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The Power of Kindness [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  I bless your family, God bless you. Welcome back to the Morning DeVos.
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  You Bro Sam Lopez aka DJ Sam Rock, and we're here in the
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  Morning Devo. Apologize for a little delay here in the beginning, but my
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  system was acting real slow and sluggish, amen, And I didn't want to
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  catch that vibe being slow and sluggish, So I said, let me fight
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  this through and let me get on the air and let me just do what
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  I gotta do during the live to get to shared on my website. So
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  God bless you man. Today we're going to talk about a power that you
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  and I can really use daily that you might have overlooked. Right. One
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  of the characteristics of God is what we're gonna be talking about today. And
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  when you use this characteristic of God in your own life, in your personal
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  life, and you publicly display this characteristic, you're gonna be using the power
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  of kindness. Kindness has tremendous power. Right. The Bible says that a
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  kind word, right, a soft spoken word, turns away wrath. Amen.
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  So we have the power to change the situation in your life right now
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  by using the power of kindness. Kindness, Like people forget that as believers
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  we're supposed to be them, people that are kind, kind hearted, well
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  mannered and all that. Now we fail at certain parts of that. Don't
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  stress out because we do have a flesh side of our lives. We still
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  live in a broken world, but we could still use the power of kindness
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  to settle some matters in our lives once and for all. And that's the
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  characteristic, one of the characteristics of God. I hope people understand that's not
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  only a loving, holy, righteous God, He's also a kind God.
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  Amen. So God is everything good, and kindness is one of those good
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  things that he shows us in his word that he is and that we could
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  yield as a sword a weapon of love. Amen. So what do you
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  think it means to be kind to one another? I know people have It
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  sounds like an easy question, but people have different answers that one question.
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  For whatever reason. Amen. You might say one thing, I might say
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  another. To be kind to someone, some people might say, oh,
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  just you know, say hi, that's being kind, or hug someone that's
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  being kind, Listen to someone that's being kind, open the door for someone
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  that's being kind. But what do you think it means to be kind to
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  one another? Remember? We have a relationship that's vertical, Man and God,
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  God and Man, that's a vertical relationship that we have to nurture every
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  day and make sure we're right. And then we have the horizontal. Right,
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  the horizontal means my neighbor, you, us together to be kind towards
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  one another. So that way that out side world, people who are outside
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  of the kingdom will look at us and be like, why are they so
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  kind to one another? Because we're showing and demonstrating the kindness of God,
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  which is the character one of the characteristics of God towards one another. Right.
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  It sounds oversimplified, but it is that simple to show and demonstrate one
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  of the characteristics of God by being kind. So the power kindness today in
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  the morning DeVos. Sister Joanne, good morning, God bless you. I'll
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  see you. Good morning, brothers Sam, God blessed it this day.
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  God bless you as well. Over on Facebook, We're gonna be an Ephesians
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  chapter four, Verses thirty one and thirty two. Ephesians four Versus thirty one
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  and thirty two. The power of kindness on the morning, Devo. Yeah,
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  don't overlook this power that we have. Amen, And to some it
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  comes naturally. You know. Some people are you know, just kind kind
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  people. Other people we have to work on this, including myself, to
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  be kind, believe it or not. Amen. Sometimes I'll be in a
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  situation where I know I need to be kind hearted, and I struggle to
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  be kind hearted cerferent situations. For whatever reason. Some people have different ways
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  of expression expressing themselves, and men have to be mindful of that. Not
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  everybody's going to have a good day, Not everybody's going to have a good
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  start of the day. Not every day is going to be a good day
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  on this side of eternity. But every day that God created. As a
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  believer, we could rejoice and be glad in the day that God created,
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  because one day, one more day that God allows us to breathe, is
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  one more day that we are able to reach somebody with the kindness of God.
