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Make Your Decision [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning family, Good morning God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo, which Bro Sam Lopez aka DJ
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  Speaker 1: Make your decision, that's the name of today's Morning Devo.
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  Speaker 1: Make your decision. Any decision that you make outside of
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  Speaker 1: the will of God over your life has consequences. But
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  Speaker 1: when you make decisions according to the Word of God,
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  Speaker 1: according to Holy Spirit, God living inside of you and
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  Speaker 1: inside of me, get ready and man, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: line up, align with the Word of God, is going
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  Speaker 1: to align with Heaven, and it's going to do something
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  Speaker 1: on earth. When you align yourself to the Word of God,
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  Speaker 1: which comes from Heaven, the voice of Heaven, the voice
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  Speaker 1: of Truth, the voice of Life, the voice of Mercy,
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  Speaker 1: the voice of grace, it'll align with the Word to
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  Speaker 1: God and it will settle things on earth as it
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  Speaker 1: is in Heaven. Right, So that's where we're gonna be at.
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  Speaker 1: Make your decision. A long time ago, when I used
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  Speaker 1: to work for corporate America, Amen one of my managers.
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  Speaker 1: I learned this lesson from one of my managers. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you do, Sam, as long as
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  Speaker 1: you make a decision, do something, make a decision based
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  Speaker 1: on you know, business and customers or whatever. And then
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  Speaker 1: he said, from there will we'll figure it out, but
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  Speaker 1: make your decision. And I used to make my decisions
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  Speaker 1: based on how I felt about certain customers, based on
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  Speaker 1: how I felt about if I was doing things ethically right,
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  Speaker 1: based upon if it was if my conscience was clear
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  Speaker 1: by making these decisions. So I was trying at that
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  Speaker 1: time to line up my decision making with the word
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  Speaker 1: of God, with the will of God man. And I
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  Speaker 1: know they didn't understand that. Actually, some managers used to say,
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna make it in this industry because you're
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  Speaker 1: too honest. Sam, You're too honest. You're not gonna make it.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess they were right. It's not that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't make it, It's just I didn't want to deal with
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  Speaker 1: it anymore. Corporate America had my wheel spinning too much.
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  Speaker 1: My mind was thinking too much about things that were
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  Speaker 1: not right. So I decided to let it go and
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  Speaker 1: man otherwise I would have still been there. A great,
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity, great company. But sometimes leadership, you know, people
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  Speaker 1: when they look at the bottom line and they start
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  Speaker 1: making decisions based upon their circumstances, based upon desperation to
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  Speaker 1: honor someone else that was higher above you and Man,
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  Speaker 1: so I think about it, I'm trying to honor someone
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  Speaker 1: who's supreme above me. And when I'm doing that and
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  Speaker 1: aligning my decisions based on the word of God, I
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  Speaker 1: think I win, and I think you'll win too if
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  Speaker 1: we get this in our hearts and our minds. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So enough of that technical stuff. Make your decision. Never
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  Speaker 1: make a decision contrary to the word of God a man. Proverbs,
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  Speaker 1: chapter number four, verses twenty five to twenty seven. We'll
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  Speaker 1: pray first. After we pray, we'll share this out for
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  Speaker 1: like sixty seconds, and then when we come back, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get right into today's morning devo. Father, I thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much. You're an amazing God and awesome father in
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  Speaker 1: heaven and I and we want to on align with
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  Speaker 1: your word over our lives. We just want to position
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  Speaker 1: ourselves for a blessing. We want to position ourselves to
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  Speaker 1: help others. We want to position ourselves according to your
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  Speaker 1: will and purpose for our lives, and we don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go outside of your will. Help us, Love God,
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  Speaker 1: to stay focused on you. You are the author and
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  Speaker 1: perfective our faith. Thank you, Love God for shining your
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  Speaker 1: light upon us. Thank you, Love God for changing and
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  Speaker 1: transforming our hearts and renewing our minds. Thank you, Love
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  Speaker 1: God for being with us in a present time right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I call upon your holy name, Jesus, to help
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  Speaker 1: us focus on what really matters when we make decisions,
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  Speaker 1: what really pleases you when we make decisions. So I
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  Speaker 1: speak life concerning all things living, and I speak death,
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  Speaker 1: and I come against anything that tries to bring death
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  Speaker 1: to our mindset death to our decision making, and death
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  Speaker 1: to our life. I pray against those things in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus. I prayer Head your protection right now
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  Speaker 1: and the powerful name of the Lord. And I pray,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, that you would set forth your arkwming angels
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  Speaker 1: and minister angels to a night lay the tactics of
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  Speaker 1: the enemy over our lives, me, myself, my wife, our families,
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  Speaker 1: on both sides of the marriage, a whole entire bloodline,
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  Speaker 1: from the very youngest family member to the very oldest,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone in between. And Jesus, name Goud God and
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  Speaker 1: protect us, and that you Love God will be pleased
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  Speaker 1: to do that to every single person on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the screen. And on the other side of this, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: because you're an amazing God. You're an awesome God. You're
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  Speaker 1: worthy of praise, honor, worship, respect, reverence, everything you deserve.
