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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswall devotional. We're glad to have you

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Speaker 2: listening with us. Today's topic is about how we are

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Speaker 2: safe with God. Will weturn with the devotional after a

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Speaker 2: message to our sponsors, we are Safe with God? Written

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Speaker 2: and ren by alexis a goring. The thief comes only

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Speaker 2: to still and kill and destroy. I have come that

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Speaker 2: they may have life and have it to the full.

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Speaker 2: John Chatoo ten verse ten NIV. Have you ever felt

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Speaker 2: un seen but not worried because you knew there were

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Speaker 2: people and systems in place to protect you did? Knowing

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Speaker 2: this help you feel safe? When I went in retail

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Speaker 2: for a major department store, part of my orientation day

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Speaker 2: was an introduction to the asset protection team who operated

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Speaker 2: inside a hidden room in their store. They had TV

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Speaker 2: monitors mounted on a long wall, as well as other

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Speaker 2: technology they used daily to watch all the customers to

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Speaker 2: make sure nobody would still anything that belonged to the

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Speaker 2: store and get away with it. According to a Google search,

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Speaker 2: aidit by AI, assets protection teams and department stores protect assets, employees,

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Speaker 2: and customers by preventing theft, fraud, and inventory loss shrink

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Speaker 2: through surveillance investigations and safety training. They working uniforms or

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Speaker 2: playing cold monitoring CCTV, patrolling floors, and collaborating with law

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Speaker 2: enforcement to maintain a safe environment. My exposures that has

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Speaker 2: stores protect their products did not end there. A few

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Speaker 2: years after working in retail, I noticed that none are

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Speaker 2: popular stores started putting their facial censor products behind glass

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Speaker 2: cases that cannot be unlocked without assistance from a self associate.

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Speaker 2: When I inquired why, they told me that people had

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Speaker 2: started stealing these products, so they put them under lock

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Speaker 2: and key to prevent theft. As I thought about these

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Speaker 2: two experiences recently, I realized that this is similar to

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Speaker 2: how God protects us. We have his most valuable asset

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Speaker 2: here on earth, and He has gone to great lunch

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Speaker 2: to protect us. God since his angels, who happen to

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Speaker 2: protect us from the devil, whose sole purpose is to

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Speaker 2: still kill and destroy us. But we have hope and

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Speaker 2: security in God. The Bible says in John chapter ten,

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Speaker 2: verse twenty eight, nir and V. I give them eternal life,

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Speaker 2: and they will never die. No one will still them

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Speaker 2: out of my hand. We are safe in God's hands.

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Speaker 2: This who mights MA have a popular Christian faith by

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Speaker 2: song with lyrics that reminds us how the creature of

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Speaker 2: the universe holds the whole world in his hands. We

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Speaker 2: serve a big and mighty God who is sovereign and

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Speaker 2: always in control. He's very protective of us as his treasure,

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Speaker 2: possessions and nobody, devil, demon, forces of evil, and people

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Speaker 2: who want to hurt us can remove God's hand or

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Speaker 2: protection over us. Our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, cannot

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Speaker 2: be defeated, and he promises to cover us all the

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Speaker 2: days of our life. Matthew, Chapter twenty eight, verse twenty.

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Speaker 2: Nothing that happens on earth goes unnoticed by God. The

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Speaker 2: Bible says in Proverb chapter fifteen, verse three, Ni R

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Speaker 2: and V. The eyes of the Lord are everywhere. They

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Speaker 2: watch those who are evil and those who are good.

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Speaker 2: Just like that department store, I had a hidden place

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Speaker 2: within this story to keep watch silently without any customer

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Speaker 2: being aware. They are under surveillance. The Lord himself and

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Speaker 2: his angels are keeping watch over all humankind. They stay

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Speaker 2: hidden from us in most cases, but they are very

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Speaker 2: present in our world, and sometimes they reveal their presence

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Speaker 2: when necessary. He bouched up to thirteen, verse two. So

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Speaker 2: next time you feel like someone who hurt you was

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Speaker 2: getting away with it, or a crime is going unpunished.

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Speaker 2: Remember that God will work everything together for the good

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Speaker 2: of those who love him Roman Chapter eight, verse twenty eight,

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Speaker 2: and vengeance is his Roman Chapter twelve, verse seventeen through nineteen.

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Speaker 2: Also remember what the Bible says and he booshed out

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Speaker 2: to four verses thirteen through fifteen and IV. Nothing and

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Speaker 2: all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered

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Speaker 2: and laid beer before the eyes of Him, to whom

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Speaker 2: we must give account. When we remember biblical truth and

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Speaker 2: apply it to our life, this can help us have

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Speaker 2: a peace that passes all understanding. Because we know God

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Speaker 2: is in control. We are safe with him and nobody

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Speaker 2: can snatch us out of His hand that covers us

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Speaker 2: every moment of our life here on earth. So when

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Speaker 2: you are afraid, you run to Jesus. And if you

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Speaker 2: are attempted to sin, remember God is watching you too.

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Speaker 2: Make him crowd and do the right thing. In closing,

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Speaker 2: I'd like for you to listen to the following songs.

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Speaker 2: Song of Reflection number one, Mercy Site No. By cc WANs,

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Speaker 2: Song of Reflection number two Testimony by Terry In song

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Speaker 2: of reflection number three, Faith by Elisa Turner, Song reflection

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Speaker 2: number four, Every Moment by Forever Jones, intersecting faith in life,

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Speaker 2: How does you feel to know that you are safe

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Speaker 2: with God? Further reading Diteronomy Chapter thirty two, Verse thirty five,

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Speaker 2: Psalm Chapter forty six, verses one through eleven, Psalm Chapter

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Speaker 2: ninety one, verses one through sixteen, Psalm Chapter one hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty one, verses one through eight. Second, That'ssalonians chapter three,

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Speaker 2: Verse three.

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