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God is at Work [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning family, God, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to the Morning Devo's your brother Sam Lopez aka
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  Speaker 1: DJ sam Rock so Win is with a z dot
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  Speaker 1: org live that so Win is with a z dot
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  Speaker 1: DJ sam Rock and streaming on other platforms that allowed
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  Speaker 1: us to stream a man. So if you're with me,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back. If you're not with me, amen, I hope
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  Speaker 1: one day you will be a man in the Morning
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  Speaker 1: Devo with us. Amen. And more importantly and most importantly
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  Speaker 1: getting into the Word of God for yourself. Amen. The
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  Speaker 1: Word of God is amazing word. Amen. Let me just
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  Speaker 1: take an effort here to put on this light over
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  Speaker 1: here that I keep on forgetting to turn on, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: So that way we won't look so strange. I look
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  Speaker 1: like I look like the sun's hitting me on one
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  Speaker 1: side of my face. Amen. Brother Maurice, I see you.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, God blessed a man. Blessing to you and
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  Speaker 1: your family as well. I'll keep you prayer, keep my
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  Speaker 1: family prayer as well. Amen. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: coming through with my brother and my friend. So let
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  Speaker 1: me take an effort to put this other light on
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  Speaker 1: so I'll be right back. I do this right, No, no, right,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. You get this light on. It's alive,
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  Speaker 1: so there you go. You gonna hear it all, hey man,
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  Speaker 1: as we put this together, let's see all right, I
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  Speaker 1: got the light on, so should look a little better,
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, since the joys. Good morning, God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning devo. My sister, my friend
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  Speaker 1: is good to see you on the morning DeVos. So
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  Speaker 1: God is at work. That's what we're gonna be on today.
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  Speaker 1: God is at work. A lot of people don't believe that.
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  Speaker 1: If you're like me, you would like to see the
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  Speaker 1: results now. You would like to s see the works
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  Speaker 1: of God manifest right now. If you're like me, and
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  Speaker 1: I think I represent ninety nine point nine percent of
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  Speaker 1: human beings that say we want help, we want breakthrough,
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  Speaker 1: we want healing, we want health, we want salvation for
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  Speaker 1: our family members now. And when we don't see it
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  Speaker 1: right away, right now, we may tend to think that
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  Speaker 1: God is not paying attention to us, or God's not working.
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  Speaker 1: But let me remind you that God is at work. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Sharing your faith, believe it or not, in Christ, should
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  Speaker 1: be your natural expression of God's work. Think about it.
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  Speaker 1: God is at work in you so that others can
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  Speaker 1: see His love and truth through you. So you might
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  Speaker 1: be like God's not working on my behalf meanwhile, able
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  Speaker 1: to share the very thing, the very thing that God
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  Speaker 1: has done in your life to get you to where
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  Speaker 1: you are right now, regardless if you feel, if that's
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  Speaker 1: up here or down there. God has given you life. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: When you express when you share your faith in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: the one who gave your life, you are actually doing
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  Speaker 1: the works of God for others to see the goodness,
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  Speaker 1: the truth, the love, the mercy of God through you.
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  Speaker 1: So God is at work in you so that others
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  Speaker 1: can see His love and truth through you. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to be in Collignis, chapter number four, Verses five and six.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is interesting, especially for the first part
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  Speaker 1: of the year, to be reminded that God is always
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  Speaker 1: at work and He's always working out things for the
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  Speaker 1: good Amen of those who love Him and follow his commandments.
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  Speaker 1: Which is Jesus shows up fulfills the commandments, all of them, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and breaks it down like this. The first and true
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  Speaker 1: commandment and the most important commandment, is to love God
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  Speaker 1: with everything you have, mind, body, soul, strength, everything, and
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  Speaker 1: to love your neighbor as you love yourself. When you
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  Speaker 1: show that in your life, when you allow Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: to make that evident in your life and in my life,
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  Speaker 1: God is at work, Amen, And you might be saying,
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  Speaker 1: can God use me to show other people his work?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely one hundred percent Colliza's chapter number four versus five
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  Speaker 1: or six. Today in the morning, devot. If you have
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  Speaker 1: any questions, comments, concerns, or any prayer requests, please do
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  Speaker 1: not hesitate to leave it on the live chat. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna pray. I have a special prayer request for my
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  Speaker 1: mother in law, Norma that she would feel better, Amen to.
