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Speaker 1: You're listening to Kfi A six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: Giving to give to someone else is at the heart

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Speaker 2: of human kindness, and when it's done right, when it's

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Speaker 2: done in the right spirit, it is an absolute reflection

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Speaker 2: of the spirit of God, the ultimate giver. Wikipedia defines

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Speaker 2: gift as the transfer of something without the expectation of

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Speaker 2: receiving something in return. The hustle and bustle of the

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Speaker 2: holiday is in full swing, and I bet you your

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Speaker 2: right smack dab in the middle of it as well.

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Speaker 2: That's your focus. That's where a lot of your attention

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Speaker 2: is going to. Knowing that the day is coming soon.

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Speaker 2: Stores are filled up with people just like you, trying

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Speaker 2: to find that perfect gift for all the friends and

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Speaker 2: family in their lives. Unfortunately, people can often get so

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Speaker 2: concerned with what others might think of what they're giving

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Speaker 2: they forget to focus on the thought and meaning behind it.

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Speaker 2: Many times on this very show, you've heard me say

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Speaker 2: that the purpose or spirit of the law is more

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Speaker 2: important than the law it self. Likewise, the purpose or

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Speaker 2: spirit of the gift should be more important than the

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Speaker 2: gift itself. You've heard it said a bunch of times, right.

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Speaker 2: You can finish the sentence. It's the thought that counts,

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Speaker 2: and this is absolutely true when you're giving a gift.

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Speaker 2: The thought is that person means to you why you

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Speaker 2: wanted to give them a gift in a first place? Right,

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Speaker 2: You're not going around giving gifts to everyone body just

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Speaker 2: to give them a gift. There are people in your

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Speaker 2: life that mean something to you, people that have moved

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Speaker 2: you in some way, and that's what motivates you to

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Speaker 2: want to give them something. And gifts don't have to

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Speaker 2: be expensive, they have to be thoughtful.

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Speaker 3: Giving is not.

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Speaker 2: About yielding to the pressure of the holidays, and I

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Speaker 2: know you feel them so so much pressure goes with

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Speaker 2: the holidays, but it's not about giving in to that pressure.

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Speaker 2: It's about about using the holidays as a reminder to

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Speaker 2: give to those who have touched your life in positive ways.

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Speaker 2: You know, the people that mean something to you, the

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Speaker 2: people that have affected your life in some way or another. Gifts,

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Speaker 2: these gifts that you're giving during the holidays, they let

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Speaker 2: people you care about know how you feel about them,

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Speaker 2: that you're thinking of them. And your gifts should be

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Speaker 2: about who this person is to you and to show

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Speaker 2: them you really know who they are. As a person.

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Speaker 2: That's a very powerful thing. The gifts you bring, the

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Speaker 2: gifts you give to someone should point to that thought,

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Speaker 2: that thoughtfulness, and who you know them to be. Not

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Speaker 2: just hey, I got you something because you're a name

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Speaker 2: on my list of many names. It's that you are

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Speaker 2: a name of someone who means something to me, and

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Speaker 2: I wanted you to be on this list of a

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Speaker 2: small group of people, friends, family, who I believe are

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Speaker 2: very important, who are special, and who have touched my life.

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Speaker 2: So I have you on this list, and this list

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Speaker 2: is a reminder of those people that have come in

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Speaker 2: and out of my life, that are in my life now,

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Speaker 2: that are important, that are meaningful. And in doing that,

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Speaker 2: you want to give something that says, hey, I know

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Speaker 2: who you are, or I listen when you talk and

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Speaker 2: I hear the things that you seem to like or

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Speaker 2: you in your life. Isn't that what means something more

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Speaker 2: than someone just goes out and spends money to spend

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Speaker 2: the money. For example, and there's a great example in scripture.

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Speaker 2: The Magi came to Bethlehem and brought gifts to me

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Speaker 2: that were meaningful. They were significant to who I was

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Speaker 2: overlooked as zoe. Well, they were just, you know, some gifts.

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Speaker 2: This is kind of what people brought two thousand years ago.

