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Neglecting the Word [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Morning, family, Good morning, God, blessed you. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: the morning DeVos. A new wake, a new week. That's
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Speaker 1: a new wake. We're waking up right. It's a new week,
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Speaker 1: a new day, and we will be glad and rejoice
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Speaker 1: in this day no matter what happened yesterday. If you're
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Speaker 1: awake today, if God woke you up, that means He's
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Speaker 1: not done with you yet. Amen. And that's a blessing
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Speaker 1: to know him more, to position yourself for prosperity, to
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Speaker 1: position yourself for miracle, to position yourself for a blessing.
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Speaker 1: It's an honor to be alive today for a new day. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Neglecting the Word has consequences, man, When you neglect the
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Speaker 1: word of God that he spoke over your life, that
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Speaker 1: you've read in His word, that He has written and
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Speaker 1: spelled out to you through other people through prophets, apostles, evangelists, pastors,
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Speaker 1: and teachers, and you're neglecting that word the consequences to that.
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Speaker 1: So good morning. Regardless of how you feel, make sure
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Speaker 1: you're not the one that's neglecting the word of God.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to make sure daily then I'm not neglecting
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Speaker 1: the word of God. As well. There's a big battle
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Speaker 1: going on with me and the spirit. What about you?
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Speaker 1: The flesh and the spirit are always at war. It's
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Speaker 1: going to be that way. The word says it. I
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Speaker 1: believe the word, Amen, And just because I believe in
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Speaker 1: the word doesn't make the word true. Well, it makes
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Speaker 1: the word true. Is the evidence that leads up to
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Speaker 1: who inspire the word of God, which is the Lord himself? Amen,
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Speaker 1: neglecting the word. If we ignore or reject God's word,
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Speaker 1: can't expect him to respond to our prayers out right,
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Speaker 1: good morning. We can't expect God to respond to our
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Speaker 1: prayers if we rejecting, if we're rejecting his word. If
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Speaker 1: we're rejecting or neglecting his word. Amen. So that's not
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Speaker 1: a good deal. And you will never win on that side.
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Speaker 1: I will never win on that side. And I'll say, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I God, I hear you, but I'm gonna just keep
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Speaker 1: on going the opposite way. Or I hear you, but please,
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Speaker 1: I'm neglecting your words. But you know, can you just
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Speaker 1: answer and responding to my prayer? So We've been talking
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Speaker 1: a lot about prayer lately on the Morning, Devil, because
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Speaker 1: I've been praying a lot and not only that. I
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Speaker 1: think God is calling us back to prayer. His house
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Speaker 1: should be a house of what a house of prayer?
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Speaker 1: Now the den of thieves. We shouldn't be selling lotions, potions,
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Speaker 1: an anything, oils, this, that and the third from his house.
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Speaker 1: If it's truly the house of the Lord. Right, we
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Speaker 1: should be making his house a house of prayer, and
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Speaker 1: our house this house, this temple. Amen, we should be
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Speaker 1: praying daily. Consider what the Apostle Paul said, Amen, pray
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Speaker 1: without ceasing. I believe it was Apostle Paul said that
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Speaker 1: one of the apostles said that pray without ceasing. It's
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Speaker 1: always something that we can be offering up to God
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Speaker 1: in form of a prayer. Could be healthy. It could
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Speaker 1: be relationships. It could be financial breakthrough. It could be
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Speaker 1: our stability in the Kingdom of God. It could be
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Speaker 1: for our own salvation, our family salvation. It could be
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Speaker 1: just anointing ourselves a man with oil for our mind
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Speaker 1: to be controlled under the guidance of Holy Spirit God.
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Speaker 1: It could be so many different things. But please don't
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Speaker 1: stop praying. We're to be in Proverbs twenty eight and nine.
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Speaker 1: We're to start their Proverbs Chapter twenty eight verse number
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Speaker 1: you will be blessed for it. So let's no longer
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Speaker 1: neglect the word. That's the goal today, a man to
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Speaker 1: inspire you to take heed to God's word because his
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Speaker 1: word is true, his word is his will a man.
