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Day 31 OF 31 DAY Devotion with Queen Angela | "BEYOND SIGHT · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. I want to welcome
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  Speaker 1: everyone to day number thirty one of a thirty one devotion. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We've been on this journey now for thirty one days,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to thank everyone that has been on
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  Speaker 1: this journey with me. Y'all. We have been journeying through
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  Speaker 1: one of my prayer prayer devotionals. Beyond Sight is the
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  Speaker 1: name of the book. It is a thirty one day
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  Speaker 1: devotional of empowerment, faith and affirmation. It has poems and y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we have different We've just been going through it and
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  Speaker 1: just working through it and just sharing. And God has
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  Speaker 1: truly been blessing. He's truly blessed my spirit and He's
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  Speaker 1: given me the opportunity. I'm just grateful for the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: So before I go into the devotion, I want to
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  Speaker 1: start with the prayer. So y'all bear with me, Father God,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, Father, I asked that I
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  Speaker 1: decrease in the flesh, Lord God, and your spirit man
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  Speaker 1: rise up within me, Lord God, and the things that
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  Speaker 1: you will have me to share on today, Father God,
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  Speaker 1: that they would come forth, Lor God, and do exactly
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  Speaker 1: what you will have it to do. Lord God, Father,
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  Speaker 1: align us with your will in your way, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: that we may not go astray, and that we may
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  Speaker 1: not lead anyone as straight, but we will stay on
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  Speaker 1: the straight and narrow for your glory, Lord God, that
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  Speaker 1: the things that we do, that our life, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: our living testimony life could be a could show glory
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  Speaker 1: to you, Lord God. So Father, we thank you, We
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  Speaker 1: thank you for this hour, We thank you for this day,
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  Speaker 1: this day that we was not promised because somebody didn't
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  Speaker 1: get to see this day, Lord God. But Father, you
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  Speaker 1: extended your grace and your mercy one more day, giving
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  Speaker 1: us the opportunity to get it right, giving us the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to educate, empower and encourage someone else to you.
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  Speaker 1: Lord God. Father asked that as we go throughout this day,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, and as we go throughout this devotion, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: and share it on this morning, Lord God, that somebody
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  Speaker 1: that may be in the dark, somebody that don't know you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, they will come into the light, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: coming to your goodness. For God and Father, I thank you,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for this hour, So Father, as I
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  Speaker 1: humble myself before you, Lord God, asking that you will
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  Speaker 1: use me for your glory. And this is what I ask,
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  Speaker 1: and your son Jesus saying amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I thank God for everyone that comes on and chime
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  Speaker 1: in that, come on and share that, come on, send
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  Speaker 1: a like up, whatever you do to support the platform,
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  Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, y'all, it's not
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  Speaker 1: about me, but it's about the one one that sent me,
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  Speaker 1: the one that created me, the one that know all
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  Speaker 1: things about me. So he knew what they I will
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  Speaker 1: be on him. He knew everything. And I'm just thankful
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  Speaker 1: to align with his word because if we read and
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  Speaker 1: understand his word, he declared in Jeremiah twenty nine and
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  Speaker 1: eleven that he had a plan for us, and his
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  Speaker 1: plan was to prosper us, not to harm us, but
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  Speaker 1: to bring us hope in the future. And I stand
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  Speaker 1: on his word. I believe his word. I know that
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  Speaker 1: his word is true, and I know that WHERE will
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  Speaker 1: not return to him for it. So if you have
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  Speaker 1: not purchased your copy of this book and would like
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  Speaker 1: to grab a copy of this book, y'all can go
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  Speaker 1: over to my website and that is www. Angela Thomas
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  Speaker 1: Smith Books dot com again, that's Angela Thomas Smith books
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  Speaker 1: dot com. And it's spelled just like you sound, Angela
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Smith books dot com. And if you follow me
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  Speaker 1: on any of these social media sites, it is shared
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  Speaker 1: on most of my platforms. So it's sloping around here
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  Speaker 1: somewhere as well. But you can grab a copy of
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  Speaker 1: this book if you want me to send you a copy,
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  Speaker 1: you can reach out to me and our order and
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  Speaker 1: send you a copy. But our next book that we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be coming out of, if you haven't already got yours,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and get it, y'all, because in about three
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  Speaker 1: days we're gonna be starting this book. We're gonna give
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  Speaker 1: y'all one day out off and we just we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: reflect on tomorrow and then so today we got finished up.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow we have a reflection, and then the third day
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do introductions and and and do stuff to
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  Speaker 1: go start into this book. But we're not gonna jump
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  Speaker 1: in until Sunday. We're gonna start on Sunday in this book.
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  Speaker 1: So those that still want to get it, that still
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  Speaker 1: want to purchase a copy, they can purchase one and
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  Speaker 1: get it shipped to them Amazon have them Blurt have them,
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  Speaker 1: Mad Clapp Cloud have them. So wherever wherever you shop
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  Speaker 1: at you can get one. I'm not sure what stores
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  Speaker 1: actually have them inside of the stores, but it is
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  Speaker 1: available through Books a Million, Barnes and Noble. I think
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  Speaker 1: those are the only two stores that I know of.
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  Speaker 1: But you can get them there always, you can call
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  Speaker 1: and see and who knows, they may be in your
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  Speaker 1: local library because some of my books are in libraries
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  Speaker 1: as well, So check and see if it's in your
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  Speaker 1: local library. So we're gonna go ahead and get started
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  Speaker 1: with our thirty one day, day thirty one, y'all day
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  Speaker 1: thirty one. And it is black buffet, y'all day, thirty
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  Speaker 1: one day thirty one. So day thirty one is coming
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  Speaker 1: out of Romans twelve and twelve. It says, rejoice in hope,
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  Speaker 1: be patient and tribulation, and be consistent in prayer. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: did you hear what? Did you hear? What that scripture said?
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  Speaker 1: It says, rejoice and hope, Rejoice and knowing that that
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  Speaker 1: that it can happen, that it might happen, and be
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  Speaker 1: patient in tribulation. So no matter what you go through,
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  Speaker 1: every trial, every hardship, every disappointment, every set back, every
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  Speaker 1: let down, every whatever that come that is not in
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  Speaker 1: the will of God, that is out of whatever. We
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  Speaker 1: want you to know that be patient, hold on, don't
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  Speaker 1: don't don't be disturbed, don't be weary, be patient. And
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  Speaker 1: while you're going through, while you got hope, while you're
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  Speaker 1: holding on to hope, and while you're being patient, stay
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  Speaker 1: in prayer, Be consistent, stay in prayer, Be consistent in prayer.
