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DAY 6 EMBRACING FORGIVENESS DAILY DEVOTION A CLOSER WALK WITH I AM THAT I AM QUEEN ANGELA · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome one.
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  Speaker 1: And we maybe one two, day number six, Day number
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  Speaker 1: six of this thirty one day journey. Day number six
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  Speaker 1: of this thirty one day journey, we are in. We're
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  Speaker 1: in this book, y'all, and it's called a Cooso Walk,
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  Speaker 1: which I am that I am a thirty one day
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  Speaker 1: teen guy to exploring the Bible. This is the book
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  Speaker 1: number six, Day number six, Day number six, day number six,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna jump right on in and get to it,
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  Speaker 1: get to it. Today's title is called Embracing Forgiveness, Embracing Forgiveness,
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  Speaker 1: Embracing forgiveness, Embracing Forgiveness. If you would tap the screen,
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  Speaker 1: tap the screen, share it out, share it out, and
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  Speaker 1: if you and sent your daily heart up, please send
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  Speaker 1: your daily heart up for today. Again, We're gonna keep pressing,
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  Speaker 1: keep pressing, keep pressing. So the scripture for today is
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  Speaker 1: coming from Ephesians four and thirty two. Is said, be
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  Speaker 1: kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just
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  Speaker 1: as Christ forgave us. Again, be kind and compassionate to
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  Speaker 1: one to one another, forgiving each other, just as Christ
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  Speaker 1: forgave you. Today's affirmation that you should be speaking over
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  Speaker 1: your life. I forgive others as God has forgiven me.
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  Speaker 1: I forgive others as God has forgiven me. That it's
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  Speaker 1: our affirmation for today. So I'm gonna give a little
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  Speaker 1: backstory on our scripture for today. Forgiveness can be one
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  Speaker 1: of the hardest acts were called to as believers. Imagine Anna,
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  Speaker 1: a devoted Christian betrayed by her closest friend, whom she
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  Speaker 1: had known since childhood. The pain left her heart bitter
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  Speaker 1: and her prayers hollow. She wanted to move on, yet
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  Speaker 1: the wounds reminded her, and the wounds remained open. During
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday sern, Anna's pastor spoke on Ephesians four and
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  Speaker 1: thirty two, urging the congregation to remember how God thought
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  Speaker 1: Christ God through Christ forgives us endlessly and cause us
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  Speaker 1: to ex send the same grace to others. Anna realized
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  Speaker 1: how unforgiveness not only blocked her spiritual growth, but also
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  Speaker 1: robbed her of her inner peace. She began the journey
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  Speaker 1: of forgiveness remembering that mercy that God has shown her
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  Speaker 1: through prayer, honest reflection. In seeking God's strength, Anna was
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  Speaker 1: able to truly release the hurt. As she forgave, she
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  Speaker 1: rescovered freedom, joy, and the closeness of God. There's three
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  Speaker 1: important things that I want you guys to remember for
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  Speaker 1: the reason for the I poor forgiveness. First, we need
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  Speaker 1: to know what forgiveness is. First, forgiveness is a conscious,
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  Speaker 1: deliberate decision to release fears of resentment of vengeance towards
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  Speaker 1: someone who has harmed you, regardless of whether actually they
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  Speaker 1: if they actually deserve forgiveness or not. Biblically, it means
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  Speaker 1: letting go offenses, just as God through Christ forgave us,
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  Speaker 1: just as we said Ephesians four and thirty two. Forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: does not mean forgetting or excusing the harm, but it
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  Speaker 1: frees both the offender and yourself from the burden of
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  Speaker 1: anger and bitterness. Why is forgiveness important? Forgiveness and vital
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  Speaker 1: for several reason. It is vital for several reason. One,
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  Speaker 1: restoring relationships, It hears broken relationships and fossil reconciliation Matthews five,
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, and twenty four. It frees the forgiveness it liberally.
