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DAY 31 From Reflection to Renewal Turning Scripture Into Steps for Everyday Living · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, the one. Good morning, good money, Good money, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: you are engaging in. So this morning, y'all, we are
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  Speaker 1: doing and reclap because we are day number thirty one
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  Speaker 1: on this journey. So we are on a close We
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be going and reflect and renew. So we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be covering this Tomorrow. We're gonna be doing intentionality
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  Speaker 1: and accountability. We're gonna have a section on accountability and intentionality.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's gonna be a practical application section, then meditation
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  Speaker 1: and reflection, and then we will be through with this book.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna start us off and prayer this morning. Then I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and jump into the lesson so we
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  Speaker 1: can go ahead and get this out the way, so
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  Speaker 1: you guys can go ahead and start your day. I
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure that you are empowered with some knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: got some little stuff going on. Make sure that you
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  Speaker 1: are empowered, educated, and encouraged to stay on this journey. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: It's not easy and we're not meant to be on
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  Speaker 1: hold this line down. I could not do it by myself.
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  Speaker 1: I also want to give a shout out to the
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  Speaker 1: Serving Leader's prayer line. I tell you. The enemy was
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  Speaker 1: busy this morning, y'all. I went on the line. I
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  Speaker 1: was late on yesterday, so I did not interrupt. I
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  Speaker 1: don't when I go on late, I don't interrupt, So
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  Speaker 1: I just allow them to go ahead and hold down
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  Speaker 1: the line. Only thing I don't like it. I can't
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  Speaker 1: record it because I don't like to interrupt the record.
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  Speaker 1: And once we already started, I don't like to come
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  Speaker 1: in and started recording in the middle of them already praying.
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  Speaker 1: So I did not record on yesterday. But today I
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  Speaker 1: was able to record, but I was not able to
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  Speaker 1: participate because there was something going on with my technology. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: It's always something I tell you when you strive to
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  Speaker 1: do right and when you strive to get that closer
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  Speaker 1: walk with God, trust and believe that the enemy is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be upset. The enemy is gonna try to come
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  Speaker 1: against you. But I'm telling you, when you got that
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  Speaker 1: joy down in you, when you got that word down
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  Speaker 1: in you, when you got something down in you, that
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  Speaker 1: warfare is not so it don't hit you unexpected, It
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  Speaker 1: don't hit you like it normally would hit you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you, I'm thankful for that place that I am
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  Speaker 1: at right now, I may not be where I want
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  Speaker 1: to be, but I'm glad I'm not where I was five, six,
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  Speaker 1: seven years ago because I'm telling you, I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: able to do some of the things that I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: right now if I was still in that mindset, say,
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  Speaker 1: still in that place. So I thank God for you know,
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  Speaker 1: just being who he said he will be in my life.
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  Speaker 1: So this morning, I'm go ahead, go ahead and start
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  Speaker 1: us off with prayer. Then I'm gonna go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: jump into this lesson, Father God, in the name of Jesus, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for that. Another day, another day that
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  Speaker 1: was not promise us or God, a day that we
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  Speaker 1: have not seen, a day that we will never see again,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God. So Father asked it you will have your
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  Speaker 1: way on today, Lord God, allow us to have a
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  Speaker 1: clear mind heart, and so to receive that that you
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  Speaker 1: will have for us on today, Lord God. Father asked
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  Speaker 1: that you will remove me out of the way, decrease
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  Speaker 1: me in the flesh, Lord God, and allow your spirit
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  Speaker 1: man that works within me, to come forth, Lord God
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  Speaker 1: and share what you will have for me. To share
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  Speaker 1: what you have laid on my heart on this morning,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God Father, asked that you will align me with
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  Speaker 1: your word, Lord God, that I may not go astray
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  Speaker 1: and not lead anyone astray, but I will stay on
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  Speaker 1: your straight and narrow Lord God, follow your word, say
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  Speaker 1: study and show thyself a food. So follow God. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you on this morning. I thank you for allowing
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  Speaker 1: us this opportunity. I thank you for extending your grace
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  Speaker 1: and your mercy because you truly didn't have to. But Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you allow us to see this new that you woke
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  Speaker 1: us up. You breathe that breast into our body. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you because, Oh, in Genesis two and seven,
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  Speaker 1: you say that you breathe the breath of life into us.