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Speaker 1: His word is perfect, and his word has purpose for
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Speaker 1: your life. So let's get ahead and pray. After we pray,
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Speaker 1: we shut us out for like sixty seconds, and then
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Speaker 1: when we come back on the other side of those
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Speaker 1: sixty seconds, we'll get right into today's morning. Devo Father,
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Speaker 1: I thank you that your word is inspired, your word
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Speaker 1: is true, your word is relevant, your word is eternal.
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Speaker 1: Your word is powerful. And thank you Lord God for
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Speaker 1: that power. Thank you for the meekness and the humility
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Speaker 1: and the humbleness that you give us by way of
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Speaker 1: your holy spirit. Thank you, Lord God for convicting us
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Speaker 1: time the spirit of the Lord speaks. We're convicted of
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Speaker 1: our sin. We're convicted of who you are. We're convinced
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Speaker 1: of who you are, and we are being formed in
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Speaker 1: fashion to become more and more like Jesus daily. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: Lord God for growth. Thank you Lord God for purpose.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Lord Jesus for your grace and your mercy.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for the word, and help us not to
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Speaker 1: neglect your word. Help us not to reject or ignore
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Speaker 1: your word. I pray, Lord God that you will continue
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Speaker 1: to guidguard and protect us. I pray right now actually
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Speaker 1: for my nephew who's going into college tomorrow, Amen, and
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Speaker 1: the journey that he's going to take. I pray a
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Speaker 1: blessing over Devin Allied right now in the name of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Ask lor God that you'll be with him, that you
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Speaker 1: will mold them, fashion them we knew him, and restore him,
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Speaker 1: Give him a mindset of Christ, give him a new
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Speaker 1: heart of God and a desire that you have for him.
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Speaker 1: That he will replace his desires with your desires, And
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Speaker 1: that we will all know as a family that God
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Speaker 1: is real in the lives of every single person who
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Speaker 1: calls upon the name of the Lord to be saved.
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Speaker 1: I pray that over every single person on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the screen, and on the other side is
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Speaker 1: my family, myself. A hedge of protection over my wife, myself,
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Speaker 1: our children, our grandchildren, our family members, from the very
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Speaker 1: youngest family member to the very oldest, and every single
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Speaker 1: person in between. That hedge of protection that I set
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Speaker 1: forth Arqua and angels ministering angels right now by the
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Speaker 1: authority of the Lord Jesus Yeshua, to annihilate the tactics
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Speaker 1: of the enemies and the plan of the enemy right now.
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Speaker 1: And Jesus Holy name, I prayer is by faith help
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Speaker 1: us to take heed to your word, not to reject
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Speaker 1: your word. In the powerful name of Jesus, I pray
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Speaker 1: it's by faith in the name of Jesus. And those
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Speaker 1: who agree, we say Amen to the Amen. So helped
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Speaker 1: me share this out for a minute sixty seconds. When
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Speaker 1: because God's word is a blessing. Amen. We don't listen.
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Speaker 1: I don't share this for anything for personal gain or
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Speaker 1: this for exchange of a blessing for you and for
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Speaker 1: me in my life. The word of God is a
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Speaker 1: blessing and it leads to every single breakthrough that you
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Speaker 1: need in your life. Amen. But if you if you
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Speaker 1: neglect that, amen, and if you're not out there, I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to make a difference in somebody else's life them,
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Speaker 1: We're just going to be going in one of those
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Speaker 1: vicious circles, and it's going to be like, Okay, I
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Speaker 1: did this, and man, why am I here again? I
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Speaker 1: did this? You go around and why am I here again?
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Speaker 1: You did this? And you go around with a vicious circle.
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Speaker 1: And we should also be increasing. We're supposed to be
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Speaker 1: growing in Christ right and the knowledge of who we
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Speaker 1: are in Christ and who Christ is in us. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So I do this for growth. I do this for
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Speaker 1: a labor of love because I know the word of
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Speaker 1: God works. How do I know? Because my experience with
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Speaker 1: God's word, Amen, I cannot tell you that He has
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Speaker 1: failed me at any moment in my life. I cannot
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Speaker 1: tell you that the word of God is not true.
