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Prayer for Students [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Good morning family, Good morning, got blessed. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: the Morning Devo, my brothers and sisters in Christ and
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Speaker 1: the Family of God and those who are listening and
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Speaker 1: watching right now. Hey man, welcome back to the Morning Devo.
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Speaker 2: Hey man, my.
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Speaker 1: Apologies for the Sunday talk show, the Kingdom Call. I
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Speaker 1: haven't been doing it for a while because on Sundays
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Speaker 1: I literally have things happening the men and the time
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Speaker 1: frame right now is not available, but soon and very soon,
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Speaker 1: Lord Willing, I'll get back to the Kingdom Call every
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Speaker 1: Sunday at six pm Eastern Standing time. So let's go
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Speaker 1: for it. We're gonna start with prayer like we always do,
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Speaker 1: but we're gonna specifically pray for students. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you heard or saw in the news. Unfortunately the
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Speaker 1: first day, first week back, that have been shootings, stabbings, people.
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Speaker 2: Have been getting hurt in schools. School's been closing.
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Speaker 1: Down and all kind of things going around all over
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Speaker 1: the country, all over the nation. And that's not cool, man,
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Speaker 1: that's really not cool. When I was a kid, there
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Speaker 1: was not really nothing like that. There would be some
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Speaker 1: balls and fights and all that, but no stabbings, no shootings,
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Speaker 1: at least when I was a young kid into a
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Speaker 1: teenager man. So it's not good prayer for students today.
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Speaker 2: We'll pray for the new school year. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And we should be praying regardless for everybody. But when
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Speaker 1: we're specific with our prayers, I believe and God hears
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Speaker 1: those prayers and answers them according to the specific prayer
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Speaker 1: that we're praying. There's a word for specifivity. I think
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Speaker 1: it's called Amen. That's a hard word to say early
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Speaker 1: in the morning. Since Joayne, I see you, Good morning,
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Speaker 1: got let's you welcome back to the morning demo.
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Speaker 2: My sister and my friend.
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Speaker 1: So it's time to join together and pray for this
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Speaker 1: new school year, right, can you believe it? Sometime it's
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Speaker 1: almost done. We're heading into the fall. School is coming
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Speaker 1: back in some regions already school has already started. But
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Speaker 1: I'm like, let's pray for our students for real, Like
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Speaker 1: let's really pray. We're gonna be in Proverbs chapter number two,
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Speaker 1: verse number six, Proverbs two and verse number six. If
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Speaker 1: you have any questions, comments, concerns, pray requests, or anything
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Speaker 1: along those lines, please don't hesitate to leave it on
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Speaker 1: a live chat.
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Speaker 2: That's what we're here for. That's what we're here for.
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Speaker 1: If you're a live that's so win is where zea
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Speaker 1: orgda is a live chat there as well. It's a
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Speaker 1: real chill website, no distractions over there if you want
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Speaker 1: to join me over there as well. So let's go
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Speaker 1: for it. Let's pray first. After we pray, we'll share
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Speaker 1: this out for like sixty seconds, and then on the
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Speaker 1: other side of that six seconds, we'll get right into
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Speaker 1: our verse for today to devote some time, and then
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Speaker 1: we're gonna pray. Give you some prayer points, some highlights
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Speaker 1: that we could be praying for a new school year right,
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Speaker 1: as our children, as our family members, as the teachers
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Speaker 1: go back, faculty has been back, right.
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Speaker 2: And then my friend, my brother in Christ.
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Speaker 1: He's actually one of the custodians, cleans up, gets the
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Speaker 1: classrooms prepared, a clean school year right, and all of
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Speaker 1: that is important. We need to be praying for everyone involved.
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Speaker 1: We're raising our children through the school system, not raising
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Speaker 1: our children through values and listen the teachers teach and
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Speaker 1: the parents. We raised our children with the values and man,
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Speaker 1: if you're a Christ's follower, we raise our children in
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Speaker 1: the ways of the Lord.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: If you're not a Christian or you don't believe in
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Speaker 1: God or anything like that, you're raising your children based
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Speaker 1: upon what you believe. So my prayer is that we
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Speaker 1: all come to anerstanding of who the Lord is in
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Speaker 1: our lives, so that way we could pray and be
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Speaker 1: specific and pray to the only, true, living, holy, righteous,
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Speaker 1: loving God who loves us so much that He's sent
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Speaker 1: his very own self to save us, not to condemn
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Speaker 1: the world, but to save the world.
