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10 Things You See When You Truly Put God First · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Have you ever said, what would my life look like
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  Speaker 1: if God were truly first? It's an unsettling question because
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  Speaker 1: it demands honesty. It means reevaluating priorities, releasing control, and
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  Speaker 1: letting go of what once defined you. Putting God first
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  Speaker 1: isn't about adding him to your list. It's about tearing
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  Speaker 1: up the list. It's a reordering of everything. Suddenly, peace
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  Speaker 1: starts replacing panic. Joy becomes possible again. The weight that
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  Speaker 1: ruled your shoulders begins to lift because you finally understand
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  Speaker 1: you were never meant to hold what only God can carry.
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  Speaker 1: In this message, we'll walk through the ten things that
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  Speaker 1: begin to appear when you finally place God where he
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  Speaker 1: belongs at the center. Some will surprise you, others will
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  Speaker 1: confront you, But by the end you'll see that putting
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  Speaker 1: God first doesn't cost you everything. It re He defines everything.
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  Speaker 1: in scripture most people pass by too quickly, places that
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  Speaker 1: change how you see God and how you see yourself.
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  Speaker 1: else who's ready to reorder their life around him. We've
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  Speaker 1: Now with that heart set, let's discover what really happens
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  Speaker 1: when you put God first. Peace and joy, the calm
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  Speaker 1: that defies circumstances. The first thing you notice when you
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  Speaker 1: finally put God first is not thunder or applause. It's quiet.
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  Speaker 1: The noise that used to live in your chest begins
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  Speaker 1: to fade. The rush that drove you from task to
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  Speaker 1: task slows down. It's as if the world hasn't changed
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  Speaker 1: at all, but you have the same storm still gather outside.
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  Speaker 1: Yet the air inside your soul is still. That stillness
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  Speaker 1: is peace, the kind that doesn't make sense, the kind
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  Speaker 1: that Philippians four seven calls the peace of God, which
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  Speaker 1: transcends understanding. Before, peace felt like a reward at the
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  Speaker 1: end of control. If you could solve everything, you could rest,
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  Speaker 1: But the moment God becomes first. Peace changes address. It
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  Speaker 1: no longer lives in the outcome, It lives in obedience.
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  Speaker 1: You begin to understand that peace isn't the absence of problems,
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  Speaker 1: it's the presence of trust. Anxiety start to lose its
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  Speaker 1: vocabulary because you finally believe the one steering the boat
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  Speaker 1: isn't asleep. Jesus said, my peace I give to you,
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  Speaker 1: not as the world gives John fourteen twenty seven. The
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  Speaker 1: world sells comfort through escape, through distraction, through accomplishment, But
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  Speaker 1: Christ gives a peace that stays while the waves keep rising.
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  Speaker 1: When you place him first, you stop negotiating with fear.
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  Speaker 1: You stop asking life to be fair before you can
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  Speaker 1: be faithful. You learn to rest in motion, to be
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  Speaker 1: still while moving forward, And along with that peace comes
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  Speaker 1: something even rarer joy, not the fragile happiness that depends
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  Speaker 1: on how people treat you, but the deep, steady joy
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  Speaker 1: that comes from knowing who holds you. Jesus promised, I
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  Speaker 1: have told you these things so that my joy may
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  Speaker 1: be in you, and your joy may be full John
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  Speaker 1: fifteen eleven. That verse reveals a secret. His joy is transferable.
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  Speaker 1: It's not something you generate, it's something you receive. When
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  Speaker 1: God becomes first, joy becomes the default tone of your life.
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  Speaker 1: You wake up with the same bills, the same deadlines,
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  Speaker 1: the same responsibilities, but a different soundtrack. You stop waiting
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  Speaker 1: for circumstances to give you permission to rejoice. You start
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  Speaker 1: thanking God before anything changes, because you trust that He's
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  Speaker 1: already working in what you can't see. Gratitude becomes your
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  Speaker 1: rebellion against despair. Peace and joy travel together. Peace quiets
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  Speaker 1: the storm, Joy sings through it. Peace steadies your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Joy strengthens it. One protects the other propels, and both
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  Speaker 1: begin to appear not when everything is fixed, but when
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  Speaker 1: your focus is That's the paradox of putting God first.
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  Speaker 1: The external life may look the same, but the internal
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  Speaker 1: landscape is completely redrawn. Look at Paul and Silas in prison, beaten, chained,
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by darkness, Yet at midnight they sang hymns. That's
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  Speaker 1: not denial, that's dominion. Their chains did not dictate their choice.
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  Speaker 1: They had discovered the truth. Joy is not an emotion,
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  Speaker 1: it's a decision to see from Heaven's angle. When you
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  Speaker 1: put God first, you stop measuring freedom by circumstances. You
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  Speaker 1: start measuring it by worship. Maybe you've prayed for peace
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  Speaker 1: before and thought God didn't answer, but perhaps he was
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  Speaker 1: answering differently. Sometimes God doesn't remove the storm because he's
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  Speaker 1: teaching you that peace is possible within it. Sometimes he
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  Speaker 1: lets the joy rise from tears, so you'll know it's real.
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  Speaker 1: When your joy survives the night, it's no longer dependent
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  Speaker 1: on daylight. Putting God first means surrendering your right to worry.
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  Speaker 1: It means believing that His will is not just better,
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  Speaker 1: it's best, even when it hurts. You begin to notice
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  Speaker 1: your reactions change. Things that once triggered panic now trigger prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Situations that once exhausted you now invite expectation. You stop
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  Speaker 1: saying why me, and start saying what are you showing me?
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  Speaker 1: That shift is the evidence of peace taking root. Philippians
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  Speaker 1: four six to seven gives the formula, do not be
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  Speaker 1: anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition,
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  Speaker 1: with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Notice the sequence
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  Speaker 1: first prayer, then peace. Peace is not the absence of requests,
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  Speaker 1: it's the presence of thanksgiving. While you're still waiting, Gratitude
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  Speaker 1: becomes the doorway through which peace enters the mind. Joy too,
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  Speaker 1: becomes visible to others. People notice something different. They can't
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  Speaker 1: explain it, but they feel it. You become the calm
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  Speaker 1: in their chaos, the smile in their storm. That's evangelism
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  Speaker 1: without words, when your peace preaches louder than your voice.
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  Speaker 1: Putting God first doesn't just bless you, It blesses everyone
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  Speaker 1: around you, because they start to see what trust looks
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  Speaker 1: like in human form. If you've been chasing peace, stop running.
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  Speaker 1: You don't find peace by controlling life. You find it
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  Speaker 1: by yielding to the one who already controls it. You
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  Speaker 1: don't discover joy by avoiding pain. You discover it by
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  Speaker 1: inviting God into it. Putting him first doesn't exempt you
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  Speaker 1: from difficulty, it equips you for it. The world remains unpredictable,
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  Speaker 1: but you no longer are. You've anchored your calm in
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  Speaker 1: the unchanging, and when that happens, when you truly put
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  Speaker 1: God first, people may not understand you. They may call
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  Speaker 1: it detachment, denial, naivety. But you'll know the truth. You'll
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  Speaker 1: know that peace is proof of presence and joy is
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  Speaker 1: evidence of alignment. You'll know that even when everything shakes,
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  Speaker 1: the center holds because God finally occupies it. Changed priorities
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  Speaker 1: from control to surrender. One of the first visible signs
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  Speaker 1: that you've truly put God first is that your priorities
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  Speaker 1: begin to shift quietly but completely. The things that used
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  Speaker 1: to feel urgents start losing their power. The things that
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  Speaker 1: once seemed small begin to carry eternal weight. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that life suddenly gets simpler, It's that your vision gets sharper.
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  Speaker 1: You begin to see through the temporary into the timeless.
