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DAILY DEVOTIONAL WITH QUEEN ANGELA CLOSE OF 21 DAY DEVOTIONAL JOURNEY WITH QUEEN ANGELA · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good well, good afternoon, good afternoon,
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Speaker 1: good afternoon, good afternoon everyone, And welcome, welcome, welcome, Thank
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Speaker 1: you guys for joining, Thank you guys for joining. Y'all.
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Speaker 1: We are finally reaching the close of this devotion. We're
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Speaker 1: finally reaching the clothes of this devotion, and I want
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Speaker 1: to thank everyone that has been on this twenty one
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Speaker 1: day journey with me. Hasn't been easy, no, but yet
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Speaker 1: I press today. Devotion is one that's kind of personal
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Speaker 1: for me. It's kind of personal for me. Joy in
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Speaker 1: serving others, This is really a personal devotion for me.
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Speaker 1: But I just thank God for even allowing me the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to do this twenty one day devotion, to allow
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Speaker 1: me the opportunity to do the things that He allowed me.
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Speaker 1: And I may get emotional today because the enemy's been busy,
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Speaker 1: but yet the God that I serve, he yet shows up,
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Speaker 1: and he yet shows who he is and yet who
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Speaker 1: he has called me to be. So I'm grateful on
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Speaker 1: this morning, Grateful on this morning. For those that truly
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Speaker 1: know me know that I have some health issues. I
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Speaker 1: don't talk about him because I serve an amazing God.
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Speaker 1: I serve an amazing God. That has kept me and
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Speaker 1: that will continue to keep me as long as I
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Speaker 1: want to be kept. And I show up because I
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Speaker 1: know what He's done for me. And I thank Brother
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Speaker 1: Marco because this morning I went over to his life
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Speaker 1: and had another opportunity to share just what God has done.
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Speaker 1: As I look back over my life, y'all, I tell
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Speaker 1: you that there's been plenty of times that the enemy
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Speaker 1: has wanted to take me out, but yet God yet
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Speaker 1: shows up, and yet shows out. So I have been
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Speaker 1: battling some health issues, but I still trust God because
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Speaker 1: he said that I am healed, and I believe that
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Speaker 1: I am healed. Just have to do some things to
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Speaker 1: allow that healing to manifest in my life. So I
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Speaker 1: had to take a little trip to the YR. Just
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Speaker 1: wanted to just wanted to find out what the doctors
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Speaker 1: thought was going on with me, so that I can
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Speaker 1: know how to go to my Daddy and ask him
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Speaker 1: to do the things that needs to be done in
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Speaker 1: my life and for him to allow me to utilize
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Speaker 1: the resources and the provisions that He's made for all
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Speaker 1: of us. You know, it's okay to do the holistic thing.
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Speaker 1: But he has equipped doctors, he has equipped nurses, He
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Speaker 1: has provided hospitals and all of these different things so
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Speaker 1: that we can utilize them. He knew what we was
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Speaker 1: gonna need way back before he created any of this stuff,
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Speaker 1: you know, even though he just allowed us to walk
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Speaker 1: into these things to align with his word, to align
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Speaker 1: with that plan that he has for us. But y'all,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and jump on in this lesson
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Speaker 1: because it's the lone one today. It's a lone one
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Speaker 1: today because when I tell you it's personal, it's personal
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Speaker 1: on today. It's personal on today, today, Day twenty one,
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Speaker 1: This is the actual final day inside of this journal,
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Speaker 1: this devotional journal. If you have not grabbed you a copy, y'all,
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Speaker 1: y'all can go over to ww dot Angela Thomas Smith
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Speaker 1: books dot com and grab you a copy. If you
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Speaker 1: don't want this one, there's several other devotions that's available.
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Speaker 1: There's other books, there's poetry books, there's all types of
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Speaker 1: different things that is available on the website. But again,
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Speaker 1: I just thank God. I thank him for just being
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Speaker 1: who he said he would be in my life and
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Speaker 1: just to be able to come on. Didn't think I
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Speaker 1: was gonna be able to do this devotion today. But
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Speaker 1: God he showed up, and he yet showed out. I'm
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Speaker 1: here and I'm glad to be in the land of
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Speaker 1: the living. He allowed me to see this new day.
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Speaker 1: Somebody didn't make it this morning. Somebody didn't get that
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Speaker 1: grace and that mercy extended. But I got it again.
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Speaker 1: I may not be feeling the best, I may not
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Speaker 1: be in the best of health right now, but yet
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Speaker 1: I pressed. I'm gonna rest. I'm gonna get me some
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Speaker 1: rest in. But yet I had to come and share
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Speaker 1: his word and do that that he has called me to.
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Speaker 1: So y'all, I'm gonna jump on into this lesson. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna share some things with you, gonna drop some nuggets,
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Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna move on. Not y'all way, because
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Speaker 1: y'all know I don't like to stay on too long.
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Speaker 1: But I just want to be obedient. I just want
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Speaker 1: to share that that He's placed within me. Because guess what,
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Speaker 1: every test, every trial, every tribulation, it was for a reason.
