(290) “From Faith to Faith, Glory to Glory, Miracle to Miracle” with Teri Maher

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So the ambulance people come in. She had set

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up. She said, I don't want to go in the ambulance.

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I'm okay. And I said, no, you go. You go and

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get checked out and, you know, give us a call.

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She goes with the ambulance, goes to the hospital.

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Every illness that she had was healed. Glory

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to God. Her heart was healed. Dysphagia was healed.

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Glory to God. And her life changed. God promises

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in Joel 2 .28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend

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for that promise outpouring, we equip for that

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outpouring, so that we may engage in that very

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outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss.

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Welcome to the podcast today. We're so glad that

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you're with us. We have with us a lady that's

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becoming a good friend and she's here with us

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in Jerusalem. We're actually recording here in

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Jerusalem and we're excited to be here. And Terri

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Mayer has joined us on this excursion in Israel

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and she has told us some of her testimonies of

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how the Holy Spirit brought her from a totally

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unchurched childhood into the things of God where

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God is using her in a powerful way. We want to

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encourage you, listener, that you can gain some

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faith from her testimony. Thanks so much for

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joining us today. We're so glad that you're with

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us. And we're looking forward to this opportunity

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to reach into your life with this podcast and

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bring you something that is going to build you

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up in your faith, to build you up, to equip you

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for the outpouring, because God is using Terry

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in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in her town.

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And we want to encourage you that you can be

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used by God wherever you are in your circumstances.

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Share it with somebody that you know that's hungry

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for God. So Terry, this is our first time together.

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We haven't met you before this trip and you're

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here with us with Dean Braxton and we are seeing

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things. The reason why we're here and we're going

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to do a podcast with Dean soon here. Because

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of his experience in heaven, where he was outside

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of his body for an hour and 45 minutes, he saw

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things in heaven. He went to be with the Father

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and Jesus in heaven. And he saw things there

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that he said that he knew that the Jewish people

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would understand. And he wanted to come here

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and see things and hear things and learn things,

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not because of... the reason most of us want

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to come to Israel, you know, because the Bible

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comes alive for sure. But the things that he

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saw in heaven are starting to make sense to him.

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And so we're looking forward to the opportunity

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to interview him. But in the meantime, we've

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met you and you came with his team and you're

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one of the intercessors and really you're a pastor,

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you're an apostle. So we just welcome you onto

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the Global Outpouring Podcast. I am honored to

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be here, Sharon, and it's great getting to know

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you. It's always nice to meet brothers and sisters

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in the Lord. Amen. Amen. That's for sure. So

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you were telling us stories at the breakfast

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table the other day about your walk of faith

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and how you got started. Tell us about what was

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your childhood like? Were you raised in the church?

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What was your experience as a child? My parents

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divorced when I was young. So I had a stepfather.

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I was raised with a stepfather and a mother.

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As the children, my mother and my stepfather

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went to church, which is very interesting. They

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had this idea that when I got older, I could

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make my own decision where I would go to church.

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And so I went to church with friends, special

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traditional church events and things like that.

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So basically I was... unchurched until i was

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a teenager okay and i was never really belonged

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to any church i i would say my family my immediate

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family had a casual knowledge of god but i certainly

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had no relationship and i had no understanding

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or insights of god okay then what happened like

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you became an adult and well i until the age

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of 42 i married and divorced Oh, my goodness.

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And how many times? I'm married for the sixth

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time. So I was divorced five times. Wow. In and

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out of marriages. And I was trying to find my

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way in life the only way I knew how. I had a

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very good mother. Mom worked hard to take care

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of us. But she also didn't have that real submitted

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relationship with the Lord. Yeah. But she did

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the best she could do with us children. And so

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we went just trying to do life on our own, you

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know. So say I was lost, you know. I was lost.

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And we're just trying to live in the world. Trying

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to stay ahead. Just trying to survive. Trying

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to be somebody. Trying to be somebody. Who am

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I going to be? Yeah, so 42 years. I had different

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careers also. I was a hairdresser. I was a nurse.

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Wow. Jack of all trades, master of none is what

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I say. I was just trying to survive and be successful

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on my own. Okay. And you had children. I have

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six daughters. I'm married, very happily married,

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blessed. The marriage is blessed of the Lord.

