Delight Yourself in God, Jan Tennyson’s Story, cont.

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Hey friends, you know I love a good story, especially when it's a God story that equips,

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inspires, and encourages us in our walk with the Lord.

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I'm your host, Jodie Chiricosta, ministry leader at Somebody Cares America and International,

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author and traveler on this journey of faith, and I'm delighted to welcome you to the Her

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God Story podcast.

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In our last episode, Jan Tennyson, who's the founder and president of the Dare to Dream

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Children's Foundation, began telling her story, from being raised as a foster child in New

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York City to finally realizing she was adopted into God's family when she was an adult.

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And that is where her adventure took off.

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I mentioned Psalm 37:23, which reads in the New Living Translation, the Lord directs the

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steps of the godly, he delights in every detail of their lives.

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And we will see even more this episode, how true that has been in Jan's life, as she shares

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some of the things God has done through the Dare to Dream Children's Foundation, as well

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as how God has continued to lead her to share his love no matter where she is.

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There are even more stories in her book, She Dares to Dream, and once you hear what she

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has to say, you might just want to get the book to find out more.

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Welcome back Jan.

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You've always had a heart to help children, even when you were young and you were thinking

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about becoming a Mary Noel Nun.

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And now that you had committed your life to following the Lord, he started opening new

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doors for you to share his love with children who were experiencing some of the things you

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did at that same age.

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And you know, that reminds me of 2 Corinthians 1:4, and that says, He comforts us in all

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our troubles so we can comfort others.

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When we are troubled, we are able to give them the same comfort God has given us.

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And you had been speaking to children, but you started comforting them in a new way and

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encouraging them to dream big dreams because God loved them.

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And God has opened so many doors for you to minister all over the world.

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Just tell us two or three stories.

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I know you could go on and on and on, but tell us two or three of your favorite stories

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of doors that God opened for you and how they impact the children you reach.

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Because we didn't have much family.

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We didn't have grandmothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, anything.

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We didn't have any of that.

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I just said, Well, here I am.

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We've got four kids.

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You know, there's my sister who lived in Boca Raton, Florida, and there's my brother who

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lived out in California, and there was my younger brother who lived in New York, and

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then there was me who lived in Dallas.

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So I said, Well, if I fly to those places to see my existing family, then I can also

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find there's children in every city of this nation that need hope.

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So one of the first places I would go would be to Florida because I love the beach.

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And so my sister lived in Boca and I said, Peggy, I said, I want to visit some of the

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facilities here.

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So I got the phone book and I just looked it and looked up the places for children.

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And I would find a facility and I would say, Well, if I could take, I'd like to meet you

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first, but then if I could take them outside of the facility and do something in a dream

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setting, would you be willing to let me do that?

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And they said, Well, let's meet first.

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And then of course, they said, Absolutely, you can do that.

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So this one day, I was sitting on a dock with my sister, and I'm looking at all these river

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boats go by and beautiful dining boats go by.

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And I'm saying, Oh, my goodness, that would make an incredible classroom.

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And she said, What are you talking about?

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I said, Well, look, I said, they've got the motor, they've got the view, they've got the

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food, they've got a classroom, they've got seats.

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I said, That would be wonderful.

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And about five minutes after I took that to her, a 52 foot blue water cruiser came in

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directly to where we were sitting.

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The name of that cruiser was the sea dream.

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I had already called my ministry Dare to Dream Children's Foundation.

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And it was in Dallas.

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And I stood up when I saw that cruiser and I, my sister said, Where are you going?

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I said, I'm going to meet the captain.

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He says, You don't even know him.

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I said, Watch.

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So I gave my card to one of the staff.

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I said, Take it up to the captain on the bridge.

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I want to talk to him.

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So he ran up and gave him my card, which said Dare to Dream Children's Foundation.

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And he says, Well, what a coincidence.

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Well, to him, it was a coincidence.

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To me, it was a divine appointment.

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And I said, Well, who are you?

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And I said, Well, my name is Jan Tennyson.

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I'm from Dallas, Texas.

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And I do outrageous classes for very disadvantaged children.

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And I would like to know if you would be in dream settings.

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I said, If your yacht looks like a dream setting to me, would you be willing to let me bring

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some of the youth from Covenant House right here in Fort Lauderdale on your yacht and

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let's take them down the intercoastal and let me do a class with them on the yacht?

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And he looked at the card and didn't say anything for a minute.

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And I didn't say anything for a minute.

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It was silence.

