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Measure of Faith [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: One of Good Morning family, God bless you. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo. Is your brother Sam Lopez aka
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Speaker 1: So we're still here. All glory to God. Today we're
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Speaker 1: gonna be talking about the measure of faith. Measure of faith.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be in the scripture today concerning Romans, chapter twelve,
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Speaker 1: Verse number sixteen. We must develop a proper view of ourselves.
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Speaker 1: Don't look at yourself as someone all the way up
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Speaker 1: here or all the way down here. Look at yourself
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Speaker 1: with a proper view. Look at yourself in the view,
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Speaker 1: out of the lens of scripture, out of the lens
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Speaker 1: of God's word. Amen, and be humble about it, and
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Speaker 1: don't be prideful. Amen. I think that the whole secret
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Speaker 1: a lot of people's breakthrough, Amen, is they're just like
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Speaker 1: one position away from a breakthrough, and it's the pride
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Speaker 1: that's holding them back. Amen. That could be for me,
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Speaker 1: that could be for you, that could be for people.
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Speaker 1: You know that could be for leaders, that could be
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Speaker 1: for followers, that could be for believers, all kinds of people. Amen,
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Speaker 1: pride has to go. Let's walk humble. Let's view ourselves
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Speaker 1: in a proper measure. Amen, view ourselves according to the
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Speaker 1: world of God. Roman Shopter twelve, verse number sixteen. Measure
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Speaker 1: of faith Today in the morning, Devo. If you have
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Speaker 1: any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, or anything along those lines,
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Speaker 1: please don't hesitate to leave it on a live chat.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're here for, man, We're here to engage, communicate,
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Speaker 1: and do all those things that we do here on
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Speaker 1: the morning Devo. Let me quickly quickly copy this over
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Speaker 1: to the website so that way all my people on
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Speaker 1: soulds with a z RG whould like to watch videos
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Speaker 1: and watch the live stream. Amen, I'll make it available
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Speaker 1: to you right now. But let's go for it. Let's
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Speaker 1: pray first. After we pray, we'll share this out for
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Speaker 1: like sixty seconds. And after those sixty seconds, when we
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Speaker 1: come back, we're going to dive into a measure of faith. Romans,
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Speaker 1: chapter number twelve and was thought of verse number sixteen, Amen,
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Speaker 1: Romans twelve sixteen. I'm excited about this because this always
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Speaker 1: puts me in a place that I'm like, yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: humility is powerful. Being humble its powerful for real, like
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Speaker 1: no joke. But pride. The Bible literally says that God
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Speaker 1: resists the pride for people proud. He resists the proud.
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Speaker 1: So why would I want to be resisted by God?
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Speaker 1: I want to submit to God. I want to resist.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to be resisted by God. I want
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Speaker 1: to submit to God, resist the devil, and the devil
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Speaker 1: will flee from me. Amen. That's what the word says.
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Speaker 1: It's exciting when you know about the word. Right, when
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Speaker 1: you know the word, you'll apply the word. You see
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Speaker 1: the word in action. Men, you start realizing, Wait, I
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Speaker 1: have a new focused identity, Amen. And I have a
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Speaker 1: measure of faith that God gave me. And God, God
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Speaker 1: gave you a measure of faith, not a measure of
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Some people think that they have more of
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit than another brother or sister in Christ.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know where they get that from. Amen,
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Speaker 1: Maybe they're taking the scripture out of context. We have
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Speaker 1: a measure of faith that God applies to every one
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Speaker 1: of us, Amen. But we have all have Holy Spirit God.
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Speaker 1: It's the beauty, the beauty of being in the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of God. We all are part of the Holy family.
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Speaker 1: A royal preesct amen. So let's pray. Father, I thank
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Speaker 1: you so much for your life giving word. Thank you
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Speaker 1: Little God that you all you always have the best,
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Speaker 1: very best for us on a day to day basis.
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Speaker 1: You are daily bread, You are a provided, You are strength,
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Speaker 1: you are covering. You are a strong, mighty fortress, a
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Speaker 1: strong power helper in the time of need. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much, Lord God for your holy Spirit. Thank you
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Speaker 1: Father for allowing yourself to come down here in the
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Speaker 1: form of a man named Jesus, and allowing us to
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Speaker 1: see the perfect example of a man of God, of
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Speaker 1: a man that was on a mission to the very end,
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Speaker 1: completely finishing the mission and the promise of your return,
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus. Is so we're so eager to see that happen.
