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Speaker 1: Today, did God's word is your answer?

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Speaker 2: As we enter into new year exciting and I just

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Speaker 2: believe God, it's going to be your best cheer. But

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Speaker 2: God has a way. God has a prototype of path,

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Speaker 2: He has principles and what I really want you to

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Speaker 2: ask yourself. So many people say God is first as

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Speaker 2: they're making New Year's resolutions, and as believers, as Christians,

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Speaker 2: we often say God first.

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Speaker 1: Then family, then career.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's ministry, lose weight, finances, but the reality of it,

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Speaker 2: it should.

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Speaker 1: Be God first, God first and minister. God first in marriage.

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Speaker 2: God first in losing weight, God first and finances, God

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Speaker 2: first in career. Why Because God first is not God

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Speaker 2: as a pecking order, and all these things fall under it.

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Speaker 2: God has to be first in your relationships. God has

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Speaker 2: to be first in your finances. God has to be

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Speaker 2: first with your children. And so we have to have

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Speaker 2: a paradigm shift, a different mindset. The Bible declares in

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Speaker 2: Psalm chapter eleven, verse three, if the foundations essential be destroyed,

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Speaker 2: what can the righteous do? You See, foundation is a

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Speaker 2: basis and it's the essence for all that will be built.

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Speaker 2: If that foundation gets destroyed or it's not strong, then

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Speaker 2: nothing else can be be built on it. Putting God

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Speaker 2: first in all things is the basis or the underlying

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Speaker 2: support for your success in all things, with your marriage,

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Speaker 2: with your children, with your finance, with your career, with

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Speaker 2: your calling, with your ministry. Song chapter twenty six, verse

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Speaker 2: two in the Message version says this, examine me God,

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Speaker 2: from head to foot, order your battery of test, make

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Speaker 2: sure I'm fit inside and out. Now I challenge you,

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Speaker 2: Will you pray that dangerous prayer with me? Will you say, Hey, God,

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Speaker 2: examine me from head to toe, put me through a

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Speaker 2: battery of tests, and make sure I'm fit. It's a

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Speaker 2: great prayer when I say dangerous, because anything that doesn't

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Speaker 2: belong in your life, let it be shaken, let it crumble,

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Speaker 2: let it fall, Let the wrong people exit, let the

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Speaker 2: wrong attitude leave you. So that will be a real

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Speaker 2: year of fruit. Let's go to Matthew chapter six. I

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Speaker 2: want to lay a foundation for you. It's very familiar.

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Speaker 2: Jesus is giving a parable and it's one of the

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Speaker 2: most important things because I think the basis of us

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Speaker 2: as human beings were like.

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Speaker 1: Well, God, how am I going to be fed? What

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Speaker 1: do I do about?

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Speaker 1: How do I pay my bills, who do I know

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Speaker 2: And this is a really practical parable that God's going

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Speaker 2: to teach us about how the kingdom of Heaven or

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Speaker 2: the Kingdom of God operates. So let's start in verse

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Speaker 2: twenty five and we'll look through verse thirty four. Jesus says, Therefore,

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Speaker 2: I say, too, you take no thought. Now, the word

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Speaker 2: thought means don't be anxiously careful, So don't have anxiety.

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Speaker 2: Don't have anxieties. What he's saying for your life, what

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Speaker 2: you shall eat, what you will drink, what you're going

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Speaker 2: to wear on your body, your clothes, what you shall

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Speaker 2: the body more than reimnant. Behold, watch what he's going

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Speaker 2: to say the fouls of the air, For they don't sow,

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Speaker 2: Yet your heavenly Father feed at them. Are you not

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Speaker 2: much better than they? He says, Hey, by the way,

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Speaker 2: by being anxious and worrying and stressed out. Now, let's

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Speaker 2: be honest, it's just you and I having an intimate

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Speaker 2: conversation here. Have you had anxiety over what you're going

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Speaker 2: to eat? How are you going to feed your kids?

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Speaker 2: I have at points in my life, but I can

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Speaker 2: truly say that God has put me through a process

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Speaker 2: to show me he is savior, he is provider, that

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Speaker 2: He takes care of me. So it doesn't mean the

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Speaker 2: enemy doesn't try to get in with that, but I

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Speaker 2: just rebuke it.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, watch this. In fact, when I.

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Speaker 2: Feel the enemy coming after me with stress or anxiety

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Speaker 2: or worry it, especially in the area of finances, are giving,

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Speaker 2: how the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Of God works.

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Speaker 2: Says, which of you, by taking thought or worrying or

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Speaker 2: having this anxiety can add one cube of It's like,

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Speaker 2: can you add an inch.

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Speaker 2: Can you grow three inches today? He says, So why

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Speaker 2: they don't spend. And yet I say to you and

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Speaker 2: Solomon and all his glory was not a rage like

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Speaker 1: Oh ye? Of little faith.

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Speaker 2: Now that's interesting because it's not a rebuke there, and

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Speaker 2: I'll get into what that means in one of these programs. Therefore,

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Speaker 2: your's his answer, Take no thought. Don't be over anxious

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Speaker 2: saying what shall we eat?

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Speaker 2: For after all these things do the gentile seek for

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Speaker 2: your heavenly father, know it that you have need of

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Speaker 2: all these things. Now, if you know I have need

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Speaker 2: of them God, and you're saying, don't even be anxious

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Speaker 2: then why is this there, this gap sometimes between what

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Speaker 2: I believe and what I see, my faith and my reality.

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Speaker 1: Because the answer is really in verse thirty three.