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My husband and I both love the Lord and walk

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in his ways now and raise our children that way.

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When I got saved, three children were at home

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and three had left. Wow. And I can tell you as

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a mother, when I read the Bible, how guilty I

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felt when I learned in the word that we are responsible

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for our children, you know, to know the word

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and to teach it to our children. And I felt very

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guilty. But the Lord restored that too. He's

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so good. He is so faithful. So what did Tom say

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about being your sixth husband? Yes, I was telling,

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sharing with you that he told me he was the...

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curse stopper on divorce. Isn't that great? The

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curse stopper. I love that. Stop this thing.

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But you must have been a believer by the time

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you met him. A baby Christian. A baby Christian.

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Yeah. He went to church all his life, believed

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there was a God, but he had not really submitted

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his life to the Lord. Okay. And I had joined

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a church when I met him and I was learning. I

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was just a baby Christian. I was reading the

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word. I'd been reading the word for about a year

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before I met him. And he went to church. So at

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that time, to me, that was, you know, that was

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a Christian. And we got together and I started

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reading the Bible. When I started reading the

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Bible and believing the Bible and then reading

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the word and doing the word, when I applied it,

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things started to change at that point in my

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life. Things started to get transformed. Okay.

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And then what happened? So three of my children

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had left home, three were still there, and they

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were watching what I was doing, which has impacted

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their lives. Sure. So at home, I started reading

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the Word, and I just decided to believe that

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it was true. Yeah, because it is. You know, I've

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learned that faith really is a... decision that

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God's word is true. You make a decision. It's

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the best decision I've ever made in my life is

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to decide that God's word is true. And I started

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to apply it to my life in my home. What I was

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learning, I was so excited about what I was learning

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that I would start sharing it everywhere I went.

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I'd be so excited about, I was reading in the

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word, it was giving me hope and encouragement.

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And I was like, the Lord says, you know, I'm

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blessed of him. And, you know, there's benefits.

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And so I started, I got hungry for everything

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that he would want me to have. And so I started

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studying and reading and praying. So I did that

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for about three years. Because right before I

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did that, I was feeling like a failure, unloved.

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I had gone to church for four or five years with

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my husband. Nothing was changing. In the way

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of feeling love or peace and joy, I was thinking

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I've gone to church all these years. Why aren't

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I changing? And living 42 years without knowing

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who you are in Christ, I had come to a place

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in my life where I even thought about suicide.

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Because everything in my life was deteriorating.

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It was going downhill. to a point where I couldn't

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pay my bills. I couldn't take care of the children

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with their clothing. Everything that I needed,

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it was getting harder and harder. So I cried

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out to God at home. I started asking the Lord.

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I said, God, one day I was crying on the kitchen

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floor on my knees. I was crying out to God. I

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said, God, if you're real, I need to know because...

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I don't think I'm good for anyone. I don't think

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I'm good for my children. I don't know how to

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help my husband. I don't know how to, you know,

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I just, I don't know what to do. I'm tired of

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living like this. I had really gotten to a place

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where I was sick and tired of being sick and

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tired. And so when I called out to the Lord for

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help, I experienced his presence. He showed up

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in my kitchen and there was an awareness. of

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his presence, a love that I had never felt in

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my life. I knew in that moment that he was real

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and I was going to be okay. Wow. And so I got

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up and I went over to this book I was reading.

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And in the book, it said, submission into a relationship.

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Being submitted to the Lord is through a relationship.

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with Jesus. And so I started diving into that.

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And I found out that when I submitted to the

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Father and Jesus and learned to trust Him, no

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matter what's going on, things started to change.

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So I was going to a church at the time. As I

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started sharing with the people around me in

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church, They wanted to know more. Where'd you

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get that? So that developed into a Bible study

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in my home. Wow. And it was mainly family and

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a few friends. And they were coming. And so then

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that was growing. And so I took it to my church

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and I said, I'd like to help out here in the

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church, have a women's Bible study. And it was

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a traditional church. And they said, no, I couldn't

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do that. So I kept it in my head. But you already

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were doing it, right? I was doing it anyway.

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People in the church were following me to my

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car and asking me questions because they were

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seeing my life change. Wow. They were seeing

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a whole different person, the way I talked. And,

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you know, my reputation was turning around. People

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are just seeing. a different person. They were

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asking me questions. So a few years later, my

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husband and I left that church, not because of

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them, but because the Lord, I had dreams and

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visions. The more I read the Bible and applied

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it to my life, I came into hearing from God.

