"Origin Story: Discovering the Fingerprints of God" S1 Ep1

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You ever had a voice go off in your head as you were about to step off the corner?

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You stepped back only to see a car swerve around the corner of the wood pitch you had you stay there.

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You ever had an opportunity you never thought would open up and all of a sudden a door opens?

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Just like the motion detector at Walmart?

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We want to help you in this episode discover God's fingerprint moments that you may be missing

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which could unlock your purpose.

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And stay tuned to the end because we're going to answer a question

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that could be very crucial to where you stand right now.

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Welcome to Keep It 100 podcast with Sean and Christa Smith.

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Join us in this space where we take on real issues with real insight under real inspiration.

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Keep It 100!

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Hey everybody, welcome to the very first episode of Keep It 100 with Sean and Christa Smith.

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You're in for a funny inspirational episode as we talk about origin stories

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and how to discover God's fingerprints.

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You're also going to want to stay tuned to the end of this podcast episode as we answer the crucial question.

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What can you know about God that you can hold on to no matter how dark it gets?

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Hey, Christa, we are, we're together!

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Come on, I've been excited about this moment.

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This is going to be amazing.

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I'm super excited just about our opportunity to address this phenomenal issue

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that was so super fired up about.

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Yeah.

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And man, it's, it's been a crazy season we've been in, right?

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It's been really crazy.

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I mean, definitely the word bizarre comes to mind.

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Unexpected.

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I mean, we just have had such an extended time of lockdown and quarantine.

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I know every state's a little bit different.

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We're coming to everyone from California.

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So we've just been in a unique season.

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I was interviewed and somebody asked me, had you ever seen anything like this?

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And I'm like, what do you think?

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I'm a those alone.

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Nobody live right now has ever seen anything like this.

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I mean, it's crazy.

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And, you know, we've seen all the way from just quarantine and shelves being cleared out.

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Felt kind of apocalyptic a bit and then a National Guard getting called in.

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We just had a series of unique and a roller coaster of events for sure.

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You know, obviously as we're coming out of this season, it was so funny at your nephew's

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graduation that you had grandmas doing drive-bys with face pass on.

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I'm like, this is a unique season.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Well, I'm super excited because we're going to hit this theme of origin stories.

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That's this.

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It's fun.

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And I love origin stories because in entertainment, which I am a comic book guy, so to speak,

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you might even see a black man at a comic con conference, right?

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I would not be surprised.

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DC and particularly MCU, which stands for Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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In entertainment, the origin story is the backstory revealing how our character came

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to be and what led them to a certain place.

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Yeah, right.

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So crazy.

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When I watched Wonder Woman, I was like, hello.

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I mean, it was just awesome.

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I mean, her origin story was incredible.

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Things are so important because when we understand the why, we get a greater window as in to

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the who.

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Oh, come on.

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I love that.

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You know, it's so, it's, I love that we're talking about origin stories because I feel

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like when you learn someone's story, it gives you context to who they are today.

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And when you get a context, all of a sudden you have an understanding and insight, a window

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into why they are the way they are.

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I just think it's so important.

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And what's really crazy is there is more than ever true stories based on true stories,

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you know, movies and whatnot going to the theaters.

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And I just think stuff like that is so telling of people's love and crave for narrative.

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So true.

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Beginnings are so important.

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They are.

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It's awesome.

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You know, it's ironic that God begins his book, the Bible with Genesis, which traces

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the origin of all things that it establishes God in the context of this vast universe thing

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that he's created.

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So I figured, hey, if God began with the origin story, maybe that's a good place for us to

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start.

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I like it.

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That's a good lead.

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That's a good lead.

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I love that.

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Now, when I think of some origin stories, I think of we have just got finished recognizing

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the ESPN, the highest viewed series they've ever put on a screen, which is amazing.

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It was called The Last Dance.

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But speaking of origin story, it was the origin story of the championship bulls of the 90s

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and Michael Jordan and his asset in the midst of it.

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That was a very interesting origin story.

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Totally.

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And being from Oregon, you know, I got to throw out their Nike Filnite, which is really cool,

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from Oregon.

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Many people don't know this.

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Multi-billion dollar sneaker company actually was started in the back, backseat out of the

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trunk of Filnite.

