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Day #29: Lesson: Holding Fast to Hope | BEYOND SIGHT DEVOTIONAL BY ANGELA THOMAS SMITH · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Try to be obedient when I go live on those
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  Speaker 1: other platforms. So I thank y'all for joining me on
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Good morning, Good morning, Minister Marco.
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  Speaker 2: How are you? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Before I get started, y'all, I just because the Man
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  Speaker 1: of God is in my face, I have to acknowledge him.
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  Speaker 1: If you are not following him, if you are not
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  Speaker 1: over there listening to this man of God and taking
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  Speaker 1: part in what he is doing, y'all, I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: you need to go over there and see what God
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  Speaker 1: is doing through this man of God, because he's definitely moving,
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  Speaker 1: he's definitely allowing God to use him. He's being obedient,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm grateful that I was able to cross his path.
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  Speaker 1: I thank God for just aligning me with that that
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  Speaker 1: he had already ordained. So I'm grateful just to be
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  Speaker 1: in the place, but to see a lot of us.
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  Speaker 1: We hear the call, but we don't answer the call.
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  Speaker 1: But I choose to answer the call day and y'all,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, that song just did something to me
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Again, every time I just think about how Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: how God just rolls me up off my bed to
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  Speaker 1: go flick you when he could have left me deep
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  Speaker 1: in my sin. He could have left me dead on
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  Speaker 1: that bed. He didn't have to wake me up that day.
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  Speaker 1: But y'all, he spared my life. He gave me another chance,
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  Speaker 1: another chance. I ain't gonna say a second chance, because
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  Speaker 1: he don't gave me chance after chance after chance. But
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  Speaker 1: he gave me yet another chance, y'all. And today, if
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  Speaker 1: you're hearing this, if you're seeing this, whatever, you got,
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  Speaker 1: grace and mercy extended once again because you got to
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  Speaker 1: see this day, this day that was not promised us.
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  Speaker 1: Because somebody didn't get to see this day. Somebody didn't
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  Speaker 1: wake up this morning. Somebody had dreams, somebody had aspirations,
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  Speaker 1: somebody had things that they wanted to do, but yet
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  Speaker 1: they didn't get to do them. But yet you got
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  Speaker 1: another opportunity. So you should be giving him praise. You
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  Speaker 1: should definitely be giving him praise. You should be giving.
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  Speaker 2: Him the honor that he yet do. See, we don't.
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  Speaker 1: Want to testify, but y'all, that's I'm gonna stick to
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  Speaker 1: the lesson because I gotta go.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta go. I can't be before y'all long.
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  Speaker 1: I got to be obedient because I do have to
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  Speaker 1: be back at nine o'clock because I do do a
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  Speaker 1: morning a Monday morning motivation our power every Monday.
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  Speaker 2: So I have to be o beating with that. So y'all,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna move on.
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  Speaker 1: But y'all, before I start, I'm just gonna say, put
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  Speaker 1: the crown, Father got in the name of Jesus, if
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  Speaker 1: you would just remove me out of the rate, decrease
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  Speaker 1: me in the flesh, and allow your spirit man to
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  Speaker 1: come forth foror God, let it not be about me,
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  Speaker 1: but about your word. Allow your truth to come forth
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  Speaker 1: on this day, Lord, God Father, I thank you for
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  Speaker 1: the space. I thank you for the opportunities. So, Father,
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  Speaker 1: allow this word not to follow on death is. But Lord,
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  Speaker 1: as we hear the word, may we be doing's of
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  Speaker 1: the word. And that I asked your son Jesus saying amen,
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  Speaker 1: A man, a man, y'all, I just want to be
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  Speaker 1: a vessel, just want to be a vessel today to
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  Speaker 1: be used by Him. So today we are day twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine and we are coming out yet.
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  Speaker 2: This book, this is my book.
