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Today's Word 12-23-25 The Most Important Thing · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: It's your early morning praise party. I am Sherry Mackie.
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  Speaker 1: It's time right now for today's word, the most important thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, with Christmas coming this week, you may be
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  Speaker 1: planning a celebration with your family. For most of us,
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  Speaker 1: as a day approaches, we feel stress. We want everything
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  Speaker 1: to be perfect, for everyone to have a great time.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're like me, unless you make the decision
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  Speaker 1: to push pauls for a moment and give these situations
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  Speaker 1: to God, knowing he's in control, your mind will start
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  Speaker 1: to spend. You start to worry, you get frantic, and
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  Speaker 1: you find you're not enjoying the holiday. Did you know
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  Speaker 1: the word worry actually comes from an Old English word ragan,
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  Speaker 1: which means to strangle. It's so easy to let worry
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  Speaker 1: and stress take over and literally choke the joy out
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  Speaker 1: of your life. And the scripture, Jesus was coming to
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  Speaker 1: the home of sisters Mary and Martha. They had been
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  Speaker 1: busy every thing getting everything ready for him right. But
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  Speaker 1: after he arrived, as they were enjoying their time with Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: Martha kept busying herself around with her to do list,
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  Speaker 1: to the point where she told Jesus, hey tell about
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  Speaker 1: sister to help me, don't you see Can you believe
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  Speaker 1: that she would say that to the guest of honor.
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  Speaker 1: Martha was experiencing worry. Jesus had to say to her,
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  Speaker 1: Mary has discovered the needful thing, and I won't take
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  Speaker 1: that privilege from her. She's undistracted. Hello, somebody. Jesus wasn't
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  Speaker 1: saying that they weren't necessary things to be done that
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  Speaker 1: Martha was doing. But think about it, Martha couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the fact that Jesus was right there in her presence.
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  Speaker 1: She was missing the whole beauty of the moment. She
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  Speaker 1: allowed the stress that was going on in her mind
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  Speaker 1: to strain her relationship with her loved ones. Jesus was saying,
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  Speaker 1: there's one thing that's most important, Martha. That's to sit
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  Speaker 1: at my feet, to be in my presence, to receive
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  Speaker 1: my life love. The Bible tells us to lay aside
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  Speaker 1: every weight which so easily ensnares us, so we can
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  Speaker 1: run with purpose. The race of God is set before us.
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  Speaker 1: There's a technique that I've learned that helps me to
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  Speaker 1: do that. When I feel stressed, I imagine myself putting
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  Speaker 1: all my concerns in a big red balloon that I
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  Speaker 1: release it to God. God is bigger than any problem
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  Speaker 1: you may have today. So as you're preparing for the holiday,
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate the real reason for the season, don't get
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  Speaker 1: into being strangled with worry. That's a little word for
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  Speaker 1: you on today, Today's word on your early morning praise
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  Speaker 1: party with me, your girl, Sherry Macki