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Self-disciplined [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Good morning, family, God bless you. Welcome back to the Morning Devo.
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Today we're calling this one self discipline, And right off the bat,
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part of being self disciplined is getting up right and doing what God called you
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to do, getting up and doing what you're responsible for doing. Amen.
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And I struggled with that getting up in the morning thing. And I've been
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doing this for a while. So self discipline is not only about the things
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that you think that are really strict in your life. Self discipline can simply
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mean getting up and being in a position where God could do something in your
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life. Just wanted to get that out of the way, Amen. I
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was looking at the clock and I was like, man, time in the
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morning, especially when you're getting ready to do something, goes so fast.
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Amen. So self discipline is part of just getting up right and doing what
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God called you to do, getting up and being in a position where you
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could be blessed or where you could be a blessing. Sometimes just showing up
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somewhere, Amen, is part of self discipline. So we coulda been self
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discipline This month is called self discipline. On the Morning Devo, We're gonna
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be in tightest Chapter two versus eleven to fourteen. My name is Sam Lopez
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aka DJ Sam Rock, and this is the Morning Devo. I try to
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do these Mondays through Friday five point thirty a m. Eastern Standard time.
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Amen. And if you know me and you know how I roll, I'm
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a night owl, but supernaturally amen. God is helping me to be an
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early bird. Amen. So that's a transition for sure. It's especially for
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my background. I always just liked doing things at night while everything was shut
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down, people were quiet, amen, and I could really focus on what
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I was doing. Amen. But because of you know God and his way
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of speaking to me, Amen, I decided to make a vow to him
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and not to break that valve because the Bible talks about what happens when you
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break a val to the Lord. Amen. And also that I wanted to
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make him first priority in my day, first priority in the morning, first
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priority of every single day. To put God first and devote some time to
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him. And you can see that evidence and celebrate on network. So when
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is with a z do org It runs two four seven. If you notice
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the schedule and the programming that I have on there, you know how I
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set things up so everything starts to increase during the day, but it starts
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early morning worship, right, and then it goes on to the word,
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then it goes on to music, then it goes on to other programs.
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Amen. It's a gradual increase. And I'm thinking about the person who is
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so busy. Amen. So I'm designed it for a person that's very busy
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in life. So the scheduling is really designed around that. On that Amen,
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So self this uplitting them one in devot. Amen. If you have
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any questions, comments, concerns, any prayer requests along those lines, Amen,
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don't hesitate to put on on the live chat. We're also available streaming
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right now on some social media platforms as Mata decided to change some things up.
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So as a matter of fact, as I'm reminded about that, let
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me do this. Let me just make sure you see I'm not on there.
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Let me just share the stream on my page. That's the only way
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I could do it right now. Amen, it's automatically stream on all my
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social platforms. But now it's a little different and now we have to do
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a little old school Amen. But it's worth it. It's worth the inconvenience,
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I guess if you want to call it that, Amen. Because God
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is faithful everything he does, and he really lines everything up according to his
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purpose and will for our lives. So don't be discouraged for all my people
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out there that are doing what I do or similar to what I do on
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social media now that we have to do this work around, and amen,
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just do the work around. It's worth it. Somebody's listening, somebody's watching.
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And in my humble opinion, I believe everybody needs the word of God
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in their lives. Everyone needs to meet the Lord Jesus Christ. Everyone needs
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to be safe, to my humble opinion, Amen, And to be found
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in the land of the living is a blessing. And if we have to
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just share them some things and work around some things, amen, I believe
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it's worth the inconvenience. But somebody owes me some refunds on these services that
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promised that this was going to work and now it's no longer working. It
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was working, Amen, I will give them credit. It was working,
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but now it's no longer working. If we get what I'm saying, Amen,
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Because not the program's fault, it's really nobody's fault. If I own
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something and I wanted to change something right. Basically, that's my business.
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But man, like I said earlier, this is something a little old school
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that you have to do. I can even find what I'm looking for right
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now, see the distractions, the distractions, But let me get to it
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because I can't move on without people knowing where I'm at. People might not
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think I'm live right now because of the social media inconvenience. So let me
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just go here trying to remember how to do this the old school way.