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Speaker 2: So let's pray.
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Speaker 1: Father, I thank you for saving and rescuing us. Thank
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Speaker 1: you Lo God for today. Thank you Lord God for
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Speaker 1: new starts, new beginnings. I pray, Lood God, that this
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Speaker 1: season that we're coming into, Lo God, will be the
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Speaker 1: best season in our lives, that we could experience more
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Speaker 1: and more of who you are and what you can
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Speaker 1: do and what you will do in our hearts and
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Speaker 1: our minds. I pray look God a hedge of protection
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Speaker 1: for every single person right now, including myself, my wife,
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Speaker 1: our children, our grandchildren, our family from the very youngest
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Speaker 1: to the very oldest family members, and everyone in between.
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Speaker 1: I pray that same hedge of protection in the name
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Speaker 1: of Jesus, over every single person that's watching or listening
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus, I.
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Speaker 1: Pray, Lord God, that you would teach us and show
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Speaker 1: us how to be wild and our decision making, how
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Speaker 1: to know how to navigate this life, how to know
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Speaker 1: how to surround ourselves where people who will encourage us,
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Speaker 1: who will lift us up and stay out of the
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Speaker 1: dark places and dark groups and dark covenants. We release
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Speaker 1: those things out to the world and we embrace those
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Speaker 1: things that you give us, and we embrace that for
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Speaker 1: eternal life. So I speak life concerning all living people,
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Speaker 1: all things living, and I speak death to those things
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Speaker 1: that try to come against the plan of God, over
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Speaker 1: every individual life and the powerful name of Jesus. I
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Speaker 1: prayed by faith and all those who agreed. We say
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Speaker 1: Amen to the Amen. Help me share this out sixty seconds.
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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll get right into today's morning.
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Speaker 2: Devo. I'll be right back. Amen. We're back.
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Speaker 1: Let's go for it, ladies and gentlemen, let's go for it.
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Speaker 1: We got a amen from Sister Joanne. It's power and
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Speaker 1: agreement for sure. We already know that, Amen. And if
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Speaker 1: you don't know that, let's agree in prayer, and let's
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Speaker 1: pray for our students, the students that are coming back
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Speaker 1: to school, the students that need school supplies. As a
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Speaker 1: matter of fact, from the time it's recording, on this Saturday,
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Speaker 1: Lord Willing of Saturday comes, there's gonna be a backpack
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Speaker 1: school giveaway all over my community, but especially this Saturday.
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Speaker 1: I think it's from two to five for men. Just
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Speaker 1: look at my socials.
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Speaker 2: I got it up.
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Speaker 1: We gotta post it up, amen, and I'll post it
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Speaker 1: up also on the website. It's free for the whole family.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: From elementary school students I believe, to junior high or
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Speaker 1: middle school students, Amen, and some high school students.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna be given out backpacks.
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Speaker 1: So that's something that you could check out on the website,
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Speaker 1: also on on social media platforms, so you can see
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Speaker 1: the link. So praying is powerful. You know, I've been
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Speaker 1: on this prayer thing for a while, right because it's
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Speaker 1: so much going on, So much has been brought to
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Speaker 1: our attention right as believers. So we need to be
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Speaker 1: standing in prayer, standing in the gap for those who
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Speaker 1: need prayer, for those who are experiencing tough times right now, financially, physically,
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Speaker 1: in their body, mentally, in their mindset.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: So we need to be in prayer, united in prayer,
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Speaker 1: united in faith, right encouraging one another to move forward
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Speaker 1: in victorious ways. So let's get to the scripture. I
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Speaker 1: want to share this with everyone. Here a man pray
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Speaker 1: for students. You see, I got the bus moving an
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Speaker 1: Proverbs chapter two, verse number six, The Bible says, for
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Speaker 1: the Lord gives skillful and godly wisdom. Lord doesn't give
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Speaker 1: us junk. He doesn't give us worldly wisdom. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: give us wisdom that we can use on a day
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Speaker 1: to day business, day to day. You know, God gives
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Speaker 1: us skillful and godly wisdom.
