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Steps of Faith [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Moning, Good morning, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo. It's your brother, Sam Lopez. So
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Speaker 1: Win is with a z dot org the celebrated network
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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. And we're still here. Praise the Lord. Amen.
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Speaker 1: He's faithful to his words, faithful to his promises. Everything
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Speaker 1: that God has for you, go ahead and get it
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Speaker 1: because he's trustworthy and he's able to perform his word. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Sister Joanne, I see you. Good morning, God bless you.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Morning Devo. My sister, my friend.
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Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Man, Today we're taking steps
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Speaker 1: of faith on the Morning Devo. Steps of faith. How
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Speaker 1: many people want to grow in their faith? How many
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Speaker 1: people want to know that God is faithful? How many
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Speaker 1: people already know that? How many people want to just
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Speaker 1: step one step at a time, walking on water. Amen,
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Speaker 1: Let's go for it. Let's do this, Amen, Let's take
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Speaker 1: steps of faith. Faith requires action. Faith is an action word.
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Speaker 1: Don't say that you have faith in and you're not
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Speaker 1: taking steps of faith a man, It won't make any
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Speaker 1: sense a man. People want to see the demonstration of
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Speaker 1: God's power. A lot of people don't want to hear
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Speaker 1: preachers no more as much as they used to. Right.
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Speaker 1: They want to see the demonstration of what the preacher
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Speaker 1: or the evangelists, or the pastor or the prophet or
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Speaker 1: the apostle or the teacher is teaching whatever. They want
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Speaker 1: to see the demonstration of God's power. So we need
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Speaker 1: to be faith steppers. We need to step out in
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Speaker 1: faith a man, so they could see the glory of God,
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Speaker 1: the power of God, the move of God, right, the
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Speaker 1: reality of God. So faith requires action. If God gives
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Speaker 1: you a promise, obey it, even if you don't see
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Speaker 1: it immediately, even if you don't see immediate results, go
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Speaker 1: ahead and take steps of faith. Philippians, chapter four, verse
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Speaker 1: number nineteen. That's where we're gonna be at today today
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Speaker 1: in the morning, Devo a man, get ready. If you
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Speaker 1: have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, or anything along
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Speaker 1: the lines like those things just mentioned, don't be afraid
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Speaker 1: to leave it on the live chat. That's what we're
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Speaker 1: here for. Amen. And even if you're not watching me
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Speaker 1: live by the time you get to this, Amen, if
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Speaker 1: something comes to your heart you want to share something,
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Speaker 1: go ahead and share it on a live chat. If
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Speaker 1: you want to connect with me directly and bypass social media,
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Speaker 1: bypass the bypass the podcast. Even a man, just email me, right,
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Speaker 1: email me at DJ sam rock at so winners with
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Speaker 1: his z do org and then we'll take it from there. Amen.
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Speaker 1: If you're not on my email lists, go ahead and
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Speaker 1: do that. So Winners with a z do org. Scroll
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Speaker 1: to the middle of the website. There's a banner that
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Speaker 1: says join the email list. Go ahead and click that
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Speaker 1: tasts like ten seconds to join. Amen is free. And
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Speaker 1: then I don't spam. So people say you don't send
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Speaker 1: enough emails, right, I don't spam. I only send emails
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Speaker 1: when God tells me to send something. I'll send something
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Speaker 1: about have an announcement or encouraging word for you or
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Speaker 1: anything along those lines. So goe ahead and join that.
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Speaker 1: And if you're on the chat as well, they may
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Speaker 1: I have a chat ministry as well. You can do
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Speaker 1: that as well. If you want me to send you
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Speaker 1: textas directly to your phone. So let's go for it.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna pray first. After we pray, we'll share this
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Speaker 1: south for like sixty seconds, and when we come back.
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Speaker 1: We'll get right into our scripture. Philippians shot the four
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Speaker 1: verse number nineteen steps to faith today on the morning devo.
