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Gifts given by God [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Good morning, family, Good morning God, bless you. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the Morning DeVos. You Bro Sam Lopez aka DJ
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Speaker 1: Sam Rock So Winners with a Z dot Org, the
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Speaker 1: listeners that listen daily A. Men, I see the numbers
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Speaker 1: and they're encouraging. And men, I see the highs and
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Speaker 1: lows of all the listeners that come through by one
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Speaker 1: hundred to daily. Man, thank you so much for coming through.
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Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to serve. Amen, the community and for
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Speaker 1: those who are watching and listening or listening, welcome back,
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Speaker 1: Amen to the Morning Devo. I try to do these
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Speaker 1: Mondays through Fridays five thirty am me since standard time.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I show up to the studio a little later
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Speaker 1: than expected, Amen, but forgive me for that. I'm trying
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Speaker 1: my best to get into the studio on time. But listen,
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Speaker 1: we're here, Amen, and today we're talking about gifts, gifts
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Speaker 1: plural given by God. Amen. Holiday season and we're talking
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Speaker 1: about gifts given by God. Let's start there, Amen, Let's
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Speaker 1: try to reverse our way of thinking. Because I know
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Speaker 1: if you're like me. You're thinking, Man, how I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: do this. I'm gonna give to my kids, my wife,
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Speaker 1: my family members, my niece, my nephews and all that,
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Speaker 1: and I really like, literally, honestly, I don't got it
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Speaker 1: like that. Amen. Financially, I don't have it like that.
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Speaker 1: I can't give to everyone. But what I can give
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Speaker 1: is what God gave me, really gave me. I could
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Speaker 1: give the gifts that God has given. Amen. And it
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Speaker 1: release the stress. We shouldn't be stressed out during the holidays, Amen,
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Speaker 1: We should not. It should be a joyous occasion. It
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Speaker 1: should be a time of togetherness. It should be a
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Speaker 1: time of empowerment, a time of love, a time of grace.
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Speaker 1: It should be a time that we could just celebrate
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Speaker 1: the fact that we're still alive, that we have breath
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Speaker 1: in our lungs, Amen, And that we could smile, that
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Speaker 1: we could talk to one another, Amen. And that we
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Speaker 1: could share of the message that God has given us. Amen.
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Speaker 1: You share with me. I share with you. The holiday
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Speaker 1: season is truly given by the gifts of the Spirit,
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Speaker 1: the gift of God. Amen. So today gifts given by
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Speaker 1: God today on the morning devosin the Joyce, I see
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Speaker 1: you Good morning, God, bless you. Welcome back to the
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Speaker 1: morning devil. Amen. Is good to see you. Praise the Lord. Amen. Yes, literally,
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Speaker 1: let me see make sure the volume is good on
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Speaker 1: the thing. So let's go for it. Man. I'm excited
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Speaker 1: trying to get out of the spirit of scroogeness if
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Speaker 1: that's the thing, Amen. And I'm trying to really reimagine
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Speaker 1: the holiday season by way of the word Amen. So
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Speaker 1: you can help me do that and help me keep
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Speaker 1: a smile with my face during the holiday season. God
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Speaker 1: gives us gifts to reflect. Listen to this his love
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Speaker 1: and grace enabling us. You see the empowerment when we
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Speaker 1: see the gifts of God in our lives. It enables
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Speaker 1: us to live out our new identity in Christ and
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Speaker 1: to participate in His work on earth. Amazing cortnership. Right.
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Speaker 1: We don't have we don't have to force nothing in
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Speaker 1: our lives. We have what we need to live this
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Speaker 1: life out a man. And while we're living it out,
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Speaker 1: minding our own business, right, we're living out our salvation.
