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Give Willingly [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Good morning family, Good morning God, bless your family. Welcome back to
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the Morning Devo. It's your bro. Sam Lopez, a k A d
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J. Sam Rock so Win is with a Z dot org cele our radio
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network, Lehigh Valley's number one urban gospel music station online since two thousand and
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eight. Welcome back to the Morning Diva were here and we're in full of
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fact. Also a lot that someone is with a Z dot org. Amen,
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and yeah, man, we're doing it, We're doing it. It
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looks like the title on on YouTube is not correct, but today to Today's
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title is give giving willingly? And what did what did I miss with this
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title here? Hey? Man, giving willingly to give willingly? Yeah,
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I don't know why that's showing this other title here but says sleeplessness. But
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I already know that we name this giving willingly, giving willingly to God's work,
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Amen, or to those who are less fortunate. It's a blessing.
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Listen for those both giving and receiving. It's a blessing. God wants us
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to give willingly. If you want to give to a cause, give to
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a person, give to you a community, a man, give it willingly
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if you're doing it unwillingly. If you're doing it because you want status or
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you want to be known for something, don't give. God doesn't want that
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type of giving. He wants us to give willingly. We' gonna be in
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Second Corinthians, chapter number nine, Versus six to eight. Second Corinthians,
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Chapter number nine, Versus six to eight. Today in the morning, Devo.
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Amen. And yeah, I don't know why it says sleeplessness on my
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end, but it's called giving willingly. Amen. Amen. So let me
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get make sure everything is up and running again. Thank you for coming through
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again for the morning Devo. God bless you. Amen. It is my
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privilege and honor to be able to come through. And we could get together
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and get into the word first thing, first part of the day, at
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least for me, if you're live with me. It's five thirty am Eastern
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Standard time. Amen. So we're up early and we're getting busy, and
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we're getting into the Word of God. Looking at what the Word has for
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us today. A man is always a relevant word, always an on time
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word, always a good word. Amen, Always an encouragement, always a
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time of prayer, fellowship, a time of Q and a Amen. All
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right here on the morning Devo Mondays through Fridays. I try to get here
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five thirty am into the studio. Amen, and we're here here, so
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let me make sure I'm not seeing things. But my my other streaming platforms
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are sleeplessness, but it's not. Second Grinding is nine six' eight.
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Yeah. Everything seems to be up and running on my end. I don't
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know why. The mysteries of the Internet. Sometimes this is mind boggling to
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me. I'm like, how is that? How do we see another title
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here? Amen? It's beyond me. Man. Sometimes it's like wow,
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okay, yeah, so give Willingly. So if you're seeing another title there,
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my apologies. I just don't know how that happens. Unless let me
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trying one more thing. Ladies and gentlemen. You know me if if you
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follow me any amount of time, you know that this type of stuff gets
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to me quick because I'm like, wait a minute, I know what I
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wrote, Amen, So maybe I didn't update on the platform at live that
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soone is what a z do org could be. Amen, And it just
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proves that I'm human and and I'm human. Oh, it's all, says
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give Willingly. It is Tuesday, right, Today's the eleventh. Right,
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so we're just gonna roll with it. That must be some kind of weird
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glitch going on here that I have two different titles on the screen. But
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Praise the Lord. Amen, we're in the building. Hey man, we
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are here. We are in the building, and God's good, amazingly good.
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Amen, since the joint. I see you. Good morning, God,
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bless you. Welcome back to the Morning Devo. My sister and my
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friend. Amen. So we're here. Yeah, So I don't know what
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that's all about. It's a title difference on my life that someone is with
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a ze. Well, let me know what title you see on your screen,
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sister Joan of Today's Morning Devo. So what we're gonna do right now,
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we're gonna pray first. After we pray, we'll share this out for
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like sixty seconds, sixty seconds. Share it out. Share it like if
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this was the last time you could share the gospel message. Amen. Share
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it to people that you normally would not share it with personally or physically,
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but share it to them. Either share the live that sou Win is with
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his Z or so Win is with his Z dot orgy. Share from where
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you're watching, from where you're listening, from Amen, and it'll help us
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out to get this word to more than us. Amen. This is not
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a close community, Amen, this is an open community, and we want
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to open up people's eyes and hearts to the fact that Jesus is Lord,
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and he's sovereign, he's in control, he's the love of our souls.
