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Crushing Strongholds #15- 4 of 7-Day Challenge Workshop-Guard your flow while blessing others! · One Voice Many Conversations

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Crushing Strongholds.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a podcast where we talk about transforming pain into power, trauma into triumph.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's even more than that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a podcast where we get to expose the lives of the enemy and the curses through truth and equipping believers to walk in lasting freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how do we do that?
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  SPEAKER_00: How do we get that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: We get that through the grace and the power of Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see, your testimony and your voice, it has such an impact on crushing strongholds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is truly what this podcast is all about.
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  SPEAKER_00: So welcome in, everybody, welcome in.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is another episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um in our seven-day overflow challenge workshop.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, this workshop is definitely a challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been a challenge for me, especially being day five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Actually, I'm sorry, day four.
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  SPEAKER_00: See what a challenge it is already.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm already messing up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going back to back to back here every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Normally I post a podcast once a week.
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  SPEAKER_00: So doing a podcast seven days in a row has been a bit of a challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: God has blessed me and He's been pouring into me so much that I just want to give it back.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to, I want to pour into you with this amount of overflow that God has been showing me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And not only am I excited about it, but I'm hopeful that you will get something from it and learn from it that way you can pour into other people, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we're supposed to be doing as Christians.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, yes, we're supposed to be accepting what God has for us, and God wants to give us his promises and his blessings, but he also wants us to share that and and give it out, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's um topic of discussion for day four is guard your flow while you're blessing others.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna really dive into that today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Super, super, super important.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna try not to hit any buttons where I accidentally uh close this out here because my um my setup has got some close quarters.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, anyhow, let's let's dive in today, shall we?
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  SPEAKER_00: So I just want to share a little bit of my testimony when it comes to guarding my flow and also flowing onto others.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, there's been seasons in my life, which at my age I've had many seasons that I can talk about.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this specific season for today, um, have you ever found yourself pouring out into others, um, giving and helping and serving where you need to be serving, and whether it be in the church, um, I served in a homeless ministry for a couple of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've served on the worship team, I've served in the kitchen at church, um, I've served in a lot of different areas of my life throughout my lifetime.
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  SPEAKER_00: But sometimes um I felt depleted, and I realized that sometimes when I was giving, I was giving from a place of just complete emptiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't really overflowing, I was just going through the motions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and and so I always wonder looking back on that my life, um, when I finally recognized that I needed to be replenished and I needed to guard my overflow a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: That what was I giving out?
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  SPEAKER_00: Was I giving out what God really wanted me to be giving out?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think sometimes He helps us through that struggle because he'll walk us through that, like we talked about in day three, when we're stuck in the valley and we're in our weak weakest moments, or we're going through our own struggles and trials and tribulations.
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  SPEAKER_00: God does help us get through that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when you get depleted, um you need to start asking yourself, am I guarding my overflow?
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to bless others, but am I guarding it or am I just wasting it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Am I just giving it out, just giving it out, not paying attention to what I'm doing with it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we want to be careful with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is why I want to talk about that, because it's a very sacred space that God fills up in us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes what he gives us is for us, it's for yourself, and you need to be refreshed and renewed so that way when you are overflowing onto other people, so to speak, you can um do it refreshed because if we're pouring out, people can tell.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think people really can tell when they just know you're going through the motions, you're just doing it to do it, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, God wants us to have joy in that, in that fulfillment.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I I know that He continues to bless us, but sometimes if we want to bless others, we need to make sure we're really paying attention to what we're doing, what we're pouring into, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, without losing ourselves in the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because there's so many times where I just would just go and go and go and go and go, and I'd pour myself out, but it really wasn't effective because I I I wasn't replenished myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I was pouring from an empty cup, so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: So now I I literally have learned to prioritize my time, um, especially with God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I like to make sure that um I set healthy boundaries and I give from a place of fullness.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't just give out whatever I have left, like my leftovers in the fridge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I was gonna have people over for dinner, I wouldn't serve them my leftovers.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would make them a whole meal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd want to have time to prepare for it, go buy the groceries, cook the meal, and serve it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But sometimes I found myself just dishing out the leftovers, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: So I have learned that um with myself that overflow has to be guarded.
