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DAILY DEVOTION WITH QUEEN ANGELA Trusting God to Direct Your Path (Proverbs 35-6) DAY 16 · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. We're gonna go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and get started this morning. Gonna first start us off
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  Speaker 2: in prayer, and then I'm gonna go ahead and go
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  Speaker 2: as according Father God of that ain't cheese. Lord, I
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this opportunity. I thank you for this space.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you for this new day that I've never
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  Speaker 2: seen before, that I will never see again. Father asked
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  Speaker 2: that you decrease me in the flesh for God and
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  Speaker 2: allow your EXPERI man to come forth for God, that
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  Speaker 2: somebody may see you through us on today, through me
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  Speaker 2: on today, through the things that bring you glory. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: God Father, we thank you because you've given us gifts
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  Speaker 2: and talents for God, that it may make our name great,
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  Speaker 2: and it would make room for us or God. So Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you on this morning for thinking of us
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  Speaker 2: for God and for assuring us through your word of
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  Speaker 2: your promises or God. So Father, we thank you, We
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  Speaker 2: we love you, we honor you, we bring you glory.
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  Speaker 2: And Father asked that you will cover this lesson this
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  Speaker 2: morning as I pour our Lord God, I asked that
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  Speaker 2: you will fill me up afresh with your knowingt and r.
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  Speaker 1: God. Father, do not.
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  Speaker 2: Allow me to go straight or lead anyone a straight,
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  Speaker 2: Lord God, but keep me on a straight and narrow
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  Speaker 2: study to show thyself approved.
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  Speaker 1: Lord. I thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you right now for just giving me the
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  Speaker 2: ability to to share with your people.
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  Speaker 1: Lord God. I'm not a theologian.
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  Speaker 2: I don't walk in no offices, but I walk in
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  Speaker 2: experience and the things that you have done for me.
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  Speaker 2: So Father, I will not sit down on it, but
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  Speaker 2: I will tell it from the world. So Father asked
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  Speaker 2: that you decrease me in the flesh and allow your
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  Speaker 2: spirit man to comfort, that you may be glorified during
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  Speaker 2: this time that I have right here before your people.
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  Speaker 2: Lord God used me on today, and this is my prayer,
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  Speaker 2: your son Jesus name, I prayer.
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  Speaker 1: A man amen, a man a man a man.
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  Speaker 2: I thank Him for each and every one of you
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  Speaker 2: guys that have been on this journey with me, that
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  Speaker 2: have been following and supporting these daily devotions for the
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  Speaker 2: last since March. We started in March, and I thank
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  Speaker 2: God for this space. I thank Him for allowing me
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  Speaker 2: to cross the path of the many that I have
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  Speaker 2: ass But I'm going to go ahead and dive into
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  Speaker 2: this lesson on today because I.
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  Speaker 1: Do not want to be before you, loan.
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  Speaker 2: I want to try to be out of here by
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  Speaker 2: nine or before nine if possible. Yeah, our scripture today
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  Speaker 2: is going to be coming from Proverbs three Versus five
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  Speaker 2: and six. And this is a scripture that we all
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  Speaker 2: know a lot of us should know it out by
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  Speaker 2: heart because it's one that you often were here quoted.
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  Speaker 2: But that scripture today is say, trusting the Lord with
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  Speaker 2: all thy heart, and lean not on your own understanding
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  Speaker 2: in all thy ways. Acknowledge Him and he is direct,
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  Speaker 2: and he shall direct your path.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 2: That is a King James version again, trusting the Lord
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  Speaker 2: with all the heart, lean not on your own understanding
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  Speaker 2: in all your ways, submit unto him and he will
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  Speaker 2: make your path straight. Today's topic is trusting God to
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  Speaker 2: direct your path. Trusting God to direct your path. It's
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  Speaker 2: the name of the topic on today, trusting God to
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  Speaker 2: direct your path. Your affirmation for today is I trust
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  Speaker 2: God's divine plan for my life, knowing that he guides
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  Speaker 2: me with love and wisdom. I trust gods divine plan
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  Speaker 2: for my life, knowing that He guides me with love
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  Speaker 2: and wisdom. So a little backstory on this scripture. Proverbs
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  Speaker 2: is wisdom literature largely attributed to King Solomon, and this
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  Speaker 2: happened in the tenth century BC and compiled over time.