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Speaker 1: But in the meantime, in the meantime, help us, Love, God,
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Speaker 1: plant seeds of eternal life everywhere we go. Help us
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Speaker 1: low God to encourage one another and lift up one
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Speaker 1: another in the faith. Thank you, Lord God, that many
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Speaker 1: are coming to your saving knowledge. Many are being saved,
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Speaker 1: many are being born again. Thank you, Lord God, that
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Speaker 1: this is a spiritual battle. We know that the war
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Speaker 1: has already run one, but as soldiers for the Cross
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Speaker 1: of the Cross, we will fight this good fight of
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Speaker 1: faith that knowing that our weapons on not carnal, our
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Speaker 1: weapons on not guns and knives and artillery and all that.
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Speaker 1: But our weapon is love. Our weapon is the word.
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Speaker 1: Our weapon. I'm posing our strongholds according to the power
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Speaker 1: and authority that that you gave us. So thank you
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Speaker 1: log God for your word, Thank you Lok God for
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Speaker 1: our new birth, our identity that's found in you. And
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Speaker 1: I pray, look got a hedge of protection over everything
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Speaker 1: that's said and done in the lives of all your children.
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Speaker 1: Right now in Jesus' name, I pray a hedge of
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Speaker 1: protection on myself, my family, my wife, our children, our bloodlines,
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Speaker 1: both sides of the family, from the very youngest family
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Speaker 1: member to the very oldest, and every single person in
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Speaker 1: between a man, our parents, everyone in between, that you
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Speaker 1: will bless, God, guard and protect. And I pray the
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Speaker 1: same prayer over every single person on the other side
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Speaker 1: of the screen and on the other side of this
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Speaker 1: mic that look gout, they will be blessed as well.
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Speaker 1: And that would be encouragement today that will be flowing
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Speaker 1: through us and we will get a greater Messare your
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Speaker 1: faith according to your purpose and plan for each individual
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Speaker 1: life that's connecting now, who will connect later? In Jesus' name,
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Speaker 1: I pray it's by faith. And all those who agree,
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Speaker 1: we just say, Amen is power and agreement. So let's
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Speaker 1: agree with the great Amen, with the amen the Lord
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Let's agree with his word. A man is,
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Speaker 1: his word is true, his word is life, his word
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Speaker 1: is trustworthy, and his word is eternal. I'll be right
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Speaker 1: back sixty seconds. Help me share this and when we
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Speaker 1: come back, we'll get right into romans chat the number
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Speaker 1: twelve verse number sixteen. You many, man, We're back a right,
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Speaker 1: so man, sixty seconds to share this out. Thank you
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Speaker 1: to all the groups that allow me to share these
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Speaker 1: live streams and these morning DeVos on your group. That's
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Speaker 1: a matter of trust, right, if you're monitoring your group
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Speaker 1: like me, I don't put everybody on that shares their
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Speaker 1: live stream or shares their content on my group. It's
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Speaker 1: because I'm protective over what's being consumed by the people
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Speaker 1: in my group and the Blaze Bober studies on social media. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So thank you so much for trusting this ministry. Thank
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Speaker 1: you so much for allowing this ministry to go on
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Speaker 1: your group pages. I don't take that for granted. I'm grateful, Amen.
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Speaker 1: And it humbles me and it shows me like that
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Speaker 1: people care about what the Word of God says. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And that's encouraging me. Encouraging to me because I'm like,
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Speaker 1: sometimes I'm looking at the world and be like, is
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Speaker 1: there anybody out there? I'll be like, hello, Jesus, is
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Speaker 1: Lord still right? And I get into these places of
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Speaker 1: thinking that should not be. And I've been talking about
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Speaker 1: a lot about our mental state, right, what we think,
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Speaker 1: how we should think, Amen, according to the word biblical mindsets. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So I should know better by now to focus on
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Speaker 1: what the world is doing. I'd rather focus on what
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Speaker 1: God is doing in the world, not what the world
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Speaker 1: is doing concerning God. Right. So I'm trying to flip
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Speaker 1: the script on myself, my way of thinking, my way
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Speaker 1: of Holy Spirit, God, Jolie, I see you, good morning. Yes,
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Speaker 1: thank you Amen. Amen. You got it, Orlando, God, bless you,
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Speaker 1: my bro, God blessed. Welcome to the morning, Devo. So
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Speaker 1: let's go for it. Let's get this on the screen
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Speaker 1: for those who are just listening, Amen, Praise God. Audio
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Speaker 1: is powerful. I believe audio is more powerful than videos.
