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Day #28 WITH QUEEN ANGELA FROM "BEYOND SIGHT "DEVOTIONAL..... Welcome to Day 28: A Sabbath Reflection. · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Three and good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, kick,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, Twitch good and Facebook and YouTube. Welcome. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: I want to welcome everyone. I want to welcome everyone
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  Speaker 1: to morning devotion. Y'all. We are day number twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: Day number twenty eight inside of the amazing book. It
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  Speaker 1: is Beyond Sight. It is a thirty one day devotion
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  Speaker 1: of empowering and it's poetry and scripture. Y'all. This is
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  Speaker 1: something that got up in my spirit back in December
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. It is up on my website,
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  Speaker 1: and my website is my name, Angela Thomas smithbooks dot com,
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  Speaker 1: and that is www. Angela Thomas smithbooks dot com. You
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  Speaker 1: can go over and grab you a copy, and you
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  Speaker 1: also can get a copy of our next book that's
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  Speaker 1: coming up that we're going to be doing our next
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  Speaker 1: devotion after these thirty one days it's over. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to be going into this book next, y'all. So y'all
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  Speaker 1: God and sharing what he drops in our spirit, giving
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  Speaker 1: it to you, how He give it to us, and
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  Speaker 1: how we have experienced it. And I thank you guys
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  Speaker 1: for joining me, for tuning in and being a part
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  Speaker 1: of this devotion. So thank you, thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I'm not going to prolong it, y'all know me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and jump in. I'm gonna save
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  Speaker 1: my little prayer and go ahead and get started. So,
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  Speaker 1: Father God, in the name of Jesus, Lord, if you
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  Speaker 1: will remove me out of the way to a God,
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  Speaker 1: that it not be about me, Lord God, but about
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  Speaker 1: your word. Lord God. Father asked that you decrease me
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  Speaker 1: in the flesh, Lord God, and allow your spirit man
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  Speaker 1: to come forth floor God and your word be shared
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  Speaker 1: on today, that somebody can be blessed for God, that
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  Speaker 1: somebody that may not know you or deep in your
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  Speaker 1: sins for a God, that they may come out, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: just as you've done it for me and the thousands
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  Speaker 1: and millions and means before us and me to come
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  Speaker 1: after us or God, we know that you're able and
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  Speaker 1: willing or goud. So Father, we think we thank you
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  Speaker 1: for this new day that was not promise us or God,
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  Speaker 1: this day that we've never seen, and this day that
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  Speaker 1: we'll never see again. Lord God Father, we ask him
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  Speaker 1: that you would just have your way in each and
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  Speaker 1: every one of our lives. May we be the best
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  Speaker 1: version of our selves today and may we show up
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  Speaker 1: for our selves for God to bring you glory and
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  Speaker 1: for our good Lord God Father, we thank you right
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  Speaker 1: now for moving on our behalf of going before us,
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  Speaker 1: for straightening our those crooked rolls and lovling those mountains
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  Speaker 1: for God. Father. Nothing that we can face that you
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  Speaker 1: don't know about for God. So Father, were asking that
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  Speaker 1: you would just allow that strength that's on the inside
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  Speaker 1: of us to come forward for for God and allow
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  Speaker 1: us to walk boldly in your word, Lord God, that
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  Speaker 1: we won't have an ego, that we won't have an attitude,
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  Speaker 1: but we will move and love. Father, we thank you
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  Speaker 1: on today. We thank you for healing, deliverance and setting
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  Speaker 1: and making us free, and not setting us free, but
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  Speaker 1: making us free. And your son Jesus's name, Amen, Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: I thank God for just being in the place I
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  Speaker 1: just think of, just being able to be in the midst.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, Oftentimes we are ampted to do something,
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  Speaker 1: but yet we don't move. The Word tells us that
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  Speaker 1: many are call, but only a few will answer. And
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  Speaker 1: I thank God that I was willing and able to
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  Speaker 1: answer the call. Sometimes we don't understand on what it is.