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  Speaker 1: Before God came first, your schedule decided your soul. You
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  Speaker 1: moved fast because the world said hurry. You said yes
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  Speaker 1: to everything because you were afraid to miss something. But
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  Speaker 1: now now something in you has changed. You no longer
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  Speaker 1: chase every opportunity. You seek alignment instead of activity. You
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  Speaker 1: start praying, Lord, is this your will? Instead of can
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  Speaker 1: I make this work? That's not laziness, its lordship. You
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  Speaker 1: finally stop treating God as an emergency exit and started
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  Speaker 1: trusting him as the architect. Jesus said, seek first the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things
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  Speaker 1: will be added unto you. Matthew six thirty three. That
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  Speaker 1: verse isn't just advice, it's an order of operations. It
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  Speaker 1: means that everything else in life, career, money, relationships finds
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  Speaker 1: its proper place only when God occupies his. It's not subtraction,
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  Speaker 1: its sequence. When he's first, everything else falls into order.
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  Speaker 1: When he's second, everything falls apart. Surrender sounds like loss,
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  Speaker 1: but it's actually clarity. You stop dividing life into sacred
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  Speaker 1: and secular, church and career, God time and my time.
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  Speaker 1: It all becomes his. You begin to see your workplace
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  Speaker 1: as an altar, your conversations as ministry, your every day
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  Speaker 1: as worship. Suddenly the question changes from what do I
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  Speaker 1: want to what glorifies you, and that single shift becomes
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  Speaker 1: the compass for every decision you make. The danger of
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  Speaker 1: modern faith is distraction. We fill our lives with good
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  Speaker 1: things that quietly replace the best thing. We don't reject
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  Speaker 1: God outright, we just relegate him to convenience. But when
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  Speaker 1: you put him first, the rearranging begins. Maybe he calls
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  Speaker 1: you to step back from something that once made you
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  Speaker 1: feel important. Maybe he calls you to give up a habit,
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  Speaker 1: a pursuit, even a relationship that once defined you. It's
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  Speaker 1: not punishment, it's pruning, and pruning is always the sign
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  Speaker 1: of future fruit. Think of Mary sitting at Jesus feet
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  Speaker 1: while Martha hurried in the kitchen. Martha wasn't doing anything sinful.
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  Speaker 1: She was serving, but she was distracted by doing, while
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  Speaker 1: Mary was devoted to being. Jesus said, Mary has chosen
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  Speaker 1: the better part, and it will not be taken from
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  Speaker 1: her Luke ten forty two. Putting God first will often
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  Speaker 1: look like that, choosing presence over productivity, devotion over distraction.
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  Speaker 1: The world may not understand it, but Heaven applauds it.
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  Speaker 1: As your priorities shift, so does your measure of success.
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  Speaker 1: It's no longer about numbers or applause. You stop asking
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  Speaker 1: am I winning? And start asking am I obedient? That
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  Speaker 1: is how Heaven measures greatness. You begin to realize that
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  Speaker 1: some of the things you called setbacks were actually set
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  Speaker 1: ups for deeper faith, that the delays were not denial,
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  Speaker 1: they were divine reordering. You start seeing disappointments not as detours,
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  Speaker 1: but as direction. And this surrender doesn't make you smaller,
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  Speaker 1: It actually expands you. When you put God first, you
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  Speaker 1: stop living under the tyranny of every one else's expectations.
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  Speaker 1: You no longer need to perform for approval because you
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  Speaker 1: already have it. You no longer need to prove your
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  Speaker 1: worth because it's anchored in his word. That freedom is
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus meant when he said, my yoke is easy
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  Speaker 1: and my burden is light. Matthew eleven thirty. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that responsibility disappears, it's that rest returns. You still work,
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  Speaker 1: plan and strive, but now your effort flows from peace,
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  Speaker 1: not pressure. You realize that your job, your gifts, your family,
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  Speaker 1: they're not yours to manage alone. They're His to steward
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  Speaker 1: through you. The more you release, the more he rearranges,
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  Speaker 1: and the more you see his finger prints in the ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: Putting God first doesn't mean abandoning dreams. It means aligning them.
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  Speaker 1: The dreams that survive surrender are the ones worth keeping.
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  Speaker 1: The ambitions that die in the process were never meant
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  Speaker 1: to define you. Every sacrifice makes space for the sacred.
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  Speaker 1: Every release invites his presence deeper in, and soon you
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  Speaker 1: begin to see a pattern. The more you surrender, the
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  Speaker 1: more you gain. You stop fearing loss because you've experienced provision.
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  Speaker 1: You stop fearing obscurity because you've felt his approval. You
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  Speaker 1: stop fearing failure because you've tasted his faithfulness. The kingdom
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  Speaker 1: has re ordered your perspective. You don't live by what's
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  Speaker 1: next any more. You live by who's first. That's the
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  Speaker 1: rhythm of rest, that's the heart of surrender, and it's
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  Speaker 1: only the beginning of what happens when God sits at
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  Speaker 1: the top, not the side of your life. Purpose rewritten,
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  Speaker 1: living for what lasts. There comes a moment in every
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  Speaker 1: believer's life when you stop asking what am I doing
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  Speaker 1: and start asking why am I doing it? That's the
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  Speaker 1: moment purpose begins to rewrite itself. When you truly put
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  Speaker 1: God first, your life stops being a random collection of
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  Speaker 1: plans and becomes a divine pattern. The same career, the
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  Speaker 1: same family, the same city, but now every action carries
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  Speaker 1: eternal weight. Before God was first, your purpose revolved around
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  Speaker 1: survival or success. You measured meaning by achievement, by applause,
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  Speaker 1: by progress. You could track. You worked hard, but sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it felt hollow. You gain things, but they didn't always
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  Speaker 1: fill you accomplished but still felt unanchored. That's because human
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  Speaker 1: purpose without divine direction is motion without mission. It moves,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't arrive. Colossians three twenty three says, whatever
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  Speaker 1: you do, work at it with all your heart, as
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  Speaker 1: working for the Lord, not for men. That single verse
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  Speaker 1: reframes everything. When God becomes first, the motive behind every
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  Speaker 1: task changes. Work is no longer about climbing, It's about glorifying.
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  Speaker 1: Service is no longer about being seen. It's about being faithful.
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  Speaker 1: Every assignment, no matter how small, becomes sacred when it's
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  Speaker 1: offered to God. You begin to notice the shift in
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  Speaker 1: simple ways. You pray before you plan, You ask God's
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  Speaker 1: opinion before you ask anyone else's. You stop chasing what
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  Speaker 1: feels urgent and start focusing on what is eternal. That's purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Life lived under divine authorship. You no longer live by
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  Speaker 1: the question what do I want to do with my life,
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  Speaker 1: but by the question what does God want to do
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  Speaker 1: with it? The difference between ambition and purpose is ownership.
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  Speaker 1: Ambition says this is my story. Purpose says this is his.
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  Speaker 1: And when you surrender authorship, you begin to find fulfillment
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  Speaker 1: that striving could never create. The restless hunger that once
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  Speaker 1: defined you begins to ease. You wake up with a
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  Speaker 1: reason that survives rejection, disappointment, and delay, because your purpose
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  Speaker 1: no longer depends on applause, It depends on assignment. Purpose
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  Speaker 1: doesn't always look glamorous. Sometimes it looks like consistency, unseen obedience,
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  Speaker 1: silent intercession. Sometimes it looks like raising a family with faith,
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  Speaker 1: serving behind the scenes, forgiving when no one notices. Heaven
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  Speaker 1: sees what earth ignores. When you put God first, you
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  Speaker 1: realize that the smallest act of faith can echo louder
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  Speaker 1: in eternity than the grandest act of performance. The apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul understood this. Once a man driven by recognition and law,
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  Speaker 1: he encountered Christ and became driven by grace. His priorities
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  Speaker 1: changed from position to purpose, from proving himself to serving others.
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  Speaker 1: He could endure prison because he saw it as a platform.
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  Speaker 1: He could endure pain because he saw it as preparation.
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  Speaker 1: Purpose had rewritten his perspective. And that's what God begins
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  Speaker 1: to do in you. When God is first, you stop
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  Speaker 1: confusing busyness with calling. You learn to say no to
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  Speaker 1: good things that aren't God things. You stop needing to
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  Speaker 1: be everywhere and start being effective where He's placed you.
