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All right, welcome back. And before we always start, we
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always pray. So, Lord, thank you for allowing
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us just to be here, Goddess, and lead us into the absolute truth,
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for there's no one greater than you.
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Thank you for everything, Lord. You are the one true living God.
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Amen. Amen all.
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Right, for those that have been listening, thank you and those
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that are new, welcome back. Welcome back.
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Yeah, welcome back. So, you know, I learned
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something this week. I'd like to share.
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Maybe this podcast might be sure.
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I'm not really sure, but could be.
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Interesting. I learned, you know, thanks be
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to God, I've I've acquired a good amount of wisdom.
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I'd say a good amount. I think you're being prayerful.
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I think that's what's happening. You think so?
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Why? Why You say?
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That why would you say such a thing?
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Wait, what do you mean? I'm scaring bro, you took it too
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serious. Yeah, took it to the heart now,
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but these are the things like. As a believer, you you would
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hope to grow in wisdom with God, right?
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Yeah, yeah, 100%. So it's hard that I know you
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hesitated there because it would sell cringe.
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Yeah, yeah. No, I mean it happened so
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suddenly where you realize that you've obtained wisdom.
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I'll do it for you. There has been a significant
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amount of progress. Glory to God, Yes, 'cause it's
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glory to God. He does it all.
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He does the work within you. And so, yeah, I have noticed
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this growth that God has given you, yes, has been doing with
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you. Exactly.
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So glory to him, yeah. Glory.
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Glory to God always, forever. And wisdom is important.
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Wisdom is very important because it helps you discern situations
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and moments. It helps you discern the will of
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God. You know that's true.
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It's. Very important.
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Understanding is a good thing. Yes, exactly.
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Now, prayer is also very important.
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So in your walk with God, there's wisdom, there's prayer,
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and there's fasting. Yeah, which one is easier
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though? Wisdom is a lot easier in my
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opinion so far in that. I've seen.
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Interesting. Then fasting and pray.
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It's easier than fasting and praying.
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Yes, absolutely. Out of now fasting and praying,
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which is easier? I would say fasting.
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Isn't that isn't that crazy? That is crazy.
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Yeah. Because in order for one to
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pray, they have to detach themselves from everything.
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Yeah. Bro you have to like get on your
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knees or prostate yourself. Yes.
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And pray the flesh doesn't want that.
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No, it doesn't at all. Periods.
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I mean, I could tell you confident, like I don't want to
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praise. There are times I don't want to
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pray. Right, right.
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Exactly. Remember that time I told you
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like I was? I had to be honest with God.
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I was like, God, I don't, I don't love you right now.
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Like, I gave the time, dude. It was.
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I had to be honest. Yeah, but it's not because I
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didn't love him. It's just like, I don't want
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this right now. Like my flesh doesn't want it.
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Can you take this away from me, please?
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Right, right. You know.
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No, it's true. It's true, those moments come.
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That does not mean your faith has dwindled.
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None of that. It's just the flesh doesn't want
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it. Doesn't want it exactly.
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That's why I asked you which one is easier.
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No, the hardest one has to be prayer #1 because you know you
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have to be postured. You know, like you're saying
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that one is easier to. Pray No, no, no, my bad.
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It's the hardest, sorry, it's the hardest.
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And the reason why I find it hard is because when you pray,
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you have to like detach yourself from all thoughts, everything
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and like just focus. And let's say if you have things
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going on, you know, and, and you start thinking about other
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things, you know, like prayer is just like you just got to be in
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the present. You got to be in the present.
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It's a communication between you and God.
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Yeah. You want to know something now
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that you said that, at present, keep that in mind.
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Wisdom, prayer. There is a community in Brazil,
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a tribe in the Amazon called Piraha.
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Or I could be botching it Piara some.
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And then their language. They don't have a number system.
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They don't have past tense or feature tense in their
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vocabulary. They don't even have colours in
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their language really. They don't even know the
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quantity of one or two. It's just either it's small or
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it's big. It's either a light colour or a
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darker colour. Their language kind of defies
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the the theory of linguistics. Why do I bring this up?
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Because you said that you need to be in the present, but what
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happens in our language since we have past, present and future
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tense, You know, like I'm going tomorrow, That's I'm speaking in
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future tense. Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, I went yesterday. We're speaking in past tense,
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Right. I'm going today, present tense.
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What happens is that that cripples us because we, we, we
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catapult ourselves to the future or, or we think about the past.
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We're not in the present. So there was an evangelist that
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went to Brazil to go preach to that tribe.
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And you know what ended up happening?
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What happened? He he stopped believing in God.
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Really. Because of how they function in
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their language. Wow.
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His faith was shooken. Right, right.
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Wow, you see, that is so true. Because when you read it, when
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Christ speaks, I mean he speaks outside of time.
