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Take One Step of Faith at a Time [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Wanting family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the Morning Devo. Is your brother Sam Lopez aka DJ
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  Speaker 1: Sam Rock So Winners with a z dot org and
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  Speaker 1: streaming all these platforms social media as well and also
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  Speaker 1: on my YouTube page. So thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: coming back to the Morning Devo. If this is your
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  Speaker 1: first time, let me personally welcome you to the Morning Devo.
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  Speaker 1: We try to do these Mondays through Friday, five thirty
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  Speaker 1: a m e. Since standar time twenty twenty five minutes
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  Speaker 1: to get into the Word and man, we're focused on
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  Speaker 1: getting into what God wants to put inside of us,
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  Speaker 1: which is his word, so that way we could bring
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  Speaker 1: His word to pass out of our mouths the way
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  Speaker 1: we live there. We respond, Amen, and we trust and
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  Speaker 1: rely on holy ghosts over here on SO Winners, Inc.
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  Speaker 1: And Celeerateed Network. Amen. So we're here, so let me
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  Speaker 1: see if the volume is good and we'll continue going.
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  Speaker 1: Today We're gonna take one step of faith at a
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  Speaker 1: time wherever you find yourself in life right now, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna take one step forward in faith today, Amen, one
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  Speaker 1: step of faith at a time Before you run, right,
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  Speaker 1: Let's try to take steps forward, right and faith. Faith
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  Speaker 1: is an amazing thing when you have faith in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing because you don't have to run this whole sprint. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: A it's a long road, it's a it's a marathon,
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  Speaker 1: but it takes one step at a time. I bet
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  Speaker 1: you if you ask anybody who has ever run marathons,
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  Speaker 1: you ask them how did you finish the race you know?
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  Speaker 1: Or how did you start training for this race? For
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  Speaker 1: the marathon, They're gonna probably tell you. Listen, I just
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  Speaker 1: started one step out of time. So in our walk,
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  Speaker 1: we take one step of faith at a time, even
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  Speaker 1: if we're having the worst year, the worst day, the
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  Speaker 1: worst week, financial, relationally, physically, emotionally. Right, we just take
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  Speaker 1: one step of faith at a time. Having faith when
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  Speaker 1: everything seems to be falling apart is challenging, right, But
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  Speaker 1: it's possible with the right perspective and spiritual discipline if
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  Speaker 1: you're disciplined in the faith. Amen, you got what it takes.
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  Speaker 1: Since Joanne, 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: we're gonna be In Proverbs chapter three, verses five and six.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that's my wife's one of my wife's favorite scriptures. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: in the Bible. And we're gonna go there today. Amen
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  Speaker 1: as a launching point because I got some I got
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  Speaker 1: some sauce for you today, Amen, some practical ways that
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  Speaker 1: we could take one step of faith at a time.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is a fact in our belief as a Christians, right.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people say, oh, you guys
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  Speaker 1: have faith and faith or faith in a myth, faith
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  Speaker 1: in the idea of faith in a visible God. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: our God is invisible, but he revealed himself through the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ in a physical form, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: a form of a man. We know what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: We know that you don't understand what a Christian is
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  Speaker 1: if you're a naysayer or an atheist, or an agnostic
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  Speaker 1: or a skeptic or cynic. I understand what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: But do you understand what God is saying? Hey? Man,
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  Speaker 1: that's the more important question. Take one step of faith
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  Speaker 1: at a time. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: prayer requests, or anything along those lines, please do not
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  Speaker 1: hesitate to leave it on a live chat. Someone had
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  Speaker 1: wrote on social media last night and that they wish
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  Speaker 1: somebody would be able to pray for them, and I
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  Speaker 1: shared the fact that on the Celebrator Network we have
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  Speaker 1: a prayer request two four seven. You could get prayer
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  Speaker 1: requests two four seven or you gotta do the soul
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  Speaker 1: winners with a zea org four slash pray and it
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  Speaker 1: takes you to the request form. Amen, and yes, we
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  Speaker 1: take the time and pray. We will pray for you, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as we see the requests. So we got
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  Speaker 1: you covered. We're together on this Amen. Together is better.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pray after we pray with shifts and on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of these sixty we'll come right back and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into Proverbs chapter number three, Versus five and sixty.
