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6/28/25 “Running, Storms, and Stillness: Lessons from Jonah’s Call”| DAILY DEVOTION WITH QUEEN ANGELA · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And we are live.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, Facebook you
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  Speaker 2: to twitch and keep good morning TikTok. Y'all been hanging
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  Speaker 2: in there all night with me, so thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you. Y'all did five am prayer with
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  Speaker 2: me and y'all had a chance to see me work.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, this morning, of course, we are not coming
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  Speaker 2: out of our devotion book because we completed the devotion
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  Speaker 2: book and we're going to start a new one on tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: So we're just doing a devotion. I'm just pulling.
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  Speaker 2: I just pulled the scripture and I'm just gonna share
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  Speaker 2: about that scripture and.
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  Speaker 1: Give it backstory and some takeaways.
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  Speaker 2: So first I want to pray before we start, Father God,
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  Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you for
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  Speaker 2: yet another day that was not promised us. Lord God,
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  Speaker 2: I thank you for yet another hour that we get
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  Speaker 2: a chance to come before you, Lord God, to make
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  Speaker 2: our request known.
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  Speaker 1: Lord god Father, I thank you for what.
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  Speaker 2: You have about what you have shared with me on
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  Speaker 2: today to share with your people or Godfather asked that
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  Speaker 2: you will remove me out of the way and allow
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  Speaker 2: your spirit meend to come forth. For God Father, I
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this space that we can get share
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  Speaker 2: your word and just are asking your son Jesus saying amen, Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So this morning it's gonna be coming out of Jonah.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be coming out of Jonah. And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: read the first through let me see, I'm gonna read
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  Speaker 2: first through one through four. I'm gonna read verses one
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  Speaker 2: through four. Say, now, the word of the Lord came
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  Speaker 2: unto Jonah, the son of Adami, saying, arise, go to
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  Speaker 2: never Neevah, that great city, and cry against it, for
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  Speaker 2: their wickedness is come up before. But Jonah rose up
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  Speaker 2: to flee unto Tarnish from the presence of the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: and went down to Joe Japapa, and he found a
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  Speaker 2: ship going to Tarshini Shaw. So he paid the fare
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  Speaker 2: therefore and went down into it to go with them
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  Speaker 2: until Tarsha from the presence of the Lord. But the
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  Speaker 2: Lord sent out a great win into the sea, and
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  Speaker 2: there was a mighty temptest on the sea. So the
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  Speaker 2: ship was taken was liking to be broken. I read
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  Speaker 2: Jonah verses one through four that God bless the reading
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  Speaker 2: and hearing of his word.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go ahead and jump on into the lesson.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna share the backstory for that particular.
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  Speaker 1: Scripture and I started a minute early, sorry y'all, but.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, is so the backstory on that scripture and the
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  Speaker 2: title of this lesson is called Running Storms Stillness Lessons
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  Speaker 2: from Jonah's Call, And I'm going that was the King
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  Speaker 2: James version that I read to you guys, and now
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  Speaker 2: I am going to read the new In the New
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  Speaker 2: International version, it says the word of the Lord came
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  Speaker 2: into Jonah, the son of Adami, go to the great
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  Speaker 2: city of never Nedvah and preach against it because it's
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  Speaker 2: wickedness has come before me. But Jonah ran away from
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  Speaker 2: the Lord and headed to Tarshaw. He went down to
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  Speaker 2: Joe Pah, where he found a ship bound for the port.
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  Speaker 2: After paying his fare, he went abroad and sell for
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  Speaker 2: Tarsha to flee the Lord. Then the Lord sent a
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  Speaker 2: great win on the sea, and such a violent storm
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  Speaker 2: arose that the ship threatened to break up. So the
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  Speaker 2: backstory on this scripture is Jonah is a respected prophet
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  Speaker 2: of Israel. He received a challenge, a challenging command from
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  Speaker 2: God preach repentance to Navah, the capital of Asarah, a
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  Speaker 2: ruthless enemy of Israel. Instead of obeyon Jonah attempted to
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  Speaker 2: attempted the impossible. He ran from God's presence, bought in
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  Speaker 2: a ship ahead to headed to the opposite direction. But
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  Speaker 2: Jonah soon learned you cannot outrun the divine call. God
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  Speaker 2: sent out a miny storm that put everyone on the
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  Speaker 2: ship in prayer, reminding Jonah in us that God, God
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  Speaker 2: pursues us even when we rebel. So the first thing
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about is God's God's purpose will
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  Speaker 2: find you again. God's purpose will find you even when
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  Speaker 2: you run. Like Jonah refusing to obey God's instruction to
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  Speaker 2: preach to Never, it wasn't just an act of fear
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  Speaker 2: and stubbornness.