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I mean, that's an incredible origin story.

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To begin in the back of your car to now being a billion dollar leading in the athletic industry,

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that's pretty incredible.

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That's amazing.

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You see, Hammer started like that, except there was Raktix coming out of the trunk of

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his car.

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I had the distance the Nikes had, but yes.

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You know, I think of another origin story, I think of, you know, close to what, 600 million

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people on the planet have experienced the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

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And obviously we could trace it back to the origin story of Acts too.

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But the more modern was W.J.C.

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Moore, a one-eyed black man's son of a sharecropper that made his way out of Houston, Texas to

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Topeka, Kansas, where he sat underneath Charles Parham.

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And Charles Parham was a guy that had experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit, was teaching

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people on that.

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But he was, at that time, they believed in segregation.

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He was one of those that believed in that.

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And so W.J.C.

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Moore had to sit outside on a sunny day outside of the classroom with the window open to listen

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to the teaching, and it was raining.

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They would let W.J.C.

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Moore, this black man, sit in a broom closet with the door open.

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And I don't say that so much to cite the racism.

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I see it so much as to cite the hunger of a man that refused to be offended because he

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wanted something in the spirit so bad.

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It was like, you're not going to keep me from it.

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He moves essentially into Los Angeles area.

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They barred the doors of a church because they understand he's teaching on the baptism

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and they didn't believe in that, but he continued in a house on Bonnie Bray Street, which we've

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been to that house.

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And as a result of that, the power of God fell, and the rest is history, and the Jesus

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Street revival that ran for three years is now a packet over 600,000 people in the fastest

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growing churches in the world right now.

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I love that.

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And I just want to go back to the point you made, which is so powerful.

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He refused to be offended because there was such a hunger in him for the more of God.

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He knew God had a destiny for him.

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He was the man that was going to lead one of the greatest revivals to date.

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And like you're saying, was the number 600 million?

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Yes.

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I mean, what in one life?

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And just choosing God, refusing to be offended, and to this day, we're still talking about

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the impact of life.

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Yep.

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As humans, we love and crave narrative.

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So in this craving, I want to hear your origin story.

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What's yours, Chris?

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You know, what's really cool is I was born into a family that loved God.

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We were Catholic.

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We did Catholic school, like the whole thing.

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And I actually had a really good experience in the Catholic Church, which I like to bring

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that to the table because I think there's so much negative narrative on the Catholic

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Church.

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And obviously, there's been some really horrific things that have happened, but my personal

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experience was really positive.

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And we got hit by the Charismatic Renewal in the late 80s, or excuse me, in the 80s,

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early 80s.

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And that was basically, people don't know that term, Charismatic Renewal.

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It simply means Holy Spirit just invaded Catholic Church.

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And we begin to see the baptism of the Holy Spirit happen, Catholic speaking in tongue,

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praying for healing, miracles happen.

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It was really incredible.

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And my family was totally impacted by it.

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My parents began to host prayer meetings and just really seeing people, hungry, and countering

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God.

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And then, of course, if your parents are impacted, the children get impacted.

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So we found ourselves as a family of five going up the I-5 corridor, the freeway of

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I-5, going up to Smoky Point, Washington, which was about six, seven hours north of

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Southern Oregon in our Volkswagen van.

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And we're going to this family camp, and it was hosted by four square denomination.

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And we didn't quite know what all that meant.

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We just knew that we trusted the people that invited us, and we wanted more of God.

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And we've heard that God was at this camp.

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So we go there, we're camping, and after I'm the youngest of three girls, and my two older

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sisters are coming back from the junior high high school meetings, which were combined,

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and then I'm separated, I'm in the children's ministry by myself, and of course my parents

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are in the adult meetings.

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We come back the first couple nights, and we're like comparing stories of what happened

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in everyone's services.

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And I'm talking about the puppets, and they're having a stand on the chairs, and I'm singing

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at the top of my lungs, and I'm loving it.

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I'm loving the puppets, I'm loving the song.

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It's fun.

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But then my sisters begin to share their story.

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And their story is people are falling out on the ground, God's talking to people, demons

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are getting cast out, people are getting healed.

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Now I know the verbage prophetic words are getting released, but they just said God was

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talking to people, and I'm like, wait, what?

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And so I heard this, and you know this story.

