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What breaks Your Heart? [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: What's going on, fam, is your bro Sam Lopez, a
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  Speaker 1: kadj Sam rock So, winners with a z dot org
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  Speaker 1: we're streaming on some social media platforms that allow us
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  Speaker 1: of the groups online. If you're a group that allows
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful for your time, for your trust, amen, and
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  Speaker 1: for allowing us to go through on in front of
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  Speaker 1: your group people. Amen. That's really showing love and support. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So today we're talking about another question. Yesterday we ask
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  Speaker 1: the question. Today we're gonna ask another question. What really
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  Speaker 1: breaks your heart? Man? What breaks your heart? Like when
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  Speaker 1: you look at things, look at people, look at situations,
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  Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, you can't shake it. It like
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  Speaker 1: it bothers you, It breaks your heart, It like you
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  Speaker 1: want to do something about it. Amen. And it's usually something,
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  Speaker 1: at least for me, something that's not right. I want
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  Speaker 1: to try to make it right. Last week I saw
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  Speaker 1: our young kid man being yelled at and scolded by
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  Speaker 1: I guess the little kid's dad. And but the way
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  Speaker 1: it was going down, it looked real bad and it
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  Speaker 1: started messing with my heart and started messing with me.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm gonna go over there and
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  Speaker 1: say something, and Holy Spirit said, I see it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking care of it. And I was like, whoa. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm like that bothers me, you know, youth parenting, all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff that I see that if it goes a
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  Speaker 1: little the other way, I get a little bit upset.
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  Speaker 1: When I first got saved, I jump out of my
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  Speaker 1: car every time I saw the Israelites in my area
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  Speaker 1: preaching the young kids. And I used to jump out
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  Speaker 1: and say, don't listen to that man. They liars, this, that,
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  Speaker 1: and the third of the mean and the hebrewis who
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  Speaker 1: likes me to get into it debates and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: because I just don't like when young people are involved,
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  Speaker 1: you know, without they're trying to be one sided or
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  Speaker 1: trying to capture this youth without giving them a chance
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  Speaker 1: to think for themselves. So I used to be that
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  Speaker 1: guy to jump out the car and be like, nah,
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  Speaker 1: you know this, that and the third And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that was right or wrong at the time,
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was doing at the time. And man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just confessing to what I would do because they
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  Speaker 1: would bother me. It would break my heart to see
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  Speaker 1: people under weird teaching, false teaching. I'll say it like that.
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  Speaker 1: I want them to see the Lord Jesus for who
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  Speaker 1: he is and for what he does in the lives
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  Speaker 1: of all those who say yes to him, follow him
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  Speaker 1: after him man wholeheartedly. So what breaks your heart today
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, Devo, Let me read what I wrote here?
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  Speaker 1: What breaks your heart or stirs your spirit usually points
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  Speaker 1: to the calling God has placed on your life. God
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  Speaker 1: can use our passions, burdens, and our gifts. Use it all, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: for his glory, for his purpose, for his plan to
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  Speaker 1: move forward in your life and in this world. Romans,
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  Speaker 1: chapter twelve, verse number six. We're going to take a
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  Speaker 1: minute to pray. After we pray, but shut us out
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  Speaker 1: for like another minute, Amen, And we'll shut us out
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  Speaker 1: to as many people as possible. When we come back
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  Speaker 1: on the other side of those sixty seconds, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: right into Romans chapter number twelve, verse number six. So
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  Speaker 1: what breaks your heart or stirs your spirit usually points
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  Speaker 1: to the calling God has placed on your life. Hold
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  Speaker 1: that real quick in your spirit. While we're getting into this,
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  Speaker 1: Sister Joeyne, I see you. Good morning, God, bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning. Devo my sister and my friend.
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  Speaker 1: So let's pray. Father, I thank you, thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for giving us emotion, for showing us things and
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  Speaker 1: allowing us to see what bothers us, what stirs our spirit,
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  Speaker 1: what breaks our heart, So that way we can know,
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, if that really matters to us so much,
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  Speaker 1: we can go to God and He'll empower us to
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  Speaker 1: go make a difference in those situations. O the God,
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  Speaker 1: I pray and I trust that you see what we see,
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  Speaker 1: but you see it even before we see it. The
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  Speaker 1: in justice, the false teachers, the backstabbing in the churches
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  Speaker 1: and the communities. You see, the poverty, you see the
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  Speaker 1: mental health issues, you see the gender issues, all of it.
