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A CLOSER WALK WITH I AM THAT I AM — DAY 10 with Queen Angela · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good good one. Then well, good morning, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, good morning, and I want to welcome everyone
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  Speaker 1: everyone to our morning devotion. We do a daily devotion.
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  Speaker 1: I think what we are. We're day ten of this
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  Speaker 1: thirty one day devotion. But y'all, we just finished up
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  Speaker 1: a thirty day devotion. In the month of June. We
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  Speaker 1: finish up a thirty day devotion. Now we're doing a
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  Speaker 1: thirty one day devotion. Next month we're gonna be doing
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  Speaker 1: another thirty one day devotion. So every month we're doing
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  Speaker 1: a different devotion, y'all. Because I got plenty of devotions
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  Speaker 1: that God have dropped in my spirit and I have
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  Speaker 1: released them, so they're up on my website. They're up
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  Speaker 1: on my website. You can go over to www dot
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  Speaker 1: Angela Thomas smithbooks dot com. Again, that's ww dot Angela
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Smith books dot com, and you can grab you
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  Speaker 1: a copy of this book that we are currently working
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  Speaker 1: on during our daily devotion. Y'all. We are day ten
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  Speaker 1: inside of this book. And if you followed us, you
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  Speaker 1: carried along with us last month and you want to
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  Speaker 1: get that book from last month, that book is over
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  Speaker 1: there as well. The one that we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: doing next month is going to be over there. All
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  Speaker 1: of them is in there. There's plenty for you to
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  Speaker 1: just look through and grab whatever you want to grab,
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  Speaker 1: however you need to pour into you and your family.
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  Speaker 1: We have poetry books, we have all types of books.
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  Speaker 1: There's something for everybody, because every one of those books
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  Speaker 1: is the bits and pieces of my journey. And y'all,
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  Speaker 1: what a journey it has been. But God, but God,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, none of the stuff that I do
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  Speaker 1: will be possible without him. So and everything I have
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  Speaker 1: to a knowledg because without him, like that songs that
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  Speaker 1: without him, none of this would be possible. So I
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge Him this morning, and again I thank you guys
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  Speaker 1: for jumping on for being a part of this devotion
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  Speaker 1: with me. So we're gonna go ahead and start off
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  Speaker 1: in prayer. We're gonna lead off in prayer, and then
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna go ahead and jump into the lesson for today.
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  Speaker 1: I pray that there will be something that will bless
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  Speaker 1: you and something that you can take away that you
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  Speaker 1: can apply to your journey on today. Y'all. I hope
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  Speaker 1: that there's something that you can apply to your journey
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  Speaker 1: on today. And if you don't mind share this out
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  Speaker 1: with somebody because you never know what the next person
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  Speaker 1: may be in need of. And if you tap that
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  Speaker 1: screen when you come in, just tap the screen, just
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  Speaker 1: double tap. You can tap on my faux head, you
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  Speaker 1: can tap on my on my mouth, you can tap anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Just double tap the screen and it helps us get
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  Speaker 1: out into the for You page. So those that may
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  Speaker 1: want to tune in, those that may need to hear this,
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  Speaker 1: that they will be able to access it as well well.
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  Speaker 1: So if y'all would just do me that one favor,
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  Speaker 1: just tap that screen a couple of times so that
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  Speaker 1: we can get out there and that for You page,
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  Speaker 1: I truly truly would appreciate that. I would appreciate that. Again,
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  Speaker 1: thank you guys for joining. I'm about to jump into
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  Speaker 1: prayer and then we got to jump right on end
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  Speaker 1: to this lesson for today. So Father God the name
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  Speaker 1: much Jesus, Lord, we thank you for yet another opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to come before you, Lord God, we thank you for
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  Speaker 1: this hour. We thank you for waking us up and
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  Speaker 1: extending your grace and your mercy one more time, because
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  Speaker 1: you truly didn't have to, but Father, you saw fit
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  Speaker 1: to allow us to see this new day. So Father,
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  Speaker 1: we asked that you just continue to allow the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit to leave God and direct us on today, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: stir up those gifts that you placed within each and
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  Speaker 1: every one of us, Lord God, that it may bring
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  Speaker 1: forth fruit, Lord God, for your glory, but for our good.
