains are too heavy a weight.
Time is ticking and helldoesn't want to wait.
It thirsts and it craves.
There's no time to hesitate.
So run, johnny run.
It's the reaper's pleasure todevour as you lay waste in that
shower, so run, johnny run.
It's the reaper's pleasure todevour as you lay waste in that
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shower.
So run, johnny, run into thearms of life.
Don't give in.
It's not death's hour.
Run, so, johnny run.
Keep the word close and writtenon your chest yes, johnny run,
run, johnny, run.
Fulfill destiny's quest, run toyour Lord, your Savior and
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strong tower.
Yes, run, johnny, run.
He's your shield and your rearguard.
So run, johnny, run and tapinto his power.
Run, johnny, pick up your swordand run to the fight, the good
fight of faith, and tell theenemy on guard Until next time.
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Be at peace, be in love and befilled with hope.
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