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Speaker 1: We're fear and trembling, we're working it out. People recognize that, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and the gifts of God will be presented and enable
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Speaker 1: us to present to other people strangers, family members, friends, workers,
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Speaker 1: that at your workplace, school students, if you're a boss
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Speaker 1: to your employees, if you're an employee to your boss.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean. It goes all around. And
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Speaker 1: love a man because God is love man. So thank
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Speaker 1: you so much for blessing my listener, sister Joyce. I
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Speaker 1: really am grateful for that, and I'm sure people could
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Speaker 1: use some blessings. I could use some blessings too from
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Speaker 1: your sisters. So thank you so much. So let's go
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Speaker 1: for If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or any
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Speaker 1: prayer requests, don't hesitate to leave it on the live chat.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're here for. When I hear the debate,
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Speaker 1: when I here to argue, We're here to show love, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and to really encourage you to get into the Word
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Speaker 1: of God, to devote some time the first part of
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Speaker 1: your day to the Lord. It really started your day
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Speaker 1: in the right direction. Amen. I can't tell you it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a perfect day, but I can tell you
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good day when you put the
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Speaker 1: goodness of God in your mind, in your heart, and
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Speaker 1: then you speak His word out and then after that
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Speaker 1: you appli as words NonStop. You are unstoppable, you are
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Speaker 1: awesome the way God made you. Amen. Ephesians chapter two,
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Speaker 1: verses eight and nine. Ephesians, Chapter number two, verses eight
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Speaker 1: and nine. That's where we're gonna be at today. I
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Speaker 1: was starting port for the morning Devo. We're gonna pray first.
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Speaker 1: After we pray, we'll share this out for like sixty seconds.
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Speaker 1: Help a brother share this out, help us break this algorithm, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and spread this out to as many people who are
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Speaker 1: available to listen or to watch a man at their convenience.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they're watching live with us. Maybe you're listening live,
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Speaker 1: maybe you're watching live. Amen, whatever the case, Welcome to
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Speaker 1: the morning Devo. This is a safe place, a place
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Speaker 1: where God is revealing himself, Amen. A place where we
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Speaker 1: put Jesus high and lifted up where he belongs, Amen.
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Speaker 1: And a place where we just show love and kindness.
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Speaker 1: And the kindness of God is a gift that we have.
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Speaker 1: And the kindness of God leads men to repent, women
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Speaker 1: to repent. Turn from your wickedness and turn to the
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Speaker 1: righteousness of God. I did it. You know so many
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Speaker 1: people online that did it. I know brothers and sisters
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Speaker 1: that have done it, and it's the best choice we made. Right,
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Speaker 1: we stopped what we were doing that was pleasing the flesh.
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Speaker 1: The flesh was like, yes, hooray, having a party. And
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Speaker 1: then we stopped. And then we said wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: and we turned once we made that one to eighty
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Speaker 1: degree turn, and we turned to the Lord and asked
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Speaker 1: Jesus to forgive us, to save us, to rescue us.
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Speaker 1: Our lives have never been the same, and most of us,
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Speaker 1: if not all of us, most of us have never
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Speaker 1: turned back there like you look back and it's like
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Speaker 1: a dusty road. Right. You're living in the newness and
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Speaker 1: your new identity in Jesus Christ. And Jesus enables us.
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Speaker 1: God enables us. The Father enables us to do that
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Speaker 1: daily in our lives. Gifts given by God Father. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for your gifts that you give us graciously and abundantly.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for doing what you have done,
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Speaker 1: giving us gifts that we could share. And it doesn't
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Speaker 1: cost us a penny to share love, kindness, grace, mercy,
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Speaker 1: to share hope with somebody, to smile at somebody, to
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Speaker 1: hug somebody. Thank you, lo God for the gifts that
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Speaker 1: you have given us, and we could just trust in
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Speaker 1: those gifts all the way through the holiday season. And
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Speaker 1: the challenge is that we could do this from January
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Speaker 1: to next December, that we could do this every day
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Speaker 1: every month, and we could celebrate and be the most
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Speaker 1: celebrated people or the most celebratory people on this planet
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Speaker 1: Earth because we have the one that we're celebrating living
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Speaker 1: inside of us by way of Holy Spirit. Thank you Lord,
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Speaker 1: I'm so grateful. I'm thankful for every single person that's
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Speaker 1: connecting now who will connect later. I pray peace over
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Speaker 1: their hearts and minds, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: Lord God for healing us. Thank you, Lord God for
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Speaker 1: protecting us. Thank you Lord God for encouraging us, amen
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Speaker 1: and giving us a new day and a new start.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord God for your promises of abundant living.
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Speaker 1: And I thank you, Lord God for your gifts. I
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Speaker 1: pray by faith that every single person will be empowered
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Speaker 1: by your Holy Spirit today to move forward in victory
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Speaker 1: with a big old smile on our face, knowing that
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Speaker 1: we are able to do what you call us to do,
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Speaker 1: and you give us the power to get it done.
