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Spiritual Junk Food [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Praise God, Praise God. Family, Welcome back to the morning DEVO.
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Is you bro Sam Lopez aka DJ Sam rox So winners with his z dot
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org live got so winners with his z dot org And we're broadcasting streaming live
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right now. And this Northeast weather man, it's crazy outside. It sounds
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like there's like a a a winter storm or something going on. So I
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don't even want to look out the window. But listen, we're here.
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Amen, is a new day. God knows what he's doing. Amen,
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with his weather over here from where I'm broadcasting. He knows what he's doing
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every day. It's not one day that God is missing out on something that
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he knows what to do. Amen. So God is good, man,
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And today he's good, Yesterday he was good. Tomorrow he will be good.
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He's faithful, and I trust and obeying him, man, cause God's
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an amazing God. Today I'm calling this one spiritual junk food. It might
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be like, yo, what is that all about? Spiritual junk food?
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What are we feeding ourselves? Right? Consider your spiritual diet. Just consider
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that, like, what are you feeding yourself? Right? Are you eating
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healthy or eating junk food and starving yourself because you know, if you let
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me do it, I'll eat Chinese food every single day. Right, But
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I don't think that'll be no disrespect to Chinese food. I'm just saying,
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I don't think that'll be a good thing, especially the things that I order
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from the menu every day or better yet, if I eat McDonald's every day
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or fast food every day every day, seven days a week, how would
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I feel? My body would break down? Right, your body would break
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down. You wouldn't feel too good, and you'll actually be starving yourself literally
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because you're malnutrition. It's malnutrition. You're not getting in the nutrition you need
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to live healthy. You're actually starving yourself. Amen. So I wouldn't do
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it. But when it comes to my spirituality, I have to be careful
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when I'm watching, when i'm hearing, when i'm listening to, when I'm
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looking at how I'm scrolling, Amen, and when I'm thinking, what about
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you? Amen? Are you eating good things on your spiritual diet or eating
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bad things fast food from spiritual diet? Right? Can you survive on junk
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food? That's a good question. Right, So listen, we're gonna be
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in a Psalm one nineteen verses seven, to eleven Psalm Chapter one hundred and
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nineteen, verses seven to eleven. Here in the morning Devo, Amen,
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and we'll find out what this is all about. When God gave it to
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me, I was like, it makes sense. Sometimes God will give me
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something and I have to look at it, look at it, pray about
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it. Like I'm not getting what you're saying. Lord, But i think
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I get what he's saying here. Amen. I may not get it entirely.
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Amen, you might not get it entirely. But what these morning DeVos
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are geared to is for us to look into the scriptures for ourselves. Amen.
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And not rely on me, not rely on your leader, your church,
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or your community, or guru or a social media person, a man
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of personality or anything like that that will rely on the Holy Spirit of God,
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Amen, to teach us and GUIDs into all truth. We need each
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other. We build each other. Absolutely. Amen. Thank you so much
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for hanging out with me. Absolutely. I'm not saying don't come and check
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me out, or let's not pray togain. I'm not saying that. I'm
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not saying not to congregate. I'm not saying not to get together. But
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what I am saying is to get into them scriptures for yourself and see what
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happens in your own life personally. Amen. We all struggle with the flesh,
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Amen, including myself. But the Spirit of God. Amen. But
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the spirit is willing to flesh. Is what week? Since the joy?
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And I see you, Good morning, God, bless you, welcome back
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to the morning. Deal with my sister and my friend. So let's go
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for it. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests,
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anything like that. Amen. If you disagree, it might not be
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the platform here to debate. But amen. But if you disagree and you
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have a rebuttal of what the scripture says or God, Jesus and whatever I
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know some people, Amen, that might give you some more time than I
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can on these morning DeVos when it comes to debating. Amen. So my
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focus here is just to get into the Word of God. Amen, first
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thing during my day and first thing in your day hopefully Amen, and just
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live it. Leave the word, Amen, trust the word, and see
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what happens in your life. The results of following God is way more than
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the results of following the world system and following the flesh. Trust me.
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I know is a battle every day for all of us. Amen. But
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God, God is trustworthy, Amen, And he's worth trusting, He's worth
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fighting the good fight of faith for. So let's go for it. Let's
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pray first. After we pray, we'll share this out for like sixty seconds,
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and on the other side of those sixty seconds, we'll get right into
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today's morning DeVos spiritual junk food, Psalm Chapter one, eighteen Versus seven to
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eleven. Lord Jesus, I thank you so much. You're an amazing God.
