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Authentic Imitationology #77 [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Good morning, Good morning, Good morning family, God bless you, got
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  blessed, welcome back to the Morning DeVos. You broke, Sam Lopez,
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  And today's Friday. So we're getting into authentic imitationalogy. This is episode I
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  believe number seventy seven. Wow, we're going, We're going. I hope
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  I got the number right because it seems like we've been in the seventies for
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  a little bit. But seventy seven, I think I have to check it.
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  If you find that it's a different episode number. Let me know.
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  I'm not perfect. Sometimes I make mistakes here, but we're here. Amen,
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  God bless you, welcome back. So listen, let's go for authentic
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  imentationlogy. Every Friday we try to get into our authentic inventationology mode, authentically
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  imitated the most successful person who has ever lived on this planet, the Lord
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  Jesus himself. Amen, And today we're talking about his will for our lives.
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  Can we know guys will for our lives? It's not a mystery,
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  it's not a mystery. A lot of people think, oh, that's a
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  mysterious question. We can't never know guys will. A lot of people say
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  that, and I'm like the will of God is playing generally for every single
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  one of us in the scriptures. Amen. Personally, God has a will
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  for me, God has a will for you. Generally, God says what
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  his will is for all of us. Amen. So we can know the
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  will of God for our lives. Amen. That's the beauty of it all.
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  That's really the beauty of it all. We can't see and we can
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  know the beauty of it all in Jesus name, it's not a mystery.
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  Today in the Morning Devot authentic commentationology style. This is episode number seventy seven.
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  We're going to be in James chapter four, verses fifteen to seventeen.
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  James Chapter four, Chapter I mean, excuse me, Chapter four, verses
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  fifteen to seventeen. So let's go for it. We're stream alive as so
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  Win is with a ze that orgy as well, stream alive at live that
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  so Win is with a z dot org and on YouTube page and all that
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  stuff. So we end up building them a little late, but let's go
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  for it. Better late than never, Right, I'll see you. Good
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  morning, God, bless you. Welcome to the Morning Devo, my sister
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  and my friend. So let's go for it. Let's see what God has
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  for us today, Amen, And just get that word in our lives,
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  get that word in our hearts and run with it and move that word and
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  work that word in our lives. Amen. And why not got the word,
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  Let's go for it. Let's be part of what God is doing in
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  this world in our lives today. Amen. So we're gonna read James four
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  fifteen to seventeen, but we're gonna pray first. After we pray, we'll
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  shut this out for like sixty seconds. When we come back on the other
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  side of those sixty seconds, we'll continue with authentic imitationalogy this episode number seventy
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  seven. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or any prayer
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  requests, you already know what to do. Don't hesitate. Leave it on
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  the live chat, leave it on the live stream. Amen. If you're
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  not live with me right now by the time you're watching this or listening,
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  Amen, it's all good. If something comes up in your heart and your
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  mind, you want to share something or courage your word or scripture, you
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  have a question, you have a prayer request, do it that time as
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  well, Amen, and I'll make sure I'll get back to you. In
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  Jesus name. I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow, a minute from now,
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  or anything like that. But what I do know, I don't know
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  my future. I just know who holds the future in his hands, and
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  that's the Lord. Amen. So let's pray. After we pray, we'll
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  get back into it. Amen. Let me take a quick sip of this
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  water because I am dry today. Father, I thank you for today and
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  thank you for right now. I thank you, lott God, that you
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  have a will for our lives and a purpose and plan for our lives,
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  and you've revealed it plainly in your word, and you speak to us individually
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  according to your purpose and plan and your will fall life. I pray,
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  Love God, that this will not be a mysterious thing the will of God
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  for us, but you will, Low God, will make it plain,
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  like your word says that you already have made it plain for us to seed,
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  for us to learn, for us to know. Thank you, Lord
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  God, that we can know of the will of God for our lives.