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  Amen. By the way, the kindness of God is what leads people
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  to repent. Not the shouting, not the rudeness, and not the pointing
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  fingers, not the judgment, but the kindness of God leads men and women
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  to repent, to turn from their wicked ways and turn to the righteousness of
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  God to stop what they're doing. Ponder what they're doing, and see what
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  they're doing, and stop right there at that moment and turn to a living,
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  holy, loving God who could save them, rescue them, forgive them,
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  and give them this power of kindness as well. Right, So let's
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  go for it. Let's pray. After we pray, we'll shut this out
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  for like sixty seconds. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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  pray requests, now's the time. Don't hesitate to do it while we're live.
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  It's good even when I'm not live. If something comes to your heart
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  and mind and you're watching this as a replay or you're listening as a replay,
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  you could always put your comment there as well. So, Father,
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  I thank you so much that you have shown us, showed us your kindness,
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  that while we will still hate us of a living holy God, we
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  still hate us one time, you still die for us regardless. You know
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  us inside it out, you know what's through and through, and you love
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  us anyway. I pray, Love God, that this kindness will resemble your
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  love and your grace and your mercy as we show kindness towards others and towards
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  one another, especially those who are in the household of faith. Pray Lord
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  God, a hedge of love, a hedge of protection. I pray Lord
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  God, that you would form and fashion us to love the way you love,
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  to see the way you see, to hear the way you hear,
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  and to speak the way you spoke your word. So I pray Lord God
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  a reset that we will restart. Our attitude would be like your attitude.
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  The kindness of God will be a power that we can use daily as a
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  weapon of love. I pray Love God over my mind, physically, emotionally
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  and spiritually, over every single mindset on the other side of the screen,
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  other side of this MC, that you would fill us continuously with your kindness,
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  your love, your grace, and your mercy, so that way we
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  could share that with others who desperately need a touch of the kindness of God.
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  I pray this by faith, knowing that you are able to do exactly
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  what your word says we can do in it and through it. And I
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  thank you, Lo God for saving us, rescuing us. And I pray
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  for every single person who is not saved or who is almost there, who
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  is right there at the door, that you lo God, by the way
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  of your Holy Spirit will draw them close to you. In the name of
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  Jesus, I pray this about faith, Amen and Amen, So let's go
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  for it. Kindness is a spirit that you will have to expand a little
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  bit on spirit of kindness surely for me. So what do you mean by
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  that? Kindness is a spirit? God is spirit, right, and kindness
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  is a characteristic of God. So we might have to get a little deeper
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  on that one. So let's take a minute to share this out sixty seconds.
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  When we come back, we'll get right into the verse that we have
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  today for our morning devo. It's Ephesians, chapter number four, verses thirty
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  one and thirty two. I'll be right back, Amen. Amen, Amen,
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  Let's look at this power of kindness. According to the scripture. Amen,
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  Okay, here we go, kindness is one of the fruit of the
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  spirit. So there's nine, right, suffering. We have to look at
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  that, right, We have to look at that. If that's one of
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  the fruit of the spirit, A man is nine. I know there's nine,
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  but I just can't get the scripture in my head right now. My
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  mind is being focused on what we're gonna do today. Amen. See if
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  you can find the nine fruit of the Spirit. I say fruits, right,
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  the nine. I know there's nine food of the spirit. And then
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  get to that scripture and let's see if kindness is on that list. Probably
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  is right now since I'm focused on the power kindness. Amen, I can't
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  think of it right now. But thank you though for your ontreen and man
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  for those who are just listening, thank you so much for listening. So
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  when it's with a z RG Celeby of Network the podcast, thank you so
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  much for coming through. We welcome you here. I welcome you here.
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  Amen. Every day that you're with us, Amen, it's a day closer
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  onto getting involved with the Kingdom of God. Right, and to apply this
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  word daily in our lives, and it will really help you stay focused on
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  the purpose and plan that God has for us. Right, it has for
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  you, it has for me. So the kind of the power of kindness.
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  Amen, stay in the morning Devo. Ephesians four thirty one and thirty
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  two. Let all bitterness, all of it, and wrath and anger and
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  clamor and slander be put away from you. So God is dealing with us,
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  and our bitterness, our anger, our wrath, clamor slander be put
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  away from you. Along with all malice. So, in other words,
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  since God freed us, and since God cleansed us from all wickedness and all
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  on righteousness, we need to write put it all away, along with all
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  malice. Be kind to one another, Amen, It's a commandment. Every
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  time I see b like b e the word, I believe it's a commandment.
