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

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Speaker 1: Stogey and today's devotion is inspired by James Chapter one,

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Speaker 1: verse twenty two, which says, but be doers of the Word,

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Speaker 1: and not hearers, only deceiving yourselves. The Lord has blessed

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Speaker 1: us in countless ways. When mankind rebelled against him in

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Speaker 1: the garden of Eden, the Lord would have been justified

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Speaker 1: in cutting us off from his presence forever. He could

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Speaker 1: have chosen not to redeem us, not to care for us,

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Speaker 1: and not to bless us with any revelation of himself.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus, God was revealed to us in human form.

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Speaker 1: He walked among us, lived with us, died for us,

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Speaker 1: rose from death, and promise to return again. The Lord

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Speaker 1: has also given us revelation through his word. The pages

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Speaker 1: of Scripture point our hearts to Jesus and teach us

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Speaker 1: the necessity of trusting him and walking with him daily.

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Speaker 1: Many believers convinced that the scriptures are divinely revealed by

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Speaker 1: God spend a considerable amount of time studying them. And

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Speaker 1: learning the content of both the Old and New Testaments.

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Speaker 1: This is an important practice for anyone who wants to

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Speaker 1: grow in their understanding of God's heart and God's will.

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Speaker 1: But the Bible isn't a big trivia book. It's meant

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Speaker 1: to illuminate our hearts and produce life change. We're called

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Speaker 1: to read it, internalize its content, and then put it

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Speaker 1: into practice by actually living it out. God's calling on

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Speaker 1: our lives is that we wouldn't only be people who

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Speaker 1: hear his word, but people who joyfully practice what it teaches.

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Speaker 1: Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your word, and

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Speaker 1: we thank you for the privilege that it is to

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Speaker 1: be able to read this portion of scripture from the

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Speaker 1: Book of James. And Lord, we're grateful for the ways

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Speaker 1: that you've revealed yourself to us. You sent your son

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Speaker 1: so that we would know you, and in Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 1: you revealed yourself to us in human form. You've likewise

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Speaker 1: given us access to your scriptures, and we're grateful that

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Speaker 1: you've revealed yourself to us through them. But Lord, one

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Speaker 1: of the dilemmas that we often face is what are

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Speaker 1: we supposed to do with your revelation? Many of us

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Speaker 1: as believers study it, and we look at it, and

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Speaker 1: we memorize its content. At times, we may even quiz

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Speaker 1: each other about what your word contains. But Lord, your

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Speaker 1: word isn't just some big trivia book, And as we

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Speaker 1: study it or read it or hear about it, we're

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Speaker 1: not called to just be hearers of it. Only you

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Speaker 1: want us to take what we learn and then live

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Speaker 1: it out. You want us to take what we've learned

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Speaker 1: from your word and put it into practice. So, Father,

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Speaker 1: as you enable us to do so, we pray that

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Speaker 1: we would take that enabling seriously, that we would live

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Speaker 1: out the teaching of your word, that we would demonstrate

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Speaker 1: our genuine faith in your son Jesus Christ as we

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Speaker 1: do so, and that we wouldn't be mere talkers, but

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Speaker 1: that we would be practitioners, people who actually follow what

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Speaker 1: your word teaches. So, as we put your word into practice,

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Speaker 1: we pray that we would do so joyfully as an

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Speaker 1: expression of our genuine faith in you. And we thank

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Speaker 1: you for this challenging reminder from your word. Today, we

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Speaker 1: commit ourselves to you now and pray this all in Jesus' name, Amen,