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Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Father, I thank you for today,
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Speaker 1: for right now, this moment. I pray Lord God, that
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Speaker 1: our faith will be increased, that everything that we've been
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Speaker 1: believing that you have spoken to our lives will start
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Speaker 1: just being realized as truth on the way. The truth
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Speaker 1: already has an exclusive way of getting to us anyway.
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Speaker 1: But we're going to take steps of faith, more steps
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Speaker 1: of faith than we ever took in our whole entire lives.
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Speaker 1: Pray that by faith, knowing that you are able to
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Speaker 1: increase our faith, that you are able to perform your word,
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Speaker 1: and that you are good for all your promises in
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Speaker 1: your word. And if you spoke something to me, spoke
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Speaker 1: something to my friends on the other side of this
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Speaker 1: mic and on the other side of the screen, then
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Speaker 1: let's come together as a family of God and take
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Speaker 1: steps to faith towards what's already coming. Amen. I pray
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Speaker 1: Lord Gud that you will guide us, guard us, protect us,
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Speaker 1: and that you're already doing that. I just thank you
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Speaker 1: for it. I thank you for the protection. I thank
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Speaker 1: you for the health to my body and strength to
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Speaker 1: my bones. And I pray health to everyone that's watching
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Speaker 1: and listening, that you would give them health to their body,
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Speaker 1: strength to the bones as well. I pray, Lord Guy,
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Speaker 1: that you will continue to dispatch your arkmen and angels
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Speaker 1: to annihilate the plans of the devil over our lives,
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Speaker 1: who's trying to kill, steal, and destroy. We cancel all
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Speaker 1: those assignments the power of the name of Jesus. And
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Speaker 1: we know, lor God that we can trust as long
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Speaker 1: as we're being gonna be there. We trust in you,
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Speaker 1: and we will receive what you have given for us,
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Speaker 1: that you have sent our way, and we open our
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Speaker 1: hands and we receive it right now in the powerful
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Speaker 1: name of Jesus. I prayed this by faith, and the
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Speaker 1: people who agree with this prayer, we say amen to
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Speaker 1: the Amen. Let's go for it. Help me shad this
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Speaker 1: out sixty seconds. When we come back, we'll get right
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Speaker 1: into our morning devo. I think, what did I say,
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Speaker 1: Philippians Chatter number four, verse number nineteen. Make sure I'm right, then,
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Speaker 1: Philippians four nineteen, get your Bible apps and your Bible's ready,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna get into those scriptures right now. I'll
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Speaker 1: be right back and we go for a minute here
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Speaker 1: and man, Amen, I see you brother Robbie newborn Robert
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Speaker 1: Diaz in the building. Good morning, my brother, blessings to you.
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Speaker 1: Let's go for it, man, steps of faith, let's got
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Speaker 1: ahead of take I know as believers we're supposed to
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Speaker 1: be faith steppers anyway, but let's help encourage each other. Man.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes we might be looking at things that we're still
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Speaker 1: using the vocabulary of that's impossible. And listen, we know
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Speaker 1: that with God all things are possible. Without God, can't
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Speaker 1: do nothing that's true. Or with God we could do
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Speaker 1: all things. Through Christ, who gives us the strength to
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Speaker 1: complete whatever assignment he has for us, the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: receive his blessing, to receive his promises, to receive his
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Speaker 1: annoying thing, to receive his power. He shares the glory.
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Speaker 1: Amen with us. We glory carriers. We are true seekers
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Speaker 1: and true speakers, Amen, And we take steps of faith.
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Speaker 1: So we're faith steppers. That's who we are, and that's
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Speaker 1: what we need to do. That's what we continue to do,
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Speaker 1: and that's what we become. Anyway, as long as we
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Speaker 1: continue to be obedient to guys where I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: emphasize on a word obedience, because some people think, oh,
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Speaker 1: I have faith, but they don't take action on their faith. Man,
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Speaker 1: it's time to take action on the faith. Time to mature,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It's a maturing process. Everybody's
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Speaker 1: maturing in the faith and knowledge of who He is
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Speaker 1: in our lives. Amen, We're all on this faith journey together,
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Speaker 1: so might as well, you know, join and take steps
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Speaker 1: of faith together. So let me get to it. Let
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Speaker 1: me get to the scripture. Put this on the screen.