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Speaker 2: But see first, foremost, in time, foremost in place, foremost

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Speaker 2: in order, seek ye first the Kingdom of God and

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Speaker 2: his righteousness, being right standing with God, and then all

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Speaker 2: these things will be added. The Greek word added means

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Speaker 2: to place in, additionally, to lay, aside, to repeat, to increase.

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Speaker 1: Unto you, you see, God's ways are not man's ways.

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Speaker 2: Now he says it again, Take therefore no thought for tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: for themorrow shall take care or thought for the things

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Speaker 2: of itself sufficient unto the day. Is the evil thereof

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Speaker 2: Matthew six point thirty three is the answer, seek ye

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Speaker 2: first the kingdom of God, and is righteousness.

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Speaker 1: I love the message.

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Speaker 2: What it says is what I'm trying to do here

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Speaker 2: is to get you to relax, not to be so

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Speaker 2: preoccupied with getting given, given, give me so you can

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Speaker 2: respond to God's giving.

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Speaker 1: It's the crazy thing because the world says.

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Speaker 2: and God says that person tended to poverty. And there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of the other scripture. But in order to receive.

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Speaker 1: From God, you have to first give. Isn't that what

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Speaker 2: And we're supposed to be just like him. We're in

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Speaker 2: his image. For God to love the world that he gave.

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Speaker 2: He first gave his son while we were yet sinners.

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Speaker 1: He gave his son Jesus when we didn't even know

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Speaker 2: So he's saying, look, when you fuss over these things,

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Speaker 2: you cannot respond to God's giving. So people who don't

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Speaker 2: know God and know the way he works, that's crucial.

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Speaker 2: They fuss over these things. But you, as a believer

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Speaker 2: in His word, know both God and how He works.

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Speaker 2: So steep your life in God reality, God initiative, God provisions.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry about missing out. You'll find that all your

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Speaker 2: everyday human concerns will be met. I love this, you see.

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Speaker 2: God just challenges us here. C. S. Lewis says, when

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Speaker 2: first things are second, things are not suppressed, but they

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Speaker 1: So when God tells us to seek.

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Speaker 2: if you're fussing, if you're complaining, man, I don't know

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Speaker 2: how we're gonna eat. I don't know what I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: My body's turning on itself, my immune system's breaking down.

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Speaker 2: He said, either one of two things. You either don't

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Speaker 2: right now, and that's the greatest decision you'll ever made,

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Speaker 2: or number two, which is more likely you don't know

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Speaker 2: how God's work works.

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Speaker 1: God's ways are not man's ways. He says.

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Speaker 2: My thoughts are much higher than yours. My ways are

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Speaker 2: of you. So God says, and I want you to

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Speaker 2: get this. This is the basis for first roots.

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Speaker 1: Seek ye first.

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Speaker 2: By implication, to seek means to worship, So he says,

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Speaker 2: worship you first. Now, what worship means isn't just what

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Speaker 2: like hallelujah. Your glory be to God. But it means

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Speaker 2: because seek you God first?

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Speaker 2: Are you building a life that denotes honor in your marriage?

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Speaker 2: through your bank account, your statements are a book of revelation.

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Speaker 2: Honest with yourself, this isn't a test for Paula White ministry.

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Speaker 1: This is for you. And you look and go it's

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Speaker 1: one percent. Go to God.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you only knew inflation economy. Of course I

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Speaker 2: knew inflation economy. God's allowed me to run a worldwide

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Speaker 2: ministry for forty years. Think about that, feeding millions of

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Speaker 2: almost through the recession of two thousand and seven, which

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Speaker 2: divorce that I didn't want. I believed in family, everything else.

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Speaker 2: You know my story, a ministry that was going through

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Speaker 2: all kinds of turmoil at that time, falsely accused how

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Speaker 2: to go through investigations that I was exonerated for.

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Speaker 1: Pr just slamming, slamming, slamming.

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Speaker 2: Think about that, and you think all those circumstances made

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Speaker 2: me go, well, my life just changed, so my ways

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Speaker 2: are going to change. I would have been in such

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Speaker 2: deep trouble. I would not have the life that I

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Speaker 2: have now. Our ministry for forty years that gets to

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Speaker 2: honor and glorify God and do things that are just astronomical.

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Speaker 1: John won't be in my life.

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Speaker 2: My amazing husband, who I've been married to for ten years,

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Speaker 2: the love of my life, won't have happened. But see,

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Speaker 2: when you put God first, you've got to ask yourself.

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Speaker 2: Do you denote his worth in your giving? Denote his

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Speaker 2: worth with your children? Do you denote honor to him?

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Speaker 2: Do you revere him with your children? Your ministry? Calling

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Speaker 2: put whatever you want to en they but he says, seek,

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Speaker 2: does your life denote my worth, my honor and reverence

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Speaker 1: Seek me first.

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Speaker 2: So it's not just seek, it's not just denote my worth,

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Speaker 2: all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

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Speaker 2: Every one of us miss the mark. But God came

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Speaker 2: to redeem us, to put us back in position in

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Speaker 2: right standing with Him. Through his son Jesus Christ. You

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Speaker 2: can be assured of your eternal future, that you will

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Speaker 2: spend the rest of eternity forever and forever and forever

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Speaker 2: with God.

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Speaker 1: How Paula, pray this prayer with me. Say, Father God,

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Speaker 1: I come to.

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Speaker 2: You right now in the name of Jesus, forgive me

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Speaker 2: for all my sin. I receive Jesus Christ as my

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Speaker 2: Lord and savior. Say devil, the Lord, rebuke you. Let

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Speaker 2: go all my life. Holy Spirit, fill me and baptize me,

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Speaker 2: that I may have power to serve God until I

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Speaker 2: see him face to face.