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  SPEAKER_00: The overflow that God gives me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if I give it all away, then I'm not replenished, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm I'm pouring out from an empty cup.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I can't imagine what that would look like.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I can imagine what it would look like, but I don't really want to imagine what it looks like.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's dive into today's scripture because I really want to dive into this and look at this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna look at three scriptures today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope you're all ready.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope you all have the word of God in front of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Put it in your hand, open it up, and let's dive in.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are going to start in Luke chapter um six, verse 38, and I'm going to read that to you right now as soon as I find it.
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  unknown: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, Give and it will be given to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be put into your bosom.
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  SPEAKER_00: For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm gonna normally I like to give you the scripture and then break it down, and then give you the scripture and break it down, but I'm gonna give you three scriptures because they kind of go together, and I want to break them down together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let's look over now that we've read that scripture, let's look over to Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Proverbs is in the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's after Psalms, it's before um uh what is it, Ecclesiastes, I believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, anyhow, um, yeah, Ecclesiastes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to make sure I gave you the right information there.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, Proverbs 4, 23 says, keep your heart with all diligence, or out of it springs the issues of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna break this down for you so you'll get it, because I want you to understand how this kind of all ties together.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we're gonna bounce back over to New Testament to Luke.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Luke is right after Mark, if you don't know where it's at, it's in the New Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Luke 21, 2 is a scripture talk and it says, and he saw also a certain poor woman putting in two mites in the tithing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, she only had two mites.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's all this lady had to give.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let's let's break it down and put it all together, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: The um this verse emphasizes the first verse I gave you, it emphasizes that what you give, you will give, get back in return.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, God wants to give us a return, okay, on what we hand out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, um, giving multiplies your joy and your peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you know that, but the more you give, it gives God such a delight that he instills joy and peace in you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're not giving at all anywhere in your life, think about this because he's gonna give you joy and peace based on your giving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Essentially, the verse encourages a mindset of generosity.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to be generous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, there's times in my life that I've given very little.
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  SPEAKER_00: Very little, the bare minimum.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I'm just like, okay, uh, this is how much I'm giving.
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  SPEAKER_00: And an example I could give you of that is you know how when you have to pay your bills, so you only have so much in your bank account.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes God will lay it on your heart to do something.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's times that I didn't do it because I was worrying about my bank account.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't putting my faith in what God had for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I missed out on that blessing and that joy because I wasn't obedient to what God was telling me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would I would literally have conversations with God and be like, okay, God, I'll do that, but just not this month.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll do it in a couple weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll do it, you know, next year.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll do it whenever it's comfortable for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because sometimes he has us give when we're in an uncomfortable situation, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, it also reminds believers that they're that our actions are also both positive and negative.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if he tells you to give and you don't do it, there could be a negative outcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's say there's somebody that's really in need and and God lays it on your heart to help them, and you just don't help them.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't help them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, that person, they go without it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They go without the help that that God really wants them to have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the positive part is if God tells you to give and you do give, the positive part is he gives you joy and peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he gives it back to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: God always gives it back.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's sometimes tenfold.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so think about that for a minute, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, how much he gives back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we give it a little bit and he gives us back a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if we don't deserve it, he'll do that because we're obedient, even if we were skimping by, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's times that I know I have really done that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have skimped by and only gave the very, very, very least that I could give, when I could have given more, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we got to think about that when we're giving or not giving, the positive and the negative effect it can have, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: With also when we think about it corresponding with our consequence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I mentioned just a minute ago about paying bills.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, sometimes I don't do something because I'm worried about that bill being paid.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, oh, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna do it because um I I gotta pay that bill.
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  SPEAKER_00: That bill is more important than what God is asking me to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I guarantee you, if God is asking you to do something and you feel like you're gonna get shortchanged, don't think that way because God is abundant.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna make sure he knows your heart, he knows you want to pay your bills, he knows you want to be responsible and accountable to the people that you owe.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's going to help you in those areas.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I guarantee you, if you just put your faith and trust in him, he'll show you that.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will really, really, really show you that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, especially like when you're overly generous, when you show a lot of generosity, I mean, um, it's important that um it's not just material that you're giving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes, sometimes we think that it's money that God wants us to give.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, we know we have to pay our tithing to our to our local church, whatever church you're a member of or where you go, you should be paying your tithing, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you're not in a church, um, maybe you're tithing in other areas, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I I encourage that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But sometimes God wants you to give more, more than what you're tithing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've literally heard people say, Well, I'm already paying my tithes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why should I give more?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, if God lays it on your heart to do it, I'm telling you you should do it because God's gonna give you the return on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I promise you He's gonna do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, but how do we guard the flow so as you know, not to pour out until we become empty?
