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7/17/25 DAILY DEVOTION WITH QUEEN ANGELA | DAY 17: USING OUR GIFTS-1 PETER 4:10 · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: Share it out. You never know what the next person
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Speaker 1: number seventeen on this thirty one day journey inside of
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Speaker 1: journey that that God has done for me. He's truly
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Speaker 1: been given me, y'all. He woke us up to see
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Speaker 1: another day. He extended his grace and his mercy. We
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Speaker 1: got to see a day that was not promised us.
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Speaker 1: We got to see a day that was not promised us.
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Speaker 1: So be glad in it. Be glad in it, Be
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Speaker 1: share it out, Share it out, share it out, share
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Speaker 1: it out if you would share it out to someone
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Speaker 1: in your circle. If not, just tap that screen. Tap
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Speaker 1: to send up your hearts, you can send up your hearts,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not asking you to sow it down. If
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Speaker 1: you would just tap that screen so that they can
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Speaker 1: get out there to that person that may need to
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Speaker 1: hear what's gonna be shared on today, Father God, in
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Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, Father asked that you removed way,
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Speaker 1: decrease me in the flesh, and allow your spirit man
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Speaker 1: to come forth on today Lord god Father, asked that
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Speaker 1: you would move minally for your people on today, Lord God,
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Speaker 1: move for your people on today, Lord god Father, I
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Speaker 1: asked that you would just have your way on today,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, have your way, have your way, have your way,
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Speaker 1: have your way. The enemy is busy, but yet we stand.
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Speaker 1: The enemy is busy, but yet we stand. Father. We
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Speaker 1: asked that you would just touch those that come in
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Speaker 1: on today, Lord God, clear their minds, their hearts, and
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Speaker 1: their soul, that they will receive what it is that
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Speaker 1: you will have for them to receive. On today, Lord
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Speaker 1: god Father, allow us to be able to utilize those
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Speaker 1: things that you're placed on the inside of us, because
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Speaker 1: your word tells us to Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven
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Speaker 1: that you declared that you had a plan for us,
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Speaker 1: and it was to prossip for us, not to bring
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Speaker 1: us home. So Father, we thank you right now. We
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Speaker 1: thank you for your word. We thank you that your
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Speaker 1: word should return to your voice, that you will watch
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Speaker 1: over and what's form and perfected in our lives. On today,
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Speaker 1: Lord god Father, we thank you for this new day
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Speaker 1: that we've never seen before and we will never see again.
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Speaker 1: So Father, we asked that you allow us to catch
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Speaker 1: up with our destiny, align us with that that you
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Speaker 1: have already preordain for us, Lord God, that we may
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Speaker 1: walk in it to bring you glory, and they will
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Speaker 1: work together for our good. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
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Speaker 1: And we're asking that you will just have your way
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Speaker 1: in this hour, on this day, Lord God, and I
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Speaker 1: thank you and your son Jesus' name Father. So y'ad. Okay,
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Speaker 1: they keep doing this, I'm about to end this live again.
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Speaker 1: I'm about to end it again. I'm not appealing nothing.
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Speaker 1: I'm about to end it again and then I'm coming
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Speaker 1: back on here because they starting to get on my nerves.
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Speaker 1: They're really starting to get on my nerves. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what they're doing, but they want to We're not
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Speaker 1: even live. We're not even not even live two minutes,
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Speaker 1: and they want to they want to restrict the lives.
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Speaker 1: So y'all, I just ended that live over on TikTok
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Speaker 1: and we're live again to the enemy. Been busy all morning, y'all,
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Speaker 1: been busy all morning. But yeah, this message shall come
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Speaker 1: forth because it's something that we need to know. We
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Speaker 1: need to be able to tap into our gifts and
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Speaker 1: be able to utilize those gifts and and and and
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Speaker 1: not be burdened like this Internet has been is been
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Speaker 1: acting up this morning. I'm talking about the enemy just
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Speaker 1: being busy. But I bind that in the name of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: I bind it in the name of Jesus. I bind
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Speaker 1: it in the name of Jesus. Or have your way,
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Speaker 1: have your way through TikTok, have your way through all
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Speaker 1: of these social media platforms. So I allow us to
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Speaker 1: do that you have called and purpose us to do.