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Speaker 1: I cannot tell you that if you will, if you
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Speaker 1: apply the word, that the word of God won't come
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Speaker 1: to pass. I can't tell you that because my experience
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Speaker 1: is that when I apply his word, when I pray
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Speaker 1: a corning and aligned to his word, Amen, things start happening.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to be that person that's We're like, well,
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Speaker 1: if I pray for you, then this is that will happen. No,
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Speaker 1: if you pray, Amen, for yoursel situation, and it's according
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Speaker 1: to God's will and purpose for your life. You will
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Speaker 1: see breakthrough, you will see healing, you will see wholeness.
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Speaker 1: You will see relationships that have changed. Your life will changed.
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Speaker 1: You'll be transformed, your heart will be renewed, your mind
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Speaker 1: will be renewed and restored. Amen. And you will no
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Speaker 1: longer be in darkness. You will no longer want to
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Speaker 1: be in darkness. You will no longer want to sin
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Speaker 1: as you sinned before. You want to be in God's word.
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Speaker 1: You're gouldn't want to apply God's word. You're gonna want
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Speaker 1: to stay living in the light, none in darkness, And
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Speaker 1: you're no longer gonna want to neglect the word of God. Amen,
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Speaker 1: I could tell you that through his experience, I don't
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Speaker 1: want to be in darkness. Who wants to be in darkness?
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Speaker 1: God took us out of our darkness and transferred us
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Speaker 1: into his marvelous light. I'd rather stay with the lights on.
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Speaker 1: I don't like dark rooms anymore. Right. I need the
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Speaker 1: lights on, and I need to be just exposed of
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Speaker 1: anything that I'm doing wrong. Amen. Ill like God to
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Speaker 1: expose it. Why? Because he loves me. He loves you,
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Speaker 1: He's not gonna let you welcome darkness if you're in
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Speaker 1: the light. So I think people who are neglecting God's
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Speaker 1: word and continuing to make excuses, and they're supposedly advancing
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God because of their gift and annoying thing,
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Speaker 1: and they're neglecting the word. They're not in the word,
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Speaker 1: they're not applying the word. I think they're in a
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Speaker 1: dangerous spot. And what I'm praying for is repentance. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And once we repent and turn away from what we're doing, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and doing the wrong thing, and repent and turn to
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Speaker 1: God who allows us the empowerment to do the right
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Speaker 1: thing continuously, then I believe there's going to be a
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Speaker 1: tremendous person of revival and the lives of those who
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Speaker 1: are neglecting the Word. So God brought me to this scripture,
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Speaker 1: and I'm so glad he did. Amen. So those who
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Speaker 1: are listening, no worries, no problems. I know you're just listening.
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Speaker 1: But I'm going to read this word for words so
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Speaker 1: that way nobody skips a beat. Amen, And we're all
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Speaker 1: on the same page literally neglecting the word today, no
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Speaker 1: more on Ndievo. We're gonna be reading Proverbs, chapter twenty eight,
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Speaker 1: verse number nine. This is the amplified version and also
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Speaker 1: has places that you could connect scripture with this scripture, Amen,
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Speaker 1: all through the Bible. He who turns away his ear
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Speaker 1: from hearing the law of God and man of God
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Speaker 1: and man, you see that even his prayer is an
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Speaker 1: abomination on it right? What a word for the morning? Right?
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Speaker 1: Even his prayer is an abomination, hateful and revolting to God.