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I pray, Lord God that we will continue to eat your scriptures up
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as spiritual food. As I died, Lord God, the word of God
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to reveal, Lord God, what you continue to show us and continue to
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change us, transform our hearts and minds. We are nothing without you,
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but with you we could do all things through Christ Jesus, who gives us
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the strength. I thank you, Love God for your glory. Thank you,
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Lor God for your salvation. Thank you for saving me and saving my
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friends and family, those who know Jesus that they can thank you right now.
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I pray, Lord God, I had your protection over my mind,
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over my body physically, emotionally and spiritually. And I had your protection over
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my family, my friends, my wife, our children. Lord God,
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I pray that over every single person on the other side of the screen,
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on the other side of this mic, that you would touch their hearts,
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their minds, Protect them, God them, guard them. Show us,
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Lord God, who you are more and more daily, Lord God, as
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we seek after you with our heart. Look, God, I choose you,
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and I choose the scriptures as my portion for my spiritual diet today.
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And I pray that every single person that's listening and watching would do the same,
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and we will come to an agreement of how we're going to feed our
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spirit and our soul and Jesus Name. I pray it's by faith, and
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those who agree we say amen and Amen. Let's share this out for a
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minute. When we come back, we'll get into Psalms chapter one, nineteen
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verses seven to eleven, calling this one spiritual junk food. On the morning
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Devo. I'll be right back, Hey, man, man, let's go
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for it. Let's see what the word says here on the Morning Devo.
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I'm gonna be in Songs one nineteen seven to eleven. If you have a
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Bible app on your phone, no, not on your phone. If you're
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watching from your phone. But you know what I mean, it's a scripture.
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That's why I try to read it word for word, and if you're
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watching, I try to put it on the screen so that way you don't
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have to search around. But if you're on live. That's soone is with
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a za org. Check it out. There's a live Bible right there,
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and you don't have to move from that site. It's right on the website.
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As you go along with the scripture, as we read it, you
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can have it right there at the same time. That's one of the benefits
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of Live that someone is with a z org doing these morning DeVos. You
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have an interactive live Bible right there, so you could read word for word
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right from the app. And you don't have to worry about changing your phone
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or changing the page on your mobile device. That's the cool thing about it,
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right, And it's distraction free, no pop ups, not a lot
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of things go went on over there. The site's quiet over there. Live
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That soling is with a z the org And I did that on purpose.
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Amen. All right, so let's go for it. Let's see spirit you
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junk food and the picture makes me laugh and I'm like, yep, all
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that all that junk food so good though, right, that soft drink,
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pizza on your rings, hamburgers, piece of cake on man, imagine just
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eating that up every day. Your body's not gonna feel too good. You'll
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probably get the first initial feel good feeling, right, and that doping me
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feeling like, wow, I want I want some of this food every day.
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But you know and I know that if you do that every day,
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your body's gonna show amount nutritious diet and it's gonna not be too good.
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Right, So we don't want to do that. We don't want to eat
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jump junk, especially for our spirit. We want to do what the word
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says some one nineteen versus seven to eleven. I will praise you with an
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upright heart. Hey man, right now, just give God praise. I
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know, I know, I know. Not everybody's having a great week,
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a great year. Not everybody's relationship is one hundred percent, not everybody's finances
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one hundred percent, not everybody's health is one hundred percent. But you know
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who's one hundred, one hundred percent of the time, the Lord, So
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give him praise. I will praise you with an upright heart when I learn
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your righteous rules. I will keep your statutes. This simis right. Here
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is literally being firm with his belief right, and he said, this is
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what I'm gonna do. I will keep your statutes. Do not utterly forsake
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me. How can a young man keep his way pure by guarding it according
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to your word? And if you're a woman, of course you could fit.
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How can a young woman keep her way pure? Answer? By guarding
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it according to your word? To keep your heart, guard it with my
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whole heart. I seek you. Let me not wander from your commandments.
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I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against
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you. Wow, so this is real, This is honest. You know
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what I mean, And this is where I'm at. What about you?
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Let me not wander from your commandments. I have stored up your word in
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my heart that I might not sin against you, Because ultimately, when you
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sin and when I sin, were ultimately sinning against a loving, holy,
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righteous God, merciful God, God of grace, all powerful, all knowing
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God. And what does he do? He offers us forgiveness. He offers
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us a way out when we're tempted. He gives us a pure heart.