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  Speaker 1: And Father, we thank you, We thank you that we're
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  Speaker 1: not a mistake. We're not an accident. It's not a
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  Speaker 1: coincident that we're even tuned in on this morning. So Father,
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  Speaker 1: we asked that you will remove Angela out the way. Father,
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  Speaker 1: remove meet out the flesh, Lord God, and allow your
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  Speaker 1: spirit man that's within me to come forth on today,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, allow your spirit man to bring forth the
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  Speaker 1: word on today that you will have us to receive
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  Speaker 1: on today. Father, give us a clear mind and a
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  Speaker 1: clear heart that we will receive what it is that
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  Speaker 1: you have for us to receive on today. And Father
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  Speaker 1: asks we receive that word, and as that word is
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  Speaker 1: revealed to us, Lord God, Father, allow us to be
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  Speaker 1: good servants over it, Lord God, that we would go
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  Speaker 1: out and that we would share it with someone else
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  Speaker 1: that we come in contact with, Lord God. And Father,
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  Speaker 1: if we come in contact with that person that may
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  Speaker 1: not know you today, Lord God, allow our lives to
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  Speaker 1: be a living example. Lord God, that your goodness will
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  Speaker 1: come forth, Lord God, that your glow will come forth,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, that somebody will say, what must I do
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  Speaker 1: to be saved? Father, we thank you on today because
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  Speaker 1: you truly didn't have to. But Father, you allowed us
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  Speaker 1: to see this day. Because somebody, they didn't get a chance.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't get a chance to see this new day.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't get a chance to chase after that dream
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  Speaker 1: and to walk into that aspirations. Lord God. But Father,
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  Speaker 1: because you gave us another chance. Father, we're asking that
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  Speaker 1: you will move on today, Lord God. Father allowed your
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  Speaker 1: holy spirit to go before us, Lord God, and to
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  Speaker 1: do what you will have us to do in this day.
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  Speaker 1: Let it be a great day. Let it be a
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  Speaker 1: prosperous day, Lord God. But everything that we do, may
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  Speaker 1: it bring you glory. And this is my prayer and
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  Speaker 1: your son Jesus' name, A man, a man, a man,
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  Speaker 1: a man and man again, I thank God for each
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  Speaker 1: and every one of you guys that are tuned in.
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  Speaker 1: I thank God for those that are sharing. I thank
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  Speaker 1: God that will hear this even as a replay. I
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  Speaker 1: thank God for you on today, y'all. I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: own into this lesson. Y'all. We are day ten on
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  Speaker 1: this journey, y'all, we are day ten on this journey.
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  Speaker 1: We are now day ten on this journey. And the
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  Speaker 1: title for today's lesson is living in integrity woman in
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  Speaker 1: really up in tegnty on today. So y'all, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and jump right on in this lesson on today.
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  Speaker 1: And it is the back The scripture for today is
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs eleven and three. That's gonna be our scripture on today.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna give you a couple of versions of
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  Speaker 1: that scripture. Give you a couple of versions of that
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  Speaker 1: scripture really quick. So we have and the n I
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  Speaker 1: V version it says, integrity of the upright guides them,
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  Speaker 1: but the unfaithful or destroyed by duplicity. The inn an
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  Speaker 1: n LT version New Living translation and say honesty guys,
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  Speaker 1: good people, This honesty destroys treacherous people. The end English
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  Speaker 1: stand up version says the integrity of the upright guides them,
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  Speaker 1: but the crookedness of the treacher treacherous destroys them. So
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  Speaker 1: those are three different versions of that scripture. So the
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  Speaker 1: backstory on that scripture. Y'all, imagine walking through a crowded
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  Speaker 1: school hallway. The noise is deafening, hundreds of eyes are watching,
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  Speaker 1: but then suddenly it's just you in a quiet classroom,
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  Speaker 1: completely alone. Would your actions be any different if there
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  Speaker 1: was someone standing over your shoulder? That that's the real
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  Speaker 1: test of integrity. Integrity isn't about impressing others. It's about
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  Speaker 1: being the same person, whether you're standing in the spotlight
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  Speaker 1: are sitting in the shadows. Because considered Joseph, a young
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  Speaker 1: guy far from home, surrounded by the pressures and temptations.
