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Prayer Journal [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Good morning, family, Good morning, God, bless you. Welcome back
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to the morning devote you. Bro Sam Lopez aka DJ Sandbrox so Win is
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with a Z the RG the Celebrator Network, the Lehigh Valley's number one urban
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gospel music station online since two thousand and eight. Believe it a man that
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was still here, all glory to God. Man, I can take no
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credit other than being available, being willing to take the risk and take the
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chance, and take the opportunity. Amen, and be a blessing to some
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people, Amen, and to others just be an annoyance. But however you
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take it. Man, We've been here since two thousand and eight, and
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God called me out to do what I'm doing right now. Amen. And
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I'm so glad and grateful that he gave me the responsibility of doing these morning
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devotions, Amen, and running this radio network and this online media ministry.
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So today gonna talk about a prayer journal, something that maybe you already have
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been doing. I didn't know I was doing some kind of a journal way
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back before I was saved. Until after I got saved. I was like,
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what am I doing? Because when I came out here in from New
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York and I moved to Pennsylvania in the nineties. When my son was only
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two years old, I realized that I wrote a journal, write a book.
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I gave it to him a couple of years ago of every single thing
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that I did from the time I moved to New York all the way for
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like maybe I want to say, close to close to eight years later or
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and worked for word my thoughts the process. I was going through everything.
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I wrote it all down and that was just about my life. And I
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realized when I got born again, when I got saved, I realized what
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I was writing. I was writing a journal, Amen, a prayer journal,
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a life journal. But then when I got into Christ, Christ got
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into my life. Amen. I started writing out prayers Amen. And seeing
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those prayers come to pass is encouraging, Like it really lights up my life.
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I like, Man, I remember I prayed this like ten years ago,
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and look what happened. I remember I prayed for this situation, and
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look what happened. I remember I prayed for that person, this person,
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that person, that family, and look what happened. Amen. I remember
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one time I went to an abandoned lot, a lot where they were building
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homes, and God inspired me encouraged me to pray for the ground for that
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lot for a certain family, and I was like, Okay, which lot
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is it. There was a lot to the left, it was a lot
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to the right, and literally I heard the Lord say, prayed to the
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lot on the right, lay your hands on that ground where they're going to
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build this home for this family. And I trusted God. I know,
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people probably thought I was crazy. It got to my knees touched the ground
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I was praying, and then that lot of that land that I prayed for
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became a house for a family that I'm still in connection with to this every
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day. And I was way back years ago, maybe two thousand and four
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or five six around there. Amen, And and it's still there. The
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house is still there, and the family still there. So write it down.
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And I wrote that down. I remember it because I wrote it down.
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Write it down, Write your prayer request down, write your prayers down,
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write your thoughts down. Write it all down, and then look at
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it years later and see if there hasn't has been a touch of God to
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move a God over those prayer journals and over those situations that you're writing.
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Amen, I'm gonna be using this as an example, because I couldn't find
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my latest prayer journal, Amen, that I haven't written it in a long
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time, to be honest, But I have one. I have several ones
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somewhere in my basement, but I can't find one now. But this is
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an exact ample, Amen, A marked out Bible with thoughts circles, amen,
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and little comments to myself to let me know what God is doing in
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my life at the moment. And you could journal that, write it down,
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make it plain, and the Bible speaks on that. We're going to
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talk about that today on the Morning Devo. Amen. And I know it's
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going to help you out because it helps me to stay on points, stay
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focused on what really matters, what's really important about your life and my life
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in Christ in God. So have you ever used a prayer journal? Do
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you feel that writing your prayers down is beneficial? Think about it? Is
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it beneficial? If it's not, you know, like I think that's a
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waste of time. Amen. You know that's I respect you know your opinion.