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  Speaker 1: Some virus is hitting my household and now I guess
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  Speaker 1: it's trying to hit her right now. But Amen, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna pray healing and health and wholeness this virus. You
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  Speaker 1: might be experiencing that in your household as well, But
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  Speaker 1: let's come together and pray that thing out, because whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is, it's external and it's trying to get internally
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  Speaker 1: involved in our health. And we don't play those games
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  Speaker 1: in the Kingdom of God. So let's pray first. After
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  Speaker 1: we pray, we'll share this out for like sixty seconds
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  Speaker 1: and then when we come back on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of those sixty seconds, we'll get it into our morning devot.
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  Speaker 1: God is at work. Father. I thank you for your health,
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  Speaker 1: your strength, and your protection over myself, my wife, my
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  Speaker 1: mother in law, our children, our family members from both sides.
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  Speaker 1: I pray health, strength and protection and the powerful, mighty
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  Speaker 1: healing name of Jesus the Christ, the Great Physician. I pray,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, that whatever virus is trying to strike our nations,
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  Speaker 1: strike our homes, strike our community, strike our own self.
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  Speaker 1: Lo God, I pray the healing bomb of God. I
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  Speaker 1: pray load God, Holy Spirit, that you would give us
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  Speaker 1: wisdom of how to eradicate these viruses that I set
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  Speaker 1: out to make people ill and to set out to
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  Speaker 1: destroy people's days. I pray Low God against that in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. I know, Lord God, we live
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  Speaker 1: in the fallen world, and I understand that well, these
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  Speaker 1: things will happen. And I also understand that we could
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  Speaker 1: pray and we could ask you load God for mercy,
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  Speaker 1: and we can actually log God for healing. We can
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  Speaker 1: actually load God for strength. We can actually look out
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  Speaker 1: for financial breakthrough, We could actually look God for relationships
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  Speaker 1: to be healed and mended. We actually love God all
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  Speaker 1: these things because I trust you, and I know so
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  Speaker 1: many other people that do trust you at your work,
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  Speaker 1: and we know you are at work and all things. So
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  Speaker 1: I pray, Lord God, I had you protection over me
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  Speaker 1: and my family, that you will guard goid and protect
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  Speaker 1: us by way of your ark. We need you, that
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  Speaker 1: you dispatch our way that's already a signed to us
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  Speaker 1: because we love you, and the word says the Angel
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord is assigned. Is there in camps around
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  Speaker 1: every single person who loves you. I pray this is
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  Speaker 1: by faith, knowing that your faith is facts, and this
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  Speaker 1: faith is factual. That we serve a God who responds,
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  Speaker 1: a God who loves, God who deems, a God who saves,
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  Speaker 1: a God who heals, and a God of health and
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  Speaker 1: a God of breakthrough in Jesus name, in prayers by faith,
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  Speaker 1: and all those who agree and need this prayer, we
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  Speaker 1: say Amen to the Amen. Help me share this out
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  Speaker 1: sixty seconds. When we come back, we'll get right into
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  Speaker 1: God is at work today on the morning devo. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be right back. Okay, we're here, We're here, We're here
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  Speaker 1: back again on the one in devote my apologies for
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  Speaker 1: the time last because I got a lot of groups
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  Speaker 1: to share. If you know of an app, and I've
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  Speaker 1: been asking this probably for a year now, if you
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  Speaker 1: know of an app that allows you to share out
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  Speaker 1: to all the groups on your social media platforms when
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  Speaker 1: you go live, let me know. I'll be using that asap.
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  Speaker 1: Brother Orlando, I see you. Good morning, my brother. God
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  Speaker 1: bless you. Welcome back to the morning devot, and thank
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  Speaker 1: you for your agreement with the word of God and
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  Speaker 1: agreement with the prayer. There's power and agreement. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: there's power and agreement. God does that work though. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna worry stress out a man. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna believe in what God is doing, am. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: believe in his word, his power, his strength is mercy,
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  Speaker 1: his grace is truth, his love, all of it. Because
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  Speaker 1: God is at work, Amen, in my life, and in
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  Speaker 1: your life, your family's life, your children's life, Amen, your
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  Speaker 1: parents' life, your relative's life, your boss's life, your employee's life. Everyone.