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And he said, You have hit my hot button.

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He said, I would be delighted.

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So on four separate occasions, I was flown down to Fort Lauderdale, filled it with kids

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who had been displaced and on the streets and abused, neglected, terrible situations

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at each one.

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And they got to be invited guests on the Sea Dream.

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And I gave each one of them a Dare to Dream t-shirt.

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And we were like a family.

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And we were there.

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I told them a little bit about my story, but I had my keyboard with me.

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And I said, you know, we're going to have some fun today.

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And I said, if any of you at some point want to just go down into the galley and just have

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a one-on-one with me, just let me know and we'll do it.

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So I would play my keyboard and I had something where I had Latin music in it and we could

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be doing all the cha-chas and all those wonderful things.

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So we mixed the fun with the message about, you know, with God, all things are possible.

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And I went down and heard some stories that I wouldn't even want to say on the air, I

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mean about the tragedies of these children.

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But one of the other incidences, I was invited to be in the 20th annual Christmas Boat Parade

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where 70 boats had Christmas lights all over them.

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And I asked if we could have a microphone as set up for the kids that they could sing

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Christmas carols as we passed by the crowds.

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And we did that.

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And as the evening was progressing, it was like a rainbow of lights, Christmas lights

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on the water with singing of the children.

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And the people would stand up and clap as we would go by because we had a big banner

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on the yacht that said, Dare to Dream Children's Foundation.

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Now that was a memory that could last a lifetime.

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And to put that all together, there had to be God.

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He just tapped me on the shoulder and used me to be able to make the strategy and connections

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that it took to do that.

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So I still am waiting for my Christmas White, I did do a Christmas White House too, which

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is similar to that.

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And it's just amazing how he pushes me around and allows me to find his gifts.

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And the gifts that he gives me is heart stones on the beaches of the world.

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I have a whole box filled with stones that I've found in Turkey and in different places

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that each one has its own story.

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Well tell an international story because you do share your message of hope overseas as

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well.

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One of my international stories is that I had Mary Dettem Faulkner is a sweet, sweet

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lady who has a ministry and I was invited to go with her to Thailand.

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And so she and her husband had started many, many churches there.

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And so she said that she was going to take us into some of the camps in Burma where they

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had all different children who were orphans and things.

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And it was very dangerous then.

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There were guns and soldiers and everything like that so we had to actually not go into

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Burma, we stayed on the Thailand side, but we found a camp and there were about five

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cars.

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And she said, Jan, she said that we're going to go in there.

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And she was the first car and I was in the second or third car.

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Didn't know what she said.

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And the soldier came out with his guns and everything and he said, what do you want here?

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And so they said, well, we're singers.

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She didn't tell us we were singers.

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So we went in and he says, well, when are you going to sing and where?

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Because I would like to attend.

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The guard wanted to attend.

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We had never practiced singing.

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We had never heard that we were going to be singers.

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Of the whole group, there was only one lady who was a singer.

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And it was amazing because we sang and we sounded like angels from heaven.

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Our songs to those children were heaven sent.

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It makes me cry when I think of it.

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And it was after those songs that I received my spiritual language because I kept praying

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for the Holy Spirit to really touch me.

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I wanted to have all the gifts.

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I said, I want every one of them.

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I said, I've been separated from so much that God had for me for so long.

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I said, and I'm a late bloomer, so Lord, I really want the gifts of the spirit and I

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want to be able to do that.

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And when that was finished, I had my prayer language and have had it ever since.

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That was one.

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And then within that same refugee camp, I was asked to speak to them.

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And the night before, I said, I wanted to find a candle.

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And they said, well, what for?

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I said, you'll see.

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So there was a teacher on the side and there was, oh, I think I showed you the picture

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of all the refugee children of all different faiths and everything like that.

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And I had this candle and I said, I know a song.

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I'm not going to sing, but I'm going to say it to you.

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And because I said, I love you, and I said, in my faith, Jesus loves you.

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And I said that I'm going to be thinking of you and I want you to think of me.

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And I want you to just hear this little and I hear this prayer.

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And I put the candle up.

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I did not light it because we were in a thatched hut kind of a thing.

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And I said, it only takes a spark to get a fire going.

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And soon all those around will warm up to its glowing.

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And that's how it is with God's love.

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Once you experience it, it's fresh like spring.

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You want to sing and you want to pass it on.

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And so I took that candle and I handed it to the teacher and they clapped like I had

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given her a million dollars.

