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Anchored, Not Anxious When Plans Panic, Faith Rests—Isaiah’s Call to Quiet Confidence · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go ahead and jump in. And the
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  Speaker 1: title for the listen today is courage and silence. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be coming out of Isaiah thirty and fifteen. We
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  Speaker 1: gonna be coming out of Isaiah thirty and fifteen. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, good morning. We're gonna be coming out of
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah thirty and fifteen. That scripture reads as follow. It's
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  Speaker 1: as God Confortsjudor for taking counsel. I'm sorry. Thirty and fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Is say, in repentance and rest in your salvation, in quietness,
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  Speaker 1: and trust in your strength. Isaiah thirty and fifteen. It says,
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  Speaker 1: in repentance and rest in your salvation, and quietness and
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  Speaker 1: trust in your strength. So today, when pressures arise in
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  Speaker 1: your instincts, often spread towards the quick fix, new alliance,
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  Speaker 1: more noise, fast answers. Isaiah thirty and fifteen. God confronts
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  Speaker 1: Judahs taking counsel, but not for me and running to Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: but to help instead arrest in him the lesson is timeless.
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  Speaker 1: Realcourage is not frantic. It is formed in quiet trust.
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  Speaker 1: God's way is not the loudest, but it's the surest.
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  Speaker 1: The word of the day is confidence. The definition of
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  Speaker 1: quiet confidence is a subtle strength that rests in God's
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  Speaker 1: counsel and in God's time. Instead of a hurried human solution,
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  Speaker 1: it is a calm, resolved burst from trust. The biblical
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  Speaker 1: roots of this scripture and Isaiah thirty and fifteen is said,
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  Speaker 1: in the quietness hashqut is the confidence that shall be
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  Speaker 1: your strength. Hash Court points to colme, a unagitiated stillness
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  Speaker 1: which springs from trust and securely. And Psalm sixty two
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  Speaker 1: five and eight it says, my soul wastes though only
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  Speaker 1: upon God. He is my rock and my salvation. Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixty three and four is said, perfect peace, to
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  Speaker 1: perfect peace, to the mind stayed in God, trust ye
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord forever. And if we go down to
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  Speaker 1: one of our favorite scriptures, y'all that we have been
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  Speaker 1: on every time I open up the word, this one
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  Speaker 1: comes up. Proverbs three and five through five and six.
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs three, five and six. We should know this off
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  Speaker 1: by heart, trusting the Lord with all our heart, lean
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  Speaker 1: not on our own understanding, but know that He will
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  Speaker 1: direct our pastern y'all knowing that if we put our
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  Speaker 1: trust in Him. Putting our trust in him, what is
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  Speaker 1: quiet confidence? It is a posture. It is not hurd inside,
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  Speaker 1: even when circumstances press us. It is a process that
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  Speaker 1: we gotta pray, we gotta listen, we gotta obey at
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  Speaker 1: God's pace. We can't be about our own pace, but
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  Speaker 1: we got to be about God's pace. It is a
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  Speaker 1: power source, the strength that flows from trust and understanding
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  Speaker 1: that all things are possible through Him, and it does
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  Speaker 1: not come from striving. We gotta understand that. Now what
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  Speaker 1: quiet confidence is not. It's not a path. It's not pasitive.
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  Speaker 1: It does not avoid action. It is anchored in the
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  Speaker 1: action of God's word and timing. We can go over
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  Speaker 1: to James two and seventeen. It's not procrastination. It is
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  Speaker 1: waiting on God's purposeful not evasion, and that you can
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  Speaker 1: go over in reference Limitations three, twenty five and twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: It is not about arrogance. It is confidence in the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: not selfishness. You can go down to Jeremiah nine, twenty
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  Speaker 1: three and twenty four. How is quiet thence portrayed. Go
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  Speaker 1: over to Hezekiah spreading the threatening letter before the Lord
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  Speaker 1: in prayer God delivered in Second Kings nineteen verses fourteen
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  Speaker 1: through nineteen. In verse number thirty five. We can go
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  Speaker 1: over to joehassafat stand still and seeing the Lord's salvation
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  Speaker 1: worship leads the battle that Second Chronicles twenty verse twelve.