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  Speaker 1: It liberates the person who forgives from anger, builtness, emotion,
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  Speaker 1: and pain, leading towards peace and healing Colossians three and thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: And it is in obedience to God. God tells us
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  Speaker 1: to forgive. His forgiveness is a commandment from God and
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  Speaker 1: a reflection of his nature. In us Mark eleven and
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. It opens ways to God to forgive. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: taught us that if we forgive others, we too are
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  Speaker 1: forgiven in Matthew six, fourteen and fifteen. How does forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: in fact impact our lives in our relationship? Again, I
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  Speaker 1: asked this question, how does forgiveness impact our lives in
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  Speaker 1: our relationships? When you forgive, we experience peace, letting go
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  Speaker 1: of grudges, and it comes our inner world and allows
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  Speaker 1: God's peace to reign inside. Again, letting go of grudges
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  Speaker 1: calms our inner world and allows God's peace to raign.
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  Speaker 1: That's Philippians four and seven. We build stronger relationships by
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  Speaker 1: offering forgiveness. Forgiveness pays the way to restoration, to trust
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  Speaker 1: into a deeper connection. Why we grow spiritually Forgiveness grows
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  Speaker 1: our character, our humility, and our dependence on God through
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  Speaker 1: transforming us to be more like Christ Loot six six
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  Speaker 1: and thirty seven. Three things that I want you to ponder.
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  Speaker 1: Think about this in your question of yourself. Think about this.
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  Speaker 1: What is holding you back from forgiving someone who has
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  Speaker 1: hurt you? And how does holding on to hurt affect
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  Speaker 1: your mind and your heart? How what personal barriers exist
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  Speaker 1: and what personal impact does unforgiveness and your spiritual, emotional
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  Speaker 1: and physical well being? Ask yourself that question. How can
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness hold you back? How can that hurt hinder you God?
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  Speaker 1: It can make you sick. It can hinder you in
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  Speaker 1: making you sick. It can make your It can make
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  Speaker 1: you have hot blood, It can cause different things amongst you.
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  Speaker 1: If God never put limits on his forgiveness towards us,
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  Speaker 1: what gives us the right to hold hold on to
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness of others? If God will say he will forgive
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  Speaker 1: us over and over again, why can't we forgive people
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  Speaker 1: over and over again? Ask yourself this, How could your
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  Speaker 1: relationships and your daily walk with God? Change if you
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  Speaker 1: practice radical, consistent forgiveness. Imagine this. What would your life
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  Speaker 1: look like if you may forgiveness a daily habit, even
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  Speaker 1: for the small grievances, the small things that may come
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  Speaker 1: up against you. I want you to think about this.
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  Speaker 1: Forgiveness reflects God's character. Bear with each other and forgive
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  Speaker 1: one another. If any of you has grievance against someone,
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  Speaker 1: forgive as the Lord forgive you Colossians three and thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: When we forgive, we mirror God's loving nature. God's forgiving
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  Speaker 1: is not earned, it is freely given. Extending forgiveness shows
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  Speaker 1: the Christ's live, Christ's love living inside of you. Unforgiveness
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  Speaker 1: hinders our relationship with God. But if we do not
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  Speaker 1: forgive others of their saying, your Father will not forgive
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  Speaker 1: you of your sin Matthew six and fifteen Hobar and
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  Speaker 1: unforgiveness blocks our prayers and disrupt our fellowship with God.
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  Speaker 1: Releasing our fenses clears the way for blessings and spiritual growth. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: let it go. Let it go. Stop holding on to stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Stop letting things harbor in you and causing you to
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  Speaker 1: be sick, causing you to be angry, causing you to
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  Speaker 1: have all these different emotions, he said, Here he heals
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  Speaker 1: the broken party and binds up their wounds Psalms one
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  Speaker 1: forty seventy three. Letting go of building it, builderness and
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  Speaker 1: choosing to forgive allows God to heal and touch your
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  Speaker 1: deepest hurt and bring peace and restoration. How can you
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  Speaker 1: practice forgiveness? First you have to pray and ask God
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  Speaker 1: for help. Call to me and I will answer. You.
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  Speaker 1: Tell you great and unsearchable things that you do not know.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah thirty three and three. Ask God for strength and
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  Speaker 1: a willing heart. Sometimes forgiveness is a process persistence, prayer,
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  Speaker 1: persistently praying for God's power to forgive, choosing to release
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  Speaker 1: the offense. Daily love keeps no record of wrong. First
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  Speaker 1: Caripi Corinthians thirteen and five, intentionally refusing to dwell on
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  Speaker 1: the hurt or seeking revenge, practicing releasing that person or
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  Speaker 1: that situation to God. Every time the pay surface, you
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  Speaker 1: got to give it back to them, release it every
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  Speaker 1: time you can't hold on to it. You can't carry
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  Speaker 1: that around with you. Because we know that these things
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  Speaker 1: are gonna come up. Because we are flesh, we are human,
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  Speaker 1: We are in the flesh form so every day we
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  Speaker 1: should be asking him to renew our spirit of forgiveness.