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And so I said, well, that will be just a reminder to pray.

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And so I left them and I do think of them and I have that picture on my desk because

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I want to remember to pray for them.

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Yeah.

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So God has taken you to amazing places.

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So Jan, I love that you're so bold.

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You pray bold prayers and God gives you bold ideas to minister hope.

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What is the boldest, biggest thing God's ever had you do?

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Oh, wow.

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Well, I have been doing these kinds of things for quite a few years and I didn't have sponsors.

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I didn't have much money at all.

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And so I used all the money that I had in my savings account.

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And I said, well, God, you know, if you want me to be in ministry, you're going to have

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to do something so profound.

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Give me an idea that I know it's not Jan's idea, that I know it's your idea, that it's

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heaven sent.

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And the next morning, Jody just as sure as we're sitting here, he said, do a concert

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at the Meyerson.

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Well, the Meyerson is one of the foremost incredible concert halls in our states and

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maybe in the world.

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I don't know.

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And I said, do a concert at the Meyerson.

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I said, I don't know where that money's going to come from.

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But you know, I did believe that with God, all things were possible.

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So two days later, I went down and I spoke to the people at the Meyerson and told them

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that I wanted to do a fundraising concert so that I would be able to continue this ministry

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and do wonderful things for disadvantaged children, especially.

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And they said, well, we can't do it this year because we're totally booked.

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And I said, he says, we'll have to take a look at next year.

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I said, no, it has to be this year.

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And so I said, tell me what's happening between Christmas and New Year's.

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And he said, oh, we're closed, he said.

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We're so we don't even look at that.

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I said, well, could you pencil me in for December the 28th?

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That question came right out of my mouth, which I knew had to come from God.

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You know, it's like I'd never heard him tell you, say it was closed.

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And that's how I said, and you'll still have the Christmas decorations up, correct?

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He says, oh, yeah.

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I said, well, could you pencil me in?

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He says, are you sure?

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I said, I am perfectly sure.

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And he did.

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And he penciled me in for December 28th, and I think it was 1992 or 3.

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And what happened was that, you know, I'm just looking, oh, my gosh, now what?

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And he said to me, he said, what are you going to call it?

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He says, I'm going to call it an evening with the stars.

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And he said, I love that name.

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He said, who are the stars that you're thinking about?

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And I said, you know what?

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We're not releasing that information yet, because I didn't have a clue.

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I did not know.

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So again, listening audience, just know that God will equip you when you need it.

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So anyway, I knew Linda Septienne, who is a friend that she could sing from Bach to Broadway.

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So I looked through my database, because when I go to functions, if I like the pianist,

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I'll take his card and put it in my database.

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So I said, well, this is Christmastime.

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So I'm looking through the list.

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And then I saw the name Klaus Klum.

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Well, just so that sounds Christmassy.

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It's like being at the racetrack and betting on your favorite color.

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And so that's how I picked my pianist.

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And it turns out at the time, he was the lead pianist, a director at Christ for the Nation's

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Bible School.

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I didn't know that.

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And I called him and he says, Jan, I would be delighted.

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I said, this has to be all pro bono.

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I have no money.

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So it's going to have to be a gift to God.

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And he said, I would love it.

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He says, but you have to go listen to somebody else tonight.

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He says, since last night at this particular hotel in Dallas, I said, I am so tired.

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I can't even go out.

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He says, you'll be missing out.

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Well, you know, I don't want to miss anything.

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So I went and I sat in the corner at this hotel and was listening to this man playing

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the piano.

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And I'm saying, oh my gosh.

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And he could sing too.

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So W.T. Greer was on stage.

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He sings all over the world, cruise ships and everything.

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And so I decided to do something.

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And this had to be from God because this was supposed to be fundraising.

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I invited all the homeless communities that I knew to sit in the orchestra seats.

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Well, how are you going to make money on that, Jan?

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And then I invited Buckner and Casa and all the different shelters that I was associated

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with at the time to be in the box seats, the most expensive seats in the theater.

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I said, for once in their life, they will have a positive memory that they have the

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best seat in the house.

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And I will never forget that evening.

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And I was sitting in the middle with my children up in the—actually, it was the queen's

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seat.

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I said, I'm going to sit in the queen's seat because you've got to do something

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good for me.

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And then Linda on the stage, she said, before she finished and was making a conclusion,

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she said, I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, this evening would never happen if it wasn't

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for that lady sitting right up there.

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Turn around and look at her.

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And they did.