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Speaker 1: If you prayed that prayer, welcome to the family of God.

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Speaker 2: He say, is it that simple, Paula, eth it is,

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Speaker 2: and it isn't. It's the first step, make sure that

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Speaker 2: you go to the website. We have a free digital

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Speaker 2: download that I want to get to you what is salvation?

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Speaker 2: And also send me your prayer request. And I want

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Speaker 2: you to honor God. I want to give you an

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Speaker 2: opportunity because this is a time that we put and

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Speaker 2: we make an intentional.

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Speaker 1: Decision to put God first.

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Speaker 2: And I believe that giving just breaks through everything. The

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Speaker 2: Bible references first fruits or first things are devoted things

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Speaker 2: all the same, no less than thirty two times. And

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Speaker 2: he says in Leviticus chapter twenty three, verse nine and ten,

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Speaker 2: that when you come into the land which I gave

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Speaker 2: you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a

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Speaker 2: sheaf of the first roots of your harvest to the priest.

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Speaker 2: So it also declares to us in Proverbs three, verse

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Speaker 2: ninety ten, honor the Lord with your possessions and with

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Speaker 2: the first fruits of all your increase, sow your barns,

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Speaker 2: or it would say bank accounts today will be filled

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Speaker 2: with plenty, and your vats will overflow. The first represents

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Speaker 2: the total, so all first belong to God. So what

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Speaker 2: do you mean, So if you're bringing the tide to God,

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Speaker 2: that's the first tenth. Let the first, Like if I

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Speaker 2: get paid five hundred dollars a week, then the whole

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Speaker 2: of the first belongs to God.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying you have to do it. I'm

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Speaker 1: saying you get to do that.

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Speaker 2: It's a choice that you make, and I encourage you

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Speaker 2: to do the best you can to honor God. You see,

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Speaker 2: the Bible declares this in Romans chapter eleven.

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Speaker 1: Verse sixteen.

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Speaker 2: For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is holy,

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Speaker 2: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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Speaker 2: God claims the first of all things. It rightfully belongs

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Speaker 2: to him. So when we apply that principle that we

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Speaker 2: give it to God, then we.

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Speaker 1: See the harvest come back to us.

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Speaker 2: Remember our keynote scripture, Jesus said, seek first the Kingdom

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Speaker 2: of God and his righteousness, and all these things will.

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Speaker 1: Be added to you. You can put God first in

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Speaker 1: every air of your life. I want you to step

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a year of harvest for you

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Speaker 1: in Jesus name.

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Speaker 3: Proverbs three nine teaches us to honor the Lord with

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Speaker 3: your possessions and with the first fruits of all our increase.

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Speaker 2: God has to be first in your relationships. God has

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Speaker 2: to be first in your finances. God has to be

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Speaker 2: first with your children.

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Speaker 3: Honoring the Lord in the first month of twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 3: and financial blessings. God's principle of first fruits is all

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Speaker 3: about putting Him first in everything. Jesus told us in

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Speaker 3: Matthew six thirty three. Seek first the Kingdom of God

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Speaker 3: and his righteousness, and all these things will be added

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Speaker 3: unto you. Put God first through your first fruits offering, honoring.

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Speaker 2: with my relationships, with my finances, God first.

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Speaker 1: Tuesday. Welcome to Paula today.

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Speaker 2: Are you ready for an extraordinary year to see God's

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Speaker 2: promises manifest in your life?

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Speaker 1: To live that abundant life.

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Speaker 2: Well, as we're in the beginning of the year, we

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Speaker 2: must obey his word Matthew six, Seek ye first, Put

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Speaker 2: God first in all things. Seek ye first, the Kingdom

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Speaker 2: of God and his righteousness. And then all these everyday

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Speaker 2: needs and concerns. Everything you have need of will be

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Speaker 2: added go increase in your life. So I'm going to

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Speaker 2: teach you on the principle of first route and how

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Speaker 2: you can see the promises of God to come to

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Speaker 2: pass in your life.

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Speaker 1: Now let's get into the word.

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Speaker 2: So Patritis saying, just write it down because I got

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Speaker 2: to get you into God being first. Judo Army eleven

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Speaker 2: says love the Lord of God, keep his requirements, has

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Speaker 2: decrease his laws, and his commands always all right. So

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Speaker 2: there are four things he says. To Love is interesting there.

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Speaker 4: Because it means to have affection. It means to be

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Speaker 4: intimate with God. That's a serious word.

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Speaker 2: Like YadA janosko, to be intimate with God. God's not

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Speaker 2: saying love me from here, You're not intimate with everybody

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Speaker 2: guys into me, see into me, see intimacy, and God's saying, therefore,

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Speaker 2: you shall be intimate with the Lord, your God.

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Speaker 4: Here's how you do it.

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Speaker 2: By keeping his charge and his statues and his judgments

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Speaker 2: and his commands. To keep means to guard, to protect,

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Speaker 2: to attend to. So let me break them out for you.

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Speaker 2: Because commandments are the commands or the law. You go,

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Speaker 2: that was done away with, that sloppy grace. Jesus came

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Speaker 2: not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. You're

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Speaker 2: not the letter of the law, Killeth, but the spirit

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Speaker 2: gives life. You didn't become a renegade rebel because you're

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Speaker 2: a New Testament Christian.

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Speaker 4: You still have the order of God. Jesus came to

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Speaker 4: fulfill it.

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Speaker 2: He said, you're going to break this law every time,

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Speaker 2: and the law can't save you, but I can.

