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Hey, I felt like something I was supposed to do today.

It's like we're pulling our car into the bay at the repair shop.

We're going to get a little tune-up.

Something that we have pretty good training and real good exposure we've been working on for a lot of years.

That's the concept of testimony and the prophetic nature of a testimony.

So to do this right, I've got to take you on just a little bit of a personal journey.

Oh, goodness, 30, I don't know, 38 years, something like that ago, I was pastoring in Weaverville. And I was in my office

and I was reading, praying, reading in the morning. I was going through the book of Revelation

and I came to this verse in Revelation 1910. It says, the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

And when I was reading through Revelation,

when I came to that verse, it's just one of those moments, you know, that you're having God

where it's kind of like, it's on neon lights. And something happened here that I can't explain.

I love learning here first because your heart can fit where your head can't fit. So it invites us into things that we have perception of here that we can't comprehend.

And it's a wonderful way to learn.

So anyway, I sense life on that verse.

And I actually stopped.

I stopped my reading.

I looked at that verse.

I said, God, there's something here.

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