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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Welcome to the Crosswat devotional. We're glad to

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Speaker 1: have you listening with us. Today's topic is about how

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Speaker 1: we are seen by God. Will return with the devotional

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Speaker 1: after a message from our sponsors, Seen by God, written

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Speaker 1: and read by Alexis a goring. Thereafter, Heyguard used another

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Speaker 1: name to refer to the Lord who has spoken to her.

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Speaker 1: She said, you are the God who sees me. She

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Speaker 1: also said, have I truly seen the one who sees me?

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Speaker 1: Genesis Chapter sixteen, verse thirteen, n l T. Recently I

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Speaker 1: read a news story headline that said one hundred people

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Speaker 1: gathered to be in a music video. They wanted to

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Speaker 1: be seen, especially hearing the USA, there was a fascination

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Speaker 1: with being an extra in a movie or becoming a

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Speaker 1: professional actor and famous movie star. People often say they

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Speaker 1: do this because they want to make an impact, be seen,

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Speaker 1: be heard, be noticed, and be remembered. This made me

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Speaker 1: think why do we rush to be seen by people

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Speaker 1: on television and music videos, at big events, and our

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Speaker 1: social media. Perhaps it is because deep inside every human

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Speaker 1: is a need to be seen. We want to know

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Speaker 1: that we match her. We want to be acknowledged, recognized,

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Speaker 1: and celebrated. This is a totally normal part of our

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Speaker 1: human experience, But is it healthy for chasing after fame

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Speaker 1: more than seeking God. While they may not be anything

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Speaker 1: wrong with wanting to be seen and remembered by the

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Speaker 1: people in our world, I would like to encourage you

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Speaker 1: with this timeless truth. You are seen by God. He

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Speaker 1: is a creator of the universe and all the galaxies.

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Speaker 1: There is a popular inspiratual quote that says, how cool

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Speaker 1: is it that the same God who created mountains, oceans,

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Speaker 1: and galaxies looked at you and thought the world needed

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Speaker 1: one of you too. God loves you, He knows you,

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Speaker 1: He sees you, and a world where we are challenged

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Speaker 1: to prove that we matter, we need to remember our

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Speaker 1: creator loves us endlessly. We matter to him. The Bible

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Speaker 1: says God knew us before we were born Jeremiah Chapter one,

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Speaker 1: verse five. The Bible also says that God knit us

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Speaker 1: together in our mother's womb Saal in Chatter one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty nine, verse thirteen. This means God sees us

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Speaker 1: like nobody else can. He created humankind with deep care

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Speaker 1: and attention to detail. The Bible says, all the hairs

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Speaker 1: on our head are numbered. Luke Chacter twelve over seven.

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Speaker 1: If you have a lot of hair in your head,

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Speaker 1: then you may see the significance of this statement. On

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Speaker 1: a deeper level. God sees everything you go through during

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Speaker 1: your life here on earth, and he will intervene we're needed,

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Speaker 1: like he did for Hagar. She was the servant of

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Speaker 1: Abraham and Sarah. They feared God but were childless well

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Speaker 1: into what we would call their golden years. When God

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Speaker 1: promised them that they would have a son, they did

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Speaker 1: not believe him because of their old age and the

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Speaker 1: fact that Sarah was past her child bearing years. Therefore,

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Speaker 1: after waiting on God for a while, Sarah became impatient

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Speaker 1: their own hands by making Hagar pregnant by a for him.

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Speaker 1: After Hagar knew she was with childs Sarah became jealous

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Speaker 1: and started treating Hagar with cruelty. Hagar took her baby

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Speaker 1: It was there while she wept alone in deep despair

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Speaker 1: that God showed up and comforted Hagar. At the end

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Speaker 1: of this Svion encounter, Hagar called God el Warria, which

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Speaker 1: means the God who sees the God, who saw Hagar

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Speaker 1: in her distress and despair, sees us too. Nothing may

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Speaker 1: go through as unnoticed by Him. Where we feel like

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Speaker 1: we have no one else to turn to, we can

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Speaker 1: turn to our savior, Jesus Christ. The Bible says he

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Speaker 1: will be with us until the end of the world Matthew,

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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty eight, verse twenty because he loves us. Why

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Speaker 1: clamore to shake hands with our favorite actors, celebrities, politicians, woryalty,

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Speaker 1: wealthy people, and influencers who cannot save us when we

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Speaker 1: have the full attention of the one who believes that

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Speaker 1: we are worth dying for Josha to Fay verse sixteen.

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Speaker 1: The Bible says in Salom chapter one hundred and forty six,

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Speaker 1: Verses three and four and ivy do not put your

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Speaker 1: trust in princes and human beings you cannot save. When

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Speaker 1: their spirit departs, they return to the ground. On that

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Speaker 1: very day, their plans come to nothing. Only God can

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Speaker 1: save us, and He will never die. In closing, I

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Speaker 1: would like to encourage you to seek God first. If

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Speaker 1: you have not already know that your value is priceless

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Speaker 1: to Him. We don't have to clamor to be close

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Speaker 1: to him. Heard by him and seen by him. He

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Speaker 1: is already near us and seize us with perfect vision.

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Speaker 1: When God looks at us, he does not see an

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Speaker 1: overwhelming crowd of the eight point three billion people who

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Speaker 1: are alive here on Earth. Now. He sees each one

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Speaker 1: of us as if we were the only person on

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Speaker 1: this planet, and he gives us personalized attention with great

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Speaker 1: care and combattion. He pays attention to detail, and as

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Speaker 1: our master teacher, he differentiates instructure according to what each

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Speaker 1: of us uniquely needs. While the reader be anything wrong

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Speaker 1: with wanting to be seen for the right reasons and

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Speaker 1: make an impact on this world, I encourage you to

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Speaker 1: always remember that you were already seen, cherished, and treasured

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Speaker 1: by the eternal King, and that truth is forever. Listen

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Speaker 1: to the two songs of reflection listed below to remind

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Speaker 1: you how God sees you and loves you. Song of

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Speaker 1: Inflection number one, The God who Sees by Nicole C.

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Speaker 1: Mullen Song and Inflection number two, Every Single Tear by

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Speaker 1: Scott for Pain intersecting faith and life. How does it

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Speaker 1: feel to know that the creature of the universe knows

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Speaker 1: your name and sees your hearts? Further read Isaiah chapter

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Speaker 1: forty three, verse one, Soalng Chapter thirty four, Verse fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Soalng Chapter one hundred thirty nine, verses one through three.

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Speaker 1: Proverbs Chapter fifteen, verse three. First Samuel Chapter sixteen, verse seven.

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