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  Speaker 1: We don't understand what we're supposed to be doing, how
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We have to understand that God is
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  Speaker 1: who he say he is, and He's gonna do exactly
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  Speaker 1: what he says we do in our lives. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: move beyond our expectations. So sometimes we put limitations on
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  Speaker 1: ourselves when we know that we serve a limitless God.
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  Speaker 1: He has no limits and he can do all things.
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  Speaker 1: He said all things are possible through Him, y'all all things.
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  Speaker 1: So today is a day of reflection. If you following
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  Speaker 1: along in the book, it is a day of reflection.
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  Speaker 1: So in reflections, it's said, we're going to go over
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  Speaker 1: what we done this past week explored the unseen aspect
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  Speaker 1: of God's work in our lives. How has embracing the
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  Speaker 1: unseen brought clarity, strength, and a new vision to your journey?
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  Speaker 1: So as I began to prepare for this lesson, I
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  Speaker 1: want to really talk about that scripture and to talk
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  Speaker 1: about those scriptures that we have talked about and journey
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  Speaker 1: through throughout this week because we have went over severn scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: There's been severn scriptures that I think six to be exact.
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  Speaker 1: We had one for each day. So there's six scriptures
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  Speaker 1: that we actually talked about, and then there were some
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  Speaker 1: extra scriptures that were included in reading. And then there
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  Speaker 1: were some extra scriptures that I threw in a part
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  Speaker 1: of the lesson in the teaching. But nevertheless, there is
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  Speaker 1: six scriptures that I want to reference this week. As
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  Speaker 1: we journeyed together under the theme of Embrace the unseen,
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  Speaker 1: we reached out of for hope beyond what our eyes
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  Speaker 1: could see and what our hands could actually fix on.
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  Speaker 1: But we explored the promises of God through the powerful
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  Speaker 1: scriptures that He's given us in his word, and we
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  Speaker 1: focused on The first scripture was the Second Corinthians for
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  Speaker 1: sixteen and seventeen. Say, therefore we do not lose art.
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  Speaker 1: So outward we are wasting away, yet inward we are
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  Speaker 1: being renewed daily by day by day. For our light
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  Speaker 1: is our light, and monetary troubles achieving or achieving for
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  Speaker 1: us in eternal glory that outweighs them all. So no
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  Speaker 1: matter what we can go through, this verse reminds us
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  Speaker 1: that while we visibly see challenges, God is yet working
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  Speaker 1: the unseen places of our hearts. He's in the struggle
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  Speaker 1: that we may be going through. And yet they he
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  Speaker 1: may be seen meanlessless, or then they may be producing
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  Speaker 1: unseen eternal rewards. We have to embrace the unseen because
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  Speaker 1: we have to trust that God's promises and we have
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  Speaker 1: to trust that His world is going to be perfected
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  Speaker 1: in our lives even when we can't see the immediate results,
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  Speaker 1: because he tells us. He tells us to not focus
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  Speaker 1: on the things in the present, but those things that
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  Speaker 1: we hope for. And then we go on through Joshua
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  Speaker 1: one of nine. It says, I have not commanded you,
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  Speaker 1: but be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid, and
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  Speaker 1: do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God is
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  Speaker 1: with you wherever you go when entering into the unknown,
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  Speaker 1: and go on places that you may not have ever been.
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  Speaker 1: God has called us to be courageous. He's caused us
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  Speaker 1: to be strength, and He's called us to be both
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  Speaker 1: even when the roll ahead does not seem reachable and
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  Speaker 1: does not visible. We have to stand on his presence
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  Speaker 1: and know that his promise is his promise, and we
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  Speaker 1: have to cling to that. We have to embrace be
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  Speaker 1: unseen and what it means stepping forward in faith knowing
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  Speaker 1: that God walked with us every step of the way
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  Speaker 1: because his word tells us that he would never leave
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  Speaker 1: us nor forsake us. So we have to understand that.
