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DAILY DEVOTION W QUEEN ANGELA God steadied our hearts through His plan, timing, presence, truth, and promises— DAY 14 · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We're getting ready for our daily devotion. Y'all. We are
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  Speaker 1: closing our week number two, Day number fourteen. Week number two,
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  Speaker 1: Day number fourteen in this twenty one day devotion, this
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  Speaker 1: twenty one day devotion. God is my refuge and my
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  Speaker 1: We've been on this journey now for since the end
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  Speaker 1: Five months now we've been on this journey. We have
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank everyone that has been joining us
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  Speaker 1: building the kingdom and sharing God's where y'all. Today is
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  Speaker 1: day number fourteen, and the lesson title is Joy in
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  Speaker 1: His Assurance, Joy in His Assurance. I'm gonna be coming
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  Speaker 1: from Romans fifteen and thirteen. Romans fifteen and thirteen. Before
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  Speaker 1: I get started, of course, I'm gonna go into prayer.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pray really quick. It's gonna be a short one,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to pray really quick before we get
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  Speaker 1: started on this morning. So, Father God, in the name
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  Speaker 1: of Chiesus, Lord, I thank you for the space. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for opportunity that I can come before you
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  Speaker 1: for people, Lord God, to share that that you have
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  Speaker 1: placed on my heart, or God, that that you have
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  Speaker 1: placed within me. Lord God Father, I thank you, and
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  Speaker 1: I asked that you will decrease me in the flesh
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  Speaker 1: and allow your spirit man to come forth, that I
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  Speaker 1: may be used for your glory, that I may be
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  Speaker 1: used to touch someone on today that may not know you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God. But Father I thank you for this space.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for this platform. I thank you for
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity, and I thank you for sending your grace
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  Speaker 1: and your mercy, Lord God. So Father, I asked that
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  Speaker 1: you will have your weight during this time. Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: use me for your glory. In the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: in your Son's name, I pray Amen, Amen, Amen. Again.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you guys for joining me on this morning.
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  Speaker 1: We are day number fourteen. Again, we are coming out
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  Speaker 1: of one of my devotions, one that God you relate
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  Speaker 1: on my spirit. It is not to replace the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: but it is to supplement the Bible, and to supplement
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  Speaker 1: that that He has already given us through the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: our basic instructions before leaving this earth. These are things
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  Speaker 1: that we are supposed to do. So I'm just grateful
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  Speaker 1: to be in the midst and it's grateful to be
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  Speaker 1: able to help you dive deeper into that that He
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  Speaker 1: has called us to do. Again, if you would like
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  Speaker 1: simple words Angela Thomas Smith books dot Com. Again, I
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  Speaker 1: thank you guys for joining me on this morning. Today's
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  Speaker 1: stripture is Romans fifteen and thirteen. I'm gonna read the
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  Speaker 1: N I the N I V version in the E
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  Speaker 1: s V version, and they're similar in word and maybe
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  Speaker 1: the God of Hope fill you without joy and peace
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  Speaker 1: as you trust in him, so that you may overflow
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  Speaker 1: with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. And
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  Speaker 1: that is the N I N I V version. The
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  Speaker 1: E S V version is, may the God of Hope
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  Speaker 1: fill you with a joy and peace and believing, so
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  Speaker 1: that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may
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  Speaker 1: abide in hope. The King Jane versions say now that God,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Hope, fill you with all joy and
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  Speaker 1: peace and believing that ye may abide in hope through
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  Speaker 1: the power of the Holy Ghost. Trust the doorway, the joy,
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  Speaker 1: the peace or gifts. The overflow of hope is the
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  Speaker 1: result by the spirit of the power, not our efforts.
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  Speaker 1: When assurance becomes our anchor, joy becomes our overflow. Today,
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  Speaker 1: don't chase joy, receive it. Understand that it is yours
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  Speaker 1: as we trust the God who cannot fail, the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit fills us with a steady peace and spills into
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  Speaker 1: confidence of hope. This is not optimistic. Again, this is
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  Speaker 1: not optimism. It is assurance rooted in God's unbreakable promise.
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  Speaker 1: Expect to end this day with overflow. You got to
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  Speaker 1: have expectations. You got to believe that that that he
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  Speaker 1: has said is going to come to pass. Little backstory
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  Speaker 1: on this scripture. It was written in Romans is a.