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  When God tells us to be something, be kind to one another,
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  tender hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. You
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  ever thought about that? I mean, I would have a lot of nerve
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  to walk around in unforgiveness right, knowing that God forgave me. The Bible
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  actually says if you don't forgive God, God won't forgive Amen. If we
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  don't forgive somebody else, God won't forgive us. We're still trapped in our
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  prison of unforgiveness. Unforgiveness to a believer and to anybody actually is actually cancer
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  to the souls, cancer to your soul. When you walking around with unforgiveness,
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  it's like trying to hear someone poison right and drinking in yourself and expecting
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  the other person to get sick and die. When you walk around with unforgiveness,
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  you're actually drinking your own poison, poison that's set out there, and
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  you are actually the one that's going to get sick and die, not the
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  other person. So that's why I believe the apostle Paor inspired by Holy Spirit,
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  is telling us to get rid of all of that stuff that we carried
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  before God changed us. Be kind to one another. Kindness is powerful,
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  man. The power of kindness should not be overlooked. Right, the kindness
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  of God should not be overlooked. Oh, thank you, I see it.
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  Love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness. There it is
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  right there, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. Thank you
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  so much. Heymen, I couldn't think of all the nine and I couldn't
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  think I forgot that kindness was on that list. Thank you. Let all
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  bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slam to be put away from you
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  along with all malice. Be kind to one another. Amen. Highlight that
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  word be kind Those two words be kindness commandment. You know, God is
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  kind to us, right and also tender hearted forgiving one another as God in
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  Christ forgave you today. That keeps us humble, and it keeps us knowing
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  that wait a minute after walking forgiveness, after walking in the power of kindness.
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  Because God himself is kind to us and forgave us, it keeps everything
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  humble. Right, we can't walk around and say I'm better than that person,
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  I'm better than this person. You're right. We all need the kindness
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  of God daily. The forgiveness of God's already given by way of Holy Spirit,
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  by way of God through Jesus, Amen. And we have everything we
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  need to live this life out. So we can't go around thinking that we
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  are better or we're in a better position than a lot of people who don't
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  have Christ in their hearts. Because now we know what life means. Now
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  we know where we came from. Now we know what morality is all about,
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  what's right and what's wrong, and who dictates what's right and what's wrong
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  right, Who oversees that. We know that God oversees what's right and what's
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  wrong, what's good and what's evil, what's lighting, what's dark right?
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  And also our destiny, what happens after we die, where do we go?
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  And a lot of people accuse Christians of filling in the gaps, they
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  call it the God gap. Right, we're filling in something that we don't
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  know about, but we actually do know about it because the scriptures talks about
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  it. The problem is a lot of people don't believe in our scriptures as
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  being the word of God, so they discount or they got out of their
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  vocabulary and they said, nah, that's just you know, wishful thinking.
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  But God's word is more than wishful thinking. God's word is true. God's
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  word is relevant. God's word is powerful. And when we use his character
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  Amen in the form of kindness, people can't deny that something happened in our
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  lives and something that will happen to you. So what do you think it
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  means to be kind to one another? You can answer that at any time
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  during this morning devo. What does it really mean to be kind? Is
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  a website called Inspire Kindness dot com. Inspire Kindness dot com. They say
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  that kindness can mean different things to different people. The meaning is in how
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  you choose to show it through empathy, acceptance, kind gestures. We spoke
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  about this in the beginning thoughtfulness. The possibilities are entirely up to you and
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  up to me how to show this kindness. Kindness might look like being helpful
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  or showing empathy. It may mean doing nice things without expecting nice things in
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  return. I just I was talking to a young man last night and he
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  said, you know, I'm kind hearted. I do things not expecting anything
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  in return. And I said, wow, that was last night. I
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  said wow. Today's morning Devo is talking about the power of kindness. That's
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  powerful when you have that type of attitude, being kind to people just because
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  you want to be you chose to be right. You're inspired by Holy Spirit
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  to be kind to someone not expecting anything in return. See how that works
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  out. It's a powerful thing to do, especially in a world that's so
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  full of hatred and corrupt or ruptness. People are just looking for people to
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  be kind. People are looking for a smile, People are looking for a
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  hug. People are looking to be heard. Amen, and people are waiting
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  for the sons of God and the daughters of God to rise up. You
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  know what I mean, to rise up to the occasion. Kindness requires action.