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  Speaker 1: Renew that spirit of forgiveness in us. And then we
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  Speaker 1: got to bless and pray for those who hurt us, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: It said, But I tell you love your enemies and
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  Speaker 1: pray for those who persecute you. Matthew five and forty four.
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  Speaker 1: If say, break the sight of resentment by praying for peace, healing,
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  Speaker 1: and blessings over those who roam you, this open doors
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  Speaker 1: for God's love to work in your heart. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: leave you with this today, y'all know I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be before you long. Though I'm not gonna be before
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  Speaker 1: you loan. I'd like to get on shad the word
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  Speaker 1: and get on our So if we own fifteen minutes,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be on fifteen minutes. But I want to challenge
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  Speaker 1: you with this today. It says, or not defined by
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  Speaker 1: your past hurts or the actions of others. God's forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: is your freedom. His grace is your strength. Today, choose
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness not because others deserve it, but because you are
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  Speaker 1: called to reflect Christ. Every act of forgiveness is victory.
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  Speaker 1: It sets your heart free, strengthens your spirit and draws
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  Speaker 1: you closer to God's perfect peace. Step boldly into forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: and watch God transform your pain into purpose. Let love,
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  Speaker 1: not offense, be your legacy. I challenge you today as
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  Speaker 1: sty to reveal any unforgiveness in your heart and take
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  Speaker 1: one step towards forgiveness, however small. Just release it on today,
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  Speaker 1: allow it to come forth, and trust Him that He
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  Speaker 1: will heal you and that he will restore you. Know
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  Speaker 1: that this is for you. It more than the next person.
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  Speaker 1: Know that forgiveness is for you. Okay, So I leave
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  Speaker 1: you with this on today. And y'all, I jumped in
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  Speaker 1: today and I did not pray. I was jumped in
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  Speaker 1: without praying, so y'all know I gotta pray on the
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  Speaker 1: way out. So I'm gonna pray on my way out.
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  Speaker 1: And again I want to thank you guys for jumping
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  Speaker 1: on and for sharing because you could be anywhere. And
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  Speaker 1: of course I was late on today, and I apologize
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  Speaker 1: for that, but I jumped on another live and got
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  Speaker 1: into the live. We were over there sharing the Word
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  Speaker 1: of God, sharing testimonies, and I got caught up. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad to be caught up in something of God
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  Speaker 1: and not caught up in things of the world. So
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  Speaker 1: if I can get caught up on Jesus and caught
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  Speaker 1: up on his word, I'm always grateful to be in
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  Speaker 1: a space and being caught up in that moment. So
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  Speaker 1: if I don't, if I don't leave you with anything
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  Speaker 1: that you can take from anything that I say, always
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  Speaker 1: keep God first in your life. I don't care where
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  Speaker 1: you are. I don't care where you think you are.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how you think you not in the will,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care where you are. You are His child.
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  Speaker 1: You belong to him. He loves you, and there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: that you can do that he will not forgive you
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  Speaker 1: from if you repent and turn from your ways. Just
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  Speaker 1: as He's just to forgive us, he want us to
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  Speaker 1: do the same for everybody else. So y'all have a
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  Speaker 1: spirit of forgiveness on today, and I'm gonna pray, Father
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  Speaker 1: God in the name of Jesus, Father, I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for yet another hour that you allow us to come
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  Speaker 1: before your throne. I thank you for the space that
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  Speaker 1: you have allowed us to be able to come together,
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  Speaker 1: to acknowledge you, to reference you, and to make our
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  Speaker 1: requests known unto you, Father God. So Father I lift
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  Speaker 1: up all those that are on our father in prayerless,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God Father, knowing that you know everything about them,
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  Speaker 1: all their concerns for God and Father. I lift up
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  Speaker 1: those that are going to be added to the list
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  Speaker 1: on today, Father god Father, asking that you will just
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  Speaker 1: continue to have your way, Lord God Father, continue to
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  Speaker 1: allow these platforms to be platforms that we could edify you,
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  Speaker 1: that we can lift you up, that you can be glorified,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, people would come to know you in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of all that may be going on, Father God,
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  Speaker 1: for those that may be lost and don't know you
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  Speaker 1: and the deepness of their sins. Lord god Father, just
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  Speaker 1: if you've done it for me and many many, many
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  Speaker 1: many more before me, and many many more, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do after me, Lord god Father, that person that's standing
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  Speaker 1: in need today, Father asked they draw on to you. Father.