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  Speaker 1: It was an attempt to completely.
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  Speaker 2: Step out of the purpose that God had designed for him.
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  Speaker 2: He traveled the opposite direction, He paid affair and physically
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  Speaker 2: tried to put himself a distance between himself and God's
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  Speaker 2: will as possible. But God's assignment on our lives cannot
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  Speaker 2: be permanently avoided or erased. When God has appointed us
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  Speaker 2: for a pacific mission, his purpose resentlessly, he his purpose
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  Speaker 2: resentlessly pursue us. If it's your purpose, you can run
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  Speaker 2: but you can hide. You can run, but you can't hide.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear what he said? It said his purpose
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  Speaker 2: resentively pursues us. Rather than letting Jonah simply disappear until
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  Speaker 2: the obscure, God obstructed circumstances, in this case a supernatural
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  Speaker 2: stone to get his attention and to bring him back
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  Speaker 2: into alignment with his destiny. Jonah's running did not erase
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  Speaker 2: his calling. It only delayed the fulfillment of it and
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  Speaker 2: created more hardship for himself and others in the process. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: God's plan finds us no matter how far we go.
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  Speaker 2: So have any of you experience that I'd be the
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  Speaker 2: first to tell you that I have, because I ran
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. Like everything that I'm doing, y'all
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  Speaker 2: see me coming on here, doing these devotions, doing five
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  Speaker 2: ay and prayer, even having the podcast and being a
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  Speaker 2: part of the podcast. Those are not some things that
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  Speaker 2: I even thought that I would do, dreamed of doing,
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  Speaker 2: or even considered doing when I was younger. But that
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  Speaker 2: was the plan that God had for me, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And He was setting me up as I was going alone,
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  Speaker 2: but not even knowing. Even as a child, I always
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  Speaker 2: was teaching, we always played school.
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  Speaker 1: We always was.
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  Speaker 2: Even with my imaginary friends. I was always teaching my
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  Speaker 2: imaginary friends. I was always teaching my dogs. I was
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  Speaker 2: always teaching, and always had my own business.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: I always thought I had to have own something, but
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  Speaker 2: every time we played a game or did something, even
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  Speaker 2: God sending me to another school and allow me to
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  Speaker 2: take public speaking classes, not knowing that I would need
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  Speaker 2: those classes for the things that I'm doing.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's so, he is so.
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  Speaker 2: Purposeful and intentional with us, but yet we run because
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  Speaker 2: we can't see it. We don't understand, and we can't
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  Speaker 2: see it. So because we can't see it, we don't
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  Speaker 2: want to trust it. That's that's that's just my takee.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, our disobedience don't just affect us.
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  Speaker 2: But it affects others. So think about this jone decision
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  Speaker 2: to flee from God. It didn't just put him at danger,
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  Speaker 2: but he put other people's life in danger. He took
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  Speaker 2: innocent sailors who had no idea what was happening. The
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  Speaker 2: storm that God sent wasn't confined to just Jonah personally,
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  Speaker 2: but it endangered the entire ship, forcing the crew to
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  Speaker 2: toss their cargo overboard, crying out of fear. This streamine
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  Speaker 2: demonstrates that our decisions, especially those that we resist and
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  Speaker 2: disobey God, often create waves that ripple through our lives
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  Speaker 2: to other people, our families, our friends, our coworkers, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: even strangers. Spiritual rebelling or neglect has consequences that extend
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  Speaker 2: beyond our own story. Sometimes it creates unnecessary chaos, anxiety,
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  Speaker 2: and loss of others. This story of Jonah is a
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  Speaker 2: sober reminder that our faithfulness or lack therefore, shapes the
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  Speaker 2: environment for those who travel the life journey with us.
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  Speaker 1: So think about the things that we do.
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  Speaker 2: The things that we do don't just affect us, but
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  Speaker 2: they affect our family, ham Fact, our friends, him fact,
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  Speaker 2: even strangers y'all a people that we don't even know yet.