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Speaker 1: In Jesus name, my prayer is by faith, and those
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Speaker 1: who agree we say Amen and Amen. I see my
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Speaker 1: sister Joey, and good morning, God bless you. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the morning Devo, my sister, my friend. And also
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Speaker 1: see my sister Nilsa. God bless you, my sister, God
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Speaker 1: bless you, and thank you for coming through to the
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Speaker 1: morning Devo. It's good to see you, my sister, my friends.
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Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Help me share this outmen
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Speaker 1: for sixty seconds. When we come back, we'll get right
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Speaker 1: into gifts given by God Ephesians, chapter number two, Verses
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Speaker 1: eight and nine. I'll be right back abou a lot
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Speaker 1: of groups that I'm sharing on. Amen. I gotta get
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Speaker 1: quicker with that. So let's go for it. Let's share
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Speaker 1: this out for like I was gonna say, for like
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Speaker 1: say text, we already did that. I'm thinking about the
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Speaker 1: time that I didn't have to share it out for
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Speaker 1: all my group members. So if you know of an app,
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Speaker 1: I've been asking this for a while, If you know
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Speaker 1: of an app that allows you to share your live
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Speaker 1: stream so all the groups that you're part of all
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Speaker 1: at one time I'm sending my way, I would be
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Speaker 1: grateful for that information. Because this is very difficult to
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Speaker 1: share without somebody else helping me share this out. That's
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Speaker 1: why I love for you to share this out to
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Speaker 1: your community as well, and we can do this. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Together is better. So let's see what we have today,
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Speaker 1: Ephesians chapter nine. I'm gonna put it on a screen.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a word for word. Thank you outreach
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Speaker 1: network over there. Allow me to share New Jerusalem Holy
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Speaker 1: Christ Evangelism from India on the check in as well. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start shouting y'all out when y'all start coming
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Speaker 1: in to the morning deal. Amen. Thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for those communities that came through, Amen, that continue to
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Speaker 1: come through. As we're speaking and as we're streaming live. Amen,
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Speaker 1: I'm grateful for your time, and I thank you that
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Speaker 1: you have trusted this ministry to be a part of
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Speaker 1: and allowing this ministry to be shared on your network.
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Speaker 1: Really am grateful for that, and I respect that because
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Speaker 1: I know we all have to be careful of what
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Speaker 1: we're sharing, right especially on social media. I'm the same way,
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Speaker 1: so I'm mindful and I'm careful of what I share
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Speaker 1: in my groups as well. So thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: I'm really humbled by that. Let's go for it. Let's
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Speaker 1: put this on the screen. Amen. Gearts given by God.
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Speaker 1: So I try to make this all festive in the
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Speaker 1: holiday season. I'm trying to break the screws spirit off
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Speaker 1: my life. Help me pray for me. Amen. I love Jesus,
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Speaker 1: I love God of course, Amen. And I love Holy Spirit,
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Speaker 1: God who lives in me. The commercialism of the holiday
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Speaker 1: season is what I come again in Jesus' name, because
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Speaker 1: it's not all about what we could get, is all
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Speaker 1: about what we could give. We have the gifts given
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Speaker 1: by God to freely give out. Humanity needs a savior.
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Speaker 1: Humanity needs Jesus. Our kids need the Lord. Amen. Our
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Speaker 1: relatives need the Lord. Our parents need the Lord. Our cousins,
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Speaker 1: our uncles, our aunts, our grandparents, every single person that's
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Speaker 1: connected to us needs the Lord. So the gifts that
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Speaker 1: God gives us, Amen, we should be giving it to them. Man.
