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Finish Strong [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 as you Bro Sam Lopez aka DJ
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Speaker 1: Sam Rock So winners with his z dot org live
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Speaker 1: If that matters to you today, we're gonna continue about
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Speaker 1: finishing strong. Amen. Actually this one is called finishing strong.
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Speaker 1: Finish strong today in the morning Devo. Amen. It's not
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Speaker 1: so much how you start right, because according to the scriptures,
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Speaker 1: were all born the same way. We are born into sin,
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Speaker 1: into a simful world. We have a sinful nature. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna be bent towards an opposite destination that God wants
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Speaker 1: us to go. But he gives us the opportunity right
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Speaker 1: through his love, through his grace, through his mercy. He
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Speaker 1: gives us the opportunity to get things right with the
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Speaker 1: Father by way of g It's by way of him.
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Speaker 1: There's no other way to the Father except through the
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Speaker 1: Lord Amen, through the Lord Jesus Christ. So when I
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Speaker 1: say finished strong, I know a lot of people say, man,
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Speaker 1: but uh, you know I did this, and I did
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Speaker 1: that well, the Lord is asking us to finish strong.
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Speaker 1: So let me check my levels here to make sure
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Speaker 1: everything's good because I've been so we look okay on
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Speaker 1: the radio. Thank Jesus, say man, this audio has been
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Speaker 1: a little crazy lately in my studio, Amen, and the
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Speaker 1: podcast looks like it's good. So maybe the year didn't
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Speaker 1: go the way you and I planned, right. I know
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Speaker 1: I had certain things that I had in my mind
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Speaker 1: that I had planned for the year, and it didn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily go the way I wanted it to go the
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Speaker 1: way I planned it. But here this clearly your strength
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Speaker 1: and my strength isn't about fins finishing perfectly, right, all
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Speaker 1: going to finish this year perfectly? If that's you and
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Speaker 1: everything what according to your plan for the year. Praise
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Speaker 1: the Lord, like literally, praise the Lord. There's no hate here.
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Speaker 1: I'm celebrating that. But it's not about finishing perfectly. It's
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Speaker 1: finishing faithfully. It's about finishing faithfully, just like God will
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Speaker 1: start something and finish something. Amen. We should be along
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Speaker 1: those lines too. Whatever we start, we should be trying
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Speaker 1: to finish. But whatever God starts, Amen, he will finish.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be a second Timothy chapter number four, Verse
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Speaker 1: number seven tewond Timothy four and seven Today in the
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Speaker 1: morning Devo. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests,
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Speaker 1: or anything along those lines, don't hesitate. A live chat
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Speaker 1: under the law stream there's a live chat, so you
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Speaker 1: an interactive bybe. There's a live stream there too as well,
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Speaker 1: a live chat, a way that you can subscribe to
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Speaker 1: my YouTube page and the podcast, or you can get
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Speaker 1: on the email list as well. So really, you know,
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Speaker 1: don't tell nobody, but secretly I want everybody really to
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Speaker 1: join me at live that swumlans with a z org.
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Speaker 1: So much quieter situation over there, Amen, And it's it's good.