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  Speaker 1: It is Paul's letter to divert to a diverse church
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  Speaker 1: in Rome learning to live as one family in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: In chapter fifteen, Paul emphasized unity, endurance, and hope formed
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  Speaker 1: by the scriptures and empowered by the spirit. And Romans
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  Speaker 1: fifteen and thirteen is a prayer blessing that God, the
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  Speaker 1: God of Hope, would fill the believers with joy and peace.
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  Speaker 1: This joy we have, the world didn't give it, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: and the world can't take it away. As you trust Him,
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  Speaker 1: so you may overflow with hope, believing and trusting that
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  Speaker 1: the things that He's spoken over your life they shall
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  Speaker 1: come to pass. Hope and believing. That's believing in the
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  Speaker 1: things that He's shared throughout that scripture, throughout the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: that basic instructions before leaving nerves those things that we're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do. We can hope in those things because
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  Speaker 1: his word is not going to return to him void.
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  Speaker 1: The context is crucial. Jaw and peace are not manufactured
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  Speaker 1: emotions like this is not something that we can make up.
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  Speaker 1: This is not something that we can conjure. This is
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  Speaker 1: not something that we can It is not It is
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  Speaker 1: a gift, do you hearing It is a gift given
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  Speaker 1: in the act of trusting, grounding in God's character and
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  Speaker 1: promises for the people that are called to live as
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  Speaker 1: one hum to live as one all. The word of
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  Speaker 1: today is assurance. Assurance. Assurance is settled confidence in God's
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  Speaker 1: character and promise overflow to abide in being measured. We
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  Speaker 1: trust it. When we trust in Him and the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: it causes joy and hope to exceed our capacity. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Our affirmation for today is I overflow with joy because
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  Speaker 1: my assurance is in God, the one that created all things,
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  Speaker 1: and I trust his process. So let's dive into today's lesson, y'all. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: assurance rests on God. God's promises are faithful as he
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  Speaker 1: is unchanging, not like man. Joy isn't fragile when it
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  Speaker 1: is a source. It is when its source isn't you
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  Speaker 1: understand that you are not joy, but you are? You are,
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  Speaker 1: You are a a A. It comes from the one
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  Speaker 1: who cannot lie and does not fail. It comes from him.
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  Speaker 1: It is a gift. It's not something that we can
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  Speaker 1: conjure up. Assurance produce joy and peace as we trust him.
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  Speaker 1: Trust is the doorway to joy and peace, as God
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  Speaker 1: places in your hand as you walk through. The more
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  Speaker 1: you lean into his promise, the more your soul settles
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  Speaker 1: and the more joy rises. So trust him on today.
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  Speaker 1: Assurance is spirit powered overflow. That is not will power.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Holy Spirit power. He takes God. He
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  Speaker 1: takes God's promises from the ink on these pages to
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  Speaker 1: the fire in our heart, turning belief into bold hopes.
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  Speaker 1: Trust him on today, and everything that you've written, every
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  Speaker 1: word that you've read, y'all, is a promise and His
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  Speaker 1: word it's gonna come the past. Assurance is spirit by overflow.
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  Speaker 1: It is not well power. Again, I say, it is
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit's power. It takes God's promises from these
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  Speaker 1: pages y'all, these journals that we write down, these things
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  Speaker 1: that we got down and it places it in our hearts. Huh,
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  Speaker 1: So turn your belief into bold hope on today, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Assurance grows in scripture in community. So, y'all, we got
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  Speaker 1: to get out here and be in our community. We
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  Speaker 1: got to be out here and be a part of
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. We got to be out here and
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  Speaker 1: be a part of the building of this kingdom. Paul
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  Speaker 1: connects hope to what was written in Romans fifteen and four.