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  Speaker 1: You begin to sense divine timing, knowing when to move,
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  Speaker 1: when to wait, when to speak, when to stay. So
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  Speaker 1: that's wisdom birthed from worship. You live aware that your
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  Speaker 1: steps are ordered, not accidental, and in this clarity peace grows.
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  Speaker 1: You no longer fear missing out, because you've learned that
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  Speaker 1: purpose cannot be stolen, it can only be surrendered. You
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  Speaker 1: don't chase what's next, You trust what's now. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it means to walk with God instead of working for him.
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  Speaker 1: Every season has purpose, even the quiet ones, especially the
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  Speaker 1: quiet ones, because that's where He refines what he will
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  Speaker 1: later reveal. You begin to see every interruption as invitation,
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  Speaker 1: every inconvenience as an opportunity to love, every obstacle as
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  Speaker 1: a set up for faith. When your purpose is rewritten
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  Speaker 1: by God, nothing is wasted. Even the painful chapters become prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: proof that He can redeem every line of your story.
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  Speaker 1: If you've ever wondered why you're here, start with this.
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  Speaker 1: You were created to glorify God and bring His presence
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  Speaker 1: wherever you go. That is purpose in its purest form.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else, career, passion platform is an extension of that truth.
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  Speaker 1: And when you live by it, even ordinary moments start
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  Speaker 1: to feel holy. The line between work and worship disappears.
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  Speaker 1: You don't clock in and out of your calling. You
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  Speaker 1: live it. Putting God first doesn't erase ambition. It refines it.
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  Speaker 1: It takes what was self serving and makes it self giving.
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  Speaker 1: It replaces striving with stewardship, fear with fulfillment, and competition
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  Speaker 1: with contentment. You no longer ask God to bless your plans.
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  Speaker 1: You ask him to reveal his and when he does,
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  Speaker 1: you realize that the greatest purpose isn't found in chasing dreams,
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  Speaker 1: but in walking with the dream giver himself. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it means to live for what lasts. The world runs
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  Speaker 1: after recognition, You run after righteousness. The world measures success
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  Speaker 1: in moments, You measure it in meaning. The world seeks
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  Speaker 1: to be remembered, You seek to be used. That's the difference.
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  Speaker 1: That's what happens when purpose gets rewritten by the hands
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  Speaker 1: of heaven, patience and forgiveness the tempered heart. There's a
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  Speaker 1: kind of strength the world doesn't celebrate, the strength of waiting,
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  Speaker 1: of enduring, of letting go when revenge would feel easier.
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  Speaker 1: When you truly put God first, your heart begins to
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  Speaker 1: slow down, and your reflexes change. The same moments that
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  Speaker 1: used to make you react now make you reflect. You
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  Speaker 1: stop needing to prove yourself, to fight for every word,
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  Speaker 1: to win every argument because suddenly, pleasing God means more
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  Speaker 1: than pleasing people, and that's when patience and forgiveness begin
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  Speaker 1: to take root. Patience is not weakness, its wisdom, its
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  Speaker 1: faith stretched over time. It's the quiet declaration God's timing
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  Speaker 1: is still perfect even when it feels late. Before delay
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  Speaker 1: felt like punishment. Now you start to see it as protection.
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  Speaker 1: Before unanswered prayers felt like rejection. Now you understand they
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  Speaker 1: might be redirection. Patience is not standing still, it's standing firm.
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  Speaker 1: It's trusting that the seed you planted in obedience will
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  Speaker 1: sprout when Heaven decides, not when your clock does. Scripture says,
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  Speaker 1: let perseverance finish its work so that you may be
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  Speaker 1: mature and complete, lacking nothing. James won four. Maturity is
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  Speaker 1: n't measured by knowledge, but by how you handle waiting.
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  Speaker 1: Every delay is an opportunity for God to refine your motives.
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  Speaker 1: When he comes first, you start to realize he's not
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  Speaker 1: just working on your situation, he's working on your spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Forgiveness grows from that same soil. Its patience applied to pain.
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  Speaker 1: It's choosing to release someone before they deserve it, because
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  Speaker 1: you remember how God released you before you deserved it.
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  Speaker 1: When you truly put him first, grudges start to feel
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  Speaker 1: too heavy to carry. You begin to sense that bitterness
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  Speaker 1: blocks the flow of blessing. The hands that cling to
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  Speaker 1: a fence cannot receive grace, so you open them. Not
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  Speaker 1: because the person was right, but because you need to
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  Speaker 1: be free. Jesus said in Matthew six fourteen to fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will
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  Speaker 1: also forgive you. That verse isn't meant to scare, it's
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  Speaker 1: meant to liberate. Forgiveness is not about approving what happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's about refusing to be chained to it. When you
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  Speaker 1: let go, you don't lose. You heal, and that healing
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  Speaker 1: makes space for peace to return. Patience and forgiveness are
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  Speaker 1: what I call the tempered virtues. Metle that his tempered
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  Speaker 1: has been through fire. It bends but doesn't break. That's
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  Speaker 1: what God does to a heart that belongs to him.
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  Speaker 1: He allows enough heat to shape you, but not enough
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  Speaker 1: to destroy you. The result is a heart that can
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  Speaker 1: love longer, endure deeper, and trust quicker. Think of Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: betrayed by his brothers, sold as a slave, falsely accused,
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  Speaker 1: imprisoned for years. If anyone had the right to hold
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  Speaker 1: a grudge, it was him. But when God elevated him,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph didn't seek revenge. He wept and said, you meant
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  Speaker 1: it for evil, but God meant it for good Genesis
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  Speaker 1: fifty twenty. That is the language of a tempered heart.
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  Speaker 1: He saw beyond the betrayal to the blessing. That's what
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness does. It expands your vision until you see God
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  Speaker 1: even in the wrong that was done to you. And
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  Speaker 1: look at Jesus on the cross, bleeding, mocked and abandoned.
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  Speaker 1: He prayed, Father, forgive them, for they know not what
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  Speaker 1: they do. That prayer wasn't poetic, it was power. It
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  Speaker 1: broke the curse of revenge for every believer to come.
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  Speaker 1: When you put God first, you find the strength to
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  Speaker 1: pray like that too, Maybe not easily, maybe not all
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  Speaker 1: at once, but day by day you release what hurts
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  Speaker 1: so that what heals can grow. If you've been waiting
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  Speaker 1: a long time for justice, for answers, for closure, hear this.
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  Speaker 1: God has not forgotten you. His silence is not neglect,
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  Speaker 1: it's strategy. He's building something in you that can't be
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  Speaker 1: built in speed. He's making your heart unoffendable, your patience unbreakable,
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  Speaker 1: your faith unshakable. You're not stuck your being shape. And
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  Speaker 1: if you've carried unforgiveness for years, the invitation is still
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  Speaker 1: open forgive. Not because they asked, but because you're tired
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  Speaker 1: of bleeding for someone else's wound. You deserve peace, and
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  Speaker 1: peace begins when you release. Ask the Holy Spirit to
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  Speaker 1: help you. He will. You'll find yourself thinking less about
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  Speaker 1: what they did and more about what God is doing.
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  Speaker 1: That's the shift that's freedom. Forgiveness doesn't erase memory, it
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  Speaker 1: erases mastery. It means the pain no longer dictates your decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Patience doesn't remove longing, it removes panic. It means you
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  Speaker 1: can wait without resentment. Together they build a heart that
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  Speaker 1: looks more like Christ, steady, kind and undefended by pride.