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He's our savior, he's our Lord. Amen, he's our redeemer, a
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man, he's all us baths Amen, all of that. So we're gonna
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give willingly because we were freely given, so we should freely give. Amen.
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That's the way I see it. So let's pray. Father, I
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thank you so much that you gave your very best so that way we could
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live a life and abundance like you promise here on this planet on Earth.
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Thank you, Lord guys so much for your sacrifice, for your willingness to
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go to the cross on our behalf, for your willingness to do what you
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did. You didn't have to bankrupt heaven to come to this Earth. You
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didn't have to do and demonstrate your own love to anyone. You didn't have
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to prove anything to anyone. But yet you did it because you were giving
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of yourself willingly. Perfect example of how we should be giving willingly. Thank
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you, Lord God, for the hedge of protection over my family, my
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friends, over this ministry, Amen, over my marriage, our children,
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my household finances. Thank you for strength to my bones, health to my
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body. And I pray the same over every single person connected now who connect
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later. Amen, every single person that's watching the replay and that's listening as
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well on the podcast. Bless them, Guard them, guide them, protect
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them, open their eyes to see what's going on, open their hearts to
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know who you are. Open their mind to realize that there's more to life
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than what they're currently experiencing if they don't have you in their lives. So
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I pray, Lord God, that you will dispatch your angels to annihilate the
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tactics and the distractions of the enemy, and that Lord God, we will
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see who you are for what your word says who you are. I pray
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this by faith, knowing that you, Lord God, answer these prayers according
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to your will and purpose for every single individual in our myths, in our
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life. In Jesus name, the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings,
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in Jesus Name, I pray, Amen and Amen. So let's go
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for it. Let's take sixty seconds to share this out. When we come
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back, we'll get right into give willingly, Give willingly, And we're going
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to be in Second Corinthians, chapter number nine, verses six to eight.
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You ready, I'm ready. I'll be right back. Hey man, Amen,
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let's go for it. Let's see what the Word of God has for
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us today. Ladies and gentlemen again, welcome back to the Morning Devo.
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Mondays through Fridays. We're here online live, Amen, Lord Willing. I
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can continue to do this as long as he wants me to do it,
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as long as I have breath a man, as long as he gives me
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the health and the ability to do this, I will be doing this because
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I really believe and I stand behind one hundred percent of what the Word of
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God says. Amen. I don't understand everything the Word of God says,
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and I don't know why people are afraid to say that. Amen. I
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don't understand everything the Word of God says. I don't, Amen, But
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the Spirit Holy God in me leads me to all truth and leads you to
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all truth. So if you have a better understanding or greater understanding or in
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depth understanding of what i'm speaking on or when I'm reading. Amen. You
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could chime in, you could live chat Amen. And I'm always willing to
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listen, always willing to learn, absolutely willing to learn. I don't know
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it all, Amen. And I'm not the the end of the scriptures.
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Amen. I'm in these scriptures daily seeking truth, seeking truth and finding it,
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Amen, and applying the truth in my life and in this ministry.
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And I hope and pray that you will apply these truths in your life and
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in your family and whatever you do. Amen. In ministry, if you're
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in ministry, Amen, we are all in ministry. If you're born again,
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Amen, the ministry of reconciliation a man sharing the gospel. We're supposed
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to be all preaching the gospel. We're supposed to be sharing the gospel.
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We're supposed to be making disciples of all nations, Amen, and baptizing them
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in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
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That's what we're supposed to be doing. But if you're not yet there,
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Amen, I believe that God is so patient with us a man. He'll
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continue to be with us and have patience with us and guide us all along.