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Yes and yeah. And so I think I believe rather
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than witnessing God's power through their language, he it,
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it made him doubt God even more, right?
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Right. Wow, that's crazy, right?
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And you wanna know something. And if they if in fact their
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language is like that, it makes sense.
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It's because we have to live in the present.
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Yeah. Christ literally says do not
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worry about tomorrow. Yeah.
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Yeah. The fact that I say tomorrow
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already makes me think about tomorrow.
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Yeah, exactly. No, it's true.
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Exactly. Right.
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And so the reason why you say prayer is the hardest is because
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you have to be in the present. You have to be in the present.
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I'm sorry. I thought it was just a cool
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fact for you to know. Yeah, Yeah.
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No, that's for everybody to know.
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That's. Really interesting, yeah.
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Yeah. So there's such an importance on
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being present. Yes, being present because you
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know you're communicating with God.
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God can't reveal to you all things.
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Yeah, that's. Why?
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We show them to you in parts. Yes, in.
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Parts you won't know. Yeah, like it says in Scripture,
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in part I know, in part I don't know and in part I will know.
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So that's one, right. Fasting is important because,
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you know, you, you put this flesh into discipline, you put
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it into discipline, into suffering.
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And also another thing too, when you fast, do not worry about the
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time either. Also on top of that too, because
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1000 years is 1000 years is like a day to God and a day to God is
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like 1000 years. So God is outside of time.
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God honors your fast if you do it really with your heart, you
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know, and, and fasting is important.
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Wisdom is super important, like I said, because of discerning.
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No, people will call this. Oh well, these are works.
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No, they're. Not no, no the.
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Reason why you do this is a is a byproduct of your faith.
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If you trust in God, yeah, you will learn to discipline the
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flesh like pulse is far have learned.
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To discipline? Yes, exactly.
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Learn. It's a practice.
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He learned, yes. He didn't know it right.
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He learned it, so he. Practiced it, Yeah.
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He put it to practice. Practicing the truth, Yeah.
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And all the well, he was referring to the to the law
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because you've learned to discipline the flesh, dude, he's
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not saying that. No, he's not.
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You know, And there's something spiritual about fasting too,
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when you make it, when you make your fasting about God and not
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about like your health, you know, and like you said, when
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you have this faith in God, you know that fasting gets you
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closer to God, disciplines the flesh.
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So for that reason, like the byproduct of that is like you
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just do it because you want to get closer to God.
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Yeah, because fasting produces patience.
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I mean, you have to be patient because you're thinking about
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food. Super.
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Patient. Yeah, absolutely.
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Two, actually your body, it starts, it takes out, it takes
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out these toxins. Yeah.
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So technically you can think properly now.
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Yes, yeah. So now that you can think, with
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the wisdom you've acquired and the prayer life that you have,
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you can now meditate. Yes, exactly.
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Appropriately. 100% right. Yeah, Yeah.
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No, it's true. It's like they all work in
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perfect harmony right now. I I've learned that fasting,
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prayer, and wisdom all have to be in harmony.
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It's never going to be perfect. You're never going to have them
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all at equal state. Sometimes you have 1 rising more
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than the other. Sometimes you have more prayer.
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You'll be lacking wisdom and your fasting might be at the
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same level of your prayer. But then sometimes you might
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have a lot of wisdom, but you lack prayer and you lack
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fasting. So I've learned that the
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apostles, for example, the apostles, it looked like they
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had it on lockdown. It was the way they had it was
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awesome. It was like in perfect harmony.
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Like Paul, he had a strong prayer life, he would fast and
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he had great wisdom all simultaneously.
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And they all work well together. Now I've known that like wisdom
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helps you discern and I've seen churches that when it comes to
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prayer and fasting, it's on lockdown.
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Like it's like they have it on luck.
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Like I have respect, respect, like they, they, they practice
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that. But then when it comes to
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discerning when it comes to wisdom, they, they're weak in
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that area. They it's almost like their
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undying love for God kind of like blinds them to like what
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God really wants to do in that mission for his ways are higher
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than ours. So I've noticed that if you have
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a strong prayer life in fasting, but you lack wisdom, lack wisdom
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in the aspect of like discerning of like, is this God's will or
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not? Because Paul speaks about
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discern the perfect will of God and he also says examine
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yourselves. Well, there's an example of him.
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He was on his way to north towards the northern part, like
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from like Turkey. And he just kept going.
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Yeah, Decided I'm a go to the East.
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The Holy Spirit's told him to halt.
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No, no, no, right. Go that way.
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Go that way. Yeah.
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And then he kept going there. At some point, he didn't know
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what to do. You're right.
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And he prayed and then the Holy Spirit told him what to do.
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He wants us to be in a state of I have no idea what to do.