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Speaker 4: The judgments judgments are justice.

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Speaker 2: It's a verdict that is pronounced judicially, especially a sentence

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Speaker 2: or a formal decree.

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Speaker 4: It's a divine law. It's a ceremony. Okay.

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Speaker 2: So John and I got married the first time on

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Speaker 2: December the sixth in Ghana. We got married the second

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Speaker 2: time on April the twenty fifth, doing good Here April

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Speaker 2: the twenty fifth at the Ritz Carlton. We got married

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Speaker 2: the third time on April the twenty sixth, here at

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Speaker 2: New Destiny. At the time one for God, the Father, God,

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Speaker 2: the Son, God, the Holy Spirit. All right, So when

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Speaker 2: did we get married before God?

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Speaker 4: The first time? December sixth? Did I have an American

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Speaker 4: license with him?

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Speaker 2: No? I didn't. That took till April the twenty fifth.

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Speaker 2: Did John move in with me on December the ninth?

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Speaker 2: That's when we got back? Y'all looking funny? Y'all don't know?

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Speaker 4: Is then a trick question? It's not a trick question. Yes,

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Speaker 4: he did.

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Speaker 2: We were legally married in Ghana. Rachel and Brad were

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Speaker 2: part of our wedding. Brad walked me down the aisle

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Speaker 2: both times, all three times. Why? Because marriage is a

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Speaker 2: divine law. I don't care what the state says. I

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Speaker 2: don't care what the state does. It is a divine law.

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Speaker 4: And I was married. Y'all don't want me to go here,

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Speaker 4: do you?

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Speaker 2: I was married by God through Archbishop to my husband.

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Speaker 4: I wanted the civil.

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Speaker 2: Benefits of what America could give us, So we had

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Speaker 2: another wedding for our friends to enjoy.

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Speaker 4: And to get the civil benefits. But when was the

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Speaker 4: divine law fulfilled? Hey? It says if if you can't,

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Speaker 4: It says, it's better to marry than to burn. Y'all,

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Speaker 4: y'all aren't hearing what I'm saying. We will go and

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Speaker 4: get married quick, amen, y'all sell me.

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Speaker 2: Y'all need to come get married now and then have

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Speaker 2: your civil ceremony a little bit later. A judgment is

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Speaker 2: justice judicial, it's a divine law. Statues are customs, enactments.

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Speaker 2: Statues are appointments. God has appointments with you.

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Speaker 4: So he says, love is this to obey.

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Speaker 2: God in the law and divine law and appointments. You're

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Speaker 2: ready and in charges. It's the act, it's the post,

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Speaker 2: it's the duty.

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Speaker 4: It's the office. You know, every one of you've been

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Speaker 4: called to. An office.

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Speaker 2: Might be an office of an intercessor, might be an

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Speaker 2: office of administrative it might be an office of a pastor.

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Speaker 2: You're called to a duty when you don't obey God

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Speaker 2: and that you're not loving him. I'm just delivering it,

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Speaker 2: Pastor Todd. So we're examining ourselves from head to doe.

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Speaker 2: Can I take twenty more minutes with you, guys.

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Speaker 4: So Deuteronomy six five through seven. Love the Lord to

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Speaker 4: God with all your heart, your soul, your.

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Speaker 2: Mind, your straints. These commandments I give you today. Write

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Speaker 2: them on your hearts. Doudoni seven through nine. It's all

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Speaker 2: an honor thing. Deuteronomy ten twelve through thirteen. It's all

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Speaker 2: in honor. John fourteen fifteen. If you love me, you

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Speaker 2: will obey what I command. Now in Hebrew, here's an

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Speaker 2: interesting thing. The command to love the Lord God means

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Speaker 2: to choose him for one's most intimate relationship, and then

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Speaker 2: to express that choice by obedience.

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Speaker 4: Through his revealed will.

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Speaker 2: So in Hebrew, if you say I love God, it

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Speaker 2: means you choose God and you express that love.

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Speaker 4: By your choice.

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Speaker 2: This is going to go somewhere. Now buy your choice.

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Speaker 2: Remember the statement for the illustration I'm going to do.

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Speaker 2: If you love God, it means that you choose God

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Speaker 2: and express that choice by obedience to.

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Speaker 1: His revealed will.

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Speaker 2: So, if someone is sick, we're to call forth the

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Speaker 2: elders and pray of him.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: Well, if we just decide not to do that, or

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Speaker 2: we walking out as revealed will, when are we to

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Speaker 2: help someone versus enabling them. See, the Bible is full

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Speaker 2: of this stuff. There's nothing in your life that's not touched.

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Speaker 2: Galatian Six's one you who are spiritual, restore your brethrenunless

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Speaker 2: you fall into that same temptation. Now if it goes

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Speaker 2: into restore, that same word restore that first verse one

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Speaker 2: says when a person has a life crushing the issue,

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Speaker 2: lift the boulder off.

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Speaker 4: Them and stand them up. But you're not to keep

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Speaker 4: standing them.

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Speaker 2: So when people keep being dependent on you, tell them,

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Speaker 2: I'm not your God.

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Speaker 4: Only God is God. He might have used me to resource,

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Speaker 4: but he's your source.

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Speaker 2: When people get mad at you because you won't do

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Speaker 2: their urgency, is not your emergency. The only time something

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Speaker 2: is an emergency if there is a life crushing.

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Speaker 4: Issue, if they can't work.

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Speaker 2: If they can't eat, if they can't walk, if they

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Speaker 2: can't move, because there is something so debilitating to them that.