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  We can know your will, We can know your mind because we know your
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  word, and we see your word, and we learn your word, and
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  we read your word and we apply your word. Thank you for the power
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  of prayer. Thank you for Lord God, for your love, your grace,
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  your mercy upon our lives. I pray a hedge of protection, Protect
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  all my brothers and sisters in Christ, Protect my family, Protect my whole
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  entire bloodline, from the very youngest family member to the very oldest, and
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  everyone in between. I pray a peace of God, the peace of God
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  that transcends all understanding. The world doesn't understand the peace that you gave us.
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  So I pray Lord God, that we will receive and continue to receive
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  that peace, and know that we are walking with the Prince of peace,
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  which is you, Lord Jesus. I pray power, I pray love,
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  I pray grace, forgiveness, mercy. I step forth arquen angels by the
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  power of Jesus, and to the atmosphere right now, sending them forth to
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  wherever we are found, setting the fourth to wherever you are found on the
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  other side of this mic, on the other side of the screen, and
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  Jesus name. I pray this by faith and those who agree we all say
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  amen and amen. Let's take us sixty second break to share this out.
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  When we come back, we'll be in James, Chapter number four, verses
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  fifteen to seventeen. I'll be right back, man. Man, let's go
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  for it. Let's see what Guy asked for us today. On authentic imitationalogy.
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  This is part of the Blaze Barber study. Also thirty eight, am
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  me to stand the time. I was a little late this morning. They've
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  been getting things ready. But we're here now. So God is good.
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  He's faithful to his word. Amen. So I'm excited for what God has
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  for you and from me today. So let's go for it. So it's
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  not a mystery, ladies and gentlemen. The will of God is known and
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  made known to us through his word. One of the wills of God for
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  us is for us to believe in the one who the Father sent, now,
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  who the Father created, who the Father sent, And the sent one
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  is the only begotten Son of God, which is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Not a mystery. And man, we know that too. It's in the
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  scriptures. James shot the four verses fifteen or seventeen. Yet you do not
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  know the least thing about what may happen in your life tomorrow. What is
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  secure in your life? What is secure in your life? That's the question.
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  You are merely, Oh, I didn't put this on the screen,
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  did I? I did it. I'm reading this and I'm not putting it
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  on the screen. You are merely a vapor, like a puff of smoke
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  or a wist of steam from a cooking pot that is visible for a little
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  while and then vanishes into thin air. Instead, you ought to say,
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  if the Lord wills, we will live, and we will do this or
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  that. But as it is, you boast vainly in your pretension and arrogance.
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  All such boasting is evil. So any person who knows what is right
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  to do but does not do it to him, it is sin. Right,
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  So instead of what we ought to do, and we ought to say,
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  let's go by what God wants us to do and wants us to say.
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  Amen, this is James, you apostle right, if the Lord wills,
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  we will live and do this or that. As it is, you
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  boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the
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  right thing to do and fails to do it for him, it is sin.
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  That's why I tell people listen, the will of God is for us
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  to believe in what he's doing and what he said of our lives. The
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  will of God is the power of God. The will of God is the
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  word of God. The will of God is our hope. We could trust
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  in him. I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow. You don't know what's
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  gonna happen to him. We can make plans, but God will judge those
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  plans. He will see if those plans are right for us or wrong for
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  us. He knows us better than we know ourselves. Instead, you ought
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  to say, if the Lord wills. So sometimes people ask, hey,
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  you're gonna be there next week, I said, Lord. I always say
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  Lord willing. Sometimes I'll get a laugh back and be like laugh aloud,
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  but really, now you gotta be there if the Lord wills. I don't
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  know what God has for me next week. I know what He has for
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  me right now today, And I know we ask for you right now today,
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  if you're watching and listening, he has the word for your life.
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  We don't know the least thing about what may happen tomorrow. What is secure
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  your life? That's a good question, because we're a vapor, like a
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  puff of smoke or a whistle steam from a cooking pot, that is visible
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  for a little while and then vanishes into the air. That is how quick
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  our life is according to eternity, according to God's eternal purpose for our lives,
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  according to his move in our lives. Right that is God's own will.