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  Speaker 1: He's working things out. Now. We have a part to
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  Speaker 1: play when God is at work. Right, some people are
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  Speaker 1: rejecting the work of God, even in their own lives,
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  Speaker 1: even knowing that they're anointed and appointed and assigned for
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  Speaker 1: good works, and they're still rejecting it for whatever reason. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we keep each other in prayer, and we keep
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  Speaker 1: each other accountable, hold each other accountable, and we rely
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  Speaker 1: on God and his work. Amen, Sister Nilside, see you
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  Speaker 1: good morning, my sister and my friend. Amen, it's good
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  Speaker 1: to see you in the morning. Devo. So let's get
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  Speaker 1: this up on a screen. Amen. For those who are listening,
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  Speaker 1: I so Winess with his z do org celebrate a network.
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  Speaker 1: For those who listen on the podcast, Amen, well, welcome back,
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  Speaker 1: and of course your audio only, which is powerful. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to read everything word for word, even though you
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  Speaker 1: don't see the images on the screen. Amen. Let me
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  Speaker 1: get this ready here and here we go. God does
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  Speaker 1: at work. Hope you like the graphic. For those who
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  Speaker 1: are watching, go for it. There you go, Fluster this morning,
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  Speaker 1: little fluster, But we're going Collosa chapter four, Versus five
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  Speaker 1: and six. The Word of God says, conduct yourself with
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and your interactions. We're outsiders, non believers. Make the
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  Speaker 1: most of each opportunity, treating it as something precious because
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  Speaker 1: it is. Let your speech at all times, be gracious
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  Speaker 1: and pleasant, seasoned. I love it seasoned with salt, so
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  Speaker 1: that you will know how to answer each one who
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  Speaker 1: questions you. Amen. And I had to put this at
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  Speaker 1: work yesterday while I was doing my ride share. I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting passengers that are seemingly in need of something, and
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  Speaker 1: the attitudes and all this other stuff. So I have
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  Speaker 1: to conduct myself with wisdom and when I interaction right
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  Speaker 1: then and there, I have to make sure that I
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  Speaker 1: know a man that I'm relying and trusting on God, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and all things that my brother Eddie, God bless you,
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  Speaker 1: my brother. Amen. Is good to see you. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning to you as well. Miss you. Brother,
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  Speaker 1: and man, it's good to see you on the morning Devo.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming through and the comment thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to see you. Got you in prayer. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and man, it's good to see you, my brother. I
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  Speaker 1: was just talking about you and your work that you
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  Speaker 1: did in my studio Amen to a friend of mine
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  Speaker 1: just the other day. So welcome to the morning Devo,
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  Speaker 1: my friend. Conduct yourself with wisdom and your interactions with outsiders. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Now we know, we know one hundred percent that not
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  Speaker 1: everybody's gonna believe in the Lord Jesus. We know that
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  Speaker 1: not everyone believes in God the Father at all. We
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  Speaker 1: know that people think the Bible is made up. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you start hearing people say, how could you trust the
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  Speaker 1: book that man wrote? And I'm like, wow, is that
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be a problem? Because every single thing I
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  Speaker 1: ever read in my whole entire life has been written
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  Speaker 1: by a man or a woman. So why is it
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  Speaker 1: strange that God used men to write down his inspired word?
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  Speaker 1: Don't ever get that? But God is at work. Regardless
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  Speaker 1: of how we feel about things. God is still at work. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And knowing that He's at work, it's so our benefit,
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  Speaker 1: so our advantage that God is at work. So when
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  Speaker 1: he wants to use you, he wants to use me. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Allow the works of God to work through you, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of works of God to penetrate your own heart,
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  Speaker 1: so that way other hearts will be penetrated when they
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  Speaker 1: see a man or a woman of God submitting themselves,
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  Speaker 1: submitting their lives to the one who gave it to us. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that's God I work. When you pray for someone, that's
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  Speaker 1: God I work. When you show someone that needs help,
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  Speaker 1: when you show them that you are for them and
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  Speaker 1: with them. That's God I work. When you show mercy,
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  Speaker 1: that's God I work. When you give grace to those
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  Speaker 1: who have done you wrong, that's God I work. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: When you bless those who are cursing you, that's God
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  Speaker 1: I work. When you stand firm in your beliefs and
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  Speaker 1: in your conviction, that's God I work. Holy Spirit is working.
