Latest / The BLAZE (Bible Study) / Does the Word Hold Up to Daily Life? [Morning Devo]
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- 0:04Speaker 1: Want a good morning, family, God bless you. Welcome back
- 0:06Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo. Is your bro Sam Lopez aka
- 0:09Speaker 1: Dj sam Rock so Winners with a z dot org Live.
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- 0:20Speaker 1: including my YouTube page which is simply named Dj Sam Rock.
- 0:24Speaker 1: You can find me there as well. So welcome back
- 0:27Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo. If this is your first time,
- 0:29Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming through. For those who
- 0:31Speaker 1: are listening at the celebrated network SO Winners with a
- 0:34Speaker 1: z dot org the Lee have Valley's number one urban
- 0:37Speaker 1: gospel music station online since two thousand and eight, and
- 0:42Speaker 1: we're still here. All glory to God is because of
- 0:44Speaker 1: his grace and because of His word that we're still here.
- 0:47Speaker 1: The question for today, amen is does the word word
- 0:53Speaker 1: of God hold up to daily life? Because I know
- 0:58Speaker 1: a lot of people say all your word word and
- 1:00Speaker 1: the Bible's antiquated is not relevant anymore. It's full of
- 1:06Speaker 1: fairy tales and it doesn't apply anymore. Well, does the
- 1:12Speaker 1: word of God hold up to daily life? That's where
- 1:17Speaker 1: we get to tackle today in the morning evil. It's
- 1:19Speaker 1: a good question and It's a fair question, right. If
- 1:23Speaker 1: we truly believe in who God is, we believe in
- 1:25Speaker 1: his word. And if we believe in his word, we
- 1:27Speaker 1: believe in his will. If we believe in his will,
- 1:29Speaker 1: we have purpose a man in this time, in this world,
- 1:33Speaker 1: in our situations, in our day to day so many
- 1:38Speaker 1: of us acts. Does the Bible apply to my daily life? Right?
- 1:43Speaker 1: Because if it doesn't, then what's the sense of following
- 1:47Speaker 1: a book that doesn't apply any longer? Is God's words
- 1:54Speaker 1: still relevant in a world full of challenges, distractions and temptations?
- 2:01Speaker 1: Have you been tempted before? Distracted before? Have you ever
- 2:06Speaker 1: been challenged before? Has your faith ever been challenged? Well,
- 2:09Speaker 1: welcome to the world right that we're living in. We're
- 2:12Speaker 1: going to be in the Hebrews, Chapter four, verse number
- 2:14Speaker 1: twelve as our founding scripture for today a man, very
- 2:18Speaker 1: popular scripture. If you're a believer, you already know what
- 2:22Speaker 1: that scripture says, pretty much right, If not, hold on
- 2:27Speaker 1: tight a man, we're gonna read it together in a
- 2:30Speaker 1: couple of minutes. So if you have any questions, comments, concerns,
- 2:34Speaker 1: or any prayer requests, please don't hesitate to leave it
- 2:37Speaker 1: on the live chat that's exactly what the live chat
- 2:39Speaker 1: is there for. Also, if you're listening on the podcast
- 2:43Speaker 1: or you're listening from the online radio network, there should
- 2:47Speaker 1: be a way to connect with me as there as well.
- 2:50Speaker 1: So let's pray first. After we pray, we'll share this
- 2:52Speaker 1: out for like sixty seconds, and on the other side
- 2:55Speaker 1: of those sixty we'll get right into today's morning Devo. Again,
- 2:58Speaker 1: thank you for showing up. Thank you for coming if
- 3:00Speaker 1: you're live, if you're not live with me, thank you
- 3:02Speaker 1: for watching the replay or listening onto the podcast. So,
- 3:06Speaker 1: Father God, I thank you so much for every single
- 3:09Speaker 1: individual life that's representing their families themselves and they're seeking truth.
- 3:15Speaker 1: They want to know what the word of God can
- 3:17Speaker 1: do in their daily lives, and so do I. I
- 3:20Speaker 1: want to know what it could do in my daily
- 3:22Speaker 1: life as well. Thank you, Lord God for the power
- 3:25Speaker 1: of your word, the power of your greatness, your love,
- 3:28Speaker 1: your grace, and your mercy. Thank you, Lord God, that
- 3:31Speaker 1: we can pray to a responding God, a God who responds,
- 3:35Speaker 1: a God who restores, a God who redeems, a God
- 3:37Speaker 1: who renews, a God who is relevant. Thank you so much,
- 3:41Speaker 1: Low God, that you continue to speak to your children.