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  That he knows that. It's not a mystery. He knows that we
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  are favored by him. We all know He knows us today. He knows
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  what's gonna happen tomorrow and a second from now. I don't know what's gonna
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  happen ten minutes from now, but God does. So if you put your
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  whole faith in trust in him, he will show you the will that He
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  has for your life. Hey man, will he protect you? Yes?
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  Will he leave you? No? Will he abandon you? Know? Will
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  he lie to you? Know? Right? His promises, he doesn't take
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  it back. All his promises at yate and amen, and his word for
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  you and for me, He doesn't favor anyone. You have to take one
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  day at a time. It's like you say, what you can eat today,
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  you eat it today because you don't know what tomorrow could bring. Yeah,
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  and be grateful when we're grateful and we walk in thanksgiving to what God
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  has done for us. Right now, Amen, Tomorrow really won't matter.
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  We are grateful for what's happening right now today. Tomorrow's not promised. But
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  God did a better thing than promising us tomorrow. He promised us eternal life
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  through Christ, who gives us the strength. He promised us eternal life if
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  we put our whole faith in trust in Him. Amen. Do I get
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  it right every day? Absolutely not? Does God get it right every day?
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  Absolutely yes? It is what it is God. Trust in the one
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  that is perfect. He's perfecting means perfecting you. Amen. Forward and knowing
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  that we could trust a living, holy, righteous lives. This is not
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  something that we made up. There's nothing something that we could make up,
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  even if we wanted. To a man, this is a God moved This
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  is something that God knows what's going to happen in the future. So many
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  people think of God's will for their lives as this mysterious path that they have
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  to somehow discover and figure out how to walk on. Right, Well,
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  this is mysterious. Let me try to figure this out. Let me try
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  to decode the scriptures. It's true that we don't know the future right,
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  and we don't know all the details that God has planned for our individualized right.
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  But we know what the word says. So no, we don't know
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  if we still be God's will. For we'll be working in the same job
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  next we don't know if that's the will of God. We'll be working the
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  same job next year. We don't know if it's the will of God.
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  If we're going to the same church next year, if we'll be doing the
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  same type of ministry next year. We don't know that. We don't even
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  know if God's will that we're gonna be alive tomorrow, alive tomorrow. We
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  don't even know if that's God's will. But that doesn't mean that our lives
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  is a big mystery. What it means is that we don't know everything.
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  And I'm okay with that. You should be okay with that. If anybody
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  goes around saying they know everything, then we're gonna question, Well, I'm
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  gonna question if they're God. Because God is the only one that knows everything.
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  Amen, He's omnipresent, he's all knowing, he's almighty. But yet
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  he's a gentle spirit. James stressed that we should be seeking the Lord's will
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  instead of our own will, that we should always be asking we should always
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  be, you know, asking the question, what's going to happen? What's
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  the will of God of my life? I understand where James is coming from.
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  Amen, it's not a mystery what James is saying, what James's is
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  talking about. It might be a mystery to those who don't believe, because
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  there is some kind of they have some kind of idea that they can never
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  know. And I know even religious people think that we won't know until we're
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  done on this side of eternity. Some people religious people say, oh,
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  how do you know if you're saved, because you don't really know. We'll
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  find out when we're gone, when we're dead, and then God will way
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  the good and way the bad in our lives and whatever weighs more, that's
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  how we're going to go. So they think that that's the way they figure
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  it out. They think that's the way you figure out the will of God.
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  And that's not the way you figure out the will of God. You
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  don't have to figure out anything if God is telling us his will for your
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  life and his will for my life. So instead we shall humbly make our
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  plans acknowledging that ultimately God will decide what we have the opportunity to do.
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  So, Yeah, we have calendar. Me and my wife have a calendar.
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  We try to share the calendar and may we try to make sure that's
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  not conflicting events or things that we have to do. But we're looking at
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  the calendar and I'm like, I'm looking at so I don't know what I'm
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  doing and there's nothing in that day or that then I always tell my wife.
