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Declaring Dependence [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Morning Family, the good morning, God bless you. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the Morning DeVos. Your bro Sam Lopez aka Dj
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Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Today we're talking about declaring dependence, right,
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Speaker 1: we declare dependence. We don't well at least I don't
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Speaker 1: try to front like I could do this all by
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Speaker 1: myself and I don't need any help in life. That's
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Speaker 1: not me. I know some people try to live that
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Speaker 1: way or try to act that way, right, But we're
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Speaker 1: declaring dependence over here on the Morning Evo. That's so,
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Speaker 1: when is ink right? We know we depend on God
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Speaker 1: every day. I depend on the Lord. Every day I
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Speaker 1: depend on Holy Spirit God. Every day. I depend on
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Speaker 1: the scriptures. Every day. I depend on the promises of
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Speaker 1: God over my life and my life through my life
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Speaker 1: a man, because I know that the power that God
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Speaker 1: has right, the authority that He possesses, the actions that
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Speaker 1: I take accordingly when I'm in the flow of Holy Spirit,
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Speaker 1: God is the only thing that really matters in my life.
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Speaker 1: What about you, Amen, So declaring dependence, what does that mean?
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Speaker 1: Moving from striving, trying hard, striving to resting in God's power.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about resting like putting your head
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Speaker 1: on your pillow and sleeping all day. I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: resting in the fact that you know that God has
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Speaker 1: our best interests at heart. God has the best purpose
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Speaker 1: and plan for our lives. God, Holy Spirit Yahweh Jesus
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Speaker 1: y shiahamashiek, Holy Spirit Eloheen has the best plan for
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Speaker 1: my life and for your life. So, no longer striving
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Speaker 1: and running after the trends, right, no longer trying to
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Speaker 1: be the voice of controversy. Well, We're going to be
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Speaker 1: the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ. How far exciting
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Speaker 1: is that for us to stand up for righteousness than
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Speaker 1: it is to be a clattering symbol or loud noise. Right.
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Speaker 1: We need to be poised and positions to progress and
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Speaker 1: posess the territory that we're in, Amen. And we're going
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Speaker 1: to do that through yelling and screaming at each other.
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Speaker 1: We do that through being self controlled, by being obedient
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Speaker 1: to God's word, love, grace, and mercy, right, and also
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Speaker 1: standing up for righteousness, then standing up for who we
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Speaker 1: believe in, being kingdom minded, being set and stubborn on
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Speaker 1: trusting in God. So we're declaring not war. We're declaring
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Speaker 1: dependence on God. Isaiah chapter forty, verse number twenty eight
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Speaker 1: will start there. Amen. That'll be the verse for today,
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Speaker 1: so we could get into this devotion time. Amen, declaring dependence.
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Speaker 1: If you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, or
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Speaker 1: anything along those lines, please don't hesitate to leave it
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Speaker 1: on the live chat. That's what we're here for. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And I know there's been it's been a rough week
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Speaker 1: for the country, rough week for the nation, rough week
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Speaker 1: for the world. And we need to stand together united
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Speaker 1: in Christ as one body, one faith, one church, one Lord,
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Speaker 1: one Savior. Amen, so we could show this world who
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Speaker 1: desperately needs an example of unity. This world that desperately
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Speaker 1: needs an example of holiness, this world that desperately needs
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Speaker 1: an example of love a man. We could do that.
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Speaker 1: We as believers, brothers and sisters in the Lord. The
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Speaker 1: Kingdom of God is at hand. We bring the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: to earth. We bring heaven to earth. We bring glory
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Speaker 1: to earth. Amen, of we're glory carriers. Amen. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of people around us that are lifeless. They exist,
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Speaker 1: but they don't have true life. They exist, but they're
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Speaker 1: truly not living the life that God wants them to live.
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Speaker 1: So let's help steer them, direct them right point to
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom. Let's introduce people today too, the glorious Word
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Speaker 1: of God to the Son of God Isaiah forty twenty eight.