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So me one moment as I think this out, there we go. I'll
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share this on my profile page. If you can help me shout this out.
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People say they get notifications, some people say they don't get notifications.
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Either way, if you can help me share this out, I would really
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be grateful for that. So self discipline. Do you consider yourself a disciplined
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person? That's number one? And just be honest. You know sometimes I'm
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disciplined. Hey, man, I wish I was disciplined all the time.
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But blessed part of me and the spirit they don't get along, right,
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This is the flesh you're telling me stay sleeping. Say don't worry about it.
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People, I'm not gonna miss nothing if you stay sleeping. Spirit was
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like, let's do the morning, Devo. Let's get together for a session
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and men. So the spirit is always willing to flesh is always weak.
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But in my weakness, guess what happens, God shows him so strong,
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right, sister joy ain't good morning? God blessed you get to see you
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on the morning, Devo. Do you struggle with self control in any area
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of your life? That's another question. Do I struggle with self control in
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any area of my life? We'd be in tightest Chapter two, Verses eleven
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and fourteen. Now I'm mindful of what I say out loud into the atmosphere
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because I know and there's an enemy of my soul. I know there's an
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enemy that will try to take what he hears or what they hear, and
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use it against me. He meant. So a lot of times I pray
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in the spirit through through my mind because God knows what I'm saying. The
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enemy cannot read our mind. So we be strategic have how we pray.
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Sometimes we're going through things and we spew it out in the atmosphere openly,
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which listen. God will get the message, and God will guard God and
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protect us regardless. And because he does that, he's also showing us that
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we have a weapon called our mind, that we could automatically be connected to
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the Lord because he can read our mind, he knows our heart, he
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knows our the thoughts, and the enemy doesn't. So we could be strategic
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at what we know the enemy, what the enemy can do, and what
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the enemy cannot do. That's your strategy, a'men for you, So let's
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go for it. Let's pray first. After we pray, we'll shut this
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out for like sixty seconds, and on the other side of the sixty seconds
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will come into the scripture that we have tightest chapter two, verses eleven to
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fourteen. And let me make one more share here, So I could share
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the live stream right now what we're doing on my RAPI could just go straight
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to So win is with a z do org celebrate a network, hit the
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love stream button and we're boom, We're there too, amen. So that
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way it cuts out all this other distraction on social media. Just in case
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you didn't know that, there's also a live streaming button on the website itself.
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Soone is with a z org a man, which to me is the
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safe, safest bet live that so one is with a z dot org and
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so one is with a zorg are the two safest bets to go, Amen,
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to get to these streams and we get these Winni debos in your system.
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Amen, so we could get that going. So let's pray. Father,
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thank you, Thank you so much for waking us up, for keeping
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us, for guarding us, for protecting us, for allowing us to breathe
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and allowing us to see and hear and touch and feel, allowing us to
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know that you are with us, in us and working through us, allowing
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us to share your word with one another and to really digest what you're trying
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to feed us. I think, thank you, Lord God, for the
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power of your love, your forgiveness, your grace, your mercy, the
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evidence of who you are in creation, and what you're doing in our hearts
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and minds individually and corporately. I thank you, log God for unity.
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Thank you, Lord God for the power that you have invested in us,
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that you have given us the ability to cast out demons, to lay hands
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on the sick and they shall be healed to prosper, because you want all
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your children to prosper. Thank you, Lord God, that we have blessings
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on the way. We are focused on You, the author and perfect all
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our faith, and we know we have financial breakthrough coming, that we have
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health to our body coming, and we are healed already. In the name
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of Jesus. I pray Lord God, I head you protection over all my
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friends and family. I pray Lord God, A head you protection over myself,
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my household, my wife, our children, our studio, everything,
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Lord God, that you have given us love. God. I know your
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word will protect and God and guard us all through it. And I pray
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the same for every single person on the other side of this discri and on
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the other side of this might peace. In the name of Jesus. Be
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still and know that God and Jesus is Lord. I pray Lord Gud that
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you will continue to keep us and help us be self disciplined, and we
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will get the benefits of being part of the Body of Christ, benefits of
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being a son and a daughter of a living king, and the benefits of
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being a born again believer. In Jesus name, I pray it's by faith
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with thanksgiving, knowing that you are able to perform miracles, signs, and
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wonders. Any single moment that you want to do that, we are grateful
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for it in Jesus name. Amen, and amen, let's go for it.