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  Speaker 1: And then you can go down to verse seventeen and
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. It reflects on that as well. And then
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  Speaker 1: we got to understand Jesus comes the storm after sleeping
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  Speaker 1: in the boat. The peace preceded the power mark four
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight and thirty nine. And then not only that,
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  Speaker 1: it showed in when Mary sit at Jesus' feet choosing
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  Speaker 1: the good part over anxious activity. Go down to Luke
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  Speaker 1: ten thirty nine through forty two. Five things that you
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  Speaker 1: can do to practice and grow your quiet confidence. First
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  Speaker 1: thing is you got to surrender, pray and submit to
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  Speaker 1: God's timeline, his outcome, his reputation to us. The scripture
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  Speaker 1: we get scriptures to reference is one Peter five six
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  Speaker 1: and seven and Philippians for six and seven. Slow your
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  Speaker 1: body to hear from God breathe, pray in hell, be
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  Speaker 1: still exhal knows that I am God. He tells us
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  Speaker 1: that He reminds us that He commands us in Psalms
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  Speaker 1: forty six and ten, this calm and resent us your focus.
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  Speaker 1: Then you got to be anchored in a pacific promise.
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  Speaker 1: Keep one verse in view for the decision season. Example,
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  Speaker 1: you can use Psalms thirty two and eight, Isaiah forty
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  Speaker 1: one and ten, or Psalms sixty two, five and eight.
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  Speaker 1: And then you got to seek to aligne counsel, invite
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  Speaker 1: godly wise voices to speak. Proverbs eleven and fourteen James
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  Speaker 1: three and seventeen confirm do not replace what God is saying,
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  Speaker 1: but confirmed, do not replace what God is saying. Next thing, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: is that we have to obey in small steps. We
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  Speaker 1: have to obey the word quiet. Confidence moves us in
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  Speaker 1: the clear light, not in panic. It moves us into
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  Speaker 1: a clear light. Let's do a heart check. How do
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  Speaker 1: you know if your heart is in the right place.
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  Speaker 1: These are some heart check questions that you can ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: Because guess what God searches the heart. He attended to
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  Speaker 1: matters of our heart. So here's some heart check questions
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  Speaker 1: that you can ask yourself. Am I Russian because I
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  Speaker 1: fear or responding because of faith? Proverbs twenty nine and
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. It's biblical. It Scripture tells us that go
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  Speaker 1: read that scripture find out for yourself. Second thing, Have
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  Speaker 1: I prayed more than I have pld people? Have I
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  Speaker 1: prayed more than I have ridic cool people? Have I
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  Speaker 1: prayed more than I have criticized people? Go over to
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  Speaker 1: James won and Vine. If the resource I'm leaning on vanish,
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  Speaker 1: would my peace vanish too? Again? If the resource I'm
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  Speaker 1: leaning on vanish, with the peace vanished too? Are you
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  Speaker 1: truly leaning on God? Are you truly trusting God? Or
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  Speaker 1: are you leaning on your own understanding? And you leaning
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  Speaker 1: on your own things and the things of the world
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  Speaker 1: and physical things? Because if those things disappeared, will your
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  Speaker 1: peace vanished too? If you're trusting in Him, it put
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  Speaker 1: out your trust in Him, You'll have perfect peace. I
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  Speaker 1: want to share this with you on today. I want
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  Speaker 1: this to be your declaration for today. I refuse frantic counsel.