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  Speaker 1: This is a devotional, a thirty one day devotional call
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  Speaker 1: beyond Sight. It is a thirty one day of empower
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  Speaker 1: and faith, has affirmation, It has poems, it has stripture.
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  Speaker 1: Everything I do, I try to include the word, because, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: it is the word that save me.
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  Speaker 2: It is the word that I know is true.
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  Speaker 1: If everything else fails me, I know the word will
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  Speaker 1: not fail me. So I'm grateful for that. On today,
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  Speaker 1: so the scripture today is coming out of Hebrews. He
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  Speaker 1: Brews ten twenty three. He said, let us owe fast
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  Speaker 1: the confessions of our hope without wavering, for he who
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  Speaker 1: promised is yet faithful, y'all. And see this this book
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  Speaker 1: was done December of twenty twenty four. So I'm just
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  Speaker 1: being obedient by even being on day twenty nine, and
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  Speaker 1: yet day twenty nine, he reminds us. So whoever is
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  Speaker 1: hearing this, this is for you know that let us
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  Speaker 1: hold fast to the confessions of our hope, hope without wavering.
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  Speaker 1: That means we can't go to the left, we can't
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  Speaker 1: go to the right. We gotta stay steadfast on his word,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what it looked like. We gotta believe and
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  Speaker 1: hold his word true, because his word is true. For
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  Speaker 1: he who promised, y'all, he who promised. It's over three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five promises in the word three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty five promises right here, right here for us.
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  Speaker 1: All you got to do is open it up. You
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  Speaker 1: can go to any one of them and speak it
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  Speaker 1: over your life. He's given us that power and Proverbs
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  Speaker 1: ain't no theologian, I ain't no, no.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the word like that.
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  Speaker 1: But I can tell you if you go over there,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna find it in there and ain't.
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  Speaker 2: And I can guarantee you that. I can't tell you
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  Speaker 2: exactly where it's at. But I don't read it. I
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  Speaker 2: don't read the Bible through and through. Y'all grew up
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  Speaker 2: in the church. But what's the Church in me? Just
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  Speaker 2: being just just being honest? What's the Church in me?
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  Speaker 2: That that? That's the question?
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  Speaker 1: And today I can say I'm growing closer to the
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  Speaker 1: church that's that, that was, that that is in me
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  Speaker 1: because that breath that He breathed me in Genesis two
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  Speaker 1: and seven, y'all, it is not gonna return to him
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  Speaker 1: board y'all. Every every promise, every every vision, everything that
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  Speaker 1: He had already ordained in the creation of time, before
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  Speaker 1: I was even thought of in my mother's womb. He
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  Speaker 1: knew what I was gonna be doing. He knew everything
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  Speaker 1: about me. He knew every hair on my head, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: He called him by name, y'all. His word is not
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  Speaker 1: returning to him.
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  Speaker 2: Board.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you do. I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: you stumble to the left, to the right. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if you keep going in circles. One day, you you,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna come into the revelation.
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  Speaker 2: But when and will we have time? So will that
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  Speaker 2: one day be? Today?
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  Speaker 1: Is what we should be asking, y'all. We got to
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  Speaker 1: align with the world. We got to align with the word, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and get into this lesson, and
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  Speaker 1: then I'm gonna go on and go.
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  Speaker 2: Because I gotta go. I gotta go.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go, y'all. God has been good. I'm grateful
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  Speaker 1: for these fasis. I'm grateful for the opportunity to even
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  Speaker 1: just be able to share, because there was a time
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't think that I was even worthy enough
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  Speaker 1: to do some of the things that I do. But
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  Speaker 1: God showed me exactly who he was in my life,
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  Speaker 1: and he allowed me these, He allowed me these. So
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you this, this verse, y'all, it is
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  Speaker 1: a powerful reminder of uncertain times and now as we
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  Speaker 1: look in the news and we look at all around us,
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  Speaker 1: we even look into leadership, and we look at a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things that is following in our lives, y'all
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  Speaker 1: is shaken.
