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How to Stay Strong in Faith [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, God, bless you, Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the Morning Devo. Is your brother Sam Lopez aka DJ
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  Speaker 1: Sam Rock So winners with a z dot org live dots,
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  Speaker 1: someone's with his z with his z dot org can't
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  Speaker 1: talk this morning, and streaming of other social media platforms
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  Speaker 1: that allow us stream to go through. So how to
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  Speaker 1: stay strong in faith? It's not really a question. This
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  Speaker 1: is something that we could actually put together and apply
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  Speaker 1: right now today to stay strong in our faith, especially
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  Speaker 1: during the summer months that we're gonna be facing. From
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  Speaker 1: the time of this recording, we're heading into the summer right.
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  Speaker 1: How to stay strong in faith today in the Morning Devo.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or any prayer requests,
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  Speaker 1: please don't hesitate to leave it on a live chat.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're here for. We're to be talking about
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  Speaker 1: strategies to help you and me stay strong in our
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  Speaker 1: career faith. We'd be in Proverbs chapter four, verse number
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. Sister Joanne, I see you, Good morning, my sister,
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  Speaker 1: my friend. I bless you. Welcome back to the Morning Devo.
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  Speaker 1: It's a new week, new start, right, We'll be glad
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna be rejoice and today Amen. God has
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  Speaker 1: created for us. So we are here. Amen. It's good
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  Speaker 1: to be back in the studio. Man. And the weeks
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  Speaker 1: and the days, the nights go by fast Amen, So
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  Speaker 1: there's no way I could keep up. I just trust God,
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  Speaker 1: go with the flow and see what happens. Amen. He
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  Speaker 1: has the best plan for all lives. Actually it's not
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  Speaker 1: the best plan. It's a perfect plan and purpose for
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  Speaker 1: your life and for my life. So trust God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's always something I would really suggest. Just trust God, amen,
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  Speaker 1: and he'll show you the right path to go through. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Since Joanne says been going through a lot, my husband
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  Speaker 1: has been in a lot of pain. You know he's
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  Speaker 1: going through He has to go for surgery. He has
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  Speaker 1: a clog in his legs. I just hope the Lord
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  Speaker 1: is with him and be with him. I don't take him,
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  Speaker 1: and don't take him from me. I love him so much. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be praying for your husband's sister, Joanne. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and God will intervene as he always has been and
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  Speaker 1: he always has Amen for the best possible outcome for
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  Speaker 1: you and your husband and your family. So we'll keep
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  Speaker 1: that in prayer as well. So if you have a
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  Speaker 1: prayer request. Thank you Sister Joanne for trusting us with
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  Speaker 1: your prayer requests. Amen. If that's you out there and
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  Speaker 1: you have a prayer request as well, don't hesitate to
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  Speaker 1: leave it on a live chat. We gotta pray first. After
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  Speaker 1: we pray with she had us out for like sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: and when we come back on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: those sixty seconds, we'll get right into today's word. Today's
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  Speaker 1: scripture Proverbs chapter four, verse number twenty three. So you
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  Speaker 1: could pray facing the screen. You can pay pray with
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  Speaker 1: your head bow down. Amen. People were asking you know
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  Speaker 1: how should we pray, Well, pray according to how you
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  Speaker 1: would speak to your father, because that's who he is,
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  Speaker 1: your father in heaven and your best friend, your savior,
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  Speaker 1: your Lord, Amen, the love of your soul. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pray looking at the screen because I want
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  Speaker 1: to really let you know that I'm praying for you, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm praying for your family. So Father, I thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for every single person that's listening and
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  Speaker 1: watching right now, for those who are on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of this screen and on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: this mic, I pray power, I pray peace, be still
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  Speaker 1: and know that you are God, that you are in control.
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  Speaker 1: Old God. Remind us of who we are in you,
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  Speaker 1: and remind us of who you are in us. I
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  Speaker 1: pray Lo God favor, I play peace. I pray a
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  Speaker 1: head of protection over our minds physically, emotionally and spiritually.