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: How do we do that?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where we guard the heart, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, like it says in the scripture, we need to be guarding our heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna go back up and read that scripture real quick.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are issues of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're all gonna have issues, we're all gonna have circumstances that come in, but we need to be paying attention to it, and we need to be diligent about it, about that flow, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether it be income, it could be something God might want you to do is go and help someone.
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  SPEAKER_00: It may not even be an issue of money or material things, it might be a physical thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might have to get up and go and help someone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe someone um broke down, maybe they need help moving, uh, maybe they need you to watch their kids, but they can't afford daycare.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a huge blessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a really huge blessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I actually can tell you a testimony about that, but I'll I'll do that in a minute after we get down to the next scripture, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: I really want to dive into this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about the woman, the poor woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had two mites.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all that she had left.
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  SPEAKER_00: She took everything she had and she gave it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this woman had a lot of faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God honored this woman because he knew that she was giving every single thing that she had left.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because she had faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had faith in giving that out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if it's on your heart to do that, then by all means do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Literally do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I I promise you, God is going to fulfill his word and his promise when he says he will return.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And not void.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's going to return whatever it is that you're giving out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And mightily, not even not even a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's going to give it out in abundance.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we still need to be wise about it, and it's important to have balance.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why I think that if you keep God at the beginning and the middle and the end of everything that you do, from start to finish, even in the middle, morning, noon, and night, whatever you're going through, if you keep him right at the center and make him the center focus of your life, you're not ever going to have to question your the flow because God's going to show you.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's going to reveal it to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's going to be like, okay, this is what you need to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's important when we're talking about sharing and doing that, even though we're guarding it, that doesn't mean to be stingy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not encouraging you to be stingy with your flow at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm actually doing the opposite.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I want you to understand also that sometimes God wants you maybe to hold back on something because He had He needs you to give a little more on something else.
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  SPEAKER_00: So gotta be really mindful and pray and ask God what is it that He's really wanting and whatever He's showing you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say, God, okay, I don't I'm not sure what this is, but sometimes we have to say, you know what, God, I'm just gonna trust you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And whatever you say, Lord, I'm gonna do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want to share a really quick story with you before we dive into our daily challenge because I'm trying to not make this a long episode today, but um in the town that I was living in before I moved to where I am now, a gentleman um was crossing the railroad tracks over the river, and it was 103 degrees, and he fell off the tracks into the river and drowned.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come to find out that he died of dehydration because he was thirsty, ironically, as it was that he fell fell into the river of water, but um before what caused him to fall was the dehydration.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I had read about it and I had heard about it in the news, and I was serving in the homeless ministry at the time, and I kid you not, I was like really burdened that people could not just get water.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, why isn't there water available to anyone and everyone to drink drinking water?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, not sewer water, not river water, not lake water, actual drinking water, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why could this man not find water?
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  SPEAKER_00: And God laid it on my heart to go and get$100 worth of water, and I thought$100 worth of water is quite a bit of water.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I called my best friend and I said, Hey, we're gonna go to Sam's Club.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I need your help.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we went and we bought the gallon jugs of water, they were like like$2 for a gallon jug, and I bought$100 worth of water.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I kid you not, walking through Sam's club, as heavy as this cart was with$100 worth of water on it, um, a gentleman actually stopped me and asked me if I was thirsty much because I had so much water.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I was thirsty.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was thirsty for the people that didn't have anything to drink.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God put this desire of thirst on my heart to want to pour out gallons of water to the community to people that were homeless, people that were suffering in this 103-degree weather with nothing to drink.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I literally called my pastor and I said, Hey, I have all this water, where are we going to store it?
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  SPEAKER_00: And he was like, you know, go put it in my garage.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we put some there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We I I had to put water in three different places because there was so much of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what we all did as a church is we gave out this water.
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  SPEAKER_00: We went down to the river and where people were living and handed out gallons of water.
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  SPEAKER_00: For one, they could drink that water, and for two, they could refill it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They could refill that big jug of water.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, even if it was just someone's garden hose, or if they knocked on your door and said, Hey, I have a jug of water, can I use your sink?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or if they went into a gas station, they could go in the restroom and get water.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, hopefully, you know, they would be allowed to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just wanted them to be not thirsty.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: But here's the kicker on this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really didn't have a hundred dollars to go spend on water.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought this is quite a you know a lot of money for just some water.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: And God said, do it, do it now, do it today, get it done.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, all right, all right.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I kid you not, I get home and later that evening, now I'm kind of wiped out from all of this getting water business all day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a friend of mine who I'd been helping her watch her her daughter, um, who couldn't really afford to pay me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just watched her all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anytime she knew that if I was available um and if I was gonna be home and she needed to do something or go somewhere or had a job interview or or or needed to take care of some personal business, she knew I'd watch her daughter.