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  Speaker 2: But guess what. We cannot give up hope. We cannot
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  Speaker 2: let go of hope. We got to refuse to let
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  Speaker 2: go of hope, y'all. Our hope is not in wish.
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  Speaker 1: For thinking, but it's rooted in the unchangeable character of
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  Speaker 1: our faithful God, y'all. We gotta hold fast to hope
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  Speaker 1: of God's promises, huh, y'all. We got to anchor ourselves
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  Speaker 1: in prayer, and we got to stand on His truth,
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  Speaker 1: and we got to stand taller than any circumstance that
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  Speaker 1: may come our way, y'all. We gotta do that. We
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  Speaker 1: cannot we cannot filter at this time. We can't give
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  Speaker 1: up those that are standing on the walls, those that
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  Speaker 1: are inner seating, y'all. We're not just standing on the
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  Speaker 1: wall and inner seeding for those that are in our
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  Speaker 1: family and our behalf, but we're interceding on all those
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  Speaker 1: that just following our spirit. Anytime we get the urge
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  Speaker 1: to pray, we are praying, and we're not just praying
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  Speaker 1: about our house and our four and no more, We're
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  Speaker 1: praying about everybody that drops on my mind, our nation, because, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: if we look around, we see a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: that are crumbling, a lot of things that are following,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things that have been broken and are
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  Speaker 1: not in the will of God. So we got to
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  Speaker 1: hold fast to his word. We got to hold fast
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  Speaker 1: to His word. And I gotta keep going. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: move fast, I gotta move fast. The Book of Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: was written to the Christians who were feeling weary, prosecuted, misunderstood,
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  Speaker 1: and tempted to give up. And that's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people right now. Their faith journey have been tough. The
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  Speaker 1: writer reminds us that the foundation of our hope is
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  Speaker 1: not in the changing of our circumstances, but in a
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  Speaker 1: faithful God. And I'm wavering. I'm wavering faith even when
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  Speaker 1: the future was not even certain.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: As we in June, because we're coming up on the
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  Speaker 1: close of June, we're day number twenty three of a
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  Speaker 1: thirty day month, y'all, we're yet pressing to another month.
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  Speaker 1: We're starting to walk into July. Life challenges or disappointments
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  Speaker 1: may have that, y'all. Truly, they may have made or
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  Speaker 1: pulled us back or even shrinked our hope. But look,
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  Speaker 1: this is a time to double back. This is time
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  Speaker 1: to double down on faith, trusting in God. Don't let
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  Speaker 1: the setbacks that the hen ndorance, y'all, those hindrance listen,
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  Speaker 1: hold on to that, hold on to that w'd hindrance.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let those sit backs in the first half shake you,
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  Speaker 1: because guess what, God wants you to have confidence, confidence
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  Speaker 1: like never before within yourself. Because guess what He's put
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  Speaker 1: inside of you is greater than what's in the world, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: and you gotta know that. So it's up to us
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  Speaker 1: to tap into that. We gotta tap into those things
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  Speaker 1: that He's placed in us, y'all. God has not brought
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  Speaker 1: us this far to leave us now, y'all. We are
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  Speaker 1: his children. We are his call, just as God's people,
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  Speaker 1: and he brules pressed on. Guess what we gotta press
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  Speaker 1: on too.
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  Speaker 2: We got we.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta finish strong and walk in to this new month
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  Speaker 1: holding tight an unbreakable promise, y'all. Three hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: five of those promises, y'all, were only day what one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four. I think because we're on I
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  Speaker 1: think that's what we're on, the prayer line. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what we are on the prayer line. That's what we're
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  Speaker 1: on because we've been praying for since day one. We
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  Speaker 1: started off the year of praying. So let me drop
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  Speaker 1: these leggas real quick, and I'm gonna go unshakeable. Hope
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  Speaker 1: is rooted in God's character. Your circumstance may change, but
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  Speaker 1: God's character never change. God's reliability never change.
