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Today's Word 07-23-26 Come Home to Grace · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: At your early boic praise party. I am Sherry Macket.
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  Speaker 1: It's time right now for today's a word. Come home
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  Speaker 1: to Grace, Come home to Grace. Luke fifteen twenty says.
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  Speaker 1: So he returned home to his father, and while he
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  Speaker 1: was still a long way off, his father saw him coming.
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  Speaker 1: Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son,
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  Speaker 1: embraced him and kissed him. You know, there's something so
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  Speaker 1: powerful about knowing where you belong. The prodigal Sign had
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  Speaker 1: made a terrible, terrible set of decisions. He had taken
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  Speaker 1: his inheritance, walked away from his father's house, wasted everything
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  Speaker 1: he had, and eventually found himself in a place he
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  Speaker 1: never imagined he would be. He was hungry, he was broken,
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  Speaker 1: and sitting in a hog pen. He had lost his money,
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  Speaker 1: he had lost his comfort, he had lost his dignity,
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  Speaker 1: but he had not lost his identity. Come on, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere in the middle of his mess, he remembered his
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  Speaker 1: father's house. He remembered that even his father's servants had
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  Speaker 1: more than enough bread, and something inside him says, I'll
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  Speaker 1: arise and go to my father. What gave him the
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  Speaker 1: courage to go home? He knew who his father was.
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  Speaker 1: He knew there was still a place for him at home.
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  Speaker 1: And when you know who your father is, you can
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  Speaker 1: get back up after you've fallen. You may have made mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: You may have taken a wrong turn. You may have
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  Speaker 1: wasted time, made poor decisions, or announced yourself to get
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  Speaker 1: caught in situations you never intended to be in. But
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  Speaker 1: your mistakes don't have to become your identity. Your condition
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  Speaker 1: may have changed, but your position has not. You are
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  Speaker 1: still a child of the most High God. You are
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  Speaker 1: still loved, You are still valuable, You are still called,
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  Speaker 1: You are still chosen. And the enemy wants you to
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  Speaker 1: believe that because you've messed up, you no longer been long.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to shame you and keep you in the
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  Speaker 1: pig pen, so to speak. He wants guilt to convince
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  Speaker 1: you to stay away from the very father who can
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  Speaker 1: restore you. Oh, but the prodigal son teaches us something
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  Speaker 1: very powerful. You don't have to stay where you are.
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  Speaker 1: You can rise, You can turn around. You can go
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  Speaker 1: home and look at what happened when the son returned.
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  Speaker 1: His father didn't stand on the porch with crossed arms
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  Speaker 1: waiting to lecture him. His father saw him while he
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  Speaker 1: was still a long way off, and ran toward him.
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  Speaker 1: See that's the heart of God. The Father wasn't waiting
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  Speaker 1: to condemn him, he was waiting to restore him. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't say I told you, so, he said, welcome home.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe today it's your day to come home. Not necessarily physically,
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  Speaker 1: but spiritually. You need to come home. Maybe you've drifted
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  Speaker 1: away from God. Maybe you've allowed shame to make you
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  Speaker 1: feel unworthy. Maybe you've been living beneath your identity because
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  Speaker 1: of something you did in your past. Today you need
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  Speaker 1: to arise. The Father's house is still open. There's mercy
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  Speaker 1: for your mistakes, there's grace for your journey, there's forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: for your failures, and there's a father who's ready to
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  Speaker 1: embrace you. So don't let your pass keep you from
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  Speaker 1: your future. You know where you belong. So come home
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  Speaker 1: to grace. Father God, Thank you, Thank you for your
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  Speaker 1: grace that's greater than our mistakes. Your mercy and your
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  Speaker 1: grace is bigger than our failure. Thank you that when
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  Speaker 1: we're lost, you never stop loving us. Oh God, when
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  Speaker 1: we wondered, you never stopped calling us home. We declare
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  Speaker 1: that shame will not keep us in the place where
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  Speaker 1: we fell. We choose to arise, to turn towards You,
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  Speaker 1: and to return to the Father's how thank you that
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  Speaker 1: because of Jesus we are forgiven, we are redeemed, we
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  Speaker 1: are restored and welcomed, And to your presence, help us
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  Speaker 1: God to walk boldly in our identity as your children,
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  Speaker 1: and to never forget that we belong to you. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for loving us enough to receive us, restore us,
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  Speaker 1: and give us brand new beginnings. In Jesus' name, that's
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  Speaker 1: your word for today. Take it applied to your everyday life,
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  Speaker 1: and you continue to be encouraged and inspired all the
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  Speaker 1: early morning praise party with me, your girl, Sherry Mackie