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Today's Word 03-11-25 Don't Settle, Pick Up Your Mat · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: I am Sherry Mackie at his time, right now for
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  Speaker 1: today's word. Don't settle, pick up your mate. John five
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  Speaker 1: and eight says Jesus told him, stand up, pick up
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  Speaker 1: your mat, and walk. And John five, the man who
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  Speaker 1: Jesus healed, had been crippled for thirty eight years. This
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  Speaker 1: man never dreamed he'd be able to walk, play ball
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  Speaker 1: with his children, dance with his wife, or even take
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  Speaker 1: a stroll on the beach or down the sidewalk. Y'ah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the mercy of God. Though, Notice that Jesus didn't say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get you a better mat to lay on,
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  Speaker 1: something light or something more comfortable. I'm going to get
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  Speaker 1: you more help and better caregivers. No, Jesus came to
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  Speaker 1: give that man complete freedom from his problem, so that
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  Speaker 1: he never needed the mat or caregivers again. Your life
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  Speaker 1: is too short for you to have things lingering that
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  Speaker 1: are holding you back. Life is too short to settle
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  Speaker 1: for less than God's best for you. Sometimes we don't
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  Speaker 1: realize how restricted we are. We've become so complacent and
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  Speaker 1: used to dysfunction that it feels comfortable for us. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to stare yourself up in the Lord God's idea
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  Speaker 1: of freedom is not to make you more comfortable or
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  Speaker 1: complacent in your dysfunction. No, God's idea freedom is to
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  Speaker 1: set you free so that you can live your best
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  Speaker 1: life and carry out His plan and his purpose for
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  Speaker 1: your life. It's to set you on a whole new
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  Speaker 1: path of health, of peace, of joy, of blessings and favor.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you dare settle in any area of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Pick up your mat. God is doing a new thing.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to give you a miracle. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: heal you. He wants to favor you, he wants to
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  Speaker 1: bless you. He wants to make provision for you like
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  Speaker 1: you never imagine. Oh, You're about to rise up. So
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  Speaker 1: take up your bed, take up your mat, and walk
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  Speaker 1: in freedom. Father, God, thank you that you're calling upon
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  Speaker 1: our lives. Comes the power to release any old thinking, oh, habits, discouragement,
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  Speaker 1: and dysfunction that would keep us stuck and keep us
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  Speaker 1: from fulfilling your purpose and your destiny for us. Your
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  Speaker 1: plans for us are good. So today we're dropping the
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  Speaker 1: excuses that hold us back and taking steps of faith
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  Speaker 1: for a new beginning. In you, God, we refuse to settle.
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  Speaker 1: We will take up our meat, and we will walk
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  Speaker 1: with an in you in Jesus' name. Hey, now that's
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  Speaker 1: your word for today. I want you to take that
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  Speaker 1: apply to your everyday life and you continue to be
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  Speaker 1: encouraged and inspired. It's your early morning praise party. I
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  Speaker 1: am Sherry Mackie.