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Speaker 1: He knew what we would need, he knew who he
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Speaker 1: need to have in place. Because guess what, he could
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Speaker 1: have left me way back there in my afflictions. He
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Speaker 1: could have left me on my deathbed. He could have
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Speaker 1: took me out of here a long time ago. But
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Speaker 1: he's so fit because he knew this day would be
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Speaker 1: this day, and he knew what and who he would
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Speaker 1: need to have in place. So I'm grateful for the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to share this devotion with you guys today again.
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Speaker 1: This is day twenty one. The title is joy in
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Speaker 1: serving others. We're gonna be coming from Galatians five and thirteen.
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Speaker 1: It said you were called to be free. Oh Lord,
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Speaker 1: excuse me, y'all, excuse me. I'm sorry. I have to
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Speaker 1: pray before I jump into this lesson. And sometime I
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Speaker 1: get excited, I get excited about the word, but I
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Speaker 1: have to pray before I jump into this lesson. Father God,
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Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you for
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Speaker 1: this hour. I thank you for this platform. I thank
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Speaker 1: you for yet another opportunity to share your word. So, Father,
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Speaker 1: I asked that you would decrease me in the flesh,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, and allow your spirit man to rise up.
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Speaker 1: Lord God, Father, do not allow me to operate in Angelo,
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Speaker 1: but allow me to operate in your spirit Man. Lord God,
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Speaker 1: that that you placed in me, allow it to come forth,
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Speaker 1: and may it fall on the ears May it vibrate
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Speaker 1: to the ears that it needs to go to, Lord God.
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Speaker 1: And may these seas, these nuggets fall on fertile ground,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, that it may produce fruit in the lives
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Speaker 1: of those that receive it. Lord God Father, I thank
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Speaker 1: you right now in the name of Jesus, A man
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Speaker 1: a man a man. I thank God for the space.
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Speaker 1: I thank Him for each and every one of you, guys.
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Speaker 1: I thank Him for just another opportunity. So Galatians five
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Speaker 1: and thirteen saying you were called to be free, but
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Speaker 1: do not use your freedom to indulge in the flesh. Rather,
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Speaker 1: through love, serve one another. Again, I say you were
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Speaker 1: called to be free, do not use your freedom to
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Speaker 1: indulge in the flesh. Rather, through love, serve one another.
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Speaker 1: Our affirmation for today is I find joy and fulfillment
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Speaker 1: in serving others with love her I tell you what,
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Speaker 1: God is so good. He's so good. He's so good.
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Speaker 1: He's so good, y'all. Heaven measures greatness by towels, not titles.
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Speaker 1: On the final day of this devotional journey, God hands
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Speaker 1: each of us a towel, the symbol of Jesus' choice
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Speaker 1: when he washed his disciples feet in a world that
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Speaker 1: shouts build your brand. The spirit whispers build my people.
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Speaker 1: Serving isn't a punishment, It is a purpose. It's the
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Speaker 1: place where freedom meets love, where ordinary moments become holy ground,
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Speaker 1: and where our lives point beyond ourselves but to the
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Speaker 1: glory of God, the one that created us. I keep
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Speaker 1: telling y'all everything that we do should point back to Him.
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Speaker 1: It should point back to to him. The word of
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Speaker 1: the day is served. The word of the day is served.
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Speaker 1: To serve is to use your freedom to lift someone
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Speaker 1: else higher. As we stated in Galatians five and thirteen,
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Speaker 1: it does not just say serve one another. It says
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Speaker 1: through love that is the key. Service without love is duty.
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Speaker 1: Service through love is worship. When we serve, we reflect
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Speaker 1: Jesus the King put on a towel in John thirteen.
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Speaker 1: When we do the same, the world sees him. When
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Speaker 1: we resist self centeredness. Freedom isn't a license to live small.
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Speaker 1: It's an imitation to live poured out. When we glorify God,
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Speaker 1: God works done and love become light that leads others
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Speaker 1: to other people to praise our Father. And that's Matthew
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Speaker 1: five and sixteen why serving is so amazing. Serving is
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Speaker 1: God strategy for joy. The fastest way out of discouragement
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Speaker 1: is to pour into someone else. Joy grows when gratitude
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Speaker 1: flows through your hands. Serving Serving is God's commandment and gift.
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Speaker 1: It is not an optional for followers of Jesus. Yet
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Speaker 1: it is a commandment that carries It carries us not
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Speaker 1: in our own power, but the spirit that supplies what
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Speaker 1: He requires, forming christ Like humility encourage within us. Serving
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Speaker 1: multiplies impact. One act of love is a seed. Seeds
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Speaker 1: become stories, Stories become culture, and culture can change families, teams, churches,
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Speaker 1: and cities. Let me share a brief testimony with y'all
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Speaker 1: how serving birthed a movement across my platform. I didn't
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Speaker 1: chase a crown who hardy luvia, I didn't chase a crown.
