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Trading Weakness for Power [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: One family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the morning Devo, my brothers and sisters in Christ, those
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  Speaker 1: who are first timers here, God bless you, welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the morning Devo. Amen. We're here on purpose, for
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  Speaker 1: a purpose, a plan that God has set out. And
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  Speaker 1: what we got going on here? Hold on all this
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  Speaker 1: stuff going on here crazily here we go. Oh things
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  Speaker 1: going on, haywire. Let me go to the other screen here. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that was all about my bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably the morning the morning jitters aymen, healing journey.
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  Speaker 1: I did that? Wow, so long ago. I guess that's
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  Speaker 1: the Lord speaking telling me. Reminded me of the Healing
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  Speaker 1: Journey from way back when. But wait here, soone is
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  Speaker 1: with a z do org also alive that soone is
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  Speaker 1: with a z o RG streaming on social media platforms.
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  Speaker 1: That a lot of stream to go through. We're back
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  Speaker 1: on X. We took a time off or for Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: but now we're back on X and Man formerly known
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  Speaker 1: as Twitter, we're there as well. Just in case it
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  Speaker 1: matters to you, Amen, So listen today, we're gonna take
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  Speaker 1: time to trade. We're gonna do some day trading. Then
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna trade off some weakness for power. How many
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  Speaker 1: people are winning with that? Trading your weakness for power
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  Speaker 1: today on the morning Devo. And what does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: It means that this is where we're gonna take the
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  Speaker 1: areas where you and I feel defeated, where we feel
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  Speaker 1: tired or broken, and we're gonna exchange. We're gonna trade
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  Speaker 1: those things for the strength and for the power of God,
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  Speaker 1: trading weakness for power, God's power. Second Corinthians, chapter number twelve,
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  Speaker 1: versus nine and ten. Second Corinthians, Verse number twelve, versus
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  Speaker 1: nine and ten. We're gonna be doing this today, trading
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  Speaker 1: our weakness for power God's power today on the Morning Devo.
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  Speaker 1: You ready for that? If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: prayer requests, on anything along those lines, please don't hesitate
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  Speaker 1: to use a live chat. That's what we're here for.
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  Speaker 1: We're here to engage one another in victorious ways. Man.
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  Speaker 1: We have so much more in common than you may think. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot in common, so much in common.
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  Speaker 1: Even for those who don't believe we have a lot
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  Speaker 1: in common. We are all in the same world. We
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  Speaker 1: woke up today in the same world. Some people have
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  Speaker 1: resources more than others. Some people have advantages more than others.
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  Speaker 1: Some people have, you know, testimonies, some people have miraculous
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  Speaker 1: testimonies more than others. But what we do have, all
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  Speaker 1: of us have in common is weaknesses. We have weaknesses
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  Speaker 1: in some place in your life. There's a weakness in
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  Speaker 1: your life. There's a weakness in my life. So we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna all kind of take those weaknesses and do some trading,
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  Speaker 1: trading those weaknesses for the power of God. Let's pray first.
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  Speaker 1: After we pray, we share this out for like sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: and then on the other side of those sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: we'll come right back and we'll get right into today's morning.
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  Speaker 1: Devote aymen Tewo Corinthians shot the twelve verses nine and
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  Speaker 1: ten for those people who crack open their scriptures man,
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  Speaker 1: and crack open in the Bible. That's what we're gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: To make sure you keep me in check, make sure
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  Speaker 1: I don't take this out of context, but keep it
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  Speaker 1: in the context of Christ. So, Father God, I thank
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  Speaker 1: you for right now, this moment in time. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lo God, regardless of how we feel today, of how
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  Speaker 1: we woke up, if we woke up in a place
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  Speaker 1: of victory, or we woke up in a place of sadness,
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  Speaker 1: or we woke up in a place of weakness or discouragement.