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  Yes, you have to do something for someone that normally we would not
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  do for and not expecting anything in return, just to do a good gesture
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  to somebody. You go back to the Bible, we see that kindness is
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  the food of the Spirit. Thank you you reminded me Relationshot five twenty two
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  and twenty three. Thank you so much, because for whatever reason I knew
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  it it was on the list when I didn't want to confirm it without knowing
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  where the scripture was. That means kindness is a characteristic of God. True
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  believers listen closely. True believers exhibit kindness. We demonstrate kindness as evidence,
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  right, as evidence of the Holy Spirit's work in our lives. Right.
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  It's strange to me how some believers that you see out there just put it
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  like that, walking around like they have a chip on the show all the
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  time, walking around like they're always angry, walking around like it's always a
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  bad day. And you're looking at them and say, you have you have
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  Holy Spirit in you, and you have Christ as your savior, and you
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  have the scriptures that you could demonstrate daily, and you're walking around like that
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  with a face and judging everybody. I don't know. Religion doesn't fulfill anything.
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  In my opinion. Religion is just something that keeps man in their ignorance
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  and man and their pride. But the gospel message God coming to man,
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  not man trying to get to God. Man trying to get to God's religion.
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  God coming to man is the Gospel a man. It's a big difference
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  between religion and a relationship with the Lord. Amen. So if that's you
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  fix your face, let's change our attitude. Because the kindness that God displayed
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  to us, and then it comes to us angrily, it came to us
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  kind God is still a gentle spirit. He's all knowing, all powerful God
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  who comes still in the gentle spirit. Right, the wrath of God will
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  be upon every single person who does not have Christ. The wrath of God
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  comes upon every single person who rejects the Gospel. And we know that,
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  and that's a sad situation for those people. Amen. And we pray for
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  people like that. But the kindness of God is what we should be demonstrating,
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  right, So we can fix alitude. Man, we can't be angry
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  all the time. I know there's a lot of things I want to be
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  angry about. But God delivered me from those past angers, right, and
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  he delivered you from those past angers as well, Sister Juanna says. And
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  of the people expect to get a lot of people expect to get paid to
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  do something. Me I don't. I do it out of my heart.
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  I like feeding people and giving them food to other people, saying I do
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  to my sister every time I do something for her, she thinks, she
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  thinks she gotta pay me. She don't have to pay me. I do
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  that out of my heart. Knows that I've been given food to people every
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  day, and I give that out of my heart. Like I like helping
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  people, but sometimes the people like to take advantage. Then they start asking
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  for money. Yeah, so people will try to take advantage of out kindness,
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  just like people try to take advantage of God's grace. So it's none
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  of our business or what they try to take advantage of us is our business
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  to do what sister Joanne said to do. Just be kind out of the
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  kindness of your heart, out of the abundance of your heart. You'll start
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  doing things and then people eventually will stop trying to take advantage of your kindness
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  and my kindness. And a lot of people take kindness for weakness as well.
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  Thank you so much for sharing that, sister Joanne. I reward your
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  assent. And there's people out there that I try to keep spare change and
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  spare money in my car, so that way if I see someone in need,
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  like in the street or whatever, I try to give a man out
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  of kindness, and sometimes I think about, oh, man, what are
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  you going to use that money for? None of my business a man,
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  as long as I did my part and gave and did something kind by the
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  power Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus, and the rest is between them
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  and God. Man. So I released myself from anything like that, and
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  I can't question every single time I do something kind. Thank you to Joanne,
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  Brother Angelo. Later, God bless you. Brother. Some hesitate to
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  be kind because of past negative experiences where someone may have taken advantage of their
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  kindness. My prayer is that any of us who has been hurt would allow
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  the Lord to heal those wounds, and that you would continue to be kind,
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  knowing the Lord will refill your empty cup. Yes, he will.