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  Speaker 1: Lor God, we offer it to you right now in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. So I speak life, and I
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  Speaker 1: come against anything that leads to death. When we make
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  Speaker 1: our decisions, we want to make it based upon your
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  Speaker 1: word and align with Heaven, so that way it could
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  Speaker 1: be done on earth. Amen and Amen. So those who
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  Speaker 1: agree with this prayer, we say Amen. So let's go
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  Speaker 1: for it. Sister Joint, I see you. Good morning, God,
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  Speaker 1: bless you. Welcome back to the Morning Devo. 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 today's Morning Devo. Make your decision based
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  Speaker 1: on the word of God. I'll be right back. Amen. Amen. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Getting these things done man on the groups is tough,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's worth it sharing to the groups.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for all the groups on social media that
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  Speaker 1: allows me to share some moren of DeVos on your platform.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for trusting the word that's in me. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and just verify, be a berean. Make sure what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying is lining up with the Word of God. That's
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  Speaker 1: why it's so important for me and for you, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: to just get into the word and see what the
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  Speaker 1: Word is saying. Amen. I have commentary about the Word,
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  Speaker 1: but what's more important than my commentary is the word itself.
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  Speaker 1: The word proves itself, the word shines out, Amen. The
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  Speaker 1: Word really reveals itself. That's the mind of God. The
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  Speaker 1: Word of God is the will of God, and is
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  Speaker 1: the mind of God. Amen. Proverbs chapter four, versus twenty
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  Speaker 1: five to twenty seven. Let's get ready to put it
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  Speaker 1: on a screen for those who are just end in.
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  Speaker 1: No worries, no problems we're seeing on the screen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Let's go for it. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Make your decision today's morning DEVO. And we're basing this
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  Speaker 1: on Proverbs chapter number four, Versus twenty five to twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, let your eyes look directly ahead toward
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  Speaker 1: the path of moral courage, and let your gaze be
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  Speaker 1: fixed straight in front of you, toward the path of integrity.
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  Speaker 1: Consider well, and watch carefully the path of your feet
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  Speaker 1: and all your ways will be steadfast and sure. Not
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  Speaker 1: turn away to the right, nor to the left, where
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  Speaker 1: evil may lurk. Turn your foot from the path of evil. Amen. So,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, you're on a righteous path. You're on
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  Speaker 1: the right path, you're on the narrow path. You're in
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  Speaker 1: the will of God. You don't look to the left.
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  Speaker 1: Fix your eyes straight in front of you when you drive.
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  Speaker 1: Fix your eyes straight in front of you when you're
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  Speaker 1: navigating this thing called life. Fix your gaze on God,
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  Speaker 1: the one who's in front of you, the one who's
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  Speaker 1: above you, the one who's in you. Toward the path
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  Speaker 1: of integrity. You gotta have moral coverage, you gotta have integrity.
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  Speaker 1: Consider well, and watch carefully the path of your feet
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  Speaker 1: wherever you go. I always tell people, whatever you think
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna want to do, whatever you're gonna want to do,
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  Speaker 1: it causes you to do it, and then your feet
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  Speaker 1: will travel. So if you ponder on things outside of
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  Speaker 1: the will of God, you're gonna want to do those
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  Speaker 1: things that are outside of the will of God, and
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  Speaker 1: your feet will follow. So God is carefully telling us
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  Speaker 1: that if you want to consider well and watch carefully
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  Speaker 1: the path of your feet, all your ways will be
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  Speaker 1: ready and step fast, and all your ways will be sure.