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Speaker 1: For those who are just listening, you already know. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to read it word for words, so that way
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Speaker 1: you won't miss a beat. Thank you for listening. As
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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, let me just shout y'all out,
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Speaker 1: and so when is with a Z dot org and
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Speaker 1: a lot that's so win is with a Z dot org.
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Speaker 1: Y'all popping up over there too, But it's real quiet.
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Speaker 1: You can use the live chat. There's a live chat there.
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Speaker 1: There's an interactive Bible there as well. There's a way
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Speaker 1: you can subscribe to my podcast, subscribe to the YouTube channel.
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Speaker 1: So thank you. I see that those numbers are increasing too.
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Speaker 1: People are heading over there. It's a much quieter spot.
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Speaker 1: A man, it's real quiet over there. And Man, I
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Speaker 1: like that website actually, And my whole dream is to
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Speaker 1: get off social media and just to go on a
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Speaker 1: couple of websites and we could just meet over there.
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Speaker 1: But I know it's hard for people to jump off
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Speaker 1: to get out the matrix, Amen, including myself. Amen. And
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Speaker 1: that's just because so many people are here right on
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Speaker 1: the social media. But it's possible. I'm actually following some
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Speaker 1: podcasters Amen that they're not even on social media like
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Speaker 1: at all. They just have strategies of how to get
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Speaker 1: people to come to their podcasts, to their home base, Amen,
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Speaker 1: by way of email lists and texting. So I'm interested
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Speaker 1: in that to see how that all works and plans out.
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Speaker 1: And that'd be a good look if you see me
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Speaker 1: disappears just because I finally figured out how to group
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Speaker 1: up outside of the matrix. Amen. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: distractions on these social media platforms. We're getting into the
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Speaker 1: word and then you get to pop up, you get this,
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Speaker 1: you get a message, you get an inbox. Like it's
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Speaker 1: too much in my opinion, Amen, But what we have
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Speaker 1: here we'll stay here. We'll be here and trust God
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Speaker 1: that He will reach the people that He wants to
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Speaker 1: reach through the ministry justification by works. Our works are
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Speaker 1: evidence of our faith. Amen, Yes, evidence of our faith.
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Speaker 1: People want to see evidence. You trust God, you believe
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Speaker 1: in God, and you say you have faith, where's the evidence. Well,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna see the evidence through the scripture right now, amen.
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Speaker 1: And we're not arrogant about it either. We just know
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Speaker 1: that God's word is true, right. We know that God,
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Speaker 1: when he says a thing, it is a thing. Amen.
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Speaker 1: That's all I know. When God speaks something and whatever
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Speaker 1: he says is going to come to pass. That's all
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Speaker 1: I know. Literally, God's faithful to his word. Amen. So
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Speaker 1: let's go for it. Let's get to the scripture, ladies
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Speaker 1: and gentlemen Philippians four nineteen. And my God, get and
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Speaker 1: say it. If you believe in God, he's your God too,
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Speaker 1: He's our heavenly Father. And my God will liberally supply
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Speaker 1: feel until full love it. He'll feel until it's full
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Speaker 1: your every need, every need according to His riches in
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Speaker 1: glory in Christ Jesus. Now that's something you can put
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Speaker 1: on a T shirt right there, that's something to memorize
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Speaker 1: right now. And my God will brually supply phil until full.