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Speaker 1: That's just my humble opinion because I'm from the old
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Speaker 1: school and I grew up listening more than watching things.
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Speaker 1: I know, but we're in the age of video and
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Speaker 1: information age and social media time. But I'm a busy man,
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Speaker 1: so it's hard for me to watch videos for the
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Speaker 1: most part of the day, so I'm usually listening to
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Speaker 1: audio and it paints pictures in my mind my thing.
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Speaker 1: I love audio like video too, but audio is my thing.
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Speaker 1: And men, so thank you so much for listening to
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Speaker 1: the podcast and on the radio network. I greet you
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Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus. Thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: coming through. It's cool that people still want to get
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Speaker 1: into this word. Man still want to There's a remnant,
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Speaker 1: there's a last of us, Amen, that are still hungry
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Speaker 1: for things of God because we know we took part
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Speaker 1: of this world. This world drives you up real quick.
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Speaker 1: This world fails you. This world doesn't love you. This
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Speaker 1: world's system is broken, it's corrupt, it's horrible. It leads
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Speaker 1: to death, it doesn't lead to life. But the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of God, the Kingdom principles, the king of king and
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Speaker 1: Lord of Lords, the Word of God. Under no pressure,
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Speaker 1: we choose to follow right, under no pressure. We see
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Speaker 1: that God's word works, and God's word is true, and
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Speaker 1: God's word elevates us, and God's word lifts us, and
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Speaker 1: God's word empowers us. And we keep it moving for
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Speaker 1: the glory of God and not for the glory of
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Speaker 1: this world. This world has its own thing going on.
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Speaker 1: It's obvious God is not controlling this world system. It's
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Speaker 1: obvious the devil is. But God has a kingdom, and
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Speaker 1: he says, see first the Kingdom of God, and all
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Speaker 1: these things will be adding on us to you. All
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Speaker 1: those things that the Kingdom of God offers will be
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Speaker 1: added on to us. That's powerful, and that's a great
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Speaker 1: measure of faith. So that's getting on the screen for
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Speaker 1: those who are watching measure of faith today in the morning, devo.
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Speaker 1: And let's go for it. We're going to be in
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Speaker 1: Romans twelve sixteen. The Bible says live in harmony with
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Speaker 1: one another. So let's get along. I know a lot
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Speaker 1: of people don't get along with me because certain reasons.
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Speaker 1: Your probably hard to get along with sometimes for certain reasons,
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Speaker 1: but biblically, let's live in harmony with one another. Do
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Speaker 1: not be hearty. That means conceited, self important, exclusive. Never
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Speaker 1: met a person like that. It's so hard to hang
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Speaker 1: out with. It's all about them. They know everything. They
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Speaker 1: want to be the best at speaking. They want to
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Speaker 1: be the best looking, they want to be the healthiest,
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Speaker 1: They want to have more muscles than everybody. They look
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Speaker 1: down at everybody. It's hard to hang out with conceited people,
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Speaker 1: people who find themselves self important, people who think they're exclusive.
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Speaker 1: It's hard at least for me to hang out with
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Speaker 1: this type of people. But associate with humble people. I
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Speaker 1: love humble people, man. I love people that have resources, money, homes, cars,
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Speaker 1: and they're so humble because they know they get all
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Speaker 1: that from the Lord. And if it wasn't for the Lord,
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Speaker 1: where would they be, if it wasn't for the grace
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Speaker 1: of God, where would they be? Humble people? Humility, man,
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Speaker 1: that's the new for me. Humble people is the people
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Speaker 1: to hang out with. Humble people, the people that you
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Speaker 1: can learn from. Humble people or the people who are
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Speaker 1: inspired by Holy Spirit, God moving according to the spirit,
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Speaker 1: those with a realistic self view. Do not overestimate yourself.