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking that you will draw on to them, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: because your word shall not return to your lore. You
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  Speaker 1: will watch you over into its performing perfecting it each
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  Speaker 1: and every one of our lives. And Lord, we thank
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  Speaker 1: you just for that, Lord God, because you truly didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to, Lord God. You could have left us in
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  Speaker 1: our sin. But Father you thought enough of us to
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  Speaker 1: bring us out. And according to your word Jeremy twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine and eleven, your word said that you declared that
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  Speaker 1: you had a plan for us, and it was to
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  Speaker 1: prosper us, not to bring us home, but for us
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  Speaker 1: to be in your health, for us to have hope
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  Speaker 1: in the future. So Father, we stand on your word.
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  Speaker 1: We know that your word, we will not return to
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  Speaker 1: your voy And Father, we ask that you would just
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  Speaker 1: allow your Holy Spirit to leave God and direct us
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  Speaker 1: as we go out into the world. Father, your word
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  Speaker 1: said we had to be in this world, but not
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  Speaker 1: of the world. And Father, we thank you on today.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you on today, and these things are asking
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  Speaker 1: your son Jesus name a man a man a man
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  Speaker 1: a man a man a man. I thank him. I
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  Speaker 1: thank him for yet another opportunity. I thank him for
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  Speaker 1: yet another day that we have to just come before him,
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  Speaker 1: to just acknowledge him, to just let him know that
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  Speaker 1: he's king, a king, and that he's all in all,
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  Speaker 1: and to re mind outselves that we have no power,
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  Speaker 1: but through him we have our power. So learn to
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  Speaker 1: lean and depend on him. If you don't know, asks him, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: he will reveal it. To you. He said, acts and
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  Speaker 1: you shall receive. He said, knock and it shall open.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all seek him, and I guarantee you you should find
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  Speaker 1: every answer that you desire. If you lack wisdom, acts
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  Speaker 1: and he'll give it to you. If you lack discern
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  Speaker 1: and acts and he'll give it to you. He's left
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit to be with us, to leave God
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  Speaker 1: and direct us. So there's nothing that we should be
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  Speaker 1: in need of that we shall not receive. So ask
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  Speaker 1: and you shall receive, walking your blessing on today, walking
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  Speaker 1: that day he is ordained for you. It's not a coincident.
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  Speaker 1: It's not an accident. Everything that he has for you,
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  Speaker 1: it shall be. He will not keep a good thing
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  Speaker 1: from you. And that great work that he's already started,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna watch over it. Untiwar's performed and perfected in
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  Speaker 1: each of every one of your lives. He has no
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  Speaker 1: respect of a person, y'all. Just as he's done it
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  Speaker 1: for me, he's gonna do it for you on today.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta believe it and you gotta receive it. So
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  Speaker 1: I want you to remember to speak the affirmation of
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  Speaker 1: the day over your life, speaking into someone else's life, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: when we come into the knowledge of these words, it's
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  Speaker 1: not just for us, but it's for us to share it.
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  Speaker 1: So I encourage you to share it with someone else.
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  Speaker 1: Let someone else know that, Hey, I forgive others just
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  Speaker 1: as God forgive me. And share it with somebody, let
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  Speaker 1: them know that forgive yourself. It's okay to forgive yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Forgive yourself, because as you forgive yourself, God forgives you,
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  Speaker 1: and He forgive those that have done anything against you.
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  Speaker 1: So today go and forgiveness. Move and forgiveness, Move and
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  Speaker 1: love because God is loved and I love y'all. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: have a great day. Love, y'all, be blessed.