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  Speaker 1: So I believe that everything that we need is already
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  Speaker 1: deposited in us. Lord God. So Father, I'm asking that
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  Speaker 1: you will stir up those gifts, stir up those talents,
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  Speaker 1: so that we can align with that that you have
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  Speaker 1: already preordained for us. According to Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Your word the class that you have a plan for us,
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  Speaker 1: a plan to prosper us, not to harm us, for
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  Speaker 1: us to be in good health, for us to have
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  Speaker 1: hope in the future. So we stand on your world today.
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  Speaker 1: We know that your word will not return to your Lord,
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  Speaker 1: that you will watch over it until us perform and
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  Speaker 1: perfected in each and every one of our lives for
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  Speaker 1: a God. So Father asked that you decrease me and
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  Speaker 1: allow your spirit man to come forth and drop those
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  Speaker 1: nuggets that we need on today, Lord God, and I
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  Speaker 1: thank you and your son Jesus name a man a man,
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  Speaker 1: a man a man. Again, I thank you guys for
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  Speaker 1: jumping on. If you would please share this out with somebody,
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  Speaker 1: if you are on tiptop, y'all, come on, tap that screen,
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  Speaker 1: Tap that screen, tap that screen, share it out with somebody,
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  Speaker 1: because you never know what the next person may need,
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  Speaker 1: what they may be in need of, and what nugget
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  Speaker 1: they may be able to take and apply to their life. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about applying it to our life. Knowing that
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  Speaker 1: we have this world that He's given us. He's given
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  Speaker 1: us these basic instructions before leaving Earth. These are things
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  Speaker 1: that we're gonna do, and these are things that we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna encounter. We know that these weapons are gonna form,
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  Speaker 1: but they will not prosper, y'all. So I want you
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  Speaker 1: to clear your minds and heart on this morning, so
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  Speaker 1: that you can receive that that God has prepared y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We have been journaling through this book for the last
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  Speaker 1: thirty days. Y'all. This is day thirty one of this journey,
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  Speaker 1: and today I just want to share what He has
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  Speaker 1: dropped in my spirit on today. I just want to
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  Speaker 1: share that on today, y'all, we are going to do
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  Speaker 1: a recap, a recap of everything that we have been
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  Speaker 1: journaling on these last thirty days. This is day thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a reflect and renew. As we
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  Speaker 1: reach day thirty one, it is time to pause. It's
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  Speaker 1: time to reflect renew our spirits. Over the past thirty days,
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  Speaker 1: we have journeyed through a wide array of subjects and scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: all designed to strengthen our walk in Christ. For God's
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  Speaker 1: unwavering Love and John three point sixteen to call for
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  Speaker 1: faith and he Rules eleven and one Hope and Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine and eleven Peace and Philippians four six and
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  Speaker 1: seven encourage and Joshua one and nine. We have been
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  Speaker 1: reminded every day that God's word has a power to
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  Speaker 1: transform and uplift. These verses have encouraged us to be kind.
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  Speaker 1: Ephesians full thirty two, Walk humbly Michael six and eight.