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  Speaker 1: If you want a faith that lasts, you'll need both
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  Speaker 1: patience and forgiveness. They are the tools that keep your
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  Speaker 1: heart soft in a hard world. They prove that your
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  Speaker 1: faith isn't performative, it personal. When God is first, your
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  Speaker 1: reactions become revelations. People will notice that you respond differently,
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  Speaker 1: that you endure without bitterness. And in that quiet strength,
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  Speaker 1: they will see the reflection of Jesus himself. For those
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  Speaker 1: who want to go deeper, we have ebooks on spiritual
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  Speaker 1: transformation available on our website, written to help you study
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  Speaker 1: and apply these truths in daily life. Each lesson is
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  Speaker 1: built to help you grow patience, forgiveness, and endurance in
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  Speaker 1: practical ways. So keep waiting well, keep forgiving freely. You
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  Speaker 1: are not falling behind. You are right on time His time,
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  Speaker 1: and one day soon you'll look back and realize that
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  Speaker 1: what once hurt has now become holy. That's the power
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  Speaker 1: of a tempered heart, a generous spirit, the overflow of trust.
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  Speaker 1: When you truly put God first, something remarkable happens. You
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  Speaker 1: stop clutching and you start releasing. The closed fist of
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  Speaker 1: fear slowly becomes an open hand of faith. You begin
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  Speaker 1: to notice that generosity no longer feels like loss. It
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  Speaker 1: feels like alignment, because generosity isn't about wealth, It's about worship.
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  Speaker 1: It's the proof that your heart trusts God more than
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  Speaker 1: it trusts what it's holding. The moment you realize that
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  Speaker 1: everything you have came from Him, the way you handle
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  Speaker 1: it changes. You stop asking how much do I have?
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  Speaker 1: To give and start asking how much can I offer?
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  Speaker 1: The focus moves from obligation to overflow. Suddenly you don't
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  Speaker 1: just give out of duty, you give out of delight
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  Speaker 1: because you remember what Jesus said, it is more blessed
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  Speaker 1: to give than to receive Acts twenty thirty five. Those
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  Speaker 1: aren't poetic words, they're spiritual law. Blessing flows in the
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  Speaker 1: direction of generosity. When God is first, generosity stops being
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  Speaker 1: about transaction and becomes transformation. You see a need and
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  Speaker 1: feel compelled to meet it. You sense the spirit nudging
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  Speaker 1: you to bless someone, sometimes with resources, sometimes with time,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes with compassion, and you obey without overthinking. You realize
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  Speaker 1: that the more you give, the lighter your soul becomes.
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  Speaker 1: That's because greed weighs more than gratitude. The more you release,
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  Speaker 1: the freer you feel. Second Corinthians nine seven says each
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  Speaker 1: one must give as he has decided in his heart,
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  Speaker 1: not reluctantly or under compulsion, For God loves a cheerful giver.
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  Speaker 1: That verse reveals the secret generosity isn't about the amount,
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  Speaker 1: It's about the attitude. The cheerful giver isn't cheerful because
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  Speaker 1: they have abundance. They're cheerful because they've discovered abundance has
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  Speaker 1: a source. When you know your provider is infinite, you
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  Speaker 1: stop fearing lack. Before God was first, giving may have
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  Speaker 1: felt risky. You worried about what you'd lose. But when
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  Speaker 1: you put him first, you realize you can't outgive the
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  Speaker 1: one who gave you everything. You begin to see giving
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  Speaker 1: not as subtraction but as circulation. It's how God keeps
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  Speaker 1: your heart from becoming stagnant. The dead sea is dead
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  Speaker 1: because water flows in but never out. The same is
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  Speaker 1: true for souls that hoarde instead of poor. Generosity stretches
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  Speaker 1: beyond money. It includes patience, attention, encouragement, forgiveness, and time.
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  Speaker 1: It's listening when you'd rather scroll. It's helping when no
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  Speaker 1: one's watching. It's showing up for people who can't repay you.
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  Speaker 1: That's kingdom math, small acts with eternal return. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you did for one of the least of these,
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  Speaker 1: you did for me Matthew twenty five forty. Every act
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  Speaker 1: of generosity is an act of worship. And yet generosity
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  Speaker 1: isn't always easy. Sometimes it requires faith in unseen outcomes.
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  Speaker 1: There are moments you'll give and see no immediate result.
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  Speaker 1: Moments you'll serve and feel unseen. But Heaven keeps better
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  Speaker 1: records than earth. God never forgets an offering. Hebrews six'
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  Speaker 1: ten Says god is not. Unjust he will not forget
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  Speaker 1: your work and the love you have shown. Him every hidden,
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  Speaker 1: kindness every quiet, sacrifice every unnoticed, gift it's all, seen
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  Speaker 1: and it's all. Seed generosity reveals trusted when you give your,
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  Speaker 1: SAYING i believe you'll provide. Again when you, serve your,
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  Speaker 1: declaring your kingdom matters more than my. Comfort when you
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  Speaker 1: forgive your, proclaiming your justice is greater than my. Revenge
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  Speaker 1: generosity in any form is a declaration of. Faith it's
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  Speaker 1: proof that your hope is in the, source not the.
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  Speaker 1: Supply and here's the. Mystery when you live this, way abundance,
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  Speaker 1: follows not always, financial but always. Spiritual your needs get
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  Speaker 1: met in ways you couldn't have orchestrated. Doors open peace,
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  Speaker 1: increases community. Deepens Because god can trust open, hands he
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  Speaker 1: multiplies through. Them the ones who cling to nothing often receive.
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  Speaker 1: Everything think of the boy with five loaves and two.
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  Speaker 1: Fish it wasn't, much but it was. Available he didn't
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  Speaker 1: wait to see if it was. Enough he just offered,
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  Speaker 1: it and in the hands Of jesus it became more than.
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  Speaker 1: Enough that's what happens when you give what you, have
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  Speaker 1: even when it feels. Small the miracle isn't in the,
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  Speaker 1: portion it's in the. Surrender when you truly Put god,
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  Speaker 1: first you start to notice how generous That he shifts the.
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  Speaker 1: Atmosphere homes filled with gratitude sound. Different hearts that give
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  Speaker 1: freely love. Deeper communities built on generosity grow. Stronger the
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  Speaker 1: currency Of heaven is not, gold it's. Grace and every
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  Speaker 1: time you give your Spending eternity's wealth in time's. Window
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  Speaker 1: maybe you've been afraid to, give worried you'll run, out
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  Speaker 1: that you'll be taken advantage of, that it won't. Matter hear.
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  Speaker 1: This nothing given To god is. Wasted he multiplies bread
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  Speaker 1: and time. Alike he blesses not just the, gift but the.
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  Speaker 1: Giver when you open your, hand he fills it, again
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  Speaker 1: not so you can keep, it but so you can keep.
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  Speaker 1: Giving that's how The kingdom flows through, you not just to.
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  Speaker 1: You for those who are growing in, this we've prepared
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  Speaker 1: and living open. Handed these lessons are built to help
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  Speaker 1: you cultivate a generous heart that reflects The father's. Own
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  Speaker 1: generosity is not a, trait it's a. Transformation it's what
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  Speaker 1: happens when the heart finally learns to. Trust when you
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  Speaker 1: stop hoarding out of fear and start giving out of,
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  Speaker 1: faith you discover that the open hand of generosity is
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  Speaker 1: also the open heart of. Joy that's what it means
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  Speaker 1: to live With god, first to give like he, does,
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  Speaker 1: freely fully and. Forever thankfulness the language of the. Redeemed
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  Speaker 1: when you Put god, first something subtle but profound. Happens
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  Speaker 1: you start noticing grace. Everywhere gratitude begins to color your.
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  Speaker 1: Vision things you once overlooked start looking. Holy the ordinary becomes.
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  Speaker 1: SACRED a sunrise feels like a, sermon a meal tastes like.
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  Speaker 1: Mercy even the breath you take feels. Borrowed that's what
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  Speaker 1: happens when you truly live With god. First your heart
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  Speaker 1: learns a new, language and it's called. Thankfulness before gratitude was.
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  Speaker 1: Situational you were thankful when things went. Well but now it's.
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  Speaker 1: Spiritual you're thankful Because god is good even when life.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't you begin to echo the words Of First thessalonians five.