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  SPEAKER_00: I loved her, I loved her daughter, so sure.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: And she'd be like, I really can't afford to pay you right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I pay you later or pay you at a different time?
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I never charged her any amount.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just let her give from her heart whatever she could afford.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so I get home and later on that afternoon I get a knock on the door, and she's standing at the door and she said, Hey, um, I just got paid today, and I haven't paid you in several months.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I just want to tell you that I've really appreciated you watching my daughter for me.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: Here's a hundred dollars, and hands me back the hundred dollars I spent that day, I got back that day.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: And you see, I literally got teary-eyed and said, You're not gonna believe this.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I told her what happened that day.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: So, you see, what I want to share with you is these things are possible and they happen.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: And even though I guard my money and I'm protective and I want to be responsible, sometimes God says to do it and you have to do it on faith and you have to trust him, just like the woman with the two mites.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: There's a time to guard your money and to guard your overflow and spend it where God wants you to spend it, not just you know, pour it out wherever.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want it to go to waste.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to take our cup that God's overflowing to us and just pour it in the trash.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: We want to give it out to where it needs to go.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: And God really has a place for for all of his outpouring.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: He has a purpose, he has a plan for everything that we do, even if we don't see it or recognize it.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: So for today's challenge, because like I said, um, this is a challenge workshop.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna challenge you, and then I'm gonna need you to do the work.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to take 10 or 15 minutes, find some place to get quiet, no phones, no distractions, for just 10 or 15 minutes.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: These challenges aren't hard, and they don't even take a lot of effort, but they do take they do require a little bit of work on your part.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: Today I'm You to ask yourself this question, okay.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: What can you pour out onto others?
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: What is what is something today that you could give and who could you give it to?
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and I want you to give something today to someone out of generosity, but first, first, that 10 or 15 minutes that I'm talking about, I want you to pray and ask God what it is you should give and who it is you should give it to.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: And then wait and listen throughout the day.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: Say, God, I really need this is my challenge today, Lord.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: What do you want me to do?
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: If you if it doesn't come to you right away, keep seeking God until it does.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: I guarantee you He's going to give you that answer.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: So throughout the day, think on it and let God work through you, and then go out and be generous.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: Give to someone today.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: Even if it's just you go through the drive-thru and you pay for the person behind you.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever done that?
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: Because I've had that done to me and it surprises you.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: It really is a surprise.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I've also paid that forward and done it with other people.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: And it's it's really exciting to do those kinds of things.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not to um boast or get a pat on the back for doing something good or whatever.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's because we want to glorify God in all that we do, in what God gives us, and for what God wants us to give to others.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: So we need to really be mindful about that.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so before we close in prayer, the other challenge I have for you today is wherever you're watching this podcast and listening in, um, if you could go and like and share, and I would like you to send this podcast to five people or more, but five people.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um a lot of times I know throughout the day it's hard to go get a hold of five people and go, hey, I have a word for you today.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: I I want to share this message today.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_00: I want to share this scripture that um I read today in this um challenge workshop about overflow.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: I want to share this with you.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we don't think to do that, we just take it and keep it for ourselves.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: But this is a message on overflow.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: So, yes, I want you to have abundance and gain something from these scriptures and the message.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I want you to share it.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: Share it with five people.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: Just say, hey, I'm sending you this today.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: Just send it to them, okay?
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: And what they do with it, that's their choice.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: God knows what you're doing, God will bless you for it.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, just like God's blessed me all this week in doing this overflow challenge because I'm telling you, like I said in the beginning, it's been a crazy challenge for me trying to do a podcast seven days a week.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: So let's do that.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: Let's start by engaging and let's start by sharing the message and the word because that's what God says to do in the gospels.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: It says we're supposed to go out and share the gospel.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: We're supposed to share the good news.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: This is good news here, you guys.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: So we're supposed to be sharing it, okay?
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: So before I close, I want to pray with you guys.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: And um, I want to um just pray a blessing over you and pray that God will give you abundance and that God will give you um an open mind and an open heart.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: So let's pray, shall we?