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  Speaker 2: So just imagine the weight that lies on our decisions
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  Speaker 2: when we decide that we don't want to do what
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  Speaker 2: God has called us to do. Every time we deny
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  Speaker 2: something that God has called us to do, like, for example,
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  Speaker 2: all these individuals that have testimonies out here that they
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  Speaker 2: refuse to share for whatever reason or another. But God
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  Speaker 2: has did something for you. He's allowed you to have
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  Speaker 2: a second chance, third for or fifth chance. But he
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  Speaker 2: keep blessing you. But yet you sit down on the story,
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  Speaker 2: you sit down on a testimony, you fail to let
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  Speaker 2: others know what He's done for you. See, but one
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  Speaker 2: thing about it. You can tell it now or you
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  Speaker 2: can tell it later. But it's gonna get told, because
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  Speaker 2: one thing about God is he he ain't gonna stop,
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  Speaker 2: and he gonna he.
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  Speaker 1: Is Resentles Slee merciful. Check this out. So despite Jonas,
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  Speaker 1: this obedience, and his willingness to attempt to abandon God's directive,
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  Speaker 1: God did not cast him aside or replace him. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: just because you you.
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  Speaker 2: Being out of you doing what you want to do,
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  Speaker 2: you're doing practicing free will, and you moving regardless of
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing. He gonna let you play around for
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  Speaker 2: a little while. And then when he get tired of
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  Speaker 2: you doing all that, he gonna snatch you on back,
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  Speaker 2: and he gonna bring you on back because guess what,
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  Speaker 2: He not gonna cast you away. He's not gonna put
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  Speaker 2: you aside, and he not gonna replace you. That's what
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  Speaker 2: he said. He said, God did not cast him aside
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  Speaker 2: or replace him. Instead, God intervened with a storm. So
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  Speaker 2: guess what you may get a storm, something may come
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  Speaker 2: up and guess what, it's not a punishment, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a redirector see, a lot of us we take these things.
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  Speaker 2: Things come at us because we make decisions. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: make the wrong decision, and we make decisions that is
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  Speaker 2: not in the will of God. But instead of Him
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  Speaker 2: taking his hands off us and saying, Okay, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: be done with you, he allows us to go through
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  Speaker 2: these things. We go through these things, and we often
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  Speaker 2: give credit to the enemy. We often give credit.
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  Speaker 1: To the dey all.
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  Speaker 2: We often say that, oh, this is backlash, this is
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  Speaker 2: the no when it's nothing but.
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  Speaker 1: God allowing the.
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  Speaker 2: Storm to intervene to redirect you. Okay, So the storm,
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  Speaker 2: this time, this storm, the time in the belly of
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  Speaker 2: the grapefish, in every uncomfortable moment Jonah faced, were part
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  Speaker 2: of God's determined effort to bring him back into purpose
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  Speaker 2: and the relationship and God's mercy wasn't just for Jonah.
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  Speaker 2: It was for the people of Ninevah as well. Even
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  Speaker 2: after such open rebellion, Jonah was given another chance to
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  Speaker 2: fulfill his calling, and the people of Navaga were given
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to repent, to be saved from destruction. God's
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  Speaker 2: mercy chasing after us, not to condemn us, but to restore,
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  Speaker 2: to redeem, and to connect us and even entire communities
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  Speaker 2: to the destiny and the grace that He has planned
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  Speaker 2: from the beginning of time. Y'all like nothing that nothing
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  Speaker 2: that we can do can separate us from what God
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  Speaker 2: has planned for us. This resentless mercy is a promise that, no.
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  Speaker 1: Matter what our failures are, God's grace.
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  Speaker 2: Will meet us and lead us into second, third, forty fifth,
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  Speaker 2: Sex seven eight twenty chances.
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  Speaker 1: So, y'all, what I want you to take away from
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  Speaker 1: this today sit sit still and listen.
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  Speaker 2: Where that comes from. Psalms forty six and ten. Y'all,
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  Speaker 2: sit still and listen. When Facebook challenges and decisions, a
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  Speaker 2: difficult calling, or a season of entner turmoil, our first
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  Speaker 2: instinct is often to rush into actions or emerge ourself
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  Speaker 2: into distractions. We may busy ourself with tasks. We may
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  Speaker 2: seek advice of friends around us, or attempt to outrun
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  Speaker 2: our anxiety, anything to avoid confronting what God might be saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yet God's word says and for Psalms.