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Speaker 1: I carried a tower saying yes to serve people. It
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Speaker 1: didn't just It turned into rooms that I never asked
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Speaker 1: to enter, relationships that I never could have engineered, an
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Speaker 1: impact that only God can orchestrate. Collaboration became the language
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Speaker 1: I connected creators, shared my temp plates, gave credit on purpose,
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Speaker 1: and answered dms with solutions not sell pictures. Over time,
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Speaker 1: people started calling me the Queen of collaboration, but the
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Speaker 1: real headline it's the love scale. When you serve continuously, constantly,
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Speaker 1: people feel safe to build with you, and God gets
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Speaker 1: the glory. It's never about Angela. How served this spread
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Speaker 1: across my black form? God allowed me. God allowed me
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Speaker 1: aspiring off this magazine. So what do we do? We
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Speaker 1: amplify new and rising writers, giving them a credible platform
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Speaker 1: for them to share their voice and their story. How
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Speaker 1: do we serve? We offer editorial coaching, create collaborative features,
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Speaker 1: theme anathologies, and practical publishing resources. We highlight first time
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Speaker 1: authors alongside bestsellers, because honor isn't in hierarchicy fruit. We've
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Speaker 1: seen writers gain their first features, founded co authors, and
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Speaker 1: moved from from just being sharing it on social media
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Speaker 1: or just having it in a journal, but being able
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Speaker 1: to publish it and put it in a book. Habacco
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Speaker 1: two and two says, write the vision and make it plain.
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Speaker 1: When Habecca meets first Peter four and ten, he says,
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Speaker 1: be a steward over your gifts for the good of others.
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Speaker 1: Not just about you, but for the good of others.
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Speaker 1: We got to think about other people and not just ourselves.
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Speaker 1: He also gave me the crew, podcasts, Media outlet. What
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Speaker 1: do we do? We give voice to a mic in
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Speaker 1: a map. We host panel conversations, cross platform takeovers. We
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Speaker 1: do spotlight episodes. We introduce emerging leaders in established audience.
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Speaker 1: We have right now ten hosts. We have nine amazing
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Speaker 1: queens that are the Queen of the Airways. We have
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Speaker 1: one amazing king that's holding it down for the Kings
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Speaker 1: of the Airways. We believe in being the change that
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Speaker 1: we desire to see in this world. And we're not
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Speaker 1: doing it by We're not doing it by trying to
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Speaker 1: gain monetary gifts. We're not doing it by trying to
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Speaker 1: charge people for things. But we're doing it from the
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Speaker 1: kindness of our hearts. We're opening up our platforms so
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Speaker 1: that others can allow their journey to be shared, so
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Speaker 1: others can see what God has done for us. And
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Speaker 1: we do it through educating, empowering and encouraging, and I
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Speaker 1: thank God for it so He allows us to serve.
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Speaker 1: We prep guests with media kids, We provide all types
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Speaker 1: of stuff, We help refine their messages, and we are
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Speaker 1: intentional about making connections. We don't just bring you and
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Speaker 1: invite you to be on the show, but we try
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Speaker 1: to stay in connection with you because we honor We
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Speaker 1: honor your journey, and we want to make sure that
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Speaker 1: you know that you're not just the number, but we
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Speaker 1: truly care about you thriving and striving in the kingdom
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Speaker 1: and taking your place at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. We've seen guests and how
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Speaker 1: you know that you're moving and operating in the things
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Speaker 1: of God. You can see the fruit. We've seen guests
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Speaker 1: from their own partnerships. We've seen guests book other partnerships
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Speaker 1: from being connected with us. We've had guests to even
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Speaker 1: be asked to be a part of other networks and
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Speaker 1: a part of different things coming across our platforms. And
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Speaker 1: it wasn't because huh, I was out to chase a crown,
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Speaker 1: but it was because I wanted to carry the towel
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Speaker 1: to say yes to serving God's people. God allowed these
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Speaker 1: platforms to be birthed through me so that He could
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Speaker 1: be glorified. Because at the end of the day, it's
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Speaker 1: not about Angela, but it's about the things that He
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Speaker 1: allowed me to do because none of it would be
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Speaker 1: possible without him. Everything I do points back to him.
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Speaker 1: He allowed me to have Queen of collaboration, coaching and consulting.
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Speaker 1: Why and what do I do where? I teach people
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Speaker 1: how to collaborate and I always keep the ministry. I
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Speaker 1: always keep God first because I want to help build
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Speaker 1: leaders huh that are willing to win, win in partnership
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Speaker 1: and also glorify God while growing an impact in the
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Speaker 1: market place. Y'all, I provide collaboration collaboration canvas if you,
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Speaker 1: if you connect with any of my platforms, you will
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Speaker 1: see that I'm all about connecting, I'm all about creating.
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Speaker 1: I'm all about collaboration. I believe in the four seas,
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Speaker 1: which is connect, collaborate, create, and community. Bill. I believe
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Speaker 1: in that and I believe in allowing God's word to
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Speaker 1: come forth. So how do I do that? I serve.
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Speaker 1: I lead with value. I give first insight, tools and introductions.
