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This is your daily reminder. God has not run

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out of mercy, not for you, not today. Welcome

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to the New Mercies Podcast. Welcome. Today is

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Saturday, April the 4th, and I am excited to

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share with you the Psalm of the Day. This is

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a reading plan that we've been going through

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as a church family. And today, before we celebrate

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Easter Sunday, we have to read the Psalm. chapter

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number 30. This is what we call our bonus days.

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So if you need to get caught up on the reading

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plan for the week, do that today. If you need

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to just add a little bonus to you, Psalm chapter

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30 is the way to go. If you are, again, I want

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to say this every episode just so in case you're

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new, be sure you like and subscribe and follow.

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If you want to donate, you can in the... description

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below. But here's what we want to do today. I

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want to focus in very clearly on what this Psalm

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is. This is a Psalm of David, Psalm chapter 30,

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Psalm of David. I'm not going to read a lot of

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the text to you today. I do want to read the

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second part of verse number five. So I'm going

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to go ahead, in fact, and read that first. And

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then I'm going to explain the Psalm a little

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bit. Sometimes the Psalms can be a little bit

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difficult to understand, a little bit difficult

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to read. So here's a little bit of encouragement

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for you today as you read it. Maybe I'm going

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to give you a little framework so that you can

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see it in maybe the little sections that it's

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written in. But I just want to read the last

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part of verse number five, because it is a really

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sweet, really powerful text. Here it is in Psalm

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chapter number 30, just reading the second part

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of verse number five. Weeping may tarry for the

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night, but joy comes with the morning. As I read

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all of this chapter today, it's kind of broken

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up in a few different ways. First off, the piece

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I read was a a part of David's praise within

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the psalm. He is a worshiper. That's who David

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is. He's a warrior and a worshiper and a king.

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And he's a shepherd and he has a lot to offer.

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He has a lot to talk about, a lot of characteristics

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about David. He's also very honest. If you read

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the next couple of verses after he says that

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joy comes in the morning, he gives this sort

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of this proclamation of, I used to think I had

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it all figured out and I didn't. I love the...

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people in the Bible and how honest they are.

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You know, David was one of the most honest guys

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in the Bible when he would write. He would write

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how terrible of a sin he just committed or how

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he thought he had it all figured out and he had

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no idea. I wish people today would be that honest.

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I wish churches looked more like David's worship

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than it did our polished, clean, look our best,

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pretend like everything's okay kind of face.

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David was a guy who was absolutely real. Now,

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in this psalm, what you'll find, I want to help

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kind of break it up, maybe give you a little

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structure as you read it today. In the first

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three verses, David talks about how much God

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loves and cares and protects him. You can read

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it in the first three verses, again, what God

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has done for him and how it has been a protection

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to him. He says, God has protected me. He has

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taken care of me. And he says, I want to exalt

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God for doing that. I just want to say thank

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you. Thank you for your protection. Once he begins

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to testify about the protection of God, guess

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what happens? In verses 4 and 5, he begins to

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praise God. That's what he does. Whenever we

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start thinking about and counting the ways God

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has protected us and God has loved us and rescued

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us and pulled us out of the pit and brought us

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into his family, once we start talking about

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how he's protected us from all of those things

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that are against us, nothing can get to you,

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but it has to go through God first. You are invincible

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until God is done with you. God is the one who

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is protecting you. Once you start to realize

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that, you get excited and you get fired up and

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you start praising him, right? Verses four and

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five are this Praise worthy things. Sing praises

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to the Lord, David says. I'm going to sing praises

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because he's awesome. He's protected me from

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all this stuff. After he praised the Lord, guess

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what happens? He begins to reveal who he is,

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right? Verses 6 and 7, it is him giving this

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moment of honest, real remembering and honest,

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real. experience that he went through in his

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life. He said, I was wealthy. I thought I had

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it all figured out, but I didn't. I didn't. It's

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the Lord that took care of me. David, if you

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go back and look at the history of his life,

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there was a moment where he got really sick,

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like to the point of death, and the Lord rescued

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him out of that. And it was after he was wealthy

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and had all the stuff figured out. David went

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through a lot of experiences that were raw and

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real. thought he had everything. He was prideful

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and arrogant enough to say, I don't need any

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body. I've got everything I need right here.