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Amen. He guides and guards us by way of Holy Spirit. He doesn't
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leave us, no forsake us, He doesn't put us to shame. All
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we have to do is give him praise with the upright heart, learn his
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righteous rules. People don't like the commandments because they think it's a party pooper
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thing. Oh now I can have fun. H Now I have to go
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to church every day. Oh now? I used to literally think that way
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when I first got saved. I said, what am I going to do
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now? Now I got to dress when a suit and tie every day.
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I can't listen to music. I can't do this, I can't do I
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was already thinking about what I couldn't do instead of thinking about the benefits of
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now what I can do in Christ? Right, what we can do in
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Christ far outweighs what we can do. Amen, And after a while you
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you're not. It's not gonna madge to you what you can't do. It's
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going to really manage to you what we can do. What I couldn't do
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before is say no to sin. But I can do now fill with Holy
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Spirit, God Redeemed, transformed, renewed, restored. Now I could say
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no to sin. Now sin doesn't have a hole like it used to have
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on me twenty something years ago. A man, if you would have spoke
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to me in the nineties, you would have been like, oh, yeah,
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he's lost, but you would not notice because I was just like everybody
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else, acting like I was happy doing everything that everybody else was doing.
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So I was part of the in crowd. But I was not satisfied.
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I was dying. I was mad, I was angry. I was lost,
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Amen. And I couldn't say no to sin, couldn't say no to
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the flesh, couldn't say no to none of that because I wasn't understanding about
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who I was. I didn't know who I was. Amen. I was
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lost then at the age of thirty, right, that's how long I was
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in the world. At the age of thirty, I just said, listen,
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all this stuff that I've done and I continue to do. It's not
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satisfying. I know, puts me in places that might get me, you
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know, far in the world. But I wasn't satisfied with that. I
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knew for sure there had to be more than what I was doing, you
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know what I mean. I knew I was being lied to somehow, that
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if you did this, that and a third that it would work out the
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best, and it wasn't happening. So I decided to do something. I
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decided to I knew for sure I couldn't do it on my own. I
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couldn't change myself. So I said, if there's a God, he might
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be able to do it. So I took that chance, and I'm glad
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I did. And thank you Jesus for mercy and your patience and your grace
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over my life. Now I seek after him when times get rough. Here
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he meant start listening to the Bible or listen to a preacher. Amen,
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and God's winning. Amen, he wins. We still could have our fun.
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This is the Joanne saying, we still have fun by having fun with
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the Lord and listen to the music that God he will of God, that
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he will give us more strength, more power. And all we could do
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is thank the Lord for everything he gives us. Every day. We have
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to take one day at a time. Yes, don't overthink this, don't
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stress yourself out. Amen. If you fall into whatever temptation, sin or
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whatever, get back up, don't stay down, amen, believe it or
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not. I used to battle with depression, and nobody knew these things right.
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And because like I said, when you have when you're doing what the
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world says to do and you come back after doing that empty, that's depressing.
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Or if you do even what other people say to do in being a
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born again believer and it leaves you empty because it's not the right thing.
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You know, you wasn't guided right or taught right or correctly, that will
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leave you empty too. You start bounding with depression. And if you start
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thinking about what you can't do, start thinking about on the restrictions that people
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call it in the scriptures, about the scriptures when they say, listen,
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God does put boundaries. He puts these boundaries because he loves us. You
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know, sex before marriage is not right in the eyes of the Lord.
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That's adultery, fornication. You know, just all that. What he says
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that you can't do is a boundaries of boundaries to keep us safe because He
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has the best plan for us. And also he knows us individually. He
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knows what's not going to be good for me. He knows what's not going
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to be good for you individually, like he literally knows you personally. He
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knows you, But do we personally want that to be known? Amen?