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I respect your thoughts on it, Amen. And because there's an opportunity
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here to check it out for yourself. I always suggest people just to do
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something that you normally would not do and trust God. Let's do the ordinary
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and trust God for the extra ordinary. Let let's do the ordinary and touch
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trust God for the supernatural. Let's do the natural and trust God for the
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supernatural. We're gonna be a Psalms chapter one hundred and forty one forty one
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versus one and two today in the morning Devo. If you have any questions,
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comments, concerns, or any prayer requests, don't hesitate to leave it
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on a live chat. That's what we're here for, amen, So don't
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be afraid. Amen, there's not gonna be any arguing, debating or none
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of that on the side of town over here. So one is with a
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z dot org and on the morning devo, so let's pray. After we
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pray, we'll share this out for like sixty seconds. Amen, help me
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share this out break the algorithm go to live that. So one is with
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a z dot org share that link. Share So win is with a LG
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share that link. Amen. Let me just really quickly share this to my
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group page because they change some things moving forward, so you got to share
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it manually now to the groups. So let's pray far that. Thank you
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Lord God, that You have given us an opportunity today, right now,
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right here, to start something that maybe we have never tried before, which
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is a prayer journal. Writing our prayer requests down, writing our prayers down,
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writing our thoughts, writing what's going on in our lives right now currently,
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and writing it down and praying over it as a journal, and watching
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your hand move and watching the power of your love, your grace, and
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your mercy move upon the prayer request, move upon the prayers, move upon
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the people, move upon our own lives. I pray, Holy Spirit,
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that you would continue to fill us with overflow, fill us with love,
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grace, mercy, fill us with hope, fill us with faith a greater
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measure of it daily, Lo God, and I pray, look, God,
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for every single one of the people, every single person right now that's
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listening or watching, that you would filled them with your spirit, that they
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would know there is hope in you, there is loving you, there's forgiveness
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in you, and there is salvation in you, and they can find peace
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in you in Christ, Oh God, that you will help us write it
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out and write it, make it plain, even if we have to record
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it on our phones, even if we have to write it down from our
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phones and the notes or how would we do it? Look God, that
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when we see this a year from now, when we see what we wrote
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down months from now, week from now, a year from now, ten
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years from now, and if we're in you, we will see a move
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of God. Things will not be the same things that we wrote down that
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when we were in trouble, when we were in tourmoril, when we were
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depressed, when we were struggling with temptation, or whatever the case may be.
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Years from now, weeks from now, days from now, it will
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not be the same because you will be able to touch those prayer requests and
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move in our hearts and move in our minds. I believe it. I
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receive it. I hope everyone on the other side of this mic and on
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the other side of the screen believes in it, receives it in the power
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powerful name of the Lord Jesus. I prayed this by faith, Amen and
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Amen. So let's go for it, Ladies and gentlemen, help me share
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this out. When we come back after sixty seconds, we'll get right into
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psngs one forty one, Verses one and two. I would write back,
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Amen, we're back or back let's go for let's see what the Word of
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God has for us today. Amen. I'm calling this my prayer journal.
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And man, you could just get a little padded like this even, Amen,
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and take out pen something to write with and write some things down.
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Man. Amen, I wrote in this one notes of eternal Life. You
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see, I'm not I'm not making it up, Notes of eternal Life.
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And then I just put my name and I dated it. Amen. And
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then let's have some you some notes that I took, Amen. And it
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could be verse, it could be a desire, it could be a prayer
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request, Amen, it could be something for someone else. Most of the
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things that I wrote down in my journals thus far have been really for other
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people. Prayers for myself of course, and my family of course, but
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it's not always me. And the sense of this prayer and the sense of
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that prayer journal is actually for other people, Amen, Because I believe in
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the power of prayer, and I believe that it's a humbling experience to actually
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take somebody's burden and take somebody's situation and take it to the Lord and prayer.
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I think that's humbling is not only gonna benefit me. When I see
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somebody blessed. Right, it's gonna benefit the people that we're praying for,
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obviously, So we're gonna be in Psalms one forty one versus one and two.
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Let me get this ready watching for those who are just come to the
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podcast. Welcome back to the live radio show, Amen, and welcome back
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to your listen to the listening ears. Amen. But you won't see obviously
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what we're gonna see on screen, but you're gonna hear word for word what
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we're actually reading, what we're actually talking about. Good morning, Sister Joyce,
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I see you. Good morning, God bless you. Praise the Lord.