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And the truth is we all need the Lord, no matter

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how much cash you have stored up, no matter how

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much health you have in this moment, we all need

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the Lord today. So after David talks about the

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protection of God and how he cares for him and

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loves him, then David begins to worship. He begins

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to sing praises to the Lord. He begins to praise

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him. Then he begins to see this real thing that's

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going on. on in him. So he gets real honest and

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very personal. And then after that, he moves

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into this place of prayer, right? So this is

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a natural progression. In the last part of the

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chapter, verses 11 and 12, is where he begins

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to proclaim the goodness of God. So here's what

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happens. This is a natural progression. If you

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begin to think about counting your blessings,

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how good God has been to you, you'll be verses

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1 through 3. God's done this for me. He's done

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this for me. He's done this for me. And then

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praise erupts, right? You begin to thank him.

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Praise him for it. Sing your songs and shout

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to the rooftops how great he is. Yes, there may

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be weeping that's in the night, but joy comes

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in the morning. He's proven it over and over

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and over again. It's fantastic. Then you go into

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this moment where you start to reveal who he

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is, and then it reveals immediately who you are,

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right? Isaiah did the same thing in chapter number

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six of the book of Isaiah when he says, I see

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the Lord. He's high and exalted. I see it. All

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this stuff is amazing. And he says, whoa, I am

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a man of unclean. lips. I am not who, I'm not

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him. He's awesome and I am not. This is what

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David goes through. This is what we all go through

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whenever you have these moments with the Lord.

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You start thanking him. He's protected you. This

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is awesome. You praise him. Then you realize

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how humility comes in and overwhelms you and

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your life. Then after that, what do you do? You

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pray, right? You pray, Lord, I'm so sorry. I

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want to ask you for the, I want to. talk to you

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about this. I want to get personal with you about

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this. I want to cry out to you. That's verses

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8 through 10. And then verses 11 and 12, after

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the prayer is done, he just begins to proclaim

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the goodness of our God. He says, here's what

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you've done. You have turned my mourning into

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dancing. He becomes a preacher. That's what he

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does. He becomes one that's going to proclaim

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it and share it to everybody. This is a great

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psalm for a helpful pattern for all of us to

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be able to walk through and understand. If we

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start praising the Lord, it will end up turning

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into this place where we repent a little bit.

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We start saying, God, I'm sorry. I see areas

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in my life that didn't look like you, and I was

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dumb for doing them. I was dumb for thinking

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I had it all figured out. And then you begin

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to pray and just connect with him. Cry out to

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him. Let your voice be heard to him. And after

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your prayers are through, then you begin to proclaim

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it to everybody around you. My suggestion to

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you today, read the psalm a couple times. Maybe

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even try it yourself. Try to think, what has

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God been doing for you? Write down a couple of

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things he's done for you. And then write down

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some praises as you think about how great he

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is. And then a few things that maybe you've not

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allowed him to speak to in your life. A few things

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you've not aligned with in your life. And then

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just begin to pray about those things. Write

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down a little prayer. God, I'm sorry for not

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doing this. I'm crying out to you in this time

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of hurt because I'm humiliated right now because

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I'm not holy like you are and I've gone through

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these issues, gone through these things. And

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then you write a proclamation or a preaching

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point and you share with somebody. If you've

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got my phone number, put it in the comments below.

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However you want to send me the message. Say,

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here's what God has done for me. I want to share

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it. I want to shout it from the rooftops. And

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we'll see. I believe the more we do that, the

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more people understand how great this God is.

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That's the whole point. It's not getting your

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story. It's getting his story. It's not getting

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who you are. It's getting who he is. Let's tell

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everybody how great this God really is.