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Speaker 2: That's what the Lord gives us.
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Speaker 1: From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. God is always speaking.
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Speaker 1: He speaks to his word. He speaks through people. He
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Speaker 1: speaks to community, He speaks to his body. He speaks
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Speaker 1: to the churches, he speaks through schools, he speaks through businesses.
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Speaker 1: He speaks through government, he speaks through medical fields, he
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Speaker 1: speaks through finances.
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Speaker 2: He speaks through.
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Speaker 1: All of us who are called upon, called upon His
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Speaker 1: name to be saved. We have His Holy spirit living
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Speaker 1: inside of us. Sister Joann says, I like if you
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Speaker 1: could keep in touch with me about the backpacks.
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Speaker 2: I have a child with me. Please keep in touch
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Speaker 2: with me.
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Speaker 1: I don't go on the website, Okay, no problem, I'll
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Speaker 1: send you. I believe the link I could send you
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Speaker 1: through your messenger, So get ready for that and I'll
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Speaker 1: get you that Information's local. It's in Allentown twelfth Street.
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Speaker 1: It's called Hope Community Church, and we do this every year.
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Speaker 1: I believe this is at least my twelfth year involved
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Speaker 1: in this backpack giveaway.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: So you'll get that information soon, Sister Joan, and we'll
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Speaker 1: take care of that child that's living with you, Okay.
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Speaker 1: For the Lord gives, he gives love, he gives grace,
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Speaker 1: it gives mercy, It gives skillful and godly wisdom. What
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Speaker 1: kind of wisdom is that? It's an amazing wisdom to
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Speaker 1: have not only to know, but to understand what you know.
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Speaker 1: Not only to understand and know, but to apply that
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Speaker 1: wisdom right because from the mouth of the Lord, knowledge
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Speaker 1: and understanding come out of the Lord's mouth when God speaks.
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Speaker 1: We should all be listening and listening intentionally and listening
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Speaker 1: carefully to the instructions and to the ways that God
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Speaker 1: wants us to move.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: That's the very best way we should be moving. Regardless,
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Speaker 1: we should be moving in a way that will honor God,
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Speaker 1: that will please God.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: And that way we could go ahead and encourage others.
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Speaker 1: I was in a lyft ride with one of my passengers,
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Speaker 1: a young lady and man. She was going through it
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Speaker 1: with I guess a boyfriend or an ex boyfriend or something.
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Speaker 1: And the way the conversation on the phone was it
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Speaker 1: was demeaning to her. It was, you know, it was aggravating.
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Speaker 1: She was aggravated. But then again, I'm looking and she
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Speaker 1: was a young lady. I don't know if she's still
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Speaker 1: in school or not. But dropped her. She had a
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Speaker 1: round trip, dropped off at a local clothing store. She
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Speaker 1: had to get a couple of things, got back in
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Speaker 1: so I had a specific song that I wanted to play.
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Speaker 1: So that way, maybe in the background, if she was listening,
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Speaker 1: she would hear it right. It's I See for Kratona.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be one of my favorite bangers for gospel rap.
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Speaker 1: It's called I had to Separate. It's called separate when
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Speaker 1: we have to separate from our old way of thinking.
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Speaker 1: We have to separate from people times, we have to
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Speaker 1: separate from old habits. We have to separate from the
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Speaker 1: people that are dragging us down. We have to separate
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Speaker 1: from smoking and drinking and a party life. We have
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Speaker 1: to separate from our simple evil desires. It's a great song,
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Speaker 1: and I knew she was listening because she looked puzzled.
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Speaker 1: At one point, she was on the phone and she
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Speaker 1: put the phone down and started putting her ear towards
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Speaker 1: the speaker.
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Speaker 2: She said, what is this Amen?
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Speaker 1: So I'm praying, help me pray that this young lady
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Speaker 1: will receive that message that was in that song, because
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Speaker 1: that song is inspired by Holy Spirit God through a
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Speaker 1: man of God that knew he had to leave his
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Speaker 1: old ways and going into the new school year. I
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Speaker 1: think what happens is when students leave school right in
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Speaker 1: that environment and that it's structured, that they should have
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Speaker 1: some kind of discipline that she hopefully the prayer is
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Speaker 1: that they'll have teachers that really care about them, They'll
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Speaker 1: have faculty members that really care about them, they'll have
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Speaker 1: a school system that really cares about the student's hope.