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  Speaker 1: He say, pray without cease again Roma's twelve and twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Rejoice in hope and be patient in tribulation. Be consistent
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  Speaker 1: in prayer, constant, consistent in prayer, y'all. That means you
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  Speaker 1: gotta stay on it, no matter what come at you,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how look, no matter what if you're tired,
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  Speaker 1: no matter if you're happy, no matter if you're sad,
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  Speaker 1: no matter if you're depressed, no matter what you're going through,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta be consistent. You gotta be constant. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep showing up. That mean you gotta press, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: move past, You gotta go through so that you can
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  Speaker 1: get through. My God, My God, my God, let me
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  Speaker 1: hearr up so I can get on light of heim
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  Speaker 1: got me so I can get on here because I'm over.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessing my own self if I ain't blessing nobody else,
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessing my own self because he reminded me that
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  Speaker 1: no matter what it looked like, that even though people
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  Speaker 1: may think everything is all right on the surface, that
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  Speaker 1: don't matter what it looked like, He's yet moving, He's
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  Speaker 1: yet doing exactly what he said. So just keep believing,
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  Speaker 1: keep trusting, keep holding fast to that that he say.
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  Speaker 1: To that. Y'all, I'm telling you you better hold on
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  Speaker 1: to his word, and you better know that his word
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  Speaker 1: is true. In the midst of you. Go over to
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  Speaker 1: the New International version of this, it said be joyful
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  Speaker 1: and hope, patient and affliction and faithful in prayer. Huh,
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  Speaker 1: my god, My god, my god. It's say be joyful.
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  Speaker 1: That means that this joy that I have, the world
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  Speaker 1: didn't give it. The world can't take it away. This
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  Speaker 1: job and I have, the world didn't give it, The
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  Speaker 1: world can't take it away. You gotta know it and
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  Speaker 1: believe it, y'all. You gotta know that no matter what
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  Speaker 1: comes at you, no matter who come at you, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what is thrown at you, that you can't be moved.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be moved. You cannot be moved. In the
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  Speaker 1: midst of you can't be moved. He said again that
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  Speaker 1: scripture in the New International version said be joyful in hope. Haha,
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  Speaker 1: be happy, be happy in hope, and be patient in
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  Speaker 1: your affliction. So whatever is coming, when you don't seem
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  Speaker 1: like things are going right, be patient, but stay in prayer,
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  Speaker 1: be faithful, and know that His word will not return
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  Speaker 1: to him. Boy. So a little backstory on Romans. So
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  Speaker 1: Romans twelve. It's a powerful chapter where Paul exhorts believers
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  Speaker 1: on how to live, transform, life fully surrendered to God.
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  Speaker 1: When Paul wrote this letter in the early to the
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  Speaker 1: early Christians in wrong, they were facing tremendous persecution, something
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  Speaker 1: like what we're going through now. In pressure. Life was
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  Speaker 1: life was uncertain, hardships were coming, and faith was being
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  Speaker 1: tested daily. In the midst of these challenges, Paul gave
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  Speaker 1: them particular instructions. He gave the Christians particular instructions on
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  Speaker 1: this Christian living. He's urged them not only to survive,
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  Speaker 1: but to thrive in Christ. He don't want you just
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  Speaker 1: hanging on. He don't want you just living check to chat.
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  Speaker 1: He want you thriving. He want you, He wants you
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  Speaker 1: living your best life. That's what the word say. That
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  Speaker 1: what the word say. I'm gonna read it again. He say.
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  Speaker 1: Paul gives them practical instructions on Christian living, and he
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  Speaker 1: said he urged them not only to survive, but to
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  Speaker 1: thrive in Christ. Y'all. He telling us that we ain't
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  Speaker 1: just gotta live paycheck to paycheck. We ain't just gotta
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  Speaker 1: be holding on to a hole. We ain't got to
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  Speaker 1: just be holding on, but we can be thriving, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: even in the midst of everything that's going on, in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of all that's going on, when when war
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  Speaker 1: is raging, when tariffs are going up, y'all, he still
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  Speaker 1: wants you to thrive. He still wants you if you're
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  Speaker 1: in his will, hope you won't just survive, but you
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  Speaker 1: will still be thriving. See, the enemy will tell you
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  Speaker 1: that in the midst of all this that's going on,
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  Speaker 1: that don't you better be saving. You better be doing this.
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  Speaker 1: You better hold you better hold up this, you better
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  Speaker 1: stack up this, you better pack up this. If the
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  Speaker 1: spirit don't tell you to do that, don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't tell you to go out and hoard.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do that, because y'all see what's going on in
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  Speaker 1: the world. Because he gonna say it. He say, he say,
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  Speaker 1: he urged you not to just survive, but to thrive.
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  Speaker 1: Trust him. I don't care what come at you. Trust him.
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  Speaker 1: Trust him on today. Because in Roman twelve and twelve
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  Speaker 1: it says that that stripture it stands as a beacon
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  Speaker 1: of hope, courage, and discipline for every believer. Y'all. It
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  Speaker 1: reminds us that joy, patience, and prayer are not only possible,
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  Speaker 1: but y'all they're vital. They're vital for a victorious for
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  Speaker 1: a victorious life, regardless of your circumstance. Because we serve
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  Speaker 1: a God that can move every mountain and that has
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  Speaker 1: told us, has promised us that all things are possible.