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  Speaker 1: Chapters one through.
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  Speaker 2: Nine read like a father's instruction to his son, urging
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  Speaker 2: the pursuit of wisdom routed in the fear of the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: and Proverbs three it urges the covenant, loyalty, and practical wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: Verses five and six set a at the heart of
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  Speaker 2: this chapter, constracting self reliance with God, allowance, and promising
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  Speaker 2: divine guidance to those who trust and submit their ways
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  Speaker 2: unto the Lord. In Hebrew, trust means yadah, That's why,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I got that wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Trust conveys I'm sorry. In Hebrew, trust conveys secure confidence.
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  Speaker 2: Acknowledge implies relationship knowing and submission and direct your path.
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  Speaker 2: Picture God making the way straight clear in his time.
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  Speaker 2: Our word of the day is acknowledged, and that in
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  Speaker 2: Hebrew is yadah.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I messed up on, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: But in Hebrew it means YadA, meaning to know, to recognize,
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  Speaker 2: and to submit. To be in a relationship with It
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  Speaker 2: is more than to not to God. It is to
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  Speaker 2: invite Him in and to allow Him in every decision,
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  Speaker 2: plan and path. How do we practice that? We do
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  Speaker 2: it before, during, and after decision making. We have to
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  Speaker 2: pause and allow the Lord, seek his heart and align
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  Speaker 2: with his word.
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  Speaker 1: Yield your will to his will.
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  Speaker 2: Whole hearted trust beats practical practice and partial practice. Trusting
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  Speaker 2: with all thy heart leaves no hidden moon for backup
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  Speaker 2: plans or replace gode. Divided trust breeds anxiety. Whole hearted
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  Speaker 2: trust brings rootiness. So if you if you're experiencing anxiety,
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  Speaker 2: if you are experiencing division, you're experiencing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different things.
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  Speaker 1: You have to check. You have to apply the.
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  Speaker 2: Word and see if you're truly trusting God, if you're
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  Speaker 2: truly allowing him to lead you. What are your thoughts
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  Speaker 2: rooted in? What is your heart routed in Because remember,
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  Speaker 2: he touches the heart, he knows the heart. So if
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  Speaker 2: you want to know how you can be assured that
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  Speaker 2: you are rooted in him by surrendering daily. You can
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  Speaker 2: write down those things that you can't control and allow
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  Speaker 2: him to take over those things. You can pray, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: place these things. I place these things in your hand.
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  Speaker 2: You can tell them every day, these things that are
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  Speaker 2: bothering you, these things that are bringing you anxiety, these
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  Speaker 2: things that are troubling you.
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  Speaker 1: You can give it to him. You can place it
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  Speaker 1: in his hand and allow him to.
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  Speaker 2: Do what he said he would do. See a lot
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  Speaker 2: of us we want to be honest, We want to
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  Speaker 2: continue to hold on to a lot of this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to trust him because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: us are complacent. We're happy in that miserable place. We're
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  Speaker 2: happy in that place where we want to say that
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  Speaker 2: we're dealing with this, and we're dealing with that, and
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  Speaker 2: we're dealing with that. When if you give it to him,
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  Speaker 2: you won't have to deal did it. We will have
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  Speaker 2: to deal with grief, we won't have to deal with depressure,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have to deal with all these different emotions and
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  Speaker 2: feelings that we have if we truly give it to
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  Speaker 2: him and trust him that he will direct our path
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  Speaker 2: if we move forward and obedience, if we go over
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  Speaker 2: to Jeremiah seventeen seven and Proverbs twenty eight and twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that, when.
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  Speaker 2: We pray in hell, I trust you Lord, ex heal
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  Speaker 2: with all of that stuff that you got going on.
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  Speaker 2: You got to inhale in exhal with all my heart.