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  Speaker 1: Eighteen give thanks in all, circumstances for this Is god's
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  Speaker 1: will for you In Christ. Jesus notice the wording in all,
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  Speaker 1: circumstances not for all. Circumstances god doesn't ask you to
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  Speaker 1: be thankful for the, pain but to Find him within.
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  Speaker 1: It thankfulness shifts the atmosphere of your. Soul its silences,
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  Speaker 1: complaint heals comparison and opens the door to. Joy complaining
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  Speaker 1: SAYS i deserve. Better gratitude Says god has already been
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  Speaker 1: better to me THAN i. Deserve the difference is. Perspective
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  Speaker 1: the enemy wants to trap you in what's. Missing god
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  Speaker 1: invites you to celebrate what's. Present gratitude turns your attention
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  Speaker 1: from lack to, abundance from what's lost to what's. Left
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  Speaker 1: When god becomes, first you start realizing that gratitude is
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  Speaker 1: not just, polite it's. Powerful its spiritual. Warfare philippians four
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  Speaker 1: six to seven reveals the pattern do not be anxious about,
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  Speaker 1: anything but in. Everything by prayer and, petition with, thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: present your requests To God thanksgiving isn't an accessory to,
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  Speaker 1: prayer it's the doorway to. Peace when you Thank god in,
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  Speaker 1: advance you're Telling heaven that you trust his timing more
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  Speaker 1: than your. Own gratitude makes room for. Miracles Before jesus
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  Speaker 1: multiplied the loaves and, fish he didn't panic about the.
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  Speaker 1: Lack he gave thanks for what was. There Before lazarus
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  Speaker 1: walked out of the, Tomb jesus looked Toward heaven and, Said,
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  Speaker 1: FATHER i thank you that you have heard. Me john
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  Speaker 1: eleven forty. One thanksgiving preceded. Resurrection if you want to
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  Speaker 1: see more miracles in your, life start giving thanks for
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  Speaker 1: the little ones you've already. Seen but gratitude doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: change what you. See it changes who you. Are ungrateful
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  Speaker 1: hearts grow. Heavy thankful hearts stay. Light when you live in,
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  Speaker 1: thanksgiving your soul begins to heal from. Cynicism bitterness dries
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  Speaker 1: up because joy needs no. Justification every morning becomes a
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  Speaker 1: REMINDER i woke. Up Therefore i'm. Blessed every answered, prayer
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  Speaker 1: every unexplainable, piece every breath of, strength it all becomes
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  Speaker 1: evidence That god is still. Faithful thankfulness also restores. Contentment
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  Speaker 1: when you Put. God, first you stop measuring life by
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  Speaker 1: what you don't. Have you begin to realize that contentment isn't.
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  Speaker 1: Complacency it's confidence that you already have enough for What
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  Speaker 1: god has called you to do to. Day paul, WROTE
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  Speaker 1: i have learned to be, content whatever the Circumstances philippians four.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven that's not, resignation it's. Revelation contentment is the quiet
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  Speaker 1: faith that Says god's presence is my. Portion gratitude overflows
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  Speaker 1: into relationships. Too you start appreciating people instead of expecting
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  Speaker 1: perfection from. Them you begin to say thank you more
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  Speaker 1: than you. Should you notice the kindness of a, friend
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  Speaker 1: the patience of a, spouse the faithfulness Of god in
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  Speaker 1: the faces around. You gratitude softens, tone heals, tension and rewires.
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  Speaker 1: Community it turns families into fellowships and workplaces into. Ministries
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  Speaker 1: maybe lately your life has felt loud with. Complaint maybe
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  Speaker 1: you've been weighed down by what's. Missing try this simple
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  Speaker 1: act of rebellion against despair to. Night list three things
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  Speaker 1: you're thankful, for no matter how. Small write them, down
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  Speaker 1: speak them, aloud repeat them to. Morrow gratitude doesn't need,
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  Speaker 1: Perfection it just needs. Practice the more you Thank, god
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  Speaker 1: the more you'll notice reasons to thank. Him psalm one,
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  Speaker 1: hundred verse four gives the map enter his gates with
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  Speaker 1: thanksgiving and his courts with. Praise gratitude is not the
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  Speaker 1: result of being In god's. Presence it's the key that
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  Speaker 1: gets you. There you don't wait for peace to arrive
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  Speaker 1: before you. Praise you pray until peace. Arrives you don't
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  Speaker 1: wait for the miracle to manifest before you. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: thank until the miracle. Unfolds that's faith in, motion and
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  Speaker 1: it begins with a grateful. Tongue if you want to
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  Speaker 1: know Whether god is first in your, life listen to your.
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  Speaker 1: Words are they filled with fear or filled with? Thanks fear?
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  Speaker 1: Says what? If faith says even if thankfulness lives in that.
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  Speaker 1: Space it doesn't deny, pain it defies. It it's the
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  Speaker 1: posture of someone who Believes god is still good even
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  Speaker 1: when the outcome. Isn't and here's the. Beauty gratitude is.
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  Speaker 1: Contagious when you live, thankful people around you start catching.
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  Speaker 1: Hope they see your peace and want to know its.
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  Speaker 1: Source they begin to ask why you're calm when they'd be,
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  Speaker 1: angry joyful when they'd be anxious gratitude becomes your. Evangelism
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  Speaker 1: your life itself becomes a. Testimony when you truly Put god,
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  Speaker 1: First thanksgiving is no longer something you, do it's who you.
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  Speaker 1: Are you start sounding Like, heaven where the anthem never. Stops, Holy, Holy.
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  Speaker 1: Holy you begin to realize that every act of gratitude
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  Speaker 1: on earth is rehearsal for. Eternity so open your mouth
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  Speaker 1: and Practice heaven's. Language speak gratitude in your, home over your,
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  Speaker 1: future through your, pain because the heart that thanks is
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  Speaker 1: the heart that, trusts and the heart that trusts is
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  Speaker 1: the one that has truly Put god. First a positive
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  Speaker 1: influence when light speaks louder than. Words when you truly
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  Speaker 1: Put god, first something begins to, change not just inside,
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  Speaker 1: you but around. You without even realizing, it you start
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  Speaker 1: carrying peace into rooms that were filled with. Tension your
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  Speaker 1: presence becomes. Different people can't quite explain, it but they feel.
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  Speaker 1: It it's not, charisma it's christ it's not, energy it's.
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  Speaker 1: Evidence the light in you begins to outshine the noise around.
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  Speaker 1: You jesus said you are the light of the. WORLD
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  Speaker 1: a city set on a hill cannot be. Hidden matthew
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  Speaker 1: five fourteen that's not a, metaphor it's an. Assignment When
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  Speaker 1: god is first in your, life you become illumination in dark.
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  Speaker 1: Places your words carry more weight because they come from,
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  Speaker 1: wisdom not. Reaction your kindness feels stronger than. Argument your
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  Speaker 1: calm in chaos becomes your. Testimony you start realizing you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to preach to. Influence you just have to
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  Speaker 1: live close enough To jesus for people to notice his.
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  Speaker 1: Reflection before you may have tried to control, outcomes to,
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  Speaker 1: convince to, prove to. Correct but when you Put god,
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  Speaker 1: first you begin to trust the quiet power of. Presence
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  Speaker 1: you understand that light doesn't fight, darkness it simply. Shines
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  Speaker 1: the same lamp that burns in your private prayer becomes
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  Speaker 1: visible in your public. Life that's, influence not, manipulation but.
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  Speaker 1: Manifestation you stop trying to make people change and start
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  Speaker 1: Letting god change you in front of. Them the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of The spirit begins to grow in your daily. Life, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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  Speaker 1: gentleness and self Control galatians five twenty two to twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Three you're not forcing, it it's. Flowing the more you,
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  Speaker 1: abide the more you. Shine you'll notice that your reactions,
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  Speaker 1: soften your tone, changes your priorities Aligne suddenly your influence
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  Speaker 1: expands without. Intention that's what divine order, does it. Radiates
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  Speaker 1: this kind of influence isn't about titles or. Platforms it's about.