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  Speaker 1: So he didn't say some things. He said all things
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  Speaker 1: are possible through him. Through him, y'all understand that we
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  Speaker 1: have all power through him. Anything that we want through him,
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  Speaker 1: it has to be done through him. Get out here
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  Speaker 1: thinking that oh I'm somebody, Oh me me, me, me, me,
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  Speaker 1: me me, I know you can't do that. You got
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  Speaker 1: to always acknowledge the creator, the one that created you,
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  Speaker 1: the one that made all things possible, because without him,
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  Speaker 1: none of this would be possible. You wouldn't even be
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  Speaker 1: able to fight a lot of these people. I hear
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. They may run podcasts, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: just gonna speak about the podcasts. They run podcasts, they
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  Speaker 1: have publishing companies, they have all these different things, and
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  Speaker 1: when you hear them speak, I never hear many of them,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna say all of them, but I
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  Speaker 1: never heard many of them give reference to the one
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  Speaker 1: that allow us to have all this stuff. And it's
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  Speaker 1: always I've worked hard, I've done this, I've done that,
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  Speaker 1: I've done that. But if it has not been for
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  Speaker 1: the one that created you, if it had not been
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  Speaker 1: for him, you wouldn't have even been able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't even been urged nudge to even go to
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  Speaker 1: school to get those degrees to do all those things
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  Speaker 1: that he led you to do. It's only by the
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  Speaker 1: leading of the Holy Spirit that allows us to do
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  Speaker 1: the things that we do. So if we're not in
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  Speaker 1: tune to the Holy Spirit, a lot of us out
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  Speaker 1: here just winging it, just doing whatever we want to do,
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  Speaker 1: just because that's what we what we think is right. No,
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  Speaker 1: you better get yourself in that word, and you got
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  Speaker 1: to you better apply that word to your life. It
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  Speaker 1: will become life. It will become living if you apply it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't just read it and let it lay on those pages.
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  Speaker 1: Read it and manifest it in your life. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep speaking it. Speak it, speak it, speak it speaking now.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven was spoken into my life.
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  Speaker 1: And when it was spoken into my life, it was
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  Speaker 1: spoken into my life. December twelve of twenty twelve, and
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  Speaker 1: two years later, I would be to almost unalived in
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  Speaker 1: a DV incident, and I would question, truly, do you
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  Speaker 1: have a purpose for me? Truly? Because here it is
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  Speaker 1: my almost lose my life. But you've told me that
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  Speaker 1: you had a purpose for me. Yeah. I struggled with that.
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  Speaker 1: I struggled with that, but I was in a dark place.
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  Speaker 1: I no longer wanted to be in that dark place.
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  Speaker 1: So I wanted him to bring me out. So I
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  Speaker 1: prayed to him and I asked him. He said, if
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  Speaker 1: you ask, you share a receipt, y'all. If you're knock,
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  Speaker 1: it'll open. So guess what. Every morning, five am, I'm
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  Speaker 1: knocking at the door. I'm seeking him. I'm asking because
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  Speaker 1: he said, if we do those things we should have,
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  Speaker 1: they will manifest in our life. So I'm doing it
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  Speaker 1: and I'm doing the work. So we have to do
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  Speaker 1: the work so that these things can manifest. Because he
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  Speaker 1: say faith without works it's dead. I can believe all
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  Speaker 1: day long that something's gonna happen, but if I don't
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  Speaker 1: do the work, guess what, it's not gonna manifest. It's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna manifest. God. Even when we pray, God answers
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  Speaker 1: our prayers immediately immediately. He don't wait five days from now,
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  Speaker 1: ten days from now to whatever. He answers them immediately.
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  Speaker 1: But do we receive the answers right away, No, because
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  Speaker 1: sometime we not. We don't listen, we don't be patient,
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  Speaker 1: we don't be still and know that he's God and
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  Speaker 1: that he's speaking to us. Some of us we pray,
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  Speaker 1: and we get right up and go on about our day.
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  Speaker 1: When he say, be still and know of them God,
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  Speaker 1: y'all gotta meditate, spend time with him so that you
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  Speaker 1: truly can know who he is God. Just like we
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  Speaker 1: come on here and we talking. It's like we having
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  Speaker 1: these conversations with y'all, and like we have these conversations
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  Speaker 1: on the phone. Now, that's how you gotta talk to
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  Speaker 1: your father. He wants to know you. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: know the intimate things of you. You got to let
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  Speaker 1: him in so that he can do that, so that
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  Speaker 1: he can know the intimate, most deepest things about you.
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  Speaker 1: Because one thing he ain't gonna do. He ain't gonna
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  Speaker 1: do like like like we be doing, and and like
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  Speaker 1: we're doing now it's the United States, and and and
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  Speaker 1: in these different people. We're not rushing into people places
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  Speaker 1: and taking over. We're not doing we're not doing ice moves.
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  Speaker 1: We're not doing raids. We're not rushing in and taking over.
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  Speaker 1: He's not gonna do that. He's not finna raid yo
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  Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo temple. He he gonna he
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  Speaker 1: right there already, but he's not finna raid it and
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  Speaker 1: take over unless you allow him. You got to invite
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  Speaker 1: a man. Invite a men, allow him to raid your
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  Speaker 1: temple today, Allow him to take over your temple today,
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  Speaker 1: Allow him to lead you, allow him to direct you. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's what that's that's that's that's what we need to
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  Speaker 1: be doing. So let me tell you the three things
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  Speaker 1: that I got from this lesson this this chapter. This,
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  Speaker 1: I read the chapter, but I focused on this particular
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  Speaker 1: stript scripture and what I took away from this particular scripture.
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  Speaker 1: And there's three takeaways. And I'm gonna give you an
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  Speaker 1: educational give you an empowerment, and I'm gonna give you
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  Speaker 1: a encouragement peace for each three, there's three so joyful
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  Speaker 1: in hope. So in order for us to educate ourselves
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  Speaker 1: and others biblically, hope is not wishingul thinking. It is
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  Speaker 1: the confidence and expectation grounded in who God is and
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  Speaker 1: what He has promised us through Jesus Christ. See the
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Paul rites this instruction to the Romans believers while
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  Speaker 1: they were under social and governmental oppression. Y'all, what are
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  Speaker 1: we going through right now? What are we going through
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  Speaker 1: right now? What are we in doing right now? He
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  Speaker 1: is not asking them to deny reality. He don't want
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  Speaker 1: you to deny reality, but he wants you to anchor
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  Speaker 1: your heart. I waste your heart because God searches the heart,
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  Speaker 1: He knows the heart. He wants you to anchor your
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  Speaker 1: heart and the reality that's greater than what you can see. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: The reality is Jesus Christ, the one that created us,
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  Speaker 1: the one that said that he will make a way
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  Speaker 1: out of no way, the one that said that he
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  Speaker 1: will never leave us north for sake us, The one
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  Speaker 1: that hung on that cross, that board, that that that
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  Speaker 1: hands was nailed, and he bled for us. That that
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  Speaker 1: that right there. So, y'all, how you can be empowered
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  Speaker 1: on today? When you choose joy in the face of uncertainty,
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  Speaker 1: you display kingdom resilience. Again, I'm gonna repeat that. When
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  Speaker 1: you choose joy in the face of uncertain when you
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  Speaker 1: don't know her, still be happy. When you when you
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  Speaker 1: can't see, still be happy, you display kingdom resilience. Joy
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  Speaker 1: is the fruit of the spirit Relations five and twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: It is a supernatural It lifts you above your circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: and it allows you to influence others positively because they
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  Speaker 1: beacon of hope. Your hope in Christ becomes contagious and sprying.