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  Speaker 1: Ready follow so much for another day to breathe, another
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  Speaker 1: day to believe, another day to see, another day to hear,
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  Speaker 1: another day to respond and react accordingly according to your
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  Speaker 1: spirit living inside of us. Thank you, Lord God, for
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  Speaker 1: keeping us safe through the night, for keeping us safe
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  Speaker 1: during the days. I pray a hedge of protection over
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  Speaker 1: every single person that's watching and listening right now, over myself,
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  Speaker 1: my family, my wife, our children, our grandchildren, our relatives
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  Speaker 1: on both sides of our families, our marriage, and I
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  Speaker 1: pray that for every single individual watching and listening now,
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  Speaker 1: our pray, Lord God, that you will continue to teach us,
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  Speaker 1: that your word or God would continue to illuminate, and
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  Speaker 1: we will follow after you with everything we have. That
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  Speaker 1: you would give us a strength and the ability to
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  Speaker 1: do so, and that we would take one step of
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  Speaker 1: faith at a time when we're having dire things happening
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  Speaker 1: in our lives, when we having doubts, when we're struggling
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  Speaker 1: with discipline, when we're struggling with our faith, that Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: you will allow us, and you would teach us, and
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  Speaker 1: you would show us how to take one step of
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  Speaker 1: faith at a time. I give you all the glory,
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  Speaker 1: the honor to worship, the praise. You are mighty to save.
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  Speaker 1: You are able to perform your word. You are able
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  Speaker 1: to do exactly what your word says, your word would
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  Speaker 1: doing our lives. And I thank you, Lord God, for
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity to speak with you social media, wise, physically,
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  Speaker 1: with our emotions, with our spirit, with our soul. Everything
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  Speaker 1: we have, Lord God, we give it to you because
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  Speaker 1: you are worthy of it all. Thank you, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: for this time, and I pray blessings over every single
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  Speaker 1: person right now in the name of Jesus, and those
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  Speaker 1: who agree, we say amen to the Amen. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: for it with help me share this out sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: Sister Joyce, I see you. Good morning, God, blessing you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for the blessings over the group as well. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for the encouragement, encouraging words and that
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  Speaker 1: little talk we had the other day yesterday. I am
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  Speaker 1: so grateful for your friendship and your sister being a
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  Speaker 1: brother and sister in Christ. Amen. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's go for it sixty seconds and we'll
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  Speaker 1: come back. We'll take one step of faith at the
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  Speaker 1: time today on the morning Devo. I'll be right back. Heymen, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we're here. We're back, and we have a comment here,
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  Speaker 1: Sister Joanne says. Every morning before I get up, I
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  Speaker 1: pray to the Lord for another day. He gives me
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  Speaker 1: to breathe another day to get up and give me
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  Speaker 1: the strength to do what I have to do. And
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  Speaker 1: I pray for all my family the same way. To
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  Speaker 1: God is so good. I love him, Amen, I love
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  Speaker 1: him too. God is good. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: the encouraging comment, Thank you, sister Joanne for being so
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  Speaker 1: faithful to the morning devote God is definitely worth the
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  Speaker 1: time right to get up a man and to focus
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  Speaker 1: on his word and to just let him, let him,
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  Speaker 1: let him shine his light upon us. We have the
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  Speaker 1: blazing light of Christ shining through us. And it's an
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  Speaker 1: amazing thing that when He shines his light upon us,
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  Speaker 1: we have both things happening. We're getting blessed and we're
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  Speaker 1: being a blessing. God is the blessed, the ultimate blessing.
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  Speaker 1: We're to take one step of faith at a time, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: One step of faith at a time. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love that title. Amen. Sounds like that e book something.
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  Speaker 1: I want to look into this a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: When God gave me this, I was like, Wow, simple
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  Speaker 1: but so powerful right his word. Everything that God does
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  Speaker 1: is powerful. But when you're paying attention and you're focused,
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  Speaker 1: and you're not letting the issues of life get overcome you. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: You're not letting you know the situations overcome you. You focused,
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  Speaker 1: you be got Wow. You'd be like that's a revelation. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And God will reveal himself to us daily if you
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  Speaker 1: allow him. Amen. If you don't let the world distract you. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: he will definitely be with you. He would definitely, how
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  Speaker 1: you call it, he would definitely inspire you to walk
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  Speaker 1: closely to his word, and listening to his word is key.
