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In the Day of Prosperity · Faith-Feed

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  Speaker 1: For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as
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  Speaker 1: unto them. But the word preached did not profit them,
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  Speaker 1: because their faith did not feed on the word. The
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  Speaker 1: word of God is the life support of our faith.
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  Speaker 1: We live by the word of God. Blessed be God
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  Speaker 1: and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ecclesiastes chapter 7
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  Speaker 1: verse 14 In the day of prosperity, in the day
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  Speaker 1: of prosperity, be joyful. But in the day of adversity,
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  Speaker 1: consider God also has set the one over against the
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  Speaker 1: other to the end that man should find nothing after him.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Faith Feed episode 204. In the day of prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: in the day of prosperity. Prosperity is what every man
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  Speaker 1: on earth longs for, seeks after. But being prosperous has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with the assurance of your joy in
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  Speaker 1: the day of adversity. Scripture says, I wish above all
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  Speaker 1: things that you prosper even as.
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  Speaker 2: Your soul prospers.
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  Speaker 1: 3 John 1 verse 2 was trying to tell us
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  Speaker 1: that your physical prosperity is in similitude with.
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  Speaker 2: Your soul or spiritual prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: Because the day of adversity targets the soul of a man,
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  Speaker 1: targets the soul of an individual. 2 Samuel 4 verse
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  Speaker 1: 9 says, And David answered Rechab and Banner, his brother,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Ramon the Beorotite, and said unto them.
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  Speaker 2: As the Lord liveth, as the Lord liveth, as the
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  Speaker 2: Lord liveth.
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  Speaker 1: Who redeemed, who had redeemed my soul, my soul out
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  Speaker 1: of all, not few, not some, not even many.
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  Speaker 2: All adversity, all adversities.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, one of the signs that your soul is under attack,
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  Speaker 1: your soul is not prosperous, is that you lose your joy.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing is that you lose your peace. For
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, the kingdom of God is not meat
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  Speaker 1: or drink, but righteousness, peace, and what?
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  Speaker 2: Joy. and the Holy Ghost. So you lose those two essence.
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  Speaker 1: You may still have that understanding of the righteousness, but
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  Speaker 1: the other part of the peace and joy is gone.
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  Speaker 1: That is why you must learn to embrace the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit, which is love, joy, peace, you know, long-suffering, meekness.
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  Speaker 1: There are several fruits that helps a man overcome in
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  Speaker 1: the day of adversity. Even though the part of the
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  Speaker 1: just is as a shining light that shines brighter and brighter.
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  Speaker 1: That means you are meant to go from glory to glory.
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  Speaker 1: The later must be greater than the former and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Along the way, along the journey, every phase of life,
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  Speaker 1: every stage of life, there are levels of adversity that
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  Speaker 1: will come to test whether your soul is in order.
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  Speaker 1: Your soul is still prosperous even while you are prospering.
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  Speaker 1: Keeping your joy is important too. Keeping your joy is important.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Jesus urges us that we should seek first
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom, his kingdom. Because the only way by which
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  Speaker 1: you can effectively what? The kingdom of God is not
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  Speaker 1: meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy. The only
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  Speaker 1: way you can effectively... embrace that consciousness of peace and
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  Speaker 1: joy in the Holy Ghost is to be established, what?
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  Speaker 1: In the reality of God's kingdom's righteousness. Now, we are
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  Speaker 1: not saying that you should not work hard. You should
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  Speaker 1: not be in the marketplace.
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  Speaker 2: You should not, what? Pursue financial prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: No. We are saying that in the quest of every
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  Speaker 1: prosperity that you are looking for, let God be the driver.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, Meditate, the book of the Lord shall
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  Speaker 1: not depart out of thy mouth. Joshua 1.8 Thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: meditate upon it day and night, for therein thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: make thy way prosperous. So in the day of prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: it is the kingdom of God that is your anchor,
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  Speaker 1: not your riches or what.
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  Speaker 2: You have accomplished or what you have built.
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  Speaker 1: This means your joy in the day of prosperity is
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  Speaker 1: not coming from, you know, material things. The physical is
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  Speaker 1: coming from that understanding, which is the fact that your
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  Speaker 1: soul is prosperous. The scripture says, be joyful in the
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  Speaker 1: day of prosperity. And then in the day of adversity,
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  Speaker 1: consider it. Now it says, why? Because God has set one.
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  Speaker 1: Let's interpret it this way.
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  Speaker 2: Follow me.
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  Speaker 1: It says, God has set one over the other. That
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  Speaker 1: means we can say it this way. God has set
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  Speaker 1: prosperity over adversity. And God has set adversity over prosperity.
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  Speaker 2: Let me explain.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot face prosperity without adversity. And you cannot face
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  Speaker 1: adversity without what?
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  Speaker 2: Prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: That means you must be, nobody goes to look for the,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to fight the enemies.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't know that, you will not win. You
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  Speaker 2: will not take over the kingdom. You get.
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  Speaker 1: And the same way too, adversity cannot prevail over your territory. See,
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  Speaker 1: calamity may come. Affliction may come. Distress will come. Bad
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  Speaker 1: news will come. Evil will come. But ensure that your
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  Speaker 1: soul is secured in such a way that those things
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  Speaker 1: does not change the trajectory of your soul's prosperity. Because
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  Speaker 1: God is interested in that. When the Bible says, seek
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  Speaker 1: first the kingdom of God, it's talking to your soul.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Jesus said, in your patience, possess ye your soul.