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  Speaker 1: Yet when no one else was watching Joseph, remember God was,
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  Speaker 1: he stood, and he stood his ground and chose what
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  Speaker 1: was right, even though it cost him. His story and
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  Speaker 1: countless others in the Bible show us that real integrity
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  Speaker 1: is forged when no one else is looking. It is
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  Speaker 1: a secret superpower that God's our choices, protects our heart
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  Speaker 1: and catches God's attention. Today, let's take a closer look
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  Speaker 1: at how living and integrity changes everything, especially you. Before
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  Speaker 1: we dive in want to I want you to reflect
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  Speaker 1: on these three questions. These are three questions for a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual self check. I want you to evaluate yourself based
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  Speaker 1: on these three questions. So before we jump into today's
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  Speaker 1: lesson on living with integrity, let's hit a pause and
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  Speaker 1: get a real for a moment. Okay, look at honestly
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  Speaker 1: at our own life. Let's get real. Let's look at
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  Speaker 1: our own lives in our own hearts. Sometimes it takes courage,
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  Speaker 1: but it's the first step to live in a life
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  Speaker 1: pleasing to God. Take a moment and truly reflect on
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  Speaker 1: these questions. There's three questions I want you to consider today,
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  Speaker 1: not to make you feel guilty, but to open yourself
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  Speaker 1: up to growth and to invite God in So today
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  Speaker 1: I'll ask you, when you are alone, are you the
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  Speaker 1: same person as you are in front of people? When
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  Speaker 1: you are alone? Are you the same person in front
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  Speaker 1: of people? Do your choices reflect the same values no
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  Speaker 1: matter who's watching, or do you put on a different
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  Speaker 1: face depending on your audience? Are you living honestly when
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  Speaker 1: no one else is around? Or do you sometimes go
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  Speaker 1: with what is easy, what is popular, and what is
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  Speaker 1: expected instead of what is right? Secondly, do you ever
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  Speaker 1: being the truth or go with the flow to avoid
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  Speaker 1: standing out or being uncomfortable? Are there times when you
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  Speaker 1: rather blend in with your friends or the latest trends,
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  Speaker 1: even if it means going against what you know is true.
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  Speaker 1: Are you willing to pay the price for integrity even
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  Speaker 1: if it means missing out on some things or being different?
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  Speaker 1: How often do you invite God to examine your motives?
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  Speaker 1: Do you let God search your heart and show you
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  Speaker 1: places where you might be making excuses of fooling yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Are you opening up yourself to his gentle correction or
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  Speaker 1: do you just brush off the spirit nudges? Huh? Are
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  Speaker 1: you brushing off with how the spirit is nudging you
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  Speaker 1: so you can stick to what feels comfortable in the
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  Speaker 1: moment because He correct us? So examine yourself on today,
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  Speaker 1: Take a moment to preyferly, reflect, and maybe even jot
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  Speaker 1: down your honest answers. Remember, the goal isn't perfection or shame.
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  Speaker 1: It's about letting God lead you and living authentically, courageously
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  Speaker 1: and unashamed of Him. Again, ask yourself these three questions
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  Speaker 1: when you are alone. Are you the same person as
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  Speaker 1: you are in front of others? Do you ever bend
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  Speaker 1: the true or go with the flow to avoid standing
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  Speaker 1: out or being uncomfortable? How often do you invite God
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  Speaker 1: to examine your motives. That's what I want you to
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself as we dive in to the lesson for today.