- 3:44Speaker 1: You continue to move in this world that we're living in.
- 3:47Speaker 1: And the victory is is that you're coming back and
- 3:50Speaker 1: all your promises in your word are valid. Thank you
- 3:53Speaker 1: so much, Low God for looking at us and just
- 3:57Speaker 1: creating us to be connected with you and ultimately to
- 4:02Speaker 1: be conformed like your son, the Lord Jesus. I pray
- 4:05Speaker 1: Lord God that everyone listening will feel and sense your
- 4:09Speaker 1: presence holy Spirit, that you would teach and guide and guard,
- 4:12Speaker 1: and also that Lord God, that you would set forth
- 4:15Speaker 1: You're ark creating angels to protect us during the world
- 4:19Speaker 1: of challenges distractions, you know, give us a way out
- 4:23Speaker 1: when we're attempted. Thank you, Lord God for your word
- 4:25Speaker 1: on that. And I pray I had your protection over myself,
- 4:28Speaker 1: my family, my marriage, our children, our grandchildren, every single
- 4:32Speaker 1: relative in between. Thank you so much, Lord God for
- 4:35Speaker 1: doing that for our lives. And I pray the same
- 4:38Speaker 1: over every single person on the other side of this
- 4:41Speaker 1: mic and on the other side of the screen and
- 4:43Speaker 1: the powerful name of Jesus. We pray this by faith,
- 4:45Speaker 1: and we know, Lord God, that your word is valid
- 4:49Speaker 1: and that your word is holding up to our day
- 4:53Speaker 1: to day life. I pray this by faith in the
- 4:55Speaker 1: name above every name, the name of the Lord Jesus.
- 4:58Speaker 1: We pray Amen the Amen. So let's go for it.
- 5:01Speaker 1: Help me share this side. When we come back on
- 5:03Speaker 1: the other side, we'll get right into today's morning devo.
- 5:06Speaker 1: I'll be right back. Thank you so much. Thank you
- 6:29Speaker 1: so much for helping me share this out. Even if
- 6:31Speaker 1: I'm not live by the time you're watching or listening,
- 6:34Speaker 1: how many share this out? Is somebody that you know,
- 6:37Speaker 1: or maybe somebody that never heard the gospel message, or
- 6:41Speaker 1: maybe somebody that you've been trying to reach and maybe
- 6:43Speaker 1: you could take a chance, maybe this is the message
- 6:46Speaker 1: or this is the time that God would use to
- 6:49Speaker 1: reach them as well. So thank you so much. And
- 6:51Speaker 1: for all those who allow me to share on your
- 6:54Speaker 1: groups and on your pages and through your social media networks,
- 6:57Speaker 1: thank you so much. I don't take that for granted.
- 6:59Speaker 1: I am so grateful that you allow me to do
- 7:01Speaker 1: that on your platforms as well. Does the word hold
- 7:06Speaker 1: up to daily life? Right? This is where all lands
- 7:12Speaker 1: really for a lot of people, because they're not going
- 7:15Speaker 1: to want to say, why would anybody believe in scriptures
- 7:19Speaker 1: or believe in an ancient book that doesn't apply any longer,
- 7:24Speaker 1: like it's outdated, antiquated, not relevant anymore, like so many
- 7:28Speaker 1: people say. And honestly, I don't think they're being honest
- 7:32Speaker 1: with that question or if they feel that way, because
- 7:35Speaker 1: they're not getting into their own personal relationship with the
- 7:41Speaker 1: God of the scriptures, the God who wrote inspired men
- 7:45Speaker 1: to write the scriptures. They're not seeking for him. They're
- 7:49Speaker 1: just looking at a book and reading it uninspired. You know,
- 7:52Speaker 1: if you read the Word of God uninspired, you will
- 7:55Speaker 1: not get what the Word of God is saying. The
- 7:57Speaker 1: Word of God is alive. A man want to spoil
- 8:01Speaker 1: the verse that we're going to read. But the Word
- 8:03Speaker 1: of God is alive, active, right, So that's why a
- 8:07Speaker 1: lot of people, when they read it, they don't understand that.