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  Unless something happens, I don't know what I'm doing, Amen, Unless
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  I'm booked for a DJ event or to do sounds, to minister or radio
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  show, whatever the situation, I don't know, and like this, I
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  live like this. If it's not in the calendar, I'm not gonna remember.
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  But what I excuse me, what I do remember? If it's the
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  word says, that's up to God ultimately, what's gonna happen in months from
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  now, days from now, minutes from now. Amen, I have to
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  rely on that. You know what I should put in my calendar. If
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  God wills, that's what I'm gonna stop putting on my calendar, Lord willing.
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  So I'll put the event, Lord willing. Because it's only by God,
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  Amen, that we get the grace, or he gives us the power,
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  or he gives us the ability or the opportunity to do what we're really
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  planning to do. Amen, it's up to God. Our plans should always
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  honor and obey the Lord, because if they don't, that is a show
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  fire sign that God's will is not there for us. Think about it.
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  If our plan is to do something crazy and do something raunchy, do something
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  that dishonors God, that means his will is not there for us. So
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  we're operating there by chance but on our own. Amen. And we're playing
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  spiritual Russian roulette, right, and don't do that. God knows our heart.
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  So if we're planning something to do that's going to hurt someone, that's
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  going to just be selfish, a simple thing, a desire. Whatever you
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  planning that you put on your countless I'm gonna do this next week, whatever,
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  And don't think that's the will of God for your life. That's your
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  will for your life. Amen, to be honest. Well, furthermore,
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  our plans should always honor and obey the Lord. James said that if we
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  know right from wrong and engage in the wrong thing anyway, that is simple
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  for you and for me right. If you know better, better, do
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  it right and honestly. And most of us guess what. Most of us
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  do know better. Amen, My nine year old knows better, A three
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  year old knows better. You know better, I know better. We know
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  what's frightening, what's wrong. It's written. The love of God's written on
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  the hearts a man. Morality is written on the hearts. We were born
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  with a conscience. We were born into sin, yes, but we're also
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  born with a conscience. The to word means gone in Latin gone son means
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  with. Science means knowledge. We're born with knowledge, knowledge of what,
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  knowledge of right and wrong. We're already born with that. Amen. And
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  Ephesians five to five, Chapter five, verses fifteen to seven, Poor wrote,
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  Look carefully, then, how you walk, not as unwise, but
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  as wise, making the best use of the time. Because the days are
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  evil. You see it, I see it. The days are evil.
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  Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord
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  is. He then went on to say, don't get drunk, but do
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  sing to the Lord, Do give thanks and submit to God and submit to
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  each other. Amen. To that way, we're lining up with the will
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  of God for our lives. Right. Paul also list the key aspects of
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  God's will for our lives and first Deessalonians. Finally, then he said,
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  finally, then, brother, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus,
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  that you, as you receive from us how you ought to walk and
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  to please God. Just as you are doing that, you do so more
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  and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
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  For this is the will of God, your sanctification. First Thessalonians,
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  chapter four, Verses one and three. Then he lists some things that we
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  should stay away from because it's not the will of God for you, it's
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  not the will of God for me. Here's the list of the things that
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  are not the will of God for you and for me. Amen. So
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  that if that will help you out and help you know what what's not the
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  will of God, and then you will figure out what's the opposite is the
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  will of God. This is not what's the will of God. He lists
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  abstaining from sexual immorality, exercising self control, being holy worthy of honor,
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  and not sinning against each other but loving each other. We're brotherly love instead.