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And she says, Jan, I want you to come down to the stage because I didn't want to even

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be noticed.

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I wanted to sit up there, but I didn't want anything like that.

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But you know, God has his little surprises for us.

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So I get in the elevator and I come down to the stage level and I'm walking through the

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orchestra up to the stage to a standing ovation.

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The entire theater was on their toes.

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And I'm saying to myself, oh my gosh, I can't believe this.

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And I was about ready to go off the stage after they said it.

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And then Anne Quest, who was the head of the Dallas Prayer Ministry, she said, we have

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a gift for you.

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And what she did, she came walking out to the stage to—and Mara Sheets was my speaker—and

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she came out and she said, I want you to have this Janet memory of this incredible evening.

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And it was a large beveled glass star because I had called it an evening with the stars

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and she somehow found that star.

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And I told Mara Sheets that the message had to be that the most important person in this

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room is sitting right in your seat.

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And since we are going out into a new year, I want them to know that you have seen an

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anointed concert, you've been touched by God, and now you can go out and touch other

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people in this new year.

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And it was so perfect.

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It was so orchestrated.

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Like, I didn't put that all together, God did.

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So when I think about that, I'm saying anything's possible, guys.

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Don't ever think that your dream is not good enough.

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It is.

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It is.

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Yeah.

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And, you know, starting a ministry and keeping it going can be very challenging, 36 years

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now running.

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What has kept you from throwing in the towel?

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Well, by the last few years especially, there's a scripture that I heard that I didn't even

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know what it meant, but Luke 9 62 is when Jesus was talking to his disciples.

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He says, No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom

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of God.

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Well, I heard that and I'm saying, you can't quit.

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This is what God's called you to do.

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So you know, I'll just ask God to give me the next revelation of what he wants.

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Just keep showing me what you want, Lord, and I'll do it until my dying day.

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I, you know, the only thing he hasn't done for me is give me a secretary.

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But needless to say, I have got this cross which says Jesus and Jan.

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It's a J and J upside that I got in Israel when I was baptized in the River Jordan.

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And I just remember that he's never going to leave me and forsake me.

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He's going to provide what I need.

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It might not be in my timing, but you know what?

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His ways are not our ways.

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So he just wants to show you the power of your story.

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And I'm getting more interviews and more opportunities now than ever.

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So that, you know, that's one of the things I'm doing.

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And a few years ago, you were you were diagnosed with a health issue, which I'm sure was a

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thought of maybe, Lord, it's time to hang up the towel here.

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But you had faith in a miracle working God because you had seen so many miracles in your

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life.

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And you had a lot of people praying for you.

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Share about what God did.

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OK, well, I have had osteoporosis and weak bones most of my life.

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However, it was getting worse and worse.

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And it turns out that that it got so bad that I was falling, broke my wrist and fell different

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times.

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And they said, we need to put you over at UT Southwestern, which is bone specialist over

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there that can do a better job than we can.

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And so I went and, you know, they looked at the history and everything like that.

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And this delightful doctor said to me, she says, well, you only have one chance to be

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able to get these bones stronger.

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And you need to take this particular medicine, which was called reclassed.

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And I don't just obey a doctor.

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I go do my own research and it turns out it was in the same stream as a BOSAX, which destroyed

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my esophagus.

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So because a lot of times I don't sound this good, I sound pretty good right now without

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a microphone.

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But I said, I'm not going to do that.

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So I said, what else can I do?

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He says, well, diet, you know, he says, but that's the least effective.

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I said, you know what?

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I know King Jesus and he's going to be eating with me.

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So I'm just going to try that.

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And for two years I went on a low oxalate diet and I also had the opportunity to, you

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know, just pray and pray and pray and never stop praying.

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And quite a few months ago I was released from UT Southwestern and they told me, you

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do not have osteoporosis.

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You have what you had before, which was osteopenia.

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And so you're doing the right thing, just keep doing that.

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To God be the glory.

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To God be the glory.

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Your bone deterioration reversed.

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Correct.

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And, I mean, they were thinking there was no way it was going to happen.

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She said, in my practice, I have never seen this.

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And this is one of the finest doctors at UT Southwestern.

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So I know God is there.

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One other quick story I'd like to tell is that I had a kidney stone and I didn't have

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any pain.

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They put me in the hospital and the next morning the doctor said, she says, yes, you do have

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a kidney stone.

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But she says, and they were going to release me that day to go to a different doctor who

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could take care of that.

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And they said, but we can't release you because you have sepsis.