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Speaker 1: Lord God, let us not be let us not be gatekeepers,
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Speaker 1: let us not be people that don't want to share
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Speaker 1: your goodness. Lord, you're giving us testimonies so that we
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Speaker 1: can share these things. Or God, and you've given us
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Speaker 1: gifts and tell us that they're be utified, utilized to
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Speaker 1: edify you and to bring you glory. So, Father God,
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Speaker 1: I bind any distraction in the technology, any distraction that
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Speaker 1: will try to come through the phone through whatever, I
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Speaker 1: bind it right now, Father, and ask that you will
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Speaker 1: loose loose a clear mind, that we will receive what
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Speaker 1: you will have us to receive on today. Lord God,
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Speaker 1: I thank you right now, I thank you right now,
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Speaker 1: I thank you right now, Lord God, I thank you.
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Speaker 1: I thank you I thank you, I thank you, I
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Speaker 1: thank you, I thank you, I thank you, I thank
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Speaker 1: you in the name of Jesus. I thank you in
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Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, I thank you. No weaping, no weaping,
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Speaker 1: no wef and no weapon formed against us shall prosper,
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Speaker 1: and every tongue that rises should be condemned. In the
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Speaker 1: name of Sheesus. Father, align us with your will, your
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Speaker 1: will and your way, Lord God, that we won't hold
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Speaker 1: a straight Lord God, and that we want to allow
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Speaker 1: these distractions to keep us distracted from the things that
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Speaker 1: you've called us to, Lord God, because you've given us
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Speaker 1: gifts and talents for the edification of you, Lord God,
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Speaker 1: to bring you glory. You said that it will work
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Speaker 1: together for our good, but it's to bring you glory.
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Speaker 1: So Father, allow everything that I do bring you glory.
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Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, Father,
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Speaker 1: moved me out of the way. In the name of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: Move me out of the way in the name of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Right now, God, Right now, God, right now God, in
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Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. Lord, we thank you. We thank
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Speaker 1: you right now for moving We thank you right now.
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Speaker 1: We thank you for being just who you said you
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Speaker 1: would be in our lives. We thank you this morning.
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Speaker 1: We thank you right now that no distractions, no distractions
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Speaker 1: will keep us from doing what you've called us to
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Speaker 1: do on this day, Lord God, the message that you've
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Speaker 1: given me this morning and my time before you, Lord
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Speaker 1: God allowed to come forth. Lord God, I thank you.
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Speaker 1: I thank you right now in the name of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: I thank you right now. I thank you for every
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Speaker 1: person that is tried to come on on this morning, Lord,
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Speaker 1: I thank you for him right now in the name
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Speaker 1: of Jesus, Lord God Father, lead him back here, Lord
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Speaker 1: God Father, lead him back to this live right now,
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Speaker 1: that they may receive what it is that you would
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Speaker 1: have them to receive on this morning. Father, don't let
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Speaker 1: the distractions of the enemy, the distractions of the internet,
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Speaker 1: the distractions of technology, distractions of people, keep us from
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Speaker 1: that that you've called us to, Lord God. In the
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Speaker 1: name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you for this hour.
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Speaker 1: I thank you for this day. I thank you because
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Speaker 1: I've never seen it and I'll never see it again. Father.
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Speaker 1: Right now, on the name of Jesus, we thank you
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Speaker 1: on this morning. We thank you. On this morning, y'all.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what has been going on, but the
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Speaker 1: enemy has been busy. He's been busy. I had to
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Speaker 1: start this live over here on TikTok over three times.
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Speaker 1: I've had to start it over three times because they
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Speaker 1: kept saying something, it kept doing something crazy. But let
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Speaker 1: me tell you, God is good. He giving me a
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Speaker 1: message and I'm gonna share it on this morning. He's
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Speaker 1: given me a message, y'all. I've just been following instructions,
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Speaker 1: just going along with this thirty one day devotion, just
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Speaker 1: trying to be obedient to that God has called me
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Speaker 1: to in this season. He every scripture, every time I
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Speaker 1: read over here in this Bible, y'all, He's given us promises.