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  Speaker 1: I receive God's wisdom and peace. My soul rest in
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  Speaker 1: God alone. He is my rock and my salvation and
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  Speaker 1: the quietness and trust is my strength. I move at
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  Speaker 1: God's pace, not my own. We got to understand that,
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  Speaker 1: speak that over your life today, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: challenge you for the upcoming week. Just establish a daily
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  Speaker 1: five minute quiet confidence window where you can sit down,
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  Speaker 1: read scripture in silence, and pick up one thing that
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  Speaker 1: you can be obedient with. Be obedient. In the next
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  Speaker 1: step track how peace and clarity grow. You gotta take time,
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  Speaker 1: spend it with him so that when you go out
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  Speaker 1: in this world you have something. You have something to
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  Speaker 1: share to see when we put the word in us,
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  Speaker 1: when we have something in us, y'all, when things come
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  Speaker 1: at us, we can learn how to speak that word
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  Speaker 1: and give that word back. Y'all. We can't be out
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  Speaker 1: here empty with nothing to speak, because He's given us
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  Speaker 1: that power. He's given us the power to speak life
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  Speaker 1: or death. If we spend time with him and ask
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  Speaker 1: him these things, ask him to allow the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: to lead God and direct us today, so that when
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  Speaker 1: we things come up, when we're faced with things, because
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  Speaker 1: the Word tells us that we have to be in
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  Speaker 1: this world, but not of this world, so that we
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  Speaker 1: know that we know that things are gonna come. If
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  Speaker 1: you just flip through your Bible. You see all of
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  Speaker 1: the incident, You see all of the experiences, you see
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  Speaker 1: all of the things that has happened. You see all
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  Speaker 1: of this. So we know that things are going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: We also have to understand that He's given us that
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  Speaker 1: word that the Bible is our basic instructions before leaving
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  Speaker 1: this earth. So if we are gone by that God,
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  Speaker 1: no we may not see the miracles are walking on
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  Speaker 1: the water and all of the miracles that we see.
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  Speaker 1: But that does not mean that God is not still
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  Speaker 1: performing miracles, because he is. And I'll tell y'all over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over. We see it every day. We
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  Speaker 1: see it in the healing of individuals that may be
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  Speaker 1: diagnosed with illnesses and we see them recover. We see
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  Speaker 1: individuals that are ballomed with addiction, that are ballooned with
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  Speaker 1: different things that they're able to come out. God is
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  Speaker 1: still working. He's still the same God he was ten
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  Speaker 1: years ago, twenty years ago, a thousand years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be that same God today, and he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be that same God tomorrow. But are you
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  Speaker 1: willing to change? Are you willing to align with that
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  Speaker 1: that he's called and purposeuted it because we are the
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  Speaker 1: ones that have to change, because we serve God that
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  Speaker 1: is unchanging. He's never going to change. And he created
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  Speaker 1: us in his image. He fearfully and wonderfully made each
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  Speaker 1: and every one of us, and he said that we
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  Speaker 1: should do greater works, greater works. His word is not
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  Speaker 1: going to return to him Lord again, affirmation for the day.
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  Speaker 1: I find courage in the quiet and trust of God.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta trust him with everything. Counsel without God's create chaos.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean? Seeking solutions without sidelining God is
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  Speaker 1: not neutrabl It is multiple confusion. This issue isn't console.
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  Speaker 1: It is console not for me Isaya thirty and thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: There are plenty of biblical threads that backstack James Wondering five.
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  Speaker 1: God gives us wisdom literally to those who acts. All
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  Speaker 1: you got to do is acts, he tells us. And
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs sixteen and thirteen. Commit thy works unto the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and thou shall establish you Proverbs nineteen and twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Many plans exodent, but the Lord's purpose prevail. He is not.
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  Speaker 1: His word is not returning to him void everything that
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  Speaker 1: He's purpose for your life. It shall come to pass.
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  Speaker 1: But y'all, what we get caught up in these are
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  Speaker 1: to These are two common tracks that we face. Speed
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  Speaker 1: over surrender. I must act now because I forget to
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  Speaker 1: ask God. We don't include God and the things that
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  Speaker 1: we're doing. We're out here doing what we want to do,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're saying that we're doing what I know.
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  Speaker 1: Surrender to him and allow him to guide you. Because
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  Speaker 1: speed is speed. Speed is nothing. We want everything microwaves
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  Speaker 1: when all we have to do is surrender. Surrender yourself
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  Speaker 1: only with people who agree with your urgency. Again, we
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  Speaker 1: got to constantly do a heart chat. Did I pray
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  Speaker 1: before I poll others? Does this plan require faith or
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  Speaker 1: simple control? How you can practice this? Build a three
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  Speaker 1: step rhythm, pray, pause, proceed Again, I say, build you
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  Speaker 1: a three step rhythm, pray, pause, proceed. If you can't
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  Speaker 1: get peace, go over to Philippians four six and seven.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to have a green light anchor yourself
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  Speaker 1: and his word trust him. Misplaced trust lead to shame.
