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Welcome to the God's Goodness podcast, where our mission is to encourage as well as highlight

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God's goodness and modern-day miracles.

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We are your hosts, Josh and Shelley Hankins.

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Hi, everybody.

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He is here, but I wanted to start this podcast with where this idea came from.

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And I want to start with a little warning that this will not be the best podcast you've

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ever listened to, but I hope it meets you where you're at and may even bless you with

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insights that I've found.

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And maybe you've been wondering the same things or know someone this can bless.

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Now, I never had a verse of the year before, but this year is going along with Matthew

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7, 7, 8.

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And I like the new King James version best.

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It says, Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find.

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Ask and it will be open to you for everyone who asks, receives and he who seeks finds

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and to him who knocks, it will be opened.

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My favorite Bible verse has always been asking you shall receive, but this one is like really

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seeking and finding and everything I've been seeking for this year.

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I have been finding and one of my goals this year, it was all started with a desire to

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be in a better position in life next year and I knew that it would take small sustainable

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changes, but I didn't know what those would look like because I had no idea what direction

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to go.

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So I was open to finding out what I was looking for.

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And one of the blessings I have is the love of books.

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And there was this powerful one that I read a while ago or listened to and it was called

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the power of your subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy.

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I'm going to be mentioning a lot of books in this podcast and they've all been blessings

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to me and what I'll do is I will create a list of them that you can look up and then

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you don't like if you miss it in.

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If you're taking notes, you find something a fun nugget of information.

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I'll have it all together at the end.

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We should sell shirts that say fun nuggets.

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Fun nuggets.

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Oh, and the Godcast podcast from your dad.

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This is our Godcast podcast.

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Now, one of the things I was open to was now that one book, the power of your subconscious

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mind was recommended by this one guy on Tik Tok and I was looking for another one of his,

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but I didn't know how to look them up on Tik Tok.

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I was hoping that I would run across one of these videos and find another book suggestion

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and within days he had come across my Tik Tok feed and he recommended this book by Napoleon

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Hill called think and grow rich.

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I had never heard of it before.

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I don't think you ever heard of it before, did you?

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Some people have heard of this before.

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I've never heard of books.

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And Napoleon Hill was actually contracted by Dale Carnegie and for 20 years, Napoleon

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Hill interviewed a bunch of successful people and he found out like what they did to become

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successful.

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And so I learned all these principles that they implemented and one of the things was

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to create a specific direction, a goal so you can aim at your target and basically it

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said plan your work, work your plan like Mary Kay taught us back in the day and it teaches

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you all these reasons and how you can be successful.

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And I also at the same time was led to this mind power training with John Kehoe and he

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teaches you techniques like visualizing, acknowledging past successes so that you can

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create this level of like positive thoughts resonate at higher frequencies than negative

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thoughts.

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So he teaches you how to acknowledge those past successes and then you'll resonate at

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a higher frequency and then it'll lead to more successes.

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And another thing he taught was leading out the negatives and there's a lot more than

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that.

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But implementing those mind exercises daily, it led me to reaching goals.

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The first goal I had set out at the beginning of the year was to become a remote notary

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in Pennsylvania.

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I did that.

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The second one was graduating our freedom debt relief.

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We had, we've racked up some debt because for 27 months and one week we had no income.

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I was a stay at home mom.

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You were in the oil and gas industry.

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Which is feast or famine if you know anything about that.

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And he was laid off and you want to tell a little bit about that?

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I wasn't the only one.

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We went from fracking over a hundred wells in a year to policy set in place that causes

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to frack two wells in a year.

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And they laid off over 500,000 people.

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And that was one of them.

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And it wasn't bad at first because we had a little bit of money saved aside and we had

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unemployment and things were pretty good.

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It actually was a very good opportunity for me to draw closer to a God which will be discussed

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in another podcast.

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And it really was beneficial to us.

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But at some point all the extra savings and the unemployment ran out and we went well

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over a year with zero discernible income that we could use and say that this was something

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that we did.

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We had no part in surviving for over a year.

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This was 100% from God that we leaned into him.

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That we trusted that he would take care of us and that he considered the birds in the

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air and he considered the flowers and he dressed them and he fed them.

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And I think why wouldn't he do that for us?

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And it was a wonderful experience as we drew closer to God through that.

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And I'm very blessed to have experienced it.

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So that wrapped up the end of that chapter.

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And then the next thing I wanted to do for us was to do something different with our

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finances because what I was doing, it wasn't getting us anywhere.