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I heard him. He talked to me through the word,

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through dreams and visions. And so one thing

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led to another. I was a hairdresser at the time.

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And I had a dream of a Christian bookstore. Oh,

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this is good. This is good. I'm loving this story.

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I've seen shelves with Bibles on them. And I

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was like, what? You know, I'm cutting hair. And

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in my salon, it was turning into because. As

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a hairdresser, when women are in your chair,

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they get relaxed. They start telling you their

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problems. It's true. I was taking them all to

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the Word of God. Good for you. You were pastoring

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in your salon. I was. Yes. And people, I believe

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they started feeling beautiful on the inside.

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Glory to God. Oh, yes. And so my salon actually

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turned into a Bible study. Beautiful. The people's

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hair that I would do, they started coming and

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we would. We would have Bible studies. And so

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I have this vision of books. And I told my husband,

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I told him, I said, I believe we're supposed

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to open up a Christian bookstore. And at the

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time, he was a very new believer. And I said,

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I want to buy a building. I had rented all my

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life, my career. I had rented and it was like

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the Lord was showing me that I could own. And

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if I owned all those years I'd rented. Yeah.

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So he was financially teaching me. He was teaching

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me in every area of my life. And I started applying

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it. So I have this dream. I tell my husband about

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it. He said, I'm not supporting this. And I said,

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well, honey, how about if we pray together? And

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if I get the loan, if I go to the bank, get the

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loan for this building and this Christian bookstore.

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He said, yes, if you get it, but you can't get

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it without my signature because of your reputation

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and your financial. I was $40 ,000 in debt when

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I came to know the Lord. Oh, my. Yes. But he

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had already gotten me out of that debt at this

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time. Wow. The Lord had showed me a way and all

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that. I don't owe no man anything. Glory to God.

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Praise the Lord. He restores finances, everything.

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So I told my husband, I'm going to the bank.

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I went to the bank, and I told the banker that

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I'd had this vision. God sent me in here, and

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I felt like I was going to hyperventilate. But

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I was just doing what I believed the Lord was

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leading me to do. I went ahead and thought to

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myself, well, he says no. The banker will say

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no. I was even doubting, and God still worked

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with me. So I was like, it'll be over. I'll go

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in. I'll just do it. Because I had this urgency

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that this is what the Lord wanted me to do. And

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so I go in, and I'm sitting across from the banker,

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and I tell him I just blamed it on God. I said,

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I'm here because the Lord has sent me, and this

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is what I'm wanting to do. And he said, well,

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Terry, if God told you to do this, then who am

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I to say no to God? Wow. And I was really shocked

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myself. Yeah, I'm sure. You know, because I hadn't

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seen amazing things yet. I had seen some, seen

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some, but seeing how good he is and how much

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he loves us and what he wants to do with us.

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I hadn't come into that yet. I was coming into

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some of it. So I went outside to the bank. I

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got to take a minute, went out. I felt like I

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was going to hyperventilate, got some air, prayed

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some more, went back in. And the banker filled

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out all the paperwork for me. He made it really

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easy for me, gave me the loan that I needed to

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get started. And I went home and I waited till

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my husband was in bed because I'm like, oh, I've

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got to tell him I've got this loan. How's he

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going to react? So I couldn't sleep. I had to

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tell him. Because we didn't keep secrets from

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each other. You know, we were really close. I

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shook him, and at 2 in the morning, I woke him

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up. At 2 in the morning? I said, I've got something

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to tell you. And he's like, what, what? You know,

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he's half asleep. And I said, no, we really got

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to talk about it. At 2 o 'clock in the morning?

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I can tell he just wants me to leave him alone.

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Sure. But I said. Hey, Tom, I went to the bank

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today. Okay. And I said, yes. And I got the loan

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and I am opening up that Christian bookstore.

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And he sat straight up in bed and really serious.