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  Speaker 1: You are there. You are with us, You are eternally
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  Speaker 1: with us. We thank you, Lord God. I thank you
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  Speaker 1: Lor God from the depths of my heart. I know
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  Speaker 1: that you are with us. You are for us, You're
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  Speaker 1: working through us. You continue to work even when we
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  Speaker 1: don't see your working process happening. You're still working. I pray,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, a hedge of protection, a powerful hedge of protection.
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  Speaker 1: Surround us with your protecting angels. Surround us with your love,
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  Speaker 1: grace and mercy. Surround us with your truth. Surround us
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  Speaker 1: with your love, Surround us with your power. Got no
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  Speaker 1: weapon formed against us shall prosper. I pray that over myself,
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  Speaker 1: over my wife, our children, our grandchildren, our families, amen
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  Speaker 1: on both sides of our families, from the very youngest
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  Speaker 1: family member all the way to the very oldest family member,
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  Speaker 1: and every single friend and every single person in between.
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  Speaker 1: That I pray the same over every single person on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the screen or on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of this MC. I pray the power of God.
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  Speaker 1: I pray Lord God, that you will continue to remind
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  Speaker 1: us that in our weakness, you, Lord God, willveal your strength,
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  Speaker 1: and I thank you for that as well. So I
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  Speaker 1: speak peace, I speak life, I speak encouragement, I speak
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  Speaker 1: the power of God through the Gospel of God. And
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  Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord God for this opportunity to be
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  Speaker 1: a part of what you're doing today in the lives
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  Speaker 1: of many. And Jesus Holy Name, my praise about faith
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  Speaker 1: and those who agree, we say amen too, the Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Help me share this out. Sixty seconds when we come back,
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  Speaker 1: We'll get right into it. I'll be right back. Hey man,
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  Speaker 1: we're back. We're back. Let's go for it. Help me out,
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  Speaker 1: help me really take this to different levels by sharing
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  Speaker 1: this out. Also by visiting our donate page. Someone is
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  Speaker 1: with a ZEA orgy forward slash donate. Right there you'll
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  Speaker 1: see not only a place where you can sow accede,
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  Speaker 1: but a place where you can see the vision that
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  Speaker 1: God has given this ministry for many years and he
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  Speaker 1: has He has kept his promise. Amen. So I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: my part and together we could take this to a
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  Speaker 1: different level knowing that God is behind us. Once we
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  Speaker 1: know that God is for us, who can be against us, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: together with so much better. So if God is really
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  Speaker 1: making you interested in what's going on with someone is
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  Speaker 1: ink Soone is Ministry, Celebrator Network, the Blaze Bobber Study,
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  Speaker 1: and what's happening right now in the morning Devo. When
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  Speaker 1: you have time, take an opportunity to check out the
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  Speaker 1: website Soone is with a zea org Amen, and press
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  Speaker 1: that donate button. It'll take you to a page where
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  Speaker 1: I spell out what God has given us amen to
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  Speaker 1: do on this side of eternity. And thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much much for your prayers, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: your donations, thank you so much for your support, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for your shares, and all those people
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  Speaker 1: out there who share this on your groups, thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much. I'm grateful you're not only helping this ministry,
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  Speaker 1: but you're helping other ministries and helping other families as
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  Speaker 1: well as you do that, Amen, So let's go forward
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  Speaker 1: trading weakness for power. When God gave me that title,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yes, Amen, we could finally come to
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  Speaker 1: a place in Christ that we could admit that we're weak,
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  Speaker 1: and in a weakness we find God to be strong.
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  Speaker 1: Right even when we think we got it all together.
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  Speaker 1: If we're honest, we know this areas in our lives
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  Speaker 1: that we can be more better. That we are weak
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  Speaker 1: in those areas. But because of Christ Jesus helping us
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  Speaker 1: strengthen in us, we can recover, Amen, and we can
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  Speaker 1: get to a place of victory and keep winning. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to lose in life. I haven't met anybody
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  Speaker 1: that's out there purposely losing in their life. We have weaknesses,
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  Speaker 1: and we could confront those weaknesses with the power of God.