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean? Good resources become bad refuge when
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  Speaker 1: you replace God. You can't replace him. You can't allow
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  Speaker 1: people to be a substitute for God in his word,
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  Speaker 1: just like Egypt. The Egypts looked strong, but was trusting
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  Speaker 1: its shadow. It produced shame and confusion. Go over to
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah thirty and three. Not only that, you can check
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  Speaker 1: out some more descriptions. If you go down to Jeremih
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  Speaker 1: seventeen five and eight. You said, curse is the one
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  Speaker 1: who trust in man. Blessed is the one who trust
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord. Proverbs twenty nine and twenty five. It
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  Speaker 1: said the fear of man brings a snack. Trusting the
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  Speaker 1: Lord brings safety. What are some common tracks? What are
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  Speaker 1: some common traps that we fill to over reliance on
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  Speaker 1: status saving and relationships to guarantee outcomes, measuring self by
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  Speaker 1: measuring success by opticals rather than obedience. How can you
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  Speaker 1: heart check? How can you check your heart on today?
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  Speaker 1: If the resources disciplined with your peace collapse? Ask yourself
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  Speaker 1: that on a constant basis, am I hiding between the
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  Speaker 1: best practice to avoid bold faith and my operating and faith?
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  Speaker 1: And we got to practice this, y'all. Learn how to journal,
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  Speaker 1: learn how to write down things, not only that, reorder
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  Speaker 1: your trust daily. Lord, I use resources, but I trust you.
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  Speaker 1: Even though He's given us these resources, you still got
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  Speaker 1: to put your trust in him. He's given us jobs.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a resource. That job is just a resource
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  Speaker 1: because he's your provider. He's ggyram. So place God's promises
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  Speaker 1: before your plans. Psalms sixty two, five and eight. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: this is scripture. These are commandments. These are things that
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  Speaker 1: he's told us to do. And understand that strength grows
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  Speaker 1: in stillness. You got to spend that time with him.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of you want to know what does that mean.
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  Speaker 1: God's remedy for franktic living is returning, resting, and quiet confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Stillness is not passive. It is a paused in faith. Biblically,
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  Speaker 1: you can go over to Exodus fourteen and fourteen. It's
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord shall fight for you, and yea shall
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  Speaker 1: hold your peace. Psalms forty six and ten. He reminds
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  Speaker 1: us to be still and know that I am God.
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  Speaker 1: Lmitation three, twenty five and twenty six. It is good
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  Speaker 1: to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. Trust
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  Speaker 1: him on today and ha Becca to one in three
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  Speaker 1: is said, watch wait and write the vision. Y'all. These
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  Speaker 1: are commandments. These are things that he's asked us to do.
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  Speaker 1: But we get trapped and these are some of the
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  Speaker 1: common traps. Because we equate noise with progress, business can
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  Speaker 1: be avoidance. Don't get too busy that you forget to
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  Speaker 1: spend time with him, that you forget to reference him,
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  Speaker 1: that you forget that the plans that He has for you,
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  Speaker 1: you said, get your purpose. Abandoning quietness me answers delayed
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  Speaker 1: heart check. Do I leave silence in my day for
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  Speaker 1: God to speak? Do you set aside time so that
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  Speaker 1: He can minister to you, so that He can whisper
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  Speaker 1: in your ears, so that he can answer those prayers
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  Speaker 1: that you've that you've let up. See a lot of
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  Speaker 1: us we pray, and we don't sit, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: listen to what he's saying to us. Yet He's trying
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  Speaker 1: to speak to us, but we all of the place
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  Speaker 1: that we can't hear. So do you have a time,
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  Speaker 1: a silent time where God can truly speak to you?
