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Today's Word 07-30-26 Choose Your Circle Wisely · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: It's early what he praise party. I am a Sherry Mackie.
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  Speaker 1: It is time for today's word. Choose your circle wisely.
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  Speaker 1: Choose your circle wisely. Proverbs twenty eight to seven says
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  Speaker 1: friends of trouble makers disgrace their parents. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: stopped to think about how much the people around you
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  Speaker 1: influence the person you're becoming?
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  Speaker 2: The truth is your relationships matter.
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  Speaker 1: The people you spend the most time with can influence
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  Speaker 1: your attitude, your decisions, your confidence, your peace, and even
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  Speaker 1: your future. That's why it's important to take an honest
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  Speaker 1: look at your circle and ask yourself. Are the people
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  Speaker 1: around me helping me become a better me? Or are
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  Speaker 1: they pulling me backward? See Proverbs warns us about keeping
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  Speaker 1: company with troublemakers. A troublemaker isn't always someone who's obviously
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  Speaker 1: dangerous or destructive. Sometimes a troublemaker is a person who's
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  Speaker 1: always gossiping, always complaining, always criticizing, and always finding something
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  Speaker 1: wrong with everyone else. Maybe it's a coworker who constantly
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  Speaker 1: talks that about the boss. Maybe it's a friend who
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  Speaker 1: encourages you to compromise your values. Maybe it's a person
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  Speaker 1: who's always angry and teaches you to respond to every
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  Speaker 1: offense with hostility.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's someone who.
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  Speaker 1: Constantly disrespects their spouse, tears down their family, or celebrates
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  Speaker 1: behavior that you know isn't right.
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  Speaker 2: Be careful.
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  Speaker 1: You may think you're simply spending time with them, but
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  Speaker 1: their attitude can slowly become your attitude. Their conversations can
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  Speaker 1: become your conversations. Their habits can become your habits. Their
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  Speaker 1: negativity can become your mindset. You may tell yourself, I'm
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  Speaker 1: strong enough, they won't influence me. But if you're constantly
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by something, eventually it begins to affect you. See,
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  Speaker 1: that's why you have to protect your peace and protect
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  Speaker 1: your purpose. This doesn't mean you stop loving people.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean you.
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  Speaker 1: Become judgmental or think you're better than somebody else. It
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  Speaker 1: means you become wise about who has access to your heart.
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  Speaker 2: Your mind, and even your time.
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  Speaker 1: There are people you can love without allowing them to
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  Speaker 1: leave you. There are people you can pray for without
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  Speaker 1: becoming entangled in their drama. There are relationship you may
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  Speaker 1: need to step away from because they're keeping.
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  Speaker 2: You from becoming who God called you to be.
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  Speaker 1: See, sometimes the hardest thing to let go of is
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  Speaker 1: a very thing that's keeping you stuck. You have to
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself what am I willing to walk away from.
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  Speaker 1: If a friendship consistently pulls you away from God, compromises
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  Speaker 1: your values, drains your joy, or keeps you trapped in
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  Speaker 1: old patterns, it may be time to reevaluate that relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Your feature is too.
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  Speaker 1: Valuable to keep sacrificing it for the wrong people. The
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  Speaker 1: good news is that when you make room for releasing
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  Speaker 1: unhealthy relationships, all God can bring healthy relationships into your life.
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  Speaker 1: He can connect you with people who pray for you,
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  Speaker 1: encourage you, challenge you, celebrate you, and tell you the
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  Speaker 1: truth when.
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  Speaker 2: You need to hear it. Thank you Jesus. Surround yourself
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  Speaker 2: with people.
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  Speaker 1: Who make you wanna grow, people who inspire you to
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  Speaker 1: dream bigger, people who celebrate your victories without jealousy. People
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  Speaker 1: who will correct you with love, people who will remind
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  Speaker 1: you of who you are when you forget your circle matters.
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  Speaker 1: So choose people who add value to your life and
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  Speaker 1: make sure you also are that kind of person to
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  Speaker 1: the people around you. Ask God for wisdom to recognize
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  Speaker 1: the right relationships, courage to release the wrong ones, because
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  Speaker 1: when you walk with the right people, you'll discover that
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  Speaker 1: the right relationships don't just make life easier, they help
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  Speaker 1: you to become better. Choose your circle wisely. Your destiny
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  Speaker 1: is worth protecting. Father, God, thank you for every healthy
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  Speaker 1: relationship that you've placed in our lives. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: the people who pray for us, believe in us, challenge us,
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  Speaker 1: and help us to become the person you've created it
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  Speaker 1: to us to be. Give us wisdom and deserve it
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  Speaker 1: about the people we allow close to our hearts. Help
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  Speaker 1: us to recognize relationships that are pulling us away from
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  Speaker 1: your purpose, compromising our values, or keeping us stuck in
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  Speaker 1: unhealthy patterns. God, we're asking now that you give us courage,
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  Speaker 1: courage to create healthy boundaries and the strength to walk
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  Speaker 1: away from relationships that are no longer good for us.
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  Speaker 1: Help us to never judge or condemn others, but to
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  Speaker 1: love people while also protecting the purpose that you've placed
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  Speaker 1: on the inside of us. Bring the right people into
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  Speaker 1: our lives, people who will encourage our faith, inspire our dreams,
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  Speaker 1: and help us to grow and Father, make us the
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  Speaker 1: kind of people who do the same for others.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 1: That's your word for today, Take it applied to your
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  Speaker 1: everyday life, and you continue to be encouraged and inspired.
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  Speaker 1: It's your early morning praise PARTI. I am Sherry Mackie