- 8:09Speaker 1: I know, when I wasn't born again, when I wasn't
- 8:11Speaker 1: a Christian, when I didn't believe, when I used to
- 8:13Speaker 1: read that, I used to be a little confused. I
- 8:15Speaker 1: didn't know what the words meant. I didn't know how
- 8:18Speaker 1: to apply that in my life because I was reading
- 8:21Speaker 1: it uninspired. I had no spirit of God in me
- 8:25Speaker 1: that was allowing me to understand what I was reading. Right, So,
- 8:30Speaker 1: if the Word of God is a spiritual book. Then
- 8:32Speaker 1: we have to have the spirit of God to understand
- 8:34Speaker 1: what the Word of God is saying. I think to me,
- 8:37Speaker 1: that's common sense. I think to me, that makes sense. Right,
- 8:40Speaker 1: Hopefully that makes sense to you. So let's go for it.
- 8:43Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it on the screen for those who
- 8:44Speaker 1: are just listening. No worries. You're going to hear what
- 8:47Speaker 1: we're seeing because I'm going to read a word for word. Amen.
- 8:52Speaker 1: Does the word hold up to daily life? Amen? The
- 8:57Speaker 1: question of the day. Let's go for it. Here's the
- 9:03Speaker 1: scripture that you could think about today. He will shot
- 9:06Speaker 1: the four verse number twelve. For the Word of God
- 9:11Speaker 1: is living and active and full of power, making it operative, energizing,
- 9:20Speaker 1: and defective. It is sharper. The word is sharper than
- 9:28Speaker 1: any two edged sword penetrating. Listen to this as far
- 9:33Speaker 1: as the division of the soul and spirit, the completeness
- 9:39Speaker 1: of a person, and of both joints and marrow, the
- 9:45Speaker 1: deepest parts of our nature, exposing and judging the very
- 9:52Speaker 1: thoughts and intentions of the heart. So this word that
- 9:57Speaker 1: I'm talking about, this script this living book, this living
- 10:02Speaker 1: breathing word, is actually active and effective, energizing and effective.
- 10:11Speaker 1: And this word is sharper than any too edged sword.
- 10:16Speaker 1: And this word penetrates as far as the division of
- 10:20Speaker 1: the soul and spirit. Can you imagine that? I mean,
- 10:24Speaker 1: that's what the word is saying, dividing the soul and spirit,
- 10:28Speaker 1: the completeness of a person. So we are soul and
- 10:33Speaker 1: we are a spirit. And this word penetrates as far
- 10:38Speaker 1: as that, and of both joints and marrow. So spiritual, physical,
- 10:45Speaker 1: the deepest part of our nature. So supernatural word that
- 10:50Speaker 1: penetrates the supernatural and the natural, exposing and judging the
- 10:55Speaker 1: very thoughts and intentions of the heart. Now that's like
- 11:02Speaker 1: next level, right, next level word, next level thinking power,
- 11:07Speaker 1: all of it. Does the word hold up to daily
- 11:10Speaker 1: life though, Well, let's put it to the test. Let
- 11:14Speaker 1: me give you some real life examples, because I know
- 11:17Speaker 1: a lot of people say, well, I know what the
- 11:19Speaker 1: Bible says, but how does it apply in real life? Respectfully?
- 11:24Speaker 1: The Bible is real life. Respectfully, when you read the word,
- 11:27Speaker 1: you can apply into real time in real life. But
- 11:31Speaker 1: I get it. I used to ask the same question,
- 11:33Speaker 1: So no judgment over here, that'sk the same thing. I say, Yeah,
- 11:37Speaker 1: that's what the Bible says, but how does it apply
- 11:39Speaker 1: in real life? I used to literally say that to
- 11:42Speaker 1: the people who were trying to give me the gospel,
- 11:46Speaker 1: or a lot of people were trying to give me
- 11:49Speaker 1: their view of who God is. I had all kinds
- 11:51Speaker 1: of peoples visiting me. Man, thank you Jesus Amen that
- 11:55Speaker 1: he sent people who cared about me, who were sincere
- 11:58Speaker 1: about what they believed. And to be honest, I wasn't
- 12:02Speaker 1: very welcoming to those people, but they came anyway. They
- 12:07Speaker 1: saw something in me, they said, and they were giving
- 12:10Speaker 1: it a shot, right, took their shot of trying to
- 12:16Speaker 1: give me what they believed was the truth. And let
- 12:23Speaker 1: me get this out of my way. I don't know why,
- 12:26Speaker 1: it's just not disappearing anyway. Here we go with the
- 12:32Speaker 1: I had acting crazy out of it like this, yep, okay,
- 12:39Speaker 1: this pad is holding my notes up and let's see
- 12:48Speaker 1: need it no more? So? How do you get rid
- 12:51Speaker 1: of this? Okay? All right? The Bible is more than
- 12:57Speaker 1: an old book, first and foremost. I mean, yes, it's
- 13:03Speaker 1: ancient in its writings, but it's more than an ancient book.
