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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks.

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Speaker 2: For supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to.

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Speaker 1: Have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: So God bless you said joy to come into your home.

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Speaker 2: We love you.

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Speaker 1: We may not know you by name, but we're praying

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Speaker 1: for you, believing for God's very, very best in your life.

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Speaker 2: If you're ever in our.

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Speaker 1: Area, I hope you'll stop buying and be a part

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Speaker 1: of one of our services. I promise you we'll make

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Speaker 1: you feel right at home. But thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for tuning in today. I like to get started each

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Speaker 1: week with something kind of funny, and.

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Speaker 2: Of course these are just jokes.

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Speaker 1: Please don't be offended by it, especially this one today.

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Speaker 2: But I heard about this man.

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Speaker 1: He was sitting in a dark restaurant and he leaned

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Speaker 1: over to the ladies sitting next to him and said.

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Speaker 2: Hey, would you like to hear a blonde joke?

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Speaker 1: She said, before you tell me, you should know that

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Speaker 1: I'm blonde, six feet tall and a professional bodybuilder, and

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Speaker 1: and a professional wrestler, and the lady next to her

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Speaker 1: is blonde, six foot five and the kickboxing champion of

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Speaker 1: the world. Now, would you still like to tell me

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Speaker 1: the joke? He thought about it a moment, said no,

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Speaker 1: not if I'm gonna have to explain it three times.

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Speaker 1: All right, hold up your Bible, say it like you

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Speaker 1: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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Speaker 1: says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about letting God

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Speaker 1: be involved.

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Speaker 2: In your everyday life.

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Speaker 1: Too many times we think God is only interested in

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Speaker 1: the big things. When we have a major crisis or

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Speaker 1: when some big problem arises, then we don't have any

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Speaker 1: problem going to God and asking for his health. But

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Speaker 1: the fact is God is interested in every area of

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Speaker 1: our lives, not just the big things, even the smaller things.

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Speaker 2: God wants to.

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Speaker 1: Help you be more productive at the office each day.

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Speaker 1: He wants to make that trip to the grocery store

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