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What direction does God want you to go in? [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning family, Good morning, got blessed you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: word being presented on those platforms. Today in the Morning Devo,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about a question that's important, right, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are asking, especially when we turn seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Like me, you're a seasons person, like you do things
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  Speaker 1: in certain seasons. My little brother called me yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: he's the same way, and I never knew that. And
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  Speaker 1: we work through seasons. Amen. Winter time we move a
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  Speaker 1: certain way, fall, winter, spring, summer move differently. So summertime
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  Speaker 1: is we're entering into the summertime, so a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are asking for a direction. What direction does God
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  Speaker 1: want you to go in? Personally? Amen, what direction does
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  Speaker 1: God want you to walk in? Today in the morning Devo?
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  Speaker 1: You ready for this? Listen to what I heard from
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. God would never lead you in a direction
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  Speaker 1: that contradicts his word, that contradicts His word. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lee have Valley Christian Events will allow me to share
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  Speaker 1: this on your group. Always test what you feel led
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  Speaker 1: to do against scripture, feel led to go in a
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  Speaker 1: certain direction, make sure you you test that idea or
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  Speaker 1: that thought that path with the scripture would be in
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah chapter thirty one. Excuse me, Isaiah chapter thirty, verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. Let me get that right, Isaiah thirty verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. Today in the morning, Devo. If you have
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  Speaker 1: any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, or anything along those lines,
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  Speaker 1: please don't hesitate to leave it on a live chat.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what the live chat is for, to connect communicate. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: If you want to have a debate, this is not
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  Speaker 1: the platform for it. But I do know people who
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  Speaker 1: want who can debate, and if you want a debate,
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  Speaker 1: I could slide you over to those people, Amen that
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  Speaker 1: I know online. So listen, what direction does God want
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  Speaker 1: you to go? And personalize that? Ask God, Yeah, what
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  Speaker 1: direction do you want me to go? You want me
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  Speaker 1: to go this way? You want to go that way?
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  Speaker 1: You want me to go after that? Oh, you want
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  Speaker 1: me to stay put? Or you want me to you
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  Speaker 1: know what is it? God is a living God, so
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  Speaker 1: he will respond to that request. What direction does God
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  Speaker 1: want you to go? Win Again, We're gonna pray first.
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  Speaker 1: Right after we pray, we'll shut this out for like
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  Speaker 1: sixty seconds, and on the other side of those sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: we'll come back and we'll get right into today's scripture Isaiah,
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirty, verse number twenty one. Let's pray. Father, I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for direction. Thank you for peace in that direction.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord God that no matter what happens, you
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  Speaker 1: say in your word that the steps of the righteous
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  Speaker 1: are ordered according to your will, your purpose, your plan,
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  Speaker 1: which by the way, are all perfect. Thank you, Lord
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  Speaker 1: God for your perfection. Thank you, Lord God that you
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  Speaker 1: take imperfect people, and you perfect us by your will,
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  Speaker 1: by your grace, by your mercy, by your love, and
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  Speaker 1: through it all, Lord God, I give you glory or
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  Speaker 1: honor worship and praise through the good days and the
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  Speaker 1: bad days, through the dark times, and the times that
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  Speaker 1: we are above on the mountaintop, and the times that
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  Speaker 1: we find ourselves in the valley waiting for you, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: to speak to us, so that way we could be
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  Speaker 1: led in the right direction, by way of your Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: by way of your word, by way of your body,
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  Speaker 1: by way of your Church. I pray Lord God a
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  Speaker 1: hedge of protection in these perilous times, over myself, my family,
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  Speaker 1: my marriage, our children, our grandchildren, our family members from
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  Speaker 1: the very youngest family member to the very oldest, and
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  Speaker 1: every single one in between. Thank you, Lord God for
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  Speaker 1: allowing us to see children, nephews and nieces graduate prosper.
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  Speaker 1: Godsns and god children graduate and prosper. Thank you, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: that you continue to connect us with the right people.
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  Speaker 1: I pray Lord God over every single person that's watching
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  Speaker 1: or listening, that they are the right connection, That they
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  Speaker 1: are the right people that need to know your word.
