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Hi, I'm Leanne Friesman, and this is Restoring Word.

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Wow, it's dark out there, but do you know God is the God of hope?

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He is the God who will see us all through when we seek Him and we seek His face.

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He's faithful.

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I've been studying the book of Jeremiah and studying the prophet, getting ready to start

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my Bible study back up again Thursday night, and there's so many things within this gem

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of a book that I really love.

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And it really coincides with an awesome Instagram channel that I want to encourage you to follow.

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It's called My Beautiful Land of Israel.

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I want you to go and I want you to just scroll through that content, and here's what I see.

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Here is this nation of Israel, these Jewish people who are in shock, they're grieving.

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They're not just grieving what happened October 7th.

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They're really having to come to terms with what's happening worldwide.

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The anti-Semitism is exploding worldwide.

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They fight, they have to deal with all the issues that are going around about them, and

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then they have to open their phone and see all of the protests that are happening against

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the Jewish people worldwide.

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And my heart hurts for them.

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And yet when I look at this YouTube channel, I see a people that have made the decision

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that they're going to live large in the middle of the mess.

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They're going to love deeply.

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They're going to live in the moment.

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They're going to celebrate in the storm.

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There's a couple things in here that have just hit me hard, like the soldiers praying

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before they go, dedicating their child through FaceTime, you know, the baby is going through

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that 8th day circumcision, and all the IDF join in and pray with the dad, or the beautiful

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proposals in Army Green.

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I don't know about you, but I think some of the most romantic stuff right now on the internet

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is watching these amazing weddings and proposals and celebrations of life, specifically by

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the IDF, in the middle of this horrific situation.

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And it reminded me that no matter what's going on round about us, you and I need to

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keep our eyes on Jesus.

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Joshua 1.9, have I not commanded you?

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Be strong and courageous.

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Do not be frightened and dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

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And it's really easy to get overwhelmed by the negativity.

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Jeremiah had a ministry for over 40 years.

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During that time, he prophesied some really hard to hear things.

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He prophesied in an era where there was people that didn't want to hear him.

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He prophesied to priests and prophets that persecuted him and basically wanted to throw

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him in jail.

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His ministry spans 40 years, 40 years, 40 years of staying by the stuff and not being

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necessarily vindicated for what he said.

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He was known as the weeping prophet.

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He lived a couple miles outside of Jerusalem.

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He did some pretty heavy things.

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The good news is God provided for Jeremiah.

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God gave him Baruch.

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You say, wait a minute, I've never heard of Baruch.

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Who is he?

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Well, Baruch was the man who stood by Jeremiah's side all the way through his ministry and

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faithfully recorded what Jeremiah prophesied.

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It was very important that those prophetic words be written because there's no private

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interpretation of prophecy even today.

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If God gives someone a prophetic word, it's going to be tested by other prophetic people,

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apostolic people, and by the body of Christ.

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People are going to open it and they're going to say, wait a minute, does this line up with

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not only just the word, but the character and the nature of God?

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There's no such thing as private interpretation.

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And yes, every word must be recorded, even though now a lot of us record it on our phones

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and we then share it.

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with people we love. There are prophetic words on the internet right now and a

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lot of them are pretty dang heavy. But as I was studying all of all of this and

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then looking at what the Jewish people are going through right now, I was

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reminded of Jeremiah 31. Now let me set it up. Okay, he's a prophet living in a

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time where he's being persecuted and attacked. He is warning Israel that

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judgment is coming. He is telling people things they don't want to hear. He is

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thrown in a cistern at one point, just thrown in a hole and told to just stay

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there. Other prophets and other priests came against him because they didn't

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like what he was saying. He lived in a time when people wanted to hear happy,

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uplifting, encouraging things and didn't necessarily want to hear about impending

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judgment. Well, who wants to hear about impending judgment, right? It's not fun.

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It's not pleasant. But here's Baruch. Baruch is faithful and back then they

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would have taken out a piece of skin and it would have been hard and

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laborious to write down a prophetic word. But he recorded it on these skins and

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then these skins were rolled up in scrolls and then they were sent to other

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nations. He was called a prophet to other nations, though he really never left

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Israel. Isn't that interesting? He prophesied things that really nobody

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wanted to hear. But in the end, because the word was recorded, somehow or another,

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it got into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar. And Nebuchadnezzar said, oh, wait a

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minute. When you go into the land of Israel and you destroy it, I want you to

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bring me Jeremiah. And he does. And he says, Jeremiah, because of your words, I'm

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going to preserve you. Now, it's interesting to me when you go through

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his entire lifetime that he was the guy that was mocked and made fun of and

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torn down and, you know, belittled and, you know, ridiculed. But in the end,

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because he was obedient to God, he was preserved. And you know the most

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incredible part of it? I got to tell you this. This is so cool. The most incredible

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part of it was, let me scroll down here, let me find it. Here it is.