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  Speaker 1: When you're aligning yourself up with the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: when you know that you're on the right path and
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  Speaker 1: God is helping you through, and he's elevating you, and
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  Speaker 1: he's not keeping you bound, he's not keeping you stuck,
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  Speaker 1: and he's not keeping you in the past. He's focusing
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  Speaker 1: on us so that we could focus on him, and
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  Speaker 1: he will bring us to the right decision. He will
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  Speaker 1: bring us to the right path. He will give us
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  Speaker 1: the right victorious way of thinking, and he will renew
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  Speaker 1: our thoughts and renew our minds, and everything that we
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  Speaker 1: need from God we will have according to His word
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  Speaker 1: and purpose over our lives. So don't turn away to
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  Speaker 1: the right the nor to the left where evil may lurk.
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  Speaker 1: Because you notice when you get your eyes off God,
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  Speaker 1: when you get your eyes off Jesus, you start wandering,
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  Speaker 1: and you start looking, and you start getting distracted. You
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  Speaker 1: start looking on your left, you start looking on your right,
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  Speaker 1: and evil is around us. Turning your foot from that
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  Speaker 1: path of evil and turn to the path of righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible also says the steps are ordered, the steps
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  Speaker 1: of the righteous are ordered. A man follow God, Stop
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  Speaker 1: following your own ideas, start following this person and that
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  Speaker 1: person that says they know God, but you see, their
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  Speaker 1: lives are not bearing good fruit. Just follow the path
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  Speaker 1: of God, follow the word and will of God. Follow
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  Speaker 1: and make your decisions based on what God wants you
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  Speaker 1: to do. Like I said earlier, never make a decision
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  Speaker 1: contrary to the word of God. It's not that's not it.
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  Speaker 1: When you're doing things opposite of what God calls you
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  Speaker 1: to do, the consequences are going to be opposite of
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  Speaker 1: what the consequences that God was offering us in the
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  Speaker 1: very beginning. God says go, and we don't go. God
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  Speaker 1: says stop, and we don't stop. That means we're doing
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  Speaker 1: our own will. We're doing our own thing. So many
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  Speaker 1: people in ministry do this. They know their call to this, that,
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  Speaker 1: and the third, and they do the opposite thing. They
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  Speaker 1: know they have a purpose and plan and people are
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  Speaker 1: following them, and they expect people to continue to follow
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  Speaker 1: them even when they're not following on the righteous path. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Let that not be me. Let that not be you. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm praying for every single one of my brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters who probably don't realize that the younger generation,
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  Speaker 1: Amen is following. Someone is following you. Someone is following me. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Might not be millions of people. It might be ten people,
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  Speaker 1: five people, It might be two people. It might be
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  Speaker 1: one person following you. It might be your child following you. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we're responsible for our actions. And then as we
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  Speaker 1: if we move forward according and make decisions according to
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  Speaker 1: the word of God and allow Holy Spirit to lead
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  Speaker 1: us and God us like he said he would. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: when people follow us, they'll actually be following the will
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  Speaker 1: of God. If we're in the will and purpose of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, Amen, and we're leaders, we will be leading
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  Speaker 1: other peoples through the same path and teaching people and
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  Speaker 1: teaching ourselves to be disciplined, not looking to the left
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  Speaker 1: or to the right, but look straight on the path
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  Speaker 1: of righteousness. Because we know that God is in us,
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  Speaker 1: through us, He's working for us. Amen. And it's an
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  Speaker 1: amazing deal. We benefit from what God says. We don't
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  Speaker 1: benefit when we want to do our own thing contrary
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  Speaker 1: to the word of God. Now, God allows us to
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  Speaker 1: make decisions, and I hope you know that, and I
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  Speaker 1: hope that He will allow us to make our own decisions. Right,
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  Speaker 1: we have free will. The Bible also says that if
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  Speaker 1: we want to do our own thing. God normally will
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  Speaker 1: allow it. But he says, you can do anything you
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  Speaker 1: want to do right, but not everything we want to
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  Speaker 1: do will be beneficial. That's the thing. Well, you Christians,
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  Speaker 1: you can't do this and you can't do that. Don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about when people say that. They don't read the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: so they don't know what they're talking about. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: literally says we could do all things through Christ will
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  Speaker 1: gives us the strength on the good side, and we
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  Speaker 1: also have the ability to choose our own destiny. We
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  Speaker 1: could do anything we want to do, but sometimes everything
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  Speaker 1: we want to do is not the best possibility or
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  Speaker 1: it's not the best outcome. Amen. Not everything, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: not everything that we want to do will be beneficial.