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  Speaker 2: And then you wait, you wait for him, and then
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  Speaker 2: another thing, y'all we have to learn how to speak.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of us we always speak with the what
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  Speaker 2: if and instead of even if, because even if you
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  Speaker 2: don't see it, you gotta yet trust him. So we
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  Speaker 2: placed that what if with even if, because even if
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  Speaker 2: I don't see it, I gotta believe that he's working
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  Speaker 2: on my behalf because guess what, that's what his words say,
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  Speaker 2: and his word is true.
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  Speaker 1: His word is not going to return to him for it.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of us we are the reason why
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  Speaker 2: we experience a lot of the things that we experience
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  Speaker 2: because we stayed with the what ifs, and we stay
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  Speaker 2: with second guests instead of just giving it to him,
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  Speaker 2: leaving it with him and moving on but we keep
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  Speaker 2: taking it back like for the likes of me, I
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  Speaker 2: don't understand why. We'll say we prayed about it and
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  Speaker 2: we gave it to God, but yet constantly we're praying
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  Speaker 2: about the same thing. He heard you the first time.
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  Speaker 2: So you ain't got to keep going to him about it.
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  Speaker 2: Now it is if you are lining up, if you're
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  Speaker 2: trusting that he's gonna work it out, if you believe
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  Speaker 2: in him for a healing. Now you got to do
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  Speaker 2: the work to ensure that you get here. So now
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  Speaker 2: you've prayed about it, you told him what you need
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  Speaker 2: him to do for you. Now you got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that you're eating right. You got to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that you're getting to exercise, and you got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that you're not stressing yourself out. You got to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that if you're on medication, that you're taking
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  Speaker 2: the medication. If you're taking herbs, you're taking the herb.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to do the work too. You can't just
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  Speaker 2: pray and think that it's just going to magically happen.
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  Speaker 2: And then a lot of us we don't understand that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the stuff that we are enduring and
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  Speaker 2: that we're going through, and that we're experiencing a lot
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  Speaker 2: of it we bring upon ourselves. So then we want
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  Speaker 2: to give the enemy a lot of this credit when
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  Speaker 2: we step to the left, or we step to the right,
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  Speaker 2: and we got out of the straight and narrow. If
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  Speaker 2: you stay on the straight and arrow. If you don't know,
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  Speaker 2: you got to ask them, he said. If you lack,
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  Speaker 2: we's some acts. He said, you actually share receive if
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  Speaker 2: you knock, each shall open. But a lot of us
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  Speaker 2: we are content with the misery because we know misery
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  Speaker 2: like company. So we will not want to be healed
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  Speaker 2: so that we can keep getting the sympathy we can
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  Speaker 2: keep putting on these pity parties. Move from that like
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  Speaker 2: you can't keep don't keep wearing it on your shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: Don't keep allowing your hurt, your your depression, your grief,
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  Speaker 2: all of that to consume you, because that's not what
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  Speaker 2: he wants for you. He said, cast all your cares
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  Speaker 2: upon him, and he will direct your path. Humh, But
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  Speaker 2: we don't want to do that. Understand, do not lean
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  Speaker 2: on your own understanding. Get that today. Understand that you
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  Speaker 2: have no power, but through him you have all power.
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  Speaker 2: Open up your perspective. A lot of time we see
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  Speaker 2: a glass. It may look half empty, but what if
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  Speaker 2: if you said that it.
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  Speaker 1: Was half full? And and and and and things of
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  Speaker 1: that nature.
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  Speaker 2: It's how you perceive things. See a lot of us
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  Speaker 2: we complain about things that we can't personally change. It
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  Speaker 2: can only be changed through the Holy Spirit. But yet
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  Speaker 2: we still harp on it, and we carry it on
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  Speaker 2: and on and on, not knowing that it's doing something
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  Speaker 2: to you. Like when we carry around envy, strike, jealousy, hurt,
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  Speaker 2: whatever we carrying around that it's out of the will
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  Speaker 2: of God. Y'all is doing nothing but cause and stress
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  Speaker 2: on your body. It's on nothing but declining your physical health,
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  Speaker 2: your mental health, and when you're not whole, When you
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  Speaker 2: are not whole, guess what you got to seek? Godly counsel.
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  Speaker 2: Understand that.
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  Speaker 1: Wait for alignment.