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  Speaker 2: Forty six and ten, be still and know that I
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  Speaker 2: I am God It invites us to pause and enter
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  Speaker 2: His presence in silence. Y'all, this kind of stillness is
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  Speaker 2: not simply the absence of noise or movement. It is
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  Speaker 2: a spiritual posture of trust and a tentative waiting. Be
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  Speaker 2: intentional in setting aside time for quiet, prayer, reflection, and scripture,
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  Speaker 2: we open ourselves to God's voice, allowing his guidance to
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  Speaker 2: become clear. Stillness anchors us, providing clarity and courage before
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  Speaker 2: decisions are made. In silence, we can receive instructions or
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  Speaker 2: corrections from God, preventing the unnecessary storms that come from striving,
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  Speaker 2: avoidance and impulsive choice. Instead of running ahead or away,
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  Speaker 2: slow down, surrender your worries, and let God's peace direct
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  Speaker 2: your next step. So that's why I say in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: like we get up every morning and do five am prayer.
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  Speaker 2: I know that may be too much for everybody else,
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  Speaker 2: but every morning we get up and we do five
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  Speaker 2: am prayer. And we used to when we first started,
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  Speaker 2: we used to only do one hundred and twenty one
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  Speaker 2: days here. It was the one hundred and twenty one
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  Speaker 2: days of Prayer, and we just used to do one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty one days it was based on songs
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  Speaker 2: one twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: So we did.
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  Speaker 2: We used to do one hundred and twenty one days
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  Speaker 2: of prayer, and I think that was the first three
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  Speaker 2: years we did that.
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  Speaker 1: Year four, I think we went into prayer.
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  Speaker 2: And we was like, oh, we need to keep praying,
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  Speaker 2: so we started doing just straight through. So we just
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  Speaker 2: started going straight through. We didn't we didn't stop. So
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  Speaker 2: this is our second year of just praying five am
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  Speaker 2: every day.
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  Speaker 1: But we do that.
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  Speaker 2: And I tell people that since I've been praying every
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  Speaker 2: day at five am. Not to mention I whisper prayers
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  Speaker 2: throughout the day, but every day since I've been praying
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  Speaker 2: at five a m. My morning starts a whole lot better.
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  Speaker 2: And it gives you an opportunity. You may wake up
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  Speaker 2: and things may not be things may not be gone
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  Speaker 2: right when you wake up, but you go on that
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  Speaker 2: prayer line, you get off the prayer line, you spend,
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  Speaker 2: You spend a few minutes allowing him to minister to you.
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  Speaker 1: You feel a few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Just looking at his word, reading his word, studying this word,
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  Speaker 2: and just give him that time so that you can
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  Speaker 2: posture yourself, get yourself, pours yourself, get ready for today
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  Speaker 2: so that you can face whatever may come at you.
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  Speaker 2: That is one of the reasons why I say it's
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  Speaker 2: important to have that time and to and to put
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  Speaker 2: put that time right there in the morning time before
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  Speaker 2: you step into anything, and then He can open you
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  Speaker 2: up to receive you.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that.
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  Speaker 2: While you're doing that, now we have to examine our direction.
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  Speaker 2: That is very important and we should do. It's important
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  Speaker 2: to regularly stop and honestly evaluate the path you are taking.
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  Speaker 2: You should be evaluating what you're doing. You should be
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  Speaker 2: asking yourself probing questions like am I resisting something that
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  Speaker 2: God is clearly asking of me? Is there any area
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  Speaker 2: where I am intentionally delaying obedience, perhaps forgiving someone, stepping
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  Speaker 2: out in faith or making life changing decisions. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: say that again. I'm gonna say that again. It is
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  Speaker 2: important to regularly stop and honestly evaluate the path that
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  Speaker 2: you are taking. Ask yourself, ask yourself these probing questions.
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  Speaker 2: Am I resisting something that God is clearly calling me to?
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  Speaker 2: Is there an area I am intentionally delaying obedience? Or
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  Speaker 2: perhaps I refuse or haven't forgiven someone? Am I stepping
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  Speaker 2: out in pace? Am I making life changing decisions?
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  Speaker 1: So?