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  Speaker 1: You see it all before we see it. And yet
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  Speaker 1: you send us anyway to go make a difference. I pray,
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, that you will empower all of us to
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  Speaker 1: go make a difference in our communities and our families,
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  Speaker 1: in our city, in our neighborhood and our burroughs wherever
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  Speaker 1: we find ourselves. A love God, that you empower us
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  Speaker 1: to go make a difference through your love, grace and
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  Speaker 1: your mercy by leading us into places where your love
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  Speaker 1: and your word will really change us and change the
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  Speaker 1: people around us for the good. And I thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lo God for saving me, for saving all those whosoevers
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  Speaker 1: who call upon your name, and that we rescue, sanctified delivered.
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  Speaker 1: And we are moving forward in victory knowing that you
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  Speaker 1: are the one who gave us this victory, and you
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  Speaker 1: are the one who placed these desires and emotions in
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  Speaker 1: our heart. And we have a new heart. And if
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  Speaker 1: our heart is breaking or aching over situations that we see,
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  Speaker 1: help us go make a difference. I pray Lo God
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  Speaker 1: a hedge of protection while we're going to make a
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  Speaker 1: difference in our neighborhoods and our families and our communities
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  Speaker 1: and our cities, our states, and our nation. Pray a
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  Speaker 1: hedge of protection that you would guide, guard and protect us.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for your health, your strength and your
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  Speaker 1: protection that you give us daily, and I give it
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  Speaker 1: back to your Low God as an offering unto you.
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  Speaker 1: And I pray for every single person on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the screen and on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: this might just listening amen on the radio online. I
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  Speaker 1: give you glory, honor, worship, and praise, and I thank
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  Speaker 1: you for today. I thank you for right now and
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Holy Name of praise by faith and all those
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  Speaker 1: who agree, we say amen to the Amen. Help me
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  Speaker 1: share this out sixty seconds. When we come back, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get right into it. What breaks your heart? Think about it? Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be right back right we're back. Let's go for it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's find this word. Let's find a scripture for those
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  Speaker 1: who are just listening. And manas no no word, no worries.
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  Speaker 1: Right here, we're gonna read it word for word on
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  Speaker 1: what we're seeing on the screen. And thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for listening. That someone is with the z DO
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  Speaker 1: the Lee Have Valley's number one urban gospel music station.
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  Speaker 1: We've been online since two thousand and eight. God has
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  Speaker 1: blessed the ministry. He has given He's given us longevity
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  Speaker 1: because I believe he placed his hand on it, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why he's still here. We're still here, Amen, presenting
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  Speaker 1: the gospel to those who's whoever's who will listen. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for your listening here. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: Sister Joyce. I see you, God bless you. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for the blessings over the group. I bless you in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus as well. Amen. So thank you
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  Speaker 1: for coming through my system, my friend. So let me
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  Speaker 1: get this ready, Amen, so we could see the everlasting word,
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  Speaker 1: true word, Amen, not my truth. It's the Gospel truth.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're presenting today and every day on the morning. Devo,
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  Speaker 1: what breaks your heart? That's the question we want to
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  Speaker 1: ask right ourselves. Look yourself in the mirror. You already
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  Speaker 1: know what that thing is. Hey man, it could be
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  Speaker 1: something that's going on right now in your life, your family.
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  Speaker 1: I bless you, brother Frank, I see you, God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Welcome back to the One and Devo, my
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  Speaker 1: bro and my friend. Bless you and your family as well.
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  Speaker 1: Romans Chapter twelve, verse number six. The Bible says, since
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  Speaker 1: we have gifts that differ according to the grace given
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  Speaker 1: to us, each of us is to use them accordingly,
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  Speaker 1: use what accordingly supposed to use the gifts that we
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  Speaker 1: were given different, or use them. Each of us is
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  Speaker 1: to use them accordingly. If someone has the gift of prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: let them speak a new message from God to his
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  Speaker 1: people in proportion to the faith possessed. Right, go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and prophesied. God gave you that gift, go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: go in the streets, in the highways and byways, and
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  Speaker 1: preach the gospel as an advantagel. If God gave you
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  Speaker 1: that gift, go ahead and teach. If God gave you
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  Speaker 1: that gift, go ahead and be a passive. If God
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  Speaker 1: gave you that gift, go ahead and be an apostle.