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  Speaker 2: Look for agreement between the scripture and the things that
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  Speaker 2: you're doing. If it does not align with the scripture,
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  Speaker 2: then you might want to change what you're doing in
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  Speaker 2: all things. Acknowledge Him in all your ways. God isn't random.
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  Speaker 2: It flows from consistent God. Awareness. To acknowledge God is
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  Speaker 2: to invite Him into the ordinary emails, errands, meetings, parents, finances,
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  Speaker 2: everything y'all, But a lot of us we only want
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  Speaker 2: to put him in things when it's going wrong. We
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  Speaker 2: don't want to put him in things when it's going right.
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  Speaker 2: When he said, acknowledge him in all your ways, hum,
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  Speaker 2: and then we want to pick him up and put
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  Speaker 2: him down. And then we want to come when we
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  Speaker 2: want to come, and then we want to act like
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  Speaker 2: it's okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's not it's not.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna leave y'all with this now I'm getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to wrap it up. God does not ask you
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  Speaker 2: to map out your path, only to trust and acknowledge him.
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  Speaker 2: As you do, he strengthens what confuses you, open doors
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  Speaker 2: that you cannot open, and close paths that will harm you.
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  Speaker 2: We don't always understand why things are happening, but know
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  Speaker 2: that He's always working on our behalf.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of us we run.
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  Speaker 2: We are constantly running, instead of sitting still and be
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  Speaker 2: impatient and allowing him to do what he said he
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  Speaker 2: would do in our lives. Trust the Lord with all
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  Speaker 2: your heart. He will make your path straight. What he opens,
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  Speaker 2: no one can shut what he's shut, no one can open.
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  Speaker 2: Understand that the steps of a good person is ordered
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  Speaker 2: by the Lord. Allow him to order your steps. You
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  Speaker 2: will hear a voice behind you saying this is the way.
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  Speaker 1: Walk in it, y'all. He's always with us. He's always
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  Speaker 1: with us.
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  Speaker 2: The big idea is that we need to understand that
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  Speaker 2: it's our job to trust and acknowledge him. Trust meaning
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  Speaker 2: basting the weight of your heart on God, not on
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  Speaker 2: your plans in what you want, your timing, your abilities,
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  Speaker 2: because it does not matter. Acknowledging means to invite and
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  Speaker 2: consult with Him in everything, decisions, schedules, conversations, honoring His
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  Speaker 2: wisdom above your own. It's God awareness that shapes choices,
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  Speaker 2: not just quick prayer tagons. Being aware of God and
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  Speaker 2: God's job is to God strengthen.
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  Speaker 1: Open, and close.
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  Speaker 2: He gives a step by step direction, often enough light
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  Speaker 2: for the next step, not for the entire our journey.
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  Speaker 2: Because He wants you to.
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  Speaker 1: Lean and depend on him.
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  Speaker 2: He levels. He levels what feels cricket. He can confuse
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  Speaker 2: his path, tangle and motives. Complex circumstances bring in clarity
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  Speaker 2: as you move in obedience. So if you want clarity,
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  Speaker 2: you got to move in obedience. He grants favor and
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  Speaker 2: opportunities that you cannot manufacture. Trust me, it's not something
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  Speaker 2: that you're doing. It is all of God right people,
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  Speaker 2: time and and provision. He will seeing everything that you
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  Speaker 2: need in his time. He protects by saying no and
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  Speaker 2: not yet redirecting you from what would drain.
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  Speaker 1: Distract or damage.
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  Speaker 2: You understand that, y'all, just because he delays something don't
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  Speaker 2: mean that he's gonna deny it. But you gotta be
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  Speaker 2: in line. You gotta be in place. Peace comes when
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  Speaker 2: you stop controlling outcomes, when you stop thinking that it's
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  Speaker 2: about you and start obeying the next step.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that again.
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  Speaker 2: Peace comes when you stop controlling the outcome and start
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  Speaker 2: a banning the next step. Know that you have no power,
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  Speaker 2: that you're not leading nothing. The only reason why a
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  Speaker 2: lot of us are doing the things that we're doing
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  Speaker 2: is because he allow it. And because he is leading us,
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  Speaker 2: he's opening those doors. Think that you have these platforms
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  Speaker 2: because it's something that you're doing. No, it's nothing that
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  Speaker 2: you're doing. Huh. He can shut all these platforms down today, tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: next week, and then what what will a lot of
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  Speaker 2: you be able to do if you had not these platforms?
