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Be a source of encouragement [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Want a family. Good morning, got blessed you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: believe in divine appointments. Everything is on purpose, everything's planned
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  Speaker 1: perfectly by God. God draws people to himself. Amen. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't need me, he doesn't need you per se, but
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  Speaker 1: He wants a relationship with his creation because He loves
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  Speaker 1: us and order for us to know who he is
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  Speaker 1: we should have a personal relationship with the Savior as well, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: with the Lord Jesus Christ. It's just that way. Like,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to get to know someone, you have
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  Speaker 1: to be in the presence of that person or those
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  Speaker 1: people that you want to get to know. If you
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  Speaker 1: face to face, you might want to research and do
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  Speaker 1: some reading about that person or those people. Amen, the
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  Speaker 1: same way with the scriptures. We want to be a
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  Speaker 1: source of encouragement Today on the Morning Devo, a source,
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  Speaker 1: be a source of encouragement, Amen, today on the Morning Devo.
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  Speaker 1: And what does that mean? Amen? I want you to
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  Speaker 1: ponder this. How can you today demonstrate love and support
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  Speaker 1: in practical ways to people who need the love and
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  Speaker 1: support Besides you know, just going up to them and
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  Speaker 1: say I'll be praying for you and then walk away.
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  Speaker 1: How could you be more practical and showing encouragement and
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  Speaker 1: being a source of encouragement. Because we have the source,
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  Speaker 1: we have God, We have the true, living, holy, righteous,
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  Speaker 1: loving God living within us. So therefore we should be
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  Speaker 1: moving differently. We should be moving in love. We should
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  Speaker 1: be magnets to the Kingdom of God, not to the
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  Speaker 1: world of this world system, Amen, we should be moving
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  Speaker 1: differently for the eye. And I see you, my brother,
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, man. It's good to see you in
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  Speaker 1: the morning Devo. Good morning, and God bless you. Blessing
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  Speaker 1: to you, my bruh and my friend. So listen, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be in Proverbs chapter number twelve, verse number twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs twelve twenty five be a source of encouragement today
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, Devo, and that's where we're gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna try to realize in our own
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  Speaker 1: lives and our personal lives and our personal walk, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna move forward in that victorious way. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: if you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, please
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  Speaker 1: don't hesitate to leave it on the live chat. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we're here for. Also, if you're listening audio only, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: On soulin Is with a z do org the celebrate
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  Speaker 1: a network that should be a way to connect with
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  Speaker 1: us there as well. Amen, So feel free anything that
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  Speaker 1: you have on your heart, anything you have on your mind,
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  Speaker 1: if you prayer request anything along those lines, please again
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  Speaker 1: don't hesitate. You're truly invited to share what you want
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  Speaker 1: to share on our morning devo. So let's go for it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pray first. After we pray, we share this out
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  Speaker 1: for like sixty seconds, and then on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of those sixty seconds, we'll get right into today's scripture,
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  Speaker 1: which is Proverbs twelve, chapter twelve, verse number twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: So let's pray. Father. I thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: your evidence that leads to truth. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for leaving us the scriptures, leaving us a divine word
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  Speaker 1: that speaks to our lives daily. Thank you for your wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your perfect plan. Thank you for your salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord God for your grace, your mercy. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus for your love. That you have sexacrifice your
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  Speaker 1: very own self once for all mankind, for all eternity,
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  Speaker 1: and that sacrifice is worth more than silver or gold.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord God, that you are purposely drawing
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  Speaker 1: us to yourself, and that you are creating in us
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  Speaker 1: a new heart, a new mind. And Lord God, that
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  Speaker 1: we can be a source of encouragement because you are
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  Speaker 1: the source of encouragement. That you could give us peace
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  Speaker 1: and we could go ahead and spread peace, because you
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  Speaker 1: are the Prince of peace, that you could get ahead
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  Speaker 1: and love us. So therefore we know what love is.
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  Speaker 1: Once we experience your love, taste and see that the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is good. Your word says and man, that we
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  Speaker 1: taste and see that you're good, and this world system
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  Speaker 1: has nothing to compare with the Kingdom of God. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Lord God for your hedei protection. I pray
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  Speaker 1: that over myself daily. I pray a heda prosession over
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  Speaker 1: every single person that's listening and watching right now, for them,
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  Speaker 1: their families, myself, my wife, and our children, our families,
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the marriage, both the youngest people the
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  Speaker 1: oldest people in our families, and everyone in between. Our
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  Speaker 1: head of protection of the hosts of heaven to move
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  Speaker 1: accordingly on our behalf according to the Word over our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, little God, that you could do the same
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  Speaker 1: for every single person on the other side of the
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  Speaker 1: screen and on the other side of this mic. And
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  Speaker 1: a powerful matchless name above every name, the name of
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  Speaker 1: Yashowaha much Shi Jesus the Christ, the Lord on High.
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  Speaker 1: I pray this by faith in Jesus name, and those
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  Speaker 1: who agree with say amen to the amen. Help me
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  Speaker 1: share this out sixty seconds. Think about who you could
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  Speaker 1: share this out if you were like the last sixty
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  Speaker 1: seconds rapture was coming. The trump is blue. Who would
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  Speaker 1: you call? Who would you reach out to? The Amen?
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  Speaker 1: That's the person that God wants you to reach out
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  Speaker 1: during the sixty seconds. I'll be right back, and when
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  Speaker 1: we come back, we'll get right into be a source
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  Speaker 1: of encouragement today on the morning Devo, I'll be right back,
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  Speaker 1: and men, we're back. Let's go for it, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what the Word of God has for us today.
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  Speaker 1: The Word of God is amazing. The Word of God
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  Speaker 1: is so powerful, alive and active that every time you
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  Speaker 1: read the words, something happens to your soul, something happens
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  Speaker 1: to your spirit, something happens to your mindset. The wisdom
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  Speaker 1: of God is not like the wisdom of this world.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the scriptures say that all
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom of the world is foolishness. To God, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: because he's high and lifted up. He's way above. His
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  Speaker 1: thoughts are not like our thoughts. His ways are not
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  Speaker 1: like our ways. He is supreme, the supreme being, a man,
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  Speaker 1: the supreme other being. He's uber other a man, and
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  Speaker 1: he's got all by himself, he's God alone. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: let me go ahead and put the scriptures on the
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  Speaker 1: screen for those who are just listening. No worries, A man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the word for words, so that way
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  Speaker 1: you can hear exactly what we're reading together. Amen. Depending
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  Speaker 1: if you have your Bible app. I use the BSB
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  Speaker 1: I used to amplify version, the BSB version. Amen, you
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  Speaker 1: might be like, what's the BSP. Go ahead and you
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  Speaker 1: have the Bible app. Go to the B S B
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  Speaker 1: Boy Sam Boy translation and maybe you'll like it just
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  Speaker 1: the way I like it. Amen. It's just so to me.
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  Speaker 1: It's a clear translation of the scriptures. But we'll be
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  Speaker 1: reading most of the time from the amplified version when
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  Speaker 1: we do the morning sessions in the morning Devo. So
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  Speaker 1: let me go ahead and put this on the screen
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  Speaker 1: so we can see what's going on here. Be a
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  Speaker 1: source of encouragement. Amen. And of course the picture of
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  Speaker 1: that we're looking at, it's like a rainbow going into
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  Speaker 1: the brain the top part of a person. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: it's bringing out flowers. Amen. Because we're a source of
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  Speaker 1: encouragement and we get that encouragement I believe from the
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  Speaker 1: Lord himself. I wrote this big big letters today. Anxiety
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  Speaker 1: and a man's heart weighs it down. Say that again,
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  Speaker 1: Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down. Proverbs chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty five. But hallelujah, thank you Lord, Jesus, thank
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  Speaker 1: you God, Thank you Father. That there's a way around it.
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  Speaker 1: A God, A good encouraging word makes it glad. So
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  Speaker 1: if you ever feel anxiety in your heart and you
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  Speaker 1: go to another person that feels anxiety in their heart,
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  Speaker 1: it's not gonna be a good day for you. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if you find a person who has a good word. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I was with brother German for a little bit yesterday
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  Speaker 1: from my church, Transformation Church, and he's always dropping good word.
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  Speaker 1: He's an encourager. Amen. He had an encouraging word for me,
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  Speaker 1: an encouraging word and encouraging concept about being a father. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That I said, Wow, that's good, and it makes your
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  Speaker 1: heart glad. When you're around people who are encourage your
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  Speaker 1: heart becomes glad. So be a source of encouragement by
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  Speaker 1: way of the source of encouragement, which is the Word
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  Speaker 1: of God. Amen. I hope that makes sense to somebody, right,
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  Speaker 1: Be a source of encouragement. We're not done. Definitely not done,
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  Speaker 1: but that scripture is tremendous in my way of thinking. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, really this hope there's people out there
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  Speaker 1: who are meant to be your encouragement, that are meant
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  Speaker 1: to be my encouragement. And I hope I'm encouraging somebody. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I know the Word of God is the ultimate source
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  Speaker 1: that I have to use to help people when they're
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  Speaker 1: in despair, when they need help, when they need prayer,
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  Speaker 1: when they need encouragement. Amen. The Bible actually says, mourn
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  Speaker 1: with people who are mourning, laugh with people who are laughing, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Be concerned, be a part of somebody else's life life, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not for everybody. Like to be honest, I
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  Speaker 1: can't be around certain people because it does certain things.
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  Speaker 1: It creates triggers, and it tries to re in state
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  Speaker 1: or tries to re engage or reanimate my old man,
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  Speaker 1: my own sinful man. And I don't like that. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I have enough problems, if you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't want to be around people who are
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  Speaker 1: engaged in all kind of loose living. Amen. It's a
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  Speaker 1: trigger for me. And this whole thing about the secrecy
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  Speaker 1: and what you did the other day and why you
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  Speaker 1: got drunk or why you got high, and people are
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  Speaker 1: normalizing that. I'm talking about Christians. I can't be a
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  Speaker 1: part of that, Amen, And I hope you're not a
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  Speaker 1: part of that either, because that's not a source of encouragement.
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  Speaker 1: That's a source of sin, that's a source of discouragement.
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  Speaker 1: That's a source of normalizing what God doesn't want you
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  Speaker 1: or me to normalize. Amen, because we've changed people and men.
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  Speaker 1: If we're saved and we're still talking about X y
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  Speaker 1: Z that we should talk about before we were saved,
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  Speaker 1: and you need to go ahead and check your faith,
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  Speaker 1: check us to see if you're still in the faith.
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  Speaker 1: Since the joys, good morning, God bless you, Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: God blessed. She says, blessings also to the group in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus name. Very powerful to send a blessing in the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's name, because he's the blesser. Amen. So that's me,
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  Speaker 1: that's where I'm at. I can't be around that. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it's because Holy Spirit. God is grieved when
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  Speaker 1: you surround yourself where people who say they're Holy Spirit failed,
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  Speaker 1: but yet they're speaking or doing things just like the
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  Speaker 1: world does. And they're creating some kind of band of
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  Speaker 1: believers that have this dark secret going on and you know,
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  Speaker 1: within the body, and that's not cool, man, And don't
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  Speaker 1: be deceived. God is not mocked. He knows every thought,
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  Speaker 1: He knows our every word, he knows our reaction. You
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  Speaker 1: know what we're experiencing, Amen, the grace of God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: People are like, oh, you know, nothing's happening, so I
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  Speaker 1: guess I can keep it moving. Nobody knows or just
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  Speaker 1: us we're the only ones who know. But God knows
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  Speaker 1: all things. I don't know if we forget that or
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  Speaker 1: you know, in our humanity we're like, oh no, don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about it. God is a forgiving god, Yes he is.
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  Speaker 1: God's got of grace, Yes he is. But it seems
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  Speaker 1: to me like, since we don't know the time or
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  Speaker 1: a day that the Lord Jesus is coming back when
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  Speaker 1: no trump is blow, if you're not ready at that day, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: I always think about it. How about if I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: good all these years, you know, try trusting God, you
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  Speaker 1: know in the word walking right, and then I just
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  Speaker 1: decide to let my simple desires take over, the flesh
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  Speaker 1: take over for that one day and just live a
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  Speaker 1: loose life for that one day and the trump is blow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, really, that'll be a hard times. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to happened. I'm not saying I know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen if you're found in that state, saved
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  Speaker 1: but found in a state of loose living. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what happened, but I don't want to risk that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you. That's like playing eternal Russian Roulette,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't want to play that game. A man.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you don't want to play that game either.
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  Speaker 1: Trust in God. He's good. He'll give you every single
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  Speaker 1: desire that you will ever need in your life. Not
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  Speaker 1: everything that you want, but everything you need. He will
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  Speaker 1: fulfill that desire, those desires. And as a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: if we're born again, our desires should be his desires.
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  Speaker 1: We have a new heart and a new mind, a
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  Speaker 1: man incredible life that we could be living. That we
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  Speaker 1: should be living, that should we should be moving in
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  Speaker 1: in a supernatural not in a normal life. A man
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  Speaker 1: that people say, oh, that's everybody's doing that. No, not
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  Speaker 1: everybody has a supernatural encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Sister Joanne I see you good morning, God, blessing my sister,
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  Speaker 1: my friends get to see you on the morning, Devo.
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  Speaker 1: So to be a source of encouragement is not as
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  Speaker 1: hard as you might think. I could be having the
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  Speaker 1: worst day and I've had bad days, and for somehow,
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  Speaker 1: some way, for some reason, God will show up in
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  Speaker 1: my life and use me to encourage somebody else. And
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  Speaker 1: side I'm like, man, I'm having a worst day. I
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  Speaker 1: need somebody to encourage me. And hello, he is encouraging me.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm able to encourage somebody else in my worst day,
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  Speaker 1: that means God himself is encouraging me enough to encourage
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  Speaker 1: somebody else. You ever thought about it that way? I'm
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  Speaker 1: having a bad day, so therefore I want everybody to
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  Speaker 1: have a bad day. That's a worldly way of thinking
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  Speaker 1: about it. And like Greeves, the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is like, hey, I live inside of you. I know
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  Speaker 1: you're not having a good day. I know things are
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  Speaker 1: hard right now, But that doesn't mean you have to
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  Speaker 1: search around for other people who are having a bad
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  Speaker 1: day and agreeing with their hardness of heart or their
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  Speaker 1: bad day as well, because that's not going to encourage anyone.
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  Speaker 1: When you're present and when you're available to listen to
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  Speaker 1: someone else's position, or listen to somebody else's reasoning, or
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  Speaker 1: listen to somebody else's day. Amen, you are in a
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  Speaker 1: good place. You're in a place for God to use
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  Speaker 1: you as a source of encouragement. Now, if you speak,
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  Speaker 1: if you walk up to somebody and they're speaking down
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  Speaker 1: about themselves, they speaking down about others, they're having a
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  Speaker 1: bad day, they start cursing and swearing, and you go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and do the same thing, then there's no encouragement
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  Speaker 1: in that, a man, there's only discouragement. There's no connection
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  Speaker 1: with God right there, that's only a disconnection. Everybody has
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  Speaker 1: good days, everybody has bad days. Trust me, a man.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a human like me and you live on
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  Speaker 1: this planet Earth like us, Amen, welcome to the new day.
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  Speaker 1: God created a new day, so we'll be glad and
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  Speaker 1: rejoicing it regardless. And if you're from another planet, and
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  Speaker 1: if you're somebody from another Solar system or whatever, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the planet Earth. God is lord over your planet
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  Speaker 1: as well. We welcome to the morning devo. Just in
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  Speaker 1: case because people are like, oh, there's others living among us,
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  Speaker 1: Praise God. Amen, it's not like they're in secret. God
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  Speaker 1: sees all things. God knows all things. We might not
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  Speaker 1: know everything, for sure, we don't know everything, but God does. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: So rejoice with those who rejoice, mourn with those who mourn. Right,
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  Speaker 1: that's in Romans twelve fifteen. So not only are we
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  Speaker 1: to be encouraged encouragers, right, we need to be present
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  Speaker 1: and available for those who need encouragement. Amen. It's good
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  Speaker 1: to surround yourself with positive people all day, every day.
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  Speaker 1: I suggest it. But if you're outside, like I'm outside
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  Speaker 1: a lot an meaning that I'm among the community, right
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  Speaker 1: and among neighborhoods that you know, they need hope, they
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  Speaker 1: need Christ, they need Jesus, they need the light, they
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  Speaker 1: need salvation. Right, they need hope, they need it. So
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  Speaker 1: you're in a position where you could be a blessing,
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  Speaker 1: an encourager to someone who needs love, someone who needs
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  Speaker 1: it's mercy, someone who needs to be introduced to the
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  Speaker 1: one who could forgive them for all the stuff they've done, right,
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  Speaker 1: which is the Lord Jesus. So show up physically. I
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  Speaker 1: know we're in a virtual situation. This is a virtual situation.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, I'm in front of a camera, live streaming
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  Speaker 1: to anyone who wants to check it out for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not really physically per se, but I'm a
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  Speaker 1: physical being, supernaturally waking up early in the morning to
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  Speaker 1: present the Word of God the way God presented it
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  Speaker 1: to me in real time. I don't edit these videos.
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  Speaker 1: I don't rehearse what to say. I just rely, I
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  Speaker 1: want you to present the Holy Spirit to speak through me.
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  Speaker 1: Even when I don't have words to say. We have
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  Speaker 1: the word to read and the word to repeat. So
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  Speaker 1: show up physically or virtually like we're doing now during
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  Speaker 1: hard times. Sometimes a phone call, sometimes a messenger, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the DM. It hits me all the time. When I
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  Speaker 1: get a DM certain points in my life, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: how did this person know? Well, maybe they didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: or an encouraging word. Yesterday a bro that I grew
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  Speaker 1: up with through high school, man, and we're still connected
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  Speaker 1: via social media and man, we're connected to a certain friend.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, Wow, how do you know this person?
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the DM, he said, Man,
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  Speaker 1: you've helped a lot of people in so many ways.
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  Speaker 1: You blessed so many people in so many ways. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you know that. And I'm like, man, that's encouraging
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  Speaker 1: to know, Amen, because I bless him in the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, and my brother Matt, my boy Matt from
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  Speaker 1: way back man Niggard, and we're still in connection virtually. Right.
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  Speaker 1: We might not be able to see each other face
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  Speaker 1: to face, but virtually sometimes is enough to know that
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  Speaker 1: someone we knew from years ago it's still connected with us, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And that's an encouragement. Sit down with somebody in silence.
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  Speaker 1: I was saying this to a brother yesterday. Silence is supernatural. Silent,
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  Speaker 1: at least for me. I don't know about you, but
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  Speaker 1: being silent, quiet, it's a supernatural move God in my life. Silence.
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  Speaker 1: If they're grieving as a sister in Christ that's going
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  Speaker 1: through so much losing family members, just thought her mom,
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  Speaker 1: And when I saw her yesterday, I just said, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I have no words, but I hugged her. Amen. She's
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  Speaker 1: expecting a child in about two weeks and she suffered
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  Speaker 1: tragic losses in a family. I don't have no words.
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  Speaker 1: I just have a hug and let her know and
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  Speaker 1: let her family know that my heart is grieving with them. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It might not seem real to people when some people
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  Speaker 1: say that right. But listen, there's a lot going on
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  Speaker 1: in life, and when you're grieving for other people's grief, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you feel it. You feel like, man, they lost so much,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't just go on by your day, about
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  Speaker 1: your day without praying for those people, for that person, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: about that loss, because it just grieves you too. Roll
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  Speaker 1: the Bible shows up and says, mourn with those who
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  Speaker 1: mourn Romans twelve fifteen. Sit down with somebody's silence if
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  Speaker 1: they're grieving, Your presence alone speaks. Your presence alone speaks. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Sister Juanna has a comment here. She says, I've been
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  Speaker 1: down that road and still going on, and God is
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  Speaker 1: there with us, and I thank the Lord. I thank
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  Speaker 1: the Lord for everything. Amen. That's right. Listen, we are
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  Speaker 1: on the road. Let's travel. Trust me. This is not
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  Speaker 1: the broadway that leads to destructions. This is a narrow
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  Speaker 1: path that leads to righteousness, the narrow path that leads
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  Speaker 1: to life. And when we're in this together, right, we
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  Speaker 1: are a powerful force to reckon with a powerful force
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  Speaker 1: of love. Our weapon is not carnal, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: guns and pistols and knives. Our weapon is supernatural. Bring now, strongholds, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that try to hold people captive, Praying over the sick,
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  Speaker 1: and they shall be healed. Grieving with those who are grieving,
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  Speaker 1: rejoicing with those who are rejoicing. I love to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: people's victories. I'm not a hater by no stretch of imagination. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And when somebody I know is experienced a good, victorious
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  Speaker 1: time in their life, We're gonna celebrate, you know why,
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  Speaker 1: because we might not get that chance again to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: with that person. Never thought about that. Amen. If you're up,
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  Speaker 1: I'm up with you. If you're down, I'm gonna see
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. How can I be an encouragement. I
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  Speaker 1: saw some encouragement in your life, even if I'm going
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  Speaker 1: through the worst time of my life. Amen. That's why
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  Speaker 1: we need the Body of Christ. I'm not into, you know,
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  Speaker 1: gang mentality in the church. I'm not into clicks in
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  Speaker 1: the church. I'm into soulo and Man. I love people, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I love people so much that sometimes I try to
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  Speaker 1: put stuff on the side a little bit too much.
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  Speaker 1: And that's if I love So. If I love you
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  Speaker 1: and I see that you're going in the wrong direction,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't say nothing, I think I'm accountable to
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  Speaker 1: God for that. He says, well, you've seen I'm allowing you.
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  Speaker 1: God allows us to see things right. And if we
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  Speaker 1: don't speak a man, we're telling indirectly telling that person
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  Speaker 1: I don't care about you. Go ahead and keep on
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  Speaker 1: going in that direction. That's leading you to destruction, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about you later. Nah, that's not cool. That's
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  Speaker 1: not being a source of encouragement. That's being a source
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  Speaker 1: of discouragement. That's not being a lover of soul. That's
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  Speaker 1: actually being hated paters of soul. And we're justifying it
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  Speaker 1: by different ways. And I don't want to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of that. A man, I hope you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of that either. Check in with
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  Speaker 1: people regularly. Thank you Jesus. There's men of God that
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  Speaker 1: I know that checking on me. People will be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Sam is busy? Sam is this? He must be surrounded
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. That's not true at all. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: only had twelve right. The Elijah thought he was by
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  Speaker 1: himself as a prophet. The last one he thought he
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  Speaker 1: was so many people. In the scriptures, you might be thinking, well,
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  Speaker 1: they were surrounded by Moses, surrounded by what million people
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  Speaker 1: or so something like that. Amen. He had times of loneliness.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus had times of loneliness, and he was one with
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  Speaker 1: the Father. So don't make assertions or assumptions that just
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  Speaker 1: because there's a ministry or a minister or somebody like
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  Speaker 1: me on the live stream that we have so many
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  Speaker 1: people surrounding us to be encouragement. Sometimes that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: So the ones that do stay connected, amen, that I
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  Speaker 1: can be a connection with them, a source of encouragement
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  Speaker 1: to them. And there's a source of encouragement, I cherish
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  Speaker 1: that right. I don't take that for granted at all.
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  Speaker 1: Even the groups that share this out. I'm grateful for that, amen,
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  Speaker 1: because not a lot of support comes outside of those groups.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm grateful for all the support, all the prayers, amen,
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  Speaker 1: all the donations in the ministry. So show up checking
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  Speaker 1: regularly regularly, not just once, Amen. And I'm guilty of that.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta get better at that myself, to check in
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  Speaker 1: on the people who I love. Amen. So I'm out
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  Speaker 1: of time. I hope you get this. Proverbs chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. We camp that are out at read Proverbs
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  Speaker 1: chapter twelve. The whole chapter for yourself and I'm out
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  Speaker 1: of time. Be a source of an encouragement to somebody
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  Speaker 1: today and let me know how that went in your life. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you all, God keep you all, and remember
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  Speaker 1: always that God is good. Please,