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  Speaker 1: If God gave you that gift. Amen, we have it all.
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  Speaker 1: We have it all according to the scriptures. God himself
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  Speaker 1: divvied it out. He gave us these gifts to use
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  Speaker 1: them accordingly because it was given to us because of
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  Speaker 1: God's grace, and he knows how to use us. He
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  Speaker 1: knows who's who and what's what. He knows our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: But today what breaks our heart is usually what God
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  Speaker 1: is calling us to go make a difference in Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we have a solution, or maybe you have a solution
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  Speaker 1: to an issue that you see in your community. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: God gave you that, and he gave you the emotion
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  Speaker 1: to want to go make a difference. He gave you
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  Speaker 1: that emotion to go and want to make a difference,
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  Speaker 1: So go ahead and make that difference. Amen. And it's
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  Speaker 1: about trusting him, right, Trusting God is authority. He'll do
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  Speaker 1: a great work in your life if you only let
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  Speaker 1: him do it. Amen. We don't gotta make nothing up.
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  Speaker 1: We don't gotta try to follow this pattern, that pattern.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have to try to duplicate another ministry or
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  Speaker 1: another minister. Amen. God has authentically made you, authentically made
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  Speaker 1: me a man, and has planned it all out beforehand.
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  Speaker 1: Or we are part of the finished work. We are
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  Speaker 1: benefiting off the finished work of our Lord and saving
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. He did it. He conquered sin, he conquers death. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He went to the grave, rose out of that grave
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  Speaker 1: to prove to the whole universe of who he is. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And then before he ascended back to the heavenly throne
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  Speaker 1: on the right hand of the Father, you know what
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  Speaker 1: he did. He sent one just like him back to
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  Speaker 1: us for all those who believed in him, and gave
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  Speaker 1: us the right to be called children of God. And
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  Speaker 1: now we have his spirit living inside of us. To
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and break it make a difference. So if
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  Speaker 1: it breaks God's heart, breaks our heart the situations we're
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  Speaker 1: seeing around us, he strategically placed all of us where
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  Speaker 1: we are. Have you noticed that even though I heard
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  Speaker 1: someone told me that we decided who our parents were
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  Speaker 1: going to be, we decided where we're going to be living,
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  Speaker 1: We decided what gender we were going to be, we
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  Speaker 1: decided what nationality like. She really believes that we made
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  Speaker 1: these decisions before we got here, But I don't agree.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that we had no idea of who were
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  Speaker 1: going to be on parents, where we were going to
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  Speaker 1: be living. This is before we were born, Amen. But
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  Speaker 1: now that we were strategically placed where we were placed,
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  Speaker 1: through the family that we were placed in, Amen, our
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  Speaker 1: parents all that, I believe God had a plan he
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  Speaker 1: had to plan beforehand. Not me. I don't believe I
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  Speaker 1: made the choice of where I was going to be,
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  Speaker 1: who I was going to be before I was born
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  Speaker 1: a man. I believe God knew the plan for our
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  Speaker 1: lives before we were born. I'll leave it like that, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: So let me go to my notes here. Got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of more minutes left, And it's not as simple
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  Speaker 1: as I'm saying that I know, I'm just saying it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to simplify it. Because this is a morning devotion.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and do your due diligence. Go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: study the scriptures. Amen, go ahead and study Romans chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 1: the whole chapter. So God doesn't just call you to
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  Speaker 1: do something. He equips you to get what he called
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  Speaker 1: you to do. He called you to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Your gift and my gift are tools for the assignment. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I got some gifts and music, right, so I use
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  Speaker 1: that as a tool. That's why I started the radio network.
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  Speaker 1: And actually the radio network first started years ago with
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  Speaker 1: a Bible study. Of all things. It was like came
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  Speaker 1: out of left field, at least to me. God knew
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  Speaker 1: what he was doing. He told me, go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: do an online Bible study. Then go ahead and podcasts
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  Speaker 1: an online Bible study. I'm like, I didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: what a podcast was, to be honest, that's the word
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  Speaker 1: I got from him. So I had to look up
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  Speaker 1: what a podcast was. That I look into how to
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  Speaker 1: get it online, and I wrote a proposal and I
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  Speaker 1: gave it to that proposal to my leaders at the time.