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  Speaker 1: I pray Lord God health to our body and strength
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  Speaker 1: to our bones, and I thank you for it all
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  Speaker 1: in advance, Lo God. I pray over sister Joanne's situation
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  Speaker 1: with her husband. Well God, that her request is that,
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  Speaker 1: please Lord, that you will not take our husband away
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  Speaker 1: from her. So let her know that you are with her.
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  Speaker 1: Let her understand that love overcomes a multitude. And I
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  Speaker 1: pray peace over her heart, over her mind, and over
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  Speaker 1: her husband's body in Jesus Holy Name. And I pray
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  Speaker 1: for all my family members as well, on both sides
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  Speaker 1: of my family, and my wife's side and my side
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  Speaker 1: from the very youngest to the very oldest. My mom
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  Speaker 1: included in that prayer. And I pray Lord God for
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  Speaker 1: my brothers, my sister their families as well. I pray
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  Speaker 1: Lord God that no person in my bloodline, and no
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  Speaker 1: person in my wife's blood line, and no person in
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  Speaker 1: the people's bloodlines that are watching will really be deceived
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  Speaker 1: by the wiles of the world and the enemy's at tactics.
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  Speaker 1: That we would have the conscience of Christ, and we
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  Speaker 1: will have the discernment of the divine, and we would
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  Speaker 1: know whose voice to follow. Stranger's voice will not follow.
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  Speaker 1: I pray that over my family, my generational family, my bloodline,
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus Holy Name, knowing that you are able to
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  Speaker 1: reach our hearts and able to transform our minds in
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  Speaker 1: our lives. And Jesus Holy Name, my prayer is by
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  Speaker 1: faith and those who agree with the prayer we say, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: sue the Amen, and that's the Lord Jesus. Amen, sixty seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Help me share this out. When we come back, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get right into today's morning Devo. I'll be right back. Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So many groups, Thank you so much for all the
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  Speaker 1: groups that allowed me to share this on your social media.
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  Speaker 1: We need to connect on a different level. Amen. Another
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  Speaker 1: platform that we're watching closely and looking at to see
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  Speaker 1: if we gotta go transfer our media too. Amen. It's
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  Speaker 1: something that maybe the groups that are connected and the
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  Speaker 1: groups that allowed me to shut us out, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to check it out as well. Basically, you could
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  Speaker 1: go to soul Winners with his z dot org forwards
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  Speaker 1: So winners with his z dot org forwards slash vid
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  Speaker 1: me and check it out. Let me know what you think,
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  Speaker 1: let me know what your your opinion is on it, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: because we're thinking about it, praying for it, about it first, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: going to God first, of course, and then making the
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  Speaker 1: moves that God wants us to make. So here they
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  Speaker 1: come coming in. Amen. Thank you so much. Open your
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  Speaker 1: Bible group. Thank you so much for allowing me to
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  Speaker 1: share this through. Amen. And there was another one who
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  Speaker 1: came through. Uh, it was God is Great. Amen. Team
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Promotion Group, Jesus Loves You, Global Outreach Ministries, Daily Encouragement,
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  Speaker 1: go ye into all the world and preach the good
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  Speaker 1: news all these groups, Amen that we're connected to. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much. I'm shouting y'all out because I'm really
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  Speaker 1: grateful that you allow me to share this on your group. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and trust me to touch your group. Amen. I don't
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  Speaker 1: take that for granted. So let's get into the scripture.