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  Speaker 2: When when he make a promise, keep it. Place hope
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  Speaker 2: in who he is and not just what you see. Huh.
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  Speaker 1: Believe in what the word say he is. He is
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  Speaker 1: who he say he is every time he showed up
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  Speaker 1: for you in the past. No hold on today. Believe
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  Speaker 1: that we tell it to yourself, Tell it to somebody
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  Speaker 1: else so that they know, so that they will have hope.
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  Speaker 1: And when they begin to have hope, you will have
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  Speaker 1: hope too. Those around you have hope, you will have hope.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what, because it triples off. It's like that ripple effect, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we gotta have. Okay, consistence.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta keep going. I gotta keep going.
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  Speaker 1: I can't stop, y'all, because I gotta go, tot, I
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  Speaker 1: got a nine o'clock appointment. Consistent grows doing your uncertainty. So, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: when you ain't certain, you gotta keep showing up. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta being in those places that you think you need
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  Speaker 1: to be, so you gotta hold on to his unswervingly, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: It's not passive. It takes courage, it takes consistency. It
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  Speaker 1: takes especially when it gets tough. True faith is strengthen
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  Speaker 1: not in the easy times, because we know that during
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  Speaker 1: those easy times we kind of y'all, But in the
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  Speaker 1: moments where everything is tempted and it's not going the
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  Speaker 1: way you want it to go.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta know one thing that no matter what you
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  Speaker 2: go through, no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: You may be in the middle of, know that you're
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  Speaker 1: never alone. You have a whole community around you. But
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  Speaker 1: you gotta let them in. You got to open up
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  Speaker 1: your heart, you got to open up your mind, and
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  Speaker 1: you got to be willing to receive. Because if you
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  Speaker 1: read over in Hebrews, Hebrews is written to a community, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We're called to hold on together, we are called to
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  Speaker 1: hold each other up.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
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  Speaker 1: When you're tired, you gotta lean on your prayer partners,
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  Speaker 1: your fellow.
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  Speaker 2: Believers, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: God designed us all, and he designed you to finish
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  Speaker 1: strong with support, not solo. He didn't call us to
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  Speaker 1: be solo in this. He had disciples on this journey, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: He had disciples, So guess what, You're supposed to have
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  Speaker 1: disciples with you too. He didn't call you to do
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  Speaker 1: this alone. He didn't call you to be on solo projects.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of time when you see people moving
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  Speaker 1: by themselves, it's a lot of time not by choice.
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  Speaker 1: But if you hold on not with send you those
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  Speaker 1: that He need to be in your circle, because those
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  Speaker 1: that maybe you're trying to add may not be the
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  Speaker 1: ones that need to be there. But you still got
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  Speaker 1: to believe that you're not on this journey by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: It is not for you to do by yourself, So
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  Speaker 1: never do it by yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Three things I want you to take away from this
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  Speaker 2: confess and confirm God's promises. I want you to start.
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  Speaker 1: And finish your day by quoting and writing down a
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  Speaker 1: promise from God, y'all. He's given us go through there
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  Speaker 1: and find them. You can go through there and find them.
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  Speaker 1: Speak them over your life, not just your life, but
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  Speaker 1: your family. Those dreams that He's given you, y'all, make
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  Speaker 1: faith declarations, make him a daily habit, especially when you
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  Speaker 1: feel doubt. You always gotta be able to speak life affirmations.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all hear this.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a song that you go all of us,
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  Speaker 1: we all right here on TikTok. For those that are
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  Speaker 1: here on tiptop. Hey TikTok. Haye TikTok for all those
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  Speaker 1: that are here on TikTok. Y'all we hear this song.