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  Speaker 1: So I think the safest bet and following this path
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  Speaker 1: of life and freedom right following God is to not
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  Speaker 1: look to the left, now look to the right or opposite.
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  Speaker 1: Not to look to the left and I look to
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  Speaker 1: the right, but just go straight, Go straight and focus
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  Speaker 1: on Jesus. He's leading. Jesus does walk. Amen, He's leading
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  Speaker 1: us by way of His spirit living inside of us,
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  Speaker 1: Holy spirit, God leading us on the righteous path. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a narrow path. Not everybody gets on this path, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: it's a narrow path. The other path, the broadway path
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people are on, leads to destruction.
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  Speaker 1: And for those that know about what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: If you was in the world before Christ saved you
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  Speaker 1: and you was riding out with X y Z and
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  Speaker 1: do it x y Z, you know that that was
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  Speaker 1: leading you into destruction. It wasn't leading you to victory.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't leading you to happiness. It wasn't leading you
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  Speaker 1: to joy. Definitely wasn't leading you on the right path.
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  Speaker 1: You know that. I know that because I wasn't born
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  Speaker 1: and raised in the church. Amen. So I know the
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  Speaker 1: difference between the worldly standard and the goly standard, the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world, the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: and I lived or I was dying in the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of darkness. I was bound to sin. Now I'm free
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  Speaker 1: because God set me free through his son, the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be set free, follow the righteous path.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be making good decisions based upon the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. We read it in Proverbs Chop the
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  Speaker 1: number four Proverbs for twenty five to twenty seven. Study
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  Speaker 1: it out, read it out, pray it out, Pray it
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  Speaker 1: over your life, and you to see there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a big difference in the way you decide make decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Brother Frank, I see you, good morning. Always keep it
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  Speaker 1: real with the Lord, and everything will fall into place. Hallelujah,
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  Speaker 1: Yes it will. He knows you, he knows me, and
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  Speaker 1: regardless right, he still loves us. I always say that
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  Speaker 1: because I'm like, wow, because my thought life is not
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  Speaker 1: always the best. How many people could agree that sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we be thinking some things that are outside of the
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  Speaker 1: will of God, and He lives inside of us. So
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  Speaker 1: when we think bad thoughts, we're thinking bad thoughts where
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit living inside of us. I don't think he
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  Speaker 1: leaves us every time we sit or have a simple thought.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he leaves us when we go against
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  Speaker 1: his will. I don't think he leaves us like he's
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  Speaker 1: not leaving us, folding his hands, look at us like okay,
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  Speaker 1: when you're ready, I'll come back and then he'll fill
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  Speaker 1: us up. Then leave and Philip, no, that's not the
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  Speaker 1: God we serve. Amen. Nowhere in scripture does to say
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  Speaker 1: that that's the way holy spirit operates. Now, can God
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  Speaker 1: take his spirit out of you? Absolutely? God could do
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  Speaker 1: whatever he wants, but he has a promise, and his
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  Speaker 1: promises are all oh yeah and amen. He said he
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  Speaker 1: would never leave us nor forsake us. He said would
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  Speaker 1: never put us to shame a man. He said he
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  Speaker 1: would never abandon us. He would never leave us in
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  Speaker 1: the muck and mire. He won't remind us about our past.
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  Speaker 1: He wants just to focus on him because he has
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  Speaker 1: our future in his hands. You heard to say, Right,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the future holds, but I do
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  Speaker 1: know who holds the future. Right. We know we can
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  Speaker 1: trust in a living, holy, loving, righteous God. He's also
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  Speaker 1: a just God. Amen. Law and order are based upon
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  Speaker 1: the righteousness of God. A man. You want to know
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  Speaker 1: how to follow the rules, follow God. A man. He
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  Speaker 1: want to know how to follow the law. Follow Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the one who completed and fulfill the law. Right, He's
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  Speaker 1: amazing God. So when make your decisions, when you need
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  Speaker 1: to make a decision, make sure it's a lining up
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  Speaker 1: with the word of God. Make sure you're on the
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  Speaker 1: right path. Don't look to the left, don't look to
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  Speaker 1: the right, because that's where the Joneses are. I'll imagine
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  Speaker 1: competing with everything over there, just like the Israelites and
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  Speaker 1: the Old Covenant. God said I could be a king,
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  Speaker 1: be a god. They said, no, God, we want the
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  Speaker 1: kings that we see in those other nations. We liked
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. So what did God do? Said, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a king. Then he wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: his people's king and lord. And they chose other things.