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Speaker 1: In other words, God is like, you're talking to me
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Speaker 1: with that going on in your life. You're talking to
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Speaker 1: me when you're not even showing me that you love
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Speaker 1: me because you're not obeying my commandments. You're talking to
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Speaker 1: me when grace is all you're concerned with. You're not
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Speaker 1: concerned with following, you're not confirmed with concern with fellowship,
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Speaker 1: you're not concerned with conviction, you're not concerned with sin,
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Speaker 1: you're not concerned with repentance. But you want me to
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Speaker 1: hear you. Right, That's how I look at the scripture.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, Sam, you better be careful. That could
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Speaker 1: be me one day, and I'm praying against that. And
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Speaker 1: I notice people praying for me, and I'm praying for you.
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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be in a spot that God right
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Speaker 1: sees our prayers as an abomination. Hey, man, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: read another version of this that's way toned down from
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Speaker 1: the amplified. You could also cross references to Psalms sixty
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Speaker 1: six and eighteen, which I believe we went through or
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Speaker 1: not too long ago. Psalms one O. Nine and verse seven,
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Speaker 1: Proverbs chapter fifteen and verse eight, Zachariah chapter seven, verse
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Speaker 1: number Eleven's all over the scriptures right. If we turn
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Speaker 1: away our ear from hearing the law of God and
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Speaker 1: man right, even our prayers become an abomination, hayful and
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Speaker 1: revolting to God. I don't want to be on that
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Speaker 1: side of the track. I don't want no smoke with
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Speaker 1: the Lord Man. I want to be in right standing
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Speaker 1: with God. And the only way that I could continue
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Speaker 1: to be right standing with God, the only way you
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Speaker 1: could continue to be right standing with God to follow
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Speaker 1: his lead, follow his laws, follow his commandments. Amen, just
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Speaker 1: allow God to move in your life. Don't over complicate this,
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Speaker 1: don't neglect the word of God. God has shown me
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Speaker 1: that time and time again through his word, and I've
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Speaker 1: experienced God's grace and I know you're experiencing God's grace
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Speaker 1: because we're all into God's grace. Can you imagine if
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Speaker 1: God had a list of our thought life and say, well,
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Speaker 1: you thought this, and you thought that, and you thought this,
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Speaker 1: and it's not good. So here's the list, right. Imagine
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Speaker 1: if God did that, we would be in bad shape.
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Speaker 1: I know I would. I don't know about you. But
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Speaker 1: God is not keeping a list of wrong thought of wrongdoings,
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Speaker 1: doesn't keep a list of our sins. Actually he chose,
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Speaker 1: because he's God, he can do this. So separate us
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Speaker 1: sin as far as east is to west, and actually
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Speaker 1: to throw it in a place of fearfulness, like he's
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Speaker 1: not reminding us of our past. Nowhere in the scriptures
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Speaker 1: where you see God reminding us of our past. Oh
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Speaker 1: you're a sinner, you're this That third enough with calling
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Speaker 1: born again believers, fire filled, holy spirit field believers sinners.
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Speaker 1: We sin, but we don't identify as sinners. We identify
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Speaker 1: as saints, royal priesthood, children of God, right kings, prophets, priests,
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Speaker 1: right of our homes. Why are we saying that we're sinners.
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Speaker 1: If you're born again, you're born again, not into sin.
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Speaker 1: You're born the first time into sin. Then you're born again,
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Speaker 1: Jesus said John chapter three. You must be born again
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Speaker 1: to inherit the Kingdom of God, to see the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of God, to be in the Kingdom of God. So
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Speaker 1: please what the Word says over your life. I know
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Speaker 1: a lot of preachers out there use fancy words to say,
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Speaker 1: you're still a sinner and we sin. I don't identify
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Speaker 1: by what I do. I identify who I'm becoming and
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Speaker 1: who I am in Christ. And last time I checked,
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Speaker 1: Last time I checked, Jesus never sinned. So if Christ
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Speaker 1: is in me, why am I identifying myself as something
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Speaker 1: or someone other than Christ who lives inside of me.
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Speaker 1: You're born again. You have Holy Spirit living within you.