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Speaker 1: Less distractions, Amen, less distractions. So let's go for it.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna pray first. After we pray with shit it
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Speaker 1: out for like sixty seconds, and then on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the sixty seconds, we'll get into our scripture
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Speaker 1: for today. For this morning. Two Timothy, chapter number four,
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Speaker 1: verse number seven. You ready, Father, I thank you, thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your living Word, for activating
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Speaker 1: your word in our hearts and in our minds and
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Speaker 1: in our lives in real time. So I speak peace,
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Speaker 1: I speak life. I thank you, little guy, that whatever
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Speaker 1: you started in the lives of your people, that you
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Speaker 1: will come complete that work. All we have to do
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Speaker 1: is show up. All we have to do is be
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Speaker 1: obedient and be patient. And all we have to do
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Speaker 1: is trust and put our faith in you. Thank you
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Speaker 1: for living a perfect life and setting the example for
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Speaker 1: us to see the living Word in action and real
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Speaker 1: time in this world. Thank you, lor God, for leaving
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Speaker 1: us your message, for leaving us your gospel, for leaving
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Speaker 1: your word, which is your will for your people and
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Speaker 1: for all of your creation. Thank you, Lo God for
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Speaker 1: your scriptures. I pray, Lord God, that you will enlighten us,
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Speaker 1: encourage us, inspire us to read the Word of God daily,
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Speaker 1: and that we would learn from who you called us
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Speaker 1: to learn from, which is Holy Spirit, God who leads
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Speaker 1: us into all truth. I also pray, Lord God, in
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Speaker 1: these perilous times, I hedge your protection over myself, my wife,
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Speaker 1: our children, my family, our grandchildren, both oldest to the
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Speaker 1: youngest family members in my family, and every single person
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Speaker 1: in between, that you would guide God and protect us
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Speaker 1: and do the same for every single person that's watching
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Speaker 1: or listening right now, them and their families. And I pray,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, salvation for complete salvation for every single one
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Speaker 1: of the people, that whosoever calls upon the name shall
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Speaker 1: be saved. I pray that word into the lives of
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Speaker 1: every single person that needs truth, that wants true love,
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Speaker 1: and that needs healing and needs salvation, which Lord God,
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Speaker 1: according to your word, everybody needs your salvation, and that
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Speaker 1: your wish is my wish as well, that none should perish,
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Speaker 1: but everyone have eternal life through Christ Jesus. So I speak,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, the light of Christ, that you illuminate this
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Speaker 1: word this morning Devo, and that people will experience your
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit and experience love, grace and mercy that you
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Speaker 1: offer daily. And Jesus Holy Name, I pray it's by faith,
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Speaker 1: and those who agree we say Amen, toe the Amen,
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Speaker 1: help me share this sol sixty seconds. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: we'll get right into today's morning Devo. Finish strong, I'll
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Speaker 1: be right back. Amen. We're back. Let's go for it.
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Speaker 1: Sister June, I see you. Good morning, God bless you.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning deep with my sister, my friend.
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Speaker 1: It's cold out there, Amen, has been like a freezing
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Speaker 1: temperature change out here in the Lehigh Valley when I'm
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Speaker 1: broadcasting from. But praise God for the seasons. Amen. Every
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Speaker 1: season is a new season, right, including the lives that
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Speaker 1: we're living right now. Amen. So God is amazing at
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Speaker 1: everything that he does. Amen. When you show up, God
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Speaker 1: is there. Amen, He's there way before we're there. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And he shows up in a powerful way in our lives.
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Speaker 1: So finish strong. Amen. It's not just like a cliche
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Speaker 1: of sin and whatever. I believe. The Lord's will for
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Speaker 1: our lives is for us to continue in the faith
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Speaker 1: and to finish strong. Amen. And you might have a
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Speaker 1: story that in the beginning, right, it didn't seem like
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Speaker 1: you were going to make it, But then God showed
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Speaker 1: up and because of his grace, we're here today. And
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Speaker 1: if we could live today for the Lord, Amen, that's
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Speaker 1: an indication that we could live tomorrow for him too.
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Speaker 1: No matter what will happened yesterday, last week, earlier, today,
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Speaker 1: we could still finish strong. In the faith a man,
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Speaker 1: knowing that God is with us and us and working
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Speaker 1: through us, and he's for us a man. He's not
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Speaker 1: against us. So if God is for us, then who
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Speaker 1: in this world could be against us? Amen? And I
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Speaker 1: know we're gonna have opposition. I know we're gonna have problems.