- 13:08Speaker 1: The Bible's actually God's living word that actively shapes our
- 13:13Speaker 1: the lives and I like what I hear people saying,
- 13:16Speaker 1: and I believe it to be true. The Bible doesn't
- 13:19Speaker 1: just contain the word of God. The Bible is the
- 13:22Speaker 1: word of God, very important to no right since the
- 13:25Speaker 1: joy and I see you, Good morning, God, bless you,
- 13:27Speaker 1: welcome back to the morning. Devo my system, my friend.
- 13:30Speaker 1: So that's something to think about. The Bible is not
- 13:34Speaker 1: just a book that contains the word of God. The
- 13:38Speaker 1: Bible is actually the word of God. Right. For example,
- 13:43Speaker 1: when you're facing temptation, have you ever faced temptation? When
- 13:47Speaker 1: struggling with sin, facing temptation, we have a word that
- 13:52Speaker 1: we could go to. And one of my life scriptures
- 13:55Speaker 1: is this word one Corinthians ten thirteen. Right is saying
- 14:01Speaker 1: that sin is common or temptation is common to man,
- 14:07Speaker 1: and God is faithful. On paraphrasing. For some reason, it's
- 14:10Speaker 1: not registering right now. No temptation has seized me. Accept
- 14:16Speaker 1: what is common to man, and God is faithful. He
- 14:18Speaker 1: will not let me be tempted beyond what I can bear.
- 14:21Speaker 1: But when I am tempted, He will provide. God himself
- 14:24Speaker 1: will provide a way of an escape, a way of escape.
- 14:28Speaker 1: So therefore we have no excuse we could get out
- 14:30Speaker 1: of a situation of temptation. God will provide a way
- 14:33Speaker 1: of escape. First committed in ten thirteen, right about anxiety
- 14:38Speaker 1: and fear. A lot of people right now have anxiety
- 14:41Speaker 1: and fear. Since COVID hit years ago. Right, anxiety and
- 14:46Speaker 1: fear rose. And I believe that enemy was all over,
- 14:50Speaker 1: that we were isolated. We weren't able to a lot
- 14:53Speaker 1: of states, weren't able to come together in their churches physically.
- 14:58Speaker 1: So a lot of things we're going online, and a
- 15:01Speaker 1: lot of people are still not going to church unto
- 15:05Speaker 1: this very day, and they're still just scanning things online.
- 15:07Speaker 1: And you know, a ministry like mine, you know, I
- 15:11Speaker 1: welcome everybody who's online. I welcome everybody who's on social media. Amen,
- 15:17Speaker 1: But try to really connect to another human being outside
- 15:21Speaker 1: of the screen if you can, or have them visit
- 15:23Speaker 1: or connect with me, Amen, And I'll see what states
- 15:26Speaker 1: you're in, and I'll try to connect you with some
- 15:29Speaker 1: people that I might know in your area that can
- 15:32Speaker 1: connect with you. Amen, Because I know to a lot
- 15:34Speaker 1: of people it's difficult to get out of their homes
- 15:37Speaker 1: are difficult. Maybe you have some kind of handicap, or
- 15:41Speaker 1: you can't get out, so it's understandable. So we'll send
- 15:45Speaker 1: people to you. Like I always say, the church is
- 15:47Speaker 1: more effective when the church goes to someone, not always
- 15:51Speaker 1: inviting people to a church or to a community. When
- 15:54Speaker 1: the church is active outside of the building and presenting
- 15:58Speaker 1: the Gospel into someonebody else's life, in their situation and
- 16:02Speaker 1: their surroundings and their comfort. Amen, I believe the church
- 16:06Speaker 1: is more effective there. So anxiety and fear, we have
- 16:10Speaker 1: a word for that. Philippians chapter four, six and seven
- 16:13Speaker 1: tells us to pray and trust God's peace over our worries.