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Speaker 1: We're going to move from striving to resting in God's power,
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Speaker 1: declaring dependence. So let's pray. First. After we pray, we
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Speaker 1: shut it out for like sixty seconds, and then on
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Speaker 1: the other side of those sixty seconds, we'll get right
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Speaker 1: into today's morning. Devo you ready, Father, in the name
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Speaker 1: of Jesus, I thank you for this time. I thank
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Speaker 1: you Lord God for establishing your kingdom. I thank you
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Speaker 1: Lord God for positioning us for a blessing. I thank you,
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Speaker 1: Lord God for your purpose, your plan, your wisdom. Thank
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Speaker 1: you Lord God for allowing us to get understanding and
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Speaker 1: what we know. Lord God, that it will not be
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Speaker 1: only a head knowledge, but it will be heart knowledge,
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Speaker 1: and it will be wisdom, and it will be a
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Speaker 1: movement in the right direction. I pray Lord God a
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Speaker 1: hedge of protection for every single person that's listening and
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Speaker 1: watching right now, that no weapon forged against us shall prosper.
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Speaker 1: I pray that over myself, my wife, our children, our grandchildren,
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Speaker 1: both sides of our families, from the very youngest family
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Speaker 1: member to the very oldest, and every single person in between.
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Speaker 1: We come against any demonic influence. We come against any evil.
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Speaker 1: We come against anything that this world is trying to
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Speaker 1: entice us to do. We come against those things and
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Speaker 1: a powerful namemage is shea how much shea Jesus to Christ.
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Speaker 1: I pray that for every single person listening and watching
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Speaker 1: on the other side of the screen and on the
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Speaker 1: other side of this mic as well. Also, Lord God,
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Speaker 1: I ask Lorg God that you will continue to show
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Speaker 1: us how to bond together, how to be united, no
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Speaker 1: matter what the situation is that this nation will know
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Speaker 1: that there is a remnant of God, standing, believing, trusting,
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Speaker 1: and declaring dependence on God Lmighty and Jesus name. I
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Speaker 1: pray it's by faith. For all those who agree, we
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Speaker 1: say amen to the amen. The reason why I always
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Speaker 1: say for all those who are Greeks say amen. I
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Speaker 1: don't need the other amens. If you don't agree, you
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Speaker 1: don't have to amen. It's okay. There's a reason why
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Speaker 1: you won't won't read with this prayer. There's a reason
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Speaker 1: why you don't agree with God's word, is a reason
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Speaker 1: why you don't believe in Jesus, and I have to
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Speaker 1: respect that you have your reasons. We have our reasons. Amen.
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Speaker 1: But my whole purpose of these morning DeVos, not only
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Speaker 1: the background of this, is really I'm talking to my son.
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Speaker 1: So I'm talking to my younger self, right, and talking
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Speaker 1: to my younger son during these morning DeVos. People were like,
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Speaker 1: there's a story behind that. There is a story behind that.
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Speaker 1: But in essence, I'm trying to inspire you, right and
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Speaker 1: trying to encourage you to get into the word of
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Speaker 1: God for yourself. Right. So only here as a talking head,
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Speaker 1: I'm here as somebody who will encourage you to read
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Speaker 1: your word, get into the scriptures, take time to vote
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Speaker 1: some time, and declare dependence on God today. Amen. So
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Speaker 1: let's go for sixty seconds. When we come back, we'll
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Speaker 1: get right into today's Morning Devo. I'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Let's get into this word.
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Speaker 1: All we have is the word, which is great. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Any advancement in this world if I don't get any
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Speaker 1: financial increase. I know my brothers and sisters who read
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Speaker 1: the scriptures and say, why aren't you in this position?
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Speaker 1: God wants so much more for you. Yes he does.
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Speaker 1: He wants so much more for you as well. Amen.
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Speaker 1: We're in this together. If you feel in your heart
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Speaker 1: that this ministry needs to be at a higher level, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and you know it and God has told you, maybe
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Speaker 1: it's you that need to come and help, right. And
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Speaker 1: if I feel the same way for your ministry or
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Speaker 1: for your organization, it's me that needs to help you.
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Speaker 1: We're helping each other and we're helping advance the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of God together. Amen. Don't leave me on an abandoned
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Speaker 1: island all by myself, way behind according to your perception.
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Speaker 1: And I won't leave you all alone, because that's not
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Speaker 1: what we do. We bond, We bind our efforts together. Amen.
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Speaker 1: We're bonded through the Word of God, and we encourage
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Speaker 1: one another, We lift up one another, and we build
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Speaker 1: up each other a man. We don't break and beat
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Speaker 1: each other down. That's not our job. That's not our culture.