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  Speaker 1: Be in your word and apply your word. So empower
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  Speaker 1: Uslow God, by your Holy Spirit to move in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction and the powerful name of Jesus. I prayed
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  Speaker 1: this by faith and all those who agree we say
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  Speaker 1: amen to that. Amen, since the joyce I see you.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, God, bless you, welcome back to the morning Deva,
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  Speaker 1: my sister and my friend, and thank you for always
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  Speaker 1: blessing the group with your presence, and most importantly, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for the blessing in Jesus' name. Hey, man, so
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  Speaker 1: let's go for it. Help me share this side when
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  Speaker 1: we come back, We'll get right into today's morning Devo.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be right back amen. Amen, thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for coming through. Amen, Ray, Rivera, God bless you, my
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  Speaker 1: friend and my bro. Good morning, brother Sam. So happy
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  Speaker 1: to see you on here this morning. Great way to
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  Speaker 1: start with God. Yes, I try to make the first
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  Speaker 1: thing the first thing. I try to keep God first
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  Speaker 1: and all things that I do. And for sure, at
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  Speaker 1: this time of the morning, for those who really know
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  Speaker 1: me right, I'm not an early bird. This is all
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  Speaker 1: because God spoke to my spirit years ago and said,
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  Speaker 1: how come you don't put me first? Amen as you
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  Speaker 1: used to when you first got saved? And that convicted me. Man.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, thank you so much for coming through and
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  Speaker 1: checking us out. My brother Ray, listen, what direction does
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  Speaker 1: God want you to go? And ask yourself that question?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe get in front of the mirror you're getting dressed
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  Speaker 1: for work or getting ready for whatever, to start your day. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And you look yourself in the mirror and say, listen,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know your direction, the path that you
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  Speaker 1: should go. Amen, this is a good question to be
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  Speaker 1: asking the Lord. And guess what He answers that question
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  Speaker 1: in his word right, Believe it or not, He answers
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  Speaker 1: this question in his word time in and time out, right,
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  Speaker 1: like he always shows up a man that answers. And
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  Speaker 1: then listen to this, I'm gonna humble myself. God doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to answer any one of my questions. Amen. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't not obligated to answer any one of my questions.
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  Speaker 1: But he is faithful to his word, and his word
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  Speaker 1: never returns back to him void. And he is careful,
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  Speaker 1: and he's wise right, and he's merciful, and he's full
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  Speaker 1: of grace, and he will guide us by way of
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. So I always tell people, the Father loves
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  Speaker 1: the people right, the Father loves the Son saves right,
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  Speaker 1: and Holy Spirit leads in the right direction, the right path,
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  Speaker 1: and reminds us of who we are in Christ and
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  Speaker 1: who Christ is in us. A man, it's a beautiful union,
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  Speaker 1: perfect union between Holy Spirit and Us. Amen. Perfect union. Right,
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  Speaker 1: there's never an imperfection in the union in Christ once
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  Speaker 1: you're born again. So that's the question for today. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get to the scripture today in the morning Vivo Isaiah,
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirty, verse twenty one. The Bible says, your ears
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  Speaker 1: will hear a word behind you. This is the way.
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  Speaker 1: Walk in it. Neever you turn to the right or
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  Speaker 1: to the left. Other versions say your ears will hear
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  Speaker 1: a voice behind you. This is the way. Walk in it.
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  Speaker 1: Never you turn to the right or to the left.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, we're being directed. And if you're careful
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  Speaker 1: a man to listen to Holy Spirit, you know that
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  Speaker 1: he will guide you in the right direction all the time,
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  Speaker 1: not just sometimes all the time. And whenever I see
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  Speaker 1: that phrase, this is the way, I always think about Mandalorian,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I'm a Star Wars weirdo
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  Speaker 1: like that, and they always go this is the way.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, they figured it out. But we don't
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  Speaker 1: have to figure out things out. We have the word
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  Speaker 1: on it and what direction we should be going in
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  Speaker 1: and what path we should take. And this is a
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  Speaker 1: day to day thing. I don't know about you, But
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  Speaker 1: I live in a world that's broken. I live in
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  Speaker 1: the world that we got to make. I live in
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  Speaker 1: the world that we got to make some decisions, daily decisions.
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  Speaker 1: It's not based on want, my feelings want. It's based
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  Speaker 1: on what the Word is saying. Amen. I want to
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  Speaker 1: really be led by a holy spirite God, and we
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  Speaker 1: are led. We need to just allow him to move.