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  Speaker 1: Give thanks and all things first Thatsalonian five and eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: Stay upright, Proverbs eleven and three, and trust in God's time,
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  Speaker 1: and Ecclesiastes three and one. They've called us to gather
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  Speaker 1: in faith Hebrews ten, twenty four and twenty five, marvel
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  Speaker 1: in God's candy work, Psalms nineteen and one, release worry
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  Speaker 1: matt through six and thirty four. Each day we have
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  Speaker 1: renewed our minds, our spirit, and becoming new creators. We
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  Speaker 1: have embarked upon a journey to serve others with our
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  Speaker 1: gift Firs. Peter four and ten. We have learned to
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  Speaker 1: cherish God's unchanging nature, knowing that it's us that has
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  Speaker 1: to change. Y'all. We have drawn strength from him in
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  Speaker 1: Philippians four and thirteen that we can do all things
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  Speaker 1: through Christ that strengthen us. And he has shined our
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  Speaker 1: light boldly. He's given us an opportunity to allow those things,
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  Speaker 1: that those gifts, those talents that He's placed within us
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  Speaker 1: to shine so boldly Matthew five, fourteen and sixteen. Through
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  Speaker 1: every scripture that we have went over these last thirty days,
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  Speaker 1: God has shown us the past to gratitude, perseverance, generosity
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  Speaker 1: instead fast joy. So today I want you to be renewed.
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  Speaker 1: The word of the day is renew renew, to make
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  Speaker 1: new again, to restore, to revive, to refresh, to begin
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  Speaker 1: again with strength and purpose. Y'all Biblically inspiration. In scripture,
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  Speaker 1: the theme of renewal is the promise from God. In
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  Speaker 1: Second Corinthians five and seventeen we read Therefore, if anyone
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  Speaker 1: is in Christ, he is a new creature. The old
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  Speaker 1: has gone and the new is here. Renewal is not
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  Speaker 1: just about starting over. It is about letting God revive
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  Speaker 1: every part of your heart, your mind, and your spirit
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  Speaker 1: so that you may walk with a fresh faith and clarity.
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  Speaker 1: Renewal means letting go of what worries you, what has
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  Speaker 1: burdened you, and makes space for the violence, new and truth.
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  Speaker 1: Just as season change in the earth is refreshed, God
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  Speaker 1: invites us to experience a spiritual renewal where hope and
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  Speaker 1: joy and purpose or restore. It is an imitation to
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  Speaker 1: share that weight of past mistakes, regrets, and disappointments to
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  Speaker 1: embrace God's promise of transformation. When you choose to renew
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  Speaker 1: your mind Romans twelve and two. We align with the
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  Speaker 1: thoughts that God has for us, and those thoughts are truth.
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  Speaker 1: When we renew our strength Isaiah forty and thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: we trust that God empower us to rise above weariness.
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  Speaker 1: Renewing is both personal and a divine reset, allowing us
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  Speaker 1: to live with intentions and expectation. Y'all, how we can
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  Speaker 1: apply this to our life? How can we renew ourselves? First,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta pause and reflect. Take a few moments to
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  Speaker 1: be still and to reflect on what needs renewing in
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  Speaker 1: your life. You may be going through some struggles. It
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  Speaker 1: may be your mindset, it may be some habits that
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  Speaker 1: you have, It may be a relationship, and it may
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  Speaker 1: be your faith. I want you to pause, reflect and
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  Speaker 1: just think for a moment what areas of your life
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  Speaker 1: needs renewing on today? And then I want you to
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  Speaker 1: release those things. Let it go old patterns, negativity, thoughts, burdens.
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  Speaker 1: Ask God to fill you with new visions, new energy,
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  Speaker 1: new perspectives. He say, release and received on today. And
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  Speaker 1: then you gotta act in affirm. See, y'all, we got
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  Speaker 1: the power to speak life. We can speak life over ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We can we can tell ourselves today I am renewed
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  Speaker 1: with God, I am strengthen and restore. My spirit is
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  Speaker 1: ready for a fresh star. You can speak over your
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  Speaker 1: life today. You have that power, he's told us. And
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  Speaker 1: then you got to act upon those things. Spend time
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  Speaker 1: with them. Find you some some praying friends, some believers
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  Speaker 1: that that truly believe in you and believe in the
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  Speaker 1: word of God, and not a shame to pray for you,
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  Speaker 1: not a shame to go to war with you. And
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  Speaker 1: then we gotta have gratitude, y'all, because when we are
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  Speaker 1: grateful over the little things, and we can celebrate the
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  Speaker 1: little things. Just the fact that he allowed us to
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  Speaker 1: wake up this morning, that he extended his grace and
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  Speaker 1: his mercy, y'all. He gave you another chance, y'all. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: didn't get to see this day. Somebody didn't get another chance.