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Speaker 1: I connect. I bridge people together with purpose making thoughtful
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Speaker 1: mission aligned intros. I cold create build together with clarity, roads,
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Speaker 1: timelines and shared wins. We do that today. If you
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Speaker 1: go and look at my platform, and y'all will hear
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Speaker 1: me often mention that I have over one hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty literary works, but none of that would be possible
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Speaker 1: if it was not for the people that come and
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Speaker 1: be a part of my platform and so into me.
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Speaker 1: But not only that, I celebrate others. I don't make
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Speaker 1: it about me, but I celebrate others, and I help
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Speaker 1: remind them that it's all about us. Celebrate, it's all
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Speaker 1: about us uplifting each other. See a lot of us,
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Speaker 1: we would get on these platforms and we would think
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Speaker 1: it it's just about our platform. It's just about our
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Speaker 1: little lives, our little our little content, our little whatever,
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Speaker 1: and about gaining subscribers and gaining followers, and we forget
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Speaker 1: about those that who support us, those that come on
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Speaker 1: our lives, those that are part of our anathologies, those
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Speaker 1: that are featured in a magazine. Don't forget those that
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Speaker 1: help you get to where you are. One thing my
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Speaker 1: mama used to tell me, God Rest her soul. She said,
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Speaker 1: the same people you pass on your way up, baby,
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Speaker 1: she said, you're gonna pass them on your way down.
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Speaker 1: So she said, you treat people how you want to
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Speaker 1: be treated in spite of and that thing that stuck
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Speaker 1: with me. I try to treat people how I want
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Speaker 1: to be treated, in spite of how they treat me.
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Speaker 1: Too many people think that sometimes they're getting over on Angela.
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Speaker 1: But guess what you're not getting over on Angela because
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Speaker 1: guess what I work unto the Lord, and I work
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Speaker 1: from my heart. If God don't lay it on my heart,
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Speaker 1: guess just what I'm not doing it. And oftentimes people say, well,
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Speaker 1: you don't even charge enough. You don't charge enough for this,
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Speaker 1: You don't charge enough. I charge what God lay in
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Speaker 1: my spirit to charge for whatever it is. And sometimes
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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't even have to pay. That's
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Speaker 1: the God that I serve. He will make room for
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Speaker 1: your gift, and he will make your name great amongst
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Speaker 1: God and amongst people. And that is a that is
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Speaker 1: something that I have seen, something that I have witnessed,
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Speaker 1: not something that somebody has told me. Because you're talking,
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Speaker 1: you're looking at a little old girl from Lovelands, South Carolina.
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Speaker 1: People never heard of that place. But you're looking at
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Speaker 1: someone that is not only an editor, an owner of
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Speaker 1: a magazine that has been in circulation for five years,
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Speaker 1: a podcast network that has ten hosts we're heading into
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Speaker 1: our fourth season. Not only that, I have been recognized
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Speaker 1: in the International Internet Radio Hall of Fame for broadcasting
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Speaker 1: thanks to WB and INN where I've been on that
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Speaker 1: network heading into six years. Doctor all that day Ngolzie,
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Speaker 1: he helped. He saw something in me as a broadcaster
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Speaker 1: and invited me to come and be a part of
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Speaker 1: his network. I've been on his network now going into
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Speaker 1: six years. April will be six years. And I was
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Speaker 1: able to birth my own network from being a part
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Speaker 1: of that network. If you are willing to be used,
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Speaker 1: he'll use you. I didn't think I had a voice,
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Speaker 1: but God kept allowing me. As I showed up, he
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Speaker 1: kept he kept doing it. I just showed up. He
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Speaker 1: was the voice. Every time I opened my mouth, he
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Speaker 1: would give me the things to say. I didn't think
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Speaker 1: I was qualified, I didn't think I was worthy, but
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Speaker 1: I just begin to serve people. I would come on
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Speaker 1: lives and I would just go live where people are
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Speaker 1: charging twenty and thirty and forty and fifty and eighty
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Speaker 1: dollars to do interviews and to do things like that.
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Speaker 1: I was doing it for free or for a little
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Speaker 1: or nothing. And God began to put my name in
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Speaker 1: front of people's in front of people's table and laying
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Speaker 1: it on their tables. And then when people didn't want
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Speaker 1: to invite me to their table, guess what. God allowed
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Speaker 1: me to build my own table and bring people in.
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Speaker 1: All you have to do is be obedient and show up.
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Speaker 1: He'll do it for you because who am I I have?
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Speaker 1: I ain't nobody and he has no respectable person. All
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Speaker 1: you have to do is show up, even when you
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Speaker 1: don't feel good, even when you don't know what's going on,
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Speaker 1: even when you can't see what's happening. You got to
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Speaker 1: do is show up and allow him to be who
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Speaker 1: he said he will be. His word is not returning
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Speaker 1: to him void. His word is not returning to him
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Speaker 1: voy He's gonna watch over it into his perform and
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Speaker 1: perfect it in our lives. And you gotta understand that.