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Speaker 1: I know it's next level to some people, like that's
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Speaker 1: not possible because I still have these thought patterns. That's
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Speaker 1: not possible because I still struggle with XYZ. Well, Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit doesn't leave you. If he's inside of you, you're
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Speaker 1: grieving him. I grieve the Holy Spirit. You grieve the
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. But that doesn't mean you have to go
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Speaker 1: back to a life living that you don't have Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit God living inside of you. Don't try to convince yourself.
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Speaker 1: Don't hang around with people who are convincing themselves that
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Speaker 1: you could still sin and be a saint at the
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Speaker 1: same time without any consequences. It's almost like saying, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we have Holy Spirit, but you know, Holy Spirit understands
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Speaker 1: because I'm struggling in this and that you don't have
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Speaker 1: to live that way. Who said the enemy is a liar,
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Speaker 1: the devil is a liar. We could actually grow past
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Speaker 1: our sinful desires because we no longer have those sinful desires.
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Speaker 1: We have the desires of Christ, we have the desires
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Speaker 1: of God. We're struggling in certain areas because of our flesh,
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Speaker 1: not because of God. Right, it's because of our flesh,
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Speaker 1: our own sinful, evil desires that take us away from
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Speaker 1: God's word, that tries to distract and cause chaos in
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Speaker 1: our consciences. Brother Frank, I see you. Bless you, my brother,
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Speaker 1: also your family. God bless you as well, my brother
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Speaker 1: and my friend. Thank you so much for coming through
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Speaker 1: to one of Devo. Before you start in working neglecting
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Speaker 1: the word. Man, let's go to my notes and how
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Speaker 1: much I'm gonna share a scripture the same scripture, but
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Speaker 1: it's it's lesser than what the amplifier says. Same Scripture
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Speaker 1: and Proverbs, chapter number twenty eight, verse nine, and this
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Speaker 1: version says, anyone who turns a deaf ear to the law,
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Speaker 1: even their prayers are detestable. I don't know if that's
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Speaker 1: that's a lesser word, but detestable like it's evil, it's bad.
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Speaker 1: God does not really respond to that. Actually he doesn't
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Speaker 1: respond to that. Why because God is holy. If you
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Speaker 1: approach God when unholy intentions, I don't think you get
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Speaker 1: to grab his attention. Our intentions could grab his at
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Speaker 1: tension or not rap his attention. John fifteen and seven.
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Speaker 1: Jesus said himself, if you remain in Me and my
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Speaker 1: words remain in you now we're talking, ask whatever you wish,
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Speaker 1: and it will be done for you. What's the secret sauce? Here?
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Speaker 1: Secret sauce is not a secret no more. Now you know,
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Speaker 1: remain in Christ, remain in his words. Then so if
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Speaker 1: you get that done in your life, then whatever you asks,
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Speaker 1: ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
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Speaker 1: The opposite applies Proverbs twenty nine. Anyone who turns the
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Speaker 1: death ear to the law, even their prayers are detestable.
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Speaker 1: So which one do you want. I know what you want.
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Speaker 1: I know what I want. I desire to have my
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Speaker 1: prayers answered. But I have to be in position to
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Speaker 1: receive a responding God, to receive the prayer and request
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Speaker 1: whatever I ask according to His word and purpose. Right,
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Speaker 1: it's all God thing man, since joinne, I see you,
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Speaker 1: good morning, God, bless you, God, bless you, my sister,
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Speaker 1: my friend, thank you so much for coming to the
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Speaker 1: morning devo. So neglecting God's word means that we can't
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Speaker 1: expect the Lord to respond to our prayers. If we're
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Speaker 1: neglecting the word of God. Some people, I see a trend, Well,
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Speaker 1: I don't read the word of God, sam before that
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Speaker 1: word doesn't apply to me. Okay, that sounds like, okay,
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Speaker 1: you have a past. No, okay, you have an excuse,
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Speaker 1: you have a reason. I don't read the word of God,
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Speaker 1: So that doesn't apply. Well, when you pray to the
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Speaker 1: God that you don't know that you don't read his word,
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Speaker 1: you know, show any time or devote any time into
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Speaker 1: his word. Go ahead him praying and let me know
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Speaker 1: in the chat what happens. Oh, God answers my prayers
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Speaker 1: all the time. And I don't read the scriptures well,
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Speaker 1: right there in the chat, I want to ask you
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Speaker 1: a couple of questions, because if you don't know the
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Speaker 1: Lord of the scriptures, who's responding to your prayers. I
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Speaker 1: think the sin, and this is just my humble opinion,
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Speaker 1: the sin that God doesn't forgive here I go home
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Speaker 1: and we get in trouble is unbelief. Don't believe in him?