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  Speaker 1: It is like I can't stress enough about how important
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  Speaker 1: getting into the Word of God for yourself is. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Let's go for it one step at a time. And
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  Speaker 1: there's some functionality issues with this because it says that
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  Speaker 1: I'm hiding my cursor and we could see it on
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  Speaker 1: the screen. See that that's not supposed to be shown anyway.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of those tech things that I always find
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  Speaker 1: in these softwares. I'm known for finding glitches. Take one
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  Speaker 1: step of faith at a time. Proverbs three, verses five
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  Speaker 1: and six. The Bible says, trust and rely confidently on
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  Speaker 1: the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely
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  Speaker 1: on your own insight or understanding in all your ways.
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  Speaker 1: Know and acknowledge and recognize Him, and He God will
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  Speaker 1: make your past straight and smooth, removing obstacles that block
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  Speaker 1: your way. You see that. That's the amplified version for
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  Speaker 1: Verbs three, verses five and six. First of all, we
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  Speaker 1: need to trust God in all circumstances. When you're taking
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  Speaker 1: steps of faith, you're actually trusting the step that you're
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  Speaker 1: taking right. Well, the good news is that God's word
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  Speaker 1: says the steps of the righteous are ordered. There's no
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  Speaker 1: chaos when you're following God. There's no chaos when He
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  Speaker 1: makes that path straight and smooth. There's no obstacles that
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  Speaker 1: God cannot remove that's trying to block our way on
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  Speaker 1: the path of right business. Now, doesn't say that God's
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  Speaker 1: going to remove the problem or the issue or the storm.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to show us that he's powerful in that
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  Speaker 1: and that we're not alone in that. And sometimes he
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  Speaker 1: won't remove the obstacle that we're facing, but he'll definitely
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  Speaker 1: remove obstacles that block the path that he has us on,
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  Speaker 1: if that makes any sense. So we're on the path
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  Speaker 1: right and in that path, we're gonna have storms, troubles, issues,
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  Speaker 1: financial situations, relational infamit situations, battles. He's not gonna remove
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  Speaker 1: that necessarily. He's gonna be with us through that. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And nothing could stop to move a God in your
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  Speaker 1: life and in my life. Amen, believe that one step
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  Speaker 1: of faith at a time, this is powerful. Let me
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  Speaker 1: get to my notes. Amen, here we go. Let me
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  Speaker 1: get to my notes. I want to start preaching now.
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  Speaker 1: I want to really stay focused on God gave me, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna help you. I just have
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  Speaker 1: a feeling that this is gonna help you out too. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We got a couple of minutes left, and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to If you've been following me for any time, you
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  Speaker 1: know I'm gonna figure out that whole glitch with the
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  Speaker 1: curse of showing on the screen when it's not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to write. That's just the way I am, so first
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  Speaker 1: and foremost, take one step by the time. Faith isn't
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  Speaker 1: about having all the answers. I'm gonna say that again.
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  Speaker 1: Faith isn't about having all the answers because you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I know we don't have all the answers, but
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  Speaker 1: we know who does have all the answers. That's why
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  Speaker 1: we ask an inquire of God when we're going through
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  Speaker 1: issues or things in life that we don't understand that
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  Speaker 1: we need help asap, that we don't have the answers to.
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  Speaker 1: We have the person in the form of Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: to answer the questions that we're asking if he wants
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  Speaker 1: to reveal that because he's not obligated to answer any
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  Speaker 1: one of our questions. But God is so faithful and
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  Speaker 1: true to his word that he will leave us the
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  Speaker 1: word of God over the situation, and that will be
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  Speaker 1: the answer. Sister Nilsa, I see you, good morning, God,
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  Speaker 1: bless you, God, bless you all, she says, as says
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  Speaker 1: a blessing to every single listener out there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being with us, my sister,
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  Speaker 1: my friend. So faith isn't about having all the answers.