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  Speaker 1: It said, when you rehearse God's track record in the
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  Speaker 1: word and with God's people, assurance become a reflex and
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  Speaker 1: not an expectation. It becomes natural. Well, it becomes something
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. If you do what you're supposed to do,
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  Speaker 1: then the world is gonna die. And it's what is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to happen in your life. It's gonna happen. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be like a reflex. Just like you stand up,
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  Speaker 1: you know that you're you're gonna walk. Naturally, you know
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  Speaker 1: that you're if you're in the motion of standing up,
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  Speaker 1: you're about to go and you're about to walk. So
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  Speaker 1: that is a reflex. Insurance endures waiting in opposition. Joy
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  Speaker 1: in assurance does not deny hardship, It defies it. Because
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  Speaker 1: God's promise stands, joy can rise even before the promise
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  Speaker 1: is visible. You gotta trust the process, y'all. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: trust the process on this morning. God's promise are certain
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  Speaker 1: because God is faithful. Numbers twenty three and nineteen says
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  Speaker 1: come from the Blond narrative. Despite pressure to curse Israel,
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  Speaker 1: God declares blessings could not be reversed. If he's given
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  Speaker 1: you something, if he's spoken a blessing over your life,
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  Speaker 1: if he's told you he's gonna do something, know that
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna do it. His word is not going to
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  Speaker 1: return void, and his word will not be reversed. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be fulfilled in your life. God is not fickle,
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  Speaker 1: he's not biased, and he's definitely not manipulative. He does
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  Speaker 1: not lie, nor does he change his mind. Is not
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  Speaker 1: like human, So stand on his word today. You also
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  Speaker 1: can go over to Hebrews ten and twenty three. It
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  Speaker 1: urges the believers to hold fast because the promiser himself
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  Speaker 1: is faithful. Our grip is strengthened by his grip on us.
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  Speaker 1: So allow him to wrap his arms around you. Connect
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  Speaker 1: with him spend time with him, allow him to show
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  Speaker 1: up in your life because he is going to do
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  Speaker 1: what he said he would do. So I want you
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  Speaker 1: to reflect on this question, y'all, reflect on this? Where
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  Speaker 1: am I treating God like a changeable human? What promise
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  Speaker 1: have I hesitated to trust because of a past human disappointment? Huh?
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  Speaker 1: Stop allowing things that have happened to you and what
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  Speaker 1: people have done to you to stop you from believing
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  Speaker 1: in God's word has been spoken over your life. You
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  Speaker 1: pick up that Bible, you read that word. Understand that
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  Speaker 1: that word applies to you just as he said. It
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  Speaker 1: may say John, it may say Mary, it may say Mark,
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  Speaker 1: but He's given those or our living instruction, the basic
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  Speaker 1: living instructions that we're supposed to do before we leave
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  Speaker 1: this earth. So we're supposed to pick that Bible up
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  Speaker 1: and apply it to our life and allow that word
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  Speaker 1: to manifest in us and through us. Understand that God
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  Speaker 1: is faithful. Understand that every promise will find it's yea
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  Speaker 1: yes in Jesus. Your assurance has a name. Huh. Second
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  Speaker 1: Corinthians one. In twenty he said, Paul defines his integrity
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  Speaker 1: by pointing to God's unchanging yes in Christ. Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: the fulfillment and guarantee of God's covenant promise. His life
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  Speaker 1: and death and resurrection confirms God's yes to salvation, presence,
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  Speaker 1: and restoration. He said that he will never leave us
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  Speaker 1: nor forsake us. He's always with us. If we make
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  Speaker 1: our bed in hell, He's gonna be with us. Uh. So,
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  Speaker 1: know that you gotta connect to joy. Your assurance isn't abstract.
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  Speaker 1: It is anchored in the living Christ. If he lives,
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  Speaker 1: your hopes stand and he lives through us. The Word
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  Speaker 1: tells us that. So how does Jesus record resurrection specifically
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  Speaker 1: validate the promise that I'm trusting God today? Because he
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  Speaker 1: hung on that cross for us, y'all. He died for us,
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  Speaker 1: He was buried, and he rolls again so that we
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  Speaker 1: would have the right to eternal life, so that we
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  Speaker 1: would have the right to repent, turn from our wicked ways.