- 16:18Speaker 1: Trust God's peace over our worries. That's interesting, right, So
- 16:23Speaker 1: we have a real time word for a real time situation.
- 16:28Speaker 1: We could have a daily word for a daily situation.
- 16:32Speaker 1: The Word of God has it a man. We're never
- 16:34Speaker 1: going to have a shortage of God's powerful word. We're
- 16:38Speaker 1: never going to have a shortage of an all knowing,
- 16:40Speaker 1: all loving, all Holy God. God knows the intentions of
- 16:43Speaker 1: our hearts. He knows who we are. He created us
- 16:46Speaker 1: a man, and the Word of God, like we read
- 16:49Speaker 1: in the Book of Hebrews, that is sharper than any
- 16:52Speaker 1: double edged sword able to pierce even through the spirit
- 16:57Speaker 1: of the soul, even into the joints and the bone.
- 16:59Speaker 1: Man a man with the blood and everything is amazing.
- 17:03Speaker 1: So God's word will cut. It will cut, Amen, but
- 17:07Speaker 1: it cuts on purpose, with precision and for a reason. Amen.
- 17:12Speaker 1: So if you want to test the word of God
- 17:15Speaker 1: in your daily life, here's a challenge for you. Amen.
- 17:19Speaker 1: And I challenge myself to this very thing. In a week,
- 17:24Speaker 1: read the Bible right daily, at least five minutes a day,
- 17:31Speaker 1: and ask how does this word that I'm reading apply
- 17:38Speaker 1: to my life today? Think about it. I mean, nobody
- 17:42Speaker 1: has to know. If you don't want to go out
- 17:44Speaker 1: there and say, well, I've been reading the Bible lately
- 17:47Speaker 1: to people who are going to think you're crazy, you
- 17:50Speaker 1: could keep it between you and the Lord. Read his
- 17:52Speaker 1: word daily every day, and what you're reading, ask yourself,
- 17:57Speaker 1: how does this word apply to my life today? Right
- 18:02Speaker 1: about this? Who would have ever thought about this? Memorize
- 18:06Speaker 1: a scripture. So apply that scripture in your life on
- 18:10Speaker 1: a day to day. Memorize the scripture. If you have
- 18:13Speaker 1: dealing with anxiety, a man, go into the Bible. Look
- 18:16Speaker 1: for anxiety scriptures. I would call them. If you're dealing
- 18:21Speaker 1: with fear, go into the Bible, look for the word fear. Amen.
- 18:25Speaker 1: There's so many ways to do it. The Bible app
- 18:28Speaker 1: there's so many apps out there that you could actually
- 18:30Speaker 1: just put the word that you're dealing with, or the
- 18:33Speaker 1: word that you're looking up, or maybe the situation that
- 18:36Speaker 1: you're in, and you could put it in a search
- 18:39Speaker 1: and it should give you the word on that. Amen,
- 18:43Speaker 1: So fear anxiety. A man memorize a verse, choose one
- 18:48Speaker 1: scripture from today's reading, and meditating on it. And today's
- 18:53Speaker 1: reading is Hebrews, chapter four, verse number twelve. I know
- 18:56Speaker 1: it was long, but some people have a better memory
- 18:59Speaker 1: than I do. Amen. If you can't memorize it, you
- 19:03Speaker 1: could listen to it. You could read it daily until
- 19:06Speaker 1: it becomes part of who you are, a part of
- 19:08Speaker 1: your memory bank, and part of your daily life. That's
- 19:11Speaker 1: a good challenge, right, It's fair and it's practical. Everybody, well,
- 19:16Speaker 1: not everybody. I hate when I say that, I shouldn't
- 19:18Speaker 1: say everybody. Don't know everybody. A lot of people, amen,
- 19:22Speaker 1: think that the Word of God is only a book
- 19:24Speaker 1: of fairy tales, a book of wisdom that applied way
- 19:30Speaker 1: back but does not apply any longer. I would challenge
- 19:33Speaker 1: that all day, every day. If you apply this word
- 19:36Speaker 1: to your daily life, you will realize that the Word
- 19:39Speaker 1: of God is way advanced than any AI, way advanced
- 19:43Speaker 1: than any search engine, way advanced than any philosophy, way
- 19:46Speaker 1: advanced than the smartest person that you know, way advanced,
- 19:49Speaker 1: and science wave its next level everything. Amen, And you wonder,