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But he wants us to open our mouth. He wants us to lay
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hands on the sick and they shall recover. He wants us to do what
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he called us to do. We're commissioned, we're anointed, and we're appointed
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to do what God calls us to do. So let's give willingly. In
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that today's title for this morning, I guess you could see this for those
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who are listening. No worries. You're not going to see the graphics,
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obviously, and for whatever reason, a man, if you have your reasons
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for just listening, you might be driving, you might be working out,
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might be at work, might be having the AirPods on, the earphones on,
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or whatever situation is, and you just want to listen in and we
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welcome that. Men. I believe the power of audio a man could paint
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pictures in our minds, and guy's were being alive and active will paint a
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vivid picture in your mind, so that way you could know and see what's
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going on as well, even if you don't have the graphics and from not
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watching the video, I believe it one hundred percent that's where God works.
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Amen, So listen, give willingly on the morning, DEVO. Let's continue
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to give willingly amen to whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be
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saved. And because we're saved, and men were going about doing good works
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and showing that we are being being led by Holy Spirit God, who gives
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us the most important task, and the most important task I believe is for
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us to give a man to give the gospel out to give willingly. Two
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Corinthians, Chapter nine, verses six to eight. The point is this,
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whoever's sold sparingly will also reap Sparently, there's a kingdom principle. A man
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you give a little, get a little. The world picked that up,
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they put into business models. Corporate America pick that up and they, you
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know, put it into their business models for the corporations. But it's a
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kingdom principle. Whoever sows sparingly will also reap spariently, and whoever sows bountifully
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will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his
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heart. And this is the part, not reluctantly or under compulsion. Other
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versions say under pressure. For God loves what a cheerful giver. And God
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is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency
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in all things, at all times, you may abound in every good work.
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Just the other day, I was saying, why don't I have enough
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to give to every good work that's on me, that's not on God.
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Amen, I'm missing something. God's not missing anything. I should be able
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to give to every good work. Amen. It could be time, talent,
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treasure, right, it be something that I'm willing to give willingly.
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No one has to pressure me to preach to gods, but no one has
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to pressure me to give to a cause. No one should be able to
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pressure me to give to a tithe or anything like that. I give willingly
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a man. Why. Because I know about reaping and sowing. I know
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the Kingdom principle. Whoever souls bouncifully will also reap bouncifully. It's a blessing
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on both sides for both the person giving and the person receiving. The person
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giving and the person receiving will be blessed, will be part of this Kingdom's
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principle. And God will show us through his Kingdom principles that his word works,
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His principles are everlasting, His principles are eternal. God's word is eternal.
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When you give sparingly. You reap sparingly, and it seems like it's
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a heart issue. Why am I giving? Sparently if I'm giving amen,
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Oh maybe because I don't have it at the time. Listen, how about
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this? This is the idea that just came and I believe Holy Spitch just
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dropped this in my mind right now. About if you just give time and
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money to a cause, what will happen? Is that bountiful? I think
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it is because now you're both giving from what you can give right and then
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sow in your time and being present at the cause. It's called volunteers.
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Amen. When you volunteer to a good cause and you're present there, if
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you can be present there, or maybe you can send a representative for you
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to be at a situation or at a cause, and then you send money.
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Don't got to be so strivingant in the money. I believe God knows
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our heart, he knows our finances, he knows where we are financially.
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So when you sew into a ministry, when you sew into a family,
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when you sew into a church, when you sow into a cause, and
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then you add your time, an that's a bountiful blessing. And those who
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are giving that type of way, a man will receive a bountiful return,
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a harvest. Amen. And those receiving will be blessed, and those who
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give will be blessed. Why because it's a win win, It's a principle
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of God, a Kingdom principle. Since the joys Good morning, God bless
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you, welcome back to the morning, devo. God bless you in your
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family as well. Is good to see you, my system, my friend.