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Speaker 4: They are not capable of standing up.

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Speaker 2: If they're capable of standing up, don't be their crutch

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Speaker 2: in life. You're not supposed to. In fact, it gets

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Speaker 2: pretty rough about what you're supposed to do.

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Speaker 4: Y'all still with me?

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Speaker 2: Battery of tests, Say it's a heart thing. Say it's

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Speaker 2: an honor thing, and now it's a hell thing.

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Speaker 4: So how do I do this?

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Speaker 2: Progress three five through nine says trust in the Lord

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Speaker 2: with all your heart, lean not to your own understanding,

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Speaker 2: and all your ways Acknowledge him.

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Speaker 4: He'll direct your pass.

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Speaker 2: Don't be wise in your eye, Fear the Lord. Depart

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Speaker 2: from evil. It will be helped to your navel, moral

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Speaker 2: to your bones. Honor the Lord with thy substance, with

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Speaker 2: thy first shoots of all thine increase. That's an honor.

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Speaker 2: So go with me to Matthew chapter six. We're we

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Speaker 2: make this real quick. Don't take any thought, don't be

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Speaker 2: anxiously careful for your life. How many of you've ever

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Speaker 2: had anxiety over your life? So first thing he says

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Speaker 2: is stop having anxiety. What you're gonna eat, what you're

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Speaker 2: gonna drink, what you're gonna wear, what you're gonna put on,

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Speaker 2: where you're gonna live.

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Speaker 4: He says, these are these are you're gonna have anxiety.

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Speaker 2: Don't have anxiety over the everyday needs of life.

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Speaker 4: Now I've had anxiety over him sometimes.

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Speaker 2: How we're gonna pay our bills, what we're gonna do,

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Speaker 2: what needs to be cut, what we're gonna how we're

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Speaker 2: gonna make And he says, behold.

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Speaker 4: The fowls of the air.

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Speaker 2: They don't sow, they don't reap, they don't gather into

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Speaker 2: barnshit your heavenly father feeds them.

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Speaker 4: Are you not a lot better? So why take thought?

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Speaker 4: Consider this?

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Speaker 2: And he goes into all these different things, right verse

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Speaker 2: thirty three. But seek first, somebody says, seek first the

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Speaker 2: Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things

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Speaker 2: will be added to you. Additionally, placed it means to

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Speaker 2: lay beside, to to increase.

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Speaker 4: Therefore, take no thought for tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: For tomorrow, she'll take thought for it self sufficiency day.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to read you the message because I love

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Speaker 2: the way it reads.

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Speaker 4: It says.

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Speaker 2: What I'm trying to do here is to get you

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Speaker 2: to relax. Turn to somebody, say chill out, Say take

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Speaker 2: a chill pill.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: I mean that so sincerely, because all your griping is

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Speaker 2: not going to change your spouse. All your rebuking is

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Speaker 2: not going to change that rebellious child. Now there are

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Speaker 2: things that are going to do it. But all that

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Speaker 2: stuff that we do in the flesh, all that worrying,

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Speaker 2: is not going to change your situation. And he says,

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Speaker 2: what I'm trying to do is get you to relax.

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Speaker 2: I thought Mary taught something so profound yesterday when she talked,

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Speaker 2: you have to release God even in a place of suffering,

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Speaker 2: Like even when you see someone suffering, you've got to

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Speaker 2: release them to God completely.

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Speaker 4: What I'm trying to do is.

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Speaker 2: Get you to relax, get you to trust me, get

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Speaker 2: you to love me.

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Speaker 4: Get your old baby.

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Speaker 2: Take a battery of tests right now, Kayton, to not

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Speaker 2: be so preoccupied with getting so you can respond to goodsgiving.

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Speaker 3: Proverbs three nine teaches us to honor the Lord with

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Speaker 3: your possessions and with the first fruits of all our increase.

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Speaker 2: God has to be first in your relationships. God has

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Speaker 2: to be first in your finances. God has to be

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Speaker 2: first with your children.

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Speaker 3: Honoring the Lord in the first month of twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 3: through the biblical principle of first fruits positions you for favor,

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Speaker 3: opportunities and financial blessings. God's principle of first fruits is

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Speaker 3: all about putting Him first in everything. Jesus told us

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Speaker 3: in Matthew six thirty three. Seek first the Kingdom of

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Speaker 3: God and his righteousness, and all these things will be

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Speaker 3: added unto you put God first through your first Fruits offering.

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Speaker 2: Honoring God in every way, with my time, with my energy,

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Speaker 2: with my relationships, with my finances, God first.

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Speaker 3: In all things, all right, Text together or go online

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Speaker 3: now with your best first Fruits offering given in obedience

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Speaker 3: to God, and we will rushed to you Paula's new

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Speaker 3: devotional titled First, a thirty one day devotional to keeping

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Speaker 3: God First. And when you sew your first Fruits offering

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Speaker 3: of one hundred twenty dollars or more today, we will

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Speaker 3: rush you this very special First Fruits bundle, including the

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Speaker 3: new devotional plus Paula's brand new book First, Unlocking the

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Speaker 3: daily benefits of putting God First, plus Paul's four disc

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Speaker 3: series God's Principle of First, Paula will touch and agree,

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Speaker 3: but leading for supernatural increase and abundance in every area

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six, as you made God.

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Speaker 2: First, I pray you enjoying God's word. We'll be back

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Speaker 2: with it in just a second, but I want to

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Speaker 2: thank you from the bottom of my heart for standing

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Speaker 2: with us at Paula White Ministry If you've not signed

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Speaker 2: up to be a partner yet, why don't you get

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Speaker 2: all the benefits and find out what is it that

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Speaker 2: I can do for Paula White Ministry And what is

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Speaker 2: it that Paula White Ministry can do for me? Just

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Speaker 2: go to our website and find out how you can

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Speaker 2: make a difference around the world.