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Speaker 1: He's given us three hundred and sixty five of every
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Speaker 1: day we wake up, we should have a promise. And
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Speaker 1: every day we should walk into something that he has.
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Speaker 1: He he has guaranteed that we should have. He's guaranteed that.
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Speaker 1: So y'all know that it's not a mistake. It's not
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Speaker 1: an accident that you that you that you woke up
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Speaker 1: this morning because it was something that you didn't complete
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Speaker 1: on yesterday. Y'all. He said to to today. Today's title
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Speaker 1: is using your gifts, and today's scripture is coming from
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Speaker 1: One Peter four and ten. It said each of you
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Speaker 1: should use whatever gifts you have received to serve others
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Speaker 1: as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms.
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Speaker 1: Imagine a world where each person is fully embraced by
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Speaker 1: their talents and use them, unashamed, unapologetically for the good
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Speaker 1: picture the transformation in your family, your community, and your church,
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Speaker 1: even the world if everyone stepped into their unique column.
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Speaker 1: What if today you realize that your gifts, no matter
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Speaker 1: how ordinary they may sing or ex ordinary, tools in
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Speaker 1: the hands of God. Today is today to unwrap what
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Speaker 1: God has given you and to let the world be
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Speaker 1: blessed by your divine finger print. Y'all, is something that
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to be doing no day. You're not just here.
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Speaker 1: You have something specifically that He wants you to do.
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Speaker 1: If you don't know, you gotta ask you ask him.
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Speaker 1: He say, acts and you shall receive. He says, seek
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Speaker 1: and you shall find. So you're not sure if you're wondering,
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Speaker 1: if you're wondering what it is that you're supposed to
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Speaker 1: be doing, ask him, Ask him what your divine fingerprint
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Speaker 1: is supposed to be ask him what you're supposed to
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Speaker 1: be doing, because, let me tell you, the apostle Peter
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Speaker 1: wrote this letter to encourage believers who were experiencing hardship.
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Speaker 1: He reminded them of their purpose and they're responsibilit to
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Speaker 1: ask members of God's family. With persecution looming, like, we
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Speaker 1: see all of this stuff that's going on around us.
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Speaker 1: We got so much racist stuff going on. We got
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Speaker 1: so many people coming against each other. We got sons
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Speaker 1: coming against dad, daughters coming against mothers, and then we
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Speaker 1: got racist against racist. We got religion against religion. It's
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Speaker 1: so much going on in this world. But guess what,
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Speaker 1: Peter in sight, he insisted that the church used its
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Speaker 1: gifts to serve one another. He said, one another selfishless.
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Speaker 1: In doing so, they would reveal God's grace in practical,
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Speaker 1: powerful ways. He wanted Christians to understand not to hide
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Speaker 1: their talents, but to be stewards and to be faithful
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Speaker 1: over them. He said, we're to use them to provide
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Speaker 1: strength and unity within the body of Christ. See a
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Speaker 1: lot of us we got gifts and talents, yet we
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Speaker 1: sit on them. We do nothing for the building of
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Speaker 1: the kingdom. We do nothing to pour into others. But
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Speaker 1: we always got our hand, not because we wanted some
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Speaker 1: We want people to pour into us, but we're doing
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Speaker 1: nothing to pour into others. But I want you to
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Speaker 1: know today that you are uniquely created, intentionally gifted, and
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Speaker 1: perfectly placed. He didn't just drop you out of the sky.
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Speaker 1: And one Peter, four and ten. It reminds you it's
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Speaker 1: not just a suggestion, it is a calling. No that
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Speaker 1: it's not a suggestion. It is a calling. It is
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Speaker 1: a commandment. God has the pot of divine. He has
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Speaker 1: the divine gifts within you and the abilities in each
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Speaker 1: and every one of us. He's giving you gifts and
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Speaker 1: abilities that no one else has. They may have similar,
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Speaker 1: but no one has the same abilities or gifts as you. Humph.