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  Speaker 1: We got to believe that, and we have to take
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  Speaker 1: him for his word. It's okay if we give him
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  Speaker 1: his word back, we can tell him what he said
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  Speaker 1: he would do for us. Just like we want to
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  Speaker 1: hold ourselves accountable and we want to hold others accountable,
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  Speaker 1: we can hold God accountable because guess what he is
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  Speaker 1: holding you accountable? And Songs one nineteen one oh five
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  Speaker 1: it says your word is a lamp for my a
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  Speaker 1: light on my path. This simply says that sometimes the
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  Speaker 1: way forward seems dark and uncertain, but umbracing the unseen
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  Speaker 1: is about trusting every step in his guidance leadership and
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  Speaker 1: allowing his truth to eliminate the path for us. Knowing
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  Speaker 1: that everything may not immediately happen, but knowing that it
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen, even if we don't see the
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  Speaker 1: full picture. Knowing that it's gonna happen, those little things
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  Speaker 1: that are gonna add up, those little steps are gonna
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  Speaker 1: turn into big steps, momentums that that leads us to
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  Speaker 1: everything that He's called us to do. If we go
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  Speaker 1: on down to First John four and four. It said, you,
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  Speaker 1: dear child, are from God and have overcome them because
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  Speaker 1: the one who is in you is greater than the
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  Speaker 1: one who's in the world. Y'all. The invisible battles that
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  Speaker 1: you face, they can be overwhelming, yeah, we know. But
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  Speaker 1: God's spirit within you is greater than anything that you
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  Speaker 1: gain and face and embracing the unseen, relying on the
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  Speaker 1: power within. That's why I keep saying, tapping into that
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  Speaker 1: that is in you, that breath that He breathed into
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  Speaker 1: you in Genesis two and seven. Victory is already inside
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  Speaker 1: of you. Victory is around you. You just want to
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  Speaker 1: it is there. It is there. And then if you
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  Speaker 1: go on down to Isaiah forty three at nineteen, he says, see,
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  Speaker 1: I am doing a new thing. Now it springs up.
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  Speaker 1: Do not be perceived. I am making a way in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. God specialized and
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  Speaker 1: doing the unexpected. He specialized in creating new opport coortunities
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  Speaker 1: when none seem impossible, when none seem possible, y'all, what
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  Speaker 1: may seem impossible to us, it's always possible to the
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  Speaker 1: possible God, because he can do all things, embracing the unseen.
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  Speaker 1: It's about having faith in God and working beyond what
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  Speaker 1: you can see in the natural, but preparing for what
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  Speaker 1: you believe shall come in the breakthroughs, in the new beginnings.
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  Speaker 1: He will put you in places that you never imagine
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  Speaker 1: being in. He will put you before never imagine being.
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  Speaker 1: He will allow you to do things that you never
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  Speaker 1: thought you could do. For example, you're looking at someone
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  Speaker 1: that never thought who would be doing podcasting. Yet not
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  Speaker 1: only am my own two podcasts, but I also have
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  Speaker 1: a podcast work that houses nine ten hosts that allows
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  Speaker 1: them to do the same thing that I thought I
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  Speaker 1: never could do. Who would have thought y'all looking at
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  Speaker 1: someone that has not just these three here, but I
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  Speaker 1: have over one hundred and forty something literary works published
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  Speaker 1: on Amazon, Walmart, dot Com, Books of Mellion, you name it,
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  Speaker 1: They're out there. You can google Angela Thomas Smith, Queen
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  Speaker 1: of Collaborations. I guarantee you you're going to see pictures
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  Speaker 1: of me pop up. Why Because I believed in what was.
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  Speaker 1: I decided that I wanted better. I decided that if
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to see change in my life, I had
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  Speaker 1: to be that change. I couldn't expecting something to fall
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  Speaker 1: out the sky. Every word that had been spoken over
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  Speaker 1: my life, it was just words. Because faith without words,
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  Speaker 1: it's nothing, it's dead. So the words was just hang angering.