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Speaker 1: They're in that type of environment. But when they leave
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Speaker 1: that environment and go to their other environment for a
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Speaker 1: number of months, right, three months, So you have July, August, September,
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Speaker 1: So not even two and a half months, right, because
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Speaker 1: June is the last month for many students, and then
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Speaker 1: they have July and August. It's really like only two
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Speaker 1: and a half months they have off. But in at
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Speaker 1: two and a half months, they might pick up old
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Speaker 1: habits and old ways and patterns of thinking. And they're
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Speaker 1: not in a disciplined situation. They're not in a structure situation.
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Speaker 1: A lot of students are in bad situations. So I
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Speaker 1: help me pray for every single person that I meet
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Speaker 1: when I do the ride share, when I'm meeting people
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Speaker 1: there in the field, when I'm out there witnessing to people,
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Speaker 1: when I'm out there DJing, when I'm out there doing events,
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Speaker 1: and man, help me be more bold and speak up
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Speaker 1: for the cause of Christ. You might be thinking, ah,
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Speaker 1: you speak about God all the time with everybody.
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Speaker 2: It's not true.
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Speaker 1: There's certain situations that I kind of like struggle with
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Speaker 1: when it comes to speaking on it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why, Amen, but I'm working on it. Amen.
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Speaker 1: If you know what I'm talking about, and you have
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Speaker 1: certain situations that are approached, you approach by, or you
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Speaker 1: come across, and you have a hard time speaking the
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Speaker 1: Gospel over it, Amen to someone else, a man will
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Speaker 1: be praying for each other because you know what I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about. So prayer for students. We need to be mindful,
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Speaker 1: we need to be praying.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: These are back to school prayers, and I'm going to
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Speaker 1: give you some highlights and then maybe because of the highlights,
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Speaker 1: you'll take some time personal time and pray, or maybe
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Speaker 1: going to a group of prayer warriors a man online
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Speaker 1: or on the phone or on person, and let's pray
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Speaker 1: for our students. Right, every student that's returning to school
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Speaker 1: is in need of something.
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Speaker 2: A lot of times.
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Speaker 1: If you remember when you were in school, there was
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Speaker 1: always that the inn group, right. People always wanted to
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Speaker 1: be with the cool group, with the group of people
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Speaker 1: that seem to have it all together, that seem to
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Speaker 1: have the fame and the money and prestige and the reputation.
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Speaker 1: A lot of students are going back seeking that group,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes they don't make it into that group for
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Speaker 1: good reasons or bad reasons, it doesn't matter. What matters
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Speaker 1: is we need to be praying for every student that's
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Speaker 1: returning back into that school, whatever school they're returning to, right,
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Speaker 1: that they will put their focus back on learning, They
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Speaker 1: will put their focus back on discipline, they will put
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Speaker 1: their focus back maybe their sports. So maybe they're in
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Speaker 1: college classes, or maybe they're kindergarten, it could be from
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Speaker 1: wherever they are entering in that school, and we need
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Speaker 1: to be praying for every student that they will have focus.
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Speaker 2: Right, that they will want to learn, that they will
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Speaker 2: have the courage.
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Speaker 1: To stand for what is right. A lot of students
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Speaker 1: are peer pressured, right, Remember peer pressure. People are doing wrong,
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Speaker 1: and the amount of people that are doing wrong outweigh
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Speaker 1: sometimes the people who are doing right, and then with
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Speaker 1: the people and the students that want to do right,
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Speaker 1: the other kids say, you guys are wag, you guys
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Speaker 1: are phony, you guys are laying whatever the new verbiage
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Speaker 1: is right now, But it's always been like that, right,
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Speaker 1: It's always been crowds of students that if you're not
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Speaker 1: with them, they feel like you're inferior. They think that
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Speaker 1: you know, you're corny, they think that you're not down
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Speaker 1: with what they're down with. So we need to be
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Speaker 1: praying for those students to have courage to stand for
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Speaker 1: what is right.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: And I say this all the time, and I used
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Speaker 1: to always tell this to my son when he was
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Speaker 1: going to school early in his school, just make wise decisions,
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Speaker 1: make good decisions, make wise decisions. It really will matter.