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Speaker 1: You may be the greatest listener, a wise organizer, a
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Speaker 1: talented artist, or a peacemaker. But your gift may be
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Speaker 1: Your gift may be encouraging to somebody. It may be hospitality,
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Speaker 1: it may be teaching, it may be faith. But whatever
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Speaker 1: it is, it is intended not solely for the benefit
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Speaker 1: of you, but to bless others and reflect God's goodness. Huh, y'all,
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Speaker 1: there's nothing that I'm making up y'all. This is the
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Speaker 1: word he commanded. It is a commandment. It's not just
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Speaker 1: a suggestion. He command us to do these things. And
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Speaker 1: when you use your gifts to service others, you become
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Speaker 1: a living channel for God's grace. You become a willing vestor.
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Speaker 1: Your willingness multiplies blessings. And sometimes we overlook our abilities,
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Speaker 1: comparing ourselves to others, minimizing what God has placed in us. Huh, y'all,
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Speaker 1: I'm just telling the truth. I used to be that person,
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Speaker 1: not something that somebody told me, for something that I
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Speaker 1: experienced myself, worrying about the degrees that I did not have,
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Speaker 1: worrying about the titles that I did not have. But
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Speaker 1: did you hear what he said? He said, your willingness
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Speaker 1: multiplies blessings. Sometimes we are overlooked because of our abilities,
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Speaker 1: because we are we compare ourselves to others. We look
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Speaker 1: at what others are doing and forget about the God
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Speaker 1: that we serve, and how big he is and what
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Speaker 1: he's placed on the inside of us, what he's doing
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Speaker 1: for them, He can do for you if you just willing.
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Speaker 1: Just know that, if you're just willing, what He's doing
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Speaker 1: for that person that you're looking at. He can do
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Speaker 1: for you. But see, we don't even think about that.
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Speaker 1: We don't even think about it. We think we all
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Speaker 1: we want to be Tyler Perry. We want to be Oprah.
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Speaker 1: That Oprah is Oprah, Tyler Perry is Tyler Perry. There'll
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Speaker 1: never be another one just like them. So you can
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Speaker 1: want to be like them all you want. But if
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Speaker 1: you tap into yo gifts, he can make you who
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Speaker 1: you are. He can make you the next He can
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Speaker 1: make you the next Patrisse. He can make you the
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Speaker 1: next Shanette. He can make you the next Angelo. And
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Speaker 1: he can make your name great. You don't have to
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Speaker 1: mark after anybody else name. He can make your name
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Speaker 1: great because he tells us that in the world, He
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Speaker 1: tells us that ain't something that is made up. Just
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Speaker 1: as he made their name great, he can make your
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Speaker 1: name great. All you got to do is stay the course,
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Speaker 1: stay in this word, stay humble, and be willing. You
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Speaker 1: got to be willing. We had to stop making excuses.
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Speaker 1: We make excuses about everything else, but yet we show
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Speaker 1: up to these jobs. We show up. We show up
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Speaker 1: to everybody else's dream and everybody else goals. Because if
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Speaker 1: you're working on somebody else's job. That's there, that's whoever,
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Speaker 1: whoever started that job, that's their dream. We can start up,
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Speaker 1: we can show up to that, but we can't show
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Speaker 1: up for ourselves. We start showing up for yourself today.
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Speaker 1: Start showing up for yourself today, because God calls you
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Speaker 1: to honor your gift, to nurture it, and to use
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Speaker 1: it for His glory. When we serve, we proclaim loudly
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Speaker 1: that here I am Lord, Here I am Lord, Use
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Speaker 1: me for your purpose, for your purpose, Use me, Lord,
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Speaker 1: use me. Lord, Know that your gift is unique and purposeful.
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Speaker 1: Romans twelve and six says, we have different gifts according
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Speaker 1: to the grace given each of us. He said, the
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Speaker 1: grace given each of us. He didn't say the grace
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Speaker 1: given to Angelo will worked for Shanek. He didn't say
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Speaker 1: the grace given to Trace is gonna work for Sharnette.