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  Speaker 1: But he gave you another chance. He gave you another
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  Speaker 1: chance to get it right. He gave you another chance
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  Speaker 1: to impact life. He gave you another chance to do
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  Speaker 1: something that you may not get a chance to do
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  Speaker 1: on yesterday. He's said, in his grace and his mercy,
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  Speaker 1: you got to see another day that was not promised
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  Speaker 1: a day that you will never see again. So I
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  Speaker 1: say to you, what will you do in this day?
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  Speaker 1: How will you impact this day? How will you punker
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  Speaker 1: this day? Gratitude is the little things, y'all. The fact
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  Speaker 1: that we have use of our hands, that we can see,
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  Speaker 1: maybe with assistant but we can speak, we can walk,
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  Speaker 1: we can do those. These the little things. Celebrate the
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  Speaker 1: daily gifts, the daily fact that you are in your
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  Speaker 1: right mind, that the fact that that that you have
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  Speaker 1: a heart that you can share with somebody else, y'all. Eat.
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  Speaker 1: Sunrise is God's reminder that the story is not over yet.
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  Speaker 1: It is a new day, with new mercies, new grace,
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  Speaker 1: new opportunities that you can walk into. It's up to you.
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  Speaker 1: He's given us endless mercy and endless grace. Today I
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  Speaker 1: encourage you to invite your Holy Spirit to renew your
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  Speaker 1: heart and mind. Ask Him to give you courage to
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  Speaker 1: release the old and to embrace the new. Ask him
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  Speaker 1: to restore your strength, to rekindle your hope and refresh
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  Speaker 1: your purpose in Him. Y'all. Every day that we should,
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  Speaker 1: everything that we do should point back to Him. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: every single thing that we do should point back to Him.
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  Speaker 1: He is allowing us these gifts, these talents, and all
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  Speaker 1: of these things so that we can edify him, that
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  Speaker 1: we can bring him glory. They may work together for
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  Speaker 1: our good, even if they're not working together for our good,
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  Speaker 1: they're to bring him glory because everything that comes it
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  Speaker 1: may be a stumbling box, it may be a hindrance,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't It don't always come from the enemy.
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  Speaker 1: We give the enemy too much credit. Sometimes, us not
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  Speaker 1: doing what we're supposed to do, us not aligning with
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  Speaker 1: the word, us being out of place, it causes things
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  Speaker 1: to come upon us. But today you are reminded that
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  Speaker 1: you can renew your mind, your heart, and your spirit.
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  Speaker 1: You can ask him to come in. You can ask
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  Speaker 1: him for a reset. You can ask him to rekindle
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  Speaker 1: your hope. You can ask him to refresh your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: If you've gotten off track, it's the time that you
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  Speaker 1: can get back on track. Because know that if you
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  Speaker 1: woke up this morning, if you're tuned into this live,
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  Speaker 1: if you're tune in, if you're catching it as a clip,
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  Speaker 1: if you're catching it as a replay, however you're catching it,
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  Speaker 1: know that it is purpose in you hearing this. He's
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  Speaker 1: not forgotten you He's not giving up on you, So
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  Speaker 1: don't give up on your self. Regardless of where you
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  Speaker 1: are right now, know that he's still working, that he's
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  Speaker 1: still performing Mira. Because we may not see a man
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  Speaker 1: walking on water, we may not see we may not
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  Speaker 1: see all the things that were spoken the Bible, because
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  Speaker 1: he said he We're gonna do greater works, greater works.