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  Speaker 1: And then you're thinking it's about you? What are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Off of the platform. He gives you the platform to
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  Speaker 2: make connections and to make things happen so that you
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  Speaker 2: can connect with people, so that you you can come
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  Speaker 2: off the platform and get out here in the community
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  Speaker 2: and do stuff. How many of y'all are utilizing the
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  Speaker 2: connections that you're making to get out here and do
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  Speaker 2: something in the community, To get out and do something.
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  Speaker 2: I listen to Man of God Marco Griggs. He's trying
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  Speaker 2: to put together a million man march. He's trying to
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  Speaker 2: put together a march to save souls and to draw
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  Speaker 2: souls to Christ. Things like that is what we're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be doing. We're supposed to make the connection here
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  Speaker 2: and then we're supposed to take it off of these
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  Speaker 2: social media platforms and out of the four whiles. Y'all,
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  Speaker 2: we got to get out here in the community, because
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, you are the church,
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  Speaker 2: your your temple, your body, You are the church. So
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  Speaker 2: how are you Church? That's what we should be asking ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: And then we want to know we want to be
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  Speaker 2: in so much control when we have no control. We
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  Speaker 2: ain't got no power, y'all. Control is heavy, but obedience
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  Speaker 2: it is simple. Control needs certainty, obedience, need nothing but trust.
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  Speaker 2: Peace grows when you release what is God's when you
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  Speaker 2: release what is in God's lane and stay in your
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  Speaker 2: own lane. Again, peace grows when you release what is
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  Speaker 2: God's lane and you stay in your lane. So just
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  Speaker 2: stay over here, illustraight and now, and let God do
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  Speaker 2: what he said he would do. God rarely gives maps,
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  Speaker 2: but he gives you guidance. He is the GPS. He
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  Speaker 2: ain't gonna give you a map, but he will guide you.
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  Speaker 2: He will guide you as the GPS. He would tell
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  Speaker 2: you where to go, when to go, who to connect with,
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  Speaker 2: how to connecte sheeps have a peace, not because they
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  Speaker 2: know all of the routes, but because they know that
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  Speaker 2: they shepherd's leading them.
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  Speaker 1: Who's your shepherd? Who are you following?
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  Speaker 2: I hope that you said Jesus is your shepherd and
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  Speaker 2: you'll follow him. A lot of us have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm gonna share this with you guys, and then
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get on.
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  Speaker 1: Out of here.
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  Speaker 2: How to practice what we have been sharing on today. First,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta trust God. Know that the Father will never
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  Speaker 2: place any more on you than you can bear. He
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  Speaker 2: already know the weight that you are gonna carry. He
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  Speaker 2: already know what you're gonna go through. He already knows,
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  Speaker 2: so acknowledge him. Speak into this, Speak into this again.
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  Speaker 2: I say, what does.
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  Speaker 1: Your word say? What would please God? And then obey?
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  Speaker 2: Do the next clear right thing already in front of you.
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  Speaker 2: He's given us instruction. All you got to do is
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  Speaker 2: open it up. It's called the Bible, the basic instructions
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  Speaker 2: before leaving this earth. He's told us what to do.
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  Speaker 1: He's given us.
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  Speaker 2: We have examples, we have people that have come before us.
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  Speaker 2: It's done these things. He said, We're gonna do greater works.
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  Speaker 2: But how would people know the greater works if we're
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  Speaker 2: not even sharing them, if we're not doing anything, if
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  Speaker 2: we're not sharing his goodness, we're not doing anything. We
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  Speaker 2: just sit here and just going by whatever. So today
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  Speaker 2: I say release, leave timing and results with him. If
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  Speaker 2: the door is his will, Yah, it will open. If
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  Speaker 2: it's not, guess what it'll stay closed? And guess what
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  Speaker 2: it is for your protection? Huh yeah, exactly. So I
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  Speaker 2: say to you, fear of missing out will not stop you.
