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New Beginnings: Starting A Journey in Ministry School · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Music.
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  This little light of mine I'm gonna let it This little light of mine I'm gonna
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  let it This little light of,
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  I'm gonna let it Let it Let it Let it Yeah,
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  Daddy, I'm so excited But I have one question What's your question?
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  I'm going to be a pastor or a minister?
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  Good question. I don't know, but it is all in God's hands. Good morning.
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  You're listening to Have Faith, Let It Begin, and it starts right now.
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  Hello, everyone, and welcome to Have Faith, Let It Begin.
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  It is January 7th, 2025.
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  That's right. Yesterday was Three Kings Day. It was a great day.
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  I just happened to be in my day off, which was awesome, and I hope you enjoyed
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  yesterday's episode with Dr.
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  E. You know, a lot to bring you up to speed.
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  Yesterday was also my first official day in pastor in training.
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  That's right. I started ministry school yesterday and it was fun.
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  You know, it was really cool. A little bit hard for me to a certain extent,
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  you know, just trying to figure out the ins and outs of the online courses because,
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  you know, it's been a while.
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  And of course, the last time I went to school, everything was in person.
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  And given that this is an out of state ministry school, I cannot be there in
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  person. So I'm doing this online, but love the new professor that I have.
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  It seems like he's really cool and got to hear, excuse me, two of my fellow
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  students, future ministers, pastors, stories, and I'm looking forward to it.
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  We're, you know, covering the New Testament and yeah. So I just wanted to give
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  you guys up to speed and I'll keep you posted,
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  you know, as things go along, but I wanted to kind of segue that into a new beginnings, you know,
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  if we start the new year like every other new year with new year's resolutions
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  and we do everything we can to make sure sorry about that i had a quick pause
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  my mom was calling me but that's okay everything is good she's checking on me
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  so that's the power of a quick pause there so if you have a little blip that's because mom called.
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  With the New Year's resolutions, we try our very best to figure out what we're going to do this year.
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  Of course, the number one thing that we always hear about is,
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  I'm going back to the gym. I'm going to go and get into a diet.
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  I'm going to quit smoking.
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  Those are the ones that are the most popular, if we want to say it that way.
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  And listen, if that's one of you, I wish you luck. It's not easy.
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  I know it. Trust me, I've done that.
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  I have honestly not succeeded. but you
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  know as you get older and wiser and you realize that your body is
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  important and that your body needs to be
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  healthy to continue you start to develop another way
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  of dieting which is basically stop eating junk food and that's where i'm at
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  right now actually i'm really really being precautious as to my sugar levels
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  and all that stuff especially stress because stress will kill you so new year's
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  resolutions are important and i don't want to stray away from the fact that
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  You know, if you're doing that,
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  don't, you know, I always recommend you try to pick something that,
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  that is attainable, you know,
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  yes, listen, you can say I'm going back to the gym, but don't say you're going
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  to go every day because you probably won't, you know, say you're going to do
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  it, you know, once a week. And if you go twice, great.
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  And say, if you're going to, you know, cut down on smoking, just cut down a pack.
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  Try, I mean, listen, I can't tell you how you're going to feel,
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  but I know that people that go cold turkey with the exception of,
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  I think my parents, I haven't really heard anybody that can do it.
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  And I, listen, I'm not saying you can't, I'm saying if you are trying,
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  God bless you, pray about it.
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  And that's really what we're getting at to getting that.
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  And that's pray before you make these decisions. say a prayer to the heavenly
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  father and say, look, I'm going to need your help.
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  I'm going to need you to back me up in this corner because I know for a fact,
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  I cannot do it alone. And that's, that's the key.
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  And let me tell you, as you begin this new year, this new journey,
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  I want you to know something, even though I just said, try to make something that's attainable.
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  Everything is attainable when you put God first, any and everything,
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  because with God, everything is possible.
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  So I want you to just remember that today as you go about your day and always
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  remember that you can do anything that you put your mind to it.
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  You can do anything when God is with you because he believes in you,
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  he trusts in you, and he's never going to leave your side.
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  I hope you enjoyed today's message. Let's pray.
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  Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
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  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
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  Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil.
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  Yours is the kingdom, power, and glory forever and ever.
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  Amen. This morning, we continue to lift up in prayer the Baxter family,
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  and they lost a loved one. We continue to lift them up in prayer.
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  We pray for the Horan family. We continue to lift up in prayer Tony.
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  We pray for Mansa and Yesenia. We pray for Brian and John and Liz.
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  We pray for Carol and Dennis. We lift up in prayer Patricia.
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  We continue to pray for Dorothy and Dennis.
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  We continue to ask for prayers for Gavin and Kenneth and those that are battling cancer.
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  We pray for Dylan and his fiance and their futures.
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  We continue to lift up in prayer our mentors and those that we care deeply about
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  that we know are struggling.
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  We pray for Pastor Jim and Joe and the congregation at First Reformed Church.
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  We pray for the consistory we pray for the
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  praise team and for bunny the pianist we continue
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  to lift up in prayer all churches all over the world all future
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  ministers that are in training we continue to lift
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  up in prayer schools and faculties may they stay strong healthy and have the
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  armor of god around them may we pray for the families of loved ones of the two
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  tragedies that we've already incurred encountered and that's the ones in new
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  orleans and the one in queens we continue to lift up in prayer for each and
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  every half-eighth, let it begin, family member.
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  We ask you, God, to continue to be with us, to bless us. We pray for Melody and Douglas.
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  We continue to lift up in prayer our wives and our children, our nieces and nephews.
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  We continue to pray for our grandparents and our parents and our aunts and uncles.
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  And finally, we pray for our military personnel, foreign and domestic,
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  our first responders, our firefighters, our police, our fire and rescue,
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  for government officials to get along.
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  And we pray this unto you. In the name of the Father, the Son,
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  and the Holy Spirit, amen.
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  May God be with you. May he shine his light upon you and grant each and every
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  single one of you peace on earth.
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  And never forget, have faith, let it begin. See you tomorrow.
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  Thank you for listening to Have Faithful Begin. We'll be back tomorrow.