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  Speaker 1: Take a moment. Take a moment, y'all, and prayer, throughly, reflect,
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  Speaker 1: and then even maybe jot down. If you got the book,
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  Speaker 1: that's a place in the back of the book where
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  Speaker 1: you can jot down those answers. Jott it down. But
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  Speaker 1: be authentic, be courageous and unashamed to share his word. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so let's go on into this lesson for today. Integrity
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  Speaker 1: is not invisible, it is powerful. Proverbs eleven and three
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  Speaker 1: shows us that integrity guides us even when nobody else's
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  Speaker 1: see you or see your choices. It is God's invisible
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  Speaker 1: compass that sets that direction for your life. Remember Joseph
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  Speaker 1: in Genesis thirty nine six through twelve, when tempted in private,
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  Speaker 1: he chose honor. And how then could I do such
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  Speaker 1: a wicked thing and sin against God? His integrity protected
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  Speaker 1: his destiny, integrity and guard's your future Proverbs ten nine.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever walks in integrity walks secretly, I'm sorry, walk securely.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever whoever takes cricket path will be found out.
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  Speaker 1: So those things that you do in the dark. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they come to the light, y'all, you can't hide it.
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  Speaker 1: Living upright shit shields us from heading dangers and regrets,
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  Speaker 1: later paving the way for peace, confidence, and every new challenge.
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  Speaker 1: So choose integrity, y'all. God honors and rewards integrity. Psalms
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  Speaker 1: forty one and twelve declares, because of my integrity, you
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  Speaker 1: uphold me and set me in your presence forever. When
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  Speaker 1: you live truthfully, even under pressure, God himself backs you up.
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  Speaker 1: He honors those who sticks up for His ways, opening
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  Speaker 1: doors and providing favor that no one else can provide.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all better stay true to him, Stay true to yourself
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  Speaker 1: and true to the one that created you. How can
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  Speaker 1: you apply this to How can you apply integrity to
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  Speaker 1: your life? Every day? How can you apply integrity to
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  Speaker 1: your life? You can choose truth in little things Loop
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  Speaker 1: sixteen and ten. Whoever can be trusted with very little
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  Speaker 1: can also be trusted with much. Each day, Tell the truth,
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  Speaker 1: even in small situations, like returning what isn't yours or
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  Speaker 1: admitting to a mistake. Those choices build a legacy of
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  Speaker 1: true us. When it ain't yours, give it back. If
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  Speaker 1: you see something somebody drop something, give it back if
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  Speaker 1: it ain't yours, don't take it, don't even claim, don't
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  Speaker 1: even claim credit for stuff that's not yours. Oftentimes we
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  Speaker 1: do that, And y'all know we in a life of
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  Speaker 1: social media. We all on social media. We'll take credit
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  Speaker 1: for people's stuff knowing that it's not ours. I've even
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  Speaker 1: had people do that to books. I had a book
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  Speaker 1: published and the publisher thought that it was okay for
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  Speaker 1: her to claim credit for that book as if it
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  Speaker 1: was her own. And oftentimes we see people do that.
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  Speaker 1: But know that God sits high and he sees all.
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  Speaker 1: He watches all, so there's nothing that we can do
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  Speaker 1: that he don't see. So are you walking in integrity
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  Speaker 1: when you are alone and in public before people's eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Those things that you do behind close, those they matter
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  Speaker 1: because He sees everything. When you thinking that, oh and
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  Speaker 1: nobody seeing it, ain't nobody. Yeah, he see everything. So
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  Speaker 1: keep thinking that you're getting away with it. You're not.
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  Speaker 1: Those those sly comments that we make about people, those
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  Speaker 1: things that we do to try to the back black
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  Speaker 1: people and to come against people, God sees it all.