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Now, sepsis is a very deadly blood disease.

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I have no idea how I get it, nor do they know how I got it.

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But the enemy will step in to do anything to take you out, especially when you're doing

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God's work.

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So I mean, it was like around Mother's Day and my children didn't come until the evening.

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But that morning of Mother's Day, I went into my bathroom in my room.

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My face looked like Santa Claus.

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It was so swollen.

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The medicine was not the right medicine for me.

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And it had a reaction.

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And I was swollen up like you wouldn't believe.

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But by the time my kids got there, it had gone back to normal again.

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And so I said, well, God, if I have to be in this hospital, I want you to use me for

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your glory.

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I do not want to spend 17 days in a bed where I'm sick.

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So he did that.

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He gave me, I said, and I want no pain.

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I'm a very pain conscious person and I cannot stand pain.

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And so I know you have the capabilities not to give me any pain.

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The doctors were amazed because through that whole situation, I had no pain.

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Plus whenever a doctor or a nurse or an aide would come to my bed, I would say, how can

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I pray for you?

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So I had people getting saved at my bedside.

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Our doctors practically in tears.

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I had nurses when I would walk around the nurse's station to give me exercise.

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I would say to them, tell me about your life.

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What do you need most?

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And they said, oh, I need money for this, that, and so I said, okay, let's pray.

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So I was praying the whole time I was there.

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I was being used.

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So I said, only God can do that.

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And he gave me the joy of the Lord to be my strength because that's the thing you have

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to say, God, I want that kind of joy.

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I want the joy of the Lord.

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I don't know how to do that.

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I'm depressed and I don't know how to get out of this hole.

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He will hold your hand if you let him.

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Yeah.

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Sometimes God takes us to places we don't really want to be.

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Nobody else wants to be there either because he wants to be a witness.

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And that's what he did with you in that hospital.

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Of course, you didn't want to be there for two, three weeks, but God needed an agent

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of his grace in the midst of that place to minister life and hope to those doctors and

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nurses and everybody you came in contact with.

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And we were talking last week, Jan, and you mentioned how God gave you a unique strategy

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to share the love of Jesus with others recently, kind of during the COVID time when we weren't

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out seeing other people.

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So what have you been doing recently?

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Well, I've learned a couple of things.

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First, I'll tell you, I have learned not to say I have technical difficulties.

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Surprise, the enemy says, oh, yes, you do, Jan.

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And every day I would have four or five different things with PayPal or Spectrum or AOL or whatever.

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And I'd be on the phone with a technical person.

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And these technical people that are serving us are all over the world.

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So I would say, I said, God, I'm getting so much technical difficulties and I don't want

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to be a crabby old lady.

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So you help me to know what can I do to be able to know that there is light at the end

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of this tunnel of despair.

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And so fair enough, just as he did with the virus, and he gave me an idea the very next

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day, and I said, OK, I'm going to do that.

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So I'd get on the phone with somebody and we might be on the phone for 45 minutes and

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still haven't solved the problem.

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And I'll just say to them, you know, I said, you sound like you're talking to me from next

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door.

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I said, what country are you calling from?

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And they said, oh, I'm in Cameroon or, oh, I'm in Indonesia or I'm in the Philippines

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or wherever around the world.

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And I said, isn't that amazing?

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They're in agreement with me.

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They're already in agreement.

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And I'll say, I need to ask you one thing because I do mission work all over the world

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and I want to ask you, is there anything personal that I can pray for you or your family about?

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And sometimes, Jodie, it's complete silence for a minute.

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And they'll say, I am shocked because no one has ever asked me that question.

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And yes, I do have needs.

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And they'll tell me about their marriage.

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They'll tell me about their children.

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They'll tell me about their child who's dying in the hospital.

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They'll get saved.

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They'll tell me what church they're going to.

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They'll tell me stuff about them that you wouldn't even tell your best friend.

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And so I would be able to comfort them and give them that blessed assurance that God

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loves them or he would have never put us together and that he knows that he sent me or gave

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me the person at the other.

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He sent you to me so that you could know that he's watching and he has his hand on your

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shoulder and he's going to help you if you'll let him.

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That's powerful.

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So whatever God says to give them, I do.

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And then I take an Excel spreadsheet and I type their first name, I type the country,

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and I type the date, and I type what I prayed for.

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So I have a list bigger than Santa Claus' list of all the people for the last two years

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practically that I've been praying for.

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And I don't get everybody on the Excel sheet, but I've got most of them.