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  Speaker 1: It's a constant. It pops in everywhere you go, an affirmation,
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  Speaker 1: affirmation and that God come out. He be popping, he
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  Speaker 1: be doing, and he'd be saying some words that I
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  Speaker 1: don't be wanting to hear. But that song, it's about
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  Speaker 1: speaking to yourself and knowing that you are and that
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  Speaker 1: you can. And that's what you gotta know. And you
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  Speaker 1: gotta start your day by affirming to yourself. Forget what
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  Speaker 1: the world may pour into you. If you affirm yourself
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  Speaker 1: before you walk out into the world. Because he said,
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  Speaker 1: we have to be in this world, but not up
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  Speaker 1: this world. So if you affirm yourself before you walk
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  Speaker 1: out there in it and you speak life over you,
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  Speaker 1: your family, your dreams, those things that you want to
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  Speaker 1: see to come to pass today. Y'all got this sometime,
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  Speaker 1: We got to call those things were donna pray. We've
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  Speaker 1: been going forth with the word. Sometimes it ain't been
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  Speaker 1: getting where we needed to go because we ain't been
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  Speaker 1: really doing what we were supposed to been doing getting
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  Speaker 1: out there because a lot of time we spend time
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  Speaker 1: doing stuff that we really don't need to be doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm guilty of it two A lot of times. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of times I should be moving forward doing something else,
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  Speaker 1: but yet I've wasted time on other stuff. We now
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  Speaker 1: got to be focused and intentional about those things that
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  Speaker 1: he's called us to wake up in the morning, affirm
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  Speaker 1: yourself before you go out into this world, before you
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  Speaker 1: face what may come at you know who you are,
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  Speaker 1: what you are, and know what your purpose for this
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  Speaker 1: day is time with Him. And that means you've got
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  Speaker 1: to sacrifice an extra hour to get up and spend
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  Speaker 1: time with him so that you can get yourself together
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  Speaker 1: before you go out and face this world.
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  Speaker 2: Do that it is, y'all. It's only gonna help you,
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  Speaker 2: and it's gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Help the people that you're gonna come in contact with,
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  Speaker 1: because you never know the person that you may come
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  Speaker 1: in contact with, and you may bless their soul, you
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  Speaker 1: may bless their life. Maybe someone that's lost, that don't
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  Speaker 1: even know the word, that don't even know the father,
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  Speaker 1: that don't even know and they need your support, they
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  Speaker 1: need your guidance, they need that little encouragement to keep
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  Speaker 1: them going. So every day, start your day afresh, and
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  Speaker 1: when you close out your day, it's important that you
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  Speaker 1: close your day out the same. Why because you allowing
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit in you, allowing him to come in
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  Speaker 1: while you rest, while you see, so that he can
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  Speaker 1: do what you've emptied yourself out all day long. So
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  Speaker 1: now it's the time for him to fill you up
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  Speaker 1: anew so that you can continue on this journey because
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  Speaker 1: you got you want to come into this next day
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  Speaker 1: full and fresh and ready to take on what ever
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  Speaker 1: may come.
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  Speaker 2: So y'all, these are the most important times.
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  Speaker 1: And as he's downloaded these things into you as you
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  Speaker 1: have slept, if you start your new day off, your
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  Speaker 1: new morning, as you rise from all that that he's
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  Speaker 1: poured into you, ask him to bring it forth, allow
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  Speaker 1: him to bring that fourth out of you today so
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  Speaker 1: that everything he's input it in you throughout the night
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  Speaker 1: as you've rested, is able to come forth. It's able
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  Speaker 1: to manifest. That's how we see the prayers come forth.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we see the things come forth, y'all. We
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  Speaker 1: gotta put time in and I gotta go. I'm moving,
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  Speaker 1: I'm moving, I'm moving, I'm moving, y'all. Reconnect with your
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  Speaker 1: support network. Send a quick prayer or encouraging message to
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  Speaker 1: someone walking the journey with you because.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: You're not alone. Do not isolate. Reach out to mentors,
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  Speaker 2: prayer warriors, and faith friends. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Being reminded that you're not alone on this journey. It
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  Speaker 1: only renews your hope. It only helps you. It only
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  Speaker 1: helps you to hold on. Hey, sweetheart, how you doing? Hey?