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  Speaker 1: But every day we see individuals that are held from cancer,
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  Speaker 1: delivered from diabetes, delivered from HIV, that are recovering from
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  Speaker 1: these diseases. That man say, um hum, come to kill us.
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  Speaker 1: But the enemy is defeated and he ask no power
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  Speaker 1: because we serve a great physician that can heal any
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  Speaker 1: areas of our life. So today I say, speak over
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  Speaker 1: your life today, Speak this over your life. Today. I
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  Speaker 1: choose to reflect on God's love. I release what weighs
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  Speaker 1: my heart down and reset my spirit for a new beginning.
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  Speaker 1: I am renewed in Christ, strengthen and shine to serve again.
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  Speaker 1: I say, I choose to reflect on God's love, release
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  Speaker 1: what weighs me down in my heart. I choose to
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  Speaker 1: reset my spirit for a new beginning. I am renewed
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  Speaker 1: in Christ, Strengthen to shine and serve h y'all. These
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  Speaker 1: last thirty days have been amazing. It has given me
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to not only share with you, because through
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  Speaker 1: this book, He's given me an outlet, an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: share those things that He's placed within me, so that
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  Speaker 1: I can help someone else that may not be that,
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  Speaker 1: that may be in a dark place. No I'm not perfect,
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  Speaker 1: No I'm not. I'm not a theologian. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: every scripture in the Bible. I don't know the Bible
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  Speaker 1: back and forth. It never been to school, don't have
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  Speaker 1: no don't walk in no office, don't have no the
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  Speaker 1: reasons in theologian, none of that. But I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you what he's done for me. You're looking at someone
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  Speaker 1: that was raised up her from her blood of affliction.
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  Speaker 1: It enemy wanted to take me out. I was pow power,
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  Speaker 1: punt blank range, would have salt off. I shouldn't be here.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at the scars on my leg, you
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  Speaker 1: want you a wonder how did I survive? The doctors
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  Speaker 1: told me that my whole right side should have been
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  Speaker 1: taken off. But the God that I served, huh When
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know while I was getting on this prayer line,
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  Speaker 1: I was getting on this prayer line, and while that
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  Speaker 1: Nady was praying for me, didn't know why she was
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  Speaker 1: heavy in her spirit, but she just felt evidence and
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  Speaker 1: she just began to pray. It was a prayer to
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  Speaker 1: the Righteous that saved me that day. And I promised him,
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  Speaker 1: if he would raise me up off my bed of affliction,
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  Speaker 1: I will share his goodness. And I share his goodness
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  Speaker 1: because he's truly been good to me. And as I
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  Speaker 1: look back over my life, Huh, there's been plenty of
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  Speaker 1: times when the enemy came to take me out, but
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  Speaker 1: I know it was nothing but the grace of God
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  Speaker 1: his mercy that allowed me to get through. So I
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  Speaker 1: thank him. I thank him. I thank him for all
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  Speaker 1: that he has done for me. So I every chance
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  Speaker 1: I get, I share his goodness. So today I want
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  Speaker 1: you to be able to apply these things that we
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  Speaker 1: have been going over for the last thirty days. You
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  Speaker 1: may not have been here, this may be your first
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  Speaker 1: day tuning in, but it's never too late. You can
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  Speaker 1: go back and hear some of the replays. You can
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  Speaker 1: just get this recap on today and apply to your
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  Speaker 1: life and come back come on Monday, Because y'all we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be starting a new a new devotion on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be starting a new devotion. This is a
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  Speaker 1: twenty one day journey. We're gonna be doing this twenty
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  Speaker 1: one day journey next, y'all. Humh, But we're gonna finish
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  Speaker 1: this real quick. What I want y'all to take away
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  Speaker 1: is you gotta have faith over fear. That faith God, Yo,
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  Speaker 1: every step trust, God's plan is greater than any obstacle
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  Speaker 1: that may come your way. He reminds us that in
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews eleven and one. He reminds us that in Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine and eleven, you got to embrace God's promises,
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  Speaker 1: stand firm on assurance that God's unchanging love and unbreakable promises. Humph, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: he's never changing. It's us that gotta line up with
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  Speaker 1: this word. It's us that's got the line up. It's
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  Speaker 1: us that's got the align with that that He is
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  Speaker 1: already preordaining, y'all. He's not coming back out that sky
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  Speaker 1: to do nothing for us. There's no white horse coming down.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing coming to save us. If you won't save
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  Speaker 1: and you got to save yourself, he's giving us. He's
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  Speaker 1: given us things. He's given us everything that we needed.