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Speaker 1: And we could also see that in Proverbs chapter number three,
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Speaker 1: verse number seven. If you're like me and you'd like
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Speaker 1: to do some cross references of the scriptures, Amen, since
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Speaker 1: the joys I see you, Good morning, God bless you.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning, Devo, my sister and my friend.
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Speaker 1: It's good to see you with us today in the morning. Devo. Amen,
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Speaker 1: Rise and shine right, God bless you by the frank
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Speaker 1: good morning. Amen to that. For humble people, yes, let's
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Speaker 1: stay humble. Humble is the new man. Humble is the
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Speaker 1: new way of living. I'll let me just put the
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Speaker 1: camera back on it. Amen. I want to I want
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Speaker 1: to telling myself real quick of what I be thinking.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll be thinking like this. Sometimes I'd be like
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Speaker 1: I do I do things right in the background. I
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Speaker 1: would like to share what I do. I would like
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Speaker 1: to share where I go. I would like to share
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Speaker 1: who I helped. I would like to share how this
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Speaker 1: ministry is growing. Amen. But it's not all about that.
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Speaker 1: And every time I try to go that route, let
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Speaker 1: me show people what I'm doing. No, I'd rather show
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Speaker 1: people what God is doing. Amen. Through the ministry. Through me,
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Speaker 1: through you. Amen. That's why testimonies are powerful. When you
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Speaker 1: testify about the power of God over your life, you're
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Speaker 1: being humble because you're showing everybody it's not about what
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Speaker 1: you're doing, it's about what God did through you, or
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Speaker 1: about what God is doing. Because we just said, yes,
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Speaker 1: we woke up one day and we looked at ourselves
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Speaker 1: and we had a sober minded view of ourselves, and
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Speaker 1: we didn't overestimate ourselves. But we gave God glory for
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Speaker 1: every single day, for the bread of life or eternal life,
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Speaker 1: or start saving us, for rescuing us, for the grace
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Speaker 1: and his mercy. And we start looking at ourselves like, well,
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Speaker 1: I'm not over anyone. It's just that I serve the
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Speaker 1: one who's over everyone. When you have that mindset, it
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Speaker 1: humbles you and keeps you level minded. It keeps your
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Speaker 1: heart humble, It doesn't keep you conceded. You don't overestimate yourself.
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Speaker 1: Now a woman of God, Amen, I know people who
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Speaker 1: are beautiful. My wife is beautiful. I know women and
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Speaker 1: God who are beautiful, and they don't they're modest about it.
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Speaker 1: And that's humility in a form of in the form
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Speaker 1: of a woman. You know they don't have to flaunt
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Speaker 1: body parts and all that to get attention. They are
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Speaker 1: beautiful because they have the awesome Guy living within them. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And all godly woman is gorgeous. A man, a godly
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Speaker 1: woman is gorgeous, especially when they show humility. Sister jo Wayne,
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Speaker 1: good morning, God, bless you. Welcome to the morning. Dev
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Speaker 1: On my sister and my friend. So I see it, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and it's a good look. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: I crave because I have two daughters. I crave for
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Speaker 1: a woman to God to just like pour into my
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Speaker 1: daughter's life. Amen. My wife does it all the time.
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Speaker 1: My mother in law does it all the time. My
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Speaker 1: pastor's wife does it Amen, through her ministry. And they
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Speaker 1: look up to them. And some worship leaders Amen in
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Speaker 1: my church on that are female. They look up to
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Speaker 1: these women of God. So please help a brother out.
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Speaker 1: Modesty is the new thing. Modesty is the new sexy. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And I'm trying to show my nine year old and
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Speaker 1: my four year old at the same time, I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to by their levels, by their measure of faith. I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to show them. Man, listen, beauty comes from God. Amen.