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  Speaker 1: It's about trusting God one step at a time. Even
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  Speaker 1: when you don't see the way forward, keep moving anyway
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  Speaker 1: in obedience, because we just read that He's going to
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  Speaker 1: remove any obstacle that tries to block our forward progress.
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  Speaker 1: He wants us to move forward a man. Some people say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a blind faith. Listen, we don't have to see
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  Speaker 1: before we believe as believers, right, we don't have to
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  Speaker 1: see before we believe as children of God. Actually, faith
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  Speaker 1: says this, even if we don't see it, will move
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  Speaker 1: forward because we trusting the one who's leading us. We're
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  Speaker 1: following the lead of God. Amen, And we don't have
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  Speaker 1: to see before we believe. Amen. Our faith says, believe
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  Speaker 1: before you see, Amen, and will move in faith. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We walk by faith, not by sight. Take one step
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  Speaker 1: at a time, surrender the outcome to God. You know
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  Speaker 1: the situations in life that you're probably saying, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how this is gonna work. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna happen. I don't know how we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it, but I'm going to surrender the outcome of
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  Speaker 1: whatever that is to God. Sometimes faith is simply this
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  Speaker 1: letting go and trusting that God's plan is better than
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  Speaker 1: my own, plans better than my own, and I'm trust that.
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  Speaker 1: We read that in Proverbs chapter three, five to six.
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  Speaker 1: Surrender doesn't mean giving up. Surrender does not mean giving up.
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  Speaker 1: People think, oh, I surrender, I give up. No, you're
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  Speaker 1: surrendering to God. You're giving in Amen. You're surrendering the outcome,
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  Speaker 1: sue God. You're not giving up on God, because God
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  Speaker 1: is not giving up on you. It means trusting God
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  Speaker 1: with what you can't control. Because if you could control everything,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't need God. If I could control everything, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't need God. If I knew everything, if I could
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  Speaker 1: control everything, why would there be in need of God? Right?
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  Speaker 1: People think that's why a lot of people when they
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  Speaker 1: have money, they get in trouble because they start trusting
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  Speaker 1: in their possessions, their money, their influence, right, and they
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  Speaker 1: get carnal and they say, well, I have it all,
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  Speaker 1: I don't need God. But when that thing starts running out,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that thing is, when it realized that they don't
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  Speaker 1: really have friends. It's hard to trust people, they don't
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  Speaker 1: know if they're being used and all that stuff. Then
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  Speaker 1: they realized, Man, when I had less and I trusted God,
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  Speaker 1: my life was fulfilled. Now when you have more, when
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  Speaker 1: you have more and you don't trust in God, your
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  Speaker 1: life is not fulfilled. Isn't that crazy? But it's true
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  Speaker 1: surrender the outcome to God. How about this? Taking one
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  Speaker 1: step at a time allows you or enables you to
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  Speaker 1: worship in the storm. You ever went through a storm?
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  Speaker 1: I've been through many storms, Amen, And it's probably more
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  Speaker 1: coming because we live in a broken, fallen world. Not
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  Speaker 1: everybody is a believer, not everybody believes what we believe. Amen. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: but that's the truth. Worship shifts your focus right when
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  Speaker 1: you're worship it, and you're not focused really on the
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  Speaker 1: storm and the problem. When you worship, you're focusing on
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  Speaker 1: a God that can change the situation. The God who
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  Speaker 1: calms the storm. But because he calms the storm doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean he'll stop the storm. His power is shown when
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  Speaker 1: we're going through the storm. Have you ever been through
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  Speaker 1: a storm? You got on the other side, you look
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  Speaker 1: back and say, I don't know how I got that
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  Speaker 1: got this far. I don't know how I got through it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you have got a man. He will never leave you
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  Speaker 1: nor forsake you. So worship shipship focus from your problems
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  Speaker 1: to God's greatness. God's greatness is bigger than my problem.
