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Serving Others with Joy | Stronger Together · Divine515 Podcast

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  - What if prayer became more than something you
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  - do?
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  - What if it became the way you live?
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  - Life can be overwhelming.
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  - The pressures are real.
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  - The questions
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  - are constant.
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  - And sometimes,
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  - it feels like you're carrying more than you
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  - were ever meant to carry alone.
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  - The inner chamber was created for those who
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  - desire more than occasional inspiration.
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  - It's a community for believers who want to
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  - build a consistent prayer life,
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  - grow in God's word, and walk alongside others,
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  - pursuing a deeper relationship with Christ.
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  - Inside the inner chamber, you'll find guided prayer
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  - and a supportive community that encourages prayers and
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  - grows together.
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  - You don't have to figure out your prayer
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  - journey alone.
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  - Come discover what happens when believers gather with
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  - one purpose,
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  - to know God
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  - more deeply and walk with him more closely.
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  - Visit divine515.com
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  - to learn more and become part of the
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  - inner chamber community.
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  - Prayer isn't simply something we do. It's how
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  - we walk with God every day.
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  - Welcome to the divine five one five podcast.
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  - Here is today's prayer.
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  - Hello, and welcome to divine five one five
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  - daily prayers with Vali Moshe.
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  - I am your host, and today's prayer topic
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  - is
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  - about serving others with joy.
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  - Scripture text comes from Mark ten forty five
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  - and says for even the son of man
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  - did not come to be served, but
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  - to
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  - serve. Now
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  - our culture
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  - often measures success by what we achieve for
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  - ourselves.
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  - Right? It's always about what we can get
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  - out.
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  - But Jesus measured greatness
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  - by how we serve others.
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  - And
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  - what's fascinating
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  - about this is is it is actually the
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  - polar opposite of what the world and the
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  - culture
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  - say to do.
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  - And and one of the other previous prayers,
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  - I talked about
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  - how
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  - pride is the thing that can often get
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  - us
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  - into trouble, but how humility
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  - is not only
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  - a spiritual or a heart posture, but a
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  - mental posture as well, a mental,
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  - mindset as well.
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  - And I say that because
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  - in order to be
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  - an effective servant and to have
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  - the heart of Christ and reflect the characters
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  - of our father,
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  - you have to be thinking about
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  - the needs of others. Now that doesn't mean
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  - that you forsake your own needs, Right? If
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  - if they will tell you that if if
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  - if you're in a drowning situation,
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  - you wanna make sure that you're secure before
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  - you go and try to help someone else.
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  - But that's not necessarily what the scripture here
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  - is addressing.
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  - It's saying
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  - you see the need, meet the need. Right?
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  - We often pray for God to
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  - help other people,
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  - but we often forget that we can be
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  - the answer to our prayers sometimes.
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  - It's it's not that God can answer it,
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  - but he needs
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  - people. He needs conduit,
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  - hands and feet to meet the needs of
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  - those prayers.
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  - And so
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  - with every act of kindness,
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  - every prayer offered, and every sacrifice
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  - made in love reflects
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  - his heart.
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  - And so
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  - when we are asking the will of God,
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  - right, when, like, when we're saying the Lord's
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  - prayer and we're asking for his will to
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  - be done,
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  - well, we are his little
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  - lampstands. We are his his his little flashlights,
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  - if you will.
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  - We are to go and illuminate the world
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  - around us, whatever that portion of the world
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  - is,
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  - by meeting the needs of others.
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  - So whether it's a kind word, whether it's
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  - just
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  - bringing someone,
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  - a hot meal, whatever it is,
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  - Remember,
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  - all of these
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  - actions reflect the heart of
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  - the servant.
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  - And you cannot be any greater servant than
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  - following the pattern of the master
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  - himself, our Messiah.
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  - That being said,
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  - let's go to the door.
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  - Heavenly father, give us a servant's
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  - heart.
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  - Help us to notice opportunities
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  - to love,
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  - encourage and serve the people
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  - you've placed around us.
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  - Let our motives be rooted in gratitude rather
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  - than recognition
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  - and may our life reflect the humility and
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  - compassion of Christ and everything that we do
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  - Use us to make a difference for your
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  - kingdom
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  - today and every day, and we will bless
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  - you in Jesus' name. Amen.
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  - Well,
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  - remember, serving others begins by
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  - serving Christ, and there can be no other
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  - greater privilege than serving the divine one and
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  - the Messiah.
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  - If you are wanting to take your
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  - prayer life and your relationship to the next
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  - level,
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  - Visit us at divine515.com
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  - to discover resources that will help you grow
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  - in your faith and your prayer life. And
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  - until tomorrow,
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  - remember,
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  - keep meeting God at the throne
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  - because it's how we walk with God every
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  - single day.