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  Speaker 1: Those who see you and are around you, and they
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  Speaker 1: see living with expectations even in difficult times. They see
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  Speaker 1: you pressing, They see you showing up. They see you
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  Speaker 1: still believing in the Word. They see you trusting and
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  Speaker 1: holding fast to the word. So now I impurig you
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  Speaker 1: that no storm lasts forever, No storm lasts forever. Weeping
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  Speaker 1: may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: God promises are your anchor, y'all. His promises, God that's
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  Speaker 1: over three hundred and sixty five promises in that Bible,
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  Speaker 1: his promises should be your anchor. Even in the season
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  Speaker 1: of darkness. The light of Christ that's in you should
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  Speaker 1: light up so that somebody else can see and that
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  Speaker 1: somebody else can come out of their darkness. Y'all. Let
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  Speaker 1: hope fuel your endurance. Remember hope and God will never
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  Speaker 1: put you in shame. Romans five and five say, every
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  Speaker 1: time you choose joy, you declare to the heavens and
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  Speaker 1: earth that God is greater than anything you ever Huh
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  Speaker 1: did you hear that? It says, every time you choose joy,
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  Speaker 1: you declare to the heaven and earth that God is
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  Speaker 1: greater than anything that you can face. Y'all, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what it looked like, have faith today. Have faith in
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  Speaker 1: the one that created us. Know that He is able
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  Speaker 1: and he is yet working. The second thing, you got
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  Speaker 1: to be patient in affliction. I'm gonna teach you something
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  Speaker 1: real quick. You got to be patient in affliction. So
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  Speaker 1: the original Greek word for patience is hawphony hosts moony,
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  Speaker 1: and that's h y p m n e harpony. It
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  Speaker 1: implies that fastness, endurance, and stand power, stand power, stand power,
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  Speaker 1: stay in power, stand power. Paul is teaching that affliction
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  Speaker 1: is not a sign of God's absence, but it is
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  Speaker 1: a rem where his grace can be most clearly seen
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  Speaker 1: throughout scripture, y'all, it's been proven, it's been shown to us.
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  Speaker 1: His word is the truth. His word is not gonna
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  Speaker 1: return to him. Boy, God's greatest work often take place
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  Speaker 1: in moments of trial, y'all. Every time you've been through something,
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  Speaker 1: every time you've you've been down on your look, every
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  Speaker 1: time you've been disappointed, every time you fell short, what
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  Speaker 1: has happened? Huh? What has happened? Did he pick you up?
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  Speaker 1: Did he see you through it? Huh? It says God's absence,
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  Speaker 1: but in a realm where his grace can be seen
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  Speaker 1: more clearly through stripture. God's greatest work is often done
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  Speaker 1: in place in moments of trial. Think of Joseph in
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  Speaker 1: the prison, Daniel in the Lions then, and Jesus in
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  Speaker 1: Josiah whoo that man power. You're real quick. So patience
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  Speaker 1: in affliction, y'all, patience and afflictions transform pain into purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Were people use that term a lot. He turned my
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  Speaker 1: pain into purpose. So it says patience in affliction transform
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  Speaker 1: pain into purpose. Instead of reacting to frustration and despair, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: be patient and allows it allows you to receive what
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  Speaker 1: God is teaching. Huh, y'all. Because everything that everything that
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  Speaker 1: we think, come to hurt us, everything that we can think,
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  Speaker 1: come to separate us, come to cause us harm, come
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  Speaker 1: to come to disappoint us, come come to put us
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  Speaker 1: in a place that's out of the will of God, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes God trying to teach you something. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: thought have you stopped to to just sit and listen
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  Speaker 1: and meditate and to pray and to suck with him
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  Speaker 1: to see what it is that you're supposed to be getting,
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  Speaker 1: Because sometimes God is coming to teach you. In that moment, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: It turns what could be destroyed, It could be destruction,
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  Speaker 1: but He turns it and develops it into something good
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  Speaker 1: for you. God uses every trial to carve christ like
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  Speaker 1: characters in you. Catch that if God uses every trial
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  Speaker 1: to carve christ like character in you. He wants you
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  Speaker 1: to have unwavering faith. So guess what, Patient says, I
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  Speaker 1: trust God in timing, God's process for my life. Again,
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  Speaker 1: patient says, I trust God's timing and God's process for
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  Speaker 1: my life. So word of encouragement as you go through
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  Speaker 1: that process of your affliction, speak to yourself and know
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  Speaker 1: that your season of affliction is not wasted. God is
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  Speaker 1: not punishing you, but he's positioning in you. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to get this in your season of affliction. It
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  Speaker 1: is not wasting, It is not punishment, but He's positioning you.
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  Speaker 1: You're being fortified for future victories. Huh. Remind yourself what
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  Speaker 1: I am going through is just temporary, but who I
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  Speaker 1: am becoming is eternal. Bye bye bye see dad it
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  Speaker 1: o Shah. I got What I am going through is temporary,
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  Speaker 1: but who I am becoming is eternal. So I say, endure, Endure,
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  Speaker 1: dear one, endure. Guess what you are being refined by
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  Speaker 1: the Great One. You will be refined for God's glory.
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  Speaker 1: Stand on his word. Trust him on today, Trust him
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  Speaker 1: on today, trust him on today. And then lastly, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta be faithful in prayer. M Yeah, all. I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people just get up and go,
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  Speaker 1: but you gotta be faithful in prayer. Prayer is one
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those things that is more than just asking.