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit is God. Amen. God is at work.
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  Speaker 1: So we don't have to go far, Amen, to see
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  Speaker 1: some kind of spectacular thing, even though God is spectacular
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  Speaker 1: every single minute moment of my life. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: to look for signs, wonders and miracles all the time
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  Speaker 1: because guess what we have. We have the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: who revealed himself. We have Holy Spirit, God who continues
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  Speaker 1: to reveal himself. And we have the miracle of life.
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  Speaker 1: We got the miracle of salvation, the born again experience.
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  Speaker 1: That's God at work. Don't overthink it, Amen. God is
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  Speaker 1: always moving, he's always working. He's always pushing us through
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  Speaker 1: a man. He's holding our hands, never let go, and
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  Speaker 1: he wants the very best for us. The abundant life
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus promised is now a man here with us now,
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  Speaker 1: e manual God with us. We don't have to wait
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  Speaker 1: for a distant time or go to a god to
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  Speaker 1: see far far away to experience God at work. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you getting it. Man, this is really encouraging my spirit,
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  Speaker 1: my soul right now, sharing your faith, natural expression of
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  Speaker 1: something supernatural that has been done in our lives. That's
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  Speaker 1: God at work. Turqures, I see you, good morning, my sister.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. God bless you a long time, don't see.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to see you on the morning, devo. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Let me and turcoys go back way back, right back
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  Speaker 1: at the time. Amen, it's good to see you on
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  Speaker 1: the morning devo. So we have what we need through
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  Speaker 1: our relationship with Christ. And you're gonna hear me say
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  Speaker 1: that until the heaven's open and takes me home, right
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  Speaker 1: because I know that to be true. I know one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent that when God shows up, you're gonna be transformed.
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  Speaker 1: When God shows up, you're gonna have that deep, powerful
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  Speaker 1: relationship with him. When God shows up, you're gonna know
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  Speaker 1: that it's a supernatural thing that happened in your life, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: whenever that day was, When you know that it was
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  Speaker 1: God who moved you. It was God who protected you.
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  Speaker 1: It was God who guarded you. It was God who
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  Speaker 1: separated you. It was God who called out your name
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  Speaker 1: and then you responded. It could be as simple as
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  Speaker 1: putting up your hands right now saying, okay, God forgive me,
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  Speaker 1: let's move forward. Let's move forward, because I'm gonna leave
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  Speaker 1: everything else behind. There's nothing like when I look at
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  Speaker 1: my past, I'm like, wow, that had to be God,
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  Speaker 1: because I shouldn't be sitting in front of you right now, amen,
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  Speaker 1: or what I've been through. Amen, And maybe something you've
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  Speaker 1: been through. You know, deep downside, even if you're not
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  Speaker 1: attending a church, even if you're not in a Christian
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  Speaker 1: community right now, but you know, deep down the side
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  Speaker 1: you having church because you know that there is a
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  Speaker 1: God who saved you and rescued you or protected you,
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  Speaker 1: got you out of some kind of mess. You know
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  Speaker 1: it all, Amen. So we find our way back. When
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  Speaker 1: we look at what our past was, we're like, I
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  Speaker 1: go like this a lot. I'm like, wow, that was
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  Speaker 1: something God. Thank you for looking at me, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for saving me, thank you for rescuing me from those situations. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Because I know God is at work. You just know
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  Speaker 1: it after a while. But the manual God bless you,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, my friend. It's good to see you on
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  Speaker 1: the morning. Devo. Amen. A divine intervention. Absolutely so, Corey says.