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  Speaker 1: The second question that you should ask yourself is my
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  Speaker 1: pace set by pressure or by presence? And that's the
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  Speaker 1: presence of the Holy Spirit. Practice this schedule stillness. Schedule stillness,
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  Speaker 1: schedule a time where you can be still, a minute
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  Speaker 1: of silence with scripture, breathing, prayers and Sabbath rhythm, Let
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  Speaker 1: quietness reset your courage. Find you some scriptures that you
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  Speaker 1: can be anchored in. There's a couple that you can
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  Speaker 1: just go in and pick up and apply. Isaiah thirteen
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  Speaker 1: and fifteen, Mark one and thirty five, Isaiah forty and
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  Speaker 1: thirty one. Most importantly, y'all, the things that I'm sharing
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  Speaker 1: with you on today, how can you apply them to
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  Speaker 1: your life today? First, you got a pause before you plan?
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  Speaker 1: How do you do that? The Holy spirit halt, commit
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  Speaker 1: to prayer before committing to a path, asks for wisdom
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  Speaker 1: and wait for peace. Y'all, The twenty four hour rule
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  Speaker 1: for non urgent big decisions. Sleep on it with scripture,
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  Speaker 1: revisit it in the morning, and allow God to speak
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  Speaker 1: to you. Principal check Does this align with God's word?
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  Speaker 1: If not, is it a no? Y'all? If it don't
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  Speaker 1: align with his word, it should be a note. That's
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  Speaker 1: I keep saying. You got to apply it to the
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  Speaker 1: word outed your alliance and your input. How do you
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  Speaker 1: do that? People identify who shape your decision? Keep wise
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  Speaker 1: godly voices, close Verbs eleven and fourteen, and limit console
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  Speaker 1: from the normalized. In the compromise, hu content curate your
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  Speaker 1: media and mentors. What you have repeatedly heard you eventually follow.
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  Speaker 1: You got to stay around some positivity. You got to
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  Speaker 1: allow it to speak to you. And then you got
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  Speaker 1: to build a prayer for partnership. Ask God for covenant connections,
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  Speaker 1: to have a close to close doors to those that
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  Speaker 1: do not align with you. He look, all of this
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  Speaker 1: I'm sharing is scripture. It's in the Word Aimus three
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  Speaker 1: and three. It said, ask God for coveliinent connections and
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  Speaker 1: to close doors to misaligned alliances if they do not align.
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  Speaker 1: Keep on going, keep on pushing, do not stay if
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  Speaker 1: it does not align with the word and the plans
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  Speaker 1: and the purpose that He has for your life. Again,
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  Speaker 1: you got to build rhythm of quiet trust, spend time
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  Speaker 1: with It's five minutes, is it ten minutes? And you
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  Speaker 1: got to practice the Sabbath. You gotta spend time with him.
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  Speaker 1: You got to not only that, y'all incorporate fasting. If
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  Speaker 1: it's only fasting from noise for a half a day. Journal, Journal,
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  Speaker 1: what God highlights in you. Now, He's told us to
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  Speaker 1: write the vision and make it plain. Let me get
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  Speaker 1: out of here, y'all understand this. God rebukes her plans
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  Speaker 1: without him warns against trust and substitutes and invites us
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  Speaker 1: into surprising strength of stillness. Quiet confidence isn't withdrawal, it's
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  Speaker 1: worship under pressure. As we close, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: understand that God is not hurried, he is not like man,
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  Speaker 1: He's not a human crutch. Asks him to teach you
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  Speaker 1: to pause, seek his face and stand in his quietness.
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  Speaker 1: Ask him to creating you a clean heart, to steady
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  Speaker 1: your spirit, and tell yourself that today you will choose
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  Speaker 1: courage in quietness, confidence in his care for you, and
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  Speaker 1: obedience in his word. I pray that He will strengthen
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  Speaker 1: you and that He will provide rest for you on today.