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Speaker 1: I know we're gonna be tempted. I know we're going
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Speaker 1: to go through things in life. But God is with us,
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Speaker 1: a man, Emmanuel, God with us. So we can finish
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Speaker 1: strong and go to that finished line, the one that's
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Speaker 1: marked out for each and every one of us. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So let's do this. Let's do this. Let's finish strong. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And God is faithful and he could do it in
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Speaker 1: our hearts and in our minds. Bible says the two Timothy,
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Speaker 1: chapter four and verse number seven. I have fought the
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Speaker 1: good and worthy and noble fight. I have finished the race.
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Speaker 1: I have kept the faith firmly guarding the gospel against error.
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Speaker 1: For it's just the apostle inspired by Holy Spirit. This
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Speaker 1: is almost like if he's bragging, right, but it's not
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Speaker 1: his bragging. This is like a bragamony, like a testimony
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Speaker 1: and bragging at the same time. And he knows that
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Speaker 1: he could only have done this because of the glorious
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Speaker 1: work of God through his life, and through your life,
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Speaker 1: and through my life. We can only say that we're
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Speaker 1: fighting a good fight of faith because we have the
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Speaker 1: Good One living within us helping us fight. Amen. So
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Speaker 1: the apostle said, I fought the good and worthy and
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Speaker 1: noble fight. I have finished the race. I have kept
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Speaker 1: the faith so keeping. That's why at the end of
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Speaker 1: these morning DeVos, I said, God, bless you, God keep you.
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Speaker 1: That keeping part is because God will keep us a man.
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Speaker 1: He will keep us standing. He will keep us firm
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Speaker 1: in our faith. He will keep us trusting in him.
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Speaker 1: He will keep us in line according to His will
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Speaker 1: and purpose. All we have to do, ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: because we have a part to playing this. All we
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Speaker 1: have to do is fight the good fight, stand and
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Speaker 1: keep on standing, stand on his words, stand on his truth.
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Speaker 1: A man firmly guarding the Gospel against ever. Now, we
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Speaker 1: don't want to go ahead and start preaching some weird
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Speaker 1: stuff that we know deep down that's not even in
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Speaker 1: the scriptures a man. We want to preach and teach
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Speaker 1: and reach people with the true message of the Gospel.
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Speaker 1: And we don't have to make things up. We could
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Speaker 1: literally go to the Word for ourselves. That's why I'm
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Speaker 1: always stressing that go to the Word of God for yourself.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to just rely on me, on your
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Speaker 1: pastor your teacher, the apostle, the prophets. Amen. You could
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Speaker 1: go to the Word of God the evangelist. You don't
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Speaker 1: got to really rely on a talking head like me, Amen,
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Speaker 1: to give you the truth. You have this inspire Word
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Speaker 1: of God available to you as well. Amen. If this
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Speaker 1: helps you out though, Amen, and steers you towards the Word,
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Speaker 1: then I'm doing my part. But what I'm saying is
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Speaker 1: that don't rely on me, rely and trust on the
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Speaker 1: Holy One, Jesus, the Christ of Nazareth, the Anointed, only
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Speaker 1: begotten Son of God, the Savior, the Messiah, the michiak
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Speaker 1: McGee Amen, the Principiece, Wonderful counselor Almighty God. So shout
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Speaker 1: out told my Jehovah. Witness friends that say he's just
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Speaker 1: a mighty God. And Jehovah is the Almighty God. Know
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Speaker 1: its the same God. Jesus shows up in the image
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Speaker 1: of the invisible God, the perfect image of the invisible God.