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He said, there is a God. I love it. If you could

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get a loan on your own. You see, the Lord was

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with me. I wasn't getting it alone. Yeah. I was

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trusting him. The banker really was giving God

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the loan. Yes. He really was. Yes, he was. Because

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he was going on the fact that you heard from

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God. Yes, he was. He was. And so we got that,

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and I opened up that bookstore. And when I put

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the key in the door to walk in, the next -door

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neighbor, because it's downtown in a historic

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area, the neighbor met me. And he said, Christians

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don't belong on this block. So I knew I was in

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the right place. So it was downtown Hannibal,

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Missouri, in a historic district where people

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from all over the world traveled to see Mark

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Twain, to tour Mark Twain things. And that's

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where my ministry started, right there. church

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in the marketplace in that building. For 10 years,

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I learned how to stand in faith in there. All

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kinds of people, the workers, anyone we hired,

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we ministered to. God used that place. The people

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that were coming out of jail, they had to be

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on probation and they had to go work somewhere.

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Well, they all came to me. They came in there.

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I had a large stack of papers of how many people

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came in there, and they gave their hearts to

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the Lord. They came in there, and they would

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work for us. We'd teach them to pray, teach them

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to budget, get them to church. We started church

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right there, right there in that building. We

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had eight the first service, and it just kept

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doubling each time. We did that for 10 years.

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And then the Lord gave me a vision, another one.

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And it was a church building. And a lady come

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to see me one Sunday. We were having church right

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there in the marketplace. And here comes two

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ladies from a church. They had gotten down to

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like eight people. Eight people in their church.

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And they were going to close the doors. But she

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had a word from the Lord. And she didn't know

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me. The Lord told her to come get me. Said my

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name. She's like. I don't know her, and she's

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not a pastor that I know of in the area. So they

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come busting in our service at the very end and

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told me what they'd heard, and I'd seen a vision

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of a church, and it was that building. Wow, look

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at that. Yeah. So then we had church there for

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three years, and it just keeps going, keeps going.

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I'd get comfortable in one thing, and then the

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next thing I know, I'm the Lord's. bringing me

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somewhere else. Right. So those people downtown

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that we worked with, some of their family members

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were in jail. Oh, wow. So I'd go visit them in

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jail and lead people to the Lord there. End up

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in jail ministry and prison ministry. You name

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it. People would come in there for food and we

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would give them spiritual food. People would

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come in and go, like we have this one lady say,

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I have a stomach issue. I haven't been able to

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eat. I don't know what I can order. And so we

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prayed for her stomach. And so I said, now order

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something that you haven't been able to eat.

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Wow. She did. She ate. She was fine. She came

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back later. Glory to God. Giving us testimony.

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So we got a lot. We got 10 years of testimonies.

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Wow. In that building. Basically just started

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reading the word and believing that it was true.

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And then I just started acting in the word. Yeah.

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And so I saw that work. And so then decided to

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get a house then. Oh, yeah. Tell that story.

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I can get a house on faith. Because you were

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renting the house. No, we owned it. Oh, you owned

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it. Okay. But it wasn't much. Oh, that's right.

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I remember you telling that. It wasn't much.

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It needed a lot of work. And my husband at the

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time in his business really didn't have extra

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to do anything really with it. And I wanted everything

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that I had. To give God the glory, to give God

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glory. Yeah, because you were taking people into

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your home. Taking people in my home, having even

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people, missionaries, evangelists, people were

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coming to stay in my home and speak in my church.

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And I just wanted to provide a nice place for

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them. And so I started praying. And, you know,

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the scripture that says, if you don't ask. Right.

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Right. You don't have. So I asked and I believe.

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that it was going to be mine. And I, so I started,

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I just went and got some boxes, came home, started

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packing everything. Then my husband, again, he's

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like, now what are you doing? He said, life with

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me is not boring. I'm always standing in faith

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for the next thing. And I believe that's why

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I am where I am today. Absolutely. Yeah. I just

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kept going. You don't want to quit. You want

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to have fresh testimonies. Right. Yeah, the testimony

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of what happened 10 years ago isn't the same

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as what happened last week. That's right. We

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should go from faith to faith and glory to glory.

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Absolutely. And so I saw that in my life. Yeah.

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So to get the house, I just went and bought boxes,

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as many as I could find, and started packing

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everything. Then my husband comes home, and everything's

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in boxes, and he's like, what are you doing?

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What's going on? I said, we're moving. Oh, we

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are? Where are we going? I said, I don't know

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yet, but we need to pray. And he said, I'm not

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moving. I said, OK, how about we agree to disagree?