- 19:56Speaker 1: how could it be that God wrote this word so
- 20:00Speaker 1: so many thousands of years ago and yet it still
- 20:02Speaker 1: applies today? You ever thought about that? How could it
- 20:05Speaker 1: be that the prophecies of the Bible were so accurate
- 20:09Speaker 1: pinpoint to the day and there was over three hundred
- 20:12Speaker 1: prophecies fulfilled when Jesus showed up on the scene. How
- 20:17Speaker 1: could that be? If this word is just ancient, outdated
- 20:20Speaker 1: and irrelevant, right, I don't know. I would challenge the
- 20:24Speaker 1: way of thinking of those people who really think that
- 20:27Speaker 1: the word of God is not the word of God,
- 20:29Speaker 1: first of all, and they don't think it's relevant, they
- 20:31Speaker 1: don't think it's real. I would challenge that day today.
- 20:38Speaker 1: So when you're facing a problem this week, and you
- 20:40Speaker 1: probably will. A man, I face problems, You face problems,
- 20:44Speaker 1: will probably face problems to this week. Amen, find a
- 20:49Speaker 1: related scripture to your problem, right, and see if that
- 20:52Speaker 1: doesn't get solved through His word, through God's word, pray
- 20:58Speaker 1: over it. What about prayer man? We need to go
- 21:00Speaker 1: back to the basics. Sometimes we are living in a
- 21:04Speaker 1: distracting world. So many distractions in this world. We have TV, Internet,
- 21:11Speaker 1: the phone, right, social media. And I got convicted the
- 21:15Speaker 1: other day because someone said on the radio. I listened
- 21:18Speaker 1: to Christian radio. Who whatever thought about that? Right? I
- 21:21Speaker 1: listened to Christian radio and someone on the radio was like,
- 21:24Speaker 1: they scroll more on the social media than they read
- 21:27Speaker 1: the word. I was like, whoa, I need to check
- 21:30Speaker 1: myself on that. Am I scrolling more on social media
- 21:35Speaker 1: than I am in the word? That's convicting to me, Amen.
- 21:40Speaker 1: So I have to make sure I'm spending more time
- 21:43Speaker 1: and what really matters with people who really matter more
- 21:47Speaker 1: than social media. I'm live on social media, I'm active
- 21:50Speaker 1: on social media. I have a ministry on social media.
- 21:53Speaker 1: I know that a lot of people know that, Amen,
- 21:56Speaker 1: But that's no excuse for me to continue after I'm
- 21:59Speaker 1: done what I'm doing and putting everything out for the day,
- 22:02Speaker 1: to keep on scrolling and scrolling and scrolling that scrolling time, Amen,
- 22:06Speaker 1: compared to my scripture. Reading time should not be equal
- 22:10Speaker 1: and definitely shouldn't be more. And right now I think
- 22:12Speaker 1: I'm guilty of scrolling more than reading a man. I
- 22:15Speaker 1: know a lot of evangelists won't admit that, a lot
- 22:18Speaker 1: of preachers won't admit that, especially on a live stream
- 22:21Speaker 1: or on a podcast. But Amen, I could challenge myself.
- 22:24Speaker 1: Can I do that? Amen? I just put you into
- 22:27Speaker 1: my way of thinking and the challenge of myself. So
- 22:30Speaker 1: be more in the scripture than I am social media.
- 22:33Speaker 1: Pray for a brother, amen, because we all know how
- 22:36Speaker 1: addicting social media could be, and we know how exposed
- 22:41Speaker 1: we are when we are just scrolling. If there's no
- 22:44Speaker 1: purpose in your scroll, amen, if there's no reason for
- 22:47Speaker 1: you scrolling, stop, Actually, I heard that there's on if
- 22:50Speaker 1: you have an iPhone, there's timers that you could put
- 22:53Speaker 1: on the apps, and if you put it for like
- 22:56Speaker 1: fifteen minutes on the app, whatever social media platform you're on,
- 23:01Speaker 1: it'll actually gray out, blackout, and you know, it'll tell you, okay,
- 23:05Speaker 1: enough is enough. I think that's a good idea, and
- 23:07Speaker 1: I guess that's a good way of trying to stop
- 23:11Speaker 1: the scroll if it doesn't If you're not making anything.