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Speaker 1: He didn't say any grace given to Shannette is even
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Speaker 1: gonna work for her kids. He said, we have different
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Speaker 1: gifts according to the grace given each of us. God
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Speaker 1: design is intentional. He is the master craftsman of h
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Speaker 1: He's a master craftsman who intentionally forms each of us
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Speaker 1: in our uniqueness. Your gift is your gift. Your perspective
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Speaker 1: is your perspective. Your calling is your calling. There has
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Speaker 1: never been, nor would there ever be, another youth. You
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Speaker 1: are it. Huh. Your life is only shape for you,
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Speaker 1: and it is a reflection of God's creativity in you.
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Speaker 1: And He's created all of us in his image in
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Speaker 1: our own unique way. Huh. God's grace is divine power
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Speaker 1: between your gift. He did look at you and randomly
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Speaker 1: assign you ability. Instead, He needed your gifts and passion
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Speaker 1: together to fit your purpose and your placement in his
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Speaker 1: great plan. Y'all know that everything that you have, all
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Speaker 1: these gifts and talents that you got, it wasn't because
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Speaker 1: of your upbringing. It wasn't because of the challenges. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't because of the victories. It wasn't even because of
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Speaker 1: the quirks, humh. But it was because He uniquely woven
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Speaker 1: those gifts to be effectively for you. When you compare
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Speaker 1: yourself to others, you slight the divine intention that God
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Speaker 1: had created you for. Instead, celebrate your gifts, no matter
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Speaker 1: how big or small it may seem. Feel a unique
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Speaker 1: gap in God's kingdom that no one else can feel.
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Speaker 1: Know your purpose. Gifts are meant to serve others. Humh.
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Speaker 1: They not to be sit down on and they not
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Speaker 1: just for you to be glorified, but to bring Him glory.
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Speaker 1: But it's for your good. And Matthew five and sixteen
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Speaker 1: it said, let your light shine before others, that they
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Speaker 1: may see your good deeds and glorifa the Father in heaven.
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Speaker 1: So the things that we're doing down here on this earth, huh.
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Speaker 1: The things that we're doing, the things that we're doing,
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Speaker 1: it is supposed to bring him glory. And we're supposed
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Speaker 1: to be using them. We're supposed to be using them
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Speaker 1: to serve others. For so many of us, we so
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Speaker 1: I I I me, me, me, me, me, me mean
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Speaker 1: them the songs that we sang, stop singing them and
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Speaker 1: think about the people around you. Humh. I'm reminded about
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Speaker 1: my pastor my apostle. She always says, Huh, what you
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Speaker 1: do for others, God will do for you. What you
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Speaker 1: do for others, God will do for you. So your
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Speaker 1: gifts are not trophies to sit on shelves. Their tools
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Speaker 1: meant to impact the world. When God gave you a gift,
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Speaker 1: he put it in your hands, not for your glory,
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Speaker 1: but for your good for those around you. Every act
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Speaker 1: of service, every word of encouragement, every kindness, every solution
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Speaker 1: that you brought to utilize your gift, it's it's light
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Speaker 1: lighting a candle in the darkness of someone Lump, that's
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Speaker 1: someone that may be in the dark. Let your life
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Speaker 1: shall sign today. The world grows brighter each time you
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Speaker 1: use your gift generously. Serving ships your perspective from a
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Speaker 1: me centered to God and other centered, and the shift
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Speaker 1: your gift finds the highest purpose and the deepest fulfillment.
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Speaker 1: Ask yourself this, who is blessed when I use my gift?
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Speaker 1: Who misses out when I don't realize that someone somewhere
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Speaker 1: is waiting for you to do what you're supposed to
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Speaker 1: do because it's what you have and only you that
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Speaker 1: they need. So utilize your gift on today, because also
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Speaker 1: remember this, using your gift honors God. Whatever you do,
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Speaker 1: work as if it was our Whatever you do, work
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Speaker 1: at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord,
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Speaker 1: not for human masters. It is the Lord Christ that
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Speaker 1: Again I say, whatever you do, work at it with
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Speaker 1: to the human masters. It is the Lord Christ you
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Speaker 1: are serving. When you're using your talent wholeheartedly, you turn
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Speaker 1: everyday action into acts of worship. God isn't looking for perfection.