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  Speaker 1: When you think you're moving in silence and you're thinking
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  Speaker 1: that you're moving behind people's back. God sees it. So
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  Speaker 1: don't think that what you're doing it's being done in secret,
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  Speaker 1: just like a lot of the stuff that people do.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all know me, those that follow my platform know that
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  Speaker 1: I open my platform for anybody to do anything because
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  Speaker 1: I believe in unity. I believe in connections, I believe
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  Speaker 1: in collaborating. I believe in community building. And that's just me.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of people, they really, their intentions be
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  Speaker 1: all so wrong. Their intentions are coming coming to see
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  Speaker 1: how many people that they can take from my platform.
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  Speaker 1: But they're not my people. That's why I keep telling them,
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  Speaker 1: they're not my people. I work unto the Lord. Everything
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  Speaker 1: that I do I do unto God. Nothing that I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing is for me. That's why I don't care about
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  Speaker 1: the monetalization of this and monetization of this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care about videos going viral. I don't care about that.
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  Speaker 1: I care about people getting the message and people receiving
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  Speaker 1: that God has set for for us to deliver. See,
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  Speaker 1: we get caught up, and we get caught up in
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  Speaker 1: all these things that don't even matter, that don't even matter,
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  Speaker 1: when we should be focused on the things of God.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people don't want to hear that. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people don't want to hear nothing about the
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  Speaker 1: things of God because a lot of people have gotten
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  Speaker 1: away from even having integrity. You ask people what integrity is,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't even know what integrity is.
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  Speaker 1: Why because they don't have it. Because why they're in
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  Speaker 1: competition with the next person. They're looking at what the
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  Speaker 1: next person is doing, and they thinking they have to
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  Speaker 1: keep up with the next person. When you are your
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  Speaker 1: own entity, you are your own person. He made you individually,
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  Speaker 1: He made you fearfully and wonderfully made to be your
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  Speaker 1: own person, to stand in your integrity and to stand
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  Speaker 1: in that that He's called you to. So choosing truth
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  Speaker 1: in the little things, y'all, choosing truth. It's all about
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  Speaker 1: choosing it. You have the choice. He give you the
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  Speaker 1: free will. You can choose too or not. It's totally
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  Speaker 1: up to you. He's not gonna get mad one way
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  Speaker 1: or the other because he give you the choice. But
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  Speaker 1: just know that there are consequences with every choice that
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  Speaker 1: we made, as well as rewards for the good choices
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  Speaker 1: that we made. So you can be you can be
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  Speaker 1: the controller of what you receive. You can receive the
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  Speaker 1: bad or you can receive the good. But it's the
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  Speaker 1: choice that you make. Know that, So don't get mad
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  Speaker 1: when consequences started coming down and these things start coming down,
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  Speaker 1: that that you if things are not lining up the
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  Speaker 1: way you want them to line up, then go back
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  Speaker 1: and look yourself. See a lot of us we don't
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  Speaker 1: want to evaluate what we're doing, how we're adding to
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  Speaker 1: these situations. But we steady wanna blame other people for
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  Speaker 1: our situations when we are the cause. So a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff that we go through on it. Examine your
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  Speaker 1: motives Psalms one thirty nine, twenty three and four, and say,
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  Speaker 1: search me God and know my heart. See if there
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  Speaker 1: is any offenses my way, in me in any ways
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  Speaker 1: that offend people. Father, and take a moment. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: take a moment in prayer to ask God to show me.
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  Speaker 1: Show me every day. I want him to show me
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  Speaker 1: anywhere that I have errors, anywhere that I have went astray,
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  Speaker 1: anywhere that I have not aligned with the things that
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  Speaker 1: He has purpose for me. Anywhere where I may have
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  Speaker 1: offended anyone, have hurt anyone, come against anyone. Show me me,
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  Speaker 1: Lord so that I can correct it. So that I
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  Speaker 1: can turn from those ways. So we got to take
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  Speaker 1: a moment in prayer and ask God to show us
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  Speaker 1: any areas where we may be tempted or compromised in integrity. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: let Him reshape your motives and make you bowld for him.