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  Speaker 1: Transformation true influence is when people see something in you
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  Speaker 1: that they want but can't. Buy it's when your peace
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  Speaker 1: becomes their. Question it's when they, say how are you
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  Speaker 1: calm right now and you quietly, answer Because god's got.
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  Speaker 1: Me the simplest confession becomes a spark of hope in
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  Speaker 1: someone else's. Darkness Putting god first doesn't just make you,
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  Speaker 1: visible it makes you. Credible your integrity starts speaking for.
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  Speaker 1: You the words you used to say now carry the
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  Speaker 1: weight of consistency behind. Them you become trustworthy because your
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  Speaker 1: character no longer bends with. Convenience people begin to know
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  Speaker 1: that if you said, it you meant, it and if you,
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  Speaker 1: promised you'll show. Up that kind of reliability is rare
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  Speaker 1: in the, world but it's the natural fruit of Putting god.
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  Speaker 1: First even your silence starts. Speaking when gossip circles around,
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  Speaker 1: you you choose not to. Participate when tension, rises you
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  Speaker 1: bring peace instead of. Fuel when criticism comes you stay.
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  Speaker 1: Gracious these, small unnoticed moments are where influence is. Born
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  Speaker 1: every time you choose humility over, Hostility heaven leans. Closer
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  Speaker 1: every time you choose grace over, gossip someone Sees jesus
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  Speaker 1: instead of. You influence also means. Responsibility it's not just
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  Speaker 1: about being, admired it's about being. Accountable matthew five. P sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: says let your light shine before, others that they may
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  Speaker 1: see your good deeds and glorify your father in. Heaven
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  Speaker 1: notice that last, part glorify your. Father your light was
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  Speaker 1: never meant to make people look at. You it was
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  Speaker 1: meant to make them look up the moment your influence
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  Speaker 1: becomes about recognition instead of, reflection the glow fades When
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  Speaker 1: god is. First you don't have to chase. Influence it follows.
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  Speaker 1: You the spirit inside you draws what he needs to.
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  Speaker 1: Reach sometimes he uses your, success other times your. Suffering
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  Speaker 1: sometimes he uses your, words other times your. Silence but
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  Speaker 1: in every, case his light through you becomes the sermon
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  Speaker 1: someone else needs to. Hear influence isn't about your. Visibility
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  Speaker 1: it's about his visibility through your. Obedience think Of daniel In.
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  Speaker 1: Babylon he never sought power or. Position he simply lived with,
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  Speaker 1: integrity prayed with, conviction and refused to. Compromise and yet
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  Speaker 1: kings bowed to the wisdom of His. God that's divine.
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  Speaker 1: Influence the kind that doesn't, shout doesn't, demand doesn't, Push
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  Speaker 1: it simply, endures and in doing, so outlasts every. Counterfeit
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to be perfect to be. Influential you
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  Speaker 1: just have to be. Consistent god can use your scars
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  Speaker 1: as much as your. Strengths the very areas where you
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  Speaker 1: once failed can become the proof of his. Mercy when
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  Speaker 1: people see your, transformation they see his. Faithfulness your testimony
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  Speaker 1: becomes an. Invitation if he could change, me he can change.
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  Speaker 1: You Putting god first means understanding that every interaction is wholly.
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  Speaker 1: Ground every conversation is a chance to reflect his. Tone
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  Speaker 1: every moment is an opportunity to show love without. Condition
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes the most powerful sermon you'll ever preach will
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  Speaker 1: be how you treat people who can't repay. You so
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  Speaker 1: if you wonder whether your light is reaching, anyone stop.
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  Speaker 1: Worrying light never asks who's, Watching it just. Shines the
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  Speaker 1: impact might not be visible, now But heaven keeps score.
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  Speaker 1: Differently someone's breakthrough might be quietly growing in the soil
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  Speaker 1: of your. Faithfulness keep, shining keep, walking keep. Reflecting the
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  Speaker 1: world may not thank, you but eternity. Will when you
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  Speaker 1: truly Put god, first you become a living, lighthouse, steady,
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  Speaker 1: humble unshaken by, storms and without even realizing, it your
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  Speaker 1: life whispers to every one around, you there's a way
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  Speaker 1: back to, hope and his name Is. Jesus deeper relationships
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  Speaker 1: when love starts looking Like. Jesus when you truly Put god,
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  Speaker 1: first your relationships begin to, change not always, immediately not always,
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  Speaker 1: comfortably but, Deeply because When god becomes the, center everything
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  Speaker 1: that isn't built on love starts to. Crumble you begin
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  Speaker 1: to see people. Differently you stop loving for what you
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  Speaker 1: can get and start loving for what you can. Give
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  Speaker 1: you stop keeping score and start keeping. Grace that's when
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  Speaker 1: your relationships stop being transactions and start becoming. Ministries Before
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  Speaker 1: god came, first connection may have felt. Conditional you loved
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  Speaker 1: those who loved, you forgave those who, apologized respected those
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  Speaker 1: who earned. It but When christ takes first, place his
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  Speaker 1: nature becomes your new. Normal you find yourself showing mercy
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  Speaker 1: where others show. Judgment you begin to see that forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: isn't something you offer because others deserve. It it's something
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  Speaker 1: you offer Because he offered it to you. First jesus
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  Speaker 1: said In john thirteen thirty four a new. COMMAND i
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  Speaker 1: so you must love one. Another notice the measure AS
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  Speaker 1: i have loved. You that's not polite. Affection that's sacrificial,
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  Speaker 1: love the kind that forgives the one who, betrayed washes
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  Speaker 1: the feet of the one who, doubted and stays faithful
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  Speaker 1: to those who. Left that's the. Model and it's impossible
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  Speaker 1: until you Put god, first because only a heart filled
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  Speaker 1: with his love can pour it into. Others When god is,
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  Speaker 1: first relationships stop being mirrors and start being. Ministries you
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  Speaker 1: no longer expect people to fulfill what Only god can.
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  Speaker 1: Provide that releases you from disappointment and them from. Pressure
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  Speaker 1: you start to love people from, fullness not for. Fulfillment
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  Speaker 1: that's the freedom of divine. Order you stop using relationships
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  Speaker 1: to heal your emptiness because your healing now comes From.
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  Speaker 1: Him Putting god first will often expose what's. Unhealthy the
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  Speaker 1: friendships that thrive on gossip start to. Fade the relationships
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  Speaker 1: built on convenience begin to. Drift it's not, rejection its.
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  Speaker 1: Refinement god is not taking people from you to leave you.
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  Speaker 1: Lonely he's clearing space for what's. Holy he replaces draining
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  Speaker 1: connections with divine, ones people who sharpen your, spirit not drain.
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  Speaker 1: It you'll notice the difference because conversations shift from complaint to,
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  Speaker 1: calling from doubt to. Destiny proverbs twenty seven seventeen, says
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  Speaker 1: as iron sharpens, iron so one person sharpens. Another When
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  Speaker 1: god is, first he surrounds you with people who challenge your,
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  Speaker 1: growth not your. Peace they don't flatter your. Ego they
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  Speaker 1: feed your. Purpose they pray with, you not just for.
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  Speaker 1: You they tell you truth even when it. Hurts those
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  Speaker 1: are kingdom, relationships real raw. Refining they remind you that
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  Speaker 1: love is not. Comfort it's correction wrapped in. Compassion and
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  Speaker 1: this transformation reaches every, circle, marriage, friendship, family, community in,
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  Speaker 1: marriage Putting god first changes every. Thing you stop competing
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  Speaker 1: for control and start collaborating under. Covenant you learn that
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  Speaker 1: unity isn't about, agreement it's about shared. Surrender two imperfect
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  Speaker 1: people kneeling before a Perfect god create the strongest foundation.
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  Speaker 1: Possible ephesians five twenty one says submit to one another
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  Speaker 1: out of reverence For. Christ that's what divine partnership looks,
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  Speaker 1: like mutual humility under divine. Authority in, Friendship Putting god
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  Speaker 1: first makes you loyal in a world of. Convenience you
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  Speaker 1: stop walking away when people are. Struggling you stay when it's.