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  Speaker 1: And he had already blessed him. He already you know,
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  Speaker 1: when we pray, he answers. So the prayer had already
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  Speaker 1: been answered. But had it manifested in my life? No,
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  Speaker 1: had not manifested in my life. And there's still some
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  Speaker 1: things that I've prayed for that he's answered, but had
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  Speaker 1: not manifested in my life because I have not lined up. See, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we are the hinderance of a lot of stuff that
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  Speaker 1: is not happening in our life, that should be happening
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  Speaker 1: in our life. But if we move out of the way,
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  Speaker 1: if we move out of the way and allow him
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  Speaker 1: to do what he said he would do, y'all. See,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you something. It says the heavens declared
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  Speaker 1: glory of God. The sky proclaimed its work, the work
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  Speaker 1: of his hands, y'all. Every little deed, every little thing
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  Speaker 1: you see, every little y'all, he made all of this.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a testament of his head work. You are
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  Speaker 1: a testament of his hand to work. You've been able
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  Speaker 1: to get up and do the things that you need
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  Speaker 1: to do to bring him glory. Y'all. He already said
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  Speaker 1: that these things that we do are gonna be for
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  Speaker 1: our good, but it's gonna bring him glory. So don't
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  Speaker 1: sit and waddle in the things that may have come
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  Speaker 1: against you. Take them for what they are so they happen.
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  Speaker 1: Figure out what part you played in things that did
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  Speaker 1: not go right, figure out how you can adjust those
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  Speaker 1: things so that you don't have to keep going through
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  Speaker 1: that same circle, So that you want to keep going
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  Speaker 1: through that same lesson, so that you can elevate and
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  Speaker 1: go on to the next and then now only that
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  Speaker 1: you will have a testimony that you can share with
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  Speaker 1: somebody else so that they may not have to go
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  Speaker 1: through exactly what you went through. Because y'all, we're all
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  Speaker 1: gonna have our tests, We're all gonna have our trials,
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  Speaker 1: We're are gonna have tribulations the process, and it's going
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  Speaker 1: from one to the next, to the next to the next, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We're always gonna be going through something that is a
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  Speaker 1: price sense of life. But it's how you handle it
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  Speaker 1: and how you go through what's going to count and matter.
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  Speaker 1: There's two things. You been promised. We was promised life
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  Speaker 1: and we was promised death. It's that dash, that thing
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  Speaker 1: in between. Have done what he said he wanted us
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  Speaker 1: to do because he put us here part of the
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  Speaker 1: master plan, as a masterpiece, as a voice piece for him.
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  Speaker 1: And as we've journeyed through this week, this is what
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  Speaker 1: we have learned. Even those things are gonna come, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we understand those things it's are gonna come. But do
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  Speaker 1: those things have to hinder us? Do those things have
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  Speaker 1: to keep us off track? Do those things have to
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  Speaker 1: deter us from the things that He's called us to do. No,
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  Speaker 1: whether you struggle or have struggled and have been silent
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  Speaker 1: in your pain, your ache, your storm, know that everyone
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  Speaker 1: has them. Everyone can see. This week we have reflected
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  Speaker 1: on searching out ways to get through, yearning for strength
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  Speaker 1: to keep going. We have been longing for the assurance
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  Speaker 1: that God sees us and that we're not invisible. It
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  Speaker 1: was just a week of devotions, but it was an
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  Speaker 1: invitation to sit for our Father, to be in his
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  Speaker 1: presence and to let our soul breathe, to find shelter
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  Speaker 1: beneath his promise, to trust his word and to know
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  Speaker 1: that it was true even when our path or not
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  Speaker 1: lit up, when they're not right, when they're not true
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  Speaker 1: to us, when we truly don't understand, we have to
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  Speaker 1: understand that God is gentle, He's powerful, and he is
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  Speaker 1: yet lighting the way for us, no matter what it
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  Speaker 1: looks like, no matter what it looked like. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand this, that you have to trust the
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  Speaker 1: process even when you cannot see the outcome. In times
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  Speaker 1: of uncertainty, when the path ahead is clouded and nothing
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  Speaker 1: seems to make sense, God is quietly weaving together a
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  Speaker 1: bigger story. It's bigger than us. It's bigger than any
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  Speaker 1: situation that we're going through. Its bigger than any problem
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  Speaker 1: that we're going through. Know that God, God is working
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  Speaker 1: in the background. He's shaping you and preparing new opportunities
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  Speaker 1: to renew our spirit even when circumstances look bleak. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we got to trust that every hardship is producing something
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  Speaker 1: greater than what I can see, eternal glory, growth, divine breakthroughs,
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  Speaker 1: and places exactly where we at least expected. So hold
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  Speaker 1: on faith calls us to believe that God is always
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  Speaker 1: doing a new thing, even in the wilderness y'all yet moving.