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  Speaker 1: How to stay strong in faith. It's a statement, it's
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  Speaker 1: not really a question. It's a statement because God shows us, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and gives us the ability to stay strong no matter
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  Speaker 1: what the situation is. Amen. And I know I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be a prophet to know that you might
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  Speaker 1: be going through something. I might be going through something,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's today or tomorrow. Amen. My brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 1: in Christ might be facing a challenge right now. But
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  Speaker 1: how do you stay strong in faith? Amen? How to
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  Speaker 1: stay strong in faith? It's a statement. I was going
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  Speaker 1: to show us and give us his word on it. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: because He's with us. He will never leave us, nor
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  Speaker 1: forsake us. He will never abandon us, he would never
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  Speaker 1: put us to shame. Amen. He will always be with us,
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  Speaker 1: even to the end of the world, even to the
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  Speaker 1: end of the age. Amen. So let's put this on
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  Speaker 1: the screen for those who are just listening, No worry,
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  Speaker 1: no problem. We're gonna read this word for words, so
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  Speaker 1: that way you could be a part of what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: even if you don't see the screen. Amen. How to
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  Speaker 1: stay strong in faith? The Bible is clear, Amen. There's
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  Speaker 1: no riddles or mysteries about what the Word of God
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  Speaker 1: is saying. The Bible actually says. He's making it clear
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  Speaker 1: in these days that we're living in Proverbs for twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: This is my prayer request that you will help me
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  Speaker 1: do guard your heart above all else, for it determines
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  Speaker 1: the course of your life. Proverbs for twenty three. Let's
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  Speaker 1: read it again. Guard your hearts above all else, for
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  Speaker 1: it determines the course of your life. That's a powerful statement,
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  Speaker 1: powerful scripture a man. Do a word study on this,
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  Speaker 1: study this out, memorize it, speak it over your life
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  Speaker 1: because it's the word of God, and it's the right
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  Speaker 1: word for today, for the today's morning devo a man.
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  Speaker 1: Because God drew me to his word and drew me
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  Speaker 1: to that scripture. And I'm believing that somebody right now
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  Speaker 1: has gotten a breakthrough just by knowing, Oh, that's what
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  Speaker 1: I have to do to guard my heart. Man, can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine letting everybody that you know or that's opposing
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  Speaker 1: your lifestyle or opposing your belief, and you're letting everybody
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  Speaker 1: in your heart, and you're letting everybody touch you and
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  Speaker 1: letting everybody influence you. So that means you're letting your
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  Speaker 1: guard down. And the Bible is literally telling us to
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  Speaker 1: guard our hearts. Amen, start your day off with God
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  Speaker 1: That's what I try to do on this morning, Deva.
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  Speaker 1: I try to start my day off connecting with His word, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: listening to His Spirit. I don't edit these videos. I
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  Speaker 1: don't edit the podcast because I'm relying one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: on Holy Spirit. If a mistake is made, Amen, from
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  Speaker 1: what I say, maybey, babble or stutter, or say too
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  Speaker 1: many ums or too many amens, however the case may be.
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  Speaker 1: I'm relying and trusting on Holy Spirit God to reach
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  Speaker 1: the hearts of the people that he's drawing to himself.
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  Speaker 1: No gimmicks, doesn't have to be a drop mic moment. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: strictly his word and letting his word perform exactly what
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  Speaker 1: his word is intended to perform in your life and
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  Speaker 1: in my life. How about that, Amen, That means misticking
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  Speaker 1: to the scripts, resticking to the scripture. Amen, We're starting
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  Speaker 1: our day off with God. So according to Proverbs for
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, guard your heart and mind. It's very important
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  Speaker 1: to do that, especially in the world that we're living today,
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  Speaker 1: where everything is online. Right the conversation has left the building.
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  Speaker 1: I've been trying to encourage pastors to get some kind
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  Speaker 1: of online ministry going on. Let the evangelist in your church.
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  Speaker 1: Let them be free to do a podcast, let them
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  Speaker 1: be free to do outreach online. Let them and then, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we have feet on the ground. Don't worry, that's always
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  Speaker 1: going to be there, Amen. But the conversation is shifting
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  Speaker 1: from the church buildings right and communities of Christ into
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  Speaker 1: online networks and online ministries and platforms where maybe someone
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  Speaker 1: from the other side of the world could listen in
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  Speaker 1: on a conversation. And that couldn't be possible if you're
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  Speaker 1: in your territory right on the ground and you're maybe
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  Speaker 1: in a circle and having a conversation. The person on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the world cannot get into that
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  Speaker 1: unless somebody streams it live, unless somebody goes online and
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  Speaker 1: creates a platform for somebody who is wondering about God,
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  Speaker 1: who wants to know what are those people over there
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  Speaker 1: in America talking about? Who is this Jesus? Right? So
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  Speaker 1: let's do everything we can to spread the gospel message.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be so concerned with just what's happening on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Like to ten toes on the ground, which is great.