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  Speaker 1: The shame, blessings, bless and blessings, y'all. It only renews you,
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  Speaker 1: It only strengthened you, and it only gives you that
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  Speaker 1: help that you need to hold on. Whenever you may
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  Speaker 1: not be feeling like going through whatever you're going through
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  Speaker 1: by yourself. You don't have to know that everybody like
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  Speaker 1: you should have people on this If you're on TikTok Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: wherever you are, whatever social media site that you're on,
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  Speaker 1: there should be people that you have come out of
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  Speaker 1: social media and actually let met. Like everybody that I
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  Speaker 1: come across on social media, y'all, I hope to meet
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  Speaker 1: them in person. I just don't want to be social
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  Speaker 1: media friends. That's why I do the stuff that I
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  Speaker 1: do out in the community, because it's all when I
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  Speaker 1: tell you, I'm for real about the Four Seas, y'all, Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I believe in, and it's God gave me that.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't something that I just dropped in my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: He dropped it in my spirit. I don't do none
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  Speaker 1: of this by myself, none of this. That's why He
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  Speaker 1: allowed people to come in my path that have the
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  Speaker 1: hearts that they have, the drive that they have, the
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  Speaker 1: commitment that they have, so that we can do the
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  Speaker 1: things that we need to do, y'all. Because people are
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  Speaker 1: depending on you, They're depending on the Jesus in you, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We all got we all got a piece of him.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis two and seven is not a lie. That is
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  Speaker 1: the word.
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  Speaker 2: You go over there and you read it, read it
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  Speaker 2: for yourself. Know that he imparted that breath of life.
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  Speaker 1: Into you, y'all. We don't need no long clock, even
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  Speaker 1: though we use them to get up. We don't need
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  Speaker 1: no long clock because guess what, He gonna wake us up.
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  Speaker 1: He gonna he gonna give us another chance. As long
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  Speaker 1: as as we do what we're supposed to do, He
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  Speaker 1: gonna extend that grace and mercy until we fulfill the promise.
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  Speaker 2: Because there's promises over our lives. There's things that.
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  Speaker 1: We're supposed to be doing, y'all, those trials and those
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  Speaker 1: trie relations that you go through. He want to see
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  Speaker 1: how you're gonna endure. He want to see if you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna move in a hell spirit or if you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: move in the spirit of hurt.
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  Speaker 2: God.
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  Speaker 1: We can't allow hurt to keep us from being blessed.
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  Speaker 1: We can't allow hurt to stop us from moving into
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  Speaker 1: things that God has called us to. Like some of
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  Speaker 1: us got books. Some of us are supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: doing podcasts. Some are supposed to be writing for magazines.
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  Speaker 1: Some of us is supposed to be doing so much more.
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  Speaker 2: Than what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: But we allow these these noises because that's what a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people call them noises. We allow things that
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  Speaker 1: want to get inside your head because they know if
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  Speaker 1: they can get inside your head, then they can affect
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  Speaker 1: your heart because they know. God speaks to your heart
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  Speaker 1: and he considers your heart before he consider anything else.
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  Speaker 1: He searches the heart because he knows your heart. And y'all,
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  Speaker 1: if we put things on our heart and.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go.
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  Speaker 1: As we put things on our heart, I want you
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  Speaker 1: all to set your goals, set your July goals and faith.
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  Speaker 1: Do not lower your expectations in yourself. Now we can't
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  Speaker 1: put expectations on people, but in yourself. Do not lower
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  Speaker 1: your expectation. Raise your faith, y'all, write down one bowld
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  Speaker 1: move or risk you'll take. Trust God to show up,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's applying for something big, forgiving someone a launching
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  Speaker 1: a new idea. Let hope not fear shape your action.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to remember, as we finished June, don't
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  Speaker 1: forget where you started, and don't think that you have
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  Speaker 1: traveled alone. God's faithfulness it's just for the past. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just for the past.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: God's faithfulness is not just for the past, but guess
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  Speaker 1: what it's moving into a powerful July August September, October, November, December.