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  Speaker 1: We got to be able to fill his presence, and
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  Speaker 1: we have to anchor ourselves in his presence. We got
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  Speaker 1: to be consistent and unbreakable. Again, I say, we have
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  Speaker 1: to be consistent and unbreakable. Just like some of us
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  Speaker 1: come on these social media sites and we are consistent.
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  Speaker 1: We consistently show up for Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and all
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  Speaker 1: these other social media sites. We're here every day. We
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  Speaker 1: got to schedule. But do you have that same schedule
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  Speaker 1: with sitting spending time with the one that created you,
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  Speaker 1: the one that makes this even possible? Do you even
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  Speaker 1: provide any consistency and seeking him before you even come
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  Speaker 1: to these sites. We are intentions, you know, about showing
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  Speaker 1: up on these social media sites. But we are intentional
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  Speaker 1: about spending time with him and getting that that he
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  Speaker 1: wants us to be sharing on these social media sites
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  Speaker 1: before we even come. But we don't take that time.
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  Speaker 1: We we don't, we don't utilize that time. Again, be
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  Speaker 1: consistent and unshakable. No matter how fierce the storm is
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  Speaker 1: or how isolated you may feel, you're never walking along.
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  Speaker 1: And Joshua reminds us us that First John reminds us
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  Speaker 1: that his spirit within us is greater than any challenge
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  Speaker 1: that we face. God's presence is both a shield and
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  Speaker 1: a strength, empowering us with courage that we didn't even
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know where it comes from, and reminding us
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  Speaker 1: that we are delved, that we are protected, and we
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  Speaker 1: are held in every circumstances. Y'all, He's near and he
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  Speaker 1: reassures you. So what else do we do? How do
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  Speaker 1: we allow God's word to be the light that guides us?
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  Speaker 1: How do we do that? And how do we do that?
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  Speaker 1: The truth of the scripture is more than words on
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  Speaker 1: the page, y'all. It is living, It is breathing light.
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  Speaker 1: It cuts through the darkness of confusion and doubt. So
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  Speaker 1: when you have questions about anything that you're doing, take
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  Speaker 1: it to the stripture. Do it aligned with the scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Anything that goes on in your life, take it to
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  Speaker 1: the scripture, do it aligned with the scripture. Because he said,
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  Speaker 1: God his word will be a lamp upon our feet,
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  Speaker 1: the light for our path, y'all, that means he is
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  Speaker 1: providing step by step direction, even if we can't see
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  Speaker 1: the bigger picture. If we just gonna step by step,
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  Speaker 1: the little steps will add up to the big steps
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  Speaker 1: which will add up to the bigger picture, y'all. He
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  Speaker 1: tells us this in his word, and we got to
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  Speaker 1: take him for his word, y'all. He's always community communicating
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  Speaker 1: with us. He's always guided us, he's always providing clarity
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  Speaker 1: and hope, y'all, let his Let his word be your
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  Speaker 1: consistent companion while we're out here looking for other people's companionship,
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  Speaker 1: looking for other people to validate us, looking for others
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  Speaker 1: to do something that he's already done. That he's already doing.
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  Speaker 1: So let his word be your consistent companion on today,
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  Speaker 1: allowing him to illuminate your journey towards the unseen victories. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: He has prepared you for this. Know that he has
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  Speaker 1: prepared you for this. Do you remember that test? Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember that tru Do you remember that tribulation? Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember you know all those things that you have overcame.
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  Speaker 1: If he did it once, he'll do it again. He
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  Speaker 1: has no respectable person. So know that again, this week
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  Speaker 1: has been a week that we embraced what we did
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  Speaker 1: not see. We trust in the word. We believe the word.