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Speaker 1: Whether if they receive it or not, hey, that's up
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Speaker 1: to them. But as long as we're giving them out freely. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Nobody could say that we did not share the Gospel
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Speaker 1: message with our loved ones. Amen. That would be a
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Speaker 1: nightmare for me that I wake up one day and
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Speaker 1: one of my loved ones are gone, and I never
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Speaker 1: shared the kindness of God with them or the Gospel
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Speaker 1: of Jesus with them. Amen. Had an opportunity to share
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Speaker 1: with my cousin that I haven't seen for over I
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Speaker 1: would say, thirty years. Over thirty years when his dad,
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Speaker 1: my great uncle, passed before we went in to see him,
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Speaker 1: and when he was in the hospital, I shared the
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Speaker 1: gospel message with my cousin. Hopefully that penetrated his heart
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Speaker 1: and it did something. Amen, Just trusting in God by
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Speaker 1: way of Holy Spirit. The Fasians, Chapter two, verses eight
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Speaker 1: and nine. For it is by grace God's remarkable compassion
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Speaker 1: and favor drawing you to Christ. I love that is
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Speaker 1: remarkable compassion, Amen, and favor drawing you to Christ. That
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Speaker 1: you have been saved, actually delivered from judgment and given
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Speaker 1: eternal life. That's what we're saved from. We're saved from
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Speaker 1: God's wrath and his judgment, and we have eternal life
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Speaker 1: now with Him. Because regardless we could have whether you're
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Speaker 1: trust in the Lord or not, you could still have
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Speaker 1: eternal life. But one destination is with Him and the
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Speaker 1: other destination is without Him. For all eternity That's why
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Speaker 1: this really matters. Make a choice, Make a decision, and
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Speaker 1: I hope you choose Christ. That you have been saved
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Speaker 1: through faith. And this salvation is not of yourselves, not
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Speaker 1: through your own effort, please Lord teach us. But it
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Speaker 1: is the undeserved gracious gift of God, not as a
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Speaker 1: result of your works, nor your attempts to keep the law.
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Speaker 1: Shall I told themout Israelite brothers, nor your attempts to
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Speaker 1: keep the law, so that no one will be able
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Speaker 1: to boast or take credit in any way for his salvation.
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Speaker 1: It's a life here, man, It's plain right here. I
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Speaker 1: can see it. Do you see it that we can't
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Speaker 1: do nothing to earn this salvation, this gift from God.
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Speaker 1: This is all by grace, This is all because He
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Speaker 1: loves us. This is all a gracious gift of God.
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Speaker 1: This is nowhere we can say that we had a
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Speaker 1: part of this, other than saying yes to the salvation message,
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Speaker 1: yes to the Gospel, and other than us going to
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Speaker 1: the Lord asking God to forgive us. He has done
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Speaker 1: all the work that was necessary for us to be credited.
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Speaker 1: This new way of life, this salvation, this saving knowledge,
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Speaker 1: It's a gift from God. Nothing we can do to
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Speaker 1: boast about it, nothing that I could say to say, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I deserved this. I literally knew a young brother in
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Speaker 1: Christ when he was young in the Lord. He said
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Speaker 1: that God needed him, needed him, That's why he saved him.
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Speaker 1: He needed him to go reach the people. Man, he
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Speaker 1: was so full of zeal and I had to say
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Speaker 1: hold on because he was taking credit. He was actually
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Speaker 1: saying that God needed him, so he was taking credit
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Speaker 1: for being saved. And you know he was jealous. I
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Speaker 1: know I was a lot more zealous than I am now.
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Speaker 1: When I first got saved. I was going out there
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Speaker 1: not knowing what I know now, amen, And I was
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Speaker 1: real dangerous. I was really religious a man when I
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Speaker 1: was approaching my family, approaching people on the street, approaching
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Speaker 1: my friends, and they were getting turned off with my
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Speaker 1: religious attitude. And then Jesus had to or he sat
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Speaker 1: down in the church to get schooled, to get discipled
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Speaker 1: by some men of God, a man that were in
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Speaker 1: that they were saved. They were in the Kingdom of
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Speaker 1: God much more longer than I was. So I sat
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Speaker 1: down and calmed down and listened. A man that really
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Speaker 1: helped me out a lot. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: I met a man while I was working in this
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Speaker 1: company in the locker room of this company, well known company.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's still there, but it was
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Speaker 1: there for years and years and years. And he was
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Speaker 1: probably in his mid sixties, late fifties, mid sixties, early sixties,
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Speaker 1: and I was an older man, and he invited me
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Speaker 1: to a breakface with his brothers in Christ. Amen, because
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Speaker 1: he kind of saw the zeal on me when he
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Speaker 1: asked me, are you saving born? Against said yes and
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Speaker 1: started giving him what I knew. And I think he
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Speaker 1: realized that I was like I was out of bounds
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Speaker 1: when I first got saved. And then he actually invited
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Speaker 1: me to his breakfast and I went a couple of times,
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Speaker 1: and I was so blessed. And the funny thing about it,
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Speaker 1: it was a gift that he was giving me that
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Speaker 1: I needed at the time. And I still need the
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Speaker 1: gift of kindness to givet love, the gift of togetherness
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Speaker 1: and unity. It's a beautiful gift that God gives us
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Speaker 1: to brothers and sisters and the Lord. I'm so blessed, Amen,
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Speaker 1: I hear that song, I'm so blessed, Hallelujah, I'm blessed
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Speaker 1: I'm blessed. You're blessed because we had the gifts that
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Speaker 1: God has given us. Right, so let's share those gifts.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't cost you a dying Amen. So the stress of
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Speaker 1: the hustle and bustle, how I'm gonna get this and that.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start writing down hammer and letters, sending them
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Speaker 1: away to my family members. I'm gonna start texting more.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start calling more. I'm gonna start showing up more.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try my best to do that. Those things
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Speaker 1: are more powerful and last long. You know, a memory
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Speaker 1: lasts longer than a gift. Sometimes some gifts last forever
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Speaker 1: right the way after we're done. But a memory while
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Speaker 1: we're alive, It's like giving flowers to our loved ones
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Speaker 1: while we're still alive, instead of giving flowers sending flowers
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Speaker 1: to me or to your family member or to my
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Speaker 1: family members when they're not even here anymore. Let's do that.