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Speaker 1: So he's also Almighty God, not the Father. He is
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Speaker 1: the Son. You're right, and he's not the Holy Spirit. Amen,
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Speaker 1: he is Jesus the Son. So all three operate on
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Speaker 1: the one essence. Amen. The three on one can't do
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Speaker 1: the math because it's not human math. That's a god's situation,
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Speaker 1: the Holy Triune God. Amen. So finished, strong, persevere, Amen,
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Speaker 1: don't give up this. From the time of this recording,
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Speaker 1: we're in the last month before New Year, So don't
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Speaker 1: give up in the last month before New Year. Don't
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Speaker 1: give up when you're so close to something that's coming,
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Speaker 1: that's new, and that we're all get to shout Happy
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Speaker 1: New Year. Amen, and a lot of people say happy
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Speaker 1: New you. I've done that a man, because I know
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Speaker 1: some things that I planned, or some things that I
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Speaker 1: went through in this past twelve months almost right, haven't
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Speaker 1: been the way I planned it. And I know I'm
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Speaker 1: not alone with that. You probably planned some things, hoping
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Speaker 1: in some people, hoping some things to happen, and it
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Speaker 1: didn't go according to your plan. But God has the
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Speaker 1: best plan, the best plan ever a man, is available
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Speaker 1: to us daily. All we have to do is seek
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God first, right and everything else will
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Speaker 1: be added onto us. The Kingdom of God is at
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Speaker 1: hand right, Kingdom of God is in our hearts. So listen.
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Speaker 1: This year is coming to a close. God isn't asking
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Speaker 1: you or me to relive the fairs of this life
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Speaker 1: or the fairs of this year. A man, I could guarantee,
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Speaker 1: and I don't even have to be a prophet. I
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Speaker 1: could guarantee that you failed in some areas of your life,
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Speaker 1: and I'll admit that I failed in certain areas of
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Speaker 1: my life this year. But I also could prophesy that
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Speaker 1: God will finish, but he started in our lives. All
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Speaker 1: we have to do is continue to trust and not
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Speaker 1: relive affairs, not go into the new year with doubts
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Speaker 1: and worry and anxiety. A man, No, we give those
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Speaker 1: things to the Lord. Cast our burdens to one another,
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Speaker 1: and we bring those burdens to the feet of Jesus. Amen.
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Speaker 1: He's inviting you, and he's inviting me to finish strong,
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Speaker 1: Finish with faith, don't finish with fear, don't finish with doubt,
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Speaker 1: don't finish with anger, don't finish divide it, don't finish
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Speaker 1: not connected to the body of Christ. Finish connected with
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Speaker 1: someone that loves Jesus, Amen, that's filled with His Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 1: And then make sure you're in touch, amen, or you're
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Speaker 1: connected to the Body of Christ. I'm not saying to
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Speaker 1: a church system. I'm saying to the body of a
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Speaker 1: living God, an organism, not just an organization, but an
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Speaker 1: organism to trust in the Family of God through his word,
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Speaker 1: not through a saying, not through an Instagram post or
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Speaker 1: TikTok posts. No, through his word. So thedn't turn out
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Speaker 1: the way you plan, didn't turn out the way I plan.
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Speaker 1: Some prayers feel like they're unanswered, and I'm stressing the
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Speaker 1: word feel because I truly believe that if we're in
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Speaker 1: connection with God, that when we pray, he hears our
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Speaker 1: prayer and He answers those prayers according to his will
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Speaker 1: and his purpose for your life, my life, for every
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Speaker 1: individual life that calls out to him. It's just the timing, right.
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Speaker 1: We don't understand God's timing because he's not on our clock.
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Speaker 1: He's not on the calendar a man, not our calendar.
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Speaker 1: He sits outside of time a man. He's an eternal God.
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Speaker 1: And because he's eternal, there's no beginning for him and
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Speaker 1: there's no end for him. So therefore he's not on
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Speaker 1: a twenty four hour clock like. He doesn't have a schedule.