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  Speaker 1: So this is what I want you to do. What
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  Speaker 1: I've shared with you on today I challenge you. I
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  Speaker 1: challenge you to apply to your life. When we take
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  Speaker 1: the word that is given us, the scriptures just mere scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: because he said, we have the power power of life
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  Speaker 1: and death. Y'all, we beat those things. We can speak
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  Speaker 1: it over our life. So we have the power to
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  Speaker 1: speak those scriptures that we've shared if we've read over
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  Speaker 1: the week, and apply it to our lives. Applied and
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  Speaker 1: allow it to come active, and allow it manifest because
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  Speaker 1: we have that power. When you uncertainly are surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: things that you cannot see, by surrendering to him daily,
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  Speaker 1: you allow him to come in. You should start your
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  Speaker 1: morning every day by laying your worries, your fears, and
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  Speaker 1: what control you think you have at God's feet. As
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  Speaker 1: you do, y'all, speak honestly with him, just like we're here,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm here having this conversation with you, and like
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  Speaker 1: you have conversation with your brother, your sister, like have
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  Speaker 1: that conversation with him. Honestly, speak with him. Give him
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  Speaker 1: access to any part of you that may not be you.
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  Speaker 1: If you have anxiety, if you have doubt, if you're
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  Speaker 1: going through grief, if you're going anything, this is the
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  Speaker 1: time to surrender it to him, y'all. Surrendering is not
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  Speaker 1: a sign of weakness. It is an act of faith,
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  Speaker 1: acknowledging that God is sovereign, acknowledging that God has all power,
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  Speaker 1: that we only have power through Him, and y'all, it's
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  Speaker 1: all about acknowledging. That's how he wants us to do,
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  Speaker 1: is acknowledge him, to welcome him in, because again, he's
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  Speaker 1: not coming in there and doing anything without you inviting him. There. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's with us always because he said, but he's never
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  Speaker 1: gonna leave. But he ain't gonna take over and do
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  Speaker 1: nothing for you unless you invite him. He tells us
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  Speaker 1: that in his word, like what you've been reading, So
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  Speaker 1: that's what I've been reading. So while we're not letting
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  Speaker 1: him in and being you to ourselves and being honest
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  Speaker 1: with ourselves, we're blocking our own blestens. The blessedness right
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  Speaker 1: here just hanging on somebody's at the tip because you've
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  Speaker 1: already played pray for it, He's already sent you to answer,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just hanging in there, just waiting for you
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  Speaker 1: to just to reach and grab it. Will you reach
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  Speaker 1: up today? Will you grab it? Because God is working
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  Speaker 1: it out every detail tells, even the ones that you
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  Speaker 1: cannot see. Trust him on today again. You gotta speak
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  Speaker 1: his word. Let those scriptures, y'all that we've been sharing,
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  Speaker 1: that's in these books and in the books that's gonna come, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: let them explode. We cite them over over and over
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  Speaker 1: for again in the weeks to come. Allow them to
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  Speaker 1: become affirmations in the moment of challenges, because we got
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  Speaker 1: to be able to affirm ourselves. We don't need people
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  Speaker 1: to do it. We need to be able to do
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  Speaker 1: it ourselves. And y'all, we can do it through his word.
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  Speaker 1: So speak them out loud when you feel overwhelmed, declare
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  Speaker 1: his promises. When fear or discouragement threatened to hold you.
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  Speaker 1: For example, remind yourself that the one who is in
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  Speaker 1: me is greater than the one in this world. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's first John four and foe, he said. And God
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  Speaker 1: is making a way in the wilderness. That's Isaiah forty
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  Speaker 1: three and nineteen. No matter where you are, He's making
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  Speaker 1: a way. You can be. If you make your baby
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  Speaker 1: in heir, y'all, he gonna he gonna come down there
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  Speaker 1: and get you. He gonna make his bad right now.