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Speaker 1: Let's be the gifts that God has given us. Let's
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Speaker 1: be the gifts to somebody else, a man. Let's be
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Speaker 1: the gift that'll be a great thing to do, a
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Speaker 1: great challenge for me as I come against this screwged
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Speaker 1: spirit during the holiday season to help me. Lord, Amen,
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Speaker 1: I'm ready for the challenge. Let me see if I
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Speaker 1: could get my notes, because it's like my iPad updated
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Speaker 1: and when it updates, you know anything about Apple sometimes
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Speaker 1: erases memory. Yep, and erased my whole memory. So let's
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Speaker 1: see if I could get it forgive me. Thank you
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Speaker 1: for your patience. Let's see. Let's see if I could
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Speaker 1: get it. Nope, Op, let's see if I could get
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Speaker 1: my my notes back. And thought this was happening. I
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Speaker 1: cringed just last night when I saw the update. I
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Speaker 1: was like, uh oh, So let's see. I'll get it now,
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Speaker 1: I said, I wrote guts to set of gifts. I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to get my notes back. It's from God, that's
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Speaker 1: what we're talking about today, and my notes should pop
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Speaker 1: up hopefully, and didn't erase everything outs of my memory
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Speaker 1: bank yep. So the New Testament, we just read a
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Speaker 1: scripture out of the New Covenant. Amen. It really tells
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Speaker 1: us that God wants us to be a gift. He
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Speaker 1: gives us gifts so we could share these gifts, not
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Speaker 1: so that way we can hoard these gifts. Right. His
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Speaker 1: grace is various gifts to believers you know what. The
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Speaker 1: grace of God is so powerful that when we see
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Speaker 1: our brothers sisters in sin and they're hiding at whatever,
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Speaker 1: my pastor had a powerful message, got moved, and she
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Speaker 1: literally was functioned by Holy Spirit to call some things
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Speaker 1: out that normally church will not deal with. And man,
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Speaker 1: but filled with the Holy Spirit, she calls our people
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Speaker 1: who are addicted to marijuana, people who are hiding sin
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Speaker 1: and showing up to worship at church a man. She
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Speaker 1: literally went there because Holy Spirit loves us so much,
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Speaker 1: doesn't want us to stay stuck in our sin, doesn't
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Speaker 1: want us to stay stuck in darkness. He wants to come.
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Speaker 1: He wants us to bring us from that darkness out
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Speaker 1: to His marvelous light. It happens in the church, to
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Speaker 1: be a people that forgive people of grace and mercy. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Because it could happen, It could happen in our minds,
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Speaker 1: it could happen in a church building, It could happen
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Speaker 1: anywhere that we could slide into some areas of darkness.
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Speaker 1: But God, with his grace and his gifts, calls us
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Speaker 1: out of those dark places. Amen. The New Testament shows
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Speaker 1: us that one of the most significant significant gifts is
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Speaker 1: the gift of salvation. That's why I wanted to read
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Speaker 1: Ephesian Shot. The number two verses eighty nine is by grace. Amen.
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Speaker 1: If God saved us by grace, there's something there that
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Speaker 1: we should be knowing about grace and that God saved
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Speaker 1: us by grace, So we should have grace in our hearts,
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Speaker 1: in our minds. We should be giving gifts of God
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Speaker 1: by grace and not by compulsion, manipulation, not forcing anything
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Speaker 1: on somebody else. Know, it's by grace. This gift of
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Speaker 1: God is by grace. We can't boast about it. There's
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Speaker 1: nothing we could do to work out our own salvation
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Speaker 1: by ourselves. Amen. The gift of God was received, He
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Speaker 1: was given by God. We received the gifts of God,
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Speaker 1: and we share the gifts of God. Amen. It's not
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Speaker 1: just in a church building, in a church community. It's
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Speaker 1: not just in ministries and ministers, apostles, evangelists, prophets, pastors, teachers.