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Speaker 1: You gotta believe that, and you gotta know that that
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Speaker 1: He is yet working in spite of, in spite of
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop some guard rails that keep God at
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Speaker 1: the center of what you're doing. Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly.
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Speaker 1: Motive Is this about the kingdom? Impact of personal spotlight, integrity,
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Speaker 1: clear agreements, fair splits, and honest timelines, dignity. We serve
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Speaker 1: with honor and not savorism. Sabbath, we rest to remember
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Speaker 1: who built the house you gotta take some time off.
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Speaker 1: I know we always say we gotta press, got to
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Speaker 1: do that, but you gotta take a day. You got
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Speaker 1: to take you a Sabbath day. Even in the midst
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Speaker 1: of doing all that we do out here for the kingdom,
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Speaker 1: all that we do for the kingdom. See when when
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Speaker 1: I'm on social media and when I'm doing these things,
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Speaker 1: everything that I do is for the kingdom. See, I've
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Speaker 1: come from that phase of worrying about my personal life
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Speaker 1: because my personal life ain't no personal life anymore. Because
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Speaker 1: I'm a kingdom I'm a Kingdom child. So everything that
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Speaker 1: I do it its owns its own. It is open.
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Speaker 1: You know, people gonna scrutinize your personal life or whatever.
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Speaker 1: So I have no personal life. My life is an
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Speaker 1: open book because what I do, it all has the
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Speaker 1: point to the one that created me. It all has
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Speaker 1: to point back to him, because this life that I'm
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Speaker 1: walking in, it's not mine's anymore. Because the enemy wanted
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Speaker 1: to take me out. The enemy wanted to take me
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Speaker 1: out a long time ago. But God saw fit. He
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Speaker 1: raised me up off my bed of affliction, and I
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Speaker 1: said I would serve him. So for him, I do
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Speaker 1: these things I do these things. This journey that I
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Speaker 1: have been on has truly been a shaping journey. And
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Speaker 1: he say joy in serving others. I don't want people
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Speaker 1: to think that I'm getting off topic, because the topic
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Speaker 1: for today is joy in serving others. And we come
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Speaker 1: from Galatians five and thirteen. Use your freedom to serve
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Speaker 1: one another through love. And these are some scriptures that
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Speaker 1: have shaped my life in my journey. Again, Galatians five
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Speaker 1: and thirteen is a scripture for today, but that too
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Speaker 1: has been one of the scriptures that have shaped my journey.
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Speaker 1: The scripture that changed the outlook on my life was
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Speaker 1: Jeremih twenty nine and eleven December twenty twelve, when God
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Speaker 1: dropped it in my spirit. He said he had a
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Speaker 1: plan for me. His plan was to prosper me, not
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Speaker 1: to harm me, for me to be in good health,
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Speaker 1: for me to have hope in the future, not knowing
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Speaker 1: that two years later I would experience domestic violence and
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Speaker 1: I would be pew pewed at point blank range with
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Speaker 1: a salt off shotgun. Got the evidence to show what happened.
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Speaker 1: But the God that I served raised me up off
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Speaker 1: my bed that same day allowed me to walk down
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Speaker 1: the halls amaze the nurses. After being in surgery for
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Speaker 1: six hours in a pump that was pumping all of
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Speaker 1: the dead sails and all of the dead tissues out
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Speaker 1: of my leg, and I had a hole in my
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Speaker 1: leg this size. Took three months for that hole to
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Speaker 1: seal up, had to be packed every day. But the
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Speaker 1: God that I served, he allowed me to raise up
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Speaker 1: off my bed of affliction, and I just wanted to
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Speaker 1: serve him. I just wanted to share his goodness. I
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Speaker 1: just wanted to let people know what he had done
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Speaker 1: for me, because he could have took me out, he
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Speaker 1: could have let me expired. Because the doctor said that
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Speaker 1: I was a miracle. They said my whole right side
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Speaker 1: should have been blown off because I was pupil with
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Speaker 1: a soft off shotgun with a with a with a
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Speaker 1: with a pellet, and they said when it hit, it
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Speaker 1: spread it. But for some reason it did not spread
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Speaker 1: the way that it normally spread, so it was only
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Speaker 1: able to spread in this much of an area. I
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Speaker 1: thank God for that, and I know that he was
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Speaker 1: with me. He's standing his grace and his mercy. So
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Speaker 1: I can't sit down on his goodness. I can't sit
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Speaker 1: down on the things that he has done, and I
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Speaker 1: can't sit down on his word. No, I may not
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Speaker 1: be where I need to be or where I I
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Speaker 1: want to be, But every day I ask him to
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Speaker 1: use me and to decrease that flesh of minds and
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Speaker 1: allow his spirit man to rise up within me so
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Speaker 1: that I can take my rightful place in the kingdom.