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Speaker 1: Now, let's get back into the word.

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Speaker 2: If I'm fussing, it means I either don't know God

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Speaker 2: or I don't know how he works. God has a

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Speaker 2: divine accurate order and arrangement for everything in your life.

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Speaker 2: I just want to help you get out of a

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Speaker 2: groundhul gear right now. I want to help you not

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Speaker 2: live contrary to the word of God. I want to

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Speaker 2: help you have that breakthrough right now. This is not

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Speaker 2: a message of condemnation. This is a message of really

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Speaker 2: love and saying, Look, I've been in divine accurate or

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Speaker 2: I've been out of order before.

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Speaker 4: But when God begin to.

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Speaker 2: Reveal to me divine accurate order and arrangement of things,

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Speaker 2: my life begin to get in alignment. When my life

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Speaker 2: gets in alignment, I see God's promises. How many of

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Speaker 2: you ready for a breakthrough year?

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Speaker 4: Come on?

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Speaker 2: How many are you ready for stop having no more

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Speaker 2: groundhul gears, So say, bring it real fast, Paula, bring

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Speaker 2: it so foremost in time, place order, the Kingdom of God,

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Speaker 2: who God is, in God's way of doing things.

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Speaker 4: How this is the how part.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's obvious ways we've been doing prayer, asking, giving

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Speaker 2: his word, right, serving, putting him first in everything your life, ministry, business.

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Speaker 2: If you're just working a job, what are you doing.

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Speaker 2: You're not a job type of person. You're a called person.

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Speaker 4: You shouldn't be at that job.

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Speaker 2: If you're just doing a job just to get ends meet,

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Speaker 2: I mean say God, this temporary. You Now show me

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Speaker 2: my assignment, because everything in your life is an assignment.

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Speaker 2: What are you doing clocking in just to get a

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Speaker 2: paycheck unless you're supposed to be there for fifty years?

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Speaker 2: To minister to one person so they don't.

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Speaker 4: Go to hell. Everything in your life is an assignment.

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Speaker 2: You're a sent person, you are chosen by God, You're

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Speaker 2: called by God.

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Speaker 4: Joshua starts how do we put him first? It starts

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Speaker 4: by putting his word first.

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Speaker 2: Do not let this book of the law depart out

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Speaker 2: of your mouth, but meditate a shoe on it day

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Speaker 2: and night. Come on that you may be careful to

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Speaker 2: do everything that is written. There goes that obedience to

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Speaker 2: do everything that is written, And so show you make

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Speaker 2: your way prosperous, and make your way successful.

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Speaker 4: Prosperous means to advance, to break out, to break through,

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Speaker 4: to break forth.

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Speaker 2: How many of you are ready to break forth? Breaking

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Speaker 2: forth out of depression, breaking forth out of laws, breaking

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Speaker 2: forth out of generational curses, breaking forth out of the

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Speaker 2: enemy's demonic stronghold, breaking forth out of mindsets that are

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Speaker 2: resistant to change.

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Speaker 4: Today, I'm going to make God's word first in my life.

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Speaker 2: Come on, how many are you going to say? It's

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Speaker 2: going to be my roadmap, It's going to be my lifeline.

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Speaker 2: It's not just something I casually read.

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Speaker 4: I'll study it more than anything else.

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Speaker 2: People who don't know God and know the way it works,

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Speaker 2: come on, we fuss. So Romans Chapter ten, seventeen says

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Speaker 2: faith cometh.

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Speaker 4: By and hearingby. So the word of God reveals to

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Speaker 4: you how to live.

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Speaker 2: The just shall live by faith, over and over, the

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Speaker 2: just shall live by faith. So I'm seventeen four concerning

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Speaker 2: the works of men by the word of your lips?

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Speaker 2: Have I have I kept myself from the path that

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Speaker 2: is destroyer. The enemy comes to kill, still and destroy you.

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Speaker 4: But it is only through the.

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Speaker 2: Word of God that you're able to keep yourself from.

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Speaker 4: The path of destruction.

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Speaker 2: There's no way not to fall into a path of

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Speaker 2: destruction except for hiding the word of God and your

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Speaker 2: heart every single day, knowing that your heart is constant

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Speaker 2: ground that needs to be plowed psalmone nineteen one oh five.

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Speaker 2: Your word is a lamp to my feet, and it

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Speaker 2: is a light to my path verse eleven.

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Speaker 4: The word have I hid in my heart that.

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Speaker 2: I might not sin against you, I might not miss

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Speaker 2: the mark Psalm one thirty two, Verse two. I'll bow

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Speaker 2: down towards your holy temple, and I'll praise your name

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Speaker 2: for your love and your faithfulness. For you have exalted

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Speaker 2: all things. For you have been exalted all things. Your

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Speaker 2: name and your word. God exalts his name. God exalts

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Speaker 2: his word over everything, over Christ, this, over destruction, over divorce.

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Speaker 2: Come on, He exalts his name in his word. There's

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Speaker 2: a plan that God has for your life.

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Speaker 4: When you put.

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Speaker 2: God's word first, it begins to alter and change everything

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Speaker 2: in your life. Jeremiah twenty nine eleven. I know the

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Speaker 2: plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to

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Speaker 2: prosper you, to break you forth, to advance you, to

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Speaker 2: break you through, not to harm you. Plans to give

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Speaker 2: you an expected in how many of you want to make.