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Speaker 1: Like I set an alarm to wake up, he doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to set it alarm to wake up. I put
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Speaker 1: things in my calendar to make sure I remember. He
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Speaker 1: remembers all things, He knows all things. He doesn't have
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Speaker 1: to set a calendar. He's an eternal god. Right. So
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Speaker 1: the other day we were in Galatians six and nine,
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Speaker 1: where the Bible says, let us not grow weary, keep
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Speaker 1: on doing good. Don't get tired of doing good. Why
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Speaker 1: for indue season we shall reap if we do not
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Speaker 1: lose heart. In other words, if you don't give up
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Speaker 1: and you keep on going a man, God will show
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Speaker 1: up in a situation, probably when you least expect it,
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Speaker 1: but he will show up because he is Jehovah Shama,
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Speaker 1: the God who is already there for the ruvement. I
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Speaker 1: see you, good morning, God, bless you in the family
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Speaker 1: as well, my bro, my friend. No time, no't see God,
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Speaker 1: bless you. It's good to see you. So enity you
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Speaker 1: is strong. Doesn't mean that we have won every single battle,
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Speaker 1: although in the spirit we win. But you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, sometimes we do things a man that get
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Speaker 1: in the way of God's plan for our lives and
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Speaker 1: the battle that we were already supposed to win. We
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Speaker 1: might fail or lose some of those battles, but that's
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Speaker 1: on us, right. But nyity is strong means that you
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Speaker 1: they didn't give up when times were getting hard and
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Speaker 1: when the enemy was saying, the enemy was telling you,
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Speaker 1: whispering in your ears, go ahead, man, give up. This
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Speaker 1: is not even worth it. Right, you're wasting your time.
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Speaker 1: You ever heard the enemy's voice like that. You're wasting time.
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Speaker 1: This is not gonna happen, This is not gonna change,
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Speaker 1: this is gonna keep Nah, don't listen to that voice.
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Speaker 1: If the voice that you're listening to brings doubt, fear,
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Speaker 1: it brings anxiety, it brings stress, it brings all kinds
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Speaker 1: of double mindedness, that's not the voice of God. It's
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Speaker 1: easy to tell the voice of the enemy. Enemy never
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Speaker 1: tells the truth. Think about it. Enemy always always lying
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Speaker 1: to us. Amen, there is no truth in him, Amen,
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Speaker 1: Brother Rumen, said, my pastor preached through these those verses
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Speaker 1: from Galatians this past Sunday, Glory to God, Amen, Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit speak Amen, And move why because we know that
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Speaker 1: when we rely and trust on the Holy Spirit, he
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Speaker 1: will speak to us individually corporately, and he would try
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Speaker 1: to unify and continue to unify the body and will
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Speaker 1: be under one spirit, one faith, one hope, one God, Amn,
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Speaker 1: one salvation, one baptism. We know who we are in
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Speaker 1: Him because He is in us. Thank you for sharing that,
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Speaker 1: brother gumen So. And then the year strong right means
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Speaker 1: that you kept praying even when you didn't want to pray.
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Speaker 1: And it's not like there's going to be a shortage
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Speaker 1: of prayer. The other day I wrote, keep praying until
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Speaker 1: there's nothing else to pray for it. In other words,
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Speaker 1: I'm being a wise God. There's always something to pray for.
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Speaker 1: So I'm trying to encourage you to stay in your word,
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Speaker 1: keep praying, keep praying. If you kept praying when you
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Speaker 1: didn't feel like praying, you won some battles. I can
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Speaker 1: guarantee that. And you're finishing off strong and you're strengthening
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Speaker 1: your faith. You kept believing when people don't even sometimes
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Speaker 1: believe in you or believe in me. Keep believing in
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Speaker 1: the one who believes in you and believes in me,
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Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus keep believing in the truth, the way,
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Speaker 1: and the life, the Lord Jesus. Keep on believing in
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Speaker 1: the living Word of God, the Lord Jesus. Keep on
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Speaker 1: believing in the faith the Lord Jesus. Amen, and move
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Speaker 1: in that direction. That's why when people look at a
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Speaker 1: believer born again filled with the Holy Spirit, yes they're
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Speaker 1: going to see flaws. If they look hard enough, they're
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Speaker 1: gonna find it right away. But they're not going to
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Speaker 1: deny that. We have trust, faith and hope in a living, holy,
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Speaker 1: righteous God. So when things happen in my life and
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Speaker 1: in your life, when we lose a loved one, when
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Speaker 1: the finances are not right, when relationships with our spouse
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Speaker 1: or with our children it's edgy, a man, we keep
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Speaker 1: on keeping on, and we keep on trusting and putting
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Speaker 1: our whole faith and trust in the one who could
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Speaker 1: put things together, who can make things right, who continue
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Speaker 1: to encourage us and inspire us to move forward. That's winning,
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Speaker 1: and that's keeping the faith, and that's the way that
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Speaker 1: we stay strong and that we finish strong. And I
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Speaker 1: say this a lot. You showed up, right, You showed
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Speaker 1: up even when no one saw the struggle in your life.
