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FRONT PORCH FRIDAYS - THIS SONG OF PRAISE · THIS IS THE LIFE PODCAST

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Thank you for joining us this morning on
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  Speaker 1: our Front Porch Friday edition of Morning Moments with Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I pray that you can just take a little time
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  Speaker 1: this morning before your day gets started, and just get
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  Speaker 1: in a place where you can relax and just take
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  Speaker 1: a deep breath and just begin to not only meditate
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  Speaker 1: on the Word of God this morning, but just share
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  Speaker 1: a few moments with not just myself, but all of
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  Speaker 1: those who listen to our devotion time here on our podcast.
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  Speaker 1: We are one big family just trying to encourage each other,
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  Speaker 1: uplift one another. And I told you yesterday that as
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  Speaker 1: we kind of start these Front Porch Fridays, these moments
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  Speaker 1: of reflection, I wanted to try to bring in some
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  Speaker 1: of the comments or letters that I get through this
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  Speaker 1: podcast and particularly through these devotions that may encourage you
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  Speaker 1: as well as they encourage me, because I know you
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  Speaker 1: hear from me all the time and the thoughts that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord gives me. But from time to time I
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  Speaker 1: think it's important to share what other people in our
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  Speaker 1: group and our family here are sharing also. And this
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  Speaker 1: morning I pull one out that really particularly touched me,
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  Speaker 1: and they desire to be referred to as just a
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  Speaker 1: grateful listener. So that's how we'll identify this brother this morning.
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  Speaker 1: But the letter goes something like this. It says, Dear Eddie,
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  Speaker 1: I hope this email finds you well. I've listened to
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  Speaker 1: this This is the Life podcast for quite a while now,
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  Speaker 1: and I just wanted to thank you for the encouragement
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  Speaker 1: you've shared over the years. The Lord has used your
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  Speaker 1: messages and this podcast to strengthen my faith more times
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  Speaker 1: than I can count. Recently, I've been going through some
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  Speaker 1: serious health issues. There have been days when I've honestly
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  Speaker 1: wondered how much longer the Lord would leave me here
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  Speaker 1: upon this earth. I don't say that with fear as
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  Speaker 1: much as with a deeper awareness that this life is
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  Speaker 1: only temporary. When your health changes, it has a way
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  Speaker 1: of changing your perspective. Also, one of the songs that
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  Speaker 1: has meant more to me than I can express is
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  Speaker 1: the song this Song of Praise. Every time I hear it,
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  Speaker 1: my spirit is lifted. It reminds me that beyond all
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  Speaker 1: the pain, the doctor's appointments, the uncertainty, and the struggles
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  Speaker 1: of this life, there is something much greater waiting for
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  Speaker 1: those who belong to Christ. There's something about that final
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  Speaker 1: chorus in that song. As the music builds and the
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  Speaker 1: choir kind of comes in, I can't help but close
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  Speaker 1: my eyes, raise my hands and picture a heavenly choir
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  Speaker 1: welcoming me home into glory. And for just a few moments,
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  Speaker 1: my burden seems to fade and my heart is filled
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  Speaker 1: with hope instead of worry. Would you please play this
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  Speaker 1: song of praise for me and for all the others
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  Speaker 1: who may be facing the reality that Heaven is closer
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  Speaker 1: than we think. I believe there are many of us
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  Speaker 1: who need to be reminded that our greatest days are
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  Speaker 1: still ahead, and that what awaits us in Christ far
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  Speaker 1: outweighs anything we endure here. Thank you for faithfully pointing
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  Speaker 1: people to Jesus and for reminding us that this world
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  Speaker 1: is not our home. May God continue to bless you,
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  Speaker 1: your family, and your ministry in Christ. And as I said,
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  Speaker 1: a grateful listener. And you know, letters like this they
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  Speaker 1: have a way of putting life into perspective. At least
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  Speaker 1: they do for me. We spend so much of our
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  Speaker 1: time thinking about tomorrow, but sometimes the Lord reminds us
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  Speaker 1: that heaven is not just a promise for some day
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  Speaker 1: it's a home. It's the home he's preparing for every
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  Speaker 1: child of God. The apostle Paul wrote in Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 1: chapter four, I want you to listen to what it said,
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  Speaker 1: because it kind of ties into this letter from this brother.
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  Speaker 1: For our light afflictions, which is but for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight
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  Speaker 1: of glory. While we look not at the things which
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  Speaker 1: are seen, but at the things which are not seen.
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  Speaker 1: See today, I just want us to be reminded in
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  Speaker 1: these little front point moments that we have that every
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  Speaker 1: struggle we face here is temporary, but what God has
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  Speaker 1: prepared for his children that's eternal. So this morning, if
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  Speaker 1: you're walking through difficult season today, if your body is weary,
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  Speaker 1: if your heart is heavy, or if you found yourself
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  Speaker 1: thinking more about eternity than you ever have before, then
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  Speaker 1: this song is also for you. And as you listen
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  Speaker 1: to it this morning, I pray that you'll just take
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  Speaker 1: a little time Jesus, allow the Lord to speak to
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  Speaker 1: you through the lyrics, through the melody, through just the
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  Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit. I don't think we take
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  Speaker 1: enough time to slow down to soak in what the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is really trying to say to us in the
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  Speaker 1: moments that we have. So today you be safe, you
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  Speaker 1: be strong, and you be blessed, and you take just
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  Speaker 1: a moment this morning to thank the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: that when this temporary life is over and this temporary
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  Speaker 1: body is laid down, we have an eternal home with Him.
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  Speaker 1: And far beyond what we can see, there's a home
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  Speaker 1: that waits for all of us. And I hope you
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  Speaker 1: enjoy this song of praise.
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  Speaker 2: When the morning light is breaking.
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  Speaker 3: And mercy shines.
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  Speaker 2: So clear, I hear the quiet whisper of your prison stroy,
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  Speaker 2: every bread you give, this kind, every steps by your praise.
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  Speaker 2: So I left my heart.
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  Speaker 4: Wordship and beginning the song of praise. Fay I can see.
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  Speaker 3: Is a home that like ex for.
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  Speaker 5: Me in the joy ore in the pain, your love
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  Speaker 5: remains the same. So for all monys, I will sing
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  Speaker 5: this song of praise to you.
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  Speaker 4: For a through the vairs and the mountains. You have
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  Speaker 4: always been my guys.
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  Speaker 3: In the storms and instillments, you standing by my side.
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  Speaker 4: All the blessings im.
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  Speaker 5: All the mercy you have shown, are the reasons.
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  Speaker 4: I keep seeing only.
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  Speaker 5: Before your throw far beyond, but I can see.
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  Speaker 4: Is a home that waits for me.
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  Speaker 5: In the joy hord of pain. Your love remains the same.
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  Speaker 4: So for all my days I was seeing this song bays.
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  Speaker 2: To you.
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  Speaker 4: For a gary g. You have counted.
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  Speaker 5: Very prayer that I pray.
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  Speaker 4: Very step of this journey by your.
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  Speaker 5: Hand has been far beyond what I can't see. It
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  Speaker 5: is a home daway for me the joy of the bay.
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  Speaker 5: Your the remains the same. So fur Badays, I will
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  Speaker 5: sing this sound of phrase to you. Forevers Baday, have
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  Speaker 5: us sing.
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  Speaker 4: This sound of phrase.
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  Speaker 5: To you for