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I heard my sisters tell this story, and I was like, wait, wait, wait.

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I love the puppets, but I'm sorry, I want that.

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So I concocted this plan, which felt really brave, because I was like seven, eight years

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old, and it was to ask to go to the bathroom with no intention to go to the bathroom, but

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instead make a mad dash across the football field, kind of length of a football field,

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I should say.

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And it was to where the meetings were being held for the junior high high schoolers.

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And I did that.

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I sprinted across this dark field, which felt so brave at seven or eight years old, but

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I was so hungry, so curious for what they were talking about, and there was this mentality

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in me that was like, forget the puppets.

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Like, I want that.

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Whatever they're talking about, I want that.

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As soon as I opened up the door, baby, I experienced the tangible presence of God.

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I would articulate it now, obviously having the maturity to be able to look at hindsight

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and recognize it was the glory of God.

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I walked into the glory of God, and I crammed my little seven, eight year old body to the

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back wall, praying, no Lord asked me to leave because I wasn't supposed to be in there.

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And I just made a vow at that time, because I knew God was in the room.

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I knew that what I was seeing was real.

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I couldn't explain it.

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I couldn't maybe articulate at the time, but I was marked by God.

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And I saw at that time that this was available.

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So the vow I said to myself was, if this is available, I will spend my life pursuing it.

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And you know what?

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That's exactly what happened.

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From that point on, for the rest of my life, I got so marked by God, and I'm going to use

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the term because we're talking about origin stories, but we're also talking about fingerprints,

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that his fingerprints marked me.

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His fingerprints were left on me.

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When God is at work, you see the residue of him left on you.

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And literally, my heart was marked.

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My spirit was marked.

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My mind was marked.

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Everything about me was marked with God's hand, with his fingerprint.

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And from that day on, I've just run after God.

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I haven't always done it perfect, but I've missed it many times.

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But I've just been someone that's loved God and pursued him.

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That's so true.

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I can say that's true of your life.

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And I mean, for all intents and purposes, it was like you did this thing where you ditched

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the puppets to hitch to the prophetic.

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Oh, yes, I did.

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If you were a comic book, I would say, Christa, leave Sesame Street to go to Azusa Street.

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Come on.

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Oh, man, I'm snapping right now.

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That's great.

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I think you make a great point because what you're saying is, origin stories are when

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you discover the fingerprints of God.

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Exactly.

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I feel like when you and I look back on our lives and also when our listeners look back

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in their lives, they can look at specific recall moments.

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They might be small.

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They might not seem super significant, but they were significant between you and God

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because God knows us.

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And he knows us as such a way to put his mark on us.

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They don't have to be these extravagant big moments.

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This was me dashing across a dark field by myself at seven, eight years old and just

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simply walking into a room.

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No one even noticed I was there.

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And yet God noticed and he put his fingerprint on me.

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And I love that.

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You know, I believe everyone has a fingerprint.

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Everyone has an origin story.

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Sometimes we just have to take time to discover what it is, but I know you have some incredible

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stories and I'd love to hear what your fingerprint slash origin story is.

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It's a kind of a back to the future thing, but some years ago I was at a conference.

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I'm now, as I'm telling the story, I am in campus ministry directing a university outreach

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at a secular university.

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I go to a conference as I go to this conference.

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It's a passion for Jesus conference, but they have a room where all leaders and pastors

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are invited out of the conference.

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There was maybe 80 to 100 pastors and we're in a room and a guy with a prophetic ministry

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jumps up.

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He's out of Texas.

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And he's starting the whole meeting, he's supposed to speak to us as leaders and he

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points me out and he says, you young man stand up.

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He says, between the ages of eight and 10 years of age, had God not intervened, you

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and I would not be having this moment, which my mind immediately ran back to when I was

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nine years old.

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And I'll share that.

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That's not an origin story, but he goes on to say, you have an enlarged heart.

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And he says, what I mean by that is God has given you unusual passions and you will capture

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the passion of the Lord and share it with a generation.

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So anyway, when he said between eight and 10 years of age, had God not intervened, we

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wouldn't be having this moment.

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I knew what he meant.

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My mind flashed back because I didn't at that point recognize it, but almost died when

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I was nine.

