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Today's Word 03-11-26 The Blessing Beyond the Valley · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: And your early morning praise party.
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  Speaker 2: I am a Sherry Mackie at his time right now.
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  Speaker 2: Four Today's word the blessing beyond the valley. The blessing
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  Speaker 2: beyond the valley Psalms twenty three and five says you
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  Speaker 2: prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies.
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  Speaker 2: You honor me by anointing my head with oil. My
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  Speaker 2: cup overflows with blessings.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: One of the most powerful truths in Scripture is that
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  Speaker 2: God's blessings often.
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  Speaker 1: Come after the valley.
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  Speaker 2: King David wrote in Psalms twenty three from experience, he
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  Speaker 2: understood what it meant to walk through dark places, seasons
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  Speaker 2: of fear, betrayal, loneliness, and uncertainty. Yet in the same
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  Speaker 2: breath that he talked about the valley, he also declared
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  Speaker 2: that God would prepare a feast for him and cause
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  Speaker 2: his cup to over see. That tells us something important.
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  Speaker 2: The valley is not the end of the story. Many
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  Speaker 2: times we want the overflow without the process.
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  Speaker 1: We want the.
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  Speaker 2: Blessing, we want the promotion, we want the favor, we
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  Speaker 2: want the abundance, but we would rather skip the difficult
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  Speaker 2: season that shapes our faith. Yet God often does his
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  Speaker 2: deepest work in the valleys of life. It's in the
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  Speaker 2: valleys where your faith becomes real. When everything is going well,
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  Speaker 2: it's easy, y'all to trust God. But when you're walking
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  Speaker 2: through sickness, when you're walking through disappointment, when you're walking
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  Speaker 2: through financial pressure, your faith is stretched.
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  Speaker 1: When you're treated unfairly on the.
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  Speaker 2: Job, when you're misunderstood by others, or facing struggles that
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  Speaker 2: no one else sees. That's when your trust in God
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  Speaker 2: is being refined. The valley is not punishment, it's preparation.
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  Speaker 1: See.
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  Speaker 2: God uses those dark seasons to build strength, patience, humility,
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  Speaker 2: and perseverance in your life. He is shaping you for
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  Speaker 2: the blessing that's ahead. See sometimes the reason the blessing
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  Speaker 2: hasn't arrived yet is because God is still developing the
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  Speaker 2: character that can sustain it.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to think about it.
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  Speaker 2: If God gave us everything we asked for before we
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  Speaker 2: were ready, the weight of it might overwhelm us. But
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  Speaker 2: when we stay faithful in the valley, when we keep believing,
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  Speaker 2: when we keep praying, when we keep honoring God even
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  Speaker 2: when life doesn't make sense, we're proving that we can
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  Speaker 2: be trusted with more and here's the promise. The valley
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  Speaker 2: is temporary. Let me say that again so you can
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  Speaker 2: hear me clearly. The valley is temporary. David didn't say
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  Speaker 2: we stay in the valley forever.
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  Speaker 1: He said we walk through it.
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  Speaker 2: On the other side of that difficult season is a
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  Speaker 2: table God prepares just for you. On the other side
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  Speaker 2: is a fresh on, a new beginning, and a blessing
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  Speaker 2: that overflows. See the very people who doubted you may
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  Speaker 2: one day see God's favor on your life. The struggle
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  Speaker 2: that once tried to defeat you will become the testimony
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  Speaker 2: that proves that God brought you through. So if you
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  Speaker 2: find yourself in the valley today, don't you dare lose heart.
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  Speaker 2: You keep walking, you keep trusting, you keep believing, because
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  Speaker 2: God is already preparing the table, and the cup is
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  Speaker 2: going to overflow. Oh Father, thank you that even when
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  Speaker 2: we walk through the dark valleys, you are with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you that in every.
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  Speaker 2: Difficult season you're preparing us for greater or blessings ahead.
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  Speaker 2: So help us to remain faithful and trust you even
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  Speaker 2: when life doesn't make sense. God, we believe that you're
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  Speaker 2: leading us to a place where our cup will overflow
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  Speaker 2: with your goodness and favor in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's your word for today.
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  Speaker 2: Take it applied to your everyday life, and you contee
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  Speaker 2: to be encouraged to and inspired.
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  Speaker 1: It is your early morning phrase. Party. I am Sherry
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  Speaker 1: Mackie