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Sixty seconds. Help me share this out a man on all the social
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media platforms. YouTube, you share the link live that so Win is with
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a Zeta org. Let people know about cellar radio. So Win is with
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a zea org. A man, let's share, share a share us.
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After the sixty seconds, will come back and we'll get into self discipline.
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Titus chapter two, verses eleven to fourteen. I'll be read back and there
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you go. Amen. I don't even have a chance to share because of
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this kind of like new way of trying to share it to my groups,
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because it's different now. So let me as I'm sharing with you right here,
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let me just continue to share why because I think it's important for these
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groups that I'm on to know that there is a way to work around this.
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Amen. And if you're diligent and if you're self disciplined, Amen,
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we will be on one accord with this helping each other out. So let's
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see what the Word of God has for us today. Amen. That's why
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I'm so grateful for all those groups that allow me to share these money DeVos
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on your pages. And I know there's changes going on right now, but
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let's keep connected, stay connected and be the life giving family on this earth
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and on this planet. To share this gospel out. Amen. Don't be
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ashamed to share the gospel. Do not be ashamed to share the gospel.
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That's where the power and love and the salvation internal life is found in the
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gospel message. Amen. Let's go for it self. Discipline here on the
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morning Devo. Let me just get this out of the way, Amen,
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and we'll continue on. Amen. So the Word says in Titus chapter two,
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verses eleven or fourteen, I got some highlights here, so that way
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we can see what God is saying right here. But the grace of God
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has appeared appeared. So the grace of God is found in the person of
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God, which is Jesus to Christ, bringing salvation for all people. Training
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us to renounce ungouidliness and worldly passions. We're being trained, and man,
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we're in a war and it's a training process here on earth. A man,
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we're being disciplined. We're learning how to renounce ungouidliness. We're learning how
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to come against things of principalities. We're learning how to be self disciplined.
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We're learning how to do this. Man. This is not like you wake
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up one day and you got everything downpacked. Oh man, I wish it
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was like that, but you know, and I know it's not like that,
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a man. So we're being trained to renounce unguidliness and worldly passions and
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to live self controlled. Self controlled, self controlled life is a beautiful life,
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man, And as a matter of fact, it's a powerful life,
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because now we could actually say no to the things that we were not able
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to say no to before. You know what I'm talking about, right,
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that it was so easy for us to revert back to old things, right,
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to revert back to old things. And now we have an opportunity.
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Now we have a power in us, amen, to say no to some
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things or most things, and all things actually in Jesus name that are not
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pleasing to Him, right, And that we have the ability now to really
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come against those things that want to take us out of here, to come
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against the enemy of our soul, that doesn't want anything good for us in
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the first place, or at any time or any place. Amen. So
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we know that through the power of Holy Spirit, through the power of His
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word a man, we have the opportunity to come against these principalities, to
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come against things that want to really destroy us, to steal from us,
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and to kill us, which is the enemy of our soul. Amen,
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He's a foe not to be taken lightly a man. Are defeated foe.
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But we still have to war and battle, excuse me, battle against and
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the war's already won. But the battles we're facing are real. Let's not
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think this is all made up. Let's not think this is all superstition.
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Let's not think this is all super spiritual. No, this is a spiritual
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war that we're fighting, that we're in. Amen. And because it's a
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spiritual war, we've got to go to the spirit of God, which God
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is spirit, and worship him and what in spirit and in truth, spirit
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and in truth. So that way God will get the glory, He will
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get the honor, the worship that he deserves, the praise that he deserves,
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and we will move forward in victory, not in failure and not in
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defeat, but in victory. Because God is that good of a god.