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  Speaker 1: It's facts. There's nothing that we could do to unconvince
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  Speaker 1: ourselves that God is real. And we might we might
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  Speaker 1: think that we're doing something to convince ourselves and that
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  Speaker 1: God is not real. But we know when we see
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  Speaker 1: God that work through others, when we see a true
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  Speaker 1: worshiper Amen, a true church of God, when we see
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  Speaker 1: a true man or a woman of God moving the
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  Speaker 1: way they move. Amen. God is at work, and he
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  Speaker 1: does it so politely. Amen. Awesome God, all powerful, almighty God.
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  Speaker 1: Yet he's done it so gently in our lives. You
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  Speaker 1: could realize that he's so powerful that he could really
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  Speaker 1: annihilate us for doing things wrong. But that's not the
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  Speaker 1: God we serve. We serve a God of grace and truth.
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  Speaker 1: We serve a God, a God of mercy, We serve
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  Speaker 1: a God of all love. Amen. He loves you and
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  Speaker 1: me so much that he sent his very own self
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  Speaker 1: in the form of a man named Jesus, to do
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  Speaker 1: a finished, complete work on this planet Earth, and then
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  Speaker 1: not only that, not only that he ascended to heaven
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  Speaker 1: has sent back just one one just like him, Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: God to be with us until he returns, the promised
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  Speaker 1: return of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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  Speaker 1: God is at work. This world system, yea has broken.
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  Speaker 1: You know. We see crime, we see drugs, life, death,
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  Speaker 1: we see you know, corruption all through. Like this world
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  Speaker 1: is broken, we know it. But guess who's coming back
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  Speaker 1: with a new world, a new heaven and a new earth.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord Jesus. And if you don't see things lining
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  Speaker 1: up for his return, then I don't know what to
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  Speaker 1: tell you. Man. You got to wake up day. We
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  Speaker 1: could see that it's going to be one day, one
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  Speaker 1: day coming one day soon. Amen. And his calendar not
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  Speaker 1: in our calendar, because I know we've been saying these
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  Speaker 1: are the last days Jesus coming back. We've been saying
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  Speaker 1: that for over what thousands of years? Right, But that's
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  Speaker 1: because we're looking at our time, we're looking at our calendar.
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  Speaker 1: Remind yourself, like I'm will to remind myself right now,
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  Speaker 1: that God sits outside of our time. He sits outside
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  Speaker 1: of our calendar. So something that might look like, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: it's taking so long to the Lord is like, what
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  Speaker 1: I did it already. You're just catching up with his time.
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  Speaker 1: He man, We're catching up with God's time. Be encouraged.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is going to guide us with what words
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  Speaker 1: to say, how to interact with outsiders, to show them
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  Speaker 1: that God is at work in my life and in
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: your life. It would be the simplest thing, man. It
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: could be You're listening to Christian music and somebody who
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  Speaker 1: I walk up to say what do you listen to?
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  Speaker 1: What's that? Happens to me all the time. When I'm
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: driving Lyft, when I'm doing my ride share around town,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: people were like who is that? Because I play a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: lot of gospel rap, they'd be like, is that Like
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: yesterday someone asked me, is that Benning the Butcher? I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Nah, that's not Benning the Butcher. That's Sea
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  Speaker 1: for Kratona. They were like, see for who? I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Ao Shamir Sea for Kraatona yp aka Young Paul the Commissioner.
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  Speaker 1: I could go on and on with all these underground
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  Speaker 1: hip hop rappers dating. Hey man, I could go on
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  Speaker 1: and on and on and name all these things and
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  Speaker 1: they look at you like who I said? Yeah, Man,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: look this is Christian rap and people's jaw drop. They'll
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: be like, yo, wow, They're like, that's guy that work.
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  Speaker 1: Moving in music, moving and culture, moving in society, moving
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  Speaker 1: in government politics, even though so corrupt. Right, God could
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  Speaker 1: use people to move things the right direction. Amen, because
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: it's a temporary time that we hear right, temporary time,
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  Speaker 1: But we could use the time that we have to
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  Speaker 1: show others that God is at work in us and
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  Speaker 1: through us. So we're encouraged by the scripture we read
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  Speaker 1: Collages chapter four, verses five and six. We're advised to
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  Speaker 1: use wisdom and act wisely towards outsiders a man, because
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  Speaker 1: we might have a chance to be used by God.