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Speaker 1: And thank you Jesus, I believe he made the wise decisions.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: Of course, we all made mistakes. I made mistakes as
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Speaker 1: a student growing up in school. You made mistakes. Everyone
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Speaker 1: makes mistakes. And I have a ten year old daughter
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Speaker 1: and a four year old daughter and I tell them
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Speaker 1: the same day, same thing. Make wide decisions. You don't
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Speaker 1: have to be a follower all the time right now.
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Speaker 1: You could be someone who stands up for what you
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Speaker 1: believe in.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: So I have a kindergarten, the first time kindergarten, but
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Speaker 1: thank you Jesus, they might be attendant or they will
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Speaker 1: be attending the same school. So I pray for the
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Speaker 1: school for protection, Amen, not only because my children are there,
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Speaker 1: but because other children are there and other parents have
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Speaker 1: their kids going. You know how hard it was for
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Speaker 1: me to drop my son off years ago in the
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Speaker 1: first grade, right walking him in and then leaving. And
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Speaker 1: now I have to trust every single person inside that
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Speaker 1: building with my own child. That's not easy. Same thing
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Speaker 1: happened years later, right when I dropped my daughter off
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Speaker 1: our first grade, and I was like, man, I was
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Speaker 1: a mess. Me and my wife were a mess. Were like, man,
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Speaker 1: this is crazy. It's so real because now we have
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Speaker 1: to tr us that the faculty, that the teachers, that
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Speaker 1: the people in their security will really take care of
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Speaker 1: our children.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: But we have a higher trust, we have a higher
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Speaker 1: being that we can trust, and we have the lords
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Speaker 1: of trusting. But you know what I mean, a man
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Speaker 1: were still letting them out from under our protection.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: And now I have a new child, young daughter, going
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Speaker 1: into kindergarten, the same thing. It's just going to be
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Speaker 1: one of those things we have to let go. But
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Speaker 1: we could pray that our children and those students, whether
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Speaker 1: they're your child or not, but the.
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Speaker 2: Students in school will make good choices. Right.
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Speaker 1: We ask for protection, that God will protect our children,
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Speaker 1: protect our students, protect these students from any harm right
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Speaker 1: and surround them.
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Speaker 2: With godly friends.
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Speaker 1: It's possible that our children can be surrounded with godly friends.
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Speaker 1: Don't think that because everybody doesn't believe in God, right,
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Speaker 1: that they're not godly children. Because the people who do
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Speaker 1: believe in God. Obviously it's to this children who are
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Speaker 1: good kids. They just are young and they make young mistakes.
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Speaker 1: But we could pray that our children are surrounded by
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Speaker 1: godly friends.
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Speaker 2: It's okay, Amen.
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Speaker 1: And I wouldn't want my daughter surrounded by just Christians
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Speaker 1: or church people. I want my daughter involved in other
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Speaker 1: people's lives that need the Gospel message, but that she
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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be tied in or join in to
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Speaker 1: ung behaviors and activities.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: But we could pray that God will surround our students,
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Speaker 1: our children with golly friends, Amen. That will influence them
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Speaker 1: to do things that are right. Because when you have
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Speaker 1: a gollly friend, this gollly friend has Holy Spirit living
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Speaker 1: within them, and Holy Spirit is who gives us self control.
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Speaker 1: And when you have self control, you can make wiser
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Speaker 1: decisions than those who don't have Holy Spirit living inside
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Speaker 1: of them or are making unguly decisions and who have
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Speaker 1: lack of control. They have really no self control. But
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Speaker 1: when we fight this good fight of faith, we have
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Speaker 1: Holy spirit and we have self control. Right, we just
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Speaker 1: have to be bold enough to hold on to that
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Speaker 1: self control that the Lord allows us to have. Help
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Speaker 1: them to shine the light of Christ in their classrooms.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: I believe those stories that I'm hearing about these students
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Speaker 1: going in and with knives and guns. I believe they're hurt.