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Amen. So this is the thing how God set us all up,
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set this whole up, the whole thing up, about this principle of giving
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and reaping, sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. Amen. God set
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it up, and he did it perfectly because He's a perfect God. So
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in my mind, I'm like, if my pocket ain't giving enough, because
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my pocket says there is nothing there. Amen. I could give talent,
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give of time, right, the treasure of sharing the word of God,
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which is the ultimate treasure anyone. It's something I could give, and I'm
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gonna give it willingly. No one has to force me, Like I said
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earlier, no one has to force you either. You know you can't be
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put under a guilt trip to give in either way. Amen. No one
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could guilt trip us into giving when we're already willing to give. When we
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walk around with a grateful heart. Amen, we're gonna be willing to give
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anyway. Teach Jesus, Preach Jesus, and watch our people give, because
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when we find out how Jesus gave, Amen, then we could want to
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give because we have a perfect example. Since Nicole, God blessed you.
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Good morning, God bless you, Brother Sam. I'm teaching this to the
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children this month. I told them it doesn't have to be just the money.
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Our time and our gifts make a difference. When we do it together,
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we make a huge difference in God's kingdom. Yes, God knows our
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heart. We have to do it our out of love and out of will,
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not because you feel like you have to. Amen. Amen. And
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that's a good lesson for kids to learn right off the bat, because they
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might be seeing some things, or hearing about some things, or being presented
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by some things, and they might feel guilty, and that guilt to give.
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That's not a kingdom principle, that's compulsion. Like the apostle Paul was
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telling the church in Corinth and Corinth, if you say, man by compulsion,
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that's not it being forced, that's not it give willingly, Amen,
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and do this. And he gave us the secret keys to the principle of
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giving and soaring and reaping and giving and receiving. He says, if you
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do it, sparently, expect a sparing or to reap sparently. If you
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give bountifully, prepare for the bouncel and the bountiful part. Who wouldn't want
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to be blessed and bountifully Amen. And the beautiful thing about that is that,
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like I said earlier, you could be creative with you're giving. It
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could be time, it could be money, talent, it could be volunteering.
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Amen. It could be working hard enough a man to be able to
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give extra finances to a family that you know, or ministry that you know,
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or a church that you know is suffering men. And you could drop
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it off. You don't even have to put your name on your offering or
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your tithe could give because God knows you're giving. Amen. And I know
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we want to make records of who gave and who didn't give, and this
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that and the third. I have a donate button on my website. Amen.
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And sometimes it says anonymous. And I respect that people don't want to
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be known for giving to whatever for whatever reason. Amen. The Bible does
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say the left hand and the right hand. You know, either hand,
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I forget which one it is. You don't have to let the right hand
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or left hand know what you're doing or how you're giving, or anything like
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that. God knows, He knows exactly what we're doing. He knows where
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pockets are headed. He knows why there's much in the bank, and why
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there's little in the bank, and why there is much in the fridge,
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and why it is litle in the fridge. He knows our hearts. Amen.
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And I know we have all these you know, formulas, and say,
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oh, if you show me your bank account, I could show you
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you know how much time you spending with the Lord. Know that I know
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we have all these ideas, But I'd rather stick to the script the scriptures
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of God. Amen. Want to trust about giving, receiving, sowing and
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reaping. I'd rather go that. It's the safest bet. Amen. Is
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the Word of God is the kingdom principal. Amen. So that way I'm
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gonna have to make up no kind of formula. Amen. And the percentages
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that we have that we've learned growing up in church world. Amen, the
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ten percent the tithe, and this, that, and the third. Might
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want to be mindful, Amen, if you if someone wants to be really
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honest about teaching the tithe to the church, Amen, to churches all through
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the United States and beyond, a lot of people will be shocked. That's
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the way the tithe was in the scriptures, and we've been learning it,
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this, that, and the third. Yeah, God has been prompted me
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just just teach the the tithe the way it's written through the scriptures. Amen.
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But I'm the one resistant because I know I'm going to get a lot
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of pushback and people are I think I'm hating on the system that most churches
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in the United States are in when it comes to tithing, but reaping and
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sowing the principle of God. Tithing the law of God. Amen, principle
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of God. You know the Manechia chapter three, It's the Word of God.
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Amen. The timing of how we present these principles Amen, is timeless.
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I present the word of God. You present the word of God.