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It's in Jeremiah 31. Okay. And it runs all the way through Jeremiah 33 and starts

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here. Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant

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with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Now, all 30 chapters or

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so beforehand, okay, we've got the setup of the call of God and then we've got

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all these judgments and it's against each individual nation. But in 31, I will

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make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not

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according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I

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took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant which

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they broke. I was husband to them, said the Lord, but this is the covenant that I

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will make with the house of Israel after those days. I will put my law in their

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minds and I will write it in their hearts. Okay, it's not it's not gonna be a

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thing where people act all religious but it's not in their heart. No, he's gonna

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put something deep in their heart. And I will be their God and they shall be my

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people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor and every man his brother

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saying, know the Lord, for they all shall know me from the least until the

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greatest of them, says the Lord. I will forgive their iniquity and their sin. I

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will remember no more. And then you know what he does? He tells them to go out and

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buy a vineyard. Why? Because in the Old Testament prophets would speak in

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parables, they would speak in illustrations, but he also was

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demonstrating the point to Jeremiah that even after this horrific invasion comes

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and Jerusalem burns, I have a plan.

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plan, and that plan is for good.

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That plan is not for evil.

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He's going to give you a future and a hope.

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And he established inside of Jeremiah that when all this is done, not only am I going

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to see you through it, but I'm going to prosper you, provide for you, and there will be a

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place for you.

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I think it's hard right now to be a young person who's been raised in the Word, and

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they know all of these Bible prophecies.

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They know what's coming.

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The latest and most disturbing thing, without a doubt, is artificial intelligence, quantum

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computing, and the reality that someone wants to create a digital dollar, which actually

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would fulfill the potential for Revelation chapters 13 and the mark and the beast.

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I mean, it's like the technology now really exists, right?

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That's really depressing if you're a young person.

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Are we there yet?

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No.

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Are there things that could happen that could slow that down?

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Sure.

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Sure.

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You know, God is patient.

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He's patient with you.

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He's patient with me.

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And He is faithful, even when we don't necessarily see it the way or, you know, it doesn't happen

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the way that we want it.

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I want to encourage you today, if you're discouraged by all of these prophecies that are out there

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for 2024, and yeah, I'm going to listen to them after this message today, and yeah, a

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lot of them are probably pretty somber and pretty heavy, but I've got good news for you.

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Even if we do go through the seven-year tribulation, guess what?

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There's life on earth after that.

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So don't be discouraged.

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If we're going to go through a tough season, guess what?

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He's faithful to provide.

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He knows His remnant.

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He knows those that are faithful to Him.

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And He is a good God who will provide, who will make a way.

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Keep your eyes on Him.

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Don't be fooled by the fake that you see on social media.

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Read the Word, because the Word is life, and the Holy Spirit is in the Word.

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And when you hear things, you've got to be very discerning in this season.

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You've got to make sure that it's the Holy Spirit speaking, that it's not some sort of

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fake propaganda, because we're going to be bombarded by all of that.

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Did you know that Iran right now is sending out a lot of fake propaganda out on social

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media?

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Yeah, the Israelis caught them.

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You have to have discernment in this hour.

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Back then when Jeremiah was alive, there was the fake and there was the real.

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We've got to keep our eyes on that, too.

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God is a good God.

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And no matter what we face in 2024, God is bigger than the economy.

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We live on God's economy.

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He's bigger than politics.

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He's bigger than Democrat and Republican.

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He's bigger than any, you know, the one world order.

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He's just bigger than all of that.

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And He's got a plan.

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And He'll make a way for you and for me.

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For all the new viewers out there, thank you for subscribing to the channel.

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It means the world to me.

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Please share.

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Take some time to go through and listen to some of those messages that I've put up in

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the past and share those with others, especially pray about who needs to hear what.

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A lot of them, you know, the anointing is the anointing and it doesn't matter when it

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was recorded.

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It's from Him.

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It's going to resonate in someone's heart and in someone's life.

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2024 is going to be a great year.

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I'm looking forward to it.

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And I hope you are, too.

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Thanks for listening.

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Like and share and subscribe.

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I appreciate it.