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Speaker 1: What do you what are you saved from? Don't believe
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Speaker 1: in the God who saves and who you're talking to.
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Speaker 1: Circumstances sometimes line up and you'll be in a desperate situation.
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Speaker 1: Then you pray, praying to unknown God. The only time
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Speaker 1: I prayed and I saw God respond to me when
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Speaker 1: he was unknown to me is when I prayed that
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Speaker 1: he would save me. And I'm sure one hundred percent
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Speaker 1: of every single person that's a believer has prayed that
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Speaker 1: God would save them when they didn't know him. Then
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Speaker 1: God responded to that prayer. Why, because that's his business.
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Speaker 1: He's into soul winning, he's into saving souls. And now
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Speaker 1: he hears us crying out to him when we didn't
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Speaker 1: know him. We wanted to get to know him, and
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Speaker 1: then he said, Okay, now I'm going to respond. Ever,
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Speaker 1: since that point in your life and in my life,
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Speaker 1: it's been grace ever since. How did you notice that?
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Speaker 1: The grace of God, the love of God, the mercy
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Speaker 1: of God. But then if you want to get to
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Speaker 1: know him more and get to a deeper level with him,
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Speaker 1: an intimate relationship with the Lord, you read his word.
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Speaker 1: You don't neglect his word. You didn't be like, I'm
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Speaker 1: just gonna wait for Sam to do a morning devo
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Speaker 1: and I'll write down some notes on I'm done for
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Speaker 1: the week. Or I'll just go to church for a
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Speaker 1: couple of services and I'm good. I don't need to
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Speaker 1: get into the word for myself. Or I'll just listen
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Speaker 1: to the prophet, the evangelists, the pastor the teacher, Amen,
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Speaker 1: the apostle, and then I'll be Okay, it doesn't work
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Speaker 1: that way. I mean, some people think it works that way,
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Speaker 1: but evidently God wants a relationship with you personally, not
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Speaker 1: through this person and that person, and then you get
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Speaker 1: to him. You know a lot of people live that way, right.
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Speaker 1: They say, if I could get to the evangelists, God
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Speaker 1: will move because the evangelist asking God to move from me,
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Speaker 1: then that's when I get connected with God. If you're
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Speaker 1: born again, you have perfect communion, perfect connection with the
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Speaker 1: Lord of Hosts, Almighty God, the Lord are on High,
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Speaker 1: the most High God. You have a personal connection with Him,
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Speaker 1: full access to the throne, room of grace, just like
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Speaker 1: anybody else that's born again, same spirit, same faith, King,
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Speaker 1: same Lord, same Savior. Amen, since the joyous I see you.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, God, bless you. Thank you for the blessings
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Speaker 1: for the groups and for this group as well. Jesus name.
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Speaker 1: Oh if you're having a wonderful morning so far. Amen,
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Speaker 1: A prayer blessing over your speak life over you as well,
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Speaker 1: My sister, my friend. So if we ignore or reject
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Speaker 1: God's word, we can't expect him to respond to our prayers.