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Yes, I'm trying to and I will praise the Lord daily as my
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daily opportunity to give God my praise. So thank you so much for coming
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through and your blessing to this ministry. God bless you. So let me
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put this on the screen. All right, there we go, Amen,
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here we go. Prayer journal on the morning Devo today. Amen, just
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write it down, make it plain right. Songs one for one versus wanted
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two. Lord, I call upon you, hurry to me. This is
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a desperation. Amen, hurry to me. Listen to my voice when I
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call to you let my prayer be counted as incense before you, the lifting
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up of my hands as the evening offering. Amen. And we got some
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reference versus to this in the New Covenant, in the New Testament for Simothy
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to eight Revelation A three, Amen and four. So Lord, I call
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upon you, hurry to me. Listen to my voice when I call to
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you. Amen, write it down, write your prayer, write your cry
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down, and write it all down a man. Don't be shy. God.
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Is that good? Amen? To listen and answer and respond to your
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requests. Amen. So let's let's try to hit up some of these reference
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scriptures here. I'm gonna try to go real quickly. I'm gonna go old
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school. I'm gonna just use a little bible and go to First Timothy chapter
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two, verse number eight. You can help me out if you get there
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first. Amen. Just put it up on the chat. First Timothy,
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chapter number two versus verse number eight. Amen. I'm trying to move these
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papers around quickly. They're getting stuck here. But hey man, we're gonna
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get to it. You get them papers. I love this sound of that.
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Amen. Chapter two. And let's see. Let me get off of
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here, Amen, and see wrong. One's see what's going on. So
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two verse number eight, Verse Timothy two and eight, the Bible says,
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I desired therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath
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and doubting. Wrath and doubting. Wow, I never seen those two words
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together too very often. A man without wrath and doubting, lift holy hands,
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man, pray, ask God to do what only he can do.
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That. You know, if we could have done it, we would have
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done it already, a man starting with us. Oh, God, change
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my heart, change my life. That's a great prayer. Because if I
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could have changed my heart and changed my life, and changed my mind,
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and changed my attitude and redeemed myself and saved myself, I would have.
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But since I realized in my life that I couldn't do it, I lifted
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up my hands. Amen they were holy? Then, well they're holy now
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because God calls us holy because He's holy. And Paul was telling young Timothy,
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I desired therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands with
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our wrath and doubting. When you have anger, all that stuff, and
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malice and hatred in your heart, amen, you're not really connecting with the
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living, holy, righteous God, he might not respond when we're at that
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situation where at that point in our hearts and minds that we have wrath and
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anger and all that, and we're praying. That's not really lifting holy hands.
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That's lifting the hands of flesh and asking a loving God to do an
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unloving thing to somebody else. Because usually if you're praying while you have wrath
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in your heart, Amen, I think that's impossible, number one. But
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if you are praying and trying hard to bring someone harm through a prayer to
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God with something there that's off. Amen. But with holy hands, lifting
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up holy hands, without the wrath and without doubting. Amen. Trust God.
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And when you do that and you're not doubting, Amen, write it
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down because those are opportunities that you have and that I have to know that
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I pray without doubting. I was telling a friend of mine, a brother
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in Christ, Amen, that I want the faith that I see children pray
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with. I mean young children. When you ask them to pray for something,
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they'll pray for it. They'll believe it like it's going to happen,
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because it is going to happen, Amen. And then they go back playing
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with their toys. I want that type of childlike faith, although I don't
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want a child like mine. Amen, Like I don't want a childish mind.
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I want a childlike faith. What about you? And I'll write it
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down. If I'm in a space where I need to just trust God,
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Amen, which is every day, by the way, I want the faith
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of a child a man. Just no doubt, no wrath, just pray
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and believe. And I believe those are powerful prayers. And write it down.
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Put in your journal. Revelation chapter eight, verses three and four.
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Revelation eight three and four, the Bible says, then another angel, having
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a golden censor, came and stood at the altar. He was given much
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incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints, of
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all the saints upon the golden altar, which was before the throne, and
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the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints ascended before God
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from the angel's hand. Amen. So these lifting an incense and lifting up
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the hands. Amen. It's all through the scriptures, so biblical. So
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God he's speaking, He's letting us know. So write something down in your
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prayer journal today. If you can get a book, get a piece of
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paper, a man going to your notepad on your phone and write something down,
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a man that's pressing on your heart. It could be a praise report.