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  Speaker 1: As we finish, we're gonna finish strong, because guess what
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  Speaker 1: our eyes should be on the promise and then the
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  Speaker 1: hope that's in our heart and hand in hand as
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  Speaker 1: a family, y'all, we all, we all should be encouraging
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  Speaker 1: each other. We should be praying for each other. If
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  Speaker 1: we are coming across these lives, we should be liking
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  Speaker 1: each other's lives. We should be sharing each other lives.
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  Speaker 1: We should be pouring anyto each other. Like we should
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  Speaker 1: be following each other. And when we follow each other,
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  Speaker 1: we should follow that we should go and we should
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  Speaker 1: support each other. Because, y'ad, we get notifications. We can't hide,
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  Speaker 1: we cannot run from the truth. We cannot make excuses
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  Speaker 1: no more. Because it's time out for excuses, y'all. We
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  Speaker 1: see what's happening around us. We see what's going on
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  Speaker 1: in the world. Like God didn't make excuses when he
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  Speaker 1: send his son Jesus, and Jesus didn't make excuses when
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  Speaker 1: he hung.
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  Speaker 2: On that cross. Guess what if he hadn't made excuses,
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  Speaker 2: Guess what?
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  Speaker 1: Guess what we would be A lot of us wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: even be sitting in the places that we're sitting. We
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be doing the lives that we're doing. We wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be doing the none of the stuff that we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: But it's because of his sacrifice, because of what he
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  Speaker 1: gave for us, because he believed in us. But guess
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  Speaker 1: what some of us. God has woke us up. He's
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  Speaker 1: given us three four, five, six seven. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about chances he's gave me. But he's
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  Speaker 1: given us opportunity, opportunity, opportunity to impact lives and to
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  Speaker 1: be able to tell our truth, to be able to
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: tell our stories, to be able to tell our journeys.
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  Speaker 1: But yet we sit on it, y'all. He gave us
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  Speaker 1: testimonies for a reason, He said, we overcome by hearing
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  Speaker 1: and sharing their testimonies. Test trials, tribulations, they only last
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  Speaker 1: for a moment so you can get through, so that
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  Speaker 1: you can tell somebody else how to get through, how
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  Speaker 1: to overcome. And then some of us we wonder why
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  Speaker 1: we keep having these same tests over and over because
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  Speaker 1: you never you never shared the first testimony. If you
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  Speaker 1: share the testimony, if you share what He's done for
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  Speaker 1: you so the other people can see, then you won't
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  Speaker 1: have to keep going through it, So y'all, stop stop
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  Speaker 1: sitting on your testimonies, like help somebody come out of
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  Speaker 1: what they going through so that you can go to
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  Speaker 1: the next level, so that they can come into this,
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  Speaker 1: so that they can help somebody else come out. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: every time we elevate, somebody behind us, elevate somebody under us,
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  Speaker 1: elevate even when you thank you not elevating, guess what,
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  Speaker 1: you helping somebody else. You helping somebody else come out
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  Speaker 1: of the dark. Because there's somebody yesterday that didn't know Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: There was somebody yesterday that was having questions, but today
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  Speaker 1: that they're even closer because you're even closer. So guess what,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you gotta keep moving forward. You can't waiver in this
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  Speaker 1: that you do. So the affirmation for the day that's
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the book, y'all, and that is Beyond Sight,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: one of my books. Again, if you would like to
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  Speaker 1: check out any of my books, they are available over
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  Speaker 1: on my website which is ww dot Angela Thomas Smith
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  Speaker 1: books dot com. Again, that is Angela Thomas smithbooks dot com.