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  Speaker 1: They said, no, it's not this is not gonna work
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  Speaker 1: or they said it wasn't time for that yet. So
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  Speaker 1: God gave me something that was before the timing of
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  Speaker 1: when it actually was gonna happen. In leadership of my
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  Speaker 1: first church. It's okay. I kept on writing what God
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  Speaker 1: was telling me. I kept on doing what God was
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  Speaker 1: telling me. Amen. And it started with a Bible study.
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  Speaker 1: I say, ain't nobody gonna go online find me and
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  Speaker 1: listen to a Bible study? That's what I was thinking.
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  Speaker 1: But I did it anyway. I mean, you know how
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  Speaker 1: many people know when you just do what God says anyway,
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  Speaker 1: He'll take care of the rest. So I did it,
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  Speaker 1: and within a month I had thousands of listeners listening
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  Speaker 1: every time I wentn't live crazy with the old tech,
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  Speaker 1: the old tech that used to be for podcasting and
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  Speaker 1: live streaming. Hey man. Thousands of people commentaries. And it
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit overwhelming in the beginning cause I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to comment back to everybody who was commenting,
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  Speaker 1: and man, it was it was uh, it was fun,
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  Speaker 1: but it was challenging at the same time. And then
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  Speaker 1: when people started noticing what I was doing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was like, what are you doing? And then they
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  Speaker 1: started listening, and then unfortunately some of my friends from
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  Speaker 1: church with calling with some bogus prayer requests from bogus
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  Speaker 1: situations and then laugh about it cause they thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a joke and they didn't know how serious I
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  Speaker 1: was taking it. So I got a little offended, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And they were joking about what
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  Speaker 1: I was doing in the ministry and the beginning. But
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  Speaker 1: I was real serious cause God was directing me and
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  Speaker 1: I was a new Christian, new believer, right, so I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Wow, God's gonna use me for what Cause
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  Speaker 1: I was doing stuff in the world before I got saved.
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  Speaker 1: I knew how to promote clubs. I knew how to
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  Speaker 1: promote parties. I knew how to get my advertising out there.
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  Speaker 1: Per se. I knew how to get the word out
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  Speaker 1: there with less technology, just a phone with a phone
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  Speaker 1: and a phone bank and a voicemail. Well they would
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  Speaker 1: call it caller on hold. That was the tech that
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  Speaker 1: was called caller on hold. And I knew how to
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  Speaker 1: do that, but I was doing that for the world.
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  Speaker 1: So when I came into the Kingdom of God, that
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  Speaker 1: got brought me into the Kingdom of God. He's the
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  Speaker 1: one who gave me those gifts, and he gave me
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  Speaker 1: those burdens. He gave me that thing that broke my
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  Speaker 1: brought my heart, He gave me those emotions. So then
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  Speaker 1: he just flipped it and used it for his glory. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So what comes naturally to you actually helps others because
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't come naturally to them. Praise God. So think
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  Speaker 1: about what comes naturally to you that you know you
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  Speaker 1: could fix something. You're good at mechanics, you're good at fixing,
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  Speaker 1: You're good at helping people. You're good at listening to people.
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  Speaker 1: You're good at speak. Whatever comes natural to you is
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  Speaker 1: actually helping others right now, right, I ask yourself, what
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  Speaker 1: do I feel is my zone? What do I feel
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  Speaker 1: is in my zone? And what makes you happy or
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  Speaker 1: gives you that joy? Why are you doing it? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: That's an indication of the gift that God has given
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  Speaker 1: you to go and make something happen in somebody else's life.
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  Speaker 1: Have others affirmed certain strengths in you. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: around saying oh I got this strength and that strength. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes people go and affirm it. I have this one woman,
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  Speaker 1: she's still alive, bless hers soul. Right, she's still alive.