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Speaker 1: Those are not the only people that have the gifts
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Speaker 1: of God. You have to give to God. I have
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Speaker 1: the gift to God. We keep it moving in victorious ways,
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Speaker 1: right and loving ways and kind ways. God has given
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Speaker 1: us the Holy Spirit who dwells within us and empowers,
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Speaker 1: enables us, empowers us to live the Christian life. We
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Speaker 1: can't live this Christian life without the power of Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 1: I don't suggest you try it. They mean it's not
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Speaker 1: gonna work. So, my brothers and sisters that are in
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Speaker 1: so other kinds of Christianity. Amen. Without the Holy Spirit,
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Speaker 1: you ain't You ain't really filled with the Holy Ghost.
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Speaker 1: That means you ain't feel the God and you don't
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Speaker 1: have God's power. I'm just telling you the truth of
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Speaker 1: the Gospel, a man, the truth for the Bible. If
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Speaker 1: you're going around saying there is no Holy Spirit or
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, just a force or the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: is your preacher that you go to see you're not
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Speaker 1: in the scriptures, is the right way. You're being deceived
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Speaker 1: somehow by another spirit another gospel. Brother, Frank, I see you,
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Speaker 1: good morning, God bless you and everybody who's listening. So
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Speaker 1: the listeners listen to this. My brother fran Gonzales sends
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Speaker 1: all the listeners are blessing cause you can't see his
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Speaker 1: message on the screen like I could see it. But
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Speaker 1: he sends you a blessing. So receive that blessing. And
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Speaker 1: that's a gift, and because he has the gift for God,
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Speaker 1: he's sharing the gift. It's called kindness, encouragement, it's called
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Speaker 1: getting into the word. It's calling Holy Spirit, God moving us,
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Speaker 1: connecting us togetherness, uniting us, Amen, forgiving one another, repenting.
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Speaker 1: All of it are gifts of God. Because on our
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Speaker 1: own the Bible's clear, we can't do it. I guarantee
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Speaker 1: you that if I try to be rogue Christian and
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Speaker 1: try to get off this path and try to do
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Speaker 1: my own thing, God will shut it down so quick.
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Speaker 1: You won't allow me to do none of that nonsense.
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Speaker 1: You won't allow me to get on here and start
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Speaker 1: profilying over people and start saying if you know so
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Speaker 1: and too disministry, you or your family won't be blessed.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to say because of you and your donations,
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Speaker 1: this ministry exists. I can't say none of that. It's
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Speaker 1: not true. Amen. It doesn't work that way, not in
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Speaker 1: my life. Amen. And all those preachers out there that
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Speaker 1: are doing that on TV and on radio that I'm
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Speaker 1: manipulating the people and they're deceiving people and using scriptures
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Speaker 1: out of context. They need to repent, and the kindness
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Speaker 1: of God will lead them to repent, not the yelling
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Speaker 1: and screaming and not the finger pointing. But there's a big,
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Speaker 1: major Christian television network that's in a big trouble right now,
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Speaker 1: a family squabble, and we're all watching, and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus, help that family. Let's do this the right
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Speaker 1: way and show the world how we could get things
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Speaker 1: right together. It's not about money, it's not about fame,
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Speaker 1: its not about anything else. It's all about the gifts
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Speaker 1: that God has given. Amen. And when we live that way,
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Speaker 1: we have that attitude, I think we'll be on the
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Speaker 1: right path for longer than people who think will be
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Speaker 1: on the right path. So God is equipped each believer
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Speaker 1: with spiritual gifts. We'll get to that, Lord willing tomorrow, Amen.
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Speaker 1: But I just wanted to spark up your attention about
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Speaker 1: the gifts that God has given a Manufesian chapter two.
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Speaker 1: Read the whole chapter for yourself. I'm out of time
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Speaker 1: while that went fast, So God bless you. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for hanging out with me for this morning. Devo.
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Speaker 1: I pray a blessing over you. God bless you all.
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Speaker 1: Got to keep you all and remember always that God
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Speaker 1: is good peace, Abou