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Becoming Strong in the Lord Pt. 7 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. I'm John North here to start this morning
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  Speaker 1: with you as I do each weekday morning at this time,
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  Speaker 1: as we focus on the most important thing at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of every day, which is our relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: We need to learn as soon as we wake up
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  Speaker 1: to say good morning Lord and to begin a daylong
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  Speaker 1: conversation with God.
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  Speaker 1: Not that you're always talking, but that you have those
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  Speaker 1: communication lines open and you begin the day with a
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  Speaker 1: focused time listening to God as you open the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: speaking to Him in prayer. So let's focus our minds
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  Speaker 1: now and would you just pray in your heart even
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  Speaker 1: as you are listening to the radio and say, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I'm listening.
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  Speaker 1: What do you have to say to me today?
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  Speaker 1: We're looking this week at the theme of becoming strong
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord. We saw yesterday that we need to
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  Speaker 1: learn to just be quiet and listen for God's still
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  Speaker 1: small voice. He came to Elijah, not in the massive
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  Speaker 1: wind that was ripping the mountain apart, not in the earthquake,
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  Speaker 1: but in the gentle blowing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, today we come to the New Testament to the
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  Speaker 1: Book of 2 Corinthians chapter 9, and Paul's in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of talking about how we use our finances, and
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  Speaker 1: he shows us that really that is so closely connected
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  Speaker 1: to our spiritual lives. He says, now this I say.
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  Speaker 1: He who sows sparingly, talking about financial giving, giving into
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  Speaker 1: the work of the kingdom of God, he who sows
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  Speaker 1: sparingly shall also reap sparingly.
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  Speaker 1: And he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully and
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  Speaker 1: if you sow your finances and giving into the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God.
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  Speaker 1: What do you reap? Well, keep listening.
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  Speaker 1: Let each one do just as he has purposed in
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  Speaker 1: his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves
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  Speaker 1: a cheerful giver.
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  Speaker 1: And God is able to make all grace abound to
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  Speaker 1: you that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may
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  Speaker 1: have an abundance. Why for every good deed. That's why
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  Speaker 1: God blesses your business, so you'll have an abundance for
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  Speaker 1: every good deed as it is written. He scattered abroad.
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  Speaker 1: He gave to the poor. His righteousness abides forever.
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  Speaker 1: Now he that is God who supplies seed to the sower.
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  Speaker 1: And bread for food will supply and multiply your seed,
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  Speaker 1: your money for sowing into the kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 1: And will increase the harvest and what harvest comes when
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  Speaker 1: we learn to give sacrificially to build God's kingdom in
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  Speaker 1: this world.
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  Speaker 1: He will increase the harvest of your righteousness, um.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to grow strong in the Lord, learn
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  Speaker 1: to be a giver. Don't hoard your money for yourself
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  Speaker 1: or just to have this beautiful retirement. Learn to be
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  Speaker 1: a giver, someone who throughout your life, not just after
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  Speaker 1: you die.
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  Speaker 1: But throughout your life is giving, investing in what God
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  Speaker 1: is doing in this world. Those who honour me, I
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  Speaker 1: will honour, says the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: God wants to be involved in your finances. Christianity is personal,
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  Speaker 1: purse and all.
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  Speaker 1: I'm John North.