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Speaker 4: It to the expect it in? Come on?

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Speaker 2: Because God, God doesn't look and say, oh, there's a

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Speaker 2: war going on.

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Speaker 4: Wool, the economy's getting bad.

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Speaker 2: Wool.

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Speaker 4: Bank of America, No, who was it?

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Speaker 2: Bank of America came out said we're about to lose

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Speaker 2: all the stock and Goldman Sachson. Amazon just laid off

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Speaker 2: ten thousand, and the competitor to Google is getting ready

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Speaker 2: to lay off twelve thousand and Oh, you better be concerned.

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Speaker 2: So now you look at your stock portfolio more than

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Speaker 2: you look at your Bible. I'd be concerned too if

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Speaker 2: I was dependent on this world system.

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Speaker 4: But I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I've been hungry, I can be hungry again. I've been full,

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Speaker 2: I can be full again.

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Speaker 4: But this one thing I know.

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Speaker 2: I have never seen the righteous forsaken, nor there seed

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Speaker 2: begging for bread when the rubber hits the road.

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Speaker 4: I've got to know.

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Speaker 2: God, You've put me through a battery of tests. You're

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Speaker 2: first in my life. So every covenant right, every covenant

887
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Speaker 2: privilege are released, and by believing and activating the Word

888
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Speaker 2: of God, you have to make his presidence your priority.

889
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to take time to do this, but

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Speaker 2: you know I teach this. There are three important things

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Speaker 2: you've got to understand about the Word. Principles, which are

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Speaker 2: fundamental truths, which every other law is based on. Patterns,

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Speaker 2: which is a divine accurate order and arrangement of things,

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Speaker 2: And positioning the way you are placed or arranged around that.

895
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Speaker 2: So there's principles, there's patterns, and there's positioning. You've got

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Speaker 2: to understand that in context of studying so God as

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Speaker 2: a divine accurate order and arrangement of things, are you

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Speaker 2: ready say?

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Speaker 4: Bring it on?

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Speaker 2: When something is arranged in a proper systematic order, that

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Speaker 2: order for the Kingdom of God.

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Speaker 4: Now this is not the order for the world. It's

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Speaker 4: not the order that your boss is putting.

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Speaker 2: Out, might not even be the order for some people

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Speaker 2: in your house, but that order for the Kingdom of

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Speaker 2: God is.

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Speaker 4: Always in all things.

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Speaker 2: First things first, God first, which means the principle of

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Speaker 2: first fruits. Now, if that's the divine accurate order and

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Speaker 2: arrangement let me bring it down. You're ready for a

911
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Speaker 2: battery of tests. They are like, I've got this down.

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Speaker 2: I'm passing the tests. Hold your seats.

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Speaker 4: Just for a minute.

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Speaker 2: Principle is a root word from prince, meaning dominion, meaning

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Speaker 2: if it's a principle, it has domain over your life.

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Speaker 4: It is a fundamental truth or law that everything else

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Speaker 4: is based on. So everything get through base out of God.

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Speaker 2: First first fruits is more than an offering, though it's

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Speaker 2: inclusive of an offering.

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Speaker 4: So don't get up here and think first fruits is

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Speaker 4: just an offering. First fruts is when I bring this

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Speaker 4: much to God. First fruts is the first stenth of

923
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Speaker 4: the tithe. First fruits is a principle. It's a feast.

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Speaker 2: Jesus was the first roots of many brethren. First fruits

925
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Speaker 2: means the hasty fruit. It means birthright. That's what it means.

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Speaker 2: In the Hebrew, it means a promise to come. In

927
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Speaker 2: the Greek, it means a sacrifice. It's the best or

928
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Speaker 2: the choice part. It's the first in place, the first

929
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Speaker 2: in time, the first in order, the first in rank.

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Speaker 2: It's the beginning, our chief, or a principal thing. It's

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Speaker 2: a forefront or fundamental. A fundamental means a basic essential

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Speaker 2: supporting all existence.

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Speaker 4: It's the foundation.

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Speaker 2: If we don't have this foundation, guys, we're in a

935
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Speaker 2: sinkhole or something.

936
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Speaker 4: We have no way to be in here and have

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Speaker 4: stability in our life.

938
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Speaker 2: Reason there's so much double mindedness and wavering is because

939
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Speaker 2: there's not a foundation, and there has to be a foundation,

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Speaker 2: starting with the fact that your elder brother is the

941
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Speaker 2: first fruit of many brother. It determines the essential structure,

942
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Speaker 2: and it determines the function. It's a promise to come,

943
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Speaker 2: and God says, all first belong to me.

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Speaker 1: I pray the word is blessed you today.

945
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Speaker 2: I want to give you an opportunity to honor God

946
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Speaker 2: and put him first by giving him a first route offering.

947
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Speaker 1: Like I said, we.

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Speaker 2: Recognize there's a difference between the Hebrew calendar and the

949
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Speaker 2: Western calendar. But during our first January, we like to

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Speaker 2: do three things. Pray, fast, and give now. God mandates

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Speaker 2: this throughout his word, especially.

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Speaker 1: In the Old Testament.

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Speaker 2: You see it in the New Testament as well. But

954
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Speaker 2: this is not a heaven and Hell issue. This is

955
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Speaker 2: not if I don't give, I'm going to go to hell.

956
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Speaker 2: That was settled by the blood covenant of Jesus Christ.

957
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Speaker 2: This is an issue of you can be saved and

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Speaker 2: not fulfill the full plan of God see all the

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Speaker 2: blessings of God.