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Right, right, right. Now, but because we're lazier,
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we don't know. It's just no, you don't know.
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Exactly good. I'll tell you, yes, there's a
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tendency where we we know, we think we know.
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Right, right, right. Exactly.
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And that's that's where wisdom plays a part.
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Yeah, if wisdom provides your prayer life in fasting, you will
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think you know. Or if you pray your life is
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higher and your fasting higher. The wisdom is still is.
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You're still going to be like, I think I know.
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Yes. But if all three, maybe you can
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get them in perfect harmony. May may not be always perfect,
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but if they're always aligned, there are going to be moments
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where you don't know yes, and that's OK.
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That's perfectly fine. That's.
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Fine, yeah, it's OK not to know. Exactly.
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You see, The thing is like, let's say you have you have a
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strong Prairie life and fasting and then you lack wisdom.
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You're always going to be on that zealous mode in the aspect
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of like of like now we got to do this for God, this for God, this
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for God. How do you know if like you
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know, you're, you're throwing a Pebble.
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Let's say you know a ripple effect.
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You throw a Pebble into into into water and you throw a
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Pebble next to that Pebble that you threw.
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You know, you see waves coming in and the next thing they
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collide and it causes a crash. That's true.
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That's. True.
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And that happens a lot in churches where they do one thing
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after the other after the other and then it just crashes and
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then there's problems. So what I'm trying to say is
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that wisdom, you have to have discernment and patience.
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You have to, when it comes to when it comes to discerning, you
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have to have patience, like a lot of patience, because when
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you do things for God, you got to be still and be present And
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just understand that like if I were to move, if I were to do
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like throw a rock into the water, let the waves calm itself
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down, let it do what it has to do.
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And but if you throw one after the other, it causes collision.
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So wisdom is super important, man.
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And you walk with God because you're able to discern and see,
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like, OK, like God wants me to move now.
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But the wisdom that you acquire, right, like there's some what in
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the early days, in the ancient time, the dos it is.
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And there's other Christian groups that they thought that
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until you've received true enlightenment, that is when
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you're truly saved. They considered that wisdom,
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right? Yeah, that's not what we're
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referring to, right? We're referring to to the to the
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knowledge of God in this aspect of his Word.
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Yeah. Of what he had inspired the
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authors to write on a piece of paper, right?
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What we read, yes. What he reveals to us, not for
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the sake of that that that saves me, but for the sake of how to
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discern what is true and what is not true, and how to discern
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several truths, because one will always be higher than the other.
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That's true. Yeah, right.
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Exactly right. And you keep quoting to know the
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perfect will of God because of Romans 12/2, you know.
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Yeah, do not be confirmed to this world, but be transformed
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by the mind, by the renewing of the mind.
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Yeah, So that you may know the perfect will of God.
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Yeah, yeah. Right by the you know, it talks
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about in the mind. Yes, in the mind.
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So the wisdom is not this power trip, it's not this like crown
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where all of a sudden you're above everybody.
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The wisdom that you acquired through Christ, that Scripture,
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that knowledge, it is so that you discern.
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Yeah, it's like a light to your to your feet like it's.
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I mean, David says in the. Song exactly.
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Your scriptures are a lamp to my feet.
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Yes, exactly. That's crazy.
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And then prayer. I'm sorry, I was saying crazy to
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something else and then prayer right.
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If if wisdom is that prayer is what letting your request be
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made known. Yes to that.
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Perhaps to the things that you may not understand.
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Yes exactly. You come and request us to God.
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Because it says in James, if you lack wisdom, go ask God, go pray
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to him. Exactly.
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So communication with God is asking for it, yes.
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But not with a double mind. Yes, if you doubt in what you
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prayed for then you are like that double minded person,
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right? Yeah.
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So what does fasting have to do with any of this in regards to
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and fasting? Keep in mind this is something
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that's been done in ancient days and God has never, he has never
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I I could be wrong, I could be wrong, but you, you can search
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this. I don't think God has ever asked
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anybody to do a fast. Yeah, I don't.
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Yeah, I don't. I don't.
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He's never asked. Yeah.
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People will bring to themselves to want to do it, almost like a
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a sense of like, I'm doing this for you, like an offering.
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Yes. Like a sacrificial.
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Thing. Yeah, a sacrificial.
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Thing. And of course, God doesn't
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ignore it. Yeah.
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And so ever then, since then, Isaiah, God reveals to them the
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the true fast. Go help the widow.
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Go help the orphan in your fast. Go do something.
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Yeah, just starve yourself for nothing.
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Yeah. So what does the fast do in this
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case? What correlation does have with
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prayer and and and and and and and wisdom but teaches you
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patience? Absolutely teaches you to make
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the flesh suffer. Not only that, it teaches you to
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know who you really are. Yeah, 100% it does 'cause I'll
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say with my experience with fasting, like you always learn
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something new. All the time.