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  Speaker 1: But he not gonna stay. He promised to stay, but
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  Speaker 1: he gonna come. And when you're ready to come up
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  Speaker 1: out of there, he gonna come get you. As you
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  Speaker 1: give a voide to God's truth, you will shift your
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  Speaker 1: focus from the things that you want to see to
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  Speaker 1: believe it in it is that you have yet to see,
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  Speaker 1: because you know that His word is true. Y'all, this
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  Speaker 1: practice will renew your mind, your body, and your soul.
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  Speaker 1: It will be your faith, and y'all, it will ignite
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  Speaker 1: hope within your heart. He deals with the matters of
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  Speaker 1: our heart. Put it on your heart. Allow him to
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  Speaker 1: come in. Welcome your man. If you adopt a posture
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  Speaker 1: of expecting and openness each day, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: ask God to help you and to see His handiwork
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  Speaker 1: beyond what is obvious. What is obvious, Pause the unexpected
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  Speaker 1: blessings and suddenly opportunities will begin to open. So a
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  Speaker 1: new direction that may come disguised as ordinary moments and hardship.
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  Speaker 1: God is yet creating a redeemer. God is springing up
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  Speaker 1: different things around you. So I want you, guys, to celebrate,
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  Speaker 1: celebrate the small victories, the hidden miracles as evidence of
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  Speaker 1: His faithfulness. Be willing to move forward, and even when
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  Speaker 1: the path is unconventional and unfavorable. When you surrender daily,
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  Speaker 1: declare God's word and remain open to His newness, you
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  Speaker 1: will live a anchored and faith rather than fear fully
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  Speaker 1: embracing the unseen ways of God and how He is
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  Speaker 1: working in your life. Y'all, as we stand on the
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  Speaker 1: threshold of a new month, y'all we dazed away from
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  Speaker 1: a new month, remember this God is not finished with
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  Speaker 1: your story. He is writing new chapters full of hope,
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  Speaker 1: breakthrough in unexpected blessings. What lies ahead may be unknown,
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  Speaker 1: but you do not face it alone. The same God
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  Speaker 1: that brought you through yesterday is already preparing varias for
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  Speaker 1: your tomorrow. Let July be a month where you walk
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  Speaker 1: boldly in faith, refusing to be defined by past setbacks
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  Speaker 1: occurrent obstacles. Open your heart to divine surprises. Watch for
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  Speaker 1: God to do a new thing in your life, even
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  Speaker 1: in a place that often felt like it was broken.
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  Speaker 1: As you step forward, carry His promises within you. You
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  Speaker 1: are stronger than you think. God present goes with you.
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  Speaker 1: Miracles happen when you least expect them. Okay, in the
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  Speaker 1: common season, you may have the courage to rise up
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  Speaker 1: and you may have hope. Y'all. Don't leave home without
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  Speaker 1: trusting him, y'all. July is your month to shine. Step
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  Speaker 1: into it with confidence and watch God exceed your expectations. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we got three more days of this book and we
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  Speaker 1: will be wrapping up this book. This is day twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank everybody that journey with me, that
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  Speaker 1: has been journeying with me. If you have missed it
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  Speaker 1: and you want to grab a copy of this book,
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  Speaker 1: y'all can go over check out all of my books.
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  Speaker 1: My books are on my website. My website is www.
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  Speaker 1: Angela Thomas smithbooks dot com. Again, that is www. Angela
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Smith books dot com. You can go over and
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: check out all of my books. Most of them are up.
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  Speaker 1: Some that is not up yet, but most of them
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: are up. The magazine is up. There's a variety of
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  Speaker 1: different things that you can check out. I have children books,
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  Speaker 1: I have activity books, I have journals. I have some
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  Speaker 1: poetry books, some solo books, and then rear anathologies because
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  Speaker 1: I believe in allowing other people to have a voice
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  Speaker 1: and give those that may think that they don't have
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  Speaker 1: a voice a voice. So thank you guys for journeying
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  Speaker 1: with me on today again. This is day twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: of a thirty one day devotionally, y'all, we got three
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  Speaker 1: more days and then we're gonna do a recap. So
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  Speaker 1: we got four more days in this book and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be moving on to the next book again.
