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Well, today is actually our first week of a continuation of a year-long series.

This year was called the Year of Awakening, and we honestly named it before we knew what was actually going to happen.

So somehow it all ties in and retroactively we'll be able to look backwards and go, oh, that's what was going down.

But you can't

argue, you can't debate the fact that this had definitely been a year of awakening on so many,

so many levels. And sometimes in places we really didn't want to be awakened, but we have been.

But what we did this year, we had three key word that we were working with. We had God of revival, we had God of transformation, and we had God of reformation.

And I want to set the framework again just to remind us, because those words are honestly

interchangeable.

You can use them in different ways.

And there's not a doctrine on it as much as this is just a framework we're working with of this idea.

Now, the idea of revival is simply put this way.

What was dead is now alive of again.

It's something that was dead and had been made alive again, whether it's your marriage, your spirit, your family, your business.

This revival hits you.

It's very personal.

It's very intimate.

And I know many of us that are listening right now, you've been touched by God and you can legitimately say, I have had a revival.

God touched me and I were dead and now I'm alive again. And perhaps there's people that are listening

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