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  Speaker 1: God's greatness is bigger than your problem, even when you
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  Speaker 1: don't feel feel it right in your life. Happening sing
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  Speaker 1: praises Amen. I don't necessarily sing, but I sing until
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Amen. Just that it's not the gift that
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  Speaker 1: God gave me to minister to others. I'll leave it there.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to worship music, Amen, and my form and fashion
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  Speaker 1: of worship music comes in a form of ants and
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  Speaker 1: gospel rap. Amen. Yours is probably praising worship slow songs.
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  Speaker 1: I call him slow worship a man. However, God ministers
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  Speaker 1: sue you through music. Go ahead and listen to worship
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  Speaker 1: music or really declare His goodness over your life. Declare
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  Speaker 1: it because it's true. You're not making crazy declarations, you're
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  Speaker 1: not speaking to the universe, you're not doing none of that.
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  Speaker 1: You're actually declaring God's goodness over your life. And God
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  Speaker 1: is good. I say that not as a cliche. I
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  Speaker 1: say that as a born again fact, Amen, And through experience,
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  Speaker 1: I know that God is good and I think you
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  Speaker 1: know he's good too. When you're going through situations and
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to take one step of faith at a time,
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  Speaker 1: you start remembering that God was with you in the
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  Speaker 1: other situations that you went in, and now you're here
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  Speaker 1: and you got past those situation. In other words, start
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  Speaker 1: remembering God's past faithfulness. He was faithful to you back then.
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  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't he be faithful to you right now? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah right. Why wouldn't he be faithful to you right now?
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  Speaker 1: If He has always been faithful, faithful to you back then,
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  Speaker 1: think back to those moments when God himself came through
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  Speaker 1: for you. He came through for you, Amen. I know
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  Speaker 1: I could think of so many moments in my life
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  Speaker 1: that God came through. And he continues to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and he doesn't have to, it's just who he is.
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  Speaker 1: His character is good. He's faithful, he's true, he does
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  Speaker 1: what he says he will do, trustworthy. You could trust
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  Speaker 1: God and everything and in all things. Amen. Yes, Amen's
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  Speaker 1: sage to joyce. God is good all the time. So
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  Speaker 1: think back to the moments when God came through for you.
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  Speaker 1: You could write it down, Amen. You could journal it.
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  Speaker 1: You could write down when God answered your prayer. You
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  Speaker 1: can write down the past victories. Amen. And that will
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  Speaker 1: help you trust Him even more. It will help you
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  Speaker 1: trust him even now. It will help you trust them
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  Speaker 1: even in the future, even when we don't see the outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Were already said we're gonna surrender the outcome to God.
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  Speaker 1: We already know that we're taking one step of faith
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  Speaker 1: at a time. We already know that we're gonna worship
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  Speaker 1: God through the storm. We already know that when He
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  Speaker 1: was good in the past and when he came through
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  Speaker 1: the past, he's gonna come through today and forever more.
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  Speaker 1: And this right here, I think is one of the
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  Speaker 1: most important things. Amen. When you're taking one step of
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  Speaker 1: faith at a time, why don't you surround yourself, surround
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  Speaker 1: yourself with faith filled people. Amen. Right, whoever thunk it
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  Speaker 1: is thunk a word. I mean, surround yourself with faithfulled people.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing. Don't waste your time with people
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  Speaker 1: who don't have faith. And I'm not saying don't be
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  Speaker 1: friends with them. I'm not saying, you know, you can't
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  Speaker 1: hang out with them. Just don't surround yourself with people
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  Speaker 1: like that. It's gonna take you down, and they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: mock you, they gonna ridicule you, They're gonna mock your God,
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  Speaker 1: my god. Amen. They gonna do all of that because
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  Speaker 1: they're in some kind of misery. We'll pray for them,
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  Speaker 1: maybe lay hands on them, and they'll get whatever that
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  Speaker 1: is out of them. Amen. But surround yourself with faith
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  Speaker 1: filled people. In other words, find encouragement. We need encouragement daily, man,
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  Speaker 1: Find encouragement and I get that. I'm blessed to have
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  Speaker 1: people that encourage me. Amen. I walked into one of
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  Speaker 1: my wife's events yesterday and I was greeted with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of encouraging words. And I was having a bad day,
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  Speaker 1: my cars breaking down, I couldn't finish what I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to do during the day. Amen, money is low.