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  Speaker 1: If y'all want to purchase this book, you can purchase
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: it is beyond site, and y'all, it's available. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to go to my website and get it,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: you can go to any You can just google it,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and you can go to any major book website and
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  Speaker 1: probably find it. But you can google books by Angela
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Smith. A picture of me gonna pop up, and
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  Speaker 1: all of my books and all the different things that
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  Speaker 1: I do. But y'all, we out here, we are the
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  Speaker 1: change that we desire to see. Change begins and ends
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  Speaker 1: with us. So what are you doing to be that change?
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  Speaker 1: Are you sitting down on what God has done for you?
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  Speaker 1: If He's done something for you, y'all, don't be quiet.
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  Speaker 1: Tell somebody about it. And I'm telling y'all that to
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  Speaker 1: say this. If you have a story, if you have
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  Speaker 1: a testimony, if you have something that you would life
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  Speaker 1: to share. I am getting ready. I am in the
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  Speaker 1: process of working on another anathology, y'all, and it's called
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  Speaker 1: I think I will testify if you have a story,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a journey of something that you have survived,
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  Speaker 1: something you've got no or a testimony that you would
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  Speaker 1: like to share. I would love for you to share.
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  Speaker 1: At first, I was just gonna do those that had
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  Speaker 1: attempted suicide, but I said, you know, other people may
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  Speaker 1: not have attemptedicide. They may just have gotten through some
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  Speaker 1: things that they have survived. It may have been an illness,
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  Speaker 1: it may have been something that they've gotten through and
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: they just need to tell somebody about it. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're out there, if you are a survivor whatever you
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  Speaker 1: have survived, I want to help you share your story.
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  Speaker 1: You may not have a whole book, may just have
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  Speaker 1: a chapter, or you may just have a couple of pages.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to join me inside of this anathology, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you're never gonna find a price like this.
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  Speaker 1: Only fifty three dollars. You can journey your chapter, share
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  Speaker 1: your chapter. Only fifty three dollars. You get to share
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about you you get to share your
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  Speaker 1: bio or picture of you and your chapter, and not
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  Speaker 1: only that, you get to connect with twenty nine other
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  Speaker 1: individuals that share in their story. How powerful can that be?
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  Speaker 1: Thirty individuals with similar stories in one place, and they're
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  Speaker 1: able to get that book around the world to share
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  Speaker 1: with people in all four corners of the earth. You
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  Speaker 1: never know when your story may be the story that
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  Speaker 1: somebody needs to hear that will help bring them out. So, y'all,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I'm challenging you today. If you're hearing this under sound
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  Speaker 1: of my voice, If you're hearing this under the sound
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  Speaker 1: of my voice, I definitely would love for you to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of this, y'all. I have been restricted,
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  Speaker 1: I guess because I said word gotta remember, cannot say
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  Speaker 1: the S word, gotta stay unlive or something online alone that,
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  Speaker 1: But I apologize if I have offended anyone. I know
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  Speaker 1: that that could be a trigger one. I have been
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  Speaker 1: triggered by some things that has been passed around on
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  Speaker 1: the social media here in the last couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: that has been going on, so I definitely understand and
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  Speaker 1: that's not my intentions. So I apologize to any anyone
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  Speaker 1: that may have been triggered, but I am doing a
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  Speaker 1: book around. Even so, if you are a survivor, definitely
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: connect with me in any If you are a creator
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  Speaker 1: and an author or whatever avenue you may be in
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: and you want to connect, know that you can also
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: be a part of the podcast, a part of the magazine.
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  Speaker 1: You can be a part of the platform that we
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  Speaker 1: are utilizing over here. So again, thank you guys for
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: tuning in and being a part of Morning Devotion. I'll
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  Speaker 1: see y'all in the morning, alright, h y'all have a
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  Speaker 1: blessed that you see no sor uh huh, what kind
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  Speaker 1: of central guard? I didn't need roadrad like that. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's going out there in the what's his name
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  Speaker 1: in the garage