- 23:14Speaker 1: If it doesn't matter, stop it right. When you're facing
- 23:18Speaker 1: a problem this week, find a related scripture and pray
- 23:22Speaker 1: over it. Right, So let me encourage you. If you want,
- 23:29Speaker 1: you could share your struggles, right, You could share your
- 23:34Speaker 1: experiences in the comments, share with a friend and man
- 23:40Speaker 1: and see and this friend hopefully knows God. This friend
- 23:45Speaker 1: that you're seeking, hopefully is a positive person, a person
- 23:48Speaker 1: that you know is different and that you know you
- 23:50Speaker 1: can trust. I'm not saying just blurt it all out there,
- 23:54Speaker 1: go on social media and just post up your struggles
- 23:57Speaker 1: and post up your experiences to complete strangers. I'm saying
- 24:00Speaker 1: maybe if you trust me, maybe you can inbox me,
- 24:02Speaker 1: DM me Amen with your experiences. I have a chat ministry,
- 24:07Speaker 1: Amen that you could get connected with. All you got
- 24:09Speaker 1: to do is go to so win Is with a
- 24:11Speaker 1: z do org. Scroll to like midway of the website.
- 24:15Speaker 1: Click that where it says join the email. I think
- 24:18Speaker 1: it says as a banner, join that, Amen, and we
- 24:21Speaker 1: could start from there and connect from there as well.
- 24:24Speaker 1: And that's outside of the matrix. Not everybody's going to
- 24:26Speaker 1: see what we see. So we need strength, man, in
- 24:33Speaker 1: today's world. That's why we need God's word in today's world. Amen,
- 24:38Speaker 1: And I believe the scripture that God gave me and
- 24:40Speaker 1: Hebrews four twelve is relevant because we're relevant, right, and
- 24:47Speaker 1: we have a spirit, we have soul, we have bone marrows,
- 24:51Speaker 1: and we have thoughts and intentions, and the word that
- 24:54Speaker 1: we just read says that God's word cuts through all
- 24:57Speaker 1: of that. So God's word is relevant and my day
- 25:00Speaker 1: to day what about you? I have a mind, I
- 25:03Speaker 1: have intentions, I have a soul. I am a soul,
- 25:06Speaker 1: I am a spirit, right, I'm a person with bone
- 25:09Speaker 1: marrow blood. You know. I always say that this bag
- 25:13Speaker 1: of blood and bones will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
- 25:16Speaker 1: We're not going in there flesh and bones. But my soul,
- 25:20Speaker 1: my saved soul, is saved right and will inherit the
- 25:23Speaker 1: Kingdom of God. The spirit is always willing. The flesh
- 25:26Speaker 1: is always weak. So the weak part of us is
- 25:28Speaker 1: not going to go into the powerful heavenly place. Our
- 25:33Speaker 1: soul that's saved, right, signed and delivered. Our soul is
- 25:38Speaker 1: going to be with Jesus forever a spirit, Amen, soul.
- 25:43Speaker 1: It's amazing how God's word is relevant in our daily
- 25:47Speaker 1: life life. So my argument and I hope I argue
- 25:50Speaker 1: that good enough. When people ask does the Bible apply
- 25:54Speaker 1: to my daily life, my answer is absolutely, of course
- 25:57Speaker 1: it does. Just read it applied, pray, amen, and see
- 26:01Speaker 1: what happens in your life and your day to day.
- 26:03Speaker 1: So I hope you get what I'm saying, Peoples, Chapter four.
- 26:05Speaker 1: Read the whole chapter for yourself. Amen. Thank you so
- 26:09Speaker 1: much for hanging out with me for these morning DeVos.
- 26:11Speaker 1: It really matters to me, and I hope it matters
- 26:13Speaker 1: to you. God bless you all. Got to keep you
- 26:16Speaker 1: all and remember always that God is good. Peace