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  Speaker 1: Trusting in God means taking steps in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Trusting God means taking steps and towards the unknown. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know what's going to happen tomorrow? I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: could plan for my tomorrow, but I don't know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen. I don't know the people are
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  Speaker 1: going to talk to, the people are going to meet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. You know it's gonna be a good
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  Speaker 1: or bad day. I don't know. You know if I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be confronted. I don't know if somebody's gonna try
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  Speaker 1: to distract me and on my path, on my righteous path. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But I know for sure, I'm not gonna turn to
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  Speaker 1: the left or I'm not going to turn to the
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  Speaker 1: right right unless God tells me to. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: follow the righteous path that he wants me to follow.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes it gets lonely. I'm not gonna lie. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it gets lonely because you're like, how come everybody else
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  Speaker 1: in not following the path? Right? And where where is
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  Speaker 1: everybody else? At? Where my people at? From the front
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  Speaker 1: to the back, right where everybody? Where? Did everybody go?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you feel like you are all alone on your path,
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  Speaker 1: but you're really not. You're never alone. I'm never alone.
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  Speaker 1: We have Holy Spirit living in us, the Holy One
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  Speaker 1: of God, living in us and dwelling and alive and
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  Speaker 1: well and leading us into the right direction. Amen, Sister June,
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  Speaker 1: I see you. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the morning devo, my sister and my friend. Let
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  Speaker 1: me get to my note. I took some notes down
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  Speaker 1: about this topic and this question as I asked myself
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  Speaker 1: yesterday what direction God do you want me to go?
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  Speaker 1: In man? As I had a long day yesterday out
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  Speaker 1: there in a community, a man helping communities out there.
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  Speaker 1: So very first thing that I always knew, Amen, and
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  Speaker 1: I think you noticed too, is what we seek after first?
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  Speaker 1: Is the direction will take first? Bible says in Matthew
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  Speaker 1: six thirty three. Actually, the Lord is speaking, he says,
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  Speaker 1: But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and all these things will be added to you. What
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  Speaker 1: are all those things? Well, righteousness. When you find the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God, you are under the kingship of the
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  Speaker 1: King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and you're in
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom, and now you're moving in his righteousness. All
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  Speaker 1: those things that God has will be added on to you.
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  Speaker 1: So start by getting into a deep relationship. Man, Open
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  Speaker 1: up your heart, open up your mind to the things
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  Speaker 1: of God. Right, follow him, speak to him through prayer, worship,
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  Speaker 1: study his scripture, study his word. Right he will well
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  Speaker 1: his will, I said, not he will. His will is
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  Speaker 1: first about who you are becoming, not just where you're going.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it. We're becoming more like Jesus, and he
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  Speaker 1: knows where we're going. So I always tell people listen
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  Speaker 1: to my testimony. Is my testimony. Right, he met me
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  Speaker 1: where I was in my darkest place. Right, I was
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  Speaker 1: in desperation, I was drunk and high year two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and one, my first home in Allentown. He met me
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  Speaker 1: where I was to take me to where he is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a journey, man, and that's all by grace he
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to. He didn't have to rescue me, save me,
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  Speaker 1: transform me, renew me, redeeming, restore me a man. The
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  Speaker 1: way I was acting and how I called him out,
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't be sinning here, But because of his grace, right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here and he's leading me. Do I always get
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  Speaker 1: the path right? Do I always get things right? Do
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  Speaker 1: I always listen correctly? I don't know about you, but
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  Speaker 1: for me, the answer is no. I don't always get
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  Speaker 1: it right. But not the righteous one, the one who
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  Speaker 1: always gets the right living inside of me. So I
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  Speaker 1: start running out of excuses when I feel a certain way. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I want to do this, and I want to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and never consult with the Lord who I never check
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  Speaker 1: my feelings. I don't never check with the scriptures. That's
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  Speaker 1: a dangerous path right there. I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: on that path, right. I don't think anybody wants to
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  Speaker 1: be on that path. We want to be moving in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction. So consider this. Listen to the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Some religions think that the Holy Spirit is a force. Again,
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  Speaker 1: going back to star Wars, the force is with you,
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit that we serve and the scriptures. According to scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: is a person, the third person of the Holy Triune God. Right,
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  Speaker 1: and he is a person. He's the comforter, the helper. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Baba says, well, we just read your ears. Shall hear
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  Speaker 1: a word behind you saying this is the way? Walk
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  Speaker 1: in it. The Holy Spirit often speaks through peace, He
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  Speaker 1: speaks through conviction, he speaks through wise counsel and even
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  Speaker 1: closed or open doors. Holy Spirit is always speaking. Listen
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  Speaker 1: for those who have ears to listen, listen to the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. Amen. Since the joy says, put your
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  Speaker 1: trust in him. He surely will direct you your path
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  Speaker 1: of righteousness. Yes, and righteousness is a thing still right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: preachers that they don't preach righteousness to what they preach opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God that in my church we preach righteousness, we
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  Speaker 1: preach salvation, preach Holy Spirit. Amen, and we know that
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  Speaker 1: the teacher speaks. Amen, So tiw you should God bless her. Yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming through the morning. Devo.
