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Today's Word 08-01-25 Don't Put God in a Box · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: It's your early morning praise partie. I am Sherry macke.
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  Speaker 1: It is time right now for today's word. Don't put
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  Speaker 1: God in a box. Don't put God in a box.
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  Speaker 1: Psalms sixty three and one says you, God, are my God,
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  Speaker 1: earnestly I seek you, I thirst for you. My whole
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  Speaker 1: being longs for you. In a dry and parched land
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  Speaker 1: where there is no water. David is thought to have
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  Speaker 1: written Psalms sixty three in the isolation of the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: during the difficult years when King Saul was trying to
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  Speaker 1: kill him. He used that time to seek God, to
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  Speaker 1: draw close to God, and he did that with all
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  Speaker 1: his being. One thing about being isolated, not having a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of friends to give you attention or spend
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  Speaker 1: time with or whatever. You can turn your attention toward
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  Speaker 1: your heavenly Father. It's an opportunity to learn to walk
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  Speaker 1: with him and talk to him and get to know him.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to develop a It's that time to develop
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  Speaker 1: a deeper relationship where he's not just your Sunday morning God,
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  Speaker 1: but are twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
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  Speaker 1: got all through the day in your thoughts. You talk
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  Speaker 1: to God like you would talk to a friend, because
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  Speaker 1: in essence, we are his friends according to the Word
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  Speaker 1: of God and John fifteen fifteen that says, I no
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  Speaker 1: longer call you slaves because a master doesn't confide in
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  Speaker 1: his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have
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  Speaker 1: told you everything the Father told me, y'all. I remember
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  Speaker 1: the first time I read that verse. I was so
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  Speaker 1: excited reading that verse. I think I may have been
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  Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen, maybe fifteen years old, and I call my
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  Speaker 1: best friend Chang, sorry Renee Lee. I was like, Chang, Chang,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a friend of God. The Bible says I'm a friend.
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  Speaker 1: And she was like, yeah, you know, I had heard
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  Speaker 1: people say it, but it was something that jumped off
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  Speaker 1: that page when I read it for myself. You see,
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  Speaker 1: God is a gentleman, and he will be as involved
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  Speaker 1: in your life as much as you want him to be.
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  Speaker 1: If you keep him in a limited box, guess what
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  Speaker 1: he's going to stay right there in your life that is.
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  Speaker 1: But let me be crystal clear, he wants to be
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  Speaker 1: so much more than what you're limiting him as in
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  Speaker 1: your life. He wants a close, personal, intimate relationship with
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  Speaker 1: you where you walk with him and talk with him
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  Speaker 1: every day. Sometimes with all the business of life, with
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  Speaker 1: all the people, the activities, we don't make time for God,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a huge mistake. Make sure you keep him
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  Speaker 1: first place in your life. We schedule time for what's
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  Speaker 1: important to us. So I'm encouraging you to make him
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  Speaker 1: a priority. So don't put God in a box. Father, God,
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  Speaker 1: thank you that we can seek you with our whole hearts,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that we will surely find you. Thank You that
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  Speaker 1: we can live our lives passionately with a desire to
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  Speaker 1: go deeper with you. God. We declare that you are
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  Speaker 1: far more to us than some Sunday morning. God. You
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  Speaker 1: are our God every moment of every day. In Jesus' name. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: now that's your word for today. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: take that apply to your everyday life and you continue
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  Speaker 1: to be encouraged at inspired. It's your Early what He
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  Speaker 1: Praise Party. I am Sherry macke