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Speaker 1: Kept on showing up for somebody else. Were you weren't
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Speaker 1: so self absorbed, like, Man, I'm going through pain and suffering,
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Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna help nobody. I hope everybody else
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Speaker 1: goes to pain and stuffing. We're not going to be
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Speaker 1: that way. The world is like that. You ever noticed
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Speaker 1: that if someone is miserable, they want other people to
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Speaker 1: be miserable. If someone's unhappy, they want other people to
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Speaker 1: be unhappy. If someone is struggling, they want everybody else
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Speaker 1: to be struggling with them. Amen. That's the world mindset.
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Speaker 1: We're not of this world. We have a kingdom mindset.
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Speaker 1: That's why we move differently. We move like the Messiah moved.
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Speaker 1: We position ourselves for blessings. We position ourselves to be
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Speaker 1: a blessing to help others. Amen. Regardless whether or not
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Speaker 1: they believe in Jesus or not, we show up and
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Speaker 1: we bring the glory of God. We bring the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of God, we bring the love of God, we bring
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Speaker 1: the mercy of God. We bring the peace of God
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Speaker 1: into any situation that we show up in. Amen. Because
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Speaker 1: we're world priesthood. If you knew who you were in Christ,
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Speaker 1: you will start moving differently. But unfortunately, a lot of
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Speaker 1: people don't know who they are in Christ, so they
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Speaker 1: move the same way the world moves because they rely
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Speaker 1: on the things that they could see before. They trust things. Right, Well,
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Speaker 1: we move as believers in the unseen things, and we
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Speaker 1: have faith in Jesus that those unseen things. Amen. He's
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Speaker 1: going to take us to it and through it for
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Speaker 1: a purpose and plan. And it's not only going to
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Speaker 1: be for our benefit, for our blessing. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be for somebody on the other side. Or got to
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Speaker 1: do is show up. And if you're still standing right now,
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Speaker 1: think about it. It's proof that God is still working
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Speaker 1: in your life and in my life after all the
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Speaker 1: things that happen this year. If you're still standing, that's proof.
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Speaker 1: That's evidence. You know. The atheist is always looking for evidence.
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Speaker 1: They always say there is no evidence that there's a God,
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Speaker 1: and they're looking at the born again believer right in
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Speaker 1: front of them. They just don't know your transformation. They
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Speaker 1: don't know your testimony, they don't know your story, Amen.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes all you have to do is share it.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes they'll argue. Even with that arg you with
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Speaker 1: your testimony, and they'll try to eliminate the God factor.
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Speaker 1: In your life and my life and call it something else. Right,
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Speaker 1: they'll try to borrow words from the Bible, Amen, like
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Speaker 1: goodness and peace and morality and all that they try
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Speaker 1: to borrow from the scriptures to prove the scriptures wrong.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing. But God loves the atheists and he knows
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Speaker 1: that those people just have a heartened heart. It's not
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Speaker 1: that they can't believe, is that they refuse to believe.