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  Speaker 1: Remember affirmation for today is I find courage in the
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  Speaker 1: quiet and trust of God. I'm gonna share this poem
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  Speaker 1: with you, guys, because every day there's a poem inside
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  Speaker 1: of this journal, in the side of this evotion. At
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  Speaker 1: the end of each lesson, there's a poem. It's only
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  Speaker 1: one stands the four just four lines and then they're
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  Speaker 1: quite simple. And this one reads as followed, and the
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  Speaker 1: soundless come in the hush, strengthen awaits within quiet courage
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  Speaker 1: with gentle rush prepares the heart to win and that's
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  Speaker 1: that piece. Join us back here on tomorrow, y'all day
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  Speaker 1: number fourteen on this twenty one day journey. Tomorrow is
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  Speaker 1: joy in his assurance. We're gonna be coming from Romans
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  Speaker 1: fifteen and thirteen. Come expecting a expecting, fresh hope and
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  Speaker 1: a full heart. Heyma, Father God, in the name of Jesus, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for yet another opportunity that we can
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  Speaker 1: come before you, Lord God. Father, I thank you for
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  Speaker 1: this hour. I thank you for this opportunity that we
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  Speaker 1: can come and share. Father, I hope that the things
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  Speaker 1: that you have allowed me to share on today fall
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  Speaker 1: on furtile soil, that the seeds that have been sown
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  Speaker 1: will produce fruit in each and every person's life. Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: those that have hurt me live, and those that will
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  Speaker 1: hear the replay. Father, I asked that you would just
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  Speaker 1: go before us, allow your Holy Spirit to go before us,
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  Speaker 1: to lead God and direct this for God, because your
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  Speaker 1: word tells us that we have to be in this world,
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  Speaker 1: but not of this world. So Father, I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for yet another opportunity that we can come before you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, and that we can just acknowledge you, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that we have no power but through you, we have
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  Speaker 1: our power. So Father, I thank you for this time.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for this platform, and I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for opportunity that I can share your goodness so that
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  Speaker 1: you can be glorified. And Father, I asked that everything
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  Speaker 1: that we do will bring you glory and point back
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  Speaker 1: to you. And that is my prayer and your son
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  Speaker 1: Jesus name, I prayer again. I hope that everyone has
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  Speaker 1: a great Friday. It is Friday, and I hope that
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  Speaker 1: everyone has a great Friday. I pray that you walk
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  Speaker 1: in purpose on purpose, because know that you have purpose,
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  Speaker 1: Know that you did not get dropped out of the sky.
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  Speaker 1: That He strategically placed you here. So now it's time
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  Speaker 1: for you to walk in and to catch up with
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  Speaker 1: your destiny and to walk into that that He has
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  Speaker 1: called and purpose for you. Again, if you would like
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  Speaker 1: the change that I want to see in this world.
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  Speaker 1: So God has given me an opportunity to share my experiences. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a I don't walk in the office. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a theologian and never been theologic in school, none of that.
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  Speaker 1: I just share my experiences and what the Holy Spirit dropping.
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  Speaker 1: My spirit, and I tell everyone go to the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that I share with you, go to the Bible
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  Speaker 1: and check it out for yourself. Don't just believe anything
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  Speaker 1: that we tell you. Go to the Bible and reference
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  Speaker 1: the Bible. Because everything that I share comes from the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: These journals, these devotions, they are just supplements to help
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  Speaker 1: you dive deeper into the Bible, because that is our
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  Speaker 1: basic instructions before leaving this earth again. I am Angela
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Smith, effects A known as the Queen of Collaborations
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  Speaker 1: in these social media streets, and my desire is to educate,
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  Speaker 1: empower and encourage my people. God I am a survivor
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  Speaker 1: of many things, and I know what that is. It's
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  Speaker 1: only by His grace and his mercy that I am
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  Speaker 1: yet able to do the things that I do. So
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  Speaker 1: if he did it for me, he'll do it for you.
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  Speaker 1: Because he has no respectable person. I pray that your
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  Speaker 1: day is blessed beyond what you can see in the natural.
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  Speaker 1: I love you guys with the love of Christ, and
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  Speaker 1: guess what, there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
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  Speaker 1: So go and be blessed and know that I love you,
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  Speaker 1: and I will see you back here on tomorrow. And
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  Speaker 1: if you appreciate anything that I've shared on today, I
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  Speaker 1: will ask that you will invite someone to join us
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow so that we can too be deeper fed by
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. Y'all be blessed and know that
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  Speaker 1: I love you. Amen. Amen,