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Speaker 1: That I won't lead people astray, that I won't that
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Speaker 1: I won't go astray, but I will stay on the
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Speaker 1: straight and narrow, and that that I will be able
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Speaker 1: to help somebody that may not know him on today
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Speaker 1: come to know him so knowing and sharing. That's why
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Speaker 1: I serve. But this journey has truly been shaped by
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven. He said, He declared that
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Speaker 1: he knows the plans that he has for my life,
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Speaker 1: and it is to prosper me, not to harm me,
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Speaker 1: for me to be in good health, for me to
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Speaker 1: have hope in the future. Galatians five and thirteen. To
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Speaker 1: use your freedom to serve one another through love back
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Speaker 1: through twenty twenty six and twenty eight. Whoever wants to
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Speaker 1: be great must be a servant Proverbs eleven and twenty five.
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Speaker 1: Who never refreshes others. We'll be refreshed one Peter four
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Speaker 1: and ten. Use your gift to serve others as a
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Speaker 1: faithful steward Ephesians four and sixteen. The body builds itself
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Speaker 1: up as each part does its work. John thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
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Speaker 1: and seventeen. I have given you an example. Do it,
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Speaker 1: and you will be blessed. Y'd. He's given us so
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Speaker 1: many examples in this Bible. All we got to do
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Speaker 1: is go over there and read it and apply it.
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Speaker 1: You got to learn how to put your name in
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Speaker 1: a place of those names that's in there, and speak
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Speaker 1: it over your life. He's given us that power and
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Speaker 1: Proverbs eighteen and twenty one to speak life or death.
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Speaker 1: So speak life over yourself. Speak some of these scriptures
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Speaker 1: over yourself. Remind yourself who he is and who he's
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Speaker 1: called you to be. He's given you that authority. Use
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Speaker 1: it on today. Speak over your life. He said that
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Speaker 1: we should be living examples. He didn't drop us out
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Speaker 1: the sky. He didn't. He didn't drop us out the sky.
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Speaker 1: Know that. So as I prepare to close, I want
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Speaker 1: you all to remember this freedom finds its highest purpose.
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Speaker 1: We are saved to serve. Secondly, service is worship in motion.
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Speaker 1: When we help people, we honor God. Learn how to
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Speaker 1: serve the joy. Thirdly, the joy that you see often
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Speaker 1: sits on the other side of someone else's need. Serves
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Speaker 1: someone today, meet someone else's need. Ass as apostle Kimberly, always,
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Speaker 1: doctor Kimberly, Always say that that you do for someone else,
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Speaker 1: God would do it for you. How can we apply
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Speaker 1: this to our lives? First you have to ask, pray
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Speaker 1: and ask God, Lord, who can I serve today? Lord?
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Speaker 1: How can I serve today? Lord? Where would you like
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Speaker 1: me to serve today? Ask him and he'll guide you.
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Speaker 1: He'll guide you, He'll lead you, He'll show you where
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Speaker 1: to go, learn how to use your platforms. If you're
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Speaker 1: on these platforms. You don't have to have a podcast network.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to be a fluent speaker. I stutter,
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Speaker 1: I do all kind of stuff. I'm honey, please, I'm country.
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Speaker 1: But I don't allow that to stop me, because if
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Speaker 1: you know, it's Jeremiah, he studied you know. We all
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Speaker 1: have our flaws because none of us are perfect. But
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Speaker 1: don't allow that to stop you from sharing the goodness
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Speaker 1: of God and the things that He's done for you.
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Speaker 1: Because somebody out there needs to hear it. Everybody got
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Speaker 1: a story, and there's somebody on the other side of
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Speaker 1: your store that needs to hear it because it can
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Speaker 1: bring them out of what they're going through. Spot like somebody,
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Speaker 1: elevate another person's work and worth and watch what he
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Speaker 1: do for you. Thirdly, start a power list. Huh what
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Speaker 1: is a tower list? It is a simple, intentional plan
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Speaker 1: to serve Pacific people in Pacific ways in a specific timeline.
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Speaker 1: Put a name after the tower Jesus used when he
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Speaker 1: watched his disciples feet and John thirteen, Verses fourteen and fifteen.
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Speaker 1: It turns love from feeling into an action and helps
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Speaker 1: you live Galatians five and thirteen on purpose. Know that
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Speaker 1: you didn't get dropped out of the sky. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: a coincident that you came through. Even if you're hearing
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Speaker 1: this ass replay, if you're hearing a clip, however you
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Speaker 1: get it, know that what you're getting is needed. It
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Speaker 1: needed for the journey that you're on. It's needed for
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Speaker 1: the lives that you too will impact. So pick you
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Speaker 1: three people today and be pacific in action and in timeline.
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Speaker 1: So I want to recap what we have been journaling
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Speaker 1: and going through over these last twenty one days of
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Speaker 1: a devotion, our twenty one day journey. As we close
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Speaker 1: this devotional, I want to take some time to revisit,
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Speaker 1: to underline and apply what God has been building in
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Speaker 1: you and in me and in those that will hear
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Speaker 1: this as a replay. Let these things educate your mind,
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Speaker 1: empower your faith, and encourage your heart. The first week,
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Speaker 1: in the first section, if you're going by the book,
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Speaker 1: in the first section, we talked about shelter in the storm.