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Speaker 1: I love it every need. And the other day my
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Speaker 1: spiritual parents came to the house and they said, you,
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Speaker 1: you know, how long have you been feeling unworthy? They
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Speaker 1: were asking me this, and how long haven't you trusted
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Speaker 1: the Lord and men? They're seeing that there is something
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Speaker 1: going on my faith walk that should be increased. That's
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Speaker 1: why I love my spiritual parents. They challenged me. They
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Speaker 1: love me enough to tell me the truth. Amen, I
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Speaker 1: love you guys enough to tell y'all the truth, and
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Speaker 1: even risking people not liking me, love of God is
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Speaker 1: so amazing that we'll take the risk. Say, okay, say
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Speaker 1: the truth, even if people stop following. I'm gonna say
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Speaker 1: the truth, even if people don't want to be my friends.
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Speaker 1: The more I'm gonna speak the truth even if people
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Speaker 1: don't like it. And man, but the love of God
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Speaker 1: that was expressed me and my wife, by our spiritual parents,
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Speaker 1: by our leadership and church, by elders in church, by
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Speaker 1: deacons in our church, that they share this love. Amen,
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Speaker 1: our faith should be increased. Steps of faith happen when
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Speaker 1: people of faith say, hey, let's go, Let's take steps,
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Speaker 1: let's move. Let's go in the direction that God wants
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Speaker 1: us to go. So that way we won't stay stuck
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Speaker 1: in any place. We won't feel hopeless. The enemy is
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Speaker 1: doing his job. We should be in relaxation mode, knowing
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Speaker 1: that God got us. If feel so full all our
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Speaker 1: needs according to his riches. It's not even according to
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Speaker 1: what we have, it's according to what the Lord has.
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Speaker 1: That amazing. Have you ever thought of that? It's not
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Speaker 1: according to what I have, it's according to what he has.
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Speaker 1: And last time I checked, God owns it all. And
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Speaker 1: when I look at Goud's word, I expect Gud's word
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Speaker 1: to perform exactly what his word says it will perform.
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Speaker 1: I know from experience for a fact that when God
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Speaker 1: promises you to do something, those promises will come to pass.
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Speaker 1: There's never a time in my whole entire life that
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Speaker 1: God has failed me. And you could probably testify. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if if you're honest, you will testify that God has
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Speaker 1: never failed you. Now, has God done things in my
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Speaker 1: life that I expected to happen a different way? One
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Speaker 1: hundred percent? And I think that happens with every single
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Speaker 1: believer that's listening and watching. You might have thought, oh,
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Speaker 1: I want to pray this and I'm hoping for this
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Speaker 1: and trusting that. And a God comes in a different way.
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Speaker 1: He fulfills the need he feels into a full right
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Speaker 1: according to his richest and glory. But it wasn't the
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Speaker 1: way you or I expected it. But it worked, it happened,
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Speaker 1: It came to pass his promises word, his promises were accomplished,
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Speaker 1: His promises were just met. He met his promise. God
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Speaker 1: is faithful to his word, and guess what, He's faithful
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Speaker 1: to you, and he's faithful to me. Amen. So when
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Speaker 1: I pray, I'm praying with expectation that whatever God says,
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Speaker 1: whatever God promises, Amen, those promises and what God spoke
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Speaker 1: is gonna align with my heart. I'm gonna align with
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Speaker 1: his word, that's all I know. I'm gonna align my
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Speaker 1: thinking to his word. I'm gonna align my mindset to
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Speaker 1: his word. I'm gonna pray according to his word. Right,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna speak his promises over my life. So I
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Speaker 1: think you should speak God's promises over your life and
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Speaker 1: trust that he will fulfill them. But it's according to
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Speaker 1: his timing. That's the part amen, we live in a
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Speaker 1: microative society. Listener, you want something answered, y' said. My
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Speaker 1: uncle called and said, Joyce Meyer, is this that? And third?