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  Speaker 1: We always have soldiers for the Lord on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: but it's also souldiers of the Lord in the airways. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: who are we battling. We're battling the Prince of the
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  Speaker 1: air Amen. The Lord of this world system, right, is
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  Speaker 1: not the God of the world. Amen. It's two different things,
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  Speaker 1: two different people, two different persons a man. But God
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  Speaker 1: is greater, greater is he who is in us than
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  Speaker 1: he who is in this world. And God is allowing
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  Speaker 1: us to get on these platforms and use the technology
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  Speaker 1: to spread His gospel. So let's do Amen, with the world.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not let the world system take over all this technology. Men, pastors,
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  Speaker 1: to use your evangelists that are with you, that are
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  Speaker 1: partner with you, Amen, to go ahead and use the
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  Speaker 1: online ministry to go forth with the gospel message. Don't
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  Speaker 1: be afraid. You don't have to have the best camera,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to have the best equipment. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about, you know, how the TBN and
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  Speaker 1: t T in whatever those other networks are out there
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  Speaker 1: they star or whatever. You don't have to worry about
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  Speaker 1: how they're doing it. Let them do how they're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll God call them to do it, or how they
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  Speaker 1: have the finances and to do it and to be
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  Speaker 1: you know, TV ready and all that stuff. Just go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and preach the gospel and allow God to move
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  Speaker 1: through your heart and through your ministry. Amen. Open up
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  Speaker 1: your phone lines, open up your your streaming network. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and let's go and preach the gospel throughout the nations
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  Speaker 1: by way of these means as well. When you combine
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  Speaker 1: that with ten toes on the ground, we become an
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  Speaker 1: unstoppable force. Amen. And the enemy will hate for us
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  Speaker 1: to do all platforms and preach the gospel of all platforms.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and do it. Seek first the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things
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  Speaker 1: will be added to you. Matthew sixto thirty three, straight
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of the Lord Jesus. So make it
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  Speaker 1: a habit. Make it a habit, and spend time with
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  Speaker 1: God first, whether you're on an online platform, a phone call,
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  Speaker 1: ten toes on the ground at church, Amen, If you
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  Speaker 1: have the ability to go to the altar in your
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  Speaker 1: church and your local church if the building is open, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and do that. And go ahead and pray
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  Speaker 1: for the leadership. Go ahead and pray for your family.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and pray for your finances. Go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: pray for your health. Amen. Do it whether it's on
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  Speaker 1: this platform or it's a person a person face to face,
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  Speaker 1: however it is. You know, Gods can see all things, right,
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  Speaker 1: So this whole thing about, you know, trying to separate
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  Speaker 1: online ministry from the so called real ministry that's in
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  Speaker 1: the building. Amen, let's get over it. Let's do what
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  Speaker 1: God called you to do. Some God is calling to
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  Speaker 1: some to be online evangelists, online ministers, online pastors, podcast pastors,
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  Speaker 1: however you want to call it. And the pastors in
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  Speaker 1: the church building do what you need to do as well,
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  Speaker 1: and then together together, not separate. And knowing that the
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  Speaker 1: enemy said, oh, let's start pointing fingers at each other.
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  Speaker 1: That's not real ministry. And come on, that's like another argument.
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  Speaker 1: What's real worship? Right? Oh, that music is not real worship.
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  Speaker 1: And let's not go down those past Let's stick to
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  Speaker 1: the word of God, allow him to speak through us,
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  Speaker 1: and continue to reach the people that he's drawing. Because
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, guess who's reaching the people.