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  Speaker 1: It is that intimate communions. Paul persistence in prayer. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted us to be persistent in prayers. Well, he said,
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  Speaker 1: just as Jesus did. Prayer changes the prayers as much
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  Speaker 1: as the situation. And throughout stripture, every move of God
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  Speaker 1: was birth and sustained by what prayer. It is God
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  Speaker 1: a pointed channel for his power and provision. A saying
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  Speaker 1: said over and over, we got to know that prayer
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  Speaker 1: is a must. We can't just think we can get
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  Speaker 1: through this life without praying. Your consistency in prayer keeps
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  Speaker 1: you plugged into the divine protection and power. When you
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  Speaker 1: when you pray faithfully and you aligned to God's will, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: you begin to break strongholds, You begin to open doors
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  Speaker 1: to possibility, and then you not only you have authority
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  Speaker 1: through power, y'all, you have authority. Let me say it
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  Speaker 1: one more time for that person in the back. You
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  Speaker 1: have authority through prayer. You have authority through prayer, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: You can interecede to bless to shift outcomes by bringing
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  Speaker 1: Heaven's agenda to earth. Humh, God hears every prayer big
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  Speaker 1: and small, whispered or shouted. Your devotions is never wasted.
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  Speaker 1: Even when the answer is delayed, God has drawing you
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  Speaker 1: closer and shaping your spirit. Don't underestimate what faithful is.
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  Speaker 1: Persistence in prayer can accomplish so much in your life.
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  Speaker 1: And then the ones that love you so as recap
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  Speaker 1: what we have and on that is again Romans twelve
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  Speaker 1: and twelve. We have been discussing Romans twelve and twelve.
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  Speaker 1: I shared a little backstory so to recap what we've
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  Speaker 1: shared so far. Know that you are not this called
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  Speaker 1: to survive, but you're a call to live with unwavering hope,
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  Speaker 1: steadfast and patience, unrelently prayer. These disciples do not just change.
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  Speaker 1: They don't just change day to day. They stayed faithful
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  Speaker 1: to what it was that they were supposed to be doing.
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  Speaker 1: So now you got to set you some rules in place.
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  Speaker 1: Become disciplined like the disciples were. Be disciplined. You got
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  Speaker 1: to sit a course for your day, map out your
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  Speaker 1: day from start to finish. Prayer warriors, you have the
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  Speaker 1: power to shift atmospheres. So stand tall in your journey.
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  Speaker 1: It is a testimony and the world needs to see
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  Speaker 1: and hear your life. Everything that you've been through knows
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  Speaker 1: that it was for a reason. It was for a reason, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna share these three takeaways and then I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: get on out of your way. So what I hope
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  Speaker 1: that you will take away from this lesson on today
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  Speaker 1: roma twelve and twelve. Every day you should start your
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  Speaker 1: day with prayer, knowing that there's hope. Why does this matter?
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  Speaker 1: The the first moments of your day is set for
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  Speaker 1: you to set an internal climate when you when you
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  Speaker 1: when you can understand and and and and and reach
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  Speaker 1: a a a gratitude spirit, y'all. Thank God for what
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  Speaker 1: He's done before you you you you get up and
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  Speaker 1: get on that cell phone, before you get up and
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  Speaker 1: get on social media, before you get up and and
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  Speaker 1: do anything. Y'all. Every morning, sometime even before my alarm
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  Speaker 1: clock go out, I'm up. The first thing I do
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  Speaker 1: is I say thank you Jesus. And then the next
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  Speaker 1: thing I do is I take that I take Angel out.
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  Speaker 1: And while I'm sitting out there with Angel, while she's
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  Speaker 1: doing her business handling on hobbs. I'm looking up at
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  Speaker 1: the sky. I'm looking up at because most of the
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  Speaker 1: time it's still dark out, it's still a little dark
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  Speaker 1: out and still might be some stars up. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking up at the sky, and I'm always just thanking
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  Speaker 1: God for another day. You know, it may not be
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  Speaker 1: a deep prayer, but I'm referencing him. I'm letting him
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  Speaker 1: know that I thank Him for keeping me throughout the night.
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  Speaker 1: And then I come back in and then I get
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  Speaker 1: ready for prayer, because we do the prayer car every
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  Speaker 1: morning at five o'clock. So I come in, I listen
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  Speaker 1: to me some music, I get myself, I get myself inclined,
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  Speaker 1: I get myself ready, and if God speak to me,
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  Speaker 1: he speak to me. Before we go on the prayer line,
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  Speaker 1: I share what he speak to me. If not, I
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  Speaker 1: just go on. We do the prayer line, pray, and
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  Speaker 1: we allow God to move. And then when I get
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  Speaker 1: off that prayer line, I begin to prepare for coming
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  Speaker 1: over here and doing the devotion at eight o'clock. I
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  Speaker 1: have developed a routine, a routine of giving Him praise
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  Speaker 1: and acknowledging him. If I can make a routine for
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  Speaker 1: everything else. If we can make a routine to go
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  Speaker 1: to these jobs, we can make a routine to do
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  Speaker 1: everything else. We can make a routine to spend time
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  Speaker 1: with the one that created us, the one that make
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff possible, because without him, none of this
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  Speaker 1: would be possible. But a lot of us we get
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  Speaker 1: up and we go about our day, and we think
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  Speaker 1: that it's us that woke us up this morning, it's
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  Speaker 1: us that breathe that breath of life, knowing that if
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  Speaker 1: Genesis two and seven, when Genesis two and seven, none
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  Speaker 1: of us will be here. But yet we don't, and
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  Speaker 1: yet some of us think it's all about us. But before,
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  Speaker 1: before you get started with your day, choose choose faith
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  Speaker 1: over fear and be delivered and creating a spiritual climate
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  Speaker 1: for yourself in your mind and in your heart, prepare
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  Speaker 1: yourself to be able to go out and face this world.
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  Speaker 1: Because we don't know what we're about to face. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know what we're getting ready to walk into. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know who were about to cross their path. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know, So we need to adjust ourselves. We need
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  Speaker 1: to get our self positioned and poets so that we
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  Speaker 1: can go into anything but how how can we make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we are ready? So before you get out
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  Speaker 1: of bed, whisper a thank you to God for a
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  Speaker 1: new mercy Lamitations three, twenty two and twenty three. Then
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  Speaker 1: on that you got to speak a promise from the
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  Speaker 1: scripture over your life. He's giving us three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: over three hundred and sixty five promises, y'all, So just
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  Speaker 1: speak one over your life today. I am more than
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  Speaker 1: a conqueror Romans eight thirty seven. Our God is working
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  Speaker 1: all things for my good today Romans eight twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: It's so many promises that you can speak over your life.