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Speaker 1: He delights in willingness and faithfulness. Every moment you dedicate
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Speaker 1: your time, your skill, your resources, and your services, God
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Speaker 1: receives it as an offering. When you are steward over
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Speaker 1: your gifts, developing, sharing and growing them, you give God
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Speaker 1: the ultimate glory. You become a willing witness to his
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Speaker 1: goodness and his faith fulness. People will see God's finger
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Speaker 1: print in your life, and He is magnified through your obedience.
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Speaker 1: Think about the legacy that you want to leave, and
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Speaker 1: when others remember you, let it be the gifts that
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Speaker 1: point them back to God, who loves equipped and power
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Speaker 1: his children. Let these truths set in your spirit. I
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Speaker 1: want you to be reminded of these things. Let these
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Speaker 1: set in Your gift shows you where your gift shows were.
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Speaker 1: You were designed on purpose for purpose. You're not an accident.
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Speaker 1: Your gifts are vehicles of God's love for each other
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Speaker 1: and for you to reach others. Every time you use
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Speaker 1: what God has given you, God gets honored that he's
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Speaker 1: truly deserving of Again, I want you to reflect on this.
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Speaker 1: What unique gift has God given you? And how can
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Speaker 1: you commit to using it for His glory this week?
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Speaker 1: That's something that He's given you. There's a gift that
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Speaker 1: he's given you. There's a talent that he's given you.
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Speaker 1: How can you use it to bring him glory this week?
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Speaker 1: How can you use it to bring him glory this week?
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Speaker 1: Let this deeper revelation spark a new passion to celebrate, cultivate,
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Speaker 1: and contribute your God given talent and your God given gifts.
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Speaker 1: Identify your gifts reflecting prayer James one in five. If
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Speaker 1: any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.
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Speaker 1: If you don't know what your gifts are, you don't
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Speaker 1: know what your talents are. Acts begin each morning inviting
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Speaker 1: God into your world, into your discovery. Ask the Lord
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Speaker 1: to reveal your gifts that He is placed in you. Say,
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Speaker 1: show me how I can uniquely be equipped to serve
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Speaker 1: the on today. God promised us that he would give
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Speaker 1: wisdom generously to those who seek him. You won't have
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Speaker 1: to guess. He delights in making your purpose clear. All
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Speaker 1: you got to do is asks, and he will make
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Speaker 1: it clear to you. Y'all, take five to ten minutes
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Speaker 1: to journal, quiet moments, to listen, to list what comes natural? What? What? What?
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Speaker 1: What things? What do you? What? What do others think
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Speaker 1: you for? What? What have other people thought that? What
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Speaker 1: have they thank you for? What activities that make you
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Speaker 1: lose track of time? When have you felt most energized
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Speaker 1: in helping others? Y'all? When when you sit down and
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Speaker 1: you think about it, those are your kifts, those are
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Speaker 1: those are those are the things, those talents that He's
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Speaker 1: placed within you. Just just take some time to yourself,
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Speaker 1: take some time and and and and go through those things.
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Speaker 1: Write it down, journal it, but most importantly, ask him.
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Speaker 1: Seek him. If you got friends, reach out to them,
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Speaker 1: talk to them, get you a mentor get you somebody
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Speaker 1: to pray with. And then find ways to serve every day.
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Speaker 1: Find a way to serve. Find a way to serve
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Speaker 1: one another humbly in love. Not because I'm telling you
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Speaker 1: to do it, or because or you think this is right.