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  Speaker 1: Guess who's transforming the people. Guess who's saving the people.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Lord Jesus, by way of his word, by
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  Speaker 1: way of his Holy Spirit, by way of his ministers. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: whether online or in person. Right, stay in fellowship with
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  Speaker 1: your brothers and sisters. Drawer near to God, and God
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  Speaker 1: says he would draw near to us. Don't isolate. Plug
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  Speaker 1: into your local church, plug into a Bible. Stuff maybe
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  Speaker 1: on online Christian community. Why because iron sharpens iron. Not
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  Speaker 1: everybody can get out of their homes and go somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Some people unfortunately bound homebound, and they could turn on
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  Speaker 1: their phone, turn on their TV, turn on the internet
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  Speaker 1: and find communities that are preaching Christ. It's okay, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Everyone I believe, in my humble opinion, needs to hear
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  Speaker 1: the gospel message in a way that they can hear it. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I would love for everybody to be able to come
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  Speaker 1: to a community event, to come to the church, come
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  Speaker 1: to a church building. But that's just not the reality.
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  Speaker 1: The reality is some people cannot leave their homes. So
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  Speaker 1: instead of you know, saying what's real and what's not,
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  Speaker 1: what's effective and taking shots from the pulpits on people
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  Speaker 1: who are online and saying, oh, everybody is a life coach. Now,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's an evangelist online. A set of making those comments, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: encourage one another in prayer, and then whatever you don't understand, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: connect with one of the podcasters, connect with one of
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  Speaker 1: the Christian communities online, ask the questions, Amen, and use discernment. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: some people out there just trying to reach on people
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  Speaker 1: and trying to malipulate people online. And guess what, some
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  Speaker 1: people out there and the church buildings are doing the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. So instead of just trying to separate the two, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: let's pray for one another and join the two together
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  Speaker 1: so that we could give the devil a headache in
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  Speaker 1: our local territories and in the regions and around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Because once we unite, Amen, on both fronts, both in
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  Speaker 1: the brick and mortar building and online. Amen, And we
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  Speaker 1: unite in one spirit, one truth, one faith, one Christ,
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  Speaker 1: one body, the devil is gonna be like, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: they're really getting it together. Now, what he's gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna have to create some well, he doesn't create nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna have to jump onto another platform or something.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of dodge as we're get to run them
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  Speaker 1: out of town. Stay in Christian fellowship, guard your heart
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  Speaker 1: and mind, Be mindful of what you're watching, be mindful
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  Speaker 1: of what you're listening to. Absolutely, if I go rogue. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: delete me, unfollow me, don't listen to my podcast. The
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  Speaker 1: more don't come in the morning, DeVos no more. If
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  Speaker 1: I go rogue and I go crazy. Be mindful of
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  Speaker 1: the content you consume. Be mindful of the music that
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  Speaker 1: you listen to, Be mindful of the movies that you're watching.
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  Speaker 1: Be mindful of social media. Yes, I do agree you
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  Speaker 1: have to be careful on social media. But I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to leverage social media to use it for good. But
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  Speaker 1: social media is not friendly if you think about it
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  Speaker 1: for the good things. You know what sells on social media? Amen, drama, crime, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: bad news. Right if something bad happens to me or
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  Speaker 1: to my family, Amen, I get more views than when
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing something that God wants me to do and
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  Speaker 1: things are looking good and it's helping people. That's just
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  Speaker 1: the way social media is bent on Why because it's
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  Speaker 1: based on another system. It's not the kingdom of God's system,
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  Speaker 1: it's the kingdom of this world system. Amen. Social media.
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  Speaker 1: So ask yourself this question. If what you're consuming, if
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  Speaker 1: what you're listening to, what you're watching, or what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing on social media, act this is it drawing you
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  Speaker 1: closer to Christ, or is it pulling you away from Christ.