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  Speaker 2: Remember God's timing cannot make you miss what is truly,
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  Speaker 2: because what is for you is for you so don't
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  Speaker 2: be in fear of missing out and running from platform
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  Speaker 2: to platform, chasing after this and chasing after that.
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  Speaker 1: But be still, he tells us, be still and know
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  Speaker 1: that I am God.
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  Speaker 2: Don't get impatient. Replace deadlines with devotions. Be faithful today.
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  Speaker 2: Let God handle your tomorrow. Activate work in the now.
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  Speaker 2: Do what you're supposed to do today. Don't worry about tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry about yesterday, because guess what, you can't do
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  Speaker 2: nothing about yesterday, and tomorrow is gonna take care of itself.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't That's what the word say, So leave it up
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  Speaker 2: to him.
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  Speaker 1: Be patient.
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  Speaker 2: And stop comparing yourself. Stop comparing your assignment, cop stop
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  Speaker 2: comparing your gifts, stop comparing anything with anybody. Others past
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  Speaker 2: are not your assignment. Acknowledge Him in alle all your
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  Speaker 2: ways and not theirs. Don't worry about what Sally over
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  Speaker 2: there doing. Don't know how many podcasts Sally is on.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry about how many magazines she's been, don't worry
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  Speaker 2: about the interviews, don't worry about all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And number one, the number one thing is stop overthinking.
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  Speaker 2: Trade analyzing paralyzes all these these things, and we just
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  Speaker 2: run through our heads.
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  Speaker 1: Stop analyzing everything.
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  Speaker 2: And be obedient and allow the action of His light
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  Speaker 2: to shine lead and guide us. Now that's all we
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  Speaker 2: need as I close. Trust God with your whole heart
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  Speaker 2: and not just parts that feel safe. Stop leaning on
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  Speaker 2: your own limited perspective, but seek his wisdom and counsel.
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  Speaker 2: Acknowledge him and everything, and he will make your paths
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  Speaker 2: clear in his time. I just want you to repeat
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  Speaker 2: this to yourself over and over and over and over
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  Speaker 2: until you begin to feel it, until it can begin
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  Speaker 2: to manifest in your life. Lord, I trust your heart.
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  Speaker 2: I year my understanding and acknowledge that you. I acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: you in all the ways. Direct my path on today. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: I trust your heart, I year my understanding and acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: you in all of my ways. Direct my steps today.
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  Speaker 2: Say that over and over. Put it on a stick
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  Speaker 2: and no post it around, Share it with somebody, and
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  Speaker 2: I invite you back tomorrow day seventeen for this twenty
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  Speaker 2: one day devotion. Y'all, we got four more days in
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  Speaker 2: this book. Tomorrow Day seventeen is strength in times of need.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be meditating and coming out of Isaiah
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  Speaker 2: forty one and ten.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all, trust the process.
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  Speaker 2: Know that God's plan is his plan, and it's not
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  Speaker 2: going to return to him. Boy Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven.
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  Speaker 2: He said that He declared that he had a plan
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  Speaker 2: for you, and it was not to harm you, but
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  Speaker 2: to prosper you, for you to be in good health,
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  Speaker 2: for you to have hope in the future. So I
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  Speaker 2: want you to stand on his word today. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to trust that God is yet working even when
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  Speaker 2: you can't see it, even when you think you can't
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  Speaker 2: hear him. Be still and know that He is God
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  Speaker 2: and that He is yet working on your behalf. Go
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  Speaker 2: to the Word, pull out some of these scriptures, put
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  Speaker 2: them on stickyknoes posted around, and.
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  Speaker 1: Get it down in your spirit. You gotta do the work.