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  Speaker 1: I see you doing things and that's a blessing. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But angelou Larro God blessed Angel says, sometimes we don't
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  Speaker 1: have sometimes we spend more time complaining about things we
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  Speaker 1: don't have and what's not going right, and a fraction
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  Speaker 1: of that is spent with the Lord. That imbalance is
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  Speaker 1: what's caused me to struggle. We can get frustrated about things, sure,
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  Speaker 1: but when we spend more time with Him than anything else,
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  Speaker 1: only blessings and breakthrough will be a result. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being honest and trans and thank you for that comment.
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  Speaker 1: It's so true, man, and you're speaking to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people on that one. Amen. Amen, the truth. So
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  Speaker 1: he says, sending glory to Godmen, listen, use your gifts
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  Speaker 1: and don't let your gifts become a burden. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: God is giving us things right, and let's use it
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  Speaker 1: for his glory. Let's use it to promote the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God. But as soon as we feel like it's ours, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that same gift that God gave you can become a burden,
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  Speaker 1: because then we're trying to ex out Holy Spirit, ex
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  Speaker 1: out the path that God has us on, and just
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  Speaker 1: run led by our feelings. I can't run being led
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  Speaker 1: by my If I to be honest, if I'm led
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  Speaker 1: by my feelings, it will be really no morning, devot.
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel like getting up at five o'clock, five
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  Speaker 1: fifteen in the morning, right every day, Monday through Friday.
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  Speaker 1: I do it because I'm not doing this. I'm being
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  Speaker 1: led to do this. I'm not all my own doing this.
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  Speaker 1: I had the scriptures to back it up. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: that means I don't have to have a drop the
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  Speaker 1: mic moment all the time. I don't have to say
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  Speaker 1: the right words all the time. I could stutter, I
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  Speaker 1: could say, I can say Amen a hundred times Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the point. The point is that God is
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  Speaker 1: speaking through his word, and he's leading us, and he's
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  Speaker 1: leading us in a direction where we should go right.
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  Speaker 1: Who else is going to lead you in a perfect
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  Speaker 1: direction other than the perfect God through his perfect Spirit Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: So the Holy Spirit speaks through peace, conviction, wise counsel,
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  Speaker 1: closed doors, and even open doors. So if we learn
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  Speaker 1: to recognize his voice through the stillness and obedience, we
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  Speaker 1: could learn that his voice is different. Amen. When I
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  Speaker 1: hear Holy Spirit, this is how this is my spirits
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  Speaker 1: with the Holy Spirit. When I hear his voice, it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like my voice telling me to do things that
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  Speaker 1: I normally would even do. And it's always good, it's
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  Speaker 1: always challenging, it's always stretching. Amen. It's always for somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's weird or not, but God
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  Speaker 1: would tell me to do things, and most of the
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  Speaker 1: time is for somebody else. He'll send me warnings if
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  Speaker 1: I'm going in the wrong direction, Amen, And he'll give
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  Speaker 1: me examples of other people who went down that path.
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  Speaker 1: Or he'll show me that those paths are old and
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  Speaker 1: there's like breaks in the bridges and I won't get
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  Speaker 1: past it. He'll literally warm me because he loves me.
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  Speaker 1: He'll warn you because he loves you too. Amen. Amen. So,
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  Speaker 1: brother Frank, I see you. Bless you, Brother Sam. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: being greedy and bringing it at home can knock you
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  Speaker 1: right out of your blessing. Amen. I get what you're saying. Right, greed,
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  Speaker 1: LUs for possessions, right, being led by just feelings, those
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  Speaker 1: things could really block your blessing, knock you right out
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  Speaker 1: of your blessing. I like that, and it's true. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I said earlier. Let's not be led by how
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  Speaker 1: we feel. Let's be led by the faith that we have.