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  Speaker 1: And when I walked in there, man, I just got
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  Speaker 1: so encouraged Surround yourself with faith filled courage, encouraging people,
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  Speaker 1: Faithful people that will encourage you. Find encouragement through fellow believers,
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  Speaker 1: right whether it's a church, small group, Christian mentor a man.
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  Speaker 1: Always have a mentor over your life. You're never going
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  Speaker 1: to graduate to a place where you don't need a mentor.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with certain individuals that
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  Speaker 1: think they graduated from this to that and they don't
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  Speaker 1: have to do X Y Z anymore because there's somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. Surround yourself with the
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  Speaker 1: community of people that reminds you that you're not alone
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  Speaker 1: in your struggles and that you have greatness in you
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  Speaker 1: because God is in you. Surround yourself with that. Hallelujah,
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  Speaker 1: praise his Holy name. Hallelujah. Yes, Amen, it's the joyous.
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  Speaker 1: God is so good. I have so much faith in him.
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  Speaker 1: This is sister Joanne. He's been with me at all times,
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  Speaker 1: and my sisters and my brothers know what I've been through,
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  Speaker 1: and my family. Yes, and He's always there, always present.
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  Speaker 1: So be encouraged because you are actually encouraging me because
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  Speaker 1: you're reminding me of God's faithfulness in my family and
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  Speaker 1: over my life. So yeah, I go through stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: I rely on God. I go ahead anyway, and our
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  Speaker 1: minister anyway, get up in the morning anyway. A man
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  Speaker 1: not prepare these morning DeVos anyway regardless, Why because I
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  Speaker 1: know if he got me through what he got me
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  Speaker 1: through before, Why would I think or doubt that he
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  Speaker 1: would not get me through what I'm going through right now?
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  Speaker 1: A man, he's faithful and true to his word. And
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  Speaker 1: of course this might sound like elementary to some people.
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  Speaker 1: But pray, Pray honestly, and pray persistently, pray without ceasing.
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  Speaker 1: Keep go ahead and pray. We're not praying to a
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  Speaker 1: god who does not respond. We're praying to a God
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  Speaker 1: who does respond. God invites us to come to him
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  Speaker 1: right with our burdens, rite Matthew eleven twenty eight. Remember
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  Speaker 1: that scripture. Even if all you can do is cry
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  Speaker 1: out to him, Even if all you could do is
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  Speaker 1: is cry, go in and do it. He'll hear you
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  Speaker 1: through your cry. Be real with him, because he's real
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  Speaker 1: with us. Pour out your frustrations, your fears, even in
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  Speaker 1: your doubts in prayer. And man, we spoke about doubts
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  Speaker 1: the other day even your doubts, pour it out to
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  Speaker 1: him in prayer and see what happens. And lastly, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm out of time here, hope this is helping you out.
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  Speaker 1: Man Anchor yourself in God's Word. You already know how
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  Speaker 1: I feel about getting into the Word of God for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Anchor yourself in God's Word, and man o anchor could
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  Speaker 1: stop a boat from moving. If an anchor could stop
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  Speaker 1: a boat from moving, how much more can that anchor
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  Speaker 1: stop us from getting from drifting away ourselves in life?
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  Speaker 1: When you anchor yourself from the Word of God, you're
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  Speaker 1: stopping yourself from drifting away into all kinds of turbulent
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  Speaker 1: seeds that we don't need to be in because we're anchored.
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  Speaker 1: The scripture reminds us that trials are temporary, but God's
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  Speaker 1: promise says are eternal. I gotta stop because that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: make me preach Amen, Isaiah forty one tent. Listen. I
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  Speaker 1: told you I was give you some sauce. You got
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  Speaker 1: it rewinded. Take the points Amen applied in your life
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  Speaker 1: today and see what happens. God is faithful to his work,
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  Speaker 1: So thank you so much for hanging out with me.
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs chapter three. Read the whole proverb chapter for yourself. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: read the whole thing during the week. So God bless
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  Speaker 1: you all. Thank you so much for hanging out with me.
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  Speaker 1: God keep you all, keep me in prayer. I'll keep
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  Speaker 1: you in prayer because remember God is good. Peace,