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Speaker 1: You're listening to daily devotions with Pastor John I'm john

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Speaker 1: Stongey and today's devotion is inspired by Luke Chapter twelve,

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Speaker 1: verses six and seven, which says, are not five sparrows

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Speaker 1: sold for two pennies, and not one of them is

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Speaker 1: forgotten before God? Why even the hairs of your head

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Speaker 1: are all numbered? Fear not you are of more value

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Speaker 1: than many sparrows. What message do you typically preach to

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Speaker 1: your heart? Is it a message of hope and encouragement

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Speaker 1: or is it a message of shame and despair? Throughout

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Speaker 1: the scriptures, the Lord makes it clear to us that

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Speaker 1: we are precious to him. He created us in his image,

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Speaker 1: revealed himself to us, walks with us, redeems Us, forgives us,

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Speaker 1: and offers us an imperishable inheritance in His kingdom through

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Speaker 1: faith in Jesus. But unfortunately, we don't always preach this

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Speaker 1: message to our hearts. Sometimes we let ourselves believe that

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Speaker 1: we are forgotten and forsaken. We feel overlooked and unloved.

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Speaker 1: Yet Jesus reminds us that we are of more value

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Speaker 1: to God than anything else in his creation. When our

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Speaker 1: hearts become convinced that we are truly loved by our Lord,

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Speaker 1: our perspective toward the future begins to experience a drastic change.

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Speaker 1: We latch onto genuine hope. Our intrinsic fear is replaced

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Speaker 1: with confident faith. What message will you be preaching to

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Speaker 1: your heart today? Despair or hope? Abandonment or love of

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Speaker 1: fear or faith? Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for

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Speaker 1: your word, and we thank you for the privilege that

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Speaker 1: it is to be able to look at this portion

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Speaker 1: of scripture from the Gospel of Luke today. And Lord,

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Speaker 1: as we look at this portion of your word, you

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Speaker 1: remind us of the great value we have to you.

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Speaker 1: You value us, you love us, you care for us,

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Speaker 1: and you're paying attention to all the things that take

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Speaker 1: place in our lives. And Lord, we know that sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's very easy for us, as we go about our

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Speaker 1: day to day lives, to think that maybe you've forgotten us,

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Speaker 1: or to think that maybe you aren't paying very close

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Speaker 1: attention to what we're experiencing. But then we look at

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Speaker 1: a portion of scripture like this, and it reminds us

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Speaker 1: that your eye is on even the most intricate and

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Speaker 1: seemingly inconsequential details of your creation. And then we look

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Speaker 1: at the full council of your word, and your word

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Speaker 1: tells us that we were created in your image, and

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Speaker 1: among what you have created, we are most precious to you.

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Speaker 1: So Lord, if you would go so far as to

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Speaker 1: pay attention to the details of the life of a bird,

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Speaker 1: or if you would bother to number the hairs on

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Speaker 1: our heads, for sure you pay attention to the other

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Speaker 1: details as well, the minute details and the large details.

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Speaker 1: And we're confident that you're working together all things for

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Speaker 1: our good and your glory, as we know you through

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Speaker 1: your son Jesus Christ. So Father, we're thankful for the

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Speaker 1: privilege to be your children. We're thankful for the work

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Speaker 1: that you're doing in our lives, and we're thankful for

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Speaker 1: the fact that you have assured us you are going

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Speaker 1: to work all things out to a desired end, and

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Speaker 1: we will be pleased with the outcome that you produce

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Speaker 1: in eternity. Again, we're grateful to be reminded of these

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Speaker 1: things as we look at your word together, and we

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Speaker 1: pray this all in Jesus amen