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Had God not intervened, I literally wouldn't be in that ring.

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And nine years of age, my dad was tragically murdered unexpectedly.

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And then in the midst of it, I began to develop these severe chest pains to the point as a

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nine year old kid, it would floor me.

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I complained of this pain.

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And so finally, my mom took me to a doctor and recommended I go to a specialist.

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So they had all these heart checks.

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Make a long story short, they came back.

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My diagnosis was I had an enlarged heart, but because of the pressure that was put on the

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ventricles and the way the blood is forced through your system, the doctor said, if I

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don't put a pacemaker in your son's chest, he's not going to make it.

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But he also said at a nine year old kid to do open heart surgery and put and back in

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a day, man, these pacemakers look like cigarette boxes sticking out of your chest.

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My uncle had one.

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He says he runs the risk of fatality simply by the operation.

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So it was kind of like, man, if I do this thing, I'm in danger.

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If I don't do these things, I'm in danger.

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So my mom had to think about it.

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We walk out in a parking lot of Altevay hospital.

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It started to rain and I'll never forget this.

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I'm not saved at the time.

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My mom's not saved at the time.

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My grab is not saved at the time, which is my family.

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Thus, this is my origin story, discovering this early God fingerprint.

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My mom cries out and says, God, please don't take my only child.

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Please don't take my only child.

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And that's really all she said.

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She didn't have the sophistication to pray this long, elaborate prayer.

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Immediately in that moment, Chris, I felt this pop in my chest and I felt this tingling

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sensation.

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I remember and describe it and immediately it was like I kind of knew something and I

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just said, hey, mom, let's run these tests again.

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I think something happened.

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So my mom went in, she made an appointment.

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We went back.

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I have to run on this thing that looks kind of like you're running on a treadmill.

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They put together these suction cups and they hooked it up to my chest and while I'm running,

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they're checking everything.

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They do all these EKGs and all these other things.

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So we had to wait.

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Anyway, we got back the results.

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And the results was I still had an enlarged heart.

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Still do this a day.

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But the doctor says something miraculous happened because it's not bringing any level of greater

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stress on his body.

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He can play sports.

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He can do everything.

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We do not have to do this emergency procedure on his heart.

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So here I am years later with 80 to 90 other pastors and realizing in this moment, it was

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a fingerprint moment that this prophet of God is calling out and it marked Mark.

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Oh my, that is so powerful that in this private moment between you and your mom and God, right?

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It's just the three of you.

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No one's there.

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It's just this quiet moment.

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God just touches from heaven and you have a creative miracle.

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Again, you don't have explanation for it.

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You're not in this place with God where there's even Burbage or understanding and yet God's

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marked you and I can tell you your life has been so marked by him.

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I mean, just being your wife, I see his handprint, his thumbprint, you know, all over you and

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I love this.

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And it's what an incredible story because I just love it when we recognize that God

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meets us in the big, the little and in the hidden and the quiet.

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Yes.

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Well, you know, I told our listeners how much I love kind of the MCU DC and I love that

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whole genre of entertainment.

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Yeah.

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As we're talking about fingerprints, I know that you love detective dramas.

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Do I?

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I do.

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I love myself a great detective.

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I love a good mystery because I have this thing and my husband will attest to this.

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I love to figure everything out and so my goal is always to try to figure it out as fast

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as possible and I always try to call out the ending and I love mystery because number one,

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I love to figure out who did it and I love to know why and then I love the context of

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it.

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And what's really cool because we're talking about fingerprints, so much of mysteries are

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solved by the DNA, right?

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And it's often by the fingerprints.

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It's what's left of the person at the scene and that's how they discover who was a part

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of it.

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But if you flip the script on that, we can often see the same principle that when God

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leaves his residue, his DNA on you, we're carrying every scene that we go to in life.

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We're carrying who he is because he's marked us.

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It's so true because I really feel like what this episode is about is about prophetic forensics.

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Ooh, yeah.

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Because the truth of the matter is, if you can discern God's fingerprints, then you can

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depend on his finishing touches.

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Oh, say that again from the back.

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If you can discern God's fingerprints, then you can depend on his finishing touches because

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if the Bible says we're the masterpiece of God, so you cannot work a potter that works

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on clay is going to leave their fingerprints.