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Let's pray. And if the Lord shows us something,

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would you move then? He's like, oh, yeah, if

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he shows us. So together we went in prayer and

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we prayed and it wasn't long. Sure enough, my

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husband had had to dream this time. Oh, I love

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it. He had the dream. And he said, I know where

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that house is. He saw the house in the dream.

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He didn't even know if it was for sale or not.

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Wow. And so he called some people that owned

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it. And yes, they were putting it up. It's going

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to be in an auction. Auction. Yeah. So before

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the auction, my husband and I went, prayed over

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the property. And at that time, you know, there

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just wasn't extra money. We were making it okay,

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just not extra to go buy a house. And I said,

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well, he said, what are we going to do for money?

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I said, well, you know, the bank of heaven is

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ours. I love it. You can take the word of God

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to the bank. I love that. That's right. Yeah.

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So anyway, my husband and I went to this auction.

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And before we went, he said. OK, we need a number.

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We need a number to know what to bid on this

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house. So the Lord does. We'll give us details.

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He'll give us instructions. He'll show us right

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every step of the way. Yes. And my husband heard

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a number and I did, too. We both wrote it down

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on paper and it was the same number. Don't you

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love it? So we go to the option. We bid. We get

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close to that number. And he looks at me and

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he says, now what? And I just was aware of the

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Holy Spirit. You know, Sharon, you're aware of

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the Holy Spirit's with you. And I felt like we

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were supposed to bid one more time. I told my

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husband, I said, bid one more time because we

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were really close to that. And I was like, $500

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within that number. And I said, one more time.

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He said, really loud with the real estate there

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and my family watching. He said, you better be

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hearing from God. And so he bid one more time.

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We bought the property. You got it. We got it.

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We ran into the house and we were looking at

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it. My mom is there. Wasn't that part of the

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dream? Yeah. My husband saw my family there jumping

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up and down. So happy for me. Yeah. Because my

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family, they did okay. But I was the one in the

00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:49.299
family that had the least. Wow. Had the least.

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If you're going to talk about possessions, you

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know, I had the least. But they also had been

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watching you, right? Yes. Yes. They've been watching

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me now for several years, stand in faith. And

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yeah, they were watching me. And a lot of it,

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they weren't really believing. They were having

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a hard time with, but they were seeing God bless

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our life. And so they were there and they were

00:27:13.410 --> 00:27:15.690
watching because all along I was telling them

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and I looked crazy to them, packing up my house.

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Yeah. And so they were there and they were so

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excited. They were jumping up and down that I

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had gotten a nice home and they were running

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in and looking at and I was with them and we're

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looking and my mom comes up to me and she said,

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Terry, you need to go check on your husband.

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And I said, what's the matter? He's out there

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under a tree. He looks like maybe he's passed

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out. You better go check on him. I go out there

00:27:48.069 --> 00:27:50.250
and I said, what are you doing? He's like, we

00:27:50.250 --> 00:27:54.630
just bought a house. We bought it on faith. And

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I said, yes. And he's like, well, how are we

00:27:56.930 --> 00:27:59.430
going to pay for it? I said, we're going to keep

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praying. We're going to keep praying until we

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close. And two weeks before the closing, we received

00:28:06.609 --> 00:28:10.960
a check in the mail. On an old, like several

00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:14.319
years before this, my husband was in a truck

00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:17.480
accident. And so we got a check from the insurance

00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:19.960
company that he had no idea he was going to get.

00:28:20.180 --> 00:28:22.779
Wow. And it was enough to pay for the house.

00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:26.400
The whole house? Yeah, it was all paid. Wow.

00:28:26.460 --> 00:28:29.039
At the closing. At the closing. At the closing.

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And enough left over to pay for some furniture.

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Glory to God. Yes. Yes. So, you know, I've seen

00:28:38.740 --> 00:28:42.339
the Lord do magnificent things in my life. Right.

00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:46.599
And that all came from reading his words, submitting

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my life to the Father and Jesus and believing

00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:52.319
that his word is true. Yes. And acting on it.

00:28:52.819 --> 00:28:55.380
You know, we can't just say out of our mouth

00:28:55.380 --> 00:28:57.539
we believe the word. We have to believe it in

00:28:57.539 --> 00:29:00.339
our heart. Right. And put some action to it.