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  Speaker 1: She's probably a little older than me. I think she's
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  Speaker 1: older than me, and I promise you. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was twenty years ago when she told me. It's the
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  Speaker 1: first time. Even longer than that, twenty years ago, probably
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  Speaker 1: said if she said it like this, and I'm not exaggerate,
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  Speaker 1: he said, before I die, you're gonna be a pastor.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, oh Jesus, this lady says
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  Speaker 1: putting it on her life that she heard from the
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  Speaker 1: Lord and said I was gonna be passing out. And
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  Speaker 1: it's crazy because every time I see her, I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm still not a pastor. He said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you are. Like, man, I'd be like, she says, I
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  Speaker 1: see what you're doing. I see your ministry. You're an
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  Speaker 1: online pastor, you're a she's One time she called me
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  Speaker 1: a podcast pastor and she laughed. I said, listen, whatever
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  Speaker 1: you see, amen in me is what you see. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're gonna affirm that over my life because she
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  Speaker 1: believes she put her life on it, bro like, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, So I'm just staying in
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  Speaker 1: my lane. I know I'm an evangelist. Some people said, well,
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  Speaker 1: you could be both because God will divvy out the gifts. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So Sam Low not claiming to be a pastor. People
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  Speaker 1: are telling me that I am. Okay, let's get that straight.
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  Speaker 1: Because sometimes I'll be somewhere o past to Sam and
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  Speaker 1: I'll be like, uh oh, And I'm always thinking that
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  Speaker 1: they're confusing me with someone who looks like me who's
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  Speaker 1: actually a pastor and his actually his name is Sam
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  Speaker 1: as well. Amen. So I always make sure I said,
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  Speaker 1: do you know that I'm Sam Lopez not the other Sam.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes they're shocked and be like, oh, we thought
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  Speaker 1: you would other ones. And other times people say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know exactly who you are and I thought you
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  Speaker 1: was a pastor just like that. So people will confirm
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  Speaker 1: or affirm the gift that they see in you. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: When they see you, it's a spiritual thing. It's a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual gift. Teaching is a spiritual gift. Right, encouraging people,
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  Speaker 1: it's a spiritual gift. Leadership is a spiritual gift. Mercy
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  Speaker 1: or even prayer into session, which is powerful, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is often a spiritual gift. And it gives you a lane,
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  Speaker 1: and it gives you joy, it gives you peace when
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  Speaker 1: you're actually doing it. So I don't know about the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual assessment tests that some churches put out. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you fill out a form and you answer questions. I
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  Speaker 1: guess it could help, But I know God is the
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  Speaker 1: one who divvies out the gifts, and he's not asking
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  Speaker 1: us to fill out a form or do a test
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  Speaker 1: to Q and A. I mean, I don't think that's
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  Speaker 1: any harm in that. I just don't buy too much
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  Speaker 1: into it because it's not really in the scriptures. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: God is the one who gives us the gifts, and
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  Speaker 1: rely on the one the gift giver will know our
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  Speaker 1: assignment quicker than we take a test of Q and A.
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  Speaker 1: So here's some some practical things you could do right
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  Speaker 1: now today. If you want to, Amen, it's totally optional.
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  Speaker 1: You can make a list. What are your skills? Right?
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  Speaker 1: What are you good at? You know what you're good at,
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  Speaker 1: and you know what you're not too good at. So
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the things that you're good at. Let's
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  Speaker 1: not worry about the things that you might say I'm
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  Speaker 1: horrible at that. When I'm not asking you what you're
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  Speaker 1: horrible about, I'm asking you what you're good at. A
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  Speaker 1: man and write that down right spiritual gifts. What burdens you, like,
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  Speaker 1: what bothers you? What breaks your heart? When you see
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  Speaker 1: something or when you hear about something, or when you
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  Speaker 1: notice something in somebody else's life, or maybe in your
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  Speaker 1: own life it breaks your heart. That might be what
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  Speaker 1: God is doing in your life for you to see
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  Speaker 1: and feel and to go and make a difference about it.
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  Speaker 1: Think about is usually something that's not right that God
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  Speaker 1: wants us to fix and make right. He says He'll
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  Speaker 1: make all the crooked paths, all our crooked paths straight. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: this some adjustment that God's going to do through you
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  Speaker 1: and through me. Of course, this is something practical that
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  Speaker 1: you probably overlook. I know sometimes I overlook at it.
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  Speaker 1: Overlook this. Ask God, Ask God what he wants you
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  Speaker 1: to do? I asked, got okay, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 1: Even when I'm when I'm doing my ride share, when
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  Speaker 1: I drive lift, I'm asking God, what do I say
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  Speaker 1: to the passenger on what's the best route to go?