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  Speaker 1: The affirmation for today is I whole, unwavering, hope, trusting,
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  Speaker 1: and faithfulness of God promises. I hold unwavering hope, trusting
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  Speaker 1: the faithfulness of God's promises. And that is our affirmation
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  Speaker 1: for today, y'all. Speaking over your life. He give you
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  Speaker 1: that power, he said, we have the power to speak
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  Speaker 1: life to death. The poet for today is on wavering stands.
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  Speaker 1: My hope lights through trials. It shines so bright in
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: his promised my soul finds rest faithful God, forever blessed.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And that's that piece. If nothing else, hold fast to
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  Speaker 1: his word and understand that it is not moving Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: tending to one three, he said, let us hold fast
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  Speaker 1: to the confession of our whole without waivering, for he
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  Speaker 1: who promised it.
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  Speaker 2: It's faithful, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: If he promised it, he's gonna do it. If he
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  Speaker 1: brought you to it, he's gonna see you through it.
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  Speaker 1: Know that you're not alone. You're not on this journey
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  Speaker 1: by yourself. If you want to grab the book again,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: it is on my website www dot Angela Thomas Smith
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  Speaker 1: books dot com. All of my books are over there, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: As we wrap up this book, we're gonna be headed
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: into this book. It's gonna be our next book and
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: it is a it is a youth guy, but it's
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  Speaker 1: for the family.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: It's pretty much for the family. It is a youth book.
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  Speaker 1: It is called a Closer Walk with I am that
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  Speaker 1: I am a thirty one day teen guy to explore
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  Speaker 1: the Bible with visionary Angela Thomas Smith. That's me, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: So you get an opportunity to explore the valuable with me.
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  Speaker 1: There's I think six sections in this book. There is
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: a yeah, six sections in this book, information about the prayer,
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  Speaker 1: calls on join a praer call, and just a letter
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  Speaker 1: to you guys.
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  Speaker 2: But there is.
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  Speaker 1: A introduction talking about exploring the divine identity, hope, hope
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  Speaker 1: and spiritual guidance, a daily devotion, intentional and accountability section,
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  Speaker 1: a practical application section, and then a section on meditation
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  Speaker 1: and reflections. So it is a great book if you
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  Speaker 1: have teens, if you have young adults, it is a
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: great book.
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  Speaker 2: It is a great family resource if you have things
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: that you would like to share, words that you would
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: like to teach your kids during family time, and it
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: is a great book that you can use. Was doing
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  Speaker 2: family time again. This is one of my books over
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  Speaker 2: on It is www.
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  Speaker 1: Dot Angela Thomas Smithbooks dot Com. Again, that is the
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  Speaker 1: way you can purchase the books if you would like
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: to get a book copy of the book. This is
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: gonna be our next thirty one day devotion. Actually it's
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: gonna be about forty five days because we have some
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  Speaker 1: activities in here that we're gonna be doing and some
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: different things that we're gonna be doing that's inside of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: this book as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yead.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great book. So I urge you if you
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  Speaker 1: have children, young adults, this is a great book to
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: explore the Bible with them. You know, it's a teach
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: a child in the way that you will have them
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to go. That's over in what proverbs raise the child away,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: you have them to go that they won't depart from
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: their ways. So you gotta put something in them if
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you want something to come upout them. So hey, I
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: got it, form got it for him again. I want
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to thank you guys. I got to jump off because
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I got to jump over here for Monday morning and motivation. Again,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: thank you guys that have been journeying with me. Y'all,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: we just completed day twenty nine. If you missed it,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the replace will be up. I will have the replace
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  Speaker 1: up sometime today. But thank you guys for joining me
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Again, thank you, thank you, thank you. Get
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: ready for our power with the Queen. Probably not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be on the hour, probably not gonna be on the hour,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: but have to be obedient, have to go over there
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  Speaker 1: and do their said the Lord. So thank you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all have a great day. If you can stay around,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be right back.