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  Speaker 1: Hard you speak life when others speak. Doubt you learn
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate other's blessings without comparing them to your. Own
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  Speaker 1: that's what love looks like when it starts to Resemble.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus it, rejoices it, restores it remains And in, family
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  Speaker 1: Putting god first brings. Healing it softens your tone with,
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  Speaker 1: parents strengthens your patience with, children and turns the home
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  Speaker 1: from chaos to. Sanctuary you stop needing to win every.
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  Speaker 1: Argument you start using peace over. Pride you realize that
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  Speaker 1: leadership in the kingdom isn't about, control it's about. Example
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  Speaker 1: you lead not by, demand but by. Demonstration Sometimes god
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  Speaker 1: first love will cost. You you'll forgive without, apology you'll
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  Speaker 1: serve without. Recognition you'll pray for those who misunderstand. You
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  Speaker 1: but every act of unseen faithfulness becomes a seed heaven
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  Speaker 1: records what the world. Ignores your kindness becomes, intercession your
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  Speaker 1: gentleness becomes. Revelation you begin to see love not as
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  Speaker 1: emotion but as, endurance the steady reflection of a savior
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  Speaker 1: who loved you long before you loved. Him when you
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  Speaker 1: Put god, first you learn the sacred. Balance love, deeply
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  Speaker 1: but let go. Freely you stop forcing people to stay
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  Speaker 1: who were meant to pass. Through you bless them. Anyway
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  Speaker 1: you release without resentment because you Trust god's plan more
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  Speaker 1: than your. Preference that's, maturity when peace matters more than,
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  Speaker 1: proximity when grace matters more than being. Right and the
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  Speaker 1: miracle is. This the more you love Like, jesus the
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  Speaker 1: more he fills. You you pour out and never run.
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  Speaker 1: Dry you forgive and somehow grow. Stronger you serve and
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  Speaker 1: somehow feel. Freer that's the divine cycle of. Love it
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  Speaker 1: multiplies through. Movement the more you give, it the more you.
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  Speaker 1: Have when love starts looking Like, jesus you'll notice that
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  Speaker 1: people are drawn to you for reasons they can't. Explain
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  Speaker 1: they'll say you're easy to talk, to safe to be,
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  Speaker 1: presence Of god in. You the same spirit that Raised
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  Speaker 1: christ from the dead now animates your, compassion your, patience your.
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  Speaker 1: Kindness that's evangelism without, words a life that loves louder
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  Speaker 1: than it. Speaks so if you're wondering how to heal your,
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  Speaker 1: relationships start. Here Put god, first ask him to teach
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  Speaker 1: you how to love like he. Does then watch what.
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  Speaker 1: Happens offense will, shrink grace will, grow and your life
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  Speaker 1: will quietly preach the greatest truth of all that love
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  Speaker 1: never fails Because god never stops being. Love dependence On god's,
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  Speaker 1: plan surrender becomes. Strength when you truly Put god, first
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  Speaker 1: control begins to lose its. Grip you stop treating faith
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  Speaker 1: like a negotiation and start treating it like. Trust you
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  Speaker 1: realize that dependence isn't, weakness its. Worship it's the quiet
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  Speaker 1: strength that, SAYS i don't need to know the plan
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  Speaker 1: BECAUSE i know the. Planner that's the shift you move
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  Speaker 1: from managing outcomes to mastering. Surrender before dependence felt like.
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  Speaker 1: Vulnerability it felt risky to let, go to stop strategizing every,
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  Speaker 1: detail to release the illusion of. Control but When god becomes,
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  Speaker 1: first you start seeing how your striving was never security
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  Speaker 1: it was stress disguised as. Responsibility you begin to Understand
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  Speaker 1: proverbs three five to, six not as a, suggestion but as.
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  Speaker 1: Survival trust in The lord with all your, heart and
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  Speaker 1: lean not on your own understanding in all your. Ways acknowledge,
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  Speaker 1: him and he will make your paths. Straight dependence is not,
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  Speaker 1: passive it's. Powerful it's the posture of someone who knows
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  Speaker 1: their strength has, limits But god's. Doesn't it's not, quitting
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  Speaker 1: it's choosing alignment over. Anxiety when you Trust god's, plan
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  Speaker 1: you're not giving up. Control you're giving it back to
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  Speaker 1: the one who never lost. It you finally rest not
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  Speaker 1: because you stopped, caring but because you stopped carrying what wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: Yours Putting god first doesn't mean you won't make. Plans
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  Speaker 1: it means you'll hold them. Loosely you still, dream you still,
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  Speaker 1: build you still. Act but now your phrase changes FROM
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  Speaker 1: you understand that surrender is not an absence of, vision
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  Speaker 1: it's an acknowledgment of. Sovereignty every goal now begins with,
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  Speaker 1: prayer and every decision ends with. Peace dependence also changes
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  Speaker 1: how you respond to detours before disappointment felt like. Failure
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  Speaker 1: now it feels like. Direction you begin to see that
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  Speaker 1: closed doors aren't rejection their. Protection what you once called,
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  Speaker 1: delay you now call divine. Timing you stop Asking god
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  Speaker 1: to hurry up and start thanking him for slowing you,
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  Speaker 1: down because when he, delays he's developing. You when he,
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  Speaker 1: withholds he's watching over. You when he, redirects he's rescuing
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  Speaker 1: you from something you can't yet. See think Of abraham
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  Speaker 1: Climbing Mount moriah With. Isaac every step was, Surrender every
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  Speaker 1: breath was. Dependence he didn't understand the, command but he
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  Speaker 1: trusted the, commander and because he, obeyed he discovered that
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  Speaker 1: provision was waiting on the other side of. Obedience the
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  Speaker 1: ram wasn't revealed until the altar was. Built that's how dependence.
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  Speaker 1: Works you don't see the miracle until you trust enough
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  Speaker 1: to move forward without. One dependence also reshapes how you see.
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  Speaker 1: Strength the world says be self, Made god says be spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Led the world applauds. Independence heaven honors. Surrender When paul,
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  Speaker 1: said WHEN i am, weak THEN i am Strong Tewod
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  Speaker 1: corinthians twelve, ten he was glorifying. Weakness he was revealing
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  Speaker 1: the paradox of. Faith your lowest point can become your
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  Speaker 1: greatest platform if it's laid At god's. Feet true strength
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  Speaker 1: isn't self, reliance its divine. Reliance when you Put god,
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  Speaker 1: first you begin to recognize his fingerprints in. Hindsight you
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  Speaker 1: start seeing how the detours were, direction how the delays were,
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  Speaker 1: development how the disappointments were. Deliverance every no starts to
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  Speaker 1: make sense in the light of a bigger. Yes you
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  Speaker 1: begin to trust that even when life feels, Random heaven never.
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  Speaker 1: Improvises the path might, twist but the purpose never. Does
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  Speaker 1: dependence also brings. Freedom you stop needing to understand everything
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  Speaker 1: before you can. Trust you no longer need constant confirmation
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  Speaker 1: to keep. Moving you learn to obey even in, uncertainty
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  Speaker 1: because faith doesn't walk by. Sight it walks by. Surrender
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  Speaker 1: and the more you depend On, god the lighter you.
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  Speaker 1: Become worry loses its, vocabulary fear loses its. Footing you
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  Speaker 1: live anchored in, peace not controlled by. Panic dependence doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean you stop. Feeling jesus himself, wept, wrestled and, wondered
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  Speaker 1: but even In, gethsemone his prayer ended the same way
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  Speaker 1: ours must not my, will but yours be Done luke twenty,
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  Speaker 1: two forty. Two that's not, resignation it's. Revelation it's the
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  Speaker 1: acknowledgment That god's will isn't just, right it's best even
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  Speaker 1: when it's. Hard every time you echo that, prayer you
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  Speaker 1: prove that faith is still. Alive you'll know dependence is
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  Speaker 1: growing in you when you start, saying even, if even
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  Speaker 1: if the prayer isn't answered the WAY i, hoped even
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  Speaker 1: if the plan doesn't unfold HOW i, expected even IF
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  Speaker 1: i don't understand right, Now i'll still. Trust that's mature,
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  Speaker 1: faith believing That god's character is consistent even when his
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  Speaker 1: methods aren't. Clear maybe right now you're standing in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of, uncertainty waiting for, direction needing, provision asking for.