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Speaker 1: We're Kingdom culture over here, amen, as believers in Christ.
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Speaker 1: But the John God bless you. Good morning. It's good
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Speaker 1: to see you on the morning deep with my brother
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Speaker 1: and my friends. So let's go for it. Let me
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Speaker 1: just listening, no worries, no problems. You're not gonna see
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Speaker 1: what we're seeing, obviously, and it's the reason why you're
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Speaker 1: just listening audio. So we know that. So we're gonna
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Speaker 1: read this word for word. So whatever we're looking at
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Speaker 1: on the screen, we know that others are not looking.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna read this word for word. Morning Devo
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Speaker 1: declaring dependence. Amen, let's go for it. Isaiah, chapter forty,
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Speaker 1: verse twenty eight. The Bible says, starts off with a question,
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Speaker 1: do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God?
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Speaker 1: The Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth,
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Speaker 1: does not become tired or grow weary. There is no
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Speaker 1: searching of his understanding. So that's greatness right there. A
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't know this. A lot of people
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Speaker 1: just found out right now. A lot of people don't
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Speaker 1: care to know this. A lot of people are not
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Speaker 1: concerned or interested. But for those who have ears to listen,
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Speaker 1: do you not know? Have you not heard the Everlasting God?
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Speaker 1: How long does God last? He's everlasting, forever. He's eternal.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't have a starting point, doesn't have an ending point.
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Speaker 1: He is the everlasting God, the Lord capital L capitol OL,
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Speaker 1: capital R capital D, the creator of the ends of
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Speaker 1: the earth. You know, he doesn't get tired. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: get weary of doing good. Everything that happens in the world.
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Speaker 1: You would think, Man, it's a lot of pressure for God. Man,
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Speaker 1: how is he going to get by? Well, he doesn't
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Speaker 1: have the same energy we have. Is energy, and man,
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Speaker 1: we need his life given energy. We depend on his love,
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Speaker 1: We depend on his mercy, we depend on his grace.
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Speaker 1: We pretend depend on his power. We don't pretend, and
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Speaker 1: we do what exactly what he asks of us to do.
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Speaker 1: When we know exactly who he is in us, and
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Speaker 1: when we know exactly who we are in him, there
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Speaker 1: is no searching of his understanding. So God is beyond
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Speaker 1: finding out weird, right, God is beyond finding out. But
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Speaker 1: he made himself known right because he knows that we
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Speaker 1: lack the ability to search him out. So he makes
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Speaker 1: himself known to us. Right. There's no human hands that
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Speaker 1: could make a building or a church that could contain him.
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Speaker 1: So he visits us. He knows that no one could
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Speaker 1: put God in a box. So therefore he comes to us.
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Speaker 1: We can't inherit the Kingdom of God with the flesh
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Speaker 1: and blood, so he switched it around, and he came
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Speaker 1: to live within us. Whomsoever believes in the Lord, right,
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Speaker 1: we'll be saved. And that's saving power that God uses
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Speaker 1: in our hearts and in our minds and our lives.
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Speaker 1: It's transformative, and He dwells within us. You ever get
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Speaker 1: convicted of doing something wrong, you think that's your conscience,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of people say, that's just your conscience.
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Speaker 1: You're already You're already or a good person. Never heard
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Speaker 1: people tell you that you're already good person. Sam, you're
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Speaker 1: already good person. John, You're already good person. Join and
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Speaker 1: we start thinking about that. We're like, really, so if
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Speaker 1: I was already good, then why would I strive to
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Speaker 1: do anything good? If I if I don't need God,
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Speaker 1: then you know I'm good. We all know we all
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Speaker 1: have issues, We all know we did dealing with things.
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Speaker 1: We all know that this world is broken, and we
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Speaker 1: all kind of know in the back of our minds,
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Speaker 1: even those who don't want to admit it, that we
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Speaker 1: depend on God. So we're declaring dependence, right, dependence the
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Speaker 1: independent people, they probably won't understand this. They'll be like,
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Speaker 1: I don't need what you're saying. That's all you know,
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Speaker 1: myth mythology, that's all hearsay. But no, this is the
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Speaker 1: truth of God's word. Hey man, worry about what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Let's go into what God's Word is saying. That's the difference.