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  Speaker 1: So let's trade it off. Amen. Let's trade trading weakness power. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God is good at his word. He's good for his word, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and we have what we need through him. Second Corinthings,
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  Speaker 1: chapter number twelve. Amen. To make sure, let me make
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  Speaker 1: sure I got this right yet twelve, verses nine and ten.
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  Speaker 1: But so that means something happened before this portion of
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  Speaker 1: the thought of the scripture right here. But He has
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  Speaker 1: said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, very personal,
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  Speaker 1: very specific. I loving kindness and my mercy are more
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  Speaker 1: than enough, always available, available, regardless of the situation. See that,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of what I'm going through, regardless of what you're
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  Speaker 1: going through. God says his grace is sufficient. His mercy
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  Speaker 1: is more than enough, always available, regardless of the situation.
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  Speaker 1: For my power, this is the Lord's power is being
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  Speaker 1: perfected and is completed, and shows itself most effectively in
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  Speaker 1: our weakness and your weakness and my weakness. Therefore I
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  Speaker 1: will all the more gladly boast. This is what we do.
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  Speaker 1: We boast in our weaknesses, why so that the power
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  Speaker 1: of Christ may completely and fold me and may dwell
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  Speaker 1: in me. So I am well pleased with weaknesses, with insults,
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  Speaker 1: with distresses, with persecutions, and with difficulties for the sake
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  Speaker 1: of Who, for the sake of Christ. Or when I
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  Speaker 1: am weak in human strength, then I am strong, truly able,
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  Speaker 1: truly powerful, truly drawing from God's strength. This is where
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  Speaker 1: we get to a place in our relationship with the
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  Speaker 1: Lord that we're honest, that we're vulnerable, that we are
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  Speaker 1: admitting our weaknesses. And then we say, listen, I'm weak,
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  Speaker 1: and I know I'm weak, but I'm gonna start boasting
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  Speaker 1: about this weakness because every time I show vulnerability, every
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  Speaker 1: time I'm honest with people and honest with God. Every
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  Speaker 1: time I'm testifying with God. Amen, even through persecutions, even
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  Speaker 1: through when people insult me, even when I'm distressed, even
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  Speaker 1: through difficulties in life, financially, relationally, whatever the case may be.
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  Speaker 1: When I'm weak and my human strength, I am strong.
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  Speaker 1: I'm truly able, truly powerful, truly drawing from God's strength,
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  Speaker 1: because why his grace over you and over me is
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  Speaker 1: more than enough, His loving kindness, his mercy is more
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  Speaker 1: than enough. He's available sometimes. No, God's available all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and his power is being perfected in our weakness. Right,
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  Speaker 1: this is amazing. There's no other relation that I know
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  Speaker 1: of that when you go and say, listen, I messed
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  Speaker 1: up a week, that there's some incredible grace other than
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  Speaker 1: disgrace that we see in the scriptures from the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: The grace of God is an amazing grace. That's why
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  Speaker 1: so many people think they're getting away with sin. It's
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  Speaker 1: because of an amazing, supernatural, more than enough, loving kindness,
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  Speaker 1: mercy of God. Be careful with that, amen. We shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: send more, because grace is more than enough. We should
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  Speaker 1: make sure that we're admitting I would sin to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord first, confessing I woul sins to one another, so
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  Speaker 1: that way we could be forgiven and healed and forgiven
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  Speaker 1: for their sins. Amen. Good morning sisters, Joanne, I see you,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to the morning
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  Speaker 1: Devo with my sister and my friend. It's good to
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  Speaker 1: see you. So that's where we're at. We're at a
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  Speaker 1: place of weakness, right, admitting weakness, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people don't want to admit that, especially people on social media,
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  Speaker 1: people on public platforms, big platforms. They don't want to
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  Speaker 1: admit that they have weaknesses in their life because they're
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  Speaker 1: not humble enough to admit that. Even though everybody knows
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  Speaker 1: that this weakness and human in human and mankind, there's weaknesses.