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  Speaker 1: Clarity the invitation is, simple stop carrying What god has already,
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  Speaker 1: claimed lift your, eyes take a, breath and whisper you.
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  Speaker 1: Lead i'll. Follow that single act of surrender Releases heaven's
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  Speaker 1: strategy because dependence always opens the door for divine. Intervention
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  Speaker 1: and when you look back years from, now you'll see the.
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  Speaker 1: Pattern every time you let, go he caught. You every
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  Speaker 1: time you, trusted he turned it for. Good every time you,
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  Speaker 1: surrendered he made. Away that's what dependence. Reveals that surrender
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  Speaker 1: was never. Lost it was the only path to real.
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  Speaker 1: Strength so stop fearing what you can't. Control the hands
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  Speaker 1: that hold you hold the, Plan rest in, That live in,
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  Speaker 1: that and let your faith breathe. Again because when you
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  Speaker 1: truly Put god, first surrender isn't something you. Dread it
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  Speaker 1: becomes the very thing that keeps you. Strong a life of,
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  Speaker 1: worship every breath becomes a. Song when you truly Put god,
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  Speaker 1: first worship stops being A sunday. Event it becomes the
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  Speaker 1: soundtrack of your. Existence it's no longer about. Music it's about.
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  Speaker 1: Motive it's not a segment of your. Schedule it's the
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  Speaker 1: signature of your. Soul worship becomes what happens when your
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  Speaker 1: heart finally realizes that every, breath every, choice every moment
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  Speaker 1: was meant to Honor. Him, before worship might have felt
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  Speaker 1: Dimmed but now something has. Changed you start realizing that
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  Speaker 1: worship is less about sound and more about. Surrender it's
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  Speaker 1: not just what you, sing it's how you. Live it's
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  Speaker 1: how you speak to, strangers how you handle. Hardship how
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  Speaker 1: you treat people when no one's. Watching that's real. Worship
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  Speaker 1: obedience with. Rhythm romans twelve one captures this. Perfectly, THEREFORE
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  Speaker 1: mercy to offer your bodies as living, sacrifices holy and
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  Speaker 1: pleasing To. God this is your true and proper, worship living.
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  Speaker 1: Sacrifice that phrase holds the. Secret worship is not about
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  Speaker 1: what you bring to an altar. Once it's about what
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  Speaker 1: you stay on. Daily it's the constant act of, saying
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  Speaker 1: first your worship. Deepens the songs hit differently because now
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  Speaker 1: they mean. Something you're not just repeating. Lyrics your remembering.
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  Speaker 1: Testimonies great Is thy faithfulness sounds like your. Story Now
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  Speaker 1: maker feels personal because you've seen him make. One worship
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  Speaker 1: becomes your response to. Revelation the more you Know, him
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  Speaker 1: the more you can't help but adore. Him worship also
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  Speaker 1: re orders the. Soul it reminds your emotions who's in.
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  Speaker 1: Charge when fear, rises worship. Refocuses when pride, whispers worship.
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  Speaker 1: Humbles when confusion, clouds worship clarifies Because worship doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: Tell god who he. Is it reminds you who you're.
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  Speaker 1: Not you're not the, center the, savior or the. Solution he,
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  Speaker 1: is and in that truth your mind finds rest. Again
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  Speaker 1: when you Put god, first worship leaks into. Everything it's
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: in how you, work how you, rest how you, give
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  Speaker 1: how you. Forgive the line between sacred and secular. Disappears
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  Speaker 1: you start praying over business, meetings Thanking god for your morning,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: commute and seeing house chores as hymns in. Motion you
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  Speaker 1: stop separating life Into god's time and my. Time every
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  Speaker 1: time Becomes his, time every place becomes wholly. Ground this
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  Speaker 1: kind of worship doesn't require, perfection it requires. Presents you
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  Speaker 1: don't need a, Platform you just need. Attention god isn't
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  Speaker 1: after your, Performance he's after your. Awareness he wants you
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  Speaker 1: to see him in the mundane as much as in the,
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  Speaker 1: Miraculous to notice his finger prints on ordinary, days to
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  Speaker 1: whisper thank you before your feet hit the. Floor that's,
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  Speaker 1: worship constant communion between your breath And his. Spirit worship
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: also transforms how you see. Suffering the same lips that
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  Speaker 1: once complain begin to. Praise you start to realize that
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  Speaker 1: praise in pain is not, denial its. Declaration it's saying
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: you are still worthy even. Here paul And silas proved
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  Speaker 1: that in the prison, cell their songs became their. Strategy
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  Speaker 1: the walls shook Because heaven always responds to sound from surrendered.
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  Speaker 1: Hearts worship turns captivity into. Cathedral maybe lately your worship
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  Speaker 1: has gone. Quiet maybe your heart has felt heavy and
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  Speaker 1: the songs don't come as. Easily that's. Okay true worship
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  Speaker 1: doesn't depend on. Mood it depends on. Memory when your voice,
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  Speaker 1: trembles whisper, anyway when the tears, come let them be your.
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  Speaker 1: Melody god hears, tone but he also hears truth and
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  Speaker 1: a WHISPERED i still trust you might be the most
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  Speaker 1: powerful hymn you ever. Sing worship is also. Warfare the
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  Speaker 1: enemy doesn't fear your, volume he fears your. Focus because
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  Speaker 1: when you, worship you shift attention from fear to. Faith
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  Speaker 1: you dethrone anxiety and enthrone. Adoration you Remind hell that
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  Speaker 1: your loyalty is not for. Sale that's why worship must be.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: Daily it keeps your spirit aligned and your heart. Armed
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  Speaker 1: When god is, first worship stops being a song about
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  Speaker 1: him and becomes a song to. Him it's not distant,
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  Speaker 1: admiration it's intimate. Conversation you begin to sense his, presence
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  Speaker 1: not as a, visitor but as a. Resident you wake
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  Speaker 1: up with, him walk with, him work with. Him that's
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  Speaker 1: What jesus meant when he said The father seeks those
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  Speaker 1: who will worship in spirit and in Truth john four twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Three he's not searching for, perfection he's searching for. Authenticity
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  Speaker 1: when your life becomes, worship people notice not because of
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  Speaker 1: what you, do but because of how you do. It
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: the way you endure, storms the way you celebrate, blessings
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  Speaker 1: the way you stay humble in. Success all of it
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: becomes a melody That heaven wrote and the world can't.
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  Speaker 1: Ignore that's how you know you've truly Put god. First
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  Speaker 1: your life starts to sound like. Praise you won't always
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: get it. Right there will be days when frustration drowns
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  Speaker 1: out your. Song but every time you, return every time
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  Speaker 1: you stop and whisper thank you or help, me you're worshiping.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: Again god never grades you on consistency of. Sound he
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  Speaker 1: looks at constancy of. SURRENDER a life of worship is
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: a life awake To. God it's what happens when you
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: finally Realize he's worthy of more than a. Song he's
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: worthy of your. Story every, breath every heart, beat every
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  Speaker 1: moment is a chance to sing it. Again you are,
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  Speaker 1: Worthy you are, Holy you are, First and when you
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  Speaker 1: live like, that you discover something. Profound your joy becomes,
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  Speaker 1: steady your peace becomes, strong and your life becomes a
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  Speaker 1: living hymn of glory to the one who wrote it.
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  Speaker 1: All there comes a, moment after every, let every, struggle every,
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  Speaker 1: surrender when you finally realize what it was all. For
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  Speaker 1: all the, shifting the, pruning the, waiting it was never about.
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  Speaker 1: first was never about rearranging your. Schedule it was about
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