00:29:01.299 --> 00:29:05.349
And so it's just been. One story after that,

00:29:05.470 --> 00:29:08.789
I received a house because I went into the jails

00:29:08.789 --> 00:29:12.269
and ministered to women. I opened up a house

00:29:12.269 --> 00:29:15.650
for women, a rehab center to teach them the word,

00:29:15.750 --> 00:29:19.549
teach them how to walk in the word. And a house

00:29:19.549 --> 00:29:22.630
was given to us. Wow. The house was just handed

00:29:22.630 --> 00:29:27.950
to me. So as you know, we walk along and if you're

00:29:27.950 --> 00:29:29.930
faithful in little things, the Lord says he'll

00:29:29.930 --> 00:29:33.690
give you. Greater things. Glory to God. So I've

00:29:33.690 --> 00:29:38.029
seen that in my life. I've even witnessed raising

00:29:38.029 --> 00:29:42.109
the dead. Tell us that one. Is it one? Is it

00:29:42.109 --> 00:29:48.950
many? No. Let's see. Many near death, getting

00:29:48.950 --> 00:29:52.549
up off their deathbed and living. But this one

00:29:52.549 --> 00:29:56.869
occasion, there's two from our ministry. So one

00:29:56.869 --> 00:29:59.470
day we're in the Christian bookstore and restaurant.

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And a lady is sitting in a chair. She's a greeter

00:30:04.390 --> 00:30:07.670
because we took people that were sick and they

00:30:07.670 --> 00:30:10.250
couldn't hardly work, and we would help them

00:30:10.250 --> 00:30:13.009
understand God's healing and work towards that.

00:30:13.490 --> 00:30:15.910
So this one lady, there really wasn't anything

00:30:15.910 --> 00:30:19.230
in the business she could do. So we just sat

00:30:19.230 --> 00:30:21.710
her in a chair by the front door, and she greeted

00:30:21.710 --> 00:30:26.589
people. She gave in. But I was in the back in

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the office, and one of our workers ran to get

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me. And she had fallen off the chair and died.

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Oh, my. She had had a heart attack or a stroke

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or something. And she was laying on the floor.

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It was lunchtime. The place was full. Oh, no.

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Yes. There was a doctor's wife at lunch. She

00:30:45.769 --> 00:30:49.049
came over, and I just scooted her out of the

00:30:49.049 --> 00:30:53.359
way. to her. My daughter's a nurse. She was on

00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:57.380
her knees and said, Mom, she had taken her pulse.

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There was none. She said, Mom, she's gone. I

00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:05.339
said to her, where's your faith? And so this

00:31:05.339 --> 00:31:09.180
is what I said. I said her name and I said, get

00:31:09.180 --> 00:31:14.720
up. I said, say Jesus. Well, when I did that,

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the lady sat up and she said, I'm hungry. Wow.

00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:26.099
Well, you know what I said? It works. That's

00:31:26.099 --> 00:31:29.859
the first time I've seen that. And I was like,

00:31:29.940 --> 00:31:35.240
I was, wow. So when she came to us, she had a

00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:38.559
heart condition. She had dysphagia, which is

00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:41.559
difficulty swallowing. Every time she tried to

00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:43.839
eat, and we would all eat together, whoever's

00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:47.059
working there that day, she would choke. She

00:31:47.059 --> 00:31:50.809
could hardly. It was hard to sit around her really

00:31:50.809 --> 00:31:55.150
when she ate. And so someone had called the ambulance,

00:31:55.369 --> 00:31:59.589
probably the doctor's wife. Probably. So the

00:31:59.589 --> 00:32:02.049
ambulance people come in. She had set up. She

00:32:02.049 --> 00:32:04.049
said, I don't want to go in the ambulance. I'm

00:32:04.049 --> 00:32:09.069
okay. And I said, no, you go. You go and get

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checked out. And, you know, give us a call. She

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goes with the ambulance, goes to the hospital.

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Every illness that she had was healed. Glory

00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:21.740
to God. Her heart was healed. Dysphagia was healed.

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Glory to God. And her life changed. She started

00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:30.160
coming to church, singing in the praise and worship.

00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:35.779
Wow. So, you know, I've seen things just from

00:32:35.779 --> 00:32:39.160
faith to faith, glory to glory. That's so beautiful.