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  Speaker 2: Jonah's story teaches us how easy it is to drift
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  Speaker 2: off course. Sometimes we may just compromise or outright avoidance.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever you sense unrest, guilt, anxiety, or reoccurring obstacles, take
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  Speaker 2: it as a loving nudge from God to consider whether
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  Speaker 2: you are ignoring or running from His instructions. So did
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  Speaker 2: you hear that whenever you sense unrest, guilt, anxiety, or
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  Speaker 2: reoccurring obstacles, you got to take a look and consider
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  Speaker 2: whether you are ignoring or you're running from His instruction.
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  Speaker 2: Repentance it's not just a major moral failure, but also
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  Speaker 2: it's not for just major moral failures, but it is
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  Speaker 2: also a moment when we can realize we've chosen our
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  Speaker 2: own ways over His ways. That's why I say we
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  Speaker 2: should repent daily. We should always be in a state
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  Speaker 2: of repentance. We should always be asking for forgiveness. We
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  Speaker 2: should always be moving in a state of repentance. So
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  Speaker 2: the beauty of God's grace is that realignment is always possible,
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  Speaker 2: no matter how far we go in the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly examining your.
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  Speaker 2: Life, omit where you are off course, ask God to
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  Speaker 2: forgive and intentionally step back onto the path. That's why
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  Speaker 2: I say repent, turn from your wicked ways. He's just
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  Speaker 2: to forgive. Huh yeah, He'll set you back on the
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  Speaker 2: right path. He's prepared for you. The last thing I
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  Speaker 2: want you to remember is you gotta remember who's in control.
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  Speaker 2: You have to remember who's in control. We are not
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  Speaker 2: in control. We have to remember who's in control. When
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  Speaker 2: life storm's hit, whether it's a form of trouble, loss, conflict,
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  Speaker 2: or inner chaos, it is easy to panic, to question God,
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  Speaker 2: or to feel hopeless. Jonah's journey reminds us to ask,
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  Speaker 2: am I in the midst of a storm, because I've
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  Speaker 2: been running from God's purpose? If so, let the trial
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  Speaker 2: prompt you to realign your life with God. But also
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  Speaker 2: remember that God who allows storms is also the God
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  Speaker 2: who calms them. Even our most turbulent season are not
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  Speaker 2: outside his control or concern. Trust that every hardship, every detour,
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  Speaker 2: and every test can be transformed into a pivotal movement
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  Speaker 2: of growth and deepening faith.
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  Speaker 1: If you surrender them to him.
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  Speaker 2: Let your confidence rest into Let your confidence rest not
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  Speaker 2: in your ability to manage your storm, but God's sovereign
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  Speaker 2: power and loving purpose. Knowing that He is in control.
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  Speaker 2: He's transforming fear into chaos. He's transforming fear and chaos
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  Speaker 2: into hope and direction. So I want y'all to remember,
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  Speaker 2: be still and know that I am God, Psalm forty
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  Speaker 2: six and ten. No matter where you are in this journey,
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  Speaker 2: God is with you, and His story through you is
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  Speaker 2: not over. I leave you with these words of encouragement.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you find yourself in Jonah shoes, running wrestling, or
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  Speaker 2: simply weary from the storm.
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  Speaker 1: Hear this. God's call is not canceled, but your detours.
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  Speaker 2: His mercy is greater than your mistake, and his plans
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  Speaker 2: for you are rooted in love and redemption. If God
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  Speaker 2: is calling you to lean into stillness, know that He's
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  Speaker 2: not abandoning you in the storm. He will guide you
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  Speaker 2: through it, restore you, and use you for something greater
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  Speaker 2: than you can ever imagine. Do not fear your Netabah
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  Speaker 2: will be with you, and every step of the journey,
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  Speaker 2: the God who asked you to go, the same God
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  Speaker 2: who gives you grace, carriage.
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  Speaker 1: And second and third and fourth chances, will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pray.
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  Speaker 2: Lord with every Lord Father, whatever I'm facing a hard call,
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  Speaker 2: a consequence.
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  Speaker 1: Of running from you.