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  Speaker 1: And Holy Spirit will respond. And he's always speaking. God
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  Speaker 1: is always speaking. Somebody forgot who it was, but somebody
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  Speaker 1: was preaching saying God don't speak no more. I'm like, huh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what God they're serving, but the God
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  Speaker 1: will served speaks daily. Man. Just listen, take a step
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  Speaker 1: of faith. And that's why when you see people criticizing
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  Speaker 1: a believer, criticizing a Christians, because maybe that Christian is
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  Speaker 1: not taking steps of faith. Because when people see a
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  Speaker 1: christ holy goes filled moment in a person's life that
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  Speaker 1: they know and not qualifies to do X, y Z,
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  Speaker 1: and they take a step forward, and then God meets
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  Speaker 1: them in that step, then people start recognizing whoa He
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  Speaker 1: must be doing everything right, or he's serving a guy
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  Speaker 1: who does everything right through that person or she through
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  Speaker 1: him or her. Take a step of faith. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get there. God will meet you right there every step
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  Speaker 1: of the way. God will meet you right there and
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  Speaker 1: every step of the way. Thank you, Sister Joyce, Amen
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  Speaker 1: for your comment. Good morning, brother man, Well I'll see
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  Speaker 1: you man. Brother Robert Diaz, Robert Diaz, good morning, blessing
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  Speaker 1: to you, my bro. So confirm your faith by taking
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  Speaker 1: a step of it, like like literally, don't be afraid, man,
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  Speaker 1: take a step of faith. Now, make sure you listen
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  Speaker 1: to the right voice, hey man, don't let the enemies
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  Speaker 1: try to trick you into taking steps that will lead
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  Speaker 1: you to harm, but take steps of righteousness. Proverbs three,
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  Speaker 1: five and six. This is my wife's one of my
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  Speaker 1: wife's favorite scriptures. Proverbs three three, verses five and six.
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  Speaker 1: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean
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  Speaker 1: not on your own understanding. In all your ways. Submit
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  Speaker 1: to him, and he will what make your paths straight.
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  Speaker 1: If God is making our paths straight, that means there's
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  Speaker 1: crooked paths out there that he doesn't want us to take.
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  Speaker 1: Man Well says, persecution comes with following Jesus. It's part
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  Speaker 1: of the deal. You're right, it's part of the deal
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  Speaker 1: because we're going against the green. Hey man, I was
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  Speaker 1: watching the movie what was the movie Leilo and Stitch,
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  Speaker 1: And there was a scene I don't want to spoiler
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  Speaker 1: the movie if nobody who didn't watch it. I normally
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't watch that movie, but because the fellowship, I went right.
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  Speaker 1: My wife said, so and so is gonna be there.
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  Speaker 1: So I went to the movie to watch the lelon
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  Speaker 1: on Stitch. But in the in one of the scenes,
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  Speaker 1: I believe the little the stitch was drowning and when
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  Speaker 1: if you know about Stitch. When he gets some water,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes very heavy. So the older sister, those younger
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  Speaker 1: sister and the older sister. It was a great surfer,
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  Speaker 1: and swimmer went to go save Stitch because it was
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  Speaker 1: so heavy. She knew about like, she wasn't gonna get
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  Speaker 1: up there trying to swim up to the to the top.
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  Speaker 1: So what she did was she knew about the current
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  Speaker 1: of the water, so she went with the current of
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  Speaker 1: the waves. You know which way the waves went, And
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  Speaker 1: she just ran from the bottom and followed that current
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  Speaker 1: and started had the stitch, the alien thing in her arms,
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  Speaker 1: and she couldn't swim up, but she followed the current
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  Speaker 1: and it got her to a place where then she
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  Speaker 1: could just swim up. I don't know if that makes
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  Speaker 1: any sense, but to me, that makes a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of sense. When you're going in the direction that God
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  Speaker 1: wants you to go, you go be like in this flow, right,
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  Speaker 1: it's not even gonna feel like it's hard or straining.