00:32:39.809 --> 00:32:44.069
Wow. I love what the Lord does. He's so faithful.

00:32:44.069 --> 00:32:48.390
He is. If we would just be faithful, you know,

00:32:48.390 --> 00:32:52.710
we would trust him. Yeah. And for me, that's

00:32:52.710 --> 00:32:56.910
a big, big one in my life is learning to trust,

00:32:57.029 --> 00:33:00.369
applying trust. Yeah. Well, when you consider

00:33:00.369 --> 00:33:03.750
that he lives inside of you and you live inside

00:33:03.750 --> 00:33:07.450
of him, it's like you're sandwiched inside of

00:33:07.450 --> 00:33:13.160
him. Amen. And he is the one that has it written

00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:16.259
on his thigh, faithful and true. Amen. Amen.

00:33:16.380 --> 00:33:19.779
So if the faithful and true one lives inside

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of us, then he enables us to be faithful and

00:33:23.900 --> 00:33:26.539
true. That's true. You just need his spirit.

00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:30.160
Yeah. It's his spirit that will do it in us.

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And, you know, it's really no glory to us. None.

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When we simply, because all we're doing is. Getting

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into agreement with him. That's right. Yes, Sharon.

00:33:42.309 --> 00:33:46.130
I like to tell people, you know, when we said

00:33:46.130 --> 00:33:50.990
yes to the Lord, he moved in with himself. Yes.

00:33:50.990 --> 00:33:54.049
His presence, his gifts, and his power. Yes.

00:33:54.390 --> 00:33:58.009
And as Christians, we need to understand what

00:33:58.009 --> 00:34:01.250
we have. Right. What we have, what we can move

00:34:01.250 --> 00:34:05.650
in. Right. Absolutely. So have you written some

00:34:05.650 --> 00:34:09.019
books? I have. I have two books. Okay. Tell us

00:34:09.019 --> 00:34:13.179
about them. Okay. The first one is Saved by Grace,

00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:16.579
Established in Faith. And I asked in the beginning

00:34:16.579 --> 00:34:19.539
of my walk with Jesus, the Father and Jesus,

00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:24.579
I asked 20 questions. Okay. This is good. So

00:34:24.579 --> 00:34:28.519
I think there's 20 chapters and each is a question

00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:33.010
and the answer that I got. Wow. I think the first

00:34:33.010 --> 00:34:35.889
question I asked was, why did it take me so long

00:34:35.889 --> 00:34:40.050
to get to know you? Because I was 42 when I got

00:34:40.050 --> 00:34:43.730
saved. So I always say to people, it doesn't

00:34:43.730 --> 00:34:47.690
matter how you start. It's how you finish. So

00:34:47.690 --> 00:34:51.710
I asked the Lord questions like, how can I know

00:34:51.710 --> 00:34:55.309
I'm saved? How can I know for sure? Questions

00:34:55.309 --> 00:34:59.760
like that. Usually I have my books with me. The

00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:03.900
second one is Loved by God, Healed in Truth.

00:35:04.300 --> 00:35:09.260
Good. So both books are really testimonies of

00:35:09.260 --> 00:35:13.139
me learning to hear the Lord's answers when I

00:35:13.139 --> 00:35:16.820
asked him questions and then how he changed the

00:35:16.820 --> 00:35:20.139
situation in my life. Oh, that's good. Both books

00:35:20.139 --> 00:35:23.960
are full of testimonies of growing up in the

00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:26.710
Lord, growing up in Jesus Christ. Beautiful.

00:35:26.909 --> 00:35:31.170
Beautiful. So you're still pastoring? I'm pastoring,

00:35:31.190 --> 00:35:35.630
and I've been doing some traveling in the United

00:35:35.630 --> 00:35:39.610
States first, locally. It's like it started in

00:35:39.610 --> 00:35:43.429
my kitchen. Beautiful. And then it went outside.