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In fact, the Bible even talks about this.

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It says in Romans 121, Christa, in the Passion translation, it says Romans 121 again, it says,

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throughout human history, the fingerprints of God were upon them.

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So we may have scripture that challenges us to know we've got the fingerprints and by

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seeing God's fingerprints in the past, it gives one courage to confidently place their

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now in God's hands.

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And you know, I want to add to that because I love that.

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It says in Ephesians 2, 10, it says, for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus

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for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

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I love that.

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There are things that are prepared for that have been carrying the fingerprint of God

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that we carry in us that when God knit us in the womb, we carry the destiny and the DNA

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of our Heavenly Father that are ordained for us to walk in.

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I love that.

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You know, you bring up a great point that the fingerprints of God aren't just on us.

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They're on our destiny.

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That's right.

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They're on our path.

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They're on our purpose.

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They're on the things that we're supposed to put our hands to.

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That's right.

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That gets me excited.

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You know what that does?

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In a time that's been so uncertain of the season that we've come out of, I feel like

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the listeners need to hear this today that even in uncertain times, there is a plan and

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a purpose that the Lord has for you, that nothing is a lost cause.

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Nothing is not without purpose.

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God uses all things for his glory.

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So even in the unknown, even the uncertain, know that you are carrying the fingerprint

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of God over your life and over the plans of God over your life.

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So true.

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Well, I've got a kind of a fingerprint.

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My earlier fingerprint was that fact that I got healed, but later on, what would be

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the next kind of major fingerprint is my grandmother who was an alcoholic all my life, but never

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abusive and I knew she loved me.

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In fact, the listeners will find out in a moment how integral she was in my life.

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She had been alcoholic all my life.

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We grew up in inner city Oakland.

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We were economically challenged.

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Translation, we was po and PO.

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My grandmother went to like Safeways.

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That was the nearest grocery store to where we're at.

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She's going to, she could walk.

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There was a couple of blocks away.

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She went to do some grocery shopping, of course.

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And as she did, she ran into two older ladies and they invited her, my grandmother out to

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their church.

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And so my grandmother went, I think it was either that night or the next night, they

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had a midweek service, which my grandma didn't know their midweek was that they're deliberate

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service.

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So my grandmother gets on the bus.

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I'm a junior in high school, so I'm a basketball practice.

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She hops on the bus and goes to this little small storefront holding this Pentecostal

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church by Lake Merritt, Oakland, California.

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She listens to the message.

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She walks forward.

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She dedicates her life to Christ.

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She's immediately delivered.

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They let her hands on her.

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She gets back on that bus.

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A free woman, she comes back to our place where we live.

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She goes underneath the seat.

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She breaks all her alcohol bottles.

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Grandma never took another drink.

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And I remember, I got home by the time she got home because it took me a while.

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I was going to school at that time, high school in East Oakland.

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I look at my grandma and I saw her breaking her bottles.

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I couldn't understand it.

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I'm not saved.

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Right.

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Like, why would you do that?

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You spent all your social security money.

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That's like, like grandma's a vestment.

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Retirement.

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As a retire, but she got investments in alcohol.

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And my grandma said, I don't need to take 12 steps.

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I just needed to take one to Jesus.

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And he set me free.

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But that fingerprint so gripped me because years later, and I look forward to sharing

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my full testimony on a later episode, but my grandmother would go to see me, Jesus,

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because she passed away from cancer.

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And at that time I'm in college, but there was a woman there that was kind of like a

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hospice caretaker.

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As my grandmother was starting to have problems, she had a vision or something the lady described

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where my grandmother looks away and she says to the lady, they're here for me.

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The woman caretaker says, no, no, nobody's here.

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She's me.

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And she says, no, no, they're here for me, baby.

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And she says, my grandma says, I'm a check out and a woman got alarmed.

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She's getting ready to call 911.

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My grandmother stopped her.

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She says, I'll be gone by the time they come here.

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She says, you just come close, baby.

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She grabs it by the hand and she shares with her the love of Jesus Christ and that Jesus

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wants to in that moment change her life.

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My grandmother, according to this woman, as she spoke at my grandma's funeral, she eulogized

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my grandmother led this woman to the Lord on her deathbed and my grandmother went out

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with a smile on her face.