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I obviously can't get on social media or on my podcast unless you're on an
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adult Bible study podcast. That's I'm gonna start revamping again. And unless you're
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doing an adope Bible study with me, you're not going to get the how
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do you call it, the detailed details right on these morning DeVos. I
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try to keep everything just clear and to the point. But on some of
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my Bibble studies, if you follow me for any amount of time, you
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know that we go through it a little deeper, and we'd go through it
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for more a little bit more time because I know that's a different focus on
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those Blaze Bible studies. So I'm going to revamp that. Life has been
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busy, so I can't say when, but I might plan. All this
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in my head has to come out one day. A men little willing to
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the other side, either on the micro on the screen. So thank you
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for your patience for those who've been following me and know about the Blaze Bible
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studies that I used to do Mondays, I think it was Mondays and Tuesdays
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and Thursdays at ten pm. Yeah, I used to do it at ten
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pm. You used to standard time. They meant live and we used to
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have a lot of fun doing that as well. But the archives are still
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there. If you go to Soul Winner is with a Z the RG,
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you go to podcasts, click the blaze and you'll see the podcast. I
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think it goes back all the way to to the beginning two thousand and I
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don't remember eleven or something like that. It goes way back. Hey,
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man, since the joys. Good morning, God, bless you, welcome
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back to the morning eve with my sister, my friend. Great peace over
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your your soul, mind and body, physically, emotionally and spiritually right now
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in Jesus name ain't met. So listen. If you look at the scripture,
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it's so honest, man like. I love the honesty of the scriptures,
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especially in the songs. When the Sawmist is going through something. When
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David is being chased by Saul and his armies, he's literally asking God to
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rip their teeth out of their mouths and do this in that third how could
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they do this to me? God? Where are you? Like? He's
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being real honest with his feelings, with his emotions. That's why I know
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that our emotions are there to be felt. We don't have to always fix
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our emotions. Our emotions are there for us to feel it and then to
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run to God to give God all our cares, all our worries, all
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our anxieties, all our depression, right all when we're tempted to go and
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run to God instead of running to the world. And we know that God
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will consider that, he would help us a man. Because we're considering our
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spiritual diet. We know what we should be eating. We know what we
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should not be eating. Like pork fried rites. All those little nuggets of
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pork are explosive in the flavor a men. But imagine just taking putting the
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rights on the side and taking all the little chunks of pork and having a
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bowl of it single day. Although it tastes good right to me at least,
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I know a lot of people don't eat pork, but it tastes good
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to me. And if eating that every day is not going to be good
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for my body physically, So in the spiritual realm, whatever you're eating up,
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whatever you're putting bowls in front of you and eating up and gobbling up
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every single day, and if it's not a good spiritual diet, it's going
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to hinder your growth spiritually. Right. So are you trying to survive on
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spiritual junk food, because if you are, and let me remind your spiritual
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junk food is this. Not all spirits are from God. That's why the
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Lord says in this word tests all spirits to see if they're from God.
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You have evil spirits, you have good spirits, you have godly spirits,
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you have ungodly spirits, you have holy spirit, you have unholy spirit.
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I said it, unholy spirit that will talk to you, speak to try
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to tice your flesh to do more and more of what the flesh wants to
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do. And the spirit is saying, don't do that. But it's still
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small voice, because God don't have to yell a man. When God speaks
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a thing, it is a thing. But when the flesh speaks, it's
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loud. It's not just it wants to do what it wants to do.
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Amen. So, if you're trying to live on spiritual junk food, prepare
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yourself for illness, Prepare yourself for malnutrition. Prepare because that is what you're
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feeding yourself. If you want to take spiritual nourishment daily, read the Word
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daily, Eat the word up like the best meal you ever had. Of
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the day. Because guess what it is feeding your soul, mind, spirit,
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body, amen, junk food. It just really does a work for
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your flesh. It tastes buzz. It'd be like happy, right, you
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need to get a shock of dope. Mean, while this is good.
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That that good, that good chemical, feel good chemical that stores in your
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brain. A man. That could be for food, that could be for
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other things that you desire. But listen, spiritual food is a thing,
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hey, man, Guarding your heart is a thing. Praising the Lord is
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a thing. A man is a lifestyle that we live or we try to
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live daily. So the Salmis in today's pastes answer that question for us.
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How can we keep our spiritual hearts healthy and strong? How can we keep
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our bodies spiritually strong? And the five verses that we've read, the Psalmis
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expressed his love and respectful, God's holy word love and respect. That's why
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I know for sure I don't have to know everything in the scriptures. You
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don't have to know everything in the scriptures. I think personally it'd be impossible
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for us to know everything in the scriptures and to understand everything. But if
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you disagree, it's okay. But what I am saying is that if you
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love God, you'll start loving his word. Matter of fact, you can't
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have a relationship with God. He can't say you have a relationship with God
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and I have a relationship through His word. Right, feed yourself. You
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read Some one nineteen and it's entirely like I always tell people to read,
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but do these little snapshots of the scriptures. But I always tell people to
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read the whole scripture. If you read it in saciety, you will see
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that the Psalmis didn't write a five verse like junk five verses about how much
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he cherished God's word. No, he wrote one hundred and seventy six verses
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declaring just how precious God's word is to him. That's facts all the way.