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Speaker 1: Day one was strength inadversity. We came out of Songs
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Speaker 1: forty six and one. Day two was peace of miss
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Speaker 1: chaos Isaiah twenty six and three. Day three was trust
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Speaker 1: beyond understanding Proverbs three, five and six. Day four was
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Speaker 1: joy in every circumstance, Philippians four and four. Day five
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Speaker 1: was courage to face fears Joshua one and nine. Day
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Speaker 1: six was love beyond measure First John four, nine and ten.
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Speaker 1: Day seven was strengths and Weakness Secod Corinthians twelve, nine
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Speaker 1: and ten, and the second with y'all we went into
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Speaker 1: a quiet assurance. A quiet assurance was the section Tyle.
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Speaker 1: It was Day eight confidence in God's plan Jeremiah twenty
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Speaker 1: nine and eleven. Day nine was rest in God's time
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Speaker 1: in Ecclesiastics three and eleven. Day ten was assurance in
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Speaker 1: his prison. Songs forty six and ten. Day eleven was
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Speaker 1: anchored in his truth. John eight and thirty two. Day
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Speaker 1: twelve was hope in his promises two Peter three and nine.
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Speaker 1: Day thirteen was courage and silence. Isaiah thirty and fifteen
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Speaker 1: and Day fourteen was joy in his assurance Romans fifteen
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Speaker 1: and thirteen. And then we went on over. We went
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Speaker 1: on over too. Section three a everlasting praise, an everlasting praise,
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Speaker 1: Day number fifteen. Gratitude in his presence Psalm sixteen and eleven,
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Speaker 1: Day sixteen, Trust in His plan, Proverbs three, five and six,
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Speaker 1: Day seventeen, Strength and times of need, Isaiah forty one
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Speaker 1: and ten, Day eighteen, Peace beyond understanding, Philippians four and seven,
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Speaker 1: Day nineteen, Love without limits first John four nine through ten,
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Speaker 1: Day twenty, hope anchored in him. Romas fifteen and thirteen,
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Speaker 1: and today hosted out with joy in serving others Galatians
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Speaker 1: five and thirteen. This is not the end, but it's
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Speaker 1: yet the beginning. You have been equipped anchored and awakened.
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Speaker 1: Now stay the course. Choose the narrow way daily. Let
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Speaker 1: today mark the moment you move from inspiration to transformation.
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Speaker 1: Walking with God, serving his people, and shining his glory
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Speaker 1: in every ordinary place. A closing charge. Take one truth
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Speaker 1: from the past twenty days and put it in motion
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Speaker 1: by serving someone today. Let your freedom become a condouant
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Speaker 1: for love. As you do, may your life become a
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Speaker 1: living doxology. Ordinary acts done with extraordinary love, bringing glory
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Speaker 1: to God. Stay the course by choosing a holy rhythm.
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Speaker 1: Stay rooted, Abide in Jesus daily, open the word, open
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Speaker 1: your heart, and let the spirit lead your steps. Stay responsive,
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Speaker 1: turn truth into action. Serve one person every day in love.
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Speaker 1: Stay resilient, Do not grow weary and doing good, your
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Speaker 1: seeds will bear fruit and do time a simple rule
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Speaker 1: of life for you. Daily share a word, Read the word,
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Speaker 1: meditate on the word, pray and act in one and
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Speaker 1: one act. Show one act of love. Just just act
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Speaker 1: in love, because love is its action. Spend time within
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Speaker 1: your community worship. Find you a prayer group, Find you
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Speaker 1: some praying sisters. Find you a praying church. Find you
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Speaker 1: somewhere where you can worship with the commun unity and
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Speaker 1: one intentional collaboration that lifts someone other than yourself. Monthly,
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Speaker 1: take you a quiet retreat hour to review your journey,
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Speaker 1: give thanks, and reset your course. Monthly if that means
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Speaker 1: you need to take you a spa trip, just take
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Speaker 1: your a drive to the waterfowl, to the mountain, whatever
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Speaker 1: you need to do, take you one one day, one week,
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Speaker 1: in one time. That if it's just an hour to
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Speaker 1: sit and retreat to yourself, even if it's in your closet,
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Speaker 1: review your journey, give thanks, and reset your course. We
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Speaker 1: should do this monthly. When it gets hard. Remember if
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Speaker 1: you feel unseen, God sees you. Keep serving. If you
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Speaker 1: feel tired, rest in Him, then rise again. If you
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Speaker 1: feel afraid, courage comes as you move. If you feel alone,
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Speaker 1: reach for the community. You will not called to walk along.