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Speaker 1: But the Frank, I see you. Good morning, God. Bless you, God,
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Speaker 1: bless you in your family always as well. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for coming through point number one. We read
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Speaker 1: the scripture right is acknowledge our human weakness. I know
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Speaker 1: a lot of strong people, both physically and spiritually. I
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Speaker 1: know a lot of them. They are spiritually strong, they
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Speaker 1: know the word. They actually walk in the path of
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Speaker 1: righteousness everywhere they go, not just at church, community, not
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Speaker 1: just when they're preaching, not just when they're evangelizing, not
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Speaker 1: just when they're praying, but every day and everywhere they go, workplace, marketplace, government, hospitals,
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Speaker 1: when they meet people. The gig workers out there, shots
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Speaker 1: to all my brothers in Christ that are gig workers,
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Speaker 1: lyft drivers, uber drivers, door dash, you know, you name it.
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Speaker 1: We're outside, we're out there meeting people who are in need,
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Speaker 1: meeting people who for some reason, they just open up
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Speaker 1: to us. That's the spirit of God. Amen. You ever
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Speaker 1: had if you're an independent driver, have you ever had
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Speaker 1: a passenger? Right, Because it's in your vehicle and for
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Speaker 1: whatever reason, they just start opening up their hearts to you.
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Speaker 1: It's because of the peace of God that's in that vehicle.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but every time I drive
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Speaker 1: and I know I'm going to meet strangers, right, and
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Speaker 1: then world that we're living in today, that's not an
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Speaker 1: easy thing. Some people refuse to do it because of fear.
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Speaker 1: And listen, Fear is not our companion. Fear is not
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Speaker 1: for us. God did not give us a spirit of fear.
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, use wisdom. Right, If you feel hold the
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Speaker 1: spirit is telling you, don't let that passenger in your car,
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Speaker 1: press canceled and keep it moving. Go second. Guess that.
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Speaker 1: But when you do meet a stranger and you sense
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Speaker 1: that they're in despair, you sense that they need something
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Speaker 1: from you, or they need encouragement, go ahead and open
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Speaker 1: your mouth. So if you notice, you know, I pray
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Speaker 1: for peace, I pray for protection, right, I pray that
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Speaker 1: no weapon or no enemy or no demonic influence will
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Speaker 1: get in my car and take over my vehicle, hurt me,
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Speaker 1: harm me a man. I pray that people were like, well,
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Speaker 1: if you welcome with God, why would you worry. That's
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Speaker 1: not worrying, And that's encouraging myself and reminding myself of
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Speaker 1: my dependence on God. So I declare dependence every day
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Speaker 1: while I pray, and they get in the car and
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Speaker 1: they sense this peace. So they start opening up their
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Speaker 1: hearts through their mouths and telling you some issues in
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Speaker 1: their life. They don't even know me. You know what
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Christian barbers, I think are very effective
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Speaker 1: Christian barbers. Barbers who are filled up with the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 1: When people sit in the chair, they notice it too.
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Speaker 1: The customer that they probably never met, maybe just meant
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Speaker 1: for the first time, or maybe that's their normal customer
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Speaker 1: open their hearts to them. Amen, And now they have
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Speaker 1: a platform. Not only are they getting that shape up
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Speaker 1: or that cut or that hair done right, they have
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to encourage someone to have an opportunity to
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Speaker 1: pray for some They have an opportunity to help someone
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Speaker 1: through life. Why because they're declaring dependence on God. Everybody
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Speaker 1: that I know that goes out to do evangelism, they say, listen,
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Speaker 1: I don't do this with on my own power. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I don't do this because I think I know it all.
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Speaker 1: I do it because I'm depending on the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: God that lives within me. And I know. We're commissioned
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Speaker 1: to go out there. We're commissioned to baptize, we're commissioned
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Speaker 1: to make disciples a man. God commissioned us to go
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Speaker 1: and preach the Gospel to the world, to every nation,
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Speaker 1: every tribe, every tongue. People say, oh, you can't force
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Speaker 1: that on us, and they're absolutely right. But sometimes I'm
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Speaker 1: thinking about that said, sharing your beliefs with someone, how
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Speaker 1: did that become forcing beliefs on someone. That's because there's
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Speaker 1: an agenda of this world system that whatever is right,
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Speaker 1: the agenda of this world system says is wrong. Whatever
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Speaker 1: it's good, the agenda of this world system says evil.