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We speak the word of God, we apply the word of God, and
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God makes that word of work, and Man, we don't have to force
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anything. His word, Amen, is so kind, his word is so
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true, word is so relevant, His word is so powerful that we don't
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have to force the issue of giving. Nah, let's give willingly. Amen,
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have a bonus couple of bonus scriptures for you. Let me just take
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some wader here. So that was Second Corinthians, chapter nine, right.
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Check this out, First Timothy. First Timothy, chapter six, verses eighteen
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and nineteen. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds,
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and to be generous and willing to share. Command them to do that,
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Amen. And the way you can get that commandment to work when you
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command people to do that is to show how Christ did it. In this
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way, they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the
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coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly
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life. I like that, take hold of the life that is truly life.
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Amen. When you give is a feeling. I don't know. I
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get this feeling when I give into when I'm able, even if I'm not
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able, if I give what I can, Amen, it feels like I'm
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being a part of something bigger. Why because when you sow into the Kingdom
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of God. You are swing into something bigger. Right. If I had
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the money to eradicate hunger, to pay the church building is off, and
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this, that and the third, I would do it. Amen. Test
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me and see if I would do it. And I notice people that are
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able to do it. I just don't understand why they don't do it.
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Amen. That's between them and the Lord. Amen. So if you come
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across a multi millionaire that's a believer in Christ, Amen, and their life
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and home and it's good at cars, financially fit, they're blessed. Amen.
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And then you see that they are in leadership or maybe they're the head
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of a church to whatever, and you see the church and shambles and things
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falling apart, and you wonder, why is it that the place where a
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lot of leaders say it's important, right, Why isn't it taking care of
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them? If they have that type of blessing a man, it's between them
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and the Lord. So if they're not giving all, because we're technically supposed
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to give everything we have to God a man, because sees the one who
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gave us. So technically there's supposed to be no debt in the Kingdom of
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God, for number's number one, technically right, not supposed to be no
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debt for any church in the way I'm seeing it through the scriptures. But
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there is debt. And it might be because we got into this whole corporate
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America thing, and we're placing the corporate America thing, the model of giving
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and all that stuff into the church system. And then, since it's a
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worldly system coming into the the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom system, the
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church system is not working. We need to reconnect with what the Word of
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God says when it comes to sowing and reaping, giving and receiving, because
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it's a blessing, it's a Kingdom principle, and it works. God knows
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what he's doing. God knows what he's talking about. God knows how to
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keep us out of debt. He doesn't want us to owe the lender because
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we're slaved to the lender when we owe the lender. He wants us to
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be debt free. Amen. And I'm not debt free. So it's not
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on God, it's on me. What am I doing wrong? Right?
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And that's the way I think about it. Proverbs thirty one, verses eight
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and nine, Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves. That's a
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way of giving. Amen. You're helping, You're sowing seeds. Amen for
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those who can't speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.
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Speak up and judge failure, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
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On. Our political system is supposed to be like but we have a
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kingdom system. Amen that we do that, regardless of what the government is
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saying. We're doing. Amen. We can meet the needs of all those
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who are destitute. The word says right here, and all those who cannot
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speak from themselves, judging fairly, defending the rights of the poor and needy.
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Bible talk us about the poor and needy, so that means they are
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poor and needy. Jesus said they were. The poor will be with us
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forever. We are kingdom people. Amen. We should be kingdom minded and
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we're supposed to be giving willingly. Amen. So I hope you getting what
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I'm saying. I know there's a lot for more than deva right Second Corinth
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in chapter nine, read the whole chapter for yourself. Amen, to get
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a ban of the grasp of what the apostle Paul was saying to the church
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in Corinth. Amen, and we could get that for our lives and apply
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that in our lives today. Amen. As a kingdom principle, we have
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nothing to lose, We have everything to gain. God has given us everything
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we need to live this life out and to live life of abundance and in
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abundance, so we could give to the good works that God wants us to
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give to. Amen. So amount of time. But God, bless you.
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Thank you so much for hanging out with me for these morning DeVos.
27:11
Is an honor and privilege for me to be able to do these. Amen.
27:15
God is so good. So God bless you all. God keep you
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all, and remember always that God is good. Peace.