So, give us a little background about yourself.

Yeah.

Um, I mean, and, and why I, I say that, Doug, is sometimes people hear credentials and they think, "Well, see, I can't do those things because..." It has nothing to do with that.

I didn't learn about Jesus while I was getting my degree.

I did...

That didn't happen.

You know, what, uh, what happened was the encounter, and the more I came into encounter with Jesus, the deeper I fell in love and, um, and the more he opened the doors to, to, to deeper ministry, healing, and then deeper ministry.

Can you break all that down for us a little bit so we can get a better understanding of why this language to ourselves, even and to others, is so important to consider?

you know, power.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, you want to get it before you get to that point? Yeah.

You'll see, as we go through, you know, some of the, um, what that spirit does to us, it really does cripple different areas of us.

So we really want to get to it before that point, because once the enemy kicks in, it's very hard to be like Jesus was, you know, to say, Oh, come on, you know, of course I am, you know, um, So my thing is we don't let it get to that point.

We recognize that a button was pushed in me.

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Spirit of the living God, fall the fresh on her.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

And Lord, I pray that if there's anything that I've prepared that we don't need to hear, it's just not important for us for today, I pray that you remove it from my eyesight.

But Lord, if there's some wisdom, if there's something that we need as we continue on our journey, I pray that you would give wisdom and words to express that wisdom.

Because Lord, we're here because of you.

We're here because of you.

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I wouldn't allow her when I was director.

[laughing] No, I was reprimanded when I came.

He said, "You didn't ask me." [laughing] One, one young priest who was one of my seminarians years ago came to the seminary and he said, "Who died that you're allowed to, uh, you know...

Who'd you have to kill," he said, "to let you r- retire?" [laughing] Oh, well.

Anyway, and on our cruise in February will be my husband's and mine 57th wedding anniversary.

[cheering] Wow.

[laughing] Yeah.

Yes, Jesus