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  Speaker 2: You got to have something that you can apply to
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  Speaker 2: these situations that come up so that we can stop
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  Speaker 2: blaming the enemy for these things. When we got the
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  Speaker 2: word to put on it, y'all, we can activate and
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  Speaker 2: manifest things in our life. We have that power. He's
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  Speaker 2: given us that power. But you got to align with
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: the Word, and you got to be in place so
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  Speaker 2: that you can receive. So, Father God, in the name
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus, Lord, I thank you, I thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this time. I thank you for your word that has
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  Speaker 2: come forth on today, Lord God Father, I thank you
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  Speaker 2: right now and Father, I pray that these will be
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  Speaker 2: seized to the person that may that have received it
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  Speaker 2: on today, Lord God, may they plant it in fertile ground,
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  Speaker 2: and may you produce fruit in their lives. Lord God Father,
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  Speaker 2: I thank you on this morning, because she truly didn't
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  Speaker 2: have to, Lord God. But Lord, you allow us to
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  Speaker 2: see another day, another day that was not promised us,
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  Speaker 2: another day that we can get it right, Another day
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  Speaker 2: that we can get out here and impact the community,
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  Speaker 2: Lord God, another day that we can help draw someone
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  Speaker 2: unto you, Lord God. So Father, I thank you. I
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this time. I thank you for just
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  Speaker 2: being a vessel.
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  Speaker 1: Lord God. And Father.
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  Speaker 2: I asked her, as I go out into this world,
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  Speaker 2: Lord god Father, that you will allow the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: to leave God and di wreck me. Lord God Father,
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  Speaker 2: allow my life to be a living example that somebody
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  Speaker 2: may see you through me, Lord God and say what
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  Speaker 2: must they do to be saved? Father asked that that
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  Speaker 2: person that may not know you on today, that they
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  Speaker 2: will come to know you on today, Lord God and Father,
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  Speaker 2: this is my prayer, your son Jesus' name a man
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  Speaker 2: a man a man a man a man. I pray
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  Speaker 2: that somebody has been blessed by something that I've shared
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  Speaker 2: on today. I thank you for even stopping by and
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  Speaker 2: taking the time to come and share with me on today.
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  Speaker 2: If you would join me back here on tomorrow and
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  Speaker 2: invite somebody else to come and share in this devotion
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  Speaker 2: with us, y'all, if you were, if you are like
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  Speaker 2: to support the things that I do, y'all. I'm an
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  Speaker 2: author and I do books. I have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: various books, but all of my books are inspirational, their devotions,
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  Speaker 2: their poetry books. There they are things that speak on
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  Speaker 2: domestic violence.
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  Speaker 1: It's unlive. And because I am.
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  Speaker 2: A VI, I'm a survivor of domestic violence, and I
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  Speaker 2: am a unaliver attempt survivor. I try to unalive myself.
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  Speaker 2: But through God's grace and his mercy, he sound fit
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  Speaker 2: to spare my life so that I could still yet
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  Speaker 2: be here to share his goodness and to share the
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  Speaker 2: things that He has done for me. So every chance
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  Speaker 2: I get out shouted from the mountaintop, because I tell you,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not ashamed of the things that He's done for me.
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  Speaker 2: Because He spared my life when the enemy and myself
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  Speaker 2: want to take me out. But I tell you, I
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  Speaker 2: thank him because he loved me more than I ever
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  Speaker 2: could love myself. That allow me to be able to
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  Speaker 2: do the things that I do. So I share it
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  Speaker 2: through books. I have over one hundred and fifty literary
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  Speaker 2: works that is published available through Amazon, Blurb Books, a Million,
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  Speaker 2: Barnes and Nobles, and then of course you can get
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  Speaker 2: them on my website as well, which is www. Angela
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Smith books dot com.
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  Speaker 1: I truly truly.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you guys for all of your support and for
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  Speaker 2: being here, because truly you could be anywhere else and
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  Speaker 2: you catching this live or you're catching it as a replay.
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  Speaker 2: I pray to God will bless you abundanley for your
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice and for your time. And I asked that you
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  Speaker 2: will share these things with somebody else and invite them
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  Speaker 2: to come back and join us.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be here until God tells me to do different.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll be here every day sharing a daily devotion,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's out of one of my books or someone
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  Speaker 2: else's book. I will be here doing and trying to
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  Speaker 2: be the vessel that he's called and purposed me to be,
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  Speaker 2: and I pray that you would do the same. I
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  Speaker 2: love y'all with the love of Christ. And guess what,
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  Speaker 2: there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. So go
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  Speaker 2: know that you got purpose and be on purpose about
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  Speaker 2: His business.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all be blessed. I love y'all.