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Speaker 1: If you're gonna do it gradually, don't do it. You
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Speaker 1: got to apply Galatians five and thirteen. He says, serve
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Speaker 1: one another humbly it love. Love is action, love draws
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Speaker 1: service isn't all always a grand gesture. Like some of
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Speaker 1: us we wanna we want to go out and serve
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Speaker 1: the homeless, but we got to record everything, y'all. That's
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Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's not a humble gesture. It's not
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Speaker 1: a grand gesture all the time. It's not something that
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Speaker 1: has to be publicized. Often it's something simple, y'all, spirit
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Speaker 1: led acts of kindness. Your gift can be a gentle
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Speaker 1: word to someone that may be going through on today,
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Speaker 1: someone that may be discouraged sharing a meal. You may
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Speaker 1: want to take somebody out to lunch that you lending
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Speaker 1: your creativity to your community needs, simply pausing business and
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Speaker 1: just truly listening to a friend. Sometime your friends just
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Speaker 1: need you to listen, just need you to just just
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Speaker 1: need you to be there and to listen to what
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Speaker 1: they're saying. That's all they need sometimes. Will you be
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Speaker 1: that friend? Will you be that for somebody on today?
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Speaker 1: Will you encourage somebody on today? He's intentionally ask God
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Speaker 1: each morning, who needs my gift today? Ask him? He'll
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Speaker 1: lead you where you need to go. He'll guide you.
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Speaker 1: He's left the Holy Spirit with us who needs my
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Speaker 1: gift today? Listen for him to prompt you notice who
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Speaker 1: crosses your path, a neighbor, a coworker, a family friend,
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Speaker 1: and respond with a unique touch. Whether it's encouragement, whether
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Speaker 1: it's prayer, whether it's help or just being present. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: they just need a shoulder to cry on, someone to
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Speaker 1: just listen to them. And I always remember to celebrate
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Speaker 1: the small things because every act matters. Start a habit
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Speaker 1: of serving where you are needed and where you are
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Speaker 1: don't think that you got to be up on this
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Speaker 1: big old platform to serve. You don't. With whatever you
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Speaker 1: have served, even if it's with a small amount. Over time,
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Speaker 1: consistency will pay off. Consistence will grow into a powerful ministry,
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Speaker 1: and others will see God through you. Every chance you'll get,
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Speaker 1: thank him, show gratitude, Seek opportunities where you can pour
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Speaker 1: into others. Provers three and six say that all your
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Speaker 1: ways acknowledge him. Y'all just let him know that we
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Speaker 1: need him. That's how he want to know recognize him
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Speaker 1: because you got to understand that we are powerless, but
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Speaker 1: with him we have all power. Know that. Begin each
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Speaker 1: day by expressing your gratitude for the gifts that He's
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Speaker 1: placed inside of you the talents that He's given. God,
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Speaker 1: I has entrusted you with so much. Some one, some, two,
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Speaker 1: some three some for some have plenty of gifts, but
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Speaker 1: He has entrusted you with that. So no matter how
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Speaker 1: big or simple, they may sing gratitude, unlocked awareness, and
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Speaker 1: it attracts God's guidance for us to use those gifts
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Speaker 1: that He's given us. Pray that God help say. Just
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Speaker 1: pray this prayer. God, help me to see the needs
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Speaker 1: around me. Lead me to opportunities to use my gift
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Speaker 1: for your glory. Stay sensitive through the day and the
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Speaker 1: needs and the moments to serve It will come and
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Speaker 1: when it comes, O Beedi. As you go about your
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Speaker 1: day at home, work, school, eerrands, keep your spiritual antennas up.
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Speaker 1: Pay attention to moments when someone seems trouble or when
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Speaker 1: a situation rises in a solution is needed that prompts
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Speaker 1: you in the spirit. It is often the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: inviting you to step out and to serve y'all throughout
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Speaker 1: the day. I want you to look. I want you
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Speaker 1: to look for opportunities that you may be a blessing
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Speaker 1: to someone. Look for opportunities to speak words of encouragement, y'all.
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Speaker 1: It does not take a lot. It's the little things.
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Speaker 1: And then tonight when you get ready to lay down,
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Speaker 1: as you go out throughout the day, be alert, be
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Speaker 1: present so that you can jot down these things. And
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Speaker 1: then tonight I want you to look back over your day.