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  Speaker 1: Every single pastor, apostle, evangelist, prophet teacher their's weaknesses. And
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  Speaker 1: I learned a long time ago, oh listen, when I'm
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  Speaker 1: a weak in areas, let me go ahead and tell
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  Speaker 1: a brother in Christ. So that way they know they'll
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  Speaker 1: have weaknesses. And then that conversation usually opens up another
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  Speaker 1: conversation where it says, you know what, I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to tell anybody, but I'm weak in this air, in
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  Speaker 1: that area. It brings honesty to the front. And then
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  Speaker 1: once that happens, we are bringing all those things and
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  Speaker 1: trading those things of weaknesses, trading weakness for power, the
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  Speaker 1: power of God. Amen. So confess your weakness, be honest. Right,
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  Speaker 1: you could do it like this, Father the Lord, I
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  Speaker 1: confess my struggles before you. I am weak. You name
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  Speaker 1: the area of your weaknesses. It could be the weak
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  Speaker 1: in faith, a weak in health, humanly, patience, finances, relationship,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, and then admit that I can't carry
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  Speaker 1: this on my own. And we kind of all know
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  Speaker 1: that if we're honest, we can't do this ourselves. We
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  Speaker 1: can't do this on our own. Life hits hard sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we can't be doing this all alone. But I know
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  Speaker 1: your strength, Lord is greater than my weaknesses. Right. So
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  Speaker 1: when you take your weakness and you carry it to
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  Speaker 1: the cross, Amen, there's power there, this forgiveness. There, there's
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  Speaker 1: redemption there, right, there's grace there, there's love there, there's
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice there, there's mercy there. Amen, there's victory there, there's salvation. There,
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  Speaker 1: there's the blood of Jesus. Carry your weakness to the
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  Speaker 1: cross and you're going to find out that there's a Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the Christ, the Masik McGee, the Messiah, waiting to give
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  Speaker 1: you his power. Jesus carried your sins and my sins,
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  Speaker 1: our burdens together of all the world actually and all
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  Speaker 1: the pains of the world. Carry that all on a cross.
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  Speaker 1: So every weekness that you may have, we place it
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  Speaker 1: at the feet of the Lord. And we've become stubborn saints.
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  Speaker 1: We refuse to hold that shame, We refuse to hold
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  Speaker 1: that fear, We refuse to hold on to defeat, and
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  Speaker 1: we surrender what we can't handle and place it in
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  Speaker 1: the hands of the Lord, a place where we know,
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  Speaker 1: we find power, we find love. And people say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Christians are always judging people. We're not judging.
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  Speaker 1: We shouldn't be judging outside as the people who don't
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  Speaker 1: know Christ. We should be judging our own actions and judge, judge,
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  Speaker 1: and use judgment over the brothers. Insists in the Lord
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  Speaker 1: to make sure we're sharpening each other, make sure we
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  Speaker 1: were correcting each other in love and gentleness and moving
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction. Why would anybody this is spiritual war, right,
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  Speaker 1: Why would anybody in any war or leave our brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters behind or in a dangerous place without turning
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  Speaker 1: back and helping them back up and moving forward. No
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  Speaker 1: greater love than this than a man or a woman,
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  Speaker 1: or lay down their life for a friend. Amen, for
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  Speaker 1: the cause of what God has for us. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: there's in exchange. It's a trade going on by faith.
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  Speaker 1: You can make this trade. It's like a daily trade, right,
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  Speaker 1: a day trade. Amen. We're declaring this trade by faith. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I give you my fear and I receive your courage.