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Speaker 1: You love God. You're a beautiful person. The opposite applies,
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Speaker 1: So I'll leave that there. If you don't love God
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Speaker 1: and you hate God and you're about yourself and you're
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Speaker 1: about conceded life and you're full of pride and arrogance,
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Speaker 1: God is resisting those people. And that's to me is like,
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Speaker 1: that's not cool. Why would you want to be resisted
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Speaker 1: by God? I want God. I want to be comforted
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Speaker 1: by the comfort of God. I want to be protected.
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Speaker 1: I want to be guided. I want to be led
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Speaker 1: by Holy Spirit God. Amen. I don't want to be resistant.
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Speaker 1: It's not all about me. People literally act to tell
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Speaker 1: me that it's not all about you, Sam, and I'm like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I know that, I've been known that. Amen. I'm just
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Speaker 1: moving according to a Holy Spirit God. I'm just doing
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Speaker 1: what God called me to do. And I'm consistent because
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Speaker 1: He's consistent, not because I want not because anything that
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Speaker 1: I do exclusive is all about what the Lord is doing.
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Speaker 1: When I get up. You think I have a script
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Speaker 1: in front of me when I'm doing this morning DeVos, No,
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Speaker 1: I'm relying one percent on Holy Spirit God to help
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Speaker 1: me speak. Amen. Sometimes I'm still groggy and still half
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Speaker 1: asleep sometimes on these morning DeVos. People say, you look
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Speaker 1: like you're ride awake. Well, I'm in the spirit of
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Speaker 1: God and he keeps me awake. That's the only reason
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Speaker 1: of why I guess. People think, oh, man, you must
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Speaker 1: have been up since four. No, I want it up
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Speaker 1: since four in the morning. Amen. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: I have to force myself to go to sleep at night.
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Speaker 1: My mind is racing. I'm thinking about ways to engage
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Speaker 1: people and thinking about people that are know. I'm praying
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Speaker 1: for people, ay man, praying for my family. I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to spend time with my wife and my family. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so I'm up. It's just that when when the alarm
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Speaker 1: clock goes off, my body, my flesh is saying, I
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Speaker 1: just stay sleeping. No one cares. And the spirit of
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Speaker 1: God said, you ready, because we got something. I got
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Speaker 1: something for you, I got something for my children. I
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Speaker 1: got a word. So that's why I just go straight
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Speaker 1: to the word and read it, because you know, I
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Speaker 1: can't fail when I'm reading the word right. The scripture
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Speaker 1: holds up for itself. God's word never returns void. God's
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Speaker 1: word is active, powerful, It's shopping at any double edged sword.
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Speaker 1: And God's word is able to accomplish every single thing
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Speaker 1: that the word will accomplish in your life and my
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Speaker 1: life system my mind jealous? What was the nickname I
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Speaker 1: gave you? Le call you a system? Mighty? Can I
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Speaker 1: do that? Because I always message the name. Good morning, God,
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Speaker 1: bless you, welcome back to the morning, Devo. It's good
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Speaker 1: to see you. Thank you for these more devil times.
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Speaker 1: Praise God, Amen, and thank you for coming through. And
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Speaker 1: when we make it better together, amen. And we are
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Speaker 1: always available here, Amen, Maighty, Thank you so much. You
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Speaker 1: remind me all the time, and thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for that. Man, I have a thing you have to
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Speaker 1: pray for me. I don't know what's going on with me.
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Speaker 1: I used to be so good at it, pronunciation all
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Speaker 1: that with names, especially Spanish names, but now it's getting older.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. Amen, my mind is
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Speaker 1: playing tricks on me. But God is good. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much Mighty for coming through. So let's go for it. Man.
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Speaker 1: Let's have this measure of faith that's in us. And
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Speaker 1: let's realize where we got the measure of faith. We
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Speaker 1: got it from the Lord. Amen. He gives us all
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Speaker 1: a measure of faith. So that's Romans chapter number twelve,
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Speaker 1: verse number sixteen. How about this one Romans twelve, verse
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Speaker 1: number three, or by the grace given me, I say
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Speaker 1: to every one of you, do not think of yourself
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Speaker 1: more highly than your ought. Rather think of yourself with
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Speaker 1: sober judgment. Sober is the new high. Sober judgment is
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Speaker 1: the way we should be judging. Amen. Oh, you can't
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Speaker 1: right if you're outside of the Word of God, if
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Speaker 1: you're outside of the Kingdom of God, I ain't judging
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Speaker 1: you God as you judge. But if you're in the
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Speaker 1: Kingdom of God and you call yourself a brother and
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Speaker 1: system the Lord, you call yourself a christ follower. Amen.