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  Speaker 1: If this ministry is pulling you away from Christ, amen,
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  Speaker 1: don't follow me. But if it's drawing you nearer to God, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and follow and share this with somebody else. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It's a way, it's an outlet, it's a community, it's
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  Speaker 1: an outreach. Amen, And it is a ministry. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact. You're born again, Yeah, so you are
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  Speaker 1: a minister of reconciliation. You're already in the ministry. So
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the Kingdom of God, and welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: Army of God, and welcome to the ministry. Amen. Serve somebody. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Serve somebody, Serve a community, Serve the homeless people. Serve
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  Speaker 1: your pastor, and the church and the leadership and the church.
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  Speaker 1: Serve something and somebody. Amen. Because what happens is when
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  Speaker 1: you start serving others, they don't want to know, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: why you're so kind to me and why you're always
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  Speaker 1: being so helpful. And that'll give you an open door
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  Speaker 1: to give them your testimony of why you believe in
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  Speaker 1: the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And
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  Speaker 1: then you could spread through your message through your testimony,
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  Speaker 1: the gospel message of the Lord Jesus Christ, serve. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Be a part of something great, which is the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God. Be a part of something united, which is
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  Speaker 1: the Body of Christ. Amen. So that way you could
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  Speaker 1: get involved with what God wants you to do, and
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  Speaker 1: then you could have the experience and start getting the
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  Speaker 1: experience and the know how of how God wants to
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  Speaker 1: move through your life. And that's always to stay strong
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  Speaker 1: in your faith, Amen, Always to stay strong in your faith.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know why there's a question mark there.
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  Speaker 1: I took the question mark off, but it's it's not
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  Speaker 1: a question how to stay strong in faith. It's a
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  Speaker 1: statement how to stay strong in faith. You're a Christian faith,
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  Speaker 1: believe in the word of God. Amen. Believe in the
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  Speaker 1: plans of God and the purpose of God over your
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  Speaker 1: life and in your life and through your life. Because
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  Speaker 1: without His Holy Spirit moving through us, Amen, we're not moving.
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  Speaker 1: We're not moving accordingly, We're not doing what God wants
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  Speaker 1: us to do. But rely on Holy Spirit, who lives
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  Speaker 1: inside of every single one of His children. When we
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  Speaker 1: rely on His Spirit, a man, we are moving forward
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  Speaker 1: in victory. We are actually doing something that God called
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  Speaker 1: us to do a man, whether it's online or on person,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're taking care of someone in home or taking
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  Speaker 1: care of somebody online, whether you're a life coach or
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  Speaker 1: whether you're a possible evangelist, a prophet, a teacher, a man,
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  Speaker 1: or a pastor. Do what God called you to do, amen,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're just being doing the ministry of kindness. You
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  Speaker 1: know how many people need a kind word right now
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  Speaker 1: or a kind gesture. Just the other day, man, we
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  Speaker 1: were driving through Allentown and there was a drunk driver
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  Speaker 1: or something was going on with him, and he was
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  Speaker 1: wording back and forth on the city street and then
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  Speaker 1: he was completely stopping in front of people. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get in some kind of problem whatever he was
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  Speaker 1: going through, Man, And I'm not gonna lie. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: praying for him, Amen, I'm laying the horn on him
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  Speaker 1: because he almost sideswiped my car. Amen. And then he
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  Speaker 1: pulls to the side and he says, welcome to Allentown,
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  Speaker 1: which was the city that I was driving in. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking, man, and my blood is stunned to boil,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, what does that mean? And instead of
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  Speaker 1: praying for him, Amen, I was getting in the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be the first to admit and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: why is he doing that. He's gonna hurt somebody, He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna hurt himself. Amen. So I had to just calm down,
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  Speaker 1: take a deep breath, and keep it moving. Amen. Because
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  Speaker 1: if I would have stood in that mode, if I
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  Speaker 1: would have stood in that staring at him and man
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  Speaker 1: as he was, you know, doing whatever he's doing, I
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  Speaker 1: knew for sure that he was in his right state
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  Speaker 1: of mind. Amen. And although I was hoping that he
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  Speaker 1: would get stopped by the police, someone told me the
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  Speaker 1: same day in the nighttime that he was still driving
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  Speaker 1: that way. Literally, a brother that I picked up in
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  Speaker 1: christ for Church told me he saw the same car,
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  Speaker 1: the same person. So you know, we keep each other
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  Speaker 1: in prayer. That's why pray is important. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: pray for protection with my family daily over myself daily.