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Speaker 1: Whatever is white, the agenda of the system calls black.
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Speaker 1: Whatever is you know, it's always something. It's the world
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Speaker 1: system that's being run by the enemy of our souls.
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Speaker 1: And then we come in. We are the problem for
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Speaker 1: the world's system. But We're the solution for people who
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Speaker 1: want out of that mindset. We are the solution for
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Speaker 1: those who need truth, who need life, who need encouragement,
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Speaker 1: who need true love, who need Jesus. We are the source.
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Speaker 1: Were the bridge between the unglly and the golly, where
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Speaker 1: the bridge between dark and light, Where the bridge between
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Speaker 1: life and death. And we come with life, and that's
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Speaker 1: where we are. We're commissioned to do that. We're not
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Speaker 1: forcing that. We are commissioned. They meant to do that.
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Speaker 1: That's why you'll start feeling more and more authority, more loving,
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Speaker 1: more encouraging to somebody else when you allow God's spirit
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Speaker 1: to move through you and then you and have his way.
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Speaker 1: Hey man, brother wan, I see you. Good morning, God,
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Speaker 1: bless God, bless everyone that's tuned in. He says, thank
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Speaker 1: you for the blessing my bro and my friend. So
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Speaker 1: first I'm going to acknowledge my human weakness. What about you.
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Speaker 1: I know there's areas of my life that I've been
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Speaker 1: dealing with since I've been born. Right when I got
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Speaker 1: to be thirty years old, I gave my life to
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Speaker 1: the Lord. He transformed me, renewed me, restored me, redeemed me,
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Speaker 1: saved me, and he's still working on me. The applied
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Speaker 1: work of God is still being done. The finished work
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Speaker 1: of God is already done. Amen. So I'm benefiting and
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Speaker 1: you're benefiting off of the finished work of God. But
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Speaker 1: we know we have work to do in our hearts
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Speaker 1: and our minds. Amen. And God is doing that work
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Speaker 1: through his word. Right. We can't hide that. So confess
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Speaker 1: that in your own strength, right, in your own way
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Speaker 1: of thinking, you know it's limited. You can confess that.
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Speaker 1: You can confess that you get tired sometimes, that you
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Speaker 1: get discoveraged. Sometimes, you can confess that. You can confess
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Speaker 1: that you fall short sometimes. But when we see God,
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Speaker 1: we can never say that he gets worried. We can
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Speaker 1: never say that he loses strength or his strength is limited.
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Speaker 1: We can never say that he falls short. He's perfect.
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Speaker 1: So you go to the word and say and find
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Speaker 1: out and realize that God never faints, he never fails, Amen.
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Speaker 1: He never grows weary, and his strength has no end.
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Speaker 1: And that's why we come to Isaiah chapter forty, verse
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Speaker 1: twenty eight. Think about it, declaring dependence on God's strength
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Speaker 1: is powerful, letting people know listen, don't come to me
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Speaker 1: for golly wisdom, come to me for Golly wisdom, if
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Speaker 1: I go into the Word of God. The true way
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Speaker 1: you could test or tell is somebody's real about what
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Speaker 1: they say or who they say they are on Christ
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Speaker 1: is if they open up the scriptures and declare the
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Speaker 1: Word over your life. They're just spewing out opinions. They're
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Speaker 1: just screwing out screw spewing out facts of life and
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Speaker 1: experience that could help too. But ultimately, you want to
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Speaker 1: know what God said. You know, you want to know
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Speaker 1: what God is doing. You want to know God's purpose
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Speaker 1: for your life. Right Number one, acknowledge human weakness. Number two,
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Speaker 1: call on God's strength. How many people need God's strength
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Speaker 1: right now? Right we all should be raising our hands.
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Speaker 1: Even atheists and secret they don't want to see. They
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Speaker 1: don't want to let the other atheist friends see them,
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Speaker 1: so they're looking around right now. They did to reason
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Speaker 1: their hand to I need God's strength, need God's strength,
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Speaker 1: leaning on our own strength and our own will power.
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Speaker 1: If you have experience in life in those areas that
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Speaker 1: doesn't work, you know it. You know the truth about that.