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And one of the things that like this year, everything I'm searching for, I'm seeking.

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And my friend Jen O'Donnell, she is life coach, leadership coach.

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If you need her, she's on LinkedIn.

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You can find her, she's amazing.

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But she recommended seed time money a while back.

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And I didn't really look into it until I saw an inspiring interview with them on Focus

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on the Family.

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It was June 12th, if you want to look it up.

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And it was called Finding Financial Freedom Together as a Couple.

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And on their episode, they talked about their journey.

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They grew up in middle class families.

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They were never taught what to do with their money.

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They had a lot of debt and they decided they wanted to get out of debt.

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And they ended up paying off all their debt except their house.

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And then they had a plan to pay that off in like three to five years.

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But they were led to give more.

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And they had an offering like they would give to others like in various ways.

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Like if somebody needed money or the Lord led them to help somebody, they were just

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giving away money and they were able to pay off their mortgage in nine, I think it was

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nine months.

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And I was like, what are they doing differently that it worked?

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And so I looked up their courses and I went through their courses.

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They have money back guarantees that if you implement these principles, they're guaranteed

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to work.

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Now, what they do is they combine a little bit of Dave Ramsey, you know, whatever Dave

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Ramsey's called.

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And they take that snowball when you pay off the debt and use that snowball principle.

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They implement a little bit of Robert Kiyosaki's principles from Rich Dad Poor Dad.

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And they implement a little bit of Craig Hill's strategies.

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There's this one book I was led to also by Geno Donald and Craig Hill implements his

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one book is an audio book.

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It's amazing.

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It's called Five Wealth Secrets.

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96% of us don't know.

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And in it, it's about a book that has this little boy Isaac and he's 10 years old and

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he's getting an allowance for the first time.

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And you learn what he learns throughout this book and throughout his life.

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And he learns not to spend all his money from one pot and put your money in like five jars,

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you know, you have a little bit, you'd have tied, you invest, you have an offering, you

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have the savings and then 50% you have to spend.

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So with implementing all of those things, we have been able to pay off some things.

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And with that invest account, we've been able to pay for some of this podcast stuff.

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Not all of it is acquired yet.

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We're borrowing some microphones from my friend in the meantime, but these new principles

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are life changing.

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And we have the things in process.

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We just have to let them work themselves out.

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And the next thing I was led to wanting is I wanted to find out what I was good at and

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that I like to do and that I could possibly make more extra money doing.

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And the Lord led me to this idea.

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He planted the seed Sunday, July 9th.

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And believe it or not, I was voted most talkative in my high school class.

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And so he's like, why don't you talk God put this idea in my heart?

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Why don't you talk to others about me and my goodness and share it with the world?

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And so here we are leading, being led to all the right resources and having everything

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that we need.

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And that was basically the summary of that.

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And we have the next few episodes lined up.

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We also have a GiveSendGo account.

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You look up God's Goodness podcast in the GiveSendGo if you want to help us with any prayers or

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if you want to help contribute financially, we have that.

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And one thing I learned from that experience with no income of 27 months was accepting

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gifts from others.

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And I would be glad to accept your gift to help with this vision that God has in store

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for us and hopefully we can just build the momentum and get better and better.

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Now the next episode that I have lined up is, I know this went really quick, but the

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next episode is a little bit about our history.

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So we're going to talk about where we came from, Josh's background, it's a testimony

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in itself, my background, that's testimony in itself.

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And then there's going to be some episodes about our experiences, the lane of hands.

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And I was healed from a chronic illness and then my son was healed.

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So we just wanted to be able to share those with you.

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And then we'll have some actual interviews with others coming up so they can share their

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testimonies and get things moving.

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Yeah, I can't wait to talk, especially about the healing because that wasn't like, you

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were prayed over and then like four days later you were healed.

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It was immediate.

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You know, it was in that moment and it was very profound and I was there and it was hard

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to believe.

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And so I just can't wait to share that part.

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I've got a lot.

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In fact, all my good stories are about God.

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I don't have any wild stories as a kid.

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I know we wild stories in the military.

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Well, maybe like water too.

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But most of my stories, all the meaty good stuff that I know is from God's goodness.

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It's never ending content with our church and the people that God puts in our lives.

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And every time I hear an amazing story, I'm like, oh, that's so good.

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I can't wait to have them share that with everybody.

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So thank you so much, everybody for coming and joining us.

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And we hope to see you here.

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Well, we're not going to see you next time, but we hope these listen next time.