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Come on, Ethel Lee Wynne wasn't playing and her fingerprint marked because two ladies in

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a grocery store aisle were faithful to extend the fingerprints of God on my grandmother

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on her deathbed.

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She extends the fingerprints of God on this woman.

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And then that would be, I'll tell it later, a domino effect to me coming to Christ.

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You know, as you were sharing that, I felt like a listener needed to hear that today,

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that it doesn't take 12 steps, but it only takes one step.

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That in one moment with Jesus, it can change everything because I felt like there's some

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people listening where there's been years of the same cycle, the same addiction, the

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same process.

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And even as you're listening to this, I just feel like God's like, it only takes one encounter,

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one moment, one fingerprint, you know, to encounter God for that thing to be broken.

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And I love it because when we accept and come into a realization of the fingerprint of God

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in our life, it breaks unbelief.

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And when you break unbelief in your life, it removes a veil that is hidden often, the

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ability to see the fingerprints of God.

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Isn't that so true?

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That when we're walking in unbelief, it's really hard to see God because everything's coming

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through the lens of skepticism, the lens of unbelief, the lens of not expecting it, right?

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The lens of hopelessness, depression.

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You're not seeing God, but when you're actually like, God, I believe you, I believe you can

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do that.

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It removes that veil and bam, comes the encounter.

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You know, that's the beautiful thing.

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It's so true.

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Even the book of Acts, it talks about God, His appointed times and circumstances whereby

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we wouldn't grope for Him that we would find Him.

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And so what that passage says to me is that God has purposely left His fingerprints all

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around us, everywhere, for us to discover and they will guide us into freedom.

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I love that.

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I love that.

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So good.

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That is so good.

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And you know what?

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To all our people, they need to understand that when unbelief is cast off, they discover

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God's fingerprints are everywhere.

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That's right.

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I love that.

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It's so good.

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Well, I want our listeners, Christa, to receive three keys to discover God's fingerprints.

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We talked about origin stories are in fact, discovering God's fingerprints.

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We talked about how important they've been in our lives, but we want to help people and

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give them some value in terms of content to how they can discover God's fingerprints.

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So why don't you take number one and give them our first key?

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Yeah, we just want to put some just really simple practical keys in all of your hands,

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listeners, because we love to inspire, we love to share, but we also want that practical

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application that you walk away with keys on how to change and discover God's fingerprints

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in your life.

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The first key is you, when you see unusual coincidences and reoccurring circumstances,

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let me repeat that when you experience unusual coincidences and reoccurring circumstances.

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And what I mean by that is so many times in my life, I have encountered the same conversation,

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the same situation, maybe the same sequence of numbers.

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But I know I share this story often.

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If you hear me preach, because it's just one of my favorites.

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Within a 15, 20 minute period, I had the same conversation with two young homeless men.

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And it was identical life circumstances, situations as to why they were homeless and asking me

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for a meal that day.

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And it was in the encounter, the exact same situation, same age, same gender, same situation

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that I knew God was calling me to have a heart for a generation.

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And it was again, another fingerprint of God moment in my life, but it came through unusual

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coincidences and reoccurring circumstances.

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And that to me is like, don't negate, don't dismiss those things that are repetitive.

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You're like, man, I've just had this conversation.

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Why is this person brought this up to me again?

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Or why do I keep seeing 11, 11 everywhere?

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Pay attention to those things that God's showing you.

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So what you're saying too, is that when you notice that things jump out at you, they're

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out of the ordinary, things that are repeating, it's a sign from God that he's pointing.

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There was a fingerprint involved in that.

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That's so awesome.

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The second key I want to give our listeners, Christa, in terms of discovering God's fingerprints

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is when the impossible suddenly becomes imminent.

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I thought it was impossible for my grandma to be set free from alcohol.

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There wasn't a day that I could recall unless the social worker was coming to our house

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or she or I had to go to the doctor that she wouldn't get drunk.

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And then she would just wait till that's over.

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And she did.

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But all of a sudden when I recognized what I thought is it was impossible that my grandma

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would ever change the old adage, you don't teach an old dog new tricks and all that stuff.

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And then I saw her get set free because to say something is imminent is to say it is

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occurring.

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You're on the precipice of it.

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And I think of another way these fingerprints is maybe somebody was going to step up a curve.