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Speaker 1: So you could say, Lord, I don't lean on my
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Speaker 1: own power. I lean on your power. Today, God's word says,
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Speaker 1: not by might nor by power, but by my spirit,
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Speaker 1: says the Lord Almighty Zachariah four, verse number six. Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit can fill you and me with supernatural strength that
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Speaker 1: when trials come, that when the enemy comes, and when
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Speaker 1: circumstances that are not going our way comes, those things
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Speaker 1: cannot those things cannot overcome us. Amen. Those things are
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Speaker 1: those things are always present. But we are more powerful
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Speaker 1: than those things. We're overcome us in Christ and through Christ, Jesus,
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Speaker 1: who gives us the strength. So when we say listen,
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Speaker 1: call on God's strength. Amen, you get to go to
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Speaker 1: God's work for that encouragement, for that strength. Good morning
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Speaker 1: by the Man, Well, I see you, good morning. We
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Speaker 1: will know them by their food. Yes, all the time. Amen.
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Speaker 1: If this right here is bearing bad fruit, that's because
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Speaker 1: I'm pulling from the wrong tree, a bad tree, right.
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Speaker 1: But the tree of life, the life of God. Amen,
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Speaker 1: that's flowing throughout this ministry, that's flowing in me, that's
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Speaker 1: flowing in you. As a believer of brothers, sister, and
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Speaker 1: the Lord, you know we're gonna bear good fruit. Yes.
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Speaker 1: I want to reach millions upon millions of people, but
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Speaker 1: God knows the number that I'm here to reach Amen.
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Speaker 1: And although there's ways to reach millions and millions of people,
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Speaker 1: but I think that'll be my effort. I want God
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Speaker 1: to reach people and draw people to himself. Amen. Since
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Speaker 1: the joint says, I thank God for another day He
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Speaker 1: gives me and my family. Every day. He gives to
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Speaker 1: me the strength to wake up and to continue on
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Speaker 1: with my life. Yes, he does. I take care of
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Speaker 1: my sister, I take care of my husband, I take
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Speaker 1: care of my son, and I take care of the
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Speaker 1: little girl that I have. And I thank the Lord.
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Speaker 1: Thank the Lord for the every day that he's with me,
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Speaker 1: and guide me in the name of Jesus. Amen. Yes,
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Speaker 1: being thankful is declaring your dependence on God. And when
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Speaker 1: you're thankful and you walk in that thankfulness, the enemy
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Speaker 1: does not know what to do. The enemy is like,
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Speaker 1: how is this woman of God so thankful when she
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Speaker 1: went through all that? And I'm trying The enemy is
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Speaker 1: trying hard to distract us that me is trying hard
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Speaker 1: to divide us. The enemy is trying hard. He's the
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Speaker 1: one that's striving. He's the one who has no rest.
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Speaker 1: He's the one who has no peace. He's the one
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Speaker 1: who has no truth. He's the one who is failing.
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Speaker 1: He's the one who is falling. He's the one who
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Speaker 1: is defeated, not us. Amen, we're together. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: your comment and your prayer, Sister Joanne. A man, the
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Speaker 1: helper is who Holy Spirit. Amen. He's a helpful, the comforted,
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Speaker 1: wonderful counselor, and he leads us. He's a teacher, a man,
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Speaker 1: he leads us to all all truth. This is exciting, man,
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Speaker 1: at least to me, that we can do this, and
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Speaker 1: that we could know that we have God working through us,
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Speaker 1: and his strength never fails. His word is always powerful,
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Speaker 1: his word is always relevant, and his word is always
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Speaker 1: on time. So I'm out of time here though. Isaiah
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Speaker 1: chapter forty, verse twenty eight is where we started. Read
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Speaker 1: the whole chapter for yourself in Isaiah chapter forty, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and continue to work your life out, live your life
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Speaker 1: out loud, work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
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Speaker 1: But in the same time, Amen, go ahead and encourage
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Speaker 1: somebody else to do likewise, to get into the word
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Speaker 1: for themselves. Pray for somebody, Hug somebody, encourage somebody. Speak
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Speaker 1: life over yourself, and speak life over everybody that you
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Speaker 1: come across today and see what happens to your spirit,
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Speaker 1: See what happens to your soul, see what happens to
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Speaker 1: your mindset, and you will know that declaring dependence is power.
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Speaker 1: And then God bless you all, God keep you all,
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Speaker 1: and remember always that God is good. Peace,