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If you could if you could write one hundred and seventy six verses about
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how much you love God's word, You're in there. You have a lot
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of reasons, Amen, to love him. Since Nicole, God bless you,
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good morning, and God bless you brother. Amen. I definitely feel
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the difference on how my day is when I am intentionally in starting my day
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in His word. Yes, you could actually feel it because you're feeding yourself
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spiritual food and men. When I go days without these morning DeVos, I
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could feel it. Amen, thank God that maybe I could eat enough for
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a couple of days off. But I need to be in this word because
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the Word is what changes my life. So thank you for sharing that.
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I agree with you. Starting off in his word changes a lot of things,
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especially things that are going on in here. So Someone on eighteen is
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the longest chapter in the whole Bible, longest shot in the whole Bible,
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and it's talking about guarding your hearts, talking about how much of this summers
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loves the Word of God. There's a lot more about Someone nineteen that I
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don't have time. If you look up Someone nineteen the facts about it biblically,
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you'll be like, wow, Someone nineteen is an amazing chapter. The
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longest chapter in the scripture. Celebrates just how righteous, how perfect, how
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wonder risks, how delightful, how truthful, how life giving, right,
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comforting, hopeful, how valuable, how wise, how sure, and how
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steadfast God's word is. I think that's a coincidence. I don't think so.
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God knows us, he knows what we need, he knows what we
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should be eating, He knows that we should guard our hearts and minds.
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He knows that we should give him glory or honor, worship and praise.
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He knows all of that, and he knows that deep down the side,
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we want to live a pure life. I want a pure heart. What
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about you? The only way we could do that, I believe through the
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scriptures tells us over and over it's to guard our hearts. You know,
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the Old Covenant says that our heart is full of wickedness and deceit and all
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that. But when you're born again, when you're saved, you no longer
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have that deceitful, wicked heart. You have the heart of God, at
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the mind of Christ. You could think clearly, you could feel God's desire
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in you, and you have the heart that's transformed the heart of God.
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So the Psalmers knew that God's word is the key to a spiritually healthy life.
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He knew that if he continued to eat junk food and to worship idols,
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and continues to do what to flesh his eyes from him, he knows
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that he will get unhealthy men spiritually, right and physically. He said,
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if anyone wants to know how to live it pure and upright life, anybody,
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if that's you, if you want to know how to do this?
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Amen? Is it easy? No, because you're baling against the flesh.
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But is it possible? Yes, because we have a God right who loves
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us and helps us. The Bible is clear. Flesh and blood won't inherit
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the Kingdom of God. Anyway, we go by way of spirit. He
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said that if anyone wants to know how to live it pure and upright life,
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all they have to do is read and obey scripture. Could it be
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that easy? Could it be that easy? And we've been overthinking this is
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how I'm gonna do this? How'm gona do that? Read and obey the
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scripture. When we go back to the Bible, we discover that God has
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told us everything we need to know to live a life for His glory and
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our own good. Amazing. So I hope you get what I'm trying to
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say. Hope you get what the Lord is saying. Amen, take someone
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nineteen read it for yourself. It might take a while because it's a very
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long, long chapter, the longest I think book in the Bible. It
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says, right, But once you do that, man, you'll be spiritually
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nourished. You be feeding yourself the good stuff of God's word. Amen,
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and you'll find some answers to some deep questions that you've probably been asking for
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a long time. How to keep your ways pure, how to stay that
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way. It's the word of God. Amen. Do I get it right
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every day? Absolutely not. Do you get it right every day? Absolutely
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not. But what we can do is trust on the one God who gets
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to write all the time, because he is the one that promises us health,
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freedom from sin, the abundant life, eternal life, and he gives
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us the born again experience. That's what I'm saying. Help me here,
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if I don't know how to read or write, how it would be able
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to know how to read that you listen? You could listen to the scriptures.
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Amen. You could listen to the scriptures just like you're listening to the
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podcast or watching the podcast. This apps on your phone, the Bible app
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and a lot of those versions translations of the scriptures. You could literally trust
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play and you can listen to the scriptures. Amen. And God will write
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those things that he's letting you here. He will literally write it on your
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heart and you remember it. Amen. Thank you for the question. Hope
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that helps so God bless you all, God keep you all, and remember
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always that God is good. Please,