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The Bible Effect | Studying the Bible with Confidence · Divine515 Podcast

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  - Welcome to the divine five one five podcast.
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  - Here is this week's devotional.
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  - Hello, and welcome to divine five one five
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  - daily prayers with the family road trip. I
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  - am your host, and I'd like to welcome
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  - you as we start
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  - September's
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  - series entitled how to study the Bible. So
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  - it changes your life. And what we're gonna
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  - be tackling throughout the next
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  - four episodes is how God's word transformed the
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  - way we think
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  - the way it strengthens our faith and how
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  - it's going to guide us in everyday life.
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  - So the first challenge that we're going to
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  - tackle today
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  - is
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  - why reading the Bible isn't changing your life.
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  - And because of it, what we can do
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  - to remedy that
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  - scripture text comes from second Timothy
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  - three sixteen through 17 and says
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  - all scripture is God breathed
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  - and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and
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  - training and righteousness
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  - so that the servant of God may be
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  - thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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  - So you wanna start the conversation
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  - with a question.
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  - And the question is, have you ever finished
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  - reading your bibles only to realize you can't
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  - remember what it was that you read?
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  - Let me
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  - comfort you by saying you are not alone.
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  - I am well seasoned in the word. And
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  - there are still times when I've read something
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  - and it doesn't catch.
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  - And
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  - sometimes I think it just me and it
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  - probably is, but sometimes we just need some
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  - different strategies. Right.
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  - And
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  - many believers faithfully read scriptures every day.
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  - Yet we still wonder why we feel spiritually
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  - stuck.
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  - We complete reading the plans and we highlight
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  - the verses and we even listen to the
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  - sermons,
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  - but we still struggle to see lasting change
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  - in our lives.
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  - And
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  - I think that in this day and time,
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  - because the information is so,
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  - available,
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  - we can get really, really overwhelmed and miss
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  - the, the, the detail of what it is
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  - that God is really saying.
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  - So
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  - that being said, the problem
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  - usually isn't a lack of reading,
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  - but more so,
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  - that we've unintentionally
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  - treated God's word like information to collect instead
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  - of
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  - the truth
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  - and the power
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  - that it carries
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  - to help us in our everyday lives.
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  - I mean, let's face it. Our culture teaches
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  - us to consume information quickly, right? Everything is,
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  - day before yesterday,
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  - pace. Right? So we scroll, we scan, we
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  - move on
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  - and without even realizing it, we often approach
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  - the Bible the same way,
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  - but the scripture
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  - wasn't given merely to increase our knowledge.
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  - If you will, it's there to
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  - a saver, if you will,
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  - it gives us the opportunity
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  - for the, the holy spirit to come in
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  - and transform our hearts.
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  - And,
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  - God's word
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  - teaches us.
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  - It's what corrects us. It trains us and
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  - it equips us because he wants us to
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  - become more like, like, like him. Right. And
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  - so
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  - like any good parent, he's gonna,
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  - he's gonna spend the
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  - time with you, but he needs you to
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  - spend the time with him as well. Right.
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  - And,
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  - because of it, transformation doesn't always
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  - come quick, fast and in a hurry,
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  - but it can begin when we slow down
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  - enough to ask some questions, right?
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  - Like Laura, what are you teaching me? What
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  - is this verse really saying?
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  - And,
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  - if you will, I liken it to when
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  - you're meeting someone and you really like them,
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  - you want to get to know them, right?
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  - You want to find out what their favorite
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  - color is. We, we want to find out
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  - what they like to eat or, you know,
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  - whatever it is.
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  - So instead of racing through the chapters,
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  - the, the object is to spend time with
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  - one passage, right? Because the thing about God's
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  - word is
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  - one passage
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  - can, can change the whole trajectory
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  - of, of, of your life.
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  - And, and rabbinic thought,
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  - there are some rabbis that their whole life,
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  - they just stay on one verse because that's
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  - how powerful it is. Right.
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  - And, and we are required to, to do
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  - the same
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  - thing.
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  - God wants us to meditate on it. He
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  - wants us to pray through it. And, and
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  - when we do that,
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  - we can ask the question of how we
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  - apply it to our lives.
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  - Right. It's always about
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  - what is it that you're wanting me to
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  - learn from this situation? What is the scripture
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  - saying? How can I apply it? And what
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  - is the context of it? Right. And I
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  - think that might be another challenge to why
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  - we're not grasping,
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  - how we process the word, right? Because we're
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  - not understanding the context.
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  - We often tend to put the the the
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  - scriptures in today's context,
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  - but it wasn't written in today's context. And
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  - so we have to do a little bit
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  - of homework to find out who was the
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  - audience that God was talking to, and then
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  - we'll be able to apply it.
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  - So when we know that
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  - it really becomes a lot more powerful because
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  - it's in those moments, when we take that
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  - time to be intentional, that we experienced
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  - those life changing moments.
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  - And,
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  - it moves from the page,
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  - into
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  - our everyday
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  - lives. Right. It's when we need to make
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  - a decision or,
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  - when we're not sure what to do now,
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  - I will tell you, I am first partaker
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  - of the,
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  - the, the fact that
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  - I implement some of these strategies
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  - and you guys, I cannot tell you how
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  - many times
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  - I have needed some instruction or some guidance
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  - on something.
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  - And I, I really did not know what
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  - to do,
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  - but because I pressed in and I spent
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  - that time
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  - God's word was able to, to, to bring
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  - back to my remembrance what he said, and
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  - I was able to have the wisdom and
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  - the discernment and the guidance that I needed.
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  - So that being said, take heart,
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  - it's a process and a journey. It's not
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  - something that happens overnight,
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  - but
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  - once you begin to master it, it becomes
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  - really, really, really powerful.
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  - So that being said,
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  - let's pray
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  - heavenly father.
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  - Thank you for giving us your living word.
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  - Forgive us for the times we've rushed through
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  - the scripture without allowing it to shake our
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  - hearts,
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  - open up our eyes, to understand your truth
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  - and
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  - give us the courage to obey what you
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  - reveal.
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  - Let your word transform our thoughts, our choices,
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  - and our relationships with you.
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  - And we will bless you in Jesus name.
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  - You know, studying God's word becomes even more
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  - powerful
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  - when you're growing alongside others.
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  - Visit divine515.com
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  - to learn more about the inner chamber prayer
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  - community, where we help believers move from simply
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  - reading scripture to living it every day. And
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  - until next time, remember,
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  - prayer isn't simply something we do. It's how
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  - we walk with God every day.