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  Speaker 1: That's a promise, that is that is something that he said.
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  Speaker 1: He said that a Hu, he's working everything work together
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  Speaker 1: for our goods. So hey, that that's what we do.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how you should start your day. You should
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  Speaker 1: start your heck your day building your hope, building your hope.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that you can jot down three things, just
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  Speaker 1: three things that you're grateful for. They may even be small, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: but this can shift your focus from anxiety to anticipation,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that you have that power. Imagine this, if you
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  Speaker 1: intentionally cultivated the saw of your mind every morning with hope.
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  Speaker 1: What could grow there? What could grow there? Peace, creativity, resilience, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: this becomes your default. But you gotta put it in there.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta cultivate it. You gotta build it up. Now.
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  Speaker 1: You know how. You go out there and you plant
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  Speaker 1: a guard, and you put the seeds, and you gotta
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  Speaker 1: go back. You gotta water, put some fertilizer on it.
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  Speaker 1: Then when them weeds start growing up, you gotta pick
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  Speaker 1: pluck the weeds out. You got to tweet out the weeds.
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  Speaker 1: You got to do all that, y'all. You got to
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  Speaker 1: do that with yourself. You gotta be mindful what your
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  Speaker 1: allowing to come in. So in the morning you can
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  Speaker 1: you can cultivate yourself. You can cultivate your mind. You
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  Speaker 1: can get your mindset right for today. You can you
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  Speaker 1: you can position and pose yourself to have a great day. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We have that power. We have that power to speak
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  Speaker 1: life or death. So you can speak life over yourself,
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  Speaker 1: speak creativity over yourself. Speak peace, peep, speak resilience. Speak
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  Speaker 1: that that that what you believe for today, Speak it
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  Speaker 1: over your life. Practice patience purposely to again practice patience purposely.
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  Speaker 1: Why does this matter y'all, life challenges will come guaranteed. Huh.
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  Speaker 1: If you read your Bible, you understand that. And if
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  Speaker 1: you have, if you've been living and having experience nothing,
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  Speaker 1: keep living, you will because challenges will come. It's a guarantee.
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  Speaker 1: But guess what, He's already made a way out. And
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  Speaker 1: every moment you resist the earth to react to negativity,
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  Speaker 1: you invite God into your situation. So every time you
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  Speaker 1: say no to the devil, of course he got to flee.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you say no to the EMPs, of course
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  Speaker 1: they got to flee. Because guess one, the one that
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  Speaker 1: works in you is greater than that that is out
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  Speaker 1: here in this work. So that's why you gotta keep
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  Speaker 1: negative out of you and invite God into your situation.
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  Speaker 1: Patience is actively trusting, performs that bridge from frustration to
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  Speaker 1: spiritual maturity. Y'all, Having patience, having patience understanding that, huh,
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  Speaker 1: in his time and his timing is always the right time.
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  Speaker 1: And how you do that, y'all? How you do that?
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  Speaker 1: So we got a pause, We gotta breathe, We can
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  Speaker 1: say silent prayers, just say help me, Lord, help me
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  Speaker 1: get through this, help me keep my eyes on you.
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  Speaker 1: Remember at a time when God turned a past problem
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  Speaker 1: into something good for me, when he rows me off
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  Speaker 1: my bed of affliction, when my own husband, someone that
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  Speaker 1: I trusted, tried to unallow me, but yet God showed
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  Speaker 1: me grace, He showed me patience. And I remember that
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  Speaker 1: time as He began to raise me up off my
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  Speaker 1: bed of affliction. I remember laying on that bed. I
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  Speaker 1: remember having to eventually use a cane and a walker
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  Speaker 1: to help me. But the God that I served, when
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  Speaker 1: the enemy was saying I wasn't gonna walk, God showed
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  Speaker 1: me that I could. Six hours after coming out of surgery,
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  Speaker 1: He allowed me to get up out of that bed
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  Speaker 1: and walk down that hall. So I know what he
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  Speaker 1: can do. And if he can do that for little
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  Speaker 1: old me, cuz yess what he can do for you.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of complaining, we gotta ask God, what is it?
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  Speaker 1: What is it that you're teaching me right now? Humph y'all?
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  Speaker 1: He will respond, And even when it's hard, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to be patient and rely on him and know
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  Speaker 1: that he's dismounting everything that is coming against you. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Here will diffuse tension and he will show you the way.
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  Speaker 1: So I want you to imagine this. H What if
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  Speaker 1: every irritation today became training for your destiny tomorrow, your
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  Speaker 1: patience might be the only only sermon that someone ever here.
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  Speaker 1: Those difficult people in situations, Huh, their growth for opportunity
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  Speaker 1: disguised as inconvenience. With each test, you can build spiritual muscles,
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  Speaker 1: building muscles in the spirit, because guess what, we're on
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  Speaker 1: a fight. We're on a battle. Every day is a battle.
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  Speaker 1: Every day is a fight. Why because we are striving.
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  Speaker 1: We want to be more like him. We want to
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  Speaker 1: be more like the creator, the one that created us.
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  Speaker 1: So I challenge you, y'all, set some time aside for him,
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  Speaker 1: Set some time down to pray, Set some time to
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  Speaker 1: commune with others, to come together with others and and
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  Speaker 1: to share his word. Y'all. Prayer isn't just about spiritual exercise.
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  Speaker 1: It is where you can get direction, You can get
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  Speaker 1: strength peace for day to living. And y'all, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to make your prayers about negotiating and trying to
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  Speaker 1: get something from God, because that's not what it's all about.
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  Speaker 1: If you keep God at the center, huh, And they will,
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  Speaker 1: it will, It will no need to be on the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: He will be right there in the midst of everything
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  Speaker 1: that you're going through. So y'all set your alarms, market calendars,
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  Speaker 1: and and set your time aside to start praying. You
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  Speaker 1: can create you a safe place in your car, a
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  Speaker 1: comfortable chair in your closet, and your bathroom wherever you
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  Speaker 1: want to be your safe ha where you can meet
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  Speaker 1: God on a regular If you have to sit in
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  Speaker 1: your car before you go to work and just meditate
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: and pray and and and and sit with God, do that,
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  Speaker 1: but you should start your day and end your day
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  Speaker 1: with prayer. Use a simple journal. In every one of
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  Speaker 1: my books, y'all, there's places in the book to journal.