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  First Thessalonians, chapter number four Versus four to ten. Right, and
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  Paul keeps on going. He wants us to know that the will of God
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  is so much better than we have our own will. When we have our
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  own will, not my will be done, Lord, but your will,
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  do will be done. Because I know if I'm in the will of God,
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  I'm in the word of God. The promises of God are going to
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  apply. Right, Everything that the word of God has for my life and
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  for your life is going to apply when we find ourselves aligned with the will
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  of God. With the word of God, It's powerful. There's no fun
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  on this planet that can satisfy the soul. Amen, Sexual things, smoking,
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  drinking, partying, all that stuff, money, all of that stuff
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  cannot satisfy the soul. Yeah, it will bring you pleasure for the moment,
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  but then when the next moment comes, you gonna be more empty than
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  you started with than you will before. Trust me, I've been in that
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  world. I've been in that lifestyle. I've been in the world before.
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  I know that it drives up real quick, Amen, it drives up real
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  quick. And then, as a matter of fact, the people that were
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  with you in that situation, those situations, and they don't really stick around
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  long enough to figure out the will of God for their lives either. So,
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  while you're walking in the will of God and you notice that people stay
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  back, they stay away, they call you crazy, or they try to
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  bring you back into their mysterious life, into their how you call it,
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  morbid life, into their reckless life, A man into their misery. Misery
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  loves company. But I don't want to be a part of that company,
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  right, You don't want to be a part of that company. Listen.
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  I have my own problems. I have enough problems. The day has enough
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  problems. We don't need to be drawn into other people's problems. Amen,
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  Let's be in the will of God. It's not a mystery. It's plain
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  to see what the will of God is for you, and what the will
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  of God is for me, and what the will of God is for us.
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  Generally speaking, it managed all through the New Testament, through the apostle
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  Paul, who was inspired to write it down. Good morning, Sis to
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  join us. I see you, good morning, God, bless you in
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  your family as well in Jesus name. Yes, so we have the word.
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  God didn't leave us to wonder how to live and how to please him.
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  Amen. But we clearly know what God communicated, what God expects Amen.
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  God expects us to follow his commandments. God expects us to know him.
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  God expects us to worship him. God expects us to know on what
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  the will, his will fallies is, and he wants us to live.
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  He doesn't want us to die. He wants us to live in his will.
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  Will die outside of his will. Amen, And that'll be a horrible
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  thing. Knowing what's right and who's the one who knows what's right and doing
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  the opposite, doing what's wrong regardless, and that right there is sin,
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  and sin separates us from the will of God. A man's sin separates us
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  from the presence of God. But nothing can separate us from the love of
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  God. God will still love us. His love will chase us down,
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  but we could reject his love. Unfortunately, a lot of people right now
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  in this world are rejecting the love of God for whatever reasons. Thousands of
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  reasons why. But those reasons start turning into excuses. Amen, It's not
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  the will of God for your life. God's will for our lives is no
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  mystery. His will is revealed to us in his word We don't know what
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  the future holds, but we know how to walk in His will. The
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  Bible clearly, clearly tells us how we ought to live in a way that
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  what pleases and Babe God, as we know the right thing to do,
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  let's not fail to do the right thing. Let's do the right thing.
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  Spike Lee right. So we can't trust the will of God for our lives,
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  we can know the will of God for all lives. It's not a
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  mystery. I know a lot of people try to make this a mysterious thing.
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  Or who knows the will of God? Nobody knows the word. Yes,
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  we do know the will of God. Yes we know that we're saved.
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  Yes we know that we're born again. Yes we know where we go
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  after we die. Yes we know who the Savior is. Yes we know
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  who God is. Yes we know what the Word says. Yes we know
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  how to apply the word. We know the will of God. Don't try
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  to convince yourself that you don't know the will of God for your life when
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  it's right there in the scripture, is right there in the word. So
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  follow the will we were in James chapter four. Read the whole chapter for
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  yourself. We were camping out of verses fifteen to seventeen, but if you
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  read the whole chapter you'll get a better understanding. Amen. I try to
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  do these things in a bite sized way, so that way we could get
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  a pump, get this in our heart and then apply it to our Dave.
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  Right now, so I'm out of time, but thank you so much
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  for hanging out with me on these morning devots. Have a great weekend.
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  God bless you all. Got to keep you all and remember always that God
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  is good. Peace,