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Let's turn over to Mark Chapter 4, and I'm going to use some of these exact scriptures that he used.

I'm going to straighten them out and preach it right.

But I tell you, this is so powerful.

This is what changed my life.

You know, back when I first got turned on to the Lord,

I had a real emotional encounter with the

Lord when I was 18 years old, March the 23rd, 1968. And I mean, it lit a fire on me. And for four

and a half months, I was just on fire. I couldn't sleep more than an hour at a time because I was just

so excited about the Lord. And I mean, I was on fire for God.

And my mother, she took me on a trip to Europe and assigned a Baptist pastor to me to tell me that

everything I'd experienced was of the devil because she thought I'd lost my mind.

And this guy followed me around Europe for three weeks telling me everything was of the devil

and eventually kind of quenched the fire.

And so the emotion of that experience wore off.

And I, you know, I'm not going to go into this, but you cannot live off emotion.

I've had emotions as much as anybody.

Some people doubt that. My own staff, my own staff has made a picture of me, and they put my head on Data's body. And, you know, the Star Trek character that had no emotion, and they called me

Android Womack. But I have had emotions, believe it or not. And I got so super excited,

but you can't live off of emotion. And after the emotion wore off and I was left, God,

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