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Speaker 1: And he saw on the YouTube. You probably saw old
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Speaker 1: YouTube that she was in trouble and this, and so
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Speaker 1: I said, you know, you can look that up right
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Speaker 1: on the internet. I looked it up and it wasn't
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Speaker 1: true what he was saying. He was seeing some kind
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Speaker 1: of YouTube page that was falsifying information. But that's the
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Speaker 1: type of society we're in. People get information instantly, and
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Speaker 1: a lot of people believe everything on the internet, or
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Speaker 1: a lot of things on the internet, just like some
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Speaker 1: people believe a lot of things that the news reporters report.
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Speaker 1: You realize that news reporters, when they get to the
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Speaker 1: scene of a crime or an accident or whatever, they
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Speaker 1: have a limited amount of time to try to get
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Speaker 1: the whole story. So they show up. I've seen it
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Speaker 1: with my own eyes. We've done events. Reporters come, the
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Speaker 1: event is an all day event, or let's just say
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Speaker 1: it's a two to three hours event, The reporter shows
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Speaker 1: up for five ten minutes, and then on the news
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Speaker 1: they say, oh, the whole story according to what they
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Speaker 1: saw men. So we know the whole story according to
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Speaker 1: what God says, and we don't have to see everything
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Speaker 1: for us to believe everything that God says. So when
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Speaker 1: you pray, pray expecting that God will come through, Amen,
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Speaker 1: as long as it's aligned with His word. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to pray. I'm not gonna pray somebody
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Speaker 1: to get heard, or I'm not gonna prayse somebody's demise
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Speaker 1: or things like that. Right, I'm not even going to
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Speaker 1: pray the devil will go away because he's already defeated
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Speaker 1: if you think about it. So that's not the issue.
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Speaker 1: When I pray, and when you pray, we should be
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Speaker 1: expecting God to move on our prayers. That's a step
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Speaker 1: of faith. You take steps of faith, Amen. And when
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Speaker 1: you take steps of faith, and when God shows up
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Speaker 1: in those steps of faith, your faith increases and you'll
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Speaker 1: be like, Yeah, this is good, this is where it's at.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep on going. Amen. Surround yourself with people
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Speaker 1: that build your faith. Don't surround yourself with people that
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Speaker 1: try to destroy your faith and man, surround yourself with
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Speaker 1: builders that are not breakers. Surround yourself with people of hope,
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Speaker 1: not people that you know, I hope less surrounding people
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Speaker 1: of love, not people that lack faith. Right, stay connected,
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Speaker 1: stay connected. I tell people that all the time. You
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Speaker 1: don't have to stay connected to me if you want.
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Speaker 1: It's all good. Amen, I welcome to the connection. But
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Speaker 1: stay connected. Right, stay in fellowship, stay with and encouraged
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Speaker 1: with those who trust in God's word. You trust in
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Speaker 1: God's word. I trust in God's word. Let's stay connected, fellowship.
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Speaker 1: Let me get in to my notes here. Fellowship, teachings, mourning, devotions, worship.
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Speaker 1: All of it gives you strength. Man. All of it.
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Speaker 1: Hope holds your faith and takes it to a higher
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Speaker 1: level as long as you keep focused on God's truth.
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Speaker 1: We don't stay focused on the truth for this world system.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there is truth in the world, and the
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Speaker 1: world fails. The world is broken, right, we know this.
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Speaker 1: If you don't know it, let me be the first
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Speaker 1: to tell you. You know know that the world system
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Speaker 1: does not work. It's never going to work. It's broken.
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Speaker 1: That's why the Lord Jesus himself is coming with a
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Speaker 1: new Heaven and a new Earth. It's a kingdom system
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Speaker 1: that the Lord has been speaking about all through Amen.
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Speaker 1: Not the world system. He's overcome this world system, the
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Speaker 1: Bob says. But Bob also says that Jesus didn't come
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Speaker 1: to condemn the world. He came to save the world.
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Speaker 1: Speak life, Speak life over your situation. You want to
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Speaker 1: take steps of faith, Speak life, not death over your situation.