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  Speaker 1: And he said He's just to heal the land. So
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  Speaker 1: trust and believe that God is yet working, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what it looked like, No matter what it looked like,
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  Speaker 1: Know that He's yet working, y'all. The Holy Spirit turns
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  Speaker 1: trust into overflow of hope, joy and peace. If you
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  Speaker 1: go back to the beginning. When we first read this stripper,
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  Speaker 1: it says Romans fifteen and thirteen. It says, show a flow,
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  Speaker 1: trust God the spirit. Feel you overflow with hope, joy,
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  Speaker 1: peace or spirits gifts not self produced molds. And if
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  Speaker 1: we go down to the Latians five and twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: it reminds us. It reminds us joy and peace are
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  Speaker 1: fruits of the spirit, life with the and growing as
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  Speaker 1: we abide and not strive. We got to continue to
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  Speaker 1: abide in his word. We got to continue to trust
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  Speaker 1: his word. We got to continue to move and that
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  Speaker 1: that He's called us to do. So how can we
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  Speaker 1: apply these things to our life? How can we apply
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  Speaker 1: these scriptures to our lives? First, y'all, we got to
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  Speaker 1: begin to practice these three piece pause, pray and praise.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of us we are reminded of these ppep loans,
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  Speaker 1: but we won't pause, we won't pray, and we won't
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  Speaker 1: give him praise. Y'all, if you want to transfer this
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  Speaker 1: weight out of you, you want to lose some of
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that's on you. You want to be in
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  Speaker 1: line with the things that we know He's called us to.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta pause, You gotta pray and you gotta praise
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  Speaker 1: him so that he can move in your life. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: first pe and seven it is. It's not decisive. We
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  Speaker 1: got peace follows surrendering. So surrender to him today. Give
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  Speaker 1: it to him, cast all your cares upon him. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to practice this three minute. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to practice. It's a three minute practice that I want
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  Speaker 1: you to do. Ex heal and name your burden plainly
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  Speaker 1: before God, Say Father, I cast this to you, Picture
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  Speaker 1: placing it in his hand, and then begin to thank
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  Speaker 1: him for handling whatever situation you may be going through.
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  Speaker 1: Asks for the next faithful step to obey him on today,
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  Speaker 1: and we should incorporate this every day. Start your day
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  Speaker 1: doing this. Start your day with a three minute practice
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  Speaker 1: of ex healing and naming that burden plainly before God.
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  Speaker 1: Anything that's troubling you on today, give it to him,
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  Speaker 1: Tell him say I cast this on you, and picture
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  Speaker 1: giving it to him, putting it in his hand, and
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  Speaker 1: then just begin to praise him and thank him for
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  Speaker 1: handling what you cannot hale. And then ask him what's
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  Speaker 1: the next step. Ask him what it is that you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be doing, and how can you continue on.
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  Speaker 1: Plant a promise and meditate on every morning, mid morning, midday,
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  Speaker 1: and night. Y'all. Plant the word so that it can
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  Speaker 1: shift your thoughts God's truth and be meditate, y'all. Meditation
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  Speaker 1: drives assurance from the head to your heart. So meditate
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  Speaker 1: when you have time, simple rhythm. Morning, read the promise aloud,
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  Speaker 1: Emphasize a different word each day. Midday, paraphrase in your
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  Speaker 1: own word what you've read that morning. Keep speaking it
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  Speaker 1: over your life, y'all. We got to get this word
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  Speaker 1: rooted down in us so that when we begin to
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  Speaker 1: face things, we're able to go through it. We're able
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  Speaker 1: to pull up the word. We're able to place the
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  Speaker 1: word and allow it to do what it's supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: And then at night, pray it back to God with gratitude.
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  Speaker 1: Thank him for allowing you to get through this day,
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  Speaker 1: and whatever he's done for you, thank him for it.
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  Speaker 1: It's the little things, y'all. We don't even thank him
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  Speaker 1: for waking us up this morning. We think that it
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  Speaker 1: was the alarm clock, and we get up and we
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  Speaker 1: just go about our natural routine, not giving him praise
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  Speaker 1: for waking us up this morning. Because somebody didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to see this day. But we got another chance. We
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  Speaker 1: got another chance to get to get some things right
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  Speaker 1: that we didn't get right on yesterday. So again I
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  Speaker 1: challenge you. Put him in the midst of what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get so caught up in everyday life and what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in this world. Because he told us we
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  Speaker 1: got to be in this world, but not of this world.