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  Speaker 1: You can write down sentences or two every every time
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  Speaker 1: you go in prayer, just to let what you prayed about.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you go back and put down the
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  Speaker 1: outcome of your prayer. You can track requests because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: people are gonna ask you to pray for them, and
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  Speaker 1: then you can record the answers and then you yourself
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  Speaker 1: you can see how God is moving and how He
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  Speaker 1: is at hand, and how He is definitely in your
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  Speaker 1: life and moving in your life. And not only that,
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  Speaker 1: you can share with other people because he said we
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  Speaker 1: overcome by the hearing and sharing of our testimonies. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: Pray before any decision, not just big decision. Pray before
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  Speaker 1: any decision, any moment, not just stress for moments, any moment. HM.
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  Speaker 1: Just imagine if you was consistent in prayer. Your consistence
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: in prayer, y'all, is just like charging your phone. It's
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: just like charging your phone. It keeps you to connected
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: and fully powered. A prayer joiner. If you use a
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  Speaker 1: prayer journal, it becomes a testimony of God's goodness. You
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  Speaker 1: can look back on the season of doubt and you
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  Speaker 1: can see how He moved in your life. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: calling you today, y'all, and this is a call of action.
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  Speaker 1: Don't wait for circumstances to force you to see cope, patience,
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  Speaker 1: or prayer. Choose all three now and transform your ordinary
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  Speaker 1: day into an extra divine adventure. True. When you do,
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  Speaker 1: God won't change your circumstances. He'll change you and through you,
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  Speaker 1: the world around you. So are you ready to experience
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  Speaker 1: God's daily power? Start tomorrow and share your story with somebody,
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  Speaker 1: Share your testimony to inspire somebody. Tomorrow. We're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: on here tomorrow with the Day of Reflection, because we
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  Speaker 1: are now we've completed this book, we have done our
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  Speaker 1: thirty one days. Tomorrow's gonna be a day of reflection.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have been tuned in over these last
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  Speaker 1: thirty one days, I'm gonna go back through all of
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures, all of the things that I have noted,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to try to reflect over the last
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  Speaker 1: thirty one days. If you have been a part of
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  Speaker 1: any of these lives, or if you just have a
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  Speaker 1: testimony that you want to share, I will invite you
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  Speaker 1: to come on and share with us. Of course, I
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  Speaker 1: am streaming live on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and kick
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  Speaker 1: But I just want y'all to be encouraged today. You
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  Speaker 1: have completed thirty one days of a purposeful devotion. You've
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  Speaker 1: allowed God to transform your heart, your mind, And as
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  Speaker 1: you stand at the threshold of your next chapter, remember
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  Speaker 1: George springs from knowing God is for you. Patience gives
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  Speaker 1: you the strength to withstand any storm, and prayer invites
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  Speaker 1: the power of Heaven into your everyday life. Never underestimate
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  Speaker 1: the work God is accomplishing within you. This is only
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. Stay hopeful, patient, prayerful, and the best is
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  Speaker 1: yet to come. I want you to understand that it's
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  Speaker 1: not a coincident. It's not an accident, it's not a happenstance.
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  Speaker 1: If you showed up to this life and whenever you did,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you saw, whatever you heard, however you get it.
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  Speaker 1: If you're catching it as a replay, if you're catching
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  Speaker 1: it as a clip, whatever you take in, it was
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  Speaker 1: meant for you. God makes no miss So I say
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  Speaker 1: this to say this, Please take whatever nuggets you can
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  Speaker 1: and apply it to your life, and you will begin
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  Speaker 1: to watch God's word manifest in your life. Y'all. We
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  Speaker 1: have so much word, we have so many scriptures, we
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  Speaker 1: have so many things that have been spoken over our
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  Speaker 1: life and into our lives. Y'all, it's time for us
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  Speaker 1: to begin to see the manifestation of His word. It's
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  Speaker 1: time for us to see His word come to life.
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  Speaker 1: So now it's time for us to begin to activate
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  Speaker 1: those things. It's time for us to move in those things.
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  Speaker 1: So I ask you to join us in the morning
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  Speaker 1: for a special time of final reflection for all that
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  Speaker 1: God has shown us over these last thirty one days.
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  Speaker 1: Bring your questions, your testimony, and your heart ready to
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  Speaker 1: share that celebrate together and prepare for our next journey.
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  Speaker 1: Because our next journey, y'all, we're going to be bringing
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  Speaker 1: the kids along. You're gonna be bringing these teenagers along, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: because we got to be able to share the word
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  Speaker 1: with these kids. These kids need to know the word too.
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  Speaker 1: So I have developed a teen a it's called a
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  Speaker 1: Closer Walk with I Am that I Am. It is
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  Speaker 1: a thirty one day teen guide to explore the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: and it says to explore the Bibel with Visionary Queen Angelin. So, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: inside of this book, we have like it's so much information,
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  Speaker 1: want to join the prayer call? Information to do on
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  Speaker 1: a prayer call. There is six sections in this book.
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  Speaker 1: I include a letter to the readers because I really
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  Speaker 1: want them to be encouraged, and then a dedication, and
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  Speaker 1: then tips for the journey, like I give you tips
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  Speaker 1: of what you can do and how to get through
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  Speaker 1: this book, how to utilize this book, how to apply
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  Speaker 1: this book to your life, So I give you tips
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  Speaker 1: on how to incorporate it. And then the table of contents.