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Speaker 1: They're hurt students and hurt students, hurt other students. They
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Speaker 1: are probably struggling mentally or maybe financially. They can't you
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Speaker 1: be like the rest of the people with the new
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Speaker 1: kicks and the new bag school bag, and new clothes
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Speaker 1: or whatever. Maybe they're recycling the same clothes or the
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Speaker 1: same book back from last year, and they're getting ready
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Speaker 1: to be made fun of, because kids could be cruel sometimes, right,
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Speaker 1: it could be so many things. But I believe the
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Speaker 1: solution is if that student before they went into school
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Speaker 1: were saved and men, they wouldn't have those thoughts of
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Speaker 1: killing or stabbing or shooting someone in the school.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: It could be a family situation going on that we
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Speaker 1: don't know about. That's why the Bible says to not
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Speaker 1: judge the outsiders. We don't know that situation, but God
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Speaker 1: knows the situation.
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Speaker 2: And prayer will help. Being there to listen to the
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Speaker 2: story helps. Right.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully, there's godly counselors and school systems all over the
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Speaker 1: country that could really pay attention and listen to the
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Speaker 1: story of these students that are causing harm to others
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Speaker 1: and maybe harm to themselves.
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Speaker 2: You never know, right, So.
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Speaker 1: Pray that the students will shine the light of Christ
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Speaker 1: in their classroom.
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Speaker 2: In the light of Christ, there is hope.
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Speaker 1: In the light of Christ, there is love, and the
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Speaker 1: light of Christ exposes sinful nature and exposes the enemy's schemes. Right,
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Speaker 1: it could be possible that godly students can help change
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Speaker 1: the environment, change the environment.
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Speaker 2: Of the others. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I want to look up another scripture that I just
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Speaker 1: remembered that might go along with this prayer. Amen, might
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Speaker 1: go along with this prayer is found in Matthew chapter five,
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Speaker 1: verse sixteen. Let me see if I could get to
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Speaker 1: real quick Matthew five and verse sixteen. Believe this is
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Speaker 1: the Lord's speaking. The Lord says, in the same way,
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Speaker 1: let your light shine before men, that they may see
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Speaker 1: your good deeds and glorify your father in heaven. It's
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Speaker 1: not as usual as you think school or anywhere. As
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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, that people are kind anymore, not
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Speaker 1: usual anymore that people are listening to other people's stories anymore.
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Speaker 2: It's not common anymore.
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Speaker 1: Like people really are shocked when you give them a
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Speaker 1: compliment or give them a word of encouragement, or listen
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Speaker 1: to them, or be present or give them a listening
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Speaker 1: or make them feel valuable, like right now, a lot
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Speaker 1: of people don't have that. If you sit somebody down
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Speaker 1: for thirty seconds and you start speaking words of encouragement
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Speaker 1: over them, it might overwhelm them because I don't know
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Speaker 1: when's the last time you or me were sat down
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Speaker 1: for thirty seconds and were encouraged by someone by words
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Speaker 1: of encouragement.
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Speaker 2: Because we live in such.
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Speaker 1: A busy, fast paced life, right, we should be acknowledging
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Speaker 1: the students, ayman this year more than ever, that they
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Speaker 1: need to be acknowledged for their accomplishments, not just for
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Speaker 1: what they did wrong, but let's acknowledge for what they're
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Speaker 1: doing right and what they can do right, and encourage
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Speaker 1: them and look at their potential and shine light on
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Speaker 1: their potential.
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Speaker 2: Since the joyce. I see you.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, God bless you and the group. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for your blessings. My sister, my friend, thank
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Speaker 1: you for coming. So prayer for the students, right protection right.
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Speaker 1: We pray that they will have courage to want to learn,
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Speaker 1: that they would have the focus and man to stay
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Speaker 1: away from those crowds that you know. And I was
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Speaker 1: guilty of this when I was in school, when I
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Speaker 1: was at least middle school in high school, I used
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Speaker 1: to go to hang out. I used to cut class
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Speaker 1: and all that just to be in three lunch periods.
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Speaker 1: And I'm laughing now, but it's not funny. It was
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Speaker 1: just that the way we were thinking back then, when
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Speaker 1: I was young without Christ, I was christless and I'm
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Speaker 1: pretty sure they were Christian believers in their schools that
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Speaker 1: I attended. I just wasn't hanging out with them, right,
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Speaker 1: And the reason why I didn't know them is because
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Speaker 1: they weren't.
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Speaker 2: Doing what we were doing.