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  Speaker 1: Let Him reshape you on today. But yet, then when
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  Speaker 1: you are pressured No and one Corinthians sixteen and thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: it's say, exhort, be your own guard, Stand firm in faith,
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  Speaker 1: be courageous, be strong when friends are the culture tempts
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  Speaker 1: you to cut corners, remember your identity in Christ, Remember
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  Speaker 1: who you are in Christ, and stand strong on that,
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  Speaker 1: even if it means you gotta stand alone. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of us we've been on this journey by ourselves for
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  Speaker 1: a long time, but were not really own the journey
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  Speaker 1: by ourselves, because guess what, we got the one that
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  Speaker 1: created us, the one that made us, the one that
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  Speaker 1: we are supposed to be standing for, the one that
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  Speaker 1: we're supposed to be a live an example of, because
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  Speaker 1: he made us in his image, he said, he made
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  Speaker 1: us fearfully and wonderfully made in his image. There is
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  Speaker 1: no one else out here like you. So know that.
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  Speaker 1: So while you're trying to compete while you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep up, while you're trying to stay the course with
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  Speaker 1: what somebody else is doing. Know that there's no one
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  Speaker 1: else like you. So because there's no one else like you,
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  Speaker 1: you have no competition. So when you're out here thinking
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  Speaker 1: that you're competing with somebody, you're really competing with yourself
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  Speaker 1: because you only you're your only competition, because there is
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  Speaker 1: no one else like you. You are fearfully and wonderfully
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  Speaker 1: designed in his image. Even if you are a twin,
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  Speaker 1: your twin is not like y'all got twin nephews, And
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  Speaker 1: they are totally different. One I say, look like his mama,
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  Speaker 1: act like his act like his cousin. One look like
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  Speaker 1: his daddy, act like his aunty. But hey, they are different,
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  Speaker 1: and all of them. And you look at the siblings,
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  Speaker 1: at their siblings, they are totally different too. So we
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  Speaker 1: are all uniquely our own person. Even though we may
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  Speaker 1: have some of the same DNA, we may carry some
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  Speaker 1: of the same blood, some of the same DNA, some
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  Speaker 1: of the same makeup as you your siblings and your
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  Speaker 1: cousins and your family members, but you are not them.
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  Speaker 1: You are your own person. So stand firm in pressure.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when friends are the culture attempts you to tempt
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  Speaker 1: you to cut corners, Remember your identity, remember who you are,
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  Speaker 1: and stand firm in the world, even if it means
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  Speaker 1: you got to stand alone. Y'all, it's okay to stand alone.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of us we don't want to do stuff alone,
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  Speaker 1: but y'all, it's okay to stand alone. It's okay. Listen, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 1: Intangty isn't about perfection. It's about being genuine and being faithful,
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  Speaker 1: being genuine, being yourself, being authentic, being who he called
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  Speaker 1: you to be. I don't know how to be nobody else.
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  Speaker 1: All I know how to be is me. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know how to be me because I'm
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  Speaker 1: still trying to figure it out. At still trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure it all out. So it's hard for me trying
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  Speaker 1: to compete and trying to be somebody else because I'm
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  Speaker 1: still working on me every day. It's a struggle working
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  Speaker 1: on me and trying to make sure that I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: what I supposed to do. And if we are doing that, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to be worrying about the next person. It's
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  Speaker 1: hard to be focused on what somebody else is doing.