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  Speaker 1: So keep him first, Keep him first. I will not
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  Speaker 1: fear for you or with me. I will not be dismayed,
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  Speaker 1: for you are my God, my strength, my help, uphold
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  Speaker 1: me with your righteous hand. Practice joy, by gratitude, and
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  Speaker 1: worship before the feeling arivees now, even before you can
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  Speaker 1: see something. Sometimes because a lot of us, if we
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  Speaker 1: can't see it, we can't experience it. We don't like
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  Speaker 1: to give him praise. And then sometimes we don't want
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  Speaker 1: to praise, we don't want to praise, we don't want
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  Speaker 1: to worship, and then until something comes up on us
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  Speaker 1: and we're going through some things. But y'all, we got
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  Speaker 1: to rejoice always. We got to rejoice always align with
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  Speaker 1: the House yea abide in Christ and allow him to
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  Speaker 1: lead us. As I close, I want to share a
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  Speaker 1: recap of what we have learned this week starting with
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  Speaker 1: day number eight. I want to share a recap of
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  Speaker 1: what we have learned this week starting with day number eight.
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  Speaker 1: Their number eight was confidence in God's plan. We focused
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  Speaker 1: on Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven. God's intention towards you.
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  Speaker 1: It's good. His plan is to give you hope in
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  Speaker 1: the future. Day number nine was rest in God's tim
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  Speaker 1: and we went to Ecclesiastics three and eleven. He makes
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  Speaker 1: everything beautiful in his time. Trust his pace. Don't get
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  Speaker 1: so caught up in what everybody else is doing and
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  Speaker 1: why things are not happening in the way is happening
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  Speaker 1: for others. You are not them. He fearfully and He
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  Speaker 1: fearfully and wonderfully made each and every one of us
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  Speaker 1: in his image. So we're not gonna be like our brothers,
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  Speaker 1: are not gonna be like our sisters. I have twin nephews,
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  Speaker 1: and when I tell you they are totally different, they
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  Speaker 1: are totally different because they are uniquely and fearfully made
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  Speaker 1: in His image. So I tell you to trust the
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  Speaker 1: process and to know that God's timing is always on time,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes it may be delayed, but know that He
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  Speaker 1: will never deny you Day ten, we talked about the
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  Speaker 1: assurance of his presence. We went over to Psalms forty
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  Speaker 1: six and ten, or that scripture says, be still and
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  Speaker 1: know that he's God, y'all. He's present, he's powerful, and
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  Speaker 1: he is near. He will never leave us north for sake,
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  Speaker 1: because he said he left the comforter. So know that
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  Speaker 1: you have something with you at all times. Trust his word.
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  Speaker 1: Stand on his word because it will not return to
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  Speaker 1: him void, y'all. Day number eleven, we focus on being
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  Speaker 1: anchored in his truth. We went over to John eight
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  Speaker 1: and thirty two. The truth will set you free. His
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  Speaker 1: word secures your step. So know that believing and trusting
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  Speaker 1: in his word, y'all, his word is not going to
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  Speaker 1: return to him board. His word is the truth. His
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  Speaker 1: word is powerful. His word. He's given us that power,
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  Speaker 1: y'all to speak life of death. So know that we
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  Speaker 1: can speak life of death over our own life. Understand
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  Speaker 1: that Day twelve, y'all, we went over to We went
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  Speaker 1: over to Tawo Peter's three verse number nine. Hope in
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  Speaker 1: his promise, Hope in his promise. He is not slow,
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  Speaker 1: he is yet faithful and patient. He is not slow.
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  Speaker 1: He is yet faithful and patient, not microwave. He's not
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  Speaker 1: He's not microwaving things. Sometime we got to go through.
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  Speaker 1: We got to endure so that we can get the lesson.
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  Speaker 1: We don't always understand why we are going through exactly
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  Speaker 1: what it is. But you can hope in his promise.
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  Speaker 1: You can hope in every word that has been spoken,
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  Speaker 1: and know that it shall be performed in your life. Now,
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  Speaker 1: He's not like man. They number thirteen, which was yesterday, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about courage and silence. We went over to
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah thirty and fifteen and returning and rest in salvation
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  Speaker 1: and quietness and trust and the strength. Y'all. We gotta
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  Speaker 1: return back to him. Some of us we tried everything.
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  Speaker 1: We've tried to do it our way, but always not
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  Speaker 1: the right way. His way is the only way, the
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  Speaker 1: only way, so trust him. On today today we talked
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  Speaker 1: about joy and his assurance. We focused on Romans fifteen
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  Speaker 1: and thirteen. Trust unlocks the spiritual giving, joy, peace and overflower, hope.