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: Dear Heavenly Father God, we just we just thank you for all you do, Lord.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: In the valley, when we are weak, when we are unsure, Father God, we thank you for for teaching us to overflow onto others and give us give to us as needed, Lord, because you do give us, you give us everything we need, okay?
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_00: Help us to have discernment and guarding our hearts as we are willing to pour out blessings, Lord, and help us remember it is all for your glory.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's not for us, Lord.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's not to get rewarded or or or or get trophies or any of that.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: God, I just I just ask that you just help us to keep that in our mind, Lord.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: We thank you.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for this podcast, we thank you for your word, we thank you for the woman that gave her last two mights because she had the faith that it took.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: And and even though it was all she had, she knew that it would glorify you.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: And God, I just ask that you help us to seek out your wisdom in guarding our overflow and giving our overflow where you would have us give.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: Lord, I just I I thank you.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: I thank you so much for your your outpouring.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I hope that this message becomes an outreach and it gets shared with other people because what more of a blessing to give somebody, but the word of God, so that people can take it and put it in their hearts and then they can pour out onto others, Lord.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I just ask that you help us to open our eyes and keep them open and learn from everything that you have to give today, Lord.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, help us to decide who to give to and what to give today.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: Help us, God, in that area.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: Please help us in that, Lord.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: We just really need that help.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we need the discernment.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: Show us, help us seek you all throughout the day so that we know what you want to do, so that when we do receive your overflow, Lord, it doesn't go to waste.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: We have to guard it.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want it to go in the trash.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's so valuable.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: What you give us is so precious.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: Your love and your grace and and all your all all you ever give us, Lord, is just mighty.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's so powerful.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: And Lord, I just thank you for this podcast.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: I thank you for um giving us your word.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: I thank you for all the scripture that you've given us and for your teachings, Lord.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: Teach us day by day how to be better students for you, God.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: Help us to be vessels, help us to be vessels so we flow, Lord, with your word and your wisdom.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: And Lord, we just thank you for all that you've given us today.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I just want to ask you to bless anybody that's listening and help them today with a need, with any struggle that they have, if they're dealing with a weakness, or if they're in the valley, or if their cup has run dry, or if they're guarding their cup so much that they're not out, you know, outpouring it all, Lord.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_00: Help us to learn to overflow, God, the way you overflow.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_00: Lord, we just thank you for everything in your precious mighty name.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening today.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: I do want to share one more thing before we close out today.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't want anybody that doesn't know Jesus not to know Jesus.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: So I like to share the salvation prayer.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I just, it's really quick, it only takes me just a minute, but I want to share it because I don't want anybody not hearing the word of God.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_00: I want to share Jesus with everyone because I feel like sometimes we forget to share it and it might be important.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: It might be, you might be a person listening on here, not knowing what we're talking about.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: You may not even be saved, you may not be a Christian, you may just be, hey, I popped on and I'm listening to you.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_00: Don't know what you're talking about.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: I want to share at minimum Jesus.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna say this prayer, and if you could just say it out loud with me, so you can receive Jesus in your heart.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, dear God, I come to you admitting that I am a sinner.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: I believe that your son Jesus died on the cross to take away my sin.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: I also believe he rose from the dead so I can be justified and made righteous through faith in him.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus, I choose to follow you.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I ask that you fill me with the power of the Holy Spirit and thank you for saving me.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: If you did pray that prayer, congratulations.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: What I'd like you to do now is go on to CrushingStrongholds.com, which is my webpage.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: Go down and fill out the welcome information, and in the notes, put I accepted Jesus because I want to send you a gift.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to know that you're welcome in the family of God.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: You're now in the kingdom.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: So how exciting is that?
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: I am super, super stoked for you that you did that.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if that's you, praise God.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm hoping day by day, as I'm doing these the seven-day challenge, that people will come to Jesus.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, it's really where the heart is.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's where my heart is, and it's my desire.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so thank you for joining.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: This is day four of the seven-day overflow challenge workshop.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we finally got through it.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yay! We got past the middle day, right?
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: So stay tuned for day five, okay, which is coming up tomorrow.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it is called guard the cup.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we have to guard our cup.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, before we we we like in this episode, we talked about guarding our overflow and um pouring out our blessings, but what about the actual cup that we're pouring it into?
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we want to guard what goes into the cup, okay?
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: So I thank you all so much for being here today.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: This was another amazing, amazing episode, and I pray that um you are all well.