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  Speaker 1: Because the enemy is influencing people, causing people to do
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  Speaker 1: irrational things, harming themselves or harming some others. Amen. People
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  Speaker 1: are walking into buildings and just letting eight ks off man,
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  Speaker 1: and people are dying. Amen. Why am I talking about
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  Speaker 1: this so early in the morning is because it's happening daily, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And if we're not mindful and we're not careful. We're
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  Speaker 1: not guarding our hearts like the scriptures say. Then we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna let everything under our hearts, and then we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: not be guarding our hearts. We're gonna be opening our
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  Speaker 1: hearts to every single thing that's happening. It's gonna cause
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hardship and pain. Above all else, guards
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  Speaker 1: your heart for everything you do flow from it. So
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  Speaker 1: fix your thoughts on what is true, Fix your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on what is honorable. Fix your thought of what is
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  Speaker 1: right and pure Philippis four eight. Be mindful of what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing, Be mindful of what you're watching. Be mindful
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  Speaker 1: that you don't let your flesh take over, your emotions
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  Speaker 1: take over, and you get into some kind of situation
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  Speaker 1: where you're gonna regret the decision you made based on
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  Speaker 1: you're being desperate, based on you being angry, based on
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  Speaker 1: you being too hungry, based on being lonely, based on
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  Speaker 1: being tired. Let's base our decisions on Holy Spirit, God
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  Speaker 1: moving through us and in us and working through us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: This is jo Waida says, everything is saying. You're saying
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  Speaker 1: it's true. I see a lot of my friends and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people that are dying left and right,
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  Speaker 1: and people that have cancer, and all I have the
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  Speaker 1: time to tell, Hi, Lord, I know you're with them. Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He has so much going on. Life is gone by
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  Speaker 1: like that. So we have to be mindful of what's happening, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and be content with what God gave us, because whatever
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  Speaker 1: God gave you and whatever God gave me is more
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  Speaker 1: than enough. Amen. And he wants to spread what we
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  Speaker 1: have with other people and spread the Gospel message and
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  Speaker 1: spread the love because I know love overcomes a multitude
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  Speaker 1: Egyptian readings. Amen, Welcome to the morning Devo. Yes, all
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  Speaker 1: glory to God. We are in a different season. Walk
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  Speaker 1: this way, Amen. We are in different places, having the
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  Speaker 1: same God, different seasons, having the same word of God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we speak Amen, and God listens. When God speaks,
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  Speaker 1: we should listen. Amen. Speak for yourself, okay, Egyptian readings,
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  Speaker 1: speak for yourself, whatever that means. Amen. Let God speak. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's happening here in the morning, DeVos. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: running out of time, but listen. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for coming through. Amen. Is great as an honor and
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  Speaker 1: privilege for me to be with you today in the morning. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And that you will continue to be blessed. I hope
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  Speaker 1: the words of God will compare you to go and
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  Speaker 1: search out the word of God for yourself. We were
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  Speaker 1: in Proverbs chapter number four versus number twenty three, but
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  Speaker 1: I suggest you read the Whope chapter for yourself. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Love when people run them off, okay, going somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Love when people run them out and expose so you
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  Speaker 1: can be captured. You speak of horns. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. Amen, But God bless you all. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much all for coming through to your brother
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  Speaker 1: Sam Lopez akadj Sam Rock. Let me send you off
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  Speaker 1: with a blessing. Amen. God bless you all. God keep
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  Speaker 1: you all, and remember always always remember this, that God
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  Speaker 1: is good. Please