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Now I want to tell you that no matter what has happened to you,

you have got the edge today.

You know why? Because God is on your side.

If God be for me, who can be against me?

If God is on my side, whom shall I fear?

What is a wounded soul?

Well, first of all, I want to start by telling you a little story about me

and Albuquerque where we happened to be today.

56 years ago, I was abandoned by my first husband in this town,

in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I was sexually abused by my father for many years.

Always really felt like nobody would ever want me or love me.

And so the first young man that paid any attention to me,

I grabbed him up because I thought I'd never have anybody.

I knew down deep inside it wasn't right when I did it,

but desperate people do desperate things and desperate people do stupid things.

Amen?

So we got married. I was 18. I think he was 19.

And he was a used car salesman and back then they would pay people

to like if somebody here wanted a certain kind of car,

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