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  Speaker 2: Teach me to be still and to listen for your presence,
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  Speaker 2: redirect my every step, empower me to obey, trust your purpose,
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  Speaker 2: and to lean on your mercy and never fail. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for your word on today. And Father
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  Speaker 2: made this word not just be something that we read
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  Speaker 2: out the paper and just be words and sentences. But Lord,
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  Speaker 2: allow it to manifest in our lives. Allow us to
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  Speaker 2: take these words, apply them, and allow them to come
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  Speaker 2: life and to God leading direct us. Father, we thank
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  Speaker 2: you for the Holy Spirit that you've left to be
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  Speaker 2: the confid to us. So, Father, we're asking that you
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  Speaker 2: will allow the Holy Spirit to go before us on
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  Speaker 2: this day to calm any rough seas, to live in
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  Speaker 2: any mountain, and to straighten out any crooked roads. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for extending your grace and your mercy
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  Speaker 2: one more time, giving us the opportunity to get it right,
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  Speaker 2: and giving us the opportunity to impact lives. So Father,
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  Speaker 2: I asked these scenes and your son Jesus' name, Amen
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  Speaker 2: a man.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Again.
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  Speaker 2: I thank each and every one of you guys that
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  Speaker 2: have tuned in on today. I pray that something that
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  Speaker 2: I have shared has been a blessing to you, and
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  Speaker 2: that you would share it with someone. If this has
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  Speaker 2: been a blessing to you, I pray that you would
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  Speaker 2: share it out to someone tax someone, let them know
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  Speaker 2: that we are on here every day at am if
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  Speaker 2: they want to hear a devotion. And it's just a devotion, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm not known theologian.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not known.
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  Speaker 2: I don't walk into office, I don't professor calling. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just someone that knows what God has done for me.
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  Speaker 2: I know that he has raised me up for my
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  Speaker 2: better affliction, not one time, not two times, so many
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  Speaker 2: times that I can't even remember all of the times
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  Speaker 2: that he's raised me up. But He's been better to
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  Speaker 2: me than I could ever be to myself. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: forever grateful. And I said that last time when I
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  Speaker 2: was on my.
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  Speaker 1: Bet of affliction.
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  Speaker 2: Well I'm not gonna say the last time, but in
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, when I was on my bet of affliction
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  Speaker 2: fighting for my life and he rolls me up, all
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to do was share his goodness. I said,
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  Speaker 2: I will share his goodness. So this is outlets that
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  Speaker 2: He's given me to be able to share his goodness
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  Speaker 2: through podcasting, through the magazine through all the little things
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  Speaker 2: that he'll allow us to connect through. So I'm grateful,
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  Speaker 2: I'm humble, and I just thank him and every morning
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  Speaker 2: that he breathed breath into me, because it's not the
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  Speaker 2: alarm clock that goes off that wakes us up, but
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  Speaker 2: every morning that he breathed that breath into me, I
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  Speaker 2: will get up and I will share his goodness. I
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  Speaker 2: will share what he's done for me because that's what
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  Speaker 2: I said I would do, And every chance I get,
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  Speaker 2: I will shine it from the mountaintop. I will not
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  Speaker 2: sit down on his goodness because he's been too good
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  Speaker 2: to me. He's been way good to me than I
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  Speaker 2: could ever have been to myself when I was lost,
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  Speaker 2: when I was deep in my sin, and yeah, he
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  Speaker 2: brought me out because he knew that this day would
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  Speaker 2: be this day, and he knew where he would need me.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm grateful to be in place.
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful to be a vessel, and I'm grateful for
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  Speaker 2: everyone that tune in and share and get something. I
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  Speaker 2: pray that you take something away from what we share,
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  Speaker 2: so I'll see you guys back here on tomorrow. I
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  Speaker 2: pray that your day is blessed beyond what you can
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  Speaker 2: see in the natural. And y'all hold fast to his word.
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  Speaker 2: Understand that his word is true. His word is not
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  Speaker 2: going to return to him. Boy, y'all, he's gonna watch
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  Speaker 2: over that word. And two it's perfected and performed in
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  Speaker 2: our life. No matter how you try to run, no
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  Speaker 2: matter how you try to hide, you cannot run or
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  Speaker 2: hide from him because he will get you. He look,
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  Speaker 2: he ain't even got to come. He can cause a
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  Speaker 2: storm to raise up wherever you are. So just know,
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  Speaker 2: I would rather be in his will and walking in
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  Speaker 2: his path than doing what I want to do. So
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  Speaker 2: I pray that y'all have a great day and I
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  Speaker 2: will see y'all back here on tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all be blessed.