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  Speaker 1: That breath that he breathed in us, y'all, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: learn how to tap into that that's in us. God
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  Speaker 1: he left us the greatest comfort. He left us the
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  Speaker 1: greatest thing that could come to this earth, y'ad, and
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  Speaker 1: that was Jesus that came, that hung on that cross,
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  Speaker 1: that bought those nails for us so that we would
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  Speaker 1: have the right to eternal life. We gotta practice gratitude, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta give thanks in all circumstances and notice blessings
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  Speaker 1: each day. Don't don't just give him praise when when
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  Speaker 1: you can see stuff going on you When when when
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  Speaker 1: you think you're being blessed. Every day is a blessing
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  Speaker 1: and every day you should receive a promise because He
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  Speaker 1: promised us that. So every day you should wake up
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  Speaker 1: expecting to receive something from God. But you gotta do
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  Speaker 1: the work too, So practice gratitude, be thankful for those
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  Speaker 1: little things. Now, get you a journal, Write down those
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  Speaker 1: little things. Write them down so that you can keep trying,
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  Speaker 1: so that you can witness to others and show people
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  Speaker 1: that God is yet working, that he's yet moving, that
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  Speaker 1: he's yet on the throne. I can go down the list,
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  Speaker 1: I can go down on our proudness, and I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you what God has done. I've seen them deliver
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  Speaker 1: people from cancer. I've seen them raised people up off
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  Speaker 1: they stick bait. Ain't nothing nobody told me, but something
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  Speaker 1: that I've witnessed and something that I've endured myself. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta be courageous and kind, face every challenge with
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  Speaker 1: courage and compassion. But we got to extend kindness and
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness to others. See, that's what we are. That's where
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us lack at. We're so easy to
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  Speaker 1: find fault in others, but we're so quick to be
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  Speaker 1: envy and jealous and to carry around hate and to
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  Speaker 1: carry around envy and strife than to forgive someone, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: For kidness is not always for the person that you're forgiving,
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  Speaker 1: but it's for you, so that you don't hinder your blessing,
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  Speaker 1: So that you don't block your blessing, so that you
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  Speaker 1: don't you don't keep those things that God want you
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  Speaker 1: to have. You go over to Joshua one to nine
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  Speaker 1: in the Pesian four thirty two, y'all, He wants you
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  Speaker 1: to shine your light so bright. You gotta live your
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  Speaker 1: life as an example, inspiring and serving others with your gifts.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't give it to us to sit down on
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Some of y'all supposed to be writing books. Some of
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  Speaker 1: y'all are supposed to be doing podcast. There's so much
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  Speaker 1: stuff that we're supposed to be doing. But yet we
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: sit down on the things that God has called us to.
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  Speaker 1: But we can make excuses. I watch people every day
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  Speaker 1: make an excuse for why they can't do this, and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: why they can't do this, and why they can't do this.