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Amen, God, did this beautify think of my life? Write it
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down, Amen, because you're gonna have to go back to that when times
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of trouble comes, right, it's for encouragement. You're gonna have to go
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back to those signs when God did a thing and that you needed him to
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do, and it was because of him. Amen. That you pass a
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certain situation in your life that you're getting through. You're not just getting by,
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but you're going through life knowing that you could go to a living,
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holy, righteous Father in Heaven who loves you so much that he responds.
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Sometimes I ask God in some situations, just to look my way, Amen,
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just look my way, because I know just to look from the Lord
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Amen will be enough. Amen. Just to for a glimpse that God will
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just look our way. That will be mourning enough. Because God is that
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powerful God, is that holy God, is that loving God? Is that
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righteous God? Is that pure God? Is that holy? Amen? He's
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an amazing God. So when we put it down in a prayer, journal,
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write it down. Amen. Expect God to do the miraculous. Expect
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God to do the impossible. Amen, because if we could do it,
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we wouldn't need God. If we could do a thing, Amen, you
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can pray about it, but just do it. If you know you can
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do it. But if you know you can't. We're talking to a God
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who takes care of the impossibilities and makes it all possible. Amen. With
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God, all things are possible. Sister Joayne, good morning, God bless
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you. So sorry. I'm so tired. I overslept. I almost overslept
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too, sister, so I know the feeling. But God bless you.
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It's good to see you here and now. Amen. Amen. So sometimes
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when I sit down and pray, Oh sorry, sometimes I sit down and
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pray, my mind is not quiet enough Amen. And I'm still distracted.
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For whatever reason. I'm starting to notice as I get older, I get
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distract it quicker than I used to. A thousand thoughts swirling around my head
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on to do list, what I gotta do tomorrow, what I gotta do
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today, starts echoing in my Headtimes I'll look at the clock or look at
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the time I'm on my phone, be like, Man, I gotta go
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all these things, all these distractions. So if I ever remember anything else,
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is that imber. I have to remember this. If I ever remember
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anything, I need to stop looking at the time when I'm in prayer.
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I need to write down my prayers. I need to have a quiet time.
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Amen. I'm not going to say have more alone time with God.
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I believe we have alone time every single day. Let me explain, Holy
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Spirit, God living inside of me. Amen is alone time because every single
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moment of my life and my breathing life. Amen, he's with me.
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So I could call upon the Lord Amen, at any single time and have
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that alone time with him. We're all talking about prayer and writing down your
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prayer and journaling your life with the Lord. It's gonna come out to a
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movie. It's gonna be a book because you're gonna start writing some things down
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now and you get to quiet your spirit. Amen, And He's going to
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speak to our soul through what we wrote down and met If you can write,
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if you're not a good at writing, Amen, and reading, you
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could speak into your phone and man, you could speak into a device that
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will record your own voice literally, and when you have situations of life.
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Record it down, record it, and men save it in the recording,
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and then go back to it a week, a day, a month,
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a year. You're gonna need those encouraging moments in your life, because one
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day you're got to be discouraged, and then you need the encouragement of knowing
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that. Man, I remember, I wrote this down, or I spoke
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this on my phone, or I recorded this with my own voice. And
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look what happened. Look what God did. Look with God showed up,
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How he showed up. Amen. So you open up your maybe your phone,
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maybe open up a book, or take your Bible. I know a
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lot of people don't like to do this. I'm a bible man. I
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have all kinds of Bibles, Amen, And I just marked down my thoughts
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and the scriptures in the Bible right across or right near where I'm reading to
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the reference. Amen. If you look at my bibles, if you know
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me, Amen, just ask me. Sam, let me see one of
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your Bibles. You're gonna see it all marked up, you know. And
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I don't care how nice the Bible is, but you gonna see all marked
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up. You might even see tear marks on the pages because I write it
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down, and I make it plain. You should do the same thing.