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  Speaker 1: Why because they were looking to the left, they were
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  Speaker 1: looking to the right, and they were focus on those things,
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  Speaker 1: and they weren't focused on the one who was providing,
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  Speaker 1: who was doing miracles in their hearts and their minds,
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  Speaker 1: who is parting red seas, who is destroying enemies against them,
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  Speaker 1: who was guiding them fire at night and a cloud
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  Speaker 1: by the day, and he was feeding them with manna
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  Speaker 1: from heaven. You know, they wanted those other They wanted
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  Speaker 1: what the other nations has. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: they were complaining and they said, man, we were better
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  Speaker 1: off in Egypt. They were actually telling God that they
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  Speaker 1: were better off in captivity when they were being enslaved,
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  Speaker 1: because they were operating in the flesh, not in the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Fast forward, New covenant that could happen to any one
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  Speaker 1: of us. We can start operating in the flesh instead
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  Speaker 1: of operating the spirit. And when that happens, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: that's bad news. That's not a good thing. It's never
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  Speaker 1: a good thing to operate in the flesh, especially when
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  Speaker 1: you're making important decisions. I would suggest this, I learned
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  Speaker 1: this the hard way. Never make decisions based on your emotions.
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  Speaker 1: If you're too if you're hungry, don't make decisions when
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  Speaker 1: you're too hungry. When you're angry, don't make decisions while
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  Speaker 1: you're angry. When you're lonely, don't make decisions while you're lonely.
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  Speaker 1: And when you're tired, don't make decisions when you're tired.
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  Speaker 1: They focus, get rest, get into the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: Pray whatever happens to praying, Let's pray, Let's keep praying.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pray for one another. Continue to pray. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: pray without ceasing, because in your prayer time, you are
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  Speaker 1: actually communicating. You're actually in communion and in communication with
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  Speaker 1: the Father right, and He hears our prayers and he
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  Speaker 1: answers our prayers according to his will and purpose in
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  Speaker 1: our lives, and I guarantee when we align our decision
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  Speaker 1: making with heaven, earth has to respond. Amen, we our
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  Speaker 1: body has to respond. You're sick, lay hands on yourself
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  Speaker 1: and ask God to heal you in the powerful name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. Right. And when that prayer gets aligned with
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures, with the word of God over your body,
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  Speaker 1: your body has to respond. Right. When you come against
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  Speaker 1: enemies and spiritual realm, the enemies have to respond. When
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  Speaker 1: you submit to God right and resist the devil, the
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  Speaker 1: devil has to move. He has to run away. He
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  Speaker 1: has to respond when we are aligning ourselves with the
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  Speaker 1: word of God, when we're on this righteous path, when
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  Speaker 1: we're on the right path, and we know one to
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  Speaker 1: percent that God is with us in the decisions that
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  Speaker 1: we make. Amen, get ready. Everything else has to move
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  Speaker 1: out the way. And that's why it's clear in the
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  Speaker 1: proverbs that he doesn't want us to look to left,
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  Speaker 1: to the right. He wants us to move forward, Look forward,
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  Speaker 1: focus on the author and perfective of our faith. Follow
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  Speaker 1: the leader. He's not on a honda. I know you
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  Speaker 1: don't remember that, commerciery. You're not old enough to remember
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  Speaker 1: that commercial. Some of us, some of us know that
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  Speaker 1: commercial follow the leader. He's in a Honda. But no,
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  Speaker 1: we're following the leader a man. He's writing on the clouds.
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  Speaker 1: He is the son of God. He is the son
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  Speaker 1: of Man in deity, writing on the clouds of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: And we follow him. And a visible guy who makes
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  Speaker 1: himself visible through his creation, through his word, through others,
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  Speaker 1: through the body of Christ. Amen. It's amazing. It's an
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  Speaker 1: amazing God that we serve, and we're on the path
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  Speaker 1: of God. Now I have to tell you, will bad
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  Speaker 1: things happen on the way you know, to God's will.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe when we're living we're living in a fallen world.