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Speaker 2: But it's more than that. Did a closer look at

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Speaker 2: these gifts, being attentive to what scripture says, shows very

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Speaker 2: specific gifts chosen for very specific reasons. So what were

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Speaker 2: those gifts?

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Speaker 3: You know them?

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Speaker 2: There was gold, This was to show my royalty the

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Speaker 2: newborn king, frankincense, This pointed to my deity as the

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Speaker 2: Christ and mir What might seem like a and rightly so,

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Speaker 2: a strange gift for a newborn child. I wouldn't suggest

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Speaker 2: if you're invited to any any you know, baby showers

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Speaker 2: or parties for young children, that you bring mur I

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Speaker 2: don't know that anybody will get at It's a seemingly

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Speaker 2: strange gift for a newborn child. But murr was often

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Speaker 2: death and resurrection to come. So if you look at

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Speaker 2: magized way of showing we're here because we know who

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Speaker 2: you are. Sadly, nowadays, there's so much stress that comes

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Speaker 2: price point is that you need to do. It's got

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Speaker 2: to be this much for this type of person, much

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Speaker 2: for that type of person. Where it should really come

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Speaker 2: from a place of freedom and caring. It should come

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Speaker 2: from a connection or a way of nodding to the

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Speaker 2: helped you, or whoever they are, whatever they've done, and

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Speaker 2: in doing that, that's when you hit the chord and

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Speaker 2: you show people that you really care, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: God teaches that giving should always be a joy, whether

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Speaker 2: you're giving to God, whether you're giving to the Church,

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Speaker 2: whether you're giving to family or friends. The best way

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Speaker 2: to give is to give in that state of joy,

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Speaker 2: and that if you're not there, if you're not in

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Speaker 2: that place, that freedom of giving, that place of a

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Speaker 2: joyous heart, a joy filled heart when you give, and

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Speaker 2: it's not worth doing. It's like an exchange of money

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Speaker 2: between people. You give them something worth a little money,

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Speaker 2: they give you something worth little money, and you might

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Speaker 2: as well have both kepture little bits of money. The

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Speaker 2: true gift is to show that insight from one person

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Speaker 2: you have been attentive to the things that they do,

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Speaker 2: things that they say, things that they seem to react

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Speaker 2: to or enjoy. Tewod Corinthians nine seven says each man

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Speaker 2: should give what he has decided in his heart to give,

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Speaker 2: not reluctantly or under compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

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Speaker 2: And that doesn't mean just to the Church. That verse

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Speaker 2: can be seen to as a universal cheerful giver. To

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Speaker 2: be in a place of real joy when you're giving

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Speaker 2: to someone else. And what a neat thing, What a

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Speaker 2: neat way of saying, I see you, I know who

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Speaker 2: you are, I know what you like. I've noticed how

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Speaker 2: you react to whatever it might be. And in that

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Speaker 2: process of seeing you and knowing you, I've grown to

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Speaker 2: appreciate you. And here's a little gift. Here's something, a package,

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Speaker 2: something that I picked out that made me think of you,

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Speaker 2: so that whenever you see it, you know that you

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Speaker 2: at the center of human kindness. If you don't have

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Speaker 2: the desire to give, that points to a deficit in

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Speaker 2: who you are. If you don't enjoy giving and being

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Speaker 2: that type of giver, that says a lot about you,

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Speaker 2: seeing as God is the ultimate giver. You're created in

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Speaker 2: the image of God. Your desire should be to want

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Speaker 2: to give. And Christmas and I realized that you go

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Speaker 2: from zero to sixty that might even surprise you. You're going,

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Speaker 2: oh my goodness, it's Sunday and we're that close.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But.

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Speaker 2: The pressure should not be about the gift itself. It

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Speaker 2: shouldn't be about oh, I need to spend this amount

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Speaker 2: Because the stores are already filled with people that are crazed,

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Speaker 2: to go down to check off people. You want to

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Speaker 2: be in that state of thoughtfulness. It is true that

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Speaker 2: it's the thought that counts. And if you're not in

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Speaker 2: that place, If you're not thinking about the individual and

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Speaker 2: why you want to give what you want to give

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Speaker 2: to them, then you miss the point we talked about

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Speaker 2: in scripture. It talks about the magi coming, Well, they

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Speaker 2: brought me specific gifts because that showed that they knew

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Speaker 2: who I was. Gold frankensns and mer talks about my royalty,

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Speaker 2: Second Corinthians nine seven to give with a cheerful heart,

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Speaker 2: says God loves a cheerful giver. That's if you're giving

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Speaker 2: money to the church. That's if you're giving and donating.