00:35:44.550 --> 00:35:48.769
It went to downtown, and then it went into the

00:35:48.769 --> 00:35:52.550
jail, went into the hospitals, went into traveling

00:35:52.550 --> 00:35:56.070
in the States, and now international. Been to

00:35:56.070 --> 00:35:58.869
Peru twice in Finland, getting ready to go for

00:35:58.869 --> 00:36:01.889
the third time. And I got to come to beautiful

00:36:01.889 --> 00:36:06.809
Israel. Amen. Amen. I don't know, listener, if

00:36:06.809 --> 00:36:09.230
you can hear the traffic noises that we're hearing

00:36:09.230 --> 00:36:12.309
and the motorcycles and all those things. I hope

00:36:12.309 --> 00:36:14.869
they don't disturb you too much, but we're hearing

00:36:14.869 --> 00:36:17.510
it. We don't exactly have our podcast studio,

00:36:17.650 --> 00:36:20.889
but we have some equipment and we're recording

00:36:20.889 --> 00:36:25.730
this way because we wanted to be able to. bring

00:36:25.730 --> 00:36:31.449
some live activity from this trip and be able

00:36:31.449 --> 00:36:35.130
to say, hey, we are in Israel. It's taken us

00:36:35.130 --> 00:36:37.230
six and a half years to get here. We were going

00:36:37.230 --> 00:36:40.869
twice a year and sometimes more. But anyway,

00:36:41.010 --> 00:36:44.469
Terry, it's been such a pleasure to begin to

00:36:44.469 --> 00:36:47.150
get to know you. And I'm excited about your books.

00:36:47.349 --> 00:36:50.289
How can people get your books? They're on Amazon.

00:36:50.809 --> 00:36:55.769
Okay. Yeah. And your name is spelled T -E -R

00:36:55.769 --> 00:36:59.250
-I -M -A -H -E -R. Correct. So that'll be in

00:36:59.250 --> 00:37:02.730
the show notes also. And what is the name of

00:37:02.730 --> 00:37:06.469
your church? True Church. True Church. Well,

00:37:06.690 --> 00:37:08.829
you know, it's about the spirit of truth. And

00:37:08.829 --> 00:37:11.630
I heard the Lord say that. Give me the name,

00:37:11.730 --> 00:37:14.750
True. Beautiful. So True Church. Yeah, the truth

00:37:14.750 --> 00:37:16.869
sets you free. That's what happened in my life,

00:37:16.949 --> 00:37:20.300
and it can happen in anyone's life. Amen. Anyone

00:37:20.300 --> 00:37:22.039
who calls on the name of the Lord, they shall

00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:25.460
be saved. Beautiful. Beautiful. So do you have

00:37:25.460 --> 00:37:29.139
a website? I do. We will put that in the show

00:37:29.139 --> 00:37:31.800
notes. Okay. So the people can click on that

00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:35.260
from the description of this podcast, of this

00:37:35.260 --> 00:37:40.239
episode. And so would you just close us out in

00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:43.199
prayer? Pray for the listeners to have, well,

00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:45.019
just pray according to the Holy Spirit. I will.

00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:47.719
Sure will. Be glad to. Thank you for having me.

00:37:48.079 --> 00:37:50.980
We're so glad. Father, in the name of Jesus,

00:37:51.099 --> 00:37:54.719
Holy Ghost, Father, I petition you for every

00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:59.460
person who's listening today, every heart that

00:37:59.460 --> 00:38:04.039
needs healed, that needs encouraged, Lord, that

00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:07.539
they would hear something that would help in

00:38:07.539 --> 00:38:10.219
their struggle, in their circumstance, in their

00:38:10.219 --> 00:38:13.739
situation. Lord, because anyone who calls on

00:38:13.739 --> 00:38:18.349
you for help, you help. And I thank you, Lord,

00:38:18.409 --> 00:38:21.769
that their eyes, their ears, their hearts are

00:38:21.769 --> 00:38:26.309
opening up to hear your will for their life.

00:38:26.929 --> 00:38:32.289
Lord, give us all a desire to continue to have

00:38:32.289 --> 00:38:36.769
a love, a holy love, a holy love for your will.

00:38:37.150 --> 00:38:41.869
Your will is the best way to live. That's really

00:38:41.869 --> 00:38:45.110
living. You really start living. When we develop

00:38:45.110 --> 00:38:47.869
a holy love for your will in our lives. So, Father,

00:38:47.949 --> 00:38:51.190
I thank you and I praise you for your love and

00:38:51.190 --> 00:38:55.489
your light and for life touching every person

00:38:55.489 --> 00:39:00.050
who listened today. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.

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