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Speaker 1: And listen, don't be a part of that trend that
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Speaker 1: I'm seeing all over the nations that believers have this
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Speaker 1: thing about God owes me something, or come to this event,
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Speaker 1: join this platform, and then things will start happening. It's
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Speaker 1: almost like they're saying, Oh, without me, ain't nothing going
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Speaker 1: to happen in your life. But with me, Oh, God's
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Speaker 1: gonna give you favor. God's gonna do this, Guy's going
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Speaker 1: to do that. Don't be a part of that trend,
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Speaker 1: because what I'm noticing is that people are making followers
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Speaker 1: of themselves and not not making disciples. They don't even
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Speaker 1: go out in evangeliz they don't do no outreaches. They
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Speaker 1: do in reach. They want things to come their way.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to go out to the highways byways
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Speaker 1: and the people out there, they want everybody to come
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Speaker 1: to them. Don't be a part of that, Amen, it's
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Speaker 1: not pleasing to God. And when they pray, I don't
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Speaker 1: think their praise are going to be answered either. Why
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Speaker 1: and when we talked about intentions last week or the
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Speaker 1: week before, we're talking about motives and bad motives. God's
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Speaker 1: not into that, Amen. He's into changing and transforming us. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: He's into listening to our prayers. Absolutely. But I want
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Speaker 1: God not to just listen. I want him to respond.
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Speaker 1: And the only way that I see in the scriptures
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Speaker 1: that God responds if we have a right heart tourism,
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Speaker 1: if we're humbled, right if we're seeking after His word
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Speaker 1: for not just our personal game, but for others. If
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Speaker 1: we're praying without ceasing, if we're in the word, if
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Speaker 1: we're not rejecting God's word, We're not neglecting God's word. Amen.
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Speaker 1: We're not turning a deaf ear to the law of
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Speaker 1: God and of men. Amen. We are remaining in Him
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Speaker 1: and remaining in His word. Then whatever we act, so
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Speaker 1: whatever we wish, it would be done for us. And
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Speaker 1: you've noticed that. If it's going to be done for us,
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Speaker 1: why wouldn't we want this for others? Man? I tell you, man,
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Speaker 1: sometimes I have sleep as nights trying to plan out
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Speaker 1: how I'm going to reach more people with the Gospel message,
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Speaker 1: whether it's on a ministry, online, outdoors. When I'm outside, Amen,
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Speaker 1: I'm annoying to a lot of people. They don't A
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't want to be around me, because
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Speaker 1: if you want to talk about the Lord, We're gonna talk, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna lift him up, and I'm giving glory, honor, praise, worship.
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Speaker 1: If I'm in a supermarket, if I'm in the gas station,
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Speaker 1: if I'm at church, if I'm outside of the church,
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Speaker 1: on the street, in the hood, it don't matter. Don't
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Speaker 1: mention Jesus if you want to learn about them or
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Speaker 1: you don't want me to talk about it. Amen. A
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Speaker 1: lot of people say, I'm gonna stay away from Sam
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Speaker 1: because all he does is talk about Jesus. Amen, thank you.
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Speaker 1: I'm really happy to know that that's how you feel
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Speaker 1: about me. A man, Jesus is my life. He man,
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Speaker 1: he's my lifeline. He's my savior. Pastor Michael James, God
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Speaker 1: bless you. Welcome to the Morn of Devo, my brother
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Speaker 1: and my friends cause to see you. God bless you. Brother. Carlos, stop,
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Speaker 1: you know I want to be around you, brother, laugh
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Speaker 1: a lot, yeah, man, but you know you know how
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Man, I'm joking, but not really. Hey, man,
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Speaker 1: Carlos knows. If you ask me a question, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: bring the Word up and I'm gonna see where that
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Speaker 1: lines up with the Word of God. That's all because
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Speaker 1: I know if I just talk and you want my opinion,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you just my opinion. It is
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Speaker 1: very limited. But when we go into the Word of
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Speaker 1: God together, man, we have an eternal perspective. We have
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Speaker 1: the word on it, God's word on it. So amount
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Speaker 1: of time, my brothers and my sisters listen. Go to
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Speaker 1: Proverbs chapter twenty eight. We read the whole chapter. We
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Speaker 1: camp out of verse number eight and take it from there.
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Speaker 1: God is good all the time. So let me leave
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Speaker 1: you with a blessing. God bless you all, God keep
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Speaker 1: you all, and remember always that God is good. Peace,