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  Speaker 1: How the pieces fit together, Understand the plan. God's good
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  Speaker 1: intention removes fear about our future, his timing, his pace
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  Speaker 1: removes striving in the present. His presence is near calms
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  Speaker 1: your inner storm. His truth is his words reset your
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  Speaker 1: perspective and decision making. His promises. He is faithful and
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  Speaker 1: it fuels our endurance when the answer takes time. So
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  Speaker 1: y'all understand that his word will not return to him bore.
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  Speaker 1: Silence is the quiet way of making you strong without noise.
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  Speaker 1: Joy is His spirit turns trust into unshakable overflow of hope.
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  Speaker 1: So three things that I want you, guys, to carry
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  Speaker 1: forward with you. Understanding stillness before action begins with be
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  Speaker 1: stilled before you go and do surrendering to him. Understanding
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  Speaker 1: that releasing deadlines and receiving God's appointments. Next thing, you
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  Speaker 1: have to have scripture that confidence. Let the promises, not
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  Speaker 1: your feelings. Let the promises of God. So go read
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  Speaker 1: this word, pick it up, apply to your life, allow
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  Speaker 1: it to manifest. But the promises of God, not your feelings,
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  Speaker 1: have the final word. So this week, as we go forward,
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  Speaker 1: I want y'all to reflect on these questions. Think about
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  Speaker 1: them throughout the rest of this day, as we go
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  Speaker 1: into our new week, as we go into our new
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  Speaker 1: week of lessons and exploring what the word He has
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  Speaker 1: given us. So this I want you to reflect on
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  Speaker 1: this week? Where did God invite me to slow down?
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  Speaker 1: Trust him and his time? And this week not my timing,
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  Speaker 1: but his timing? How will you trust him? Secondly, which
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  Speaker 1: promise most strengthened me? And how did it show up
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  Speaker 1: in my real life? Go find these promises in the words,
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  Speaker 1: y'ad He's given us promises things that He's gonna do
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  Speaker 1: for us. Thirdly, what changes when I choose silence with
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  Speaker 1: God before speaking and deciding? God? We have to allow
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  Speaker 1: him to lead us. We had to allow him to
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  Speaker 1: speak to us. We can't be about our own agenda. Humh.
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  Speaker 1: And lastly, where did I experience a lift and joy
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  Speaker 1: as I trusted? Y'all? Taking these different questions and asking
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  Speaker 1: them to yourself at evaluating where you are thinking a
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  Speaker 1: little deep, spending that time with him again, If you
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  Speaker 1: could just only take five minutes every morning to do
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  Speaker 1: these simple things that I'm about to share with you,
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  Speaker 1: breathe in hell and be still know that I am God.
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  Speaker 1: Say it, y'all, recall the next recall and name one
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  Speaker 1: moment from each day that marked you. Then you got
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  Speaker 1: to be able to receive pray Romans fifteen and thirteen
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  Speaker 1: over yourself and your household. Lastly, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: write down one obedient step for tomorrow. What will you
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  Speaker 1: do tomorrow? And y'all do this every day. You got
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  Speaker 1: to spend time with him. You got to explore it.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to have hope in God's word. And thank
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  Speaker 1: Him for steadying your heart this week. Thank him for
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  Speaker 1: allowing you to receive the plans that he had for you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank him for his time and thank him for his presence.
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  Speaker 1: Thank him for his truth, his promise, and thank him
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  Speaker 1: for filling you with the Holy Spirit that you may
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  Speaker 1: have joy and peace. And trust him that He will
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  Speaker 1: make overflow a part of your life and your blessings
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  Speaker 1: for others. Understand that you are the overflow with joy
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  Speaker 1: from the assurance in God. Speak it over your life.
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  Speaker 1: Say I overflow with joy from the assurance of You
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  Speaker 1: who created me. And memorize a few verses that you
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  Speaker 1: can speak over your life throughout the day. Take time
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  Speaker 1: to memorize this verse Romans fifteen and thirteen. May the
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  Speaker 1: God of Hope fill you with joy, all joy and
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  Speaker 1: peace as you trust him. May the God of Hope
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  Speaker 1: feel you with all joy and peace as you trust him,
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  Speaker 1: so that you may overflow with hope by the power
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit, y'all, as we wrap up a
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  Speaker 1: week of acquiet assurance. It's not loud, but it is unshakable,
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  Speaker 1: and it produces joy that overflows, y'all, as we look
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  Speaker 1: ahead to tomorrow, as we approach our final week of
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  Speaker 1: this devotion, the title of the week's lesson is a
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  Speaker 1: everlasting praise, A everlasting praise, a everlasting praise. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be talking about gratitude as we go into our first day.