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Speaker 1: Where did you have a chance to you your gift?
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Speaker 1: How did you feel? How did it feel to serve?
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Speaker 1: What doors open when you thank God and watch for opportunities? Y'all?
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Speaker 1: Let this be intentionally daily practice, turning ordinary moments into
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Speaker 1: extraordinary steps to faith and blessings that God has for you. Remember,
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Speaker 1: your gifts are God's invitations for you to change the
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Speaker 1: world around you, one faithful act at a time. Don't
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Speaker 1: be silent, don't be stilled, don't sit on the gifts
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Speaker 1: that He's given you. Again, our affirmation for the day
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Speaker 1: is to use your gift for God's glory. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: leave you with this empowered word, and then I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: share a recap from everything that I've over on today.
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Speaker 1: So I want you to be empowered on today. And
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Speaker 1: this is our word of today, stewardship. Stewardship. It is
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Speaker 1: about having a gift it is about managing it faithfully.
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Speaker 1: When you are steward of what God has given you,
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Speaker 1: you multiply its impact and spread God's grace farther than
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Speaker 1: you know. Again, stewardship, it is not just about having
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Speaker 1: a gift, It's about managing it faithfully. And when you
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Speaker 1: when you steward what God had, it's impact and you
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Speaker 1: spread God's grace further than you know. And as I
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Speaker 1: reach what we have went over today, we know that
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Speaker 1: we have explored the power of truth that every one
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Speaker 1: of us is uniquely and perfectly gift. There four in
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Speaker 1: ten it reminds us that we are called to be
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Speaker 1: faithful stewards of these not for our own benefit, but
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Speaker 1: for the servant of others and to bring God glory. Again,
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Speaker 1: with the affirmation that I just shared, we learned the
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Speaker 1: importance of recognizing that your gifts are unique and purposeful
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Speaker 1: gifts were meant to serve others using our gifts honest God,
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Speaker 1: we challenged ourselves to dive deeper by letting go of comparison,
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Speaker 1: understanding that the world needs unique differences only you can
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Speaker 1: make when you discovered and how do we do that?
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Speaker 1: Through prayer, reflection and input and trust in our friends,
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Speaker 1: every one another. The simple gift being intentional, providing intentional
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Speaker 1: gifts of kindness, and thanking God and seeking opportunities every morning.
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Speaker 1: That's how we can operate in that that He's called
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Speaker 1: us to apply it to your life. I leave you
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Speaker 1: with this, you were made to shine. Remember your gifts
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Speaker 1: were not meant to be hitting a hoardered trying to
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Speaker 1: be shared. So step out today. The world is waiting
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Speaker 1: for your blessing that only you can bring, use it,
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Speaker 1: give it, and watch God multiply it in ways that
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Speaker 1: you could never imagine. Don't miss tomorrow as we continue
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Speaker 1: our journey Day eighteen, Love and Action. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be coming from First John three and eighteen, and it
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Speaker 1: says if you have not yet, if you have not
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Speaker 1: yet grabbed your copy of this devotion, I want you
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Speaker 1: and let's continue to grow together. Let's continue to do
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Speaker 1: this journey together. I will be back here on tomorrow. Y'all.
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Speaker 1: Blessings and remember your life. Your gift, your willingness to serve,
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Speaker 1: can change the world. You were not You were meant
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Speaker 1: and made to shine. Remember your gift were not meant
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Speaker 1: to be hiding a hoarder. They're designed to be shared to.
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Speaker 1: So step out today. The world is waiting for you
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Speaker 1: the blessings that only bring so use it, give it,
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Speaker 1: watch God multiply it in ways that you can only
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Speaker 1: imagine tomorrow. I love y'all and thank you for joining.
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Speaker 1: If there's anything that I've shared with you on today,
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Speaker 1: y'all that have blessed y'all, pay it forward, share it
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Speaker 1: with someone else. I love y'all, and y'all have a
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Speaker 1: great rest of your day. See y'all back here on tomorrow.