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Speaker 1: But why would we want that?

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Speaker 2: So I want you to position yourself for God's promises

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Speaker 2: by honoring him.

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Speaker 1: With the first rootes offering.

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Speaker 2: So first roots in the Hebrew is bicurum and literally

965
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Speaker 2: means a promise to come. You See, there is one

966
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Speaker 2: who never breaks his promise, and that is God. So

967
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Speaker 2: when you honor God with the first routes offering, it's

968
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Speaker 2: like sending a signal to your September to your July,

969
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Speaker 2: and that promise is released in your life. See, when

970
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Speaker 2: you keep first things first through faith and obedience, you

971
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Speaker 2: turn God's promise into provision because He wants.

972
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Speaker 1: You to succeed. He died to give you an abundant life,

973
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Speaker 1: and He's put a principle in place called first fruits.

974
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Speaker 2: And he says in Leviticus twenty three, verse nine and ten,

975
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Speaker 2: when you come into the land which I gave you

976
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Speaker 2: and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf

977
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Speaker 2: of the first roots of your harvest to the priest.

978
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Speaker 2: We also see it in Proverbs chapter three, and again

979
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 2: all through the word.

980
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Speaker 1: Honor the Lord.

981
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Speaker 2: With your possessions and with the first roots of all

982
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Speaker 2: your increase. So your barns, or we would see bank

983
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 2: accounts will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow.

984
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 2: You see, the first represents the total, and all first

985
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 2: belong to God. This divine establishment of God's order is

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Speaker 2: actually the root and the.

987
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Speaker 1: Foundation for what governs the rest. So whatever you do

988
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: with the first hour of your day governs or.

989
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 2: Dictates the rest, the first day of the week, the

990
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 2: first month of the year, the first of your giving.

991
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Speaker 2: Romans chapter eleven, verse sixteen says it like this, For

992
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:55,280
Speaker 2: if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy.

993
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 2: And if the root is holy, then so are the branches.

994
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 2: So remember God claims the first of all things. It

995
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Speaker 2: rightfully belongs to him. And when we apply the principal

996
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Speaker 2: first fruits, we see that all first should be given

997
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Speaker 2: to the Lord. This is your opportunity to grow in faith,

998
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Speaker 2: to be a blessing to this ministry, which is good,

999
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Speaker 2: good ground. So right now honor God with his first fruits,

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Speaker 2: and I promise you you are going to see the results,

1001
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Speaker 2: the rewards, the promises of God seeking first his kingdom

1002
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,720
Speaker 2: and his righteousness, and all these things.

1003
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Speaker 1: Will be added to you. Matthew Six's thirty three. How

1004
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: do I do it?

1005
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Speaker 2: Call the toll free number right now, you click on

1006
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Speaker 2: the donation button, go to Paulawhite dot org, or you

1007
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Speaker 2: can write the po box. You can do it with cash, app, PayPal.

1008
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of different ways to do it, but

1009
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Speaker 2: the key is put God first in your giving, with

1010
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 2: the first fruits offering. I'm deeply convicted about this, and

1011
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 2: I've lived it for literally decades now. Father God, I

1012
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 2: pray over every giver that you would show them your promises,

1013
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 2: increase them supernaturally in the name which is above every name,

1014
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 2: the name of Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: Let all fear be gone, and.

1016
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Speaker 2: Let them take a step of faith as they honor

1017
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Speaker 2: You first and have a different year than they'd ever

1018
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Speaker 2: had before in Jesus' name.

1019
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Speaker 3: Proverbs three nine teaches us to honor the Lord with

1020
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Speaker 3: your possessions and with the first fruits of all our increase.

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Speaker 2: God has to be first in your relationships. God has

1022
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Speaker 2: to be first in your finances. God has to be

1023
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Speaker 2: first with your children.

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Speaker 3: Honoring the Lord in the first month of twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 3: through the biblical principle of first Fruits, positions you for favor, opportunities,

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Speaker 3: and financial blessings. God's principle of first Fruits is all

1027
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Speaker 3: about putting Him first in everything. Jesus told us in

1028
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Speaker 3: Matthew six thirty three. Seek first the Kingdom of God

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Speaker 3: and his righteousness, and all these things will be added

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Speaker 3: on too. You put God first through your first Fruits offering.

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Speaker 2: Honoring God in every way, with my time, with my energy,

1032
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Speaker 3: Activate God's principle of first fruits in twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 1: Is a year of glory.

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Speaker 2: The manifestation of God's presence and his presence must be

1048
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Speaker 2: our priority. But you can't have his presence with that relationship.

1049
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Speaker 2: You cannot really see the manifestation of all God's promises

1050
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Speaker 2: without a real relationship. And maybe you have never asked God,

1051
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 2: are Jesus Christ more specifically to be your lord and savior?

1052
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Speaker 2: In fact, if you died right now, you're not sure

1053
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Speaker 2: if Heaven or Hell's your home. You don't have to

1054
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Speaker 2: live like that. Let's do this first month right by

1055
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Speaker 2: really having a relationship with God through her son Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: If you want to pray that prayer, say Paul, I'm

1057
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Speaker 2: ready to reset my life. I want to make sure

1058
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Speaker 2: that Heaven becomes my home. Pray this with me. Say Father, God, forgive.

1059
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Speaker 1: Me for all my sin.

1060
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Speaker 2: I receive Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and savior.

1061
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Speaker 2: Say devil, let go my life in Jesus's name. If

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Speaker 2: you prayed that prayer, go to Paula White dot org.

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Speaker 2: And welcome to the Family of God. I'd love to

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