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  Speaker 1: Even though I have a GPS way Man, it's just
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  Speaker 1: the right pick up? Do I do I pick this
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  Speaker 1: person up? Or I leave them there? I have to
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  Speaker 1: ask Holy Spirit? I ask God, because sometimes well all
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  Speaker 1: the time. I don't know what's gonna happen. I'm relying
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  Speaker 1: and trusting on the Lord. So ask God. You could
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  Speaker 1: ask God, why did you make me this way? And
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  Speaker 1: why do I feel this burden over x y z?
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  Speaker 1: Ask God He'll he'll answer. Or you could ask him
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  Speaker 1: why am I going through this? And what is this for?
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  Speaker 1: Somebody had posted a brother in Christ had posted that
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  Speaker 1: he wants to give up. He was even cursing. He
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  Speaker 1: said nobody feels the pain and why they have to
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  Speaker 1: and he's spilling that all out on the internet. He
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  Speaker 1: could just go to God, ask God why he's going
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  Speaker 1: through x y Z. Now since he's a known believer,
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  Speaker 1: a Christian and he's cursing up on his post. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to cause some confusion. And I know him.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna apologize, amen, and he's gonna say I was
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  Speaker 1: just going through it. It's okay. You could go we're
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  Speaker 1: all going through something. But I could tell he didn't
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  Speaker 1: go to God first, because if I would have posted
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  Speaker 1: something like that, I know that I would have had
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  Speaker 1: gone on God for God first. God would have not
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  Speaker 1: told me okay, just you know, curse people out or
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  Speaker 1: curse out there and blame people for this and blame
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  Speaker 1: this and that. In the situation, I don't think he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna want me to post that on social media, So
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  Speaker 1: I need to go to God first. I think you
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  Speaker 1: need to go to God first. Ask God? Why did
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  Speaker 1: he make us the way he made us? Why are
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  Speaker 1: we wired the way he wired us? Amen? And what
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  Speaker 1: is this for? That's why I have four reasons why
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  Speaker 1: I believe God. Because I believe he answers the question
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  Speaker 1: of our origin. I think he gives us the meaning
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  Speaker 1: of why we would created. Amen. I believe he gives
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  Speaker 1: us our morality. Amen. You know what's right and what's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I believe he answered that. And I believe he gives
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  Speaker 1: us our destiny where we go after we die. Those
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  Speaker 1: four reasons is one reasons why I believe that there's
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  Speaker 1: truly a God, because he answered all those questions in
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  Speaker 1: my life. What about yours? Get feedback? Go ahead, don't
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  Speaker 1: be afraid to ask people. You know, you know, what's
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  Speaker 1: the things that they see in me? The good things? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: They'll tell you about the bad things all day every day.
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  Speaker 1: And lastly, start serving. Don't be afraid to serve others. Man,
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  Speaker 1: don't wait for a perfect assignment to pop up. Just
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and step into something small and see what
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  Speaker 1: God's gonna do in that. Amen. So I'm out of time,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: let me read his last comment, Sister Joanna, ask you
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: to pray for my husband. He has to go for
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  Speaker 1: a procedure. He has a block with one of his
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  Speaker 1: bang and he's like one of his lads. I think
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  Speaker 1: you met right. You know what is going through he
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  Speaker 1: has a key. Well listen, he's prayed for. I believe
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  Speaker 1: that God has you and your husband and your family
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  Speaker 1: in his mind. He's concerned what you're concerned about. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And just believe and trust. I know it sounds cliche.
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  Speaker 1: Well what else am I going to tell you, Sister Joanne. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we're believing in the same God to move and to
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  Speaker 1: move us and position us for a blessing. But in
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, go ahead and go ahead and ask the Lord. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to ask the why question, you can,
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  Speaker 1: But I suggest not only ask why, but ask him
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  Speaker 1: what is this for? Amen? And I believe the Word
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  Speaker 1: says he would direct your path into all righteousness. But
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: we have you prayed up. I think the prayer line
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  Speaker 1: is praying for you and your family as well, and
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  Speaker 1: so continue to trust and believe that God has the
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  Speaker 1: perfect plan for your husband and for your life. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: so thank you so much for coming through to the
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  Speaker 1: morning devo amount of time. But God bless you all.
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  Speaker 1: God keep you all, and remember always that God is good.
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  Speaker 1: These