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All the time, Always. For instance, I believe this
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week, that past week did fast for two days and towards the
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kind of like towards the end of the week week, which was Friday,
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we learnt some Well, this is something I've already have come
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to terms with, but you know, I had the the, the I was like, you
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know what, maybe I could share with Brian and Diego in regards
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to how Christ functions with the Father and stuff like.
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That right, right. That was something that got
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revealed to us while we were reading scripture, amazingly.
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Yes, yeah. It was such a it was it was
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based. I'm just using an example that
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nothing is in vain. Right.
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When you pursue God, God will reveal to you something great so
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that you can continue in His path.
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Yeah, 100%, yeah. To abide unto Christ.
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Yeah, 100% right. Because it is through Christ
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that we can get to the. Father, Amen.
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Exactly, 100% no. Fasting plays a huge role in
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your in your your work with God. The way the father satisfies
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himself, it is through his son. Think of it like when you grab a
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piece of food, the mouth has to chew it.
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Don't the words come out of the mouth?
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Yeah. They do.
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Well, the mouth has to chew it. Who, then, is getting satisfied?
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The mind, right? You see?
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Yeah, no, I see what you're saying.
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In the same way the father satisfies himself, because we
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come to him through his son. Through his son.
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Yeah. Amen.
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Amen. No.
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Yeah, man. So fasting, prayer and wisdom.
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For sure, prayer is important. You know, you, there's so many
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examples on in Scripture on how to pray.
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And perhaps maybe we're not going to dive into that in the
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next coming episodes. We're going to talk about wisdom
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in the depth. We're going to talk about
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fasting in a depth. We're going to bring it in what
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it means, biblical terms, what it meant historically, how
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pagans also practiced it because they practiced it.
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Yeah, they did. Yeah.
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And prayer, because even Pagan people pray to their false gods.
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Why is there a need to know pray if God already knows it, Right,
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Right. So we're going to talk, we're
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going to kind of enter into a like a kind of like, if you will
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ripple effect though, talking about one thing, how the one
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leads to the other. Yes, exactly.
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And so on. And so, yeah, this is what we
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have thus far as an introduction to yeah, to the next one.
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Yeah, no, exactly. So I, I just wanted to point
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that out there that wisdom, fasting and prayer, if you have
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them out of they're probably never going to be perfect.
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But if you have them out of harmony in your walk with God,
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I'm telling you it it'll you, you, you get basically I'm
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trying to say is like you, you have like a very, very deep walk
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with God. You know, and I believe that if
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one rises more than the other, you lack, you lack strength in
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one area, you'll be weak in one area.
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But it seems like the apostles they were a perfect example of
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having. All three in harmony and they
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had an amazing journey with God. So that's like you said, that's
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just an intro to what kind of want to say.
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Good. Well, no, that's great.
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I mean, I know I'll tell you. I'll say this from my
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experience, the reason why I say which one is easier is because
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I'm fascinated. I'm always fascinated when I
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meditate. Yeah.
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I'm fascinated by things that I don't know, right?
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I'm like, what? This is crazy.
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Yeah. You know what I mean?
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And I find it easier when I have to pray.
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I'm just like, oh God. Yeah, prayer is the hardest one.
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You know, and it could because I'm challenged by the idea like,
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well, if you already know, you know, what do I have to pray?
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Right, right. And so we'll also talk about
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that. And then fasting, you know,
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it's, it's actually, well, I don't do this on purpose because
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of work. Sometimes I forget I have to eat
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right, Right. But you get this energy out of
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nowhere, man, when you're in, like, not eating.
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Yeah. It's just the energy that you
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have and that's again as there's reasons for that.
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But thus far, yeah, definitely very cool topic that you brought
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up. Interesting.
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Yeah. Well, that's it for today.
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But yeah, if you haven't subscribed, subscribe like video
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share. Great.
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And we'll close out with a prayer.
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Amen, Father hallowed be your name, that you will be done on
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earth like it is done in in heaven, and that you will be
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done through your son. So as you guys are as one you
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express, your son executes it, and your spirit breathes on to
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it. Such a perfect harmony that even
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in nature we see it as a reflection.
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We witness it ourselves every day as well within our lives.
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That you, O Lord, let everything happen come to pass.
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Let us witness your power and your wonders in our lives and
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let us hold and be still so that we can witness it and others can
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be blessed. Even if this only reaches out to
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five people, that's fine. As much as we would want to want
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to pursue and push harder with all the facility like
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facilitations that we have in our modern time to want to make
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things happen, there's nothing better than organic things to
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happen when they happen on the time that you know.
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So we thank you for this opportunity to speak about your
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word about important elements in our lives to flourish and have
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refinement in our spiritual lives with you.
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Thank you, Father. Amen.