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Speaker 1: And there's people out there in your life and in
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Speaker 1: my life that we know that we should keep on
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Speaker 1: praying for, keep on showing up for as long as
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Speaker 1: they're searching, as long as they're seeking for a true, living, holy,
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Speaker 1: righteous God. We could be God's representative where Jesus ambassadors
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Speaker 1: He on this earth. Amen. So don't quit, especially right
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Speaker 1: now we're so close to the end of the year.
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Speaker 1: Don't coasten soon the new year with discouragement, right, No,
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Speaker 1: anchor yourself into faith, anchor yourself in God, anchor yourself.
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Speaker 1: Finish this year on your knees if you have to,
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Speaker 1: and pray with gratitude in your heart and expect God
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Speaker 1: to do something in your spirit because he will and
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Speaker 1: he is and he has been. Because God finishes what
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Speaker 1: he starts. In your strongest season may be right around
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Speaker 1: the corner, it might be just there, just ahead of you.
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Speaker 1: But don't stop. Keep on going, Amen, don't quit, don't
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Speaker 1: quit finished strong, Amen. And I know this is a
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Speaker 1: end of year type of you know, inspiration or motivation. Amen,
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Speaker 1: is that the Lord led me to these scriptures and
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Speaker 1: he let me hear maybe because my own personal life
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Speaker 1: that sometimes you know, I run an online radio ministry.
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Speaker 1: It's not easy, it's don't obey, and the donations are
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Speaker 1: real low. Praise God for every single person who has
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Speaker 1: donated to the ministry. I'm not saying that I'm not
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Speaker 1: one of those guys and those preachers that say, if
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Speaker 1: it wasn't for you, this ministry wouldn't be able to
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Speaker 1: go forward. That would be a lie. It's all about
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Speaker 1: the Lord what he has done and men. But when
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Speaker 1: we come together purposefully, intentionally and join in ministry with
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Speaker 1: one another, a lot more things could happen, at least
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Speaker 1: in this physical realm, right, you know what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: But it's hard, and sometimes I'll be looking at a
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Speaker 1: screen when I'm working behind the scenes on the radio
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Speaker 1: network and I'm like, man, I need help, Lord, and
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Speaker 1: the Lord reminds me you already have the help. That's
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Speaker 1: why you're still doing what you're doing. Since two thousand
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Speaker 1: and eight till today. You're still doing what you're doing
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Speaker 1: because I'm not stopping to believe. I'm still dreaming and
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Speaker 1: I'm still hoping in Christ, the one who gave me
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Speaker 1: this idea, gave me the message, told me what was
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Speaker 1: going to happen on the other side. Maybe it's not
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Speaker 1: going to be with my generation. Maybe it's not going
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Speaker 1: to be with me. Maybe it's going to be after me.
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Speaker 1: But the thing is, I'm going to keep on holding
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Speaker 1: on to God's promises for this ministry, for my life,
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Speaker 1: or my family, for my children, for my grandchildren, for
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Speaker 1: their children. Amen, and keep on moving forward, regardless whether
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Speaker 1: or not the budget is there to do it. Faith
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Speaker 1: doesn't cost you anything, right, But being a disciple in
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Speaker 1: Christ will cost you everything. It's a big difference. Right,
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Speaker 1: Jesus is not hard to follow. We get in the
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Speaker 1: way of the discipline, we get in the way of
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Speaker 1: being a disciple of Christ sometimes. Amen. So keep on
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Speaker 1: moving forward. Finish the year with faith, not with frustration.
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Speaker 1: Finish the year off strong. So I am out of time.
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Speaker 1: We were in tewod Timothy where where we chapter number
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Speaker 1: or verse number seven. Take your time today and read
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Speaker 1: Second Timothy chapter four, the whole chapter. We can't out
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Speaker 1: of verse number seven. But God is faithful, He's good
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Speaker 1: all the time. Right, So thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: hanging out with me for this morning. Devo. God bless
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Speaker 1: you all, God keep you all, and remember always that
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Speaker 1: God is good. Peace,