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  Speaker 1: But if you go in the opposite direction of where
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  Speaker 1: God wants you to go, and you're gonna feel that tension,
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  Speaker 1: you might even drown. Right, You won't get anywhere fast
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  Speaker 1: you'll be on your own pretty much. And I took that.
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  Speaker 1: When I saw that scene, I took that and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Yep, she's following the direction that she needs
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  Speaker 1: to go. And it's even though it was hard for
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  Speaker 1: her because she was holding an object of an alien
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  Speaker 1: in her hand that was heavy, she just knew that
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  Speaker 1: if she went in the right direction and follow the current. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I just see the current as the word of God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I see the current as the word of God. Brother
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  Speaker 1: Robbie says, the first scripture I memorized violenteen challenge. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's crazy, right, And then Manuel says, she know my
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  Speaker 1: voice and a stranger they will not follow God's word.
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  Speaker 1: Tells us be still and know that I am God
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  Speaker 1: and be spirit led. Yes, we have a lot, man.
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  Speaker 1: We could offer hope to a lot of people who
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  Speaker 1: are out there who need hope. We could offer prayer
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  Speaker 1: for those who need prayer. We could offer comfort for
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  Speaker 1: those who are dismayed, like they're stressed out. We could
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  Speaker 1: be the bridge from hopelessness to the hope. We could
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  Speaker 1: be the bridge from the kingdom of darkness to the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of light. Right, we could be the bridge from
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  Speaker 1: being someone that's not saved, and to meet the Savior
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  Speaker 1: and be saved. Amen. Sometimes God reveals the next step,
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  Speaker 1: not the whole path. Raise my hand. I'd be like, no,
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  Speaker 1: I know where I want to go, I know where
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  Speaker 1: I need to go, Lord, but can you show me more?
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  Speaker 1: And God sometimes will said, nah, just trust me, I
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  Speaker 1: know where I'm taking you right. So God reveals the
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  Speaker 1: next step, not the whole path. Sometimes obedience in the
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  Speaker 1: small things often a lots clarity for the bigger things
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  Speaker 1: when you make bigger decisions. So be mindful of the
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  Speaker 1: decisions you make. We might be saying, well, I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the supermarket right now, and I know I'm not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to beat in sweets, So you have to decide right
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  Speaker 1: then and there to stay away from that last hour
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  Speaker 1: before the cashier or the last hour before you check out.
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  Speaker 1: Just don't look at it. It's all sweets, it's all
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  Speaker 1: junk food. And you purpose in your mind, listen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to do it. So you have to make
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  Speaker 1: a decision. Some people might say, oh, that's a small decision,
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  Speaker 1: But if you make the right decision, you'll continue making
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  Speaker 1: those right decisions and small things, and then when the
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  Speaker 1: bigger decisions come up. You'll be making the right decisions
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  Speaker 1: again because you're practicing and holiness and righteousness and wholeness
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  Speaker 1: and purity and trying to take care of things your
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  Speaker 1: body physically, emotionally, and spiritually as well. The steps of
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  Speaker 1: a good man are ordered by God. Amen. And we
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  Speaker 1: see now a poor reflection of ourselves. Man, Well it
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  Speaker 1: was on fire. Amen. So he's sick of what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: and he's backing up with scripture. And that's all I
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  Speaker 1: said earlier. Test everything with the scripture. If it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: line up with the word of God, then what are
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  Speaker 1: we doing? What are we saying? We're not saying much.
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  Speaker 1: I won't be saying much right now if it's not
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  Speaker 1: lined up with scripture. So confirm with God's word. God
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  Speaker 1: will never lead you in a direction that contradicts the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Always test what you feel led to do against what
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  Speaker 1: the scripture says where we should go. Ho. The Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is speaking and he allows you to go in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction. So if you're looking for clarity, you're looking
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  Speaker 1: for direction, Amen, Isaiah chapter thirty. It's a good scripture
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  Speaker 1: to go and check out for yourself. For yourself, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, Isaiah chapter thirty, the whole chapter where we
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  Speaker 1: were hanging out at verse number twenty one where we started.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm out of time. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: hanging out with me for this morning, devo. Amen, and
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  Speaker 1: I hope and pray that we can get together again soon.
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  Speaker 1: A good thing to say connected with the Word of God. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So God bless you all, God keep you all, and
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  Speaker 1: remember always that God is good. Peace.