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Speaker 1: It's obvious, but there are still students like that. They
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Speaker 1: just go to hang out. I remember I used to
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Speaker 1: in the morning when after it dropped off my daughter
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Speaker 1: for school. On the way back, I used to always
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Speaker 1: see a couple of students that actually know. They were
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Speaker 1: teens from my church and they would be walking opposite
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Speaker 1: direction of the school and I used to always ask them, Hey,
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Speaker 1: you said your school that way and they were like yeah,
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Speaker 1: I said, so why are you going this way?
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Speaker 2: Oh? You know.
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Speaker 1: They would give me all different answers, but it made me.
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Speaker 1: It reminded me of what we used to do right
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Speaker 1: And all we could do at that point is maybe
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Speaker 1: encourage them to go go to school, or pray for them,
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Speaker 1: or tell them listen thinking about you, or just be
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Speaker 1: careful because they're on their way to do something different.
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Speaker 1: They're not on the way to school, obviously, they're on.
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Speaker 2: Their way to whatever. And we need to be in prayer. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Sister Joyce said, Amen. We just prayed that prayer on
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Speaker 1: the prayer like, oh, praise the Lord.
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Speaker 2: Amen. The Lord is speaking. The Lord is speaking, Amen.
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Speaker 1: And when we're united by the Spirit, Amen, we are
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Speaker 1: in perfect communion with the body. And when the Body speaks, right,
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Speaker 1: when Holy Spirit speaks, the Body speaks Amen, the same message.
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Speaker 2: Amen. So prayer to.
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Speaker 1: Protect our students, to protect those who are in school.
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Speaker 1: You probably have a relative, you probably won't have a
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Speaker 1: child right now. You know, and it's unusual for me
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Speaker 1: at my age and me and my wife say, used
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Speaker 1: to have young children.
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Speaker 2: Amen. But that's a whole different story.
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Speaker 1: Our testimony of how this whole thing happened gives glory
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Speaker 1: to God. But we are older, probably about like fifteen
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Speaker 1: to twenty years older. And then my daughter's my ten
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Speaker 1: year olds or both my daughter's parents.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: So it's a little different for us. It's unusual for
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Speaker 1: people my age to have kids still in elementary school, right,
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Speaker 1: But you might not even have children in school at
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Speaker 1: this time. It might be full grown adults.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they might be teachers, Maybe they might be in
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Speaker 1: a faculty, Maybe they might be in a school system,
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Speaker 1: maybe they might be principles of the school system. We
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Speaker 1: could be praying for teachers and staff as well, but
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Speaker 1: for the students that we could be an encouragement to
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Speaker 1: them that God will keep them focused on what they're
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Speaker 1: going to learn. And let the teachers teach and let
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Speaker 1: the parents raise the children.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: And we're supposed to have you know, we're supposed to
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Speaker 1: have a partnership with the teacher.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: The teachers are out there to raise our children. Parents
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Speaker 1: raise our children.
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Speaker 2: Amen. So that'll be some prayer highlights that you could
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Speaker 2: get ahead and pray for students. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Next time we'll get together, we'll do some other prayers
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Speaker 1: for the teachers. We'll do prayers for the faculty, SEEP,
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Speaker 1: do prayers for the principles. Amen, for the school systems. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Sister Sherry, Good morning, God, bless you. Welcome to the
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Speaker 1: morning Devo, My sister, my friend. So there's a lot
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Speaker 1: to pray about and men. Pray for parents, right, Pray
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Speaker 1: for success and growth for our students and our children.
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Speaker 1: There's so much to pray for for this new school season.
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Speaker 1: Pray also for the families that I would horrified with
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Speaker 1: these tragic things that happened already in the schools systems
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Speaker 1: around the nation.
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Speaker 2: Shouldn't be that way.
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Speaker 1: But the hearts of men and the hearts of the
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Speaker 1: people can be changed by the Lord, and that will
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Speaker 1: happen less and less and less when we get this
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Speaker 1: gospel message out and people receive the love of God
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Speaker 1: and love of Christ.
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Speaker 2: Amen. So I'm out of time, but I'm not out
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Speaker 2: of blessing. So let me bless you all. God.
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Speaker 1: Bless you all, God keep you all, and remember always
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Speaker 1: that God is good.
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Speaker 2: Peace,