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Wow.

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So I can go back and just say, God, you know, every need of every one of those people.

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So even when you've been shut away in home, not able to be out and about, God has given

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you a ministry that's touched the nations through your phone.

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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And anybody can do that.

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Anybody.

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So I say pass it on.

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Just like the candle, pass it on.

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Get that spark going.

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So Jeanne, what's a key truth you want our listeners to grasp from your story?

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Well, the biggest effect of my story is to build faith, faith in a loving God.

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That's the one thing.

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And after they hear these stories, hopefully they'll say, well, me too.

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I can do.

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God doesn't love me anymore.

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And that with God, all things are possible.

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And that the scripture I absolutely love is trust in the Lord with all your heart.

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Lean not on your own understanding, but acknowledge him and that he will direct your path.

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And so whatever it is, he's going to take you where he wants to take you if you'll let

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him.

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And if you're going to just keep turning your back on him, you can do that.

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He's going to let you do that because he gives choices.

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And you have a choice to say, I want the God of my creation to love me.

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And I want to accept that love.

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And I want to give my heart to him.

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I want to be able to have a transformation of my behavior so that I can get rid of the

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depression and get rid of the things that are causing me to stumble.

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Yeah.

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And as we close, would you share about a woman in the Bible who's inspired or encouraged

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or taught you something?

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Yes.

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And that was not too difficult for me because she's much more beautiful than me.

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But Esther, Esther was an orphan who had courage.

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She had holy boldness and she was very wise.

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So she had strategy in what she wanted to accomplish, which eventually saved her nation.

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She was a Jewish person who had to keep that a secret.

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Well, I had to keep a secret of the fact I wanted to keep a secret that I had the story

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I had.

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I used to tell people my parents were killed in an airplane crash because I didn't want

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to tell my story when I was a little girl.

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And so I think of her and I think of the semblance there that she didn't want people to know

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she was Jewish because when she went into the King's Palace, that was not allowed.

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You could get shot for being that situation.

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And yet God turned it around completely that she had she went to the King's Palace and

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got to marry the King.

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So I'm still waiting for that.

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Yeah, she was bold like you.

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You know, sometimes boldness can be a negative thing.

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But I think that when you can see it's a holy boldness, you're doing it for God's intention

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and for God's glory.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, exactly.

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That is exactly.

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That's a very good distinction.

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Well in Psalm 37 verses four through six in the NIV, it says, Take delight in the Lord

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and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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Commit your way to the Lord.

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Trust him and he will do this.

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He will make your righteousness, your righteous reward shine like the dawn and your vindication

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like the noonday sun.

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Now if you've been listening, as I know you have, you can see how God has done that in

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Jan's life.

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As she delighted in the Lord, he has filled her heart with delight and God wants to do

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the same for you.

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At the beginning of our conversation, I mentioned Psalm 37 23 that tells us how God delights

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in every detail of our lives.

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He's already delighting in us and as we delight in him, he can direct us into all the wonderful

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things he has in store for us.

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Jan, would you take a moment and pray for our listeners?

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Certainly.

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Dear Lord, Holy Spirit, we just thank you for your presence in our lives.

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I thank you, Lord God, that every person that's listening, if they don't know who the Holy

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Spirit is, that they will just be able to ask.

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In the Bible it says ask and he'll give it to us.

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And it's kind of like a magnet to the direction he wants us to go.

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So Lord God, I ask you to place that magnet in their hearts to be able to get so close

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to you that they can hear your heartbeat.

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Lord, I thank you for divine connections for each one listening.

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I thank you for peace and harmony in their homes.

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I thank you for finances that will give them the money that they need to do the things

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that you've called them to do.

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I thank you in advance for divine health that everything the enemy thinks that he's going

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to use against them that will be used for good.

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So Lord, that they will walk out healthy and that they will be able to say, well done,

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good and faithful servant.

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Lord, I just thank you for any of the young people that are distancing themselves from

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their parents or their grandparents.

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Lord God, that you will send someone into their lives that will be able to make a difference

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to be able to, that somebody will minister to them as we have ministered.

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Lord God, to be able to draw them closer to the Lord.

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And so Lord God, I thank you for the gifts of the spirit that you will give them.

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And I thank you God that you will give them the education, the finances, the home and

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the future that only you could bring to them.

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Lord, that things would be your ideas, not our ideas and that you would be glorified

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through all of it in Jesus precious Holy name.

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I pray.

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Well, thank you for tuning in.

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