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Speaker 1: We should be rightly and soberly judging one another to
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Speaker 1: higher levels, Amen, because we are expected, really not forced,
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Speaker 1: but we're expected to be different. The world knows that
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Speaker 1: as soon as I say I was a Christian, as
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Speaker 1: soon as you say you're a Christian, the world knows
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Speaker 1: there should be a difference, and they start looking for
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Speaker 1: the differences. If you look the same, you act the same,
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Speaker 1: you talk the same. Why would they want our God, Amen?
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Speaker 1: Why would they want our faith? Why would they want
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Speaker 1: Jesus if we're poorly representing him. So that's why it's
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Speaker 1: important of how we respond to people questions, how we
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Speaker 1: respond when we're put in a place where somebody's throwing
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Speaker 1: and hurling insults at us. Should we when we're getting
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Speaker 1: cursed out? Should we curse them back out? Right? It's
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Speaker 1: a thing, But do not think of yourself more highly
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Speaker 1: than you ought, but rather than think of yourself with
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Speaker 1: sober judgment in accordance with the measure of faith God
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Speaker 1: has given you. We were given a measure of faith
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Speaker 1: by God according to his measure of faith. The Bible says,
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Speaker 1: how much faith do you have? I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: have a measure of faith my prayer life. It's okay.
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Speaker 1: But when my four year old praise Amen is next
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Speaker 1: level her faith, her level of faith, a measure of
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Speaker 1: faith is next level. She praised yesterday, she prayed. She said, Mommy,
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Speaker 1: can I pray for your back? And my wife said sure,
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Speaker 1: So she laid hands on my wife on her back.
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Speaker 1: Sister was there to testify. I'm there to testify. And
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Speaker 1: she puts her head down and she prais the Lord,
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Speaker 1: heal my mom's back, help her have no more pain
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Speaker 1: in her Lord back in Jesus name. Amen. She expects
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Speaker 1: everybody else to say Amen. And you could tell she believes.
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Speaker 1: My wife says, man, we wish we have faith like you.
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Speaker 1: She prays and she believes she has a great measure
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Speaker 1: of faith. Jesus says, come to me as a child. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Let the children come to me, Jesus says, While the
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Speaker 1: while the disciples who pushing the children away, and Jesus said, no,
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Speaker 1: let the children come, because these such as these inherit
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Speaker 1: the kingdom of God. They have a great measure of faith.
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Speaker 1: You ever saw a kid pray? Years ago at my
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Speaker 1: first church when I was in the church and to
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Speaker 1: move which is now called Life Church. Amen, there was
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Speaker 1: a man with I believe it was a brain tumor,
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Speaker 1: and so the church had the children come and surround
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Speaker 1: them in prayer. Guess what happened? And the children just believe.
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Speaker 1: They prayed for healing over him, and that man was healed. Amen.
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Speaker 1: You can't tell me that God didn't give them a
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Speaker 1: great measure of faith. They have less issues, less problems, Amen,
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Speaker 1: less things to think about. When we become adults, we
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Speaker 1: try to figure things out more than we trust God.
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Speaker 1: And the things that we're going through. At least for me,
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Speaker 1: let me just talk about me. I don't know about
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Speaker 1: you as an adult for me. Amen, And I look
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Speaker 1: at young children when they pray. I said, I want that.