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Speaker 1: Went to the doctor, got a bad report. Speak life
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Speaker 1: over that report. I'm not saying deny it. Some people
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Speaker 1: think that we're denying the truth. Sometimes all your Christians
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Speaker 1: always denying. You get a bad report, Now you get
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Speaker 1: to deny. No one not denying it. We're trust in God,
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Speaker 1: the great physician. Amen. We're going to our first You
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Speaker 1: know how people say you should get a second opinion.
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Speaker 1: We're going to the first opinion. Amen, the one who
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Speaker 1: has the last word right on the matter, on any matter.
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Speaker 1: Speak live over your situation. Since the joyce, I see you,
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Speaker 1: Good morning, God bless you as well. She's blessing the group.
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Speaker 1: Everybody in the group this morning, A much love, joy
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Speaker 1: and peace. Yes, we could use that joy in peace.
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Speaker 1: I know I could use that. Join piece right, stay connected,
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Speaker 1: be strong and strengthened in the Lord. Amen, and you
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Speaker 1: start noticing that you'll you'll take strides of faith. You
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Speaker 1: take more steps of faith. Amen. Right now, a lot
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Speaker 1: is going on in our world and our communities, and
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Speaker 1: our country and our situations. But in any one of
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Speaker 1: your situations, speak life over it. Your words have power.
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Speaker 1: My older brother says, your words carry power, and that
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Speaker 1: power we're coming to realize as a family that that
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Speaker 1: power is the word of God, and his word is
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Speaker 1: supposed to be spoken over all our situations. Can you
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Speaker 1: imagine walking in the room of doom and gloom and
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Speaker 1: speaking word and lighting up the situation. Amen, Instead of
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Speaker 1: speaking doubt of fear, declare God's promises over your life. Right,
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Speaker 1: declare God's promises over your life. You want to take
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Speaker 1: steps to faith. Declare no more second guessing, no more guessing,
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Speaker 1: Just declaration, God is my provider. I lack nothing. Right.
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Speaker 1: Might be saying well that sounds good. No, that's words,
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Speaker 1: Psalm twenty three and verse number one. God's peace guards
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Speaker 1: my heart and mind. You member saying that's another good thing,
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Speaker 1: saying that's pretty good. No, that's word. Philippians, chapter four,
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Speaker 1: verse seven. When you start speaking life, speaking word over
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Speaker 1: your situation, you start realizing that when you take steps
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Speaker 1: of faith, you're demonstrating God's power in front of people
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Speaker 1: who don't know who Jesus is, in front of people
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Speaker 1: who don't believe in God. And then they'll take notice
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Speaker 1: of that and they'll be like, wait, how did that
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Speaker 1: happen in your life? And that's your opportunity right then
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Speaker 1: and there to preach the gospel, to share your testimony,
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Speaker 1: to share who you have faith in. It's not a
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Speaker 1: formula of success or a way around God or principles.
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Speaker 1: I don't follow principles. I obey principles, but I don't
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Speaker 1: follow principles. I follow the princip peace. I follow the
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Speaker 1: God Almighty, the Lord, our Savior, Jesus Ya shuahama shik.
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Speaker 1: I follow the Lord when I put my faith, hope
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Speaker 1: and trust in Him, Heavenly Father, God, the Son, Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit living inside of us. Amen. We have it all.
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Speaker 1: We have the goods. Amen. We just have to demonstrate
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Speaker 1: rate our love for God and our love for one
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Speaker 1: another so that the world could see that we're on
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Speaker 1: the right path and that they're gonna want to join
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Speaker 1: that path of righteousness as well. Remember that first opinions
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Speaker 1: is the Lord. Amen. Yes, God has the first and
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Speaker 1: final word. If you're trust in Him, if you're trust
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Speaker 1: in him, and you're obedient to him. I have to
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Speaker 1: continue saying obedient because for whatever reason, there's a trend
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Speaker 1: going on people are just quoting scriptures all through social media,
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Speaker 1: but they're not obedient to the scriptures that they're quoting.