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Amen. He knows who we are, and we should know whose we are,
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according to the scriptures. So let's keep on going to renounce ungodliness and
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worldly passions and to live self controlled, upright and godly lives in the present
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age. So this is a now word. It's not yesterday word. It's
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not anti created word like so many people say. This is a nour word.
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Right to live self controlled, upright and godly lives in the present age,
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waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great
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God and Savior Jesus Christ. People who say, oh Jesus not God,
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the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. God knows exactly who
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he is. We know exactly who we're worshiping as believers. And when people
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say, oh Jesus not God, well they have to deal with scriptures like
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this. Well, actually they don't have to deal with scriptures like this.
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Actually they want to understand scriptures like this. Uninspired reading of the world,
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like I always say, will not make sense. Gave himself for us to
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redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own
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possession who are zealous for good works. Part of being self discipline man is
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knowing what you know, doing what you know that is right right. So
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let's look at these highlights. Grace of God has appeared, which is Jesus
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bringing what salvation, helping us to do what renounts on godliness and worldly passions
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through who the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. If
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you can distract these these highlighted words, Amen, then you'll get a message
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right now. You could apply this right now, you can notice right now,
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and you can move in this right now. Amen. That's how powerful
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the word of God is that you could take parts of a scripture right and
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apply it to your life, and God will move in those parts that you
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know. As a matter of fact, he will remind us of everything that
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He has shown us, everything that He has told us, everything that we
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learned from His word at the moment we need to remember it, because if
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you're like me, amen, busy, sometimes your memory will get a little
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job. But don't be discouraged. To give you the things to say.
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Amen. Right at the moment that you need to say it, he will
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remind you of everything that He has taught you by way of Holy Spirit.
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Amen. Right there in the spot. That's how good God is. Amen,
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That's how good God is in our lives, and he does everything perfect,
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does everything with excellence because God's an excellent father. Amen, he is
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an amazing father. Sorry, I'm looking down a little bit because I'm still
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sharing. Amen. I refuse to stop, Amen, doing what I do
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because of the changes that some companies are making here. But let's continue to
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move forward and what God has for us. So are you self disciplined?
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Amen? According to those scriptures? Are you renouncing ungodliness? Are you coming
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against the thing God? The things that God wants you to come against and
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wants me to come against. Amen, there's really no fear when you try.
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When you're in the Kingdom of God and you try to do what is
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right and you do what is wrong anyway, you really didn't fail. You
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are what the Bible says you're training to renownce ungodliness, lawlessness, passion,
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desires, fleshly desires. We're in training. I don't know one person,
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and I don't think you know one person that has this all figured out,
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that has all down packed. Accept the Lord Jesus, who we all know
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to be our Lord and savior and our God. If you're born again,
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you know that he's the only one that lived as a human being, that
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had this all down pack did it? Was he was Jesus deeds he tempted,
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No, was Jesus humanity tempted? Yes, because he wanted to show
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us an example a man he wanted. He wanted to be an example.
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He's the perfect example of how to live this scripture out. He's the perfect
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example of how to be self disciplined. He's the perfect example of how to
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get this life and liberty and freedom done. He's the perfect example of someone
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who is training and self control. He had it, he is it,
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and he does it right. Self control. We have to be mindful that
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when we were kids, right when we were young, it was hard for
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us to have. I look at my three year old, and I say,
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when we tell us, don't do that, stop, be careful,
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you're gonna get u punished. You gotta get spanked if you do that.
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But you know, because she's training in self control a man, you don't
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get it right away. So as kids we know it's difficult, right,
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So as an adult, I struggle with it. I know you struggle with
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it being self controlled, self disciplined at times when things are chaotic or maybe
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you're too. You're hungry, right, You're angry, you're lonely, you're
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tired, and you're trying to operate in those conditions and trying to be self
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controlled. Amen. This week, I'm starting kind of like a it's a
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diet, but not a non eating diet or just vegetables. It's a certain
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diet, right. It's not important for me to mention how it is,
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but changes some ways. I'm going to eat starting this week, and it's
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going to be a lot of self control. Amen. And I like to
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eat. I'm Puerto Rican and we have good food that we eat, but
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it's bad for your health. You get what I'm saying. It tastes good,
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but it's not exactly good for your health. Man. I was talking
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to a brother in Christ that I got to see an event. At an
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event his wife is ministering, and I asked him, he seems really fit,
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And I asked him, how do you do it? Man? I
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said, you take supplements? He said, nah, I just eat clean.
