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Speaker 1: Let us pray, and Jonathan answered and said to Anonyja

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Speaker 1: verify our lord. King David hath made Solomon king first

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Speaker 1: Kings one forty three. Dear Heavenly Father, I will greet

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Speaker 1: this new day with a new excitement and expectation. I

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Speaker 1: will praise you, Lord, because in your faithfulness you've declared

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Speaker 1: the unspoken promotion over me like Solomon. As you increased

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Speaker 1: you are increasing my mind and influence so that I

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Speaker 1: my position is secured at the table of success. I

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Speaker 1: declare that I have been chosen by God to accomplish

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Speaker 1: great things for his kingdom, and I decree that nothing

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Speaker 1: or no one will be able to dethrone whom You've

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Speaker 1: Today, I put all of the plans of the enemy

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Speaker 1: on notice that they will not prevail, and that through

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Speaker 1: the power of the Holy Spirit, I will own my

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Speaker 1: throne and succeed at my life calling in Jesus' name, Amen,

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Speaker 1: thank you for praying with us today. Continue your time

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Speaker 1: with God by listening to today's Bible story brought to

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Speaker 2: Adro Niger or Solomon. In our last story, we witnessed

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Speaker 2: David's poor decisions in light of his pride. The man

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Speaker 2: wants responsible for protecting Israel had put them in distress

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Speaker 2: and taken improper ownership over them. However, David's heart was

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Speaker 2: always quick to conviction, and he repented before God and

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Speaker 2: the people. Now it is time to crown a new king,

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Speaker 2: a brother of favor and a brother of jealousy rival

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Speaker 2: for the throne, and the same story since Cain and

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Speaker 2: Abel is threatened to repeat itself, inspired by the Book

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Speaker 2: of First Kings.

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Speaker 3: Hello, this is Jack Graham with today's episode of the

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Speaker 3: Bible in a Year. In our previous reading, we saw

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Speaker 3: but this grieved the Lord, and though he repented, David

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Speaker 3: was given a choice of three punishment, and he chose

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Speaker 3: of David's disobedience. But David saw his sin and cried

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Speaker 3: out to the Lord and interceded for Israel and asked

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Speaker 3: again he is trusting God and is shepherding his people

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Speaker 3: God's way. Today we'll hear about the choice of David's successor.

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Speaker 3: Two brothers very different from each other, stand as candidates

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Speaker 3: as we've seen again and again since the first brothers

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Speaker 3: canaan Abel walked on the earth, that jealousy and rivalry

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Speaker 2: Despite the warm summer night, laying over Israel like a blanket,

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Speaker 2: He moaned and shifted, doing anything to keep warm. No

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Speaker 2: and sent for some young servant girls to lay beside

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Speaker 2: there was a restlessness among Israel. Solomon was David's choice

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Speaker 2: Solomon and I will be killed. David stared at Bathsheba

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Speaker 2: My lord, he said, bowing, have you appointed Adonaija as king?

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Speaker 2: At Solomon's dismissal, the Son slowly set over the empire

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Speaker 2: Solomon was young, even younger than his father when he

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Speaker 2: Now it was time for Solomon the philosopher.

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Speaker 3: His body is not what it used to be, and

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Speaker 3: He knows that it's time for a changing of the guard,

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Speaker 3: Solomon is his top pick. You see, even though Ploman

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