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Speaker 1: Right when times get hard, they run away and they
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Speaker 1: run out, and that even some of them, unfortunately even
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Speaker 1: say yeah, that didn't work. What's that and what you're
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Speaker 1: talking about didn't work. We're right now benefiting all of
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Speaker 1: the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, not the
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Speaker 1: unfinished work. I don't want to start preaching on that.
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Speaker 1: Take steps of faith. I said it earlier. Faith requires action.
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Speaker 1: Don't just stay sitting in your seat asking God for this,
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Speaker 1: asking God for that, and then you're just sitting there
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Speaker 1: waiting for things to happen. Go ahead and get up.
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Speaker 1: He's giving you the strength to get up. Go ahead
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Speaker 1: and take steps of faith towards the goal. That's why
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Speaker 1: the Bible says, we have a goal. We see it, amen,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna strive. We're gonna get to that goal
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Speaker 1: that's marked out for you, that's marked out for me,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna finish our race. I know, you know
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Speaker 1: that it's not how you start, it's how you finish.
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Speaker 1: My start in the faith journey. Amen. Oh man, that
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Speaker 1: was ugly, but nothing pretty. Amen. But I'm gonna strive
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Speaker 1: Like Apostle Paul said, I'm gonna run my race. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna strive to finish the race that God has marked
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Speaker 1: out for me. And I'm praying that He will do
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Speaker 1: the same. He will spark something in your life right now,
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Speaker 1: and you take steps of faith towards that, towards that
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Speaker 1: finished line, because we do all have a finished line. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And my goal was sit here the Lord say well done,
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Speaker 1: my good and faithful servant. Write down ways that God
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Speaker 1: has been faithful in your life, and man, you should
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Speaker 1: run out of pages quick. Get a big get a
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Speaker 1: big notebook, because if you start writing down all the
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Speaker 1: ways that God has been faithful in your life, You're
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Speaker 1: gonna be knowing and reflecting on the past. How God
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Speaker 1: got you out of X y Z, how God blessed
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Speaker 1: you in this way and that way and the third, how
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Speaker 1: He filled your refrigerator, how he filled your bank account,
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Speaker 1: how He mathematically did something with your bills that you
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Speaker 1: were like, there's no way that that came to be
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Speaker 1: because there was enough money. There wasn't enough money in
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Speaker 1: my account, but yet all my bills were paid. A man,
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Speaker 1: I'm declaring that right now for myself. If he answered
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Speaker 1: prayers in the past, that's a step of faith, knowing
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Speaker 1: that he will answer your prayers now. I always say,
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Speaker 1: what God did in the past for his people and
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Speaker 1: what he's doing for us. What he did in the
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Speaker 1: past is his resume of what he's doing right now,
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Speaker 1: what could be doing right now in your life and
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Speaker 1: in my life. Stay confident in his future promises and
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Speaker 1: his future promises that he's coming back. Ay man, I'm
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Speaker 1: running out of time here, but I hope you getting
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Take Philippians, chapter number four. Read the
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Speaker 1: whole chapter. We hung out at verse number nineteen. That's
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Speaker 1: where we started, and then we just kept on moving.
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Speaker 1: Why because we keep on taking steps of faith. I
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Speaker 1: see you, freelancer, Masure Roman, It's good to see you.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, God bless you. Welcome to the morning. Devo.
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Speaker 1: So listen seeing her pray for me and my family.
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Speaker 1: I can see him pray for union family. Let's take
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Speaker 1: steps of faith, a man, Let's meet somewhere towards the
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Speaker 1: steps of faith, so that way we could rejoice and
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Speaker 1: celebrate in the Lord, knowing that man, we're on the
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Speaker 1: right path and we're moving and we're taking steps of
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Speaker 1: faith because God is good and he's that good. So Father,
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Speaker 1: I thank you for everybody that's watching and listening. Father,
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Speaker 1: bless them, keep them and remind them and let them
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Speaker 1: know that God is good. Peace,