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Speaker 1: I want that measure of faith. Amen. Brother Frank has
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Speaker 1: a comment here. Brother Sam, we just want to thank
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Speaker 1: you for the morning devil. This really means a lot
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Speaker 1: to us because we learn from the Lord. Helps us
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Speaker 1: understand what our Lord is trying to say. And we
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Speaker 1: all have to remember that the Lord we serve is
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Speaker 1: a loving God. Thank you so much. A man that
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Speaker 1: humbles me. I'm just being available to what God is
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Speaker 1: doing to my last breath. I'll try my best to
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Speaker 1: serve God with all that I have a man, and
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Speaker 1: all that I have is all that He wants me
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Speaker 1: to have. I have a greater measure of faith. You
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Speaker 1: have a great measure of faith. All my brother and
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Speaker 1: sisters have a measure of faith. We put our faith
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Speaker 1: together in harmony according to the scripture, and we are
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Speaker 1: unified a man with one another. Nothing can stop our
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Speaker 1: prayer life. Nothing can stop on the word of God
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Speaker 1: flowing through us. Nothing can stop the anoying thing of
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Speaker 1: God over our lives. Nothing can stop the oil of
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Speaker 1: God over our lives. Amen. And the enemy will just
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Speaker 1: have a bad day every single day that we come
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Speaker 1: together as believers. So thank you so much for your comment.
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Speaker 1: I'll bless you, my brother. Amen. So childlike faith, I
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Speaker 1: want that. I want the measure of a childlike faith.
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Speaker 1: Now a child because they don't know a lot of
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Speaker 1: the word. Whether they have the word already written in
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Speaker 1: our hearts according to scripture, eternities written on our hearts,
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Speaker 1: the low of the Lord has written on our hearts. Amen.
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Speaker 1: They go about praying and expecting things to happen. When
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Speaker 1: I pray, I expect things to happen too. It's just
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Speaker 1: that as an adult for myself, I'm talking about myself,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how it's going to and I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out how God's do it instead of just praying,
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Speaker 1: asking God, thanking God for what he's about to do,
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Speaker 1: what he's going to do a man and leave the
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Speaker 1: rest to him and keep it moving. And then sometimes
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Speaker 1: I'm good at it, and depending on the situation, sometimes
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Speaker 1: I'm bad at it. So God gaves gave me a
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Speaker 1: measure of faith. He gave you a measure of faith,
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Speaker 1: and that's glory to God. We have what we need
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Speaker 1: to live this life out in godliness and righteousness, and
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Speaker 1: we become more and more like the Lord Jesus himself.
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Speaker 1: So develop a proper view of yourself, being humble, not prideful.
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Speaker 1: Pride is it's like a I call it a spiritual cancer.
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Speaker 1: It's like a disease of the soul. There's reasons why
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Speaker 1: people are prideful. I was gonna say there's no reason,
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Speaker 1: but there are reasons. Obviously, because they act conceded. They
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Speaker 1: act in a different way. They project themselves as higher
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Speaker 1: than they ought to project themselves. They're not soberly using
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Speaker 1: judgment over themselves. They're trying to be exclusive. They're conceded.
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Speaker 1: They're arrogant. Amen, they know it all. A person like
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Speaker 1: that needs to be humbled. Amen, and Lord Jesus if
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Speaker 1: they're calling themselves Christ followers. And I watched this one
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Speaker 1: pastor online. He always goes viral. He's always kicking people
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Speaker 1: out of his church. He's always reminding the people that
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Speaker 1: he's the leader of the church. He even went as
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Speaker 1: far as to say, if you're a democrat, you can't
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Speaker 1: be from the Lord. And as a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: he said, as a matter of fact, all we democrats
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Speaker 1: get out my church now. Very arrogant, very conceited. Amen.
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Speaker 1: If it was about Republican and Democrat that determine whether
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Speaker 1: you're a Christian or not, then we wouldn't need Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Then we just need government. A lot of people are
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Speaker 1: worshiping government over God, and pastors like that and leaders
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Speaker 1: like that are very conceded. They need to be humbled. Amen.
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Speaker 1: All we could do at this point is pray for
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Speaker 1: those type of people because they're not elevating people. They're
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Speaker 1: actually tearing people down, beating people down with the scriptures
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Speaker 1: of all things right, and they're being very legalistic and religious.
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Speaker 1: And God doesn't want us to be that way. So
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Speaker 1: let's go for it. Man, read Romans chapter twelve for yourself,
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Speaker 1: the whole chapter. I'm out of time, but I want
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Speaker 1: to send you off with a blessing. I hope your
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Speaker 1: day goes well. I pray a blessing over you. God
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Speaker 1: bless you all, got to keep you all, and remember
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Speaker 1: always that God is good. Peace,