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Man. It's powerful because when you go back to it, you'd be like,
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I remember that day, I remember the season I was in. I
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remember the time that I was facing these trials and difficulties. I remember when
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I used to do this, and I no longer do that no more.
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I remember I used to hang out with those people that were doing me dirty
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and wrong, and causing and triggering me to do dirty and wrong. I
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no no longer hang out with them. And some of them got saved,
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some of them are blessed by God. And saw mine a man, You
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wrote it down, and you're looking at it. You're looking at the past
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you Amen, that used to be doubting or maybe wrathful or angry, and
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now you're looking at the new you that God has been developing in your heart
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and in your life. One thing that's that's helpful, it's running your prayers
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down, even though you might not be able to do it every day.
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I suggest you start today and it will cause you to do it tomorrow.
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And then, Man, when you see a praise, a prayer request that
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you made that came to pass, you want to keep on writing this down.
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It's going to get to a place where, like, Man, I
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want to keep writing these things down because look, this one got answered,
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Amen, And I could show people, I could testify, I could praise
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God about it. I could show maybe a family that you know that look
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I pray this on this date because you could time and date it and look
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what God did, and they will give glory to your God, to my
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God. Amen. If they don't believe, they're gonna know that there's somebody
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praying. Right. The focus is not really what you're saying to God or
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what you're asking God. Amen. But the focus is that you take your
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collection of prayers to God. Amen. Like the Psalma said, I'm gonna
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lift up my hands, hear my voice, listen to me, Please God,
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you know, and ask God to listen to hear your prayer requests.
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When you write it down, Amen, is written in the life. In
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your life journal is written down, Amen, and you know where you were
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at that point, even if you have to remember what it was. You
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have it written down on a piece of paper or you have a recorded on
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a device. Amen. The verse that we read Amen was written by David
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Right. He wrote seventy three out of the one hundred and fifty of the
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songs, the prayers, the poems and hymns collected in the Book of Songs,
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that's a lot, right, And this song David called out to God
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asking him to hear his prayer and accept it as an offering. So how
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much more powerful do you think it is when you write down your requests and
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ask God to accept what you wrote down as an offering because He knows that
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you're attaching your belief. You're attaching your faith, you're writing it down,
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You're making it plain so that we could testify and say, man, I'm
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not thinking this thing up. I'm not making this thing up. Look I
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wrote it down, and look what God did. It's powerful. Love this
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amen, write the vision, make it clear in your heart and mind,
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and spare yes so that way you could go back to it and see what
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the loving, holy, righteous Father that we have in Heaven could do in
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your life. And you wrote it down, we have evidence, you have
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proof. So what I love about David and the other Psalmists is that they
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poured out their hearts to God on the page in front of them, because
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remember it's the written word. Some of these prayers express gratitude and praise someone
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laments that express deep pain and grief. Right. Many of the psalms the
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author is scared confused, while others the salmons is confident that the Lord will
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prevail. Right. So we see, like in Psalm twenty two, David
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alternates back and forth between crying out to God in deep anguish to praising God
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and expressing his faith and trust in him. Right. So we have King
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David expressing himself and then writing it down. We're reading it now, Amen,
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But he wrote it down, and he looked. He probably looked at
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it, Amen, years later and now he's in eternity and say, I'm
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glad I wrote it down. I'm glad I made it plain. I'm glad
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I called out to a living God, a guy who responded Amen to what
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I wrote, to what I said, to what I spoke, to what
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I recorded. I hope this is encouraging to you. Amen. Take Songs
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one forty one today, Amen, I challenge you to read the whole song
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for yourself. And if you want to go back to the reference scriptures,
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you can read those chapters as well. God's going to make a move,
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do a move, be present, and He's going to prevail on every situation
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you might be facing and that I might be facing. Together, let's pray
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for one another. Continue to pray for me and my family, and I'll
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continue to pray for you and your family, and I'll write it down a
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little bit more often. Amen said that way I could see the goodness of
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God in real time. So I'm out of here, I'm out of time.
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Thank you so much for hanging out with me for these morning DeVos.
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Amen. God bless you all, God keep you all, and remember always
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that God is that peace.