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  Speaker 1: Our first lesson is gratitude in presence. We're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: in Psalm sixteen and we're gonna focus on verse number eleven.
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  Speaker 1: I pray that you guys will join me back here
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  Speaker 1: on tomorrow for another daily devotion as we continue this journey, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: As we continue this journey. As we continue this journey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna share this poem with you, guys, because every
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  Speaker 1: day there's a poem, a short one stands, a poem
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  Speaker 1: for versus after each devotion. Because I am a poet
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  Speaker 1: and I believe in sharing my gifts and talents, so
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  Speaker 1: it says this poem is in His presence, Joy abounds,
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  Speaker 1: a hope that never ends. His spirit is unresound with joy,
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  Speaker 1: our hope. I'm sorry, with joy our heart extends, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna read it again. It said in his promises,
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  Speaker 1: joy abounds, a hope that never ends. His spirit is
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  Speaker 1: in us, resounds with joy, our heart extends, and that's
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  Speaker 1: set piece. I pray that there's been something that I've
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  Speaker 1: shared with you, Gods that will bless you on today.
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  Speaker 1: If I've shared anything that blesses you, invite someone to
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  Speaker 1: join with us on tomorrow and share what has been
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  Speaker 1: shared with you. I pray that God will bless everything
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  Speaker 1: that has gone forth on today, Lord god Father, I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for just another opportunity that I can share
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  Speaker 1: your word. Father, I hope that it had fallen on
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  Speaker 1: good soul, Lord God. Diseased will be, will be planet
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  Speaker 1: and will be watered until that they may produce fruit.
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  Speaker 1: Lord god Father, we thank you for yet another opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: And Father asks we leave this live, Lord God and
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  Speaker 1: going out into this world, Lord God, because your word
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  Speaker 1: said that we had to be in this world. Father
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  Speaker 1: asked that you would give us traveling mercies for those
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  Speaker 1: that are going out and have to be out and about,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God Father, shield and take every mold or transportation
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  Speaker 1: that will be taking on today, Lord God, allow everyone
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  Speaker 1: to get to their destination and return home safely to
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  Speaker 1: their friends and their families. Or God Father, we thank
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  Speaker 1: you for your son Jesus that hung on that cross,
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  Speaker 1: that died for us, that was buried and resurrected so
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  Speaker 1: that we may have the right to eternal life. Father.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you right now that you have done all
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  Speaker 1: that you are doing and all that you shall do. Father,
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  Speaker 1: we ask that you would just have your way, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: and cover us as we go out into this world.
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  Speaker 1: Keep us from knowing from all hurt home or danger.
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, but Father, allow us to be a living
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  Speaker 1: testimony that somebody that may come in contact with us,
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  Speaker 1: that may not know you, that they would come to
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  Speaker 1: know you on today, Lord God Father, I thank you
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  Speaker 1: and I see these prayers and your son Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, Amen. Again.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you guys for joining me. I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being a part of daily devotion. Start your day
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  Speaker 1: off with him, regardless of what you're going through, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of what may happen, regardless of how you feel, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: just give him some time. He just wants you to
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge him, No, we are not perfect people. We will
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  Speaker 1: never be perfect people. We all fall short of his glory.
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  Speaker 1: But he gives us a chance to repent, to turn
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  Speaker 1: from those things. And he said He's just to forgive us.
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  Speaker 1: But not only will here forgive us. We got to
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  Speaker 1: forgive ourselves as we forgive others, y'all. So Father, I
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  Speaker 1: thank you guys for joining me. If you were like
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  Speaker 1: a copy of this devotion, on any of the devotions
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  Speaker 1: that I have, you can go over to my website
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  Speaker 1: which is Www. Angela Thomas Smith books dot com. Again,
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  Speaker 1: that is Www. Angela Thomas Smith books dot com. And
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  Speaker 1: I hope that you guys will be blessed again. Hope
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  Speaker 1: to see you back here on tomorrow. God's willing y'all
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  Speaker 1: have a great day beyond what you can see in
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  Speaker 1: the natural