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Hi, my name is Leanne Friesman and this is Restoring Word.

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I have an important message today for believers who are hearing this short little devotional

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and in a nutshell, I want to tell you that what you do for the body of Christ matters.

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It's vital in the day and hour that we're living in that you do your part whatever that

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may look like and I want to share an important testimony about someone's life that someone

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who's really near and dear to me.

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His name is Steve Worley and about three weeks ago, Steve passed away.

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He had quite the life.

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He was a passionate Christian who had been radically saved.

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He was a biker, a drug dealer, I mean, I just want you to think of, you know, like someone

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who was involved in someone like the Hell's Angels and that type of lifestyle and culture.

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He lived that and then he got to the point where the drugs and the lawlessness and everything

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involved in all of that just didn't fill his heart anymore and he knew because his mom

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had been praying for him for years that he was going to have to give his life to Christ

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and when he did, it was radical.

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He had one death experience from a heroin overdose where he died and was tormented by

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demons and in hell, during this tormenting process, he heard a voice say, son, I'm not

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done with you yet and all of a sudden, he came back into his body and he knew he had

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to get straight.

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He knew that he had to be delivered from the drugs and the lifestyle.

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Anyway, he got radically saved and he came to Oklahoma and that's a whole longer story.

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He went to work for Victory Christian Center and he and I worked for Billy Joe Doherty

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for 27 years and I can tell you over the course of those years, many times he wanted to be

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in the pulpit.

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He wanted to be the one that was out casting the net, so to speak, but Steve had a gift

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and his gift was he could build, fix, make, rebuild, remake.

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He could lead others.

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He had a heart for the lost.

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He had a heart for the hurting and he knew that in order to win the loss, to touch hurting

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people, you had to have the facilities to do it and I guess probably conservatively,

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I would say probably he saved the ministry over the course of that 27 years, probably

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$2 to $3 million, conservatively.

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I mean, that's being conservative.

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Why?

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Because when you have people in house that are talented and they can build things and

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fix things and you don't have to subcontract out or you have somebody who really can supervise

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work that is being done and make sure it's being done correctly or, you know, we had

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a roof that had to be patched over and over again.

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There's just a lot of things that Steve saw and did and worked through and the last ten

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years that he was at Victory, he began to ride with the tribe of Judah and this is a

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biker ministry out of Houston, Texas and he began to share the gospel with the people

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that he really had an anointing to share the gospel with and he stepped into the most productive

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season in his life because he reached and he touched people that you and I can't reach

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that, you know, when you've been somewhere and you've done that and you know how that

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feels, you have a heart of compassion for those that need Christ.

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I'm thankful for Steve's life and I'm thankful for what he did and I'm thankful for the tribe

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of Judah and all the guys that ride with that tribe and I'm thankful for their witness and

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what they do.

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God is doing something in this hour but it's going to take everybody doing the little part,

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the puzzle piece.

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the unique thing that you know only they can do and if you sit around and you say

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well I don't you know who am I or I but I can't really do what but what if I you

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know could I really do this if you if you don't step to the plate and do your

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part there are people that are not going to be reached and you know not everybody

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has to be in that pulpit position sometimes people are for a season and

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then they aren't sometimes you know God wants to reward you for what you've done

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in this season and he's gonna put you in a place in the other season I mean I can

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definitely see God doing that for me

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please whatever the Lord is telling you to do do it the Holy Spirit is moving

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across the country right now and he's looking for those that are hungry if you

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haven't seen the movie Jesus revolution you need to see it if you're in a

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foreign country just as soon as you have access to it you need to see it and then

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you need to make sure that the people in your country get the opportunity to

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witness it because you'll understand the spiritual outpouring that happened

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in America in the 70s my pastor Billy Joe and Sharon Doherty came out of it

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you know at the time did anyone think that maybe you know their life would be

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so significant yet no you know what but God does big supernatural things with

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everyday people who are humble who are obedient who are broken who are honest

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and what I loved about this movie was and are imperfect okay he uses broken

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imperfect hurting people to share the news of this gospel and the message is

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real and it will change your life forever thank you for listening have a

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great day