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Today's Word 02-25-26 Guard Your Ear, Guard Your Destiny · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: I am Sherry Mackie and his time right now for
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  Speaker 1: today's word. Guard your ear, guard your destiny. Guard your ear,
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  Speaker 1: guard your destiny. Psalms one twenty five and four says,
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  Speaker 1: Oh Lord, do good to those who are good, whose
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  Speaker 1: hearts are in tune with you. You know what you
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  Speaker 1: listen to will shape what you believe, and what you
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  Speaker 1: believe will determine how you live. That's why guarding your
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  Speaker 1: ear is guarding your destiny. David understood this even as
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  Speaker 1: a young shepherd boy. When the prophet Samuel came to
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  Speaker 1: annoy the next king of Israel, David wasn't even invited
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  Speaker 1: to the lineup. His own father didn't think he was
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  Speaker 1: qualified enough to be considered. Imagine the sting of that rejection.
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  Speaker 1: The message was clear, you're not king material. Then came
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  Speaker 1: his oldest brother, Eliab, who criticized him when he showed
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  Speaker 1: up at the battlefield. Eliab belittled him, questioned his motives,
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  Speaker 1: and tried to make him feel small. Later, when David
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  Speaker 1: told King Saul he wanted to fight Goliath, Saul dismissed
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  Speaker 1: him outright, You're just a boy. Those were powerful voices family, authority, leadership.
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  Speaker 1: If David had allowed those words to settle in his spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and security would have replaced courage. Doubt would have replaced destiny.
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  Speaker 1: Israel might have remained under the shadow of a giant.
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  Speaker 1: But David tuned out the noise and tuned in to God.
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  Speaker 1: He remembered the lion and the bear. He remembered God's faithfulness.
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  Speaker 1: He remembered the private victories that proved he was equipped
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  Speaker 1: for the public battle. David understood something we've all got
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  Speaker 1: to learn. Not every voice deserves access to your heart.
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  Speaker 1: The enemy often uses people, not always bad people either,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes even well meaning people to plant seeds of doubt.
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  Speaker 1: You're not ready yet, you're not qualified, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: what it takes. Stay where you are, and if you
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  Speaker 1: entertain those voices long enough, they will shrink your vision.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the truth. You would not be facing a
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  Speaker 1: giant if you were not already equipped to defeat that giant.
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  Speaker 1: The size of your opposition is a clue to the
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  Speaker 1: size of your calling. If the obstacle were too big,
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  Speaker 1: God would not have allowed you to stand in front
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  Speaker 1: of it. When your heart is in tune with God,
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  Speaker 1: his voice becomes louder than the critics. His promises become
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  Speaker 1: stronger than public opinion. His calling outweighs comparison. You can't
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  Speaker 1: control who talks, but you can control who you shoes
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  Speaker 1: to listen to. Tune out the negativity, tune out the fear.
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  Speaker 1: Tune out the labels and the limitations others try to
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  Speaker 1: place on you. Tune into what God says. You know
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  Speaker 1: what he says about you. He says you're chosen. He
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  Speaker 1: says you're anointed. He says you're capable, he says you're equipped.
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  Speaker 1: You are not just surviving battles. You are assigned to
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  Speaker 1: win those battles. So guard your ear because your destiny
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  Speaker 1: is too important to let the wrong voices define it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Father, God, help us to guard our hearts and
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  Speaker 1: our minds from voices that discourage and distract us from
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  Speaker 1: your purpose for our lives. Teach us to tune in
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  Speaker 1: to your truth above all else. God, we declare that
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  Speaker 1: we're equipped, anointed, and prepared for every giant we've got
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  Speaker 1: to face. And God, we will not be limited by
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  Speaker 1: human opinion. We will be led by your promise in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' name. Now that's your word for today. Take it
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  Speaker 1: applied to your everyday life. You're Inside the party, your
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