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  Speaker 1: But I see people that are lyne on their bed
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  Speaker 1: of affliction, but yet they show up and I'll never
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  Speaker 1: stopped talking about Minister album. Profit of this album. That
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  Speaker 1: lady from her bed, from a hospital bed, she get
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  Speaker 1: on her podcast every single two weeks, every week that
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  Speaker 1: she's scheduled to get on, every first and third Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: she show up and she's sharing the word of God
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  Speaker 1: from her bed of affliction. She had a massive stroke
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  Speaker 1: four years ago, almost five years ago, but she never
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  Speaker 1: stopped sharing the word of God. She never stopped trusting
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  Speaker 1: him because he said he's gonna raise her up. But
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  Speaker 1: it's something that she gotta go through, she got to
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  Speaker 1: endure it, and she's ending it with joy. She's not complaining,
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  Speaker 1: she's not making excuses, she's not looking for a pity party.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: The woman has done over three hundred interviews on others
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  Speaker 1: podcasts while holding down her own party cast. But yet
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: some of y'all got use of all your limbs, can walk,
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  Speaker 1: can get around with no problem, But yet you make
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  Speaker 1: simple excuses. Excuses are for the incompany. Stop making excuses
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  Speaker 1: and be about his business. Because Jesus made no excuse
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  Speaker 1: when he hung on that cross for us. He didn't quit,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't give up, He didn't make excuses. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: blame school, he didn't blame he didn't blame disabilities, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't blame none of that when he hung on that
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  Speaker 1: cross for us. But yet we make up excuses about anything.
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  Speaker 1: We can't show up. We don't show up for others
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  Speaker 1: because we can't show up for ourselves. But He's given
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  Speaker 1: us gifts and talents, and they're not just to be
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  Speaker 1: sit down on. Some of y'all don't know the power
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  Speaker 1: that you possess. There's things that you have been doing
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  Speaker 1: or things that you have went through that can help
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  Speaker 1: somebody else get through what they're going through. But yet
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  Speaker 1: you sit down on that that He is done for you, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Won't sit down on what God has done for me
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  Speaker 1: because He's been too good to me. Y'all. I am
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  Speaker 1: a survivor. I've tried to unlive myself so many times.
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  Speaker 1: I lost track because I was in a dark place.
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  Speaker 1: I was in a place that I didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: how I got there. I had to go see psychiatrists.
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  Speaker 1: I had to see therapists. Y'all. It's help out there
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  Speaker 1: if you want it. He is putting all these people
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  Speaker 1: in place because he knew what we were gonna need. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: There people say, oh, go pray you this, you gotta
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: be strong. No, He's put people in place so that
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  Speaker 1: if you need to go talk to somebody, you can
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: go talk to somebody. Or a lot of people say, oh,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I don't want to go talk to them other people
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: because they don't understand what I've been through with Guess what,
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  Speaker 1: He's people that look like you, that can reference what
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  Speaker 1: you've been through, that understands what you've been through. He
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  Speaker 1: did not put us on this journey to be alone.
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  Speaker 1: But y'all, there's people that are coming after us, that
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  Speaker 1: are gonna need to hear these testimonents, that are gonna
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  Speaker 1: need to know these things. How would they know because
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  Speaker 1: we can't add to the Bible. That's why He give
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  Speaker 1: us these podcasts. He give us these live platforms. He
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  Speaker 1: give us books here, He give us journals. He give
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  Speaker 1: us things that we can put in place, that can
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  Speaker 1: be archive, that can be available for people to have. Y'all,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: stop sitting down on the gifts. Stop sitting down on
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  Speaker 1: the things that God has called you to do. He say,
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  Speaker 1: we got to shine our light. We got to be
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: a living example, inspiring and serving others with our gifts.