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  Speaker 1: Because your soul is one of the vital commodities that
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  Speaker 1: is used to do business on earth. That means when
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  Speaker 1: the devil is coming to a man, he's looking for
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  Speaker 1: the soul of a man. He's looking to tie down
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  Speaker 1: a man through what? the afflictions that come to you
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  Speaker 1: so through what the depression the frustration the disappointment but
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  Speaker 1: you don't give the devil chance so in the day
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  Speaker 1: of your you have to what be fortified and even
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  Speaker 1: when you are trying to break through you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: conquer a territory trying to conquer a kingdom you're fighting
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  Speaker 1: the enemy with the mind that you'll be what prosperous
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  Speaker 1: So the aim of conquering adversity is for prosperity. And
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  Speaker 1: the aim of prosperity is also set over God has
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  Speaker 1: set this back. That's why it says in the next verse.
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  Speaker 1: Let's read it in Exodus 37. After it talks about
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  Speaker 1: in the day of prosperity, consider and all that. It
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  Speaker 1: says in verse 15. his life in his wickedness he
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  Speaker 1: says but be not righteous over much be not righteous
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  Speaker 1: over much neither make thyself over wise why should thou
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  Speaker 1: destroy thyself so you see the balance to this verse
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  Speaker 1: 17 says be not overly wicked neither be thou foolish
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  Speaker 1: why should thou die before thy time? That means many
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  Speaker 1: people die before that time because they do not understand
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  Speaker 1: this law of balance. While you are chasing the wealth,
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  Speaker 1: while you are chasing physical prosperity, you must also be
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  Speaker 1: intentional about chasing your soul.
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  Speaker 2: Your spiritual prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: The last verse said, Lord, this I have seen, I
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  Speaker 1: have found, that God had made man upright.
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  Speaker 2: God had made man righteous.
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  Speaker 1: But man, they have sought out many inventions.
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  Speaker 2: See, inventions are not bad.
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  Speaker 1: But most times, they become a distraction to the will,
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  Speaker 1: the alignment of God's purpose for man. And at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, you will see people more depression.
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  Speaker 1: You will see more frustration. You will see more negative calamity. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because the focus is now more on invention. It is
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  Speaker 1: God that has all the inventions. It is God that
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  Speaker 1: created man. And God has a time for everything. God
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  Speaker 1: has given man the wisdom for multiplication, for discovery. But
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  Speaker 1: the problem is where man begins to chase, pay more attention,
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  Speaker 1: not balanced. And his soul does not prosper. He does
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  Speaker 1: not possess his soul. With what?
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  Speaker 2: Patience. God is not against discovery. He's not against inventions.
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  Speaker 1: He's not against the possibility of we expanding our capacity.
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  Speaker 1: He's against the fact that we pay so much attention,
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  Speaker 1: so much consideration... to the matters of external over the
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  Speaker 1: matters of internal. Because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: the problem of man is internal. The problem of man
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  Speaker 1: is inside man. If a man cannot find comfort within himself,
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  Speaker 1: it is not inventions that will bring comfort to him.
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  Speaker 1: So God solves the problem, brought the balance to us
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  Speaker 1: so that we can be able to be secured in
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  Speaker 1: our work and covenant with him through Jesus. So Solomon
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  Speaker 1: is not trying to say be overly righteous or be wicked. No,
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to let us know that there is God's
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  Speaker 1: angle to every perspective that is upon the face.
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  Speaker 2: Of the earth. Even the evil man's perspective.
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  Speaker 1: And that God's angle is the balance we are talking
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  Speaker 1: about that his people will advance in the day of
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  Speaker 1: prosperity or in the day of adversity.
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  Speaker 2: Psalm 94 verse 12.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and
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  Speaker 1: teachest him out of thy law, that thou mayest give
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  Speaker 1: him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit
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  Speaker 1: is dug or digged for the wicked, people that are
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  Speaker 1: against God. So that rest that you need in the
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  Speaker 1: day of adversity can only come from what? The prosperity
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  Speaker 1: of your soul. It can only come from the salvation
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  Speaker 1: of your soul.
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  Speaker 2: Now see a balance.
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah 30, reading from verse 19. For the people shall
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  Speaker 1: dwell in Zion and Jerusalem, thou shalt weep no more.
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  Speaker 1: He will be very gracious unto thee and hear the
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  Speaker 1: voice of thy cry. When thou hear it, he will
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  Speaker 1: answer thee.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 20. And though the Lord give you, you can say, permit.
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  Speaker 2: God permit.
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't use the understanding from our perspectives as believers. See,
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  Speaker 1: God give you the bread of adversity. So there is
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  Speaker 1: a bread of adversity. and the water of yet shall
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  Speaker 1: not thy teachers be removed into the corner but thou
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  Speaker 1: but thy eyes shall see thy teachers and thy ears
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  Speaker 1: shall hear the word behind you saying this is the
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  Speaker 1: way walk ye in it when ye turn to the
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  Speaker 1: right hand So in the day of adversity, God will
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  Speaker 1: bring people your way to instruct you for your soul
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  Speaker 1: to be secured and your joy to be intact.
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  Speaker 2: I remain the faith champion of Christ. Remember, be God-fearing.
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  Speaker 2: Be God-fearing.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord commands the angels of your waters to be stirred.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed be God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Faith Feed.
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