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Speaker 2: That's if you're giving a gift of family and friends

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Speaker 2: any giving and I realize that receiving a physical box

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Speaker 2: with a gift inside is exciting. Are the best gift

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Speaker 2: is a gift of your time during the holidays. So

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Speaker 2: if you don't have money, that's okay. There are no

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Speaker 2: more time. You just can't, So slow down this holiday season.

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Speaker 2: Give your family and friends the gift of your time.

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Speaker 2: Holidays or Holy days as they were once known, are

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Speaker 2: supposed to be for relaxation, bonding with your family and God,

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Speaker 2: be the giver who's sincere spontaneous and who willingly and

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Speaker 2: joyfully gives. It's not about what the gift is, It's

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Speaker 2: about why you're giving it. Reees, Welcome to the Jesus

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Speaker 2: Christ Show. Hi, rees Hi, I am well, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Good things? So I guess I'll just start off by

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Speaker 1: saying the other night I found myself praying for the

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Speaker 1: started to have some doubts as I read some Bible scripture.

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Speaker 1: Result play what I read, Mark eleven twenty four. Therefore,

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Speaker 1: I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that

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Speaker 1: you have received it, and it will be yours Luke

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Speaker 1: eleven nine. And I tell you, ask and it will

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Speaker 1: be given to you. Seek and you will find, knock

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Speaker 1: and it will be open to you. And if the

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Speaker 1: Bible should tell us that whatever we pray for we

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Speaker 1: shall receive it, why does this not always happen?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: Because, for one, you're taking them out of context. If

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Speaker 2: qualifier that happens every single time Reese is that it

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Speaker 2: if you're praying along with God's will. So imagine it

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Speaker 2: this way. If you take any instructions, any instruction manual,

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Speaker 2: and you're taking pieces out and you don't read it

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Speaker 2: what you want it to be. Those scriptures are often

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Speaker 2: used by health and wealth gospel types TV preachers that

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Speaker 2: want people to believe that it's kind of like a

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Speaker 2: magic lamp, and if you rub the lamp the proper way,

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Speaker 2: that you're going to get everything you want. And those

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Speaker 2: verses out of context may sound that way, but if

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Speaker 2: you read them in their entirety, not just those verses,

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Speaker 2: it talks about the will of God, and the will

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Speaker 2: of God enters into that and becomes very very important.

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, something in scripture called hermeneutics

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Speaker 2: is the harmony of the entirety of scripture race. So,

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Speaker 2: for instance, if you go to the ultimate prayer, that

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Speaker 2: sense that people recall it, not that it's a better

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Speaker 3: Hello, hi there. I was wondering what does the Bible

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Speaker 3: But people who have been had their ashes, half of

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Speaker 4: Hey, good morning. I just I have I have a question.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's hard, and even to read it on your

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Speaker 2: Well, there's some verses in chapters I can give you,

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Speaker 2: Like it's just well, Elias, I don't want you to

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Speaker 2: Just do everything that you do, do it with a

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Speaker 2: And I think that will balance things out for you.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, thank you and them. I appreciate the

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Speaker 2: Brother, I appreciate you calling.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: You go in peace. So there's a kind of an

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Speaker 2: and what you want to do is you want to

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Speaker 2: see Him and you want to make note of Him

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Speaker 2: and thank him for just the tiniest of things. Be

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Speaker 2: connected to him for the littlest of things every day

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Speaker 2: in every way, and that's all he wants. And then

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Speaker 2: when something big comes along, you got to talk to him.

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Speaker 2: There's no problem. But he really isn't a god of

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Speaker 2: checks and balances in that sense. And he loves you

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Speaker 2: and he misses you, and he wants to see you.

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Speaker 2: It's really that simple.

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