Do you understand that we have all over the world every conceivable shade of skin color,

every conceivable that are our brothers and sisters,

10,000 of different accents that your brothers and sisters have?

Thousands and thousands of different outright languages,

many different customs.

These are our brothers and sisters.

One of the things that has been very beneficial to me in my walk, because I do come from a background of defeat, is that one of the things that would get to me is that I could not imagine, particularly early in my walk to freedom, I could not imagine

that I would still be free of certain addictions and of certain things in a year.

It was overwhelming to me.

I just couldn't picture it.

It almost made me feel like I should quit before I even got started.

I wonder if anybody can relate with what I'm saying because I thought I'm going to fall back

into it.

I always have and this is going to be my pattern.

This is going to happen again.

And it felt so defeated because I thought it's just a matter of time anyway.

And so somebody in here knows exactly what I'm talking about.

I cannot begin to tell you what a help it was to me early on when God began to really

press into me.

I'm going to put into words what wasn't in words.

But it was something that just came with such clarity to my understanding.

I felt like God was saying something like this to me. Okay, but could you get

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