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  Speaker 1: We're living in the last day. We're living in desperate times.
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  Speaker 1: Uncertainty is wreaking the land. But we are sure. We
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  Speaker 1: just read it. We are sure. You don't believe me, right,
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  Speaker 1: we're sure, and we have confidence in this. Do not
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  Speaker 1: swerve to the right or the left. Keep your foot
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  Speaker 1: from evil, it says, look, let your eyes look straight ahead,
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  Speaker 1: fix your gaze directly before you make level pass for
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  Speaker 1: your feet, and take only ways that are firm. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, they're sure. The way of the righteous is sure,
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  Speaker 1: The way of God is sure. We could rely one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent on the path that we're on. Because we're
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  Speaker 1: in the path of God. No one, no one on
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  Speaker 1: this planet Earth can literally look at me dead in
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  Speaker 1: my face and be honest and say, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I made all my decisions based on God's will, and
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  Speaker 1: they're getting opposite consequences. Good food comes from a tree
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  Speaker 1: that bears good food, and when you make good decisions,
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  Speaker 1: you're bearing good fruit. When you make bad decisions, you're
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  Speaker 1: creating bad fruit. Frank says, that's right. Pree to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord for strength, and yes, follow the Leader. We love you, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: We love you too, My bro. You remember that commercial
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  Speaker 1: follow the Leader, He's on the Honda. That was an
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  Speaker 1: amazing slogan. It worked for a little bit. Amen, But now,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you know, am I gonna take that and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna twist it up and say, follow the Leader.
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  Speaker 1: He's riding on the clouds. It's not on the Honda. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe if he wants to use the Honda, he'll use
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  Speaker 1: the Honda to write on the clouds. But Amen, he's
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  Speaker 1: the King of kings and the Lord of lords. We're
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  Speaker 1: following on the right path. Be encouraged, my brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 1: you're on the right path. The world doesn't like this message.
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  Speaker 1: They want to tell Christians to go away, go to
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  Speaker 1: their own little corners, stay in their church buildings and
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  Speaker 1: don't come out into the public square. And they don't
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  Speaker 1: want this message in politics. They don't want this message
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  Speaker 1: in the schools. They don't want this message in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want this message at your job. They don't
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  Speaker 1: want you this message anywhere. Because when people are operating
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  Speaker 1: on their own and they're in the flesh, they don't
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  Speaker 1: want the spirit of God. Why would anybody want to
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  Speaker 1: be in heaven if they don't want Jesus. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: Jesus brings heaven to us, Amen, you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: find yourself in heaven at the end of your road
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  Speaker 1: and be like, man, how did I get here? I
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  Speaker 1: to ask for this. God's not going to force you
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  Speaker 1: into heaven. He's not going to force you to follow him.
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  Speaker 1: But he offers his love, he offers his grace, he
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  Speaker 1: offers his mercy, He offered his life and sacrifices very
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  Speaker 1: own life so that way we could live. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: who you're going to follow? A lying idol or a
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  Speaker 1: truthful God? Amen? Idols? Are anything you put before God.
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  Speaker 1: So some people put finances and money before God. Some
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  Speaker 1: people put their children and their relationships before God. Some
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  Speaker 1: people put sports and talents and gifts before God. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: you put before God is an idol. And those pasts
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  Speaker 1: are the past that are not straight, their crooked paths.
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  Speaker 1: They lead to destruction. They get you distracted, They get
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  Speaker 1: you focused on other things, a step being focused on
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  Speaker 1: the one we're supposed to stay focused on. Right, Let
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  Speaker 1: me read it real quick, because I know we're out
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  Speaker 1: of time. Bible says, gaze, Let your gaze be fitched
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  Speaker 1: straight in front of you towards the path of integrity.
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  Speaker 1: When you have integrity, you don't bend too easily. Right,
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  Speaker 1: you don't break. You don't bend too easily. Either. You're
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  Speaker 1: not too distracted to get to the left or to
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  Speaker 1: the right. Stay going forward, move forward in victory. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope you get what I'm saying. Take Proverbs
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  Speaker 1: chapter number four. Read the whole chapter for yourself today. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It will bless your life like and bless my life.
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  Speaker 1: So God bless you all, God keep you all, and
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  Speaker 1: remember always that God is good. Please