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  Speaker 1: For someone who doesn't believe in what we believe, someone
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  Speaker 1: who doesn't move the way we move. We might have
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  Speaker 1: a chance, a little moment in time, to really help
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  Speaker 1: them out and help them get into the direction of
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: God's path. No, you never know. I'm not going to
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: know how many people these morning DeVos reached until maybe
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  Speaker 1: if God reveals it my afterlife. It could be ten
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  Speaker 1: people that got reached, or could be ten billion people,
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  Speaker 1: ten million people. I don't know. All I know is
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: that God is work. He's at work man, in my
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: life and in your life. Trust that, believe that, Know
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  Speaker 1: that you look at your children, you have children, God
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  Speaker 1: is at work right look at you still have your
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: dad and your mom and on the earth. God is
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  Speaker 1: at work and He was at work in them and
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  Speaker 1: through them. You might not see it, you might not understand.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't know what happened. My dad died when
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  Speaker 1: I was only fifteen years old. I don't know what
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: was his last whisper. I don't know what was his
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: last murmur. It could have been to the Lord. It
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: could have been a final prayer for his family. It
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  Speaker 1: could have been a prayer for me. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: a man, but I do know that God was at
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  Speaker 1: work then and he's at work now. And I wasn't saved.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get saved until I was thirty years old.
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  Speaker 1: So don't come to me and say, oh, you always
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: in church and you were raised in church. Negative. The
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: people who know my testimony know that I was probably
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the least expected to do what I'm doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: A man. People would say, oh, he was a good guy,
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  Speaker 1: he was this that, and third, No, I was just
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a professional sinner. I knew how to hide my stuff.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I had some religious connections in the Catholic Church, but
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: my heart was far from God, Amen, and I definitely
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  Speaker 1: wasn't serving him. I definitely didn't believe in him, and
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I definitely didn't call him my master and savior. I
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  Speaker 1: knew the story of Jesus Amen, only as a story
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  Speaker 1: for outsiders like myself at the time. It didn't click
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  Speaker 1: until I was thirty years old when I called upon
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  Speaker 1: this unknown God that didn't served that in worship, that
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  Speaker 1: didn't even truly believed. When I called out to him,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I was drunk and high. Amen. For whatever reason, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's because of his grace. For whatever reason, I
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: think it's because of his love. For whatever reason, I
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: think it was because he was always at work in
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  Speaker 1: my life. He responded Amen. And then when I felt
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  Speaker 1: that response, when I felt his spirit, I was like, Okay,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: something is different here. I didn't know what it was,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: but I said, I like this feeling. Amen. I felt alive.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I had to supernatural high. I didn't have to smoke
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  Speaker 1: no more. Left that alone, I didn't have to drink.
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  Speaker 1: The more I left that alone, and then God started
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  Speaker 1: transforming every single other thing that I was so addicted
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  Speaker 1: to attracted to that I was so involved in, and
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  Speaker 1: he changed my situation. And that's why I go around
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: looking at everybody said, God could change you. God can
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  Speaker 1: change the situation. How do I know? Because God is
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  Speaker 1: at work. He is at work in a powerful way
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  Speaker 1: in your life and in my life. Amen, Just receive
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: his word, receive his power, receive his grace, receive his forgiveness. Today,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: admit that you need a God who forgives. Believe in
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the Word of God and confess him as your personal
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Lord and savior. And you would realize one thing that
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  Speaker 1: all along, all through your life, and when you look
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  Speaker 1: at the past and you look at certain situations, you
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: could have really agree with the fact that God is
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: at work. Because I hope you understand where I'm coming from.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot more here, but I'm running out of time.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I ran out of time Colloss chapter four. Take that
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  Speaker 1: whole chapter. Read it for yourself, Amen, and be blessed
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: by so Thank you so much for coming through, friends, family.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I hope this will really encourage you to move forward
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  Speaker 1: and to know that God's at work and all things
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  Speaker 1: and he wants the things of life to work out
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  Speaker 1: in your favor. In my favor, so let's trust him.
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  Speaker 1: So God bless you all, God keep you all, and
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  Speaker 1: remember always that God is good. Peace,