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Amen. And he says not hard. It's not easy, but it's
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not hard either. But you have to be self disciplined. You have to
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discipline yourself. You can't you eat smash burgers all day and expect your body
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not to respond in a negative way. But he said, there's alternatives to
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how you eat. What you can eat a man, he said, eat,
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but just try to make good decisions. Try to be self disciplined,
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try to be self controlled. Amen, And I'm gonna take that advice.
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No one forces us to go to bed at night. Right, I'm an
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adult. Nobody can sell Okay, you know it's whatever eleven o'clock, you
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better be in bed. We could do that to our children, but I
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don't think adults should be doing that to each other. Amen. No one
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forces me to go to bed. No one tells me to put my phone
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down and pick up a book instead. Right. No one tells me I
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have to do my chores. No one puts me in a time out if
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I use language that isn't loving or kind. But I still have to exercise
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self discipline. And if I'm being honest, I'm not very disciplined in some
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of those areas. Amen. I know I need to get up early,
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so I need to get to sleep early. Amen. Self discipline is training.
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Right. We're all in training, whether you're a young person or an
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older, more seasoned person. Amen. You know that it takes training self
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disciplined. Just sit usten. You just don't wake up doing everything right.
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You just don't wake up doing everything perfect. But you train in righteousness,
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Amen, unguidliness and unrighteousness and unholiness and sin and all that stuff. It's
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always going to be there. But the exciting thing about being a born again
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believer is that we're training into what God wants us to be. We're training
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into the person that God has called us to be. Amen, we're in
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training. As we're moving forward, you notice that we're getting better at certain
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things. A man, we're leaving some things in the past and we're leaving
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them alone. We're leaving it in the past, and when we're moving forward,
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we're moving in victory because God gives us the power to be self disciplined.
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To be self controlled is actually that's part of the fruit of the spirit,
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self control, right, so we know in Relations chapter five, verses
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twenty two and twenty three, it lists self control as one of the fruits
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of the Spirit. When we receive Christ, we receive the Holy Spirit.
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Amen. And one evidence of Spirit of the Spirit's work in our lives is
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our growing ability to make ourselves do the right thing. Thing. He said
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that to do the right thing, to do the right thing, discipline in
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ourselves to do the right the growing ability to make ourselves do the right thing.
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Make yourself, force yourself to do the right thing, because that's the
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right thing. Amen. It's so easy to do things that are wrong.
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Right. The flesh is like, oh, don't worry about it. But
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the spirit to say, now, let's train, let's fight the good fight
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of faith and do something that's right. Because somebody's watching, somebody's looking.
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It will benefit you, it will benefit me to do what God wants us
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to do. A man, those things that God doesn't want us to do
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really don't benefit anyone. It actually shows that we're weak and broken, which
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is part of humanity. But we don't have to stay weak and broken.
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We can move forward in victory and overcome the things that God says. We're
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overcomers anyway a man to move forward and what He has for us. So
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we have the word Galatians five, twenty two and twenty three. Read it
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for yourself. We have Second tim one to seven, where they are possible.
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A wire reminded Timothy that the spirit God gave us to us is not
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a fear, but of power, love and listen. Self control, Amen,
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self control. So I hope you get in what I'm saying. Go
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to the tightest chapter two. Read the whole chapter for yourself. We camp
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out of verses eleven or fourteen, a man, we're training and self control
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because we want to be self disciplined. I hope you benefit from that.
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Amen, from being self disciplined, Try one thing today that you know you
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are out of controlling. Amen, and try to apply this word in that
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one thing, a man, Start with that one thing and try to force
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yourself to do what is right. Amen, And you will be self control
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and self discipline, and you will be using the fruit of the spirit.
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Amen. God bless you all. God keep you all. Remember always that
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God is good. Peace. I'll see you next time.