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They heard a voice in their head.

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So they don't step up the curve.

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The next minute a car swabs around.

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I know before Christ BC in my life, I didn't go to a certain party for some reason.

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And I was not like that.

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I tried to go to every party.

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I was trying to dance, get my groove on.

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I didn't find out the police showed up there.

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And I think Revolation 3 8 says that God opens doors no man can shut.

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I think another fingerprint we can discover is the open door.

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That God opens doors that there's no way that door should have opened.

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No way you should have got that job.

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You got accepted to that college.

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No way you should have gotten God's dream for your life in terms of that partner.

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That's how I feel about you.

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And just like on our front door, Christ, we have smart locks that based on an app on our

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phone, we get in proximity of the door.

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It opens up, although recently hasn't been working as good as we like.

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I think there are times in life and when you get in vicinity that God goes before you.

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He has the ultimate smart lock and he begins to open the doors of opportunity and you got

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to stop and thank him.

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But when you recognize that, you're able to realize that.

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That's so good.

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The third key and I love this is when unexplained answers and unexpected thoughts jump out at

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you.

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I love that.

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Third key when unexplained answers and unexpected thoughts jump out at you.

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That's often when just, you know, you're just doing your own thing.

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You're just like thinking about this and all of a sudden this thought just jumps in your

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mind.

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All of a sudden it's like an interruption to your normal train of thought.

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How many times have I had this happen, especially when I'm like waking up in the morning and

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it's before I'm fully awake and I'm finding myself in the kind of that just pure state

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of being still and quiet before the Lord and then the Lord just downloads a prophetic

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stream and it's in that just simple rest of God that I begin to put value on what's in

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my spirit and what's on my heart, what comes to mind when I first wake up in the morning.

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For me, at least in recent years has been some of my clearest, purest prophetic veins

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is things I've preached, things I've released prophetically, things I've gotten for people

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because I've learned to give weight and give value for things that are just unexpected

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and just interrupting.

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That's so good.

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Chris, you're a very wise person.

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And one of the ways that I realized that is you'll say something to me and it's so wise

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it shifts my way of thinking.

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It brings an alteration to my perspective paradigm shift.

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So say God speaks to me who has possesses ultimate wisdom.

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One of the ways I know God speak to me in the fingerprint is that heaven will shift

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your thought process all of a sudden.

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Maybe you're mad, you're angry, you're discouraged in one minute and you get one thought and

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it's another way of saying receiving instant real time illumination.

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As you ship, you can recognize, wait a second, those thoughts that later down the line that

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we'll find out the entrepreneurs made millions of dollars off, someone discovered their talent

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or gift was supposed to bring to the world.

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They don't realize it was a fingerprint moment that something jumped out in them.

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I love that.

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And so you think about these three keys, unusual circumstances, unusual coincidences is a

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recurring circumstances when the impossible suddenly becomes imminent and when unexplained

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answers and unexpected thoughts jump out at you.

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I know you are going to want to subscribe and get ready because our very next episode

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is on inciting incident.

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I'm excited about that one.

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We're so excited that you've been joining us today.

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We hope you continue to connect with us.

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We want to hear from you.

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Finally, I told you in the beginning, I would answer the question.

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What can you know about God that you can hold on to no matter how dark it gets?

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And if you've listened to this entire episode, you arrived at this conclusion with us.

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God's reputation rides on you getting through your crisis.

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So good.

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That God has an unblemished track record, according to his word in 2 Corinthians 2 and

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14, that God thanks be to God will always lead us in triumph.

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If you could discover his fingerprints, you know that God, you can depend on God's finishing

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touches and as a result of that, God will help you connect the dots.

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So maybe there's someone out there right now that they're not connected to God.

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They don't know God or maybe they're away from God.

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The Bible says whoever calls upon a name of the Lord will be saved.

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So all you have to do in this moment is just call on Jesus, say, God, I recognize you're

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reaching out to me.

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And when God reaches out, he touches you with his fingerprints and you recognize those fingerprints

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and you say, Jesus, be Lord and you turn over the steering wheel of your heart and life.

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As you do it, you will never be the same.

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Don't forget to join us as we'll be coming back at you with keep it 100 with Sean and

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Chris Smith.

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