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Speaker 1: There's so many people out here on this journey, and
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Speaker 1: so many out here think that they are alone. So therefore,
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Speaker 1: if there's a lot of us out here thinking that
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Speaker 1: we're on this journey together, that is a great opportunity
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Speaker 1: that we can come together. So reach out to your community, okay,
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Speaker 1: and pray, ask God to lead you. Tell him I
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Speaker 1: choose the way of love. Ask him to root you
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Speaker 1: in his presence and align your desires with his will,
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Speaker 1: and then you make a life change. Ask him to
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Speaker 1: teach you to serve with joy, to preserve you with hope,
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Speaker 1: and to glorify and to give him praise. Ask him
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Speaker 1: to order your steps, to give you peer motives, and
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Speaker 1: ask him to finish that that he's begun in you.
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Speaker 1: Will you pledge and commit to serve on today to
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Speaker 1: serve someone other than yourself. I pledge that today I
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Speaker 1: will commit my walk to God daily, to serve, to
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Speaker 1: continue to serve with love consistently, and to continue to
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Speaker 1: collaborate generously. Oh it's glory. They didn't call me to
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Speaker 1: queen up collaborations for nothing. I thank him forward. I
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Speaker 1: thank him for all of the platforms that he has
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Speaker 1: allowed me to obtain. It was by nothing that I've done.
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Speaker 1: And like I stated at the beginning, y'all, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: share this again before I close. But like I stated
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Speaker 1: at the beginning, it wasn't about a crown because I
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Speaker 1: didn't chase a crown. I carried the towel. I just
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Speaker 1: said yes to serving people, and y'all, it turned into
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Speaker 1: rooms that I never even asked to enter. It turned
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Speaker 1: into relationships I couldn't have never engineered and impact that
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Speaker 1: only God could orchestrate. So I thank him. I thank
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Speaker 1: him for that person that spoke queen of collaborations over
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Speaker 1: my life. And I thank him for aligning those things
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Speaker 1: that I may walk into it. So I challenged you
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Speaker 1: on today, resting him and find joy and serving others.
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Speaker 1: I pray that there's something that you got us have
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Speaker 1: been blessed by on today, Father God, in the name
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Speaker 1: of Jesus, Lord, I thank you. I thank you for
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Speaker 1: this time. I thank you for this space. I thank
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Speaker 1: you for yet another opportunity. I thank you for your
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Speaker 1: word that you allow me to share on today, Lord God. Father.
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Speaker 1: I pray that it falls on fertile soil. Lord God,
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Speaker 1: that these sees, these nuggets that I've shared on today,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, would bless someone, Lord God, and that it
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Speaker 1: would produce fruit in their lives. Or God, Father, we
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Speaker 1: thank you. We thank you for every gift, we thank
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Speaker 1: you for every talent, We thank you for every opportunity
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Speaker 1: that you allow us to walk into. Father, continue to
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Speaker 1: decrease us in the flesh or God and allow your
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Speaker 1: spirit man to come forth within us. That we all
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Speaker 1: may take our rightful place within the Kingdom Lord God,
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Speaker 1: that everything that we touch, everything that we do, that
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Speaker 1: it will point back to you that you may be glorified. Father,
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Speaker 1: We thank you, We thank you for this time. We
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Speaker 1: thank you for each and every person that has tuned in.
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Speaker 1: We thank you for those that will even hear it
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Speaker 1: as a replay. Father, we asked that you would touch
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Speaker 1: their hearts or God, that they would move and want
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Speaker 1: to serve. Father, I thank you right now for all
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Speaker 1: that you have done, all that you are doing, and
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Speaker 1: all that you shall do. And I ask these things
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Speaker 1: in your son Jesus' name, A man a man, a
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Speaker 1: man a man. I thank God for each and every
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Speaker 1: one of you. Guys. I pray that you are blessed
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Speaker 1: beyond what you can see in the natural, and I
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Speaker 1: pray that God would move mightily on today. Y'all have
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Speaker 1: a great day, and know that I love you with
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Speaker 1: the love of Christ and there's absolutely nothing you can
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Speaker 1: do about it. Be blessed, and I will see y'all
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Speaker 1: back here on tomorrow. Tomorrow, we're gonna go through the
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Speaker 1: last section of this journal, even though we have completed
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Speaker 1: the twenty one day Devotion. There's still one more section
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Speaker 1: in the book. It is a section four. It is
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Speaker 1: a self reflection section. We're gonna go over that section
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Speaker 1: tomorrow and then I will let you know what other
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Speaker 1: book we will be working out of in the coming weeks,
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Speaker 1: and we may take a break from the Devotion and
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Speaker 1: just go out of the Bible for a couple of
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Speaker 1: days until I decide what book we're gonna be coming
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Speaker 1: out of again. I thank you guys for being a
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Speaker 1: part of Data Devotion. Y'all. We've been doing this for
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Speaker 1: five months and until God tell me to do different,
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Speaker 1: y'all am gonna keep showing up and I'm gonna keep
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Speaker 1: sharing his word because truly he's been good to me,
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Speaker 1: and I just won't. I just want to shout it
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Speaker 1: from the mountaintops because he truly didn't have to. He
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Speaker 1: could have took me out in my scene, but yet
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Speaker 1: he allowed me to do the things that I do.
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Speaker 1: So y'all be blessed and know that I love y'all
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Speaker 1: with the love of Christ. Amen. Amen.