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  Thank you so much for that comment. God will see what we do out
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  of the kindness of our heart, and he will refill us a man for
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  every single hurt, every single pain, every single person that try to take
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  advantage of our kindness. Remember, the world is not down with this kindness.
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  They don't know the power of kindness yet until they get saved, born
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  again, so they'll take our kindness and think that it's weakness, right,
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  and they'll start try to start taking advantage. And even some people are go
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  to the point of using even the scriptures to fly in our face. Oh,
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  you're supposed to do that. Christians are supposed to be that. You're
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  supposed to If I ask you for something, he's supposed to give it to
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  me. If I slap, you're supposed to turn out the cheek. People
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  get slick with the scriptures, not inspired by the scriptures, but they try
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  to yield the scriptures as an indictment towards us. Amen. But we kind
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  because people don't know yet the power of kindness. They don't know the power
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  of Our Lord, they don't know the power salvation. They're not born again
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  yet. Let's pray that every single person that we meet will get a glimpse
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  of the characteristic of God through the powerkindness. And it's not that hard man,
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  So some people this might be challenging to me. It's not that hard.
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  Only in certain situations it becomes a challenge to me. But for the
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  most part, being kind and watching other people's expression. Somebody is having a
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  bad day, the supermarket and they're pushing carts around and throwing this and throwing
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  that, and you look at them a smile and say, hey, how
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  you doing, or you know something like that. You look at them and
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  it kind of like breaks that that cycle, breaks that attitude, and now
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  they're little curious, is why did that person greet me? Macted and I'm
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  acted like all crazy like this. It's because the power of kindness. Kindness
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  is one of the fruit of the spirit. Thank you so much for reminding
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  me. And also it's the characteristic of God. According to Relations chapter five,
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  we got what we need man to live this life out in righteousness and
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  godliness. It's just that this world is so full of anger and corruptness and
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  just so much going on that we forget that a simple kind word turns away
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  wrath. Amen, And we could use that power. We all describe how
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  Christians are to live now that they have a new life in Christ. Like,
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  once we have this new life, Amen, let's be done with the
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  old and live in the newness of Christ. It's so possible, Amen.
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  And it's evident in the scriptures all throughout the scriptures, where the oldest dead
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  and the new is alive. Right. First, he described how not to
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  Behave you noticed that? Right? A possible said, don't do these things.
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  Don't be bitter, don't be walking around with wrath, anger, clamor,
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  slander and malice. Those behaviors are the opposite of kindness. Think about
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  it. If you're living your life that way, you're actually living on the
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  opposite end of kindness, and you're actually representing your old self. Well,
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  the way they lived before they were followers of Jesus Christ. We're not supposed
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  to be that way no more. There has been a transformation of renewal,
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  right of replacement. All those things that I used to walk around with anger,
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  wrath, slander, clamor, all that stuff was replaced with God's characteristics.
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  Amen. And one of those characteristics that we're looking at today on this
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  one of Devo is the power of kindness. Kindness has power. If you
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  look at a concordance, if you have a nice Bible or study Bible,
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  or you're going into your Bible app and you put the word of kindness,
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  check out what comes up. Man, You'll be amazed. It's the power
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  of God, a man working through a person that believes in God, a
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  man and that kindness will really show up in people's lives in a good way
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  and show that. So I'm out of time. I think, no,
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  it's not enough for another part. But amen, I hope you get the
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  picture. Amen, be kind, Amen, and watch the power of kindness
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  work through your life for somebody else. Read Ephesian chapter four, the whole
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  chapter we camped out of Verses thirty one and thirty two. Thank you so
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  much for hanging out with me on these money DeVos. Amen. I enjoy
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  this time with you, Amen, and I hope and pray that you share
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  this out with somebody else and that you continue to come back. Listen to
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  the next show that's coming on a little bit, amen, and you'll be
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  blessed by that as well, a new show that added to the network.
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  So God bless you all. Got to keep you all and remember always that
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  God is good. Peace.