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  Speaker 1: If you are truly, truly honest with yourself and focused
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  Speaker 1: on trying to live right for today, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: stay holy for this moment. And if we stay focused
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  Speaker 1: on us and staying true for that moment, y'all, we
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  Speaker 1: can get Father in this life. God isn't looking for
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  Speaker 1: flawless people. He's looking for real, honest heart that is
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  Speaker 1: truly seeking after Him. And when we choose the path
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  Speaker 1: of integrity, you're not just avoiding trouble, but you are
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  Speaker 1: building a life that God can use in a powerful way.
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  Speaker 1: When you stand up right before him, he can use you.
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  Speaker 1: When you do what He's called you to, he can
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  Speaker 1: use you. So here is the challenge, y'all. Here is
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  Speaker 1: the challenge for y'all today. Let your integrity shine today.
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  Speaker 1: Share one thing that you learned from this devotion with
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  Speaker 1: someone else, y'all. Text a friend, tell a family member,
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  Speaker 1: or encourage your group at your camps or at your
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  Speaker 1: job or whatever, your church, whatever, Your standing for truth
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  Speaker 1: may be a spark in their change. Y'all. Know that
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  Speaker 1: by you standing on truth, you standing on integrity, someone
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  Speaker 1: else may see that, and someone else may want to
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  Speaker 1: be saved. Someone else may want to walk into the light.
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  Speaker 1: Someone else may may may want to to receive this
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  Speaker 1: on today. Okay, so remember this, allow your integrity to
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  Speaker 1: stand up for you. Y'all come back to my and
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  Speaker 1: discover even more about walking strong with I am that
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  Speaker 1: I am. God is not finished righting your story. He's
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  Speaker 1: just starting. Know that. But trust him on today and
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  Speaker 1: walk in integrity. Walk in integrity. I thank y'all for
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  Speaker 1: tuning in. I pray that we make today count. Live
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  Speaker 1: with integrity, guide it by truth. Let's make integrity contagious.
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  Speaker 1: I truly want you to share one thing that you've
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  Speaker 1: learned today with somebody else. Encourage your friend, truly you can.
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  Speaker 1: You can uplift a family member and all those that
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  Speaker 1: are here on social media. You can record a video,
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  Speaker 1: you can go live to just remind somebody that God
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  Speaker 1: can use your honesty to light up someone else's day
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  Speaker 1: if you just allow him. Y'all walk integrity today again.
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  Speaker 1: The affirmation for today is I will live with integrity,
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  Speaker 1: guide it by truth. I pray that you have been
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  Speaker 1: blessed by something on today and that you will take
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  Speaker 1: these nuggets that were dropped on today apply them to
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  Speaker 1: your life. However, they fall, Let the chips fall what
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  Speaker 1: they may apply them to your life accordingly, if you
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  Speaker 1: would like to purchase a copy of this devotion that
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  Speaker 1: we're coming out of, you can go over to my
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  Speaker 1: web upsite and that is www. Angela Thomas Smith books
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Again, that's Angela Thomas Smith books dot com,
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  Speaker 1: and you can purchase your copy of one of these
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  Speaker 1: books or any of the books over there. You can
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  Speaker 1: just scroll through and see what all types of books
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  Speaker 1: I have, But this devotion is there. You can purchase
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  Speaker 1: this devotion if you would like to follow along with us, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We're day ten. I mean, we have twenty one more
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  Speaker 1: days left inside of this devotion, and then there's a
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  Speaker 1: couple of other chapters that we're gonna be sharing. Even
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  Speaker 1: after we finish the thirty one day devotion, there's still
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  Speaker 1: two more chapters inside of this book that we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be touching on before we put this book down and
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  Speaker 1: pick up another book. But again, y'all, I prayed that
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  Speaker 1: there was something that I shared that will be a
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  Speaker 1: blessing to you guys. Y'all. I will be back throughout
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  Speaker 1: the day because we are on a twenty one day
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  Speaker 1: journey to showcasing and bring in visibility to our brands
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  Speaker 1: on whether you are author or creative editor, a publish
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  Speaker 1: or whatever you do in a creative world. We are
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  Speaker 1: on a twenty one day challenge to bring awareness and
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  Speaker 1: visible to our brands. We are day number ten. We're
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  Speaker 1: day Wait a minute, yeah, we're Day number ten. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't do yesterday's because I did an experiment on yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna be combining day nine and ten together
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  Speaker 1: on one video because of the experiment, So y'all come
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  Speaker 1: back later on. I'm gonna try to I'm gonna try
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  Speaker 1: to get that done before twelve o'clock, so y'all come
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  Speaker 1: back and support the support the live. I'll be going
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  Speaker 1: live on kick Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and then I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: come back and go live on TikTok as well. Again.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank everyone that tune in to five
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  Speaker 1: am Prayer and then jump on for morning devotion. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm early this morning, but I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go ahead and get it out because y'all, I
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  Speaker 1: have a lot on my plate for today and I
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  Speaker 1: don't like to make excuses for why things don't get done.
