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Today's Word 06-08-26 The Voices that Shape Your Destiny · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: Ed you early morning. Praise party. I am Sherry Mackitt.
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  Speaker 1: It's time right now for today's word, the voices that
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  Speaker 1: shape your destiny. First Samuel twenty five thirty two thirty
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  Speaker 1: three says. David replied to Abigail, Praise the Lord, the
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  Speaker 1: God of Israel, who has sent you to meet me today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God for your good sins. Bless you for keeping
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  Speaker 1: me from murder and from carrying out vengeance with my
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  Speaker 1: own hands. You know, one of the most important decisions
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  Speaker 1: we make in life is determining which voices we will
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  Speaker 1: listen to. Every day, we're surrounded by opinions, by advice,
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  Speaker 1: by influence, and conversations that can either move us closer
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  Speaker 1: to God's purpose or pull us away from it. David
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  Speaker 1: experienced this firsthand. In First Samuel twenty five, David found
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  Speaker 1: himself deeply offended by a wealthy man named Nabel. David
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  Speaker 1: had protected nabel shepherds and property, yet when he requested assistance,
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  Speaker 1: Nabel responded with disrespect and contempt. David was furious. His
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  Speaker 1: emotions took over, and he gathered four hundred men with
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  Speaker 1: the intention of taking revenge. Oh oh see. In that moment,
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  Speaker 1: David was not thinking about his destiny. He was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about his anger. How often does this happen to us?
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  Speaker 1: Someone hurts us, someone disappoints us, overlooks us, treats us unfairly,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly we're tempted to react emotionally. We want to
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  Speaker 1: prove a point, we want to get even, we want
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  Speaker 1: to say something we'll regret later. In those moments, one
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  Speaker 1: bad decision can create consequences that last for years. But
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  Speaker 1: God intervened through an unexpected messenger. Abigail, Nabel's wife courageously
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  Speaker 1: met David on the road and spoke wisdom into a
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  Speaker 1: heated situation. She appealed to the better part of David's character.
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  Speaker 1: She reminded him that revenge was beneath the calling God
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  Speaker 1: and placed on his life. In essence, she was saying, David,
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  Speaker 1: don't you let a temporary emotion create a permanent stain
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  Speaker 1: on your destiny. Come own, Jesus. The remarkable thing is
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  Speaker 1: that David listened. He could have ignored her, He could
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  Speaker 1: have justified his anger. He could have continued down the
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  Speaker 1: path of destruction. Instead, he recognized that God had sent
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  Speaker 1: the right voice at the right time. The truth is,
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  Speaker 1: God still sends abigails into our lives today. He places
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  Speaker 1: people around us who speak wisdom when we're about to
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  Speaker 1: make a mistake. He sends voices that encourages us when
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  Speaker 1: we're ready to quit. He sends people who challenge us
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  Speaker 1: to rise above bitterness, compromise, pride, and offense. The key
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  Speaker 1: is learning to recognize those voices. Not every voice deserves
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  Speaker 1: your attention. Some voices fuel gossip, some encourage revenge, Some
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  Speaker 1: promote fear, doubt, and negativity. Those voices may be loud,
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  Speaker 1: but they are not leading you toward God's best. The
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  Speaker 1: right voice will call you higher. They will remind you
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  Speaker 1: of who you are. They will challenge you to choose
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  Speaker 1: integrity over impulse, faith over fear, and purpose over temporary satisfaction.
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  Speaker 1: Ask yourself, who am I listening to? Are the voices
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  Speaker 1: influencing your life drawing you closer to God's plan or
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  Speaker 1: distracting you from it? God cares too much about your
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  Speaker 1: future to leave you without guidance. He will send wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: He will send counsel. He will send an encouragement exactly
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  Speaker 1: when you need it. So you stay humble enough to listen,
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  Speaker 1: stay deserning enough to recognize God's voice through others and
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  Speaker 1: stay wise enough to follow the voice that leads you
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  Speaker 1: toward destiny. Oh Father, God, thank you for placing wise
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  Speaker 1: and godly voices in our lives. Thank you for the
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  Speaker 1: people who encourage us and challenge us and help us
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  Speaker 1: make better decisions. God, give us desernment to recognize as
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  Speaker 1: the voices that are leading us toward your purpose and wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: and to ignore voices that pull us away. MMM. Help
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  Speaker 1: us to respond with humility when you correct us and
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  Speaker 1: encourage you guide us. God, let us always choose the
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  Speaker 1: path that honors you and fulfills destiny in Jesus' name.