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When we acknowledge our brokenness, we're acknowledging a need for a healer, you know, where he's offering us this invitation.

I think sometimes we feel shame at all our sore spots when really we should see him saying,

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This is one of the most exciting parts of ministry is especially as a preacher or a speaker and

you give a message where you're calling people action and let's say people raise a

hand or they come for or what some kind of action you're like this is so exciting people want to change they're coming forward that's awesome and then the most frustrating part of ministry is they don't change. I think a week later a month

later same thing. We as people going up and saying like yes I want this to

happen I want God to change me maybe I've repented of sin and we think

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