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  Speaker 1: So if I got to change up and do something
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  Speaker 1: a little different and come on a little earlier. Then
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna do. But I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that I am obedient to that that God
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  Speaker 1: has placed within me, and that I'm doing what He's
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  Speaker 1: asked me to do, and that I'm not moving in Angela,
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  Speaker 1: but moving in the spirit of who sent me. So
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  Speaker 1: I thank you guys for joining me, and before I leave,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pray us out, Father God, in there ain't
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  Speaker 1: much Jesus, Lord, I thank you for this opportunity. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for your word. I thank you for even
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  Speaker 1: as the word came fourth, Lord God, it was needed
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  Speaker 1: to be applied to my life. That I had to
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  Speaker 1: be reminded of integrity too, because it's about those things
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  Speaker 1: that we do in secret. It's about those things that
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  Speaker 1: we do when no one is watching that matters. So
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, keep us humble, keep us stayed on you,
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  Speaker 1: keep us focused on You, Lord God, and allow these
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  Speaker 1: words that came forth, Lord God, not fall on death, is,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God. But they will fall on fertile ground, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: and that they will produce the fruit that you would
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  Speaker 1: have them to produce on today, Lord God, Father, for
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  Speaker 1: yet another hour, another opportun unity that we can acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: you and that we can come before you, Lord god Father,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you, and Father asks we go out into
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  Speaker 1: this world on today. Your word tells us that we
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  Speaker 1: have to be in this world, but not of this world. Father,
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  Speaker 1: we ask that you allow your Holy Spirit to go
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  Speaker 1: before us. Lead God and direct us. Lord god Father,
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  Speaker 1: keep us safe from any harm or danger anything that
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  Speaker 1: may come near us, not us. Lord god Father, we
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  Speaker 1: thank you for extending your grace and your mercy for
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  Speaker 1: allowing us to see this day that we've never seen,
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  Speaker 1: this day that we'll never see again. So Father, allow
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  Speaker 1: your will to be done in our lives on today.
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  Speaker 1: And this is my prayer and your son Jesus name,
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  Speaker 1: I pray, Amen, Amen, Amen, I pray that you guys
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  Speaker 1: are blessed by something. Take something away on today. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: have a great day and I will see y'all back
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  Speaker 1: here on tomorrow. See y'all back here on tomorrow. God
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  Speaker 1: is good and he is definitely worthy of all our praises.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all share some love today, share something with somebody on today.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you guys for gracing this platform. Is for
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  Speaker 1: showing your support. If you have time, go through and
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  Speaker 1: catch some of these videos. Check out some of these videos, y'all.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: They may not all be spiritual videoss, but they're all educating,
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  Speaker 1: empower and encouraging because that's what we do over here
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  Speaker 1: on the Crew Podcast. I am the visionary and I
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  Speaker 1: thank you guys for being a part of what we
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  Speaker 1: do over here. Go check out those hosts, y'all. I
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  Speaker 1: love y'all and I appreciate y'all for all your support. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: have a great day.