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  Speaker 1: See that, Lord, I give you my doubt and I
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  Speaker 1: receive your faith. This is good. Lord. I give you
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  Speaker 1: my fatigue when I'm tired, and I receive your strength
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  Speaker 1: your power. You know, God never tires, right, he never fails,
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  Speaker 1: he never slumbers, he never turns back on his PROMI
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  Speaker 1: He's always the Yes. And Amen, bless your smith, God,
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  Speaker 1: bless you. Welcome back to the morning. Devo, my sister,
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  Speaker 1: my friend. Yes, right, I give you my brokenness right
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  Speaker 1: at times of brokenness, and I receive your wholeness. You
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  Speaker 1: see that. I give you my weakness and I receive
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  Speaker 1: your power. People want to see the power of God
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  Speaker 1: in your life. Want to see the power God in
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  Speaker 1: my life. So many people I know they're tired of
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  Speaker 1: hearing the preaching of the gospel. They want to see
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  Speaker 1: the power of the gospel. I'm just saying Amen. They
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  Speaker 1: don't want to see a bunch of sermons just happening
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  Speaker 1: inside of building. They want to see the result of
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  Speaker 1: those sermons outside of the building. Now I believe in church,
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  Speaker 1: of course, I believe in the gathering place. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: That's a place where you get equipped to go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and do the works of the ministry. It's not a
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  Speaker 1: place where you sit down for ten, fifteen, thirty years
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  Speaker 1: and say I go to I'm a part of I'm
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  Speaker 1: a member of this church, and people say so, I
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  Speaker 1: never knew that I knew you for like twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: I never knew you went to church. Why because easther
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  Speaker 1: either you never invited them or they never saw anything
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  Speaker 1: come outside of those four walls. That's not the church
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  Speaker 1: that Gods is raising up or the God established. He's
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  Speaker 1: established us to go. We have a message to go,
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  Speaker 1: We have the green light to go and make disciples,
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  Speaker 1: baptizing people in the name of the Father's Son and
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost. You know, touch people and they shall recover, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and they shall be healed. We're supposed to be outside.
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  Speaker 1: The equipping of the saints happens in the gathering. Right,
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  Speaker 1: do not forsake the gathering but we need to take
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  Speaker 1: it outside. So let me talk to some church leaders
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  Speaker 1: that are so used to inviting people to your place.
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  Speaker 1: That's supposed to be all of that. Right, you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to equip the saints to do the works of the ministry,
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  Speaker 1: and the works are outside of the building. We come
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  Speaker 1: inside the building, we receive power, strength, prayer, we get
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  Speaker 1: the teaching of the Lord, of course, the most powerful thing,
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God. And then we should say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: next week we're going to go and apply where we
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  Speaker 1: just learned outside. These walls include the scriptures, what the disciple?
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  Speaker 1: Where were the disciples, ladies and gentlemen. Most of the
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  Speaker 1: time when you read the scriptures and the Matthew, Mark, Luke,
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  Speaker 1: and John, where were they? They were outside? Let's be honest, right,
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  Speaker 1: even in their weakness, they said, well, we decided to
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  Speaker 1: follow the Lord Jesus. He's always outside, so we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be outside right there with him. Amen. And then
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  Speaker 1: when we need together, we'll go to Synagod. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: the teachings of the Lord. We'll get the teachings of
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  Speaker 1: the rabbis, Amen. And then we'll take that information, learn
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  Speaker 1: the information, pray about that information, apply the information and
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  Speaker 1: then go outside and share that information. That information is
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  Speaker 1: not only information for here that information is transformation. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: glory to God. A trade. Lord, I give you my fear,
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  Speaker 1: exchange it for your courage. Amen. Yes, the powerful Lord
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  Speaker 1: that we serve. Yes, Felicia, you on it, Yes, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: praying and working in the community absolutely outside. Amen. Can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine when the Church of Jesus Christ steps outside
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  Speaker 1: in the arena, outside of the walls, whether you go
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  Speaker 1: on this side of the political idea, on that side
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  Speaker 1: of the political idea, and when they see when the world
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  Speaker 1: sees Us Christ, Jesus kingdom, minded people filled with the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: united regardless of the persecution, regardless of the weakness, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of the discouragement, regardless of the stress, but where united
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  Speaker 1: because of Him, the world will be like, Wow, there's
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  Speaker 1: power in the name of whom they're calling on, In
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  Speaker 1: the name of whom they serve, is power in the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's Jesus, in the Lord's home, in the Lord's house
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord's church, a man in the Lord's community.