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  Speaker 1: This is our table of contents. So within this book,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have six sections. There's a section called Exploring
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  Speaker 1: the Divine Identity. The second section is called Holy the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit Guidance. The third section is called the Daily Devotion,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when we're gonna that's the one we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: spend most of the time on because that say, thirty
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  Speaker 1: one day process. The fourth section is called intentional and accountability,
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  Speaker 1: and then the fifth section is called practical application. The
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  Speaker 1: sixth section is meditation and reflection. Y'all, I'm teaching you
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  Speaker 1: about meditation and reflection. So we start off with exploring
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  Speaker 1: the divine identity. So it tells you understanding I am
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  Speaker 1: that I am. Understanding that what that what that statement,
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  Speaker 1: what that word means? Because if we know that, when
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  Speaker 1: when when when Moses asked God, who am I to
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  Speaker 1: tell that sent me? He said, I am that I am.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's that's what he said. So I want people,
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  Speaker 1: I want these babies to understand. I want them to
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  Speaker 1: understand that. So we're gonna be talking about that. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna truly get into the understanding of I
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  Speaker 1: am that I am. So we're gonna go through that.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about girl, God's eternal presence. There's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be some reflection going on, and then we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about the nature of God. We're gonna do meditation. We
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  Speaker 1: have some meditation exercises that we're gonna do. We're definitely
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  Speaker 1: gonna be engaging in scripture. We're gonna have all different
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  Speaker 1: types of things. So each day there's gonna be a stripture,
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  Speaker 1: an affirmation, a lesson, and then a reflection, something that
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  Speaker 1: they that you can take away. And then at the back,
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  Speaker 1: once you journey through the devotions and the different little sections,
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  Speaker 1: at the back of the book, there's a place to
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  Speaker 1: journal where you can actually journal. There's a place where
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  Speaker 1: you can journ your thoughts, and there's quite a few
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: of those pages where you can join your thoughts. And
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: then at the very back is a bonus section that
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: I included that has some things that you can really
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: get engaged with your kids and get your kids active.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a family and friend Fellowship night, and then
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: I just really basically discussed and describe how you can
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: put together one. And then there's a collaborative Scripture study
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  Speaker 1: telling you how you can put together on Bible studies
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  Speaker 1: and different things that you can do to have these
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  Speaker 1: little these little groups and these for teenagers and young adults.
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  Speaker 1: And then community service projects talks about doing community service projects, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: because we are missionaries. We're supposed to be out here
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  Speaker 1: serving the serving the community and doing things within the community.
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  Speaker 1: And if we see homeless people under the bridge, we
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: should be feeding the homeless. We should be doing those
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  Speaker 1: things as believers, not just as a non profit organization,
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  Speaker 1: but just as believers. We should be doing that on
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  Speaker 1: a day to day basis. So I share information about
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  Speaker 1: how you can implement that and getting started into doing
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. Even as a teenager, you can do that.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's a group journaling project that gives them
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  Speaker 1: instructions on how they can do that for the ones
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  Speaker 1: that do this as a group, because there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: some groups that do it. And then there's a creative
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  Speaker 1: expression on workshop that I show them how to do
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  Speaker 1: and walk them through, so y'all, I'm getting these kids involved,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get these kids involved. And then the last
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  Speaker 1: one it's just a how to develop an encouragement circle
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  Speaker 1: and give ideas for that. So there's different things that
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  Speaker 1: it's really trying to get the kids and involved. And
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: then I encourage the parents, the peers, different people I
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: tell them, I show them how they can get involved,
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  Speaker 1: how they can actually incorporate some of these things, how
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  Speaker 1: they can participate in this. So that is that is that.
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  Speaker 1: And then at the back, yall, I did a couple
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  Speaker 1: of word searches so they could find some of these
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  Speaker 1: words so that they could know. The kids need to
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  Speaker 1: know the word, you know, they don't just need to
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  Speaker 1: be they need to be able to understand what these words,
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  Speaker 1: these words mean and look up some of these words. So, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what this is. And this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the next book. And we're gonna start this on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: So Tomorrow is gonna be a day of reflection, and
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  Speaker 1: then Friday and Saturday we're just gonna we're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: come on and we're just gonna share. We're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be open platform, and then Sunday we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: start this new thirty one day journey. So we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: start it on on Sunday. So if you still haven't
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  Speaker 1: got your copy, you still can order you a copy
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  Speaker 1: if you want to go to my website. My website
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  Speaker 1: is w w W w W dot Angela Thomas Smith
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  Speaker 1: Books dot com again, that is Angela Thomas Smith books
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  Speaker 1: dot com and you can order your book there. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to order a book from me, just reach
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  Speaker 1: out to me. You can d M me on whatever
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  Speaker 1: platform you are on, d m me, or you can
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  Speaker 1: email me Queen Up Collaborations at gmail dot com. You
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  Speaker 1: can send me an email and I definitely will get
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  Speaker 1: it back out to you. I pray that there's something
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  Speaker 1: that you guys was blessed by that I shared on
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Y'all, I'm only sharing what God gives me.
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  Speaker 1: He gave me this book in December of twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: so I put it out there when I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: shift my atmosphere and wanted to do something different because
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  Speaker 1: y'all know that we do five a m prayer. We're
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  Speaker 1: in five AM prayer since the last for the last
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  Speaker 1: five years. But I wanted to do something to shift
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  Speaker 1: my atmosphere because things were just you know, the enemy
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  Speaker 1: will come and we have to be able to recognize.
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  Speaker 1: So if you lack discernment, or if you lack powerful discernment,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: pray and ask God for discernment, discernment of the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: a powerful descernment of the spirit, so that you'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to decipher things so that you'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: see things when they're coming. You'll be able to see
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  Speaker 1: the enemy before it attacked. So that way you can prepare,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: because sometimes we know these things don't come and sometimes
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: we have to go through it. But when we are
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  Speaker 1: prepared and when we have something in us, y'all, it
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  Speaker 1: can lighten. It can lighten the load. It can lighten
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  Speaker 1: how long it stays on us. It can lighten a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff. So again, I thank you guys for
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: tuning in. I pray that you were best by share.
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  Speaker 1: If you were, please share this with somebody. Invite somebody
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  Speaker 1: to the Crew podcast, y'all know, I got to give
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  Speaker 1: that plugged out. If y'all are not attached to the
• 50:24
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  Speaker 1: We have eight amazing queens on that platform. That's definitely
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  Speaker 1: being a voice for those that do not or feel
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  Speaker 1: like they don't have a voice, and they are leading
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  Speaker 1: by example because they want they want change, and they
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: are to change that they desire to see because we
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: have decided that change begins and ends with us. So
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  Speaker 1: are you the change that you desired to see in
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  Speaker 1: this world? And y'all have a great day, See y'all
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow