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"Letting Your Light Shine: A Journey of Faith and Prayer" · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Music.
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  Hi, Noah. Noah! Noah! Happy birthday, Noah!
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  Hey, then. I'm so lazy. Just don't know. I'm so sorry.
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  This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine.
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  This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine.
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  This little light of rain, I'm going to let it shine. Let it shine.
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  Let it shine. Let it shine.
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  Yeah. Stop. Daddy, I'm so excited. But I have one question.
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  What's your question? I'm going to be a pastor or a minister.
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  Good question. I don't know, but it is all in God's hands. Good morning.
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  You're listening to Have Faith, Let It Begin. And it starts right now.
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  Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the Monday edition of Have Faith, Let It Begin.
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  It is the day after Mother's Day. I hope you enjoyed the Mother's Day special
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  that we had this weekend where we aired it.
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  If you missed it, go back in our archives and you will see that I aired a Mother's
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  Day is Everyday episode. It was really cool.
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  It's a Monday and it's beautiful out. Thank God the sun came out for Mother's
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  Day and it looks like it's going to be a sunny day here in the Northeast before
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  we start back into another crazy rainy season, week I should say.
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  Well, you know, a lot of things transpired over the weekend.
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  Good things, nothing bad. Finally got my grades back, everybody.
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  Finished up with a 90 average, if I didn't tell you that already,
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  for a ministry school. So very excited about that. It is now official.
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  And we are walking Cody this morning. You're going to hear birds chirping in
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  the background, which I think is awesome.
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  And a lot of programming notes to let you know.
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  We'd like to remind each and every one of you that when I am not doing this
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  podcast Monday through Friday, Sunday, I'm sorry, on the weekends,
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  Sundays is the Kroc podcast.
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  That's what I produce and co-host with Dr. Ian Ali.
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  And it is a podcast for cancer thrivers and survivors. And we want you to take a look at that.
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  It's also known as Citizens Reunited to Overcome Cancer.
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  In addition, coming up, I will be preaching, once again, double sermons,
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  May 25th, June 8th, July 13th, July 21st. I will keep you posted.
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  We will be doing that broadcast, simulcast, and I want to make sure that we are all on the same page.
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  That's our programming note. let's get down to business and talk about what
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  we're going to discuss today on have faith that it begin so as i'm working on
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  my on my sermon you know you one of the things i always try to do is okay what
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  do i want to talk about you know how do i want to relate this to the scripture.
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  And i was able to go on tiktok for a little while and there was a really cool channel boston.
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  And uh he had this amazing that's
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  his name by the way boston and he hasn't you
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  know however long he has it on the he's on
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  the air on tiktok he's praying with people and he's telling everybody you know
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  you don't have to pray a certain way just just let whatever comes out out and
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  it was really something because so many people had their own versions of prayer so many people had,
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  amazing prayers and they they were unsure
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  if they were praying right again there's no such thing as
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  how to pray but it was the it was just the beauty of
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  of the love and that people have for
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  god and what they were asking for it wasn't selfish it was just you know god
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  i just need us you know need you in my life and it was so it's such a nurturing
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  loving feeling and powerful to know that there are others out there that really
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  truly love the Lord like we do here at Have Faith, Let It Begin.
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  So it got me thinking, you know, I said to myself, huh.
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  Maybe I should do a prayer, a sermon on prayer. And I said, hmm.
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  But then I also remember that I'll be doing this on Memorial Day weekend. And I said, hmm.
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  So a lot of people always ask me this question, which I'm going to answer today.
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  How do you prepare for a sermon?
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  In the past, I used to have an idea what I was going to talk about,
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  basically from a personal experience.
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  But then I started to realize that when there were times where I didn't have
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  personal testimonies or anything that happened to me, let's say,
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  in time for a sermon, what really worked for me is praying to God.
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  So lifting up myself and praying to God, all of a sudden it just came to me.
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  And we can do that with our daily lives. We can do that with everything we do.
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  If you want to start your day, you just start your day with a prayer.
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  You want to end your day with a prayer, end your day with a prayer.
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  Just always ask God to be with you and to guide you and to keep you on the right
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  path. and he's always going to listen.
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  And that's pretty much all that I have for you today. I mean,
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  nothing really, really major, just a quick in and out type of us episode.
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  So I hope that each and every one of you enjoys your blessed morning.
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  May God be with you. May he shine his light upon you and grant each and every
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  one of you peace on earth. Have a good day. God bless.
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  Thank you for listening to Have Faithful Again. We'll be back tomorrow.