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  Speaker 1: And if you if you don't know, go over to
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  Speaker 1: a first Peter four and ten, math through five, fourteen
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  Speaker 1: through sixteen. Read it for yourself. Get an understanding for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to release worry and embrace the peace. Surrender
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  Speaker 1: your anxiety and choose God's peace, trusting that He will
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  Speaker 1: carry every burden. All you got to do is lay
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  Speaker 1: it upon his feet, he said in Philippians four six
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  Speaker 1: and seven Matthew six thirty four. Y'all is time to
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  Speaker 1: reset that with accountability. Find you someone that's gonna encourage you,
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  Speaker 1: someone that's gonna uplift you, someone that's gonna be rooting
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  Speaker 1: for you, someone that's gonna be praying for you. If
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: you don't have friends that are praying and not p
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  Speaker 1: r e y because we know that there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people out here that prey on you. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about those that will truly go to battle,
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  Speaker 1: that are truly stand flat footed and seek God for you.
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  Speaker 1: And if you need to join a prayer, a prayer group, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we have one every morning at five am, serving leaders
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  Speaker 1: prayer line. We've been on the We've been on the
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  Speaker 1: wall going on six years. February would be six years.
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  Speaker 1: And if you need if you need that point of contact,
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  Speaker 1: if you need someone to touch and agree with you,
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  Speaker 1: join us at five am. Y'all. We got to start
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  Speaker 1: our day off right. It may be a sacrifice, but
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  Speaker 1: it's worth a sacrifice. At least you're you're you're connecting
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  Speaker 1: with some of you're connecting with other people that are
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: praying for you constantly, he said. Reflect on your journey,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: release what's behind you, and step into each new season
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  Speaker 1: with intention and community support. You not on this journey
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  Speaker 1: by yourself. Go over to Ecclesiasts three and one Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: ten twenty four through twenty five. So it's time to reflect, release,
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  Speaker 1: and reset. Take time today, sit back and reflect on
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  Speaker 1: what you have been through. Some may be good, something
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  Speaker 1: may be bad. But it's time to release those things.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to reset, you gotta release those things.
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  Speaker 1: And y'all, as we close this month, take time to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: reflect on how far you have come the small things,
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  Speaker 1: release what no longer serves you, and reset your spirit
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  Speaker 1: to walk boldly in your future. God has a plan
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  Speaker 1: for you. He said it in Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Let these troops continue to guide your day in your decision.
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  Speaker 1: I invite you guys to come back on tomorrow as
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  Speaker 1: we can continue our journey with a special session that's
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  Speaker 1: focused on intentionality and accountability. Come ready to reset your
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  Speaker 1: goals and move forward on purpose with purpose. This weekend, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be focused on practical applications, putting what
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  Speaker 1: we have learned into actionable steps for real life transformation.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Come ready to put your faith in practice. Sunday, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to dedicate this day to meditation and reflection. We're
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: gonna pause, reflect, and renew our commitment to God as
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  Speaker 1: we give thanks for His faithfulness and his guidance throughout
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  Speaker 1: this month, and y'all, as we embark upon our new journey,
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  Speaker 1: this journey, this new devotion is God is my refuge
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  Speaker 1: and my present help. We're gonna journey through this. This
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  Speaker 1: is a twenty one day journey and we're gonna do this.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna be trusted in God that each day
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  Speaker 1: we will be filled with encouragement, scripture, and fresh hope.
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  Speaker 1: I invite you to invite a friend to join you
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  Speaker 1: on this journey as we're seeking God's presence and discovering
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  Speaker 1: strength in Him. I'll see you guys tomorrow for your
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: next breakthrough. It awaits you. Blessings, renews, y'all, It is
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: always there. I love y'all with the love of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: and there's nothing you can do about it. So I
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  Speaker 1: pray that your day is blessed beyond what you can
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  Speaker 1: see in the natural. I play that there's something that
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  Speaker 1: I've said on today that would encourage you to stay
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  Speaker 1: on this journey and would encourage you to share it
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  Speaker 1: with somebody else, y'all. I love y'all, and I pray
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  Speaker 1: that your day is blessed. Y'all have a great day
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  Speaker 1: in Christ. I love y'all all right,