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  Speaker 1: And we could show that, we could show that right
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  Speaker 1: now today. We don't got to wait till a holiday.
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  Speaker 1: We don't got to wait till a celebration. We don't
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  Speaker 1: have to wait for a Sunday or Tuesday or Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: or whenever you show up in the building that we
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  Speaker 1: call church. We are the church. We are the family
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  Speaker 1: of God. We are the purposed filled, holy, ghost filled
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  Speaker 1: power of God living on this planet. And we're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to shine light. And we're supposed to be salty, not angry.
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  Speaker 1: We're supposed to be preserving the Word of God in
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  Speaker 1: our lives and working through our lives. Amen, we're training
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  Speaker 1: weakness for power all the time. Think about it all
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  Speaker 1: the time. We're doing this. Stand in God's promises. Regardless
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  Speaker 1: whether or not you are instantly receiving the promise of God,
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  Speaker 1: you hurt the promise, right, So wait and stand on
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  Speaker 1: God's promises. When I am weak, there's the promise that
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  Speaker 1: I am strong. And we read that just now in
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  Speaker 1: first second Corinthians, chapter numbers twelve versus nine to ten.
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  Speaker 1: So when we hope in God, not hope in our
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  Speaker 1: tray's bond stocks. Right, We're not hoping in you know,
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  Speaker 1: our baseball players, our football players, our basketball players. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: When we hope in the Lord, we will renew our strength.
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  Speaker 1: Hoping in God never disappoints. We might be thinking the
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  Speaker 1: timing is off because I know when I pray, I
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  Speaker 1: need things asap, like right there on the spot. God
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  Speaker 1: is like, do your part and I'll do mine. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
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  Speaker 1: We see that in Isaiah chapter forty, verse thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: very powerful, very familiar scripture to those who read their Bibles.
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  Speaker 1: We model our wings of eagles like eagles, and we
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  Speaker 1: saw never faints and never grow weary, and stay in
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  Speaker 1: that condition when we're hoping in the Lord. Because the
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  Speaker 1: Lord will renew our strength. The Lord will resurrect all
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  Speaker 1: those things that are dead that he promised to make
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  Speaker 1: a live. God never leaves us broke, busted and disgusted.
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  Speaker 1: He never puts us to shame. Amen. He never reminds
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  Speaker 1: any of us. Have you ever noticed that? He never
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  Speaker 1: reminds me of my past, never reminds me of past sin.
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  Speaker 1: Lord never reminded me ever since I got born again
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and one. He never reminded me of sin.
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  Speaker 1: He never reminded me of who I was. I have
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  Speaker 1: a testimony, and I could remind you of who I was.
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  Speaker 1: But he himself never reminded me of who I was.
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  Speaker 1: And when I fall, he says, get back up, don't
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  Speaker 1: start all over right, get back up and keep on
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  Speaker 1: walking from that point to the point where he has
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  Speaker 1: us going. Why, because you could declare with the word
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  Speaker 1: says that I could do all things through Christ, who
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  Speaker 1: does what, who strengthens me. Christ Jesus who strengthens So
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  Speaker 1: if God calls you to do something, tells you to
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  Speaker 1: do something, he will empower you to get whatever that
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  Speaker 1: something is done. Right. This is He's not playing semantics
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  Speaker 1: and not playing tricks. Amen. Philippians for thirteen says I
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  Speaker 1: can do all things, all the things that he calls
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  Speaker 1: you to do. That means through Christ, who strengthens me.
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  Speaker 1: So you could pray these verses aloud as declarations. Why
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  Speaker 1: because God's word is in contract? Is the contract of
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  Speaker 1: the trade? Is God's word? Amen? That's all I got today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out of time, but thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: coming through. We were in Second Corinthians, chapter number twelve,
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  Speaker 1: Verses nine and ten. I suggest you read the whole chapter.
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  Speaker 1: Second Corinthians, chapter twelve so you can make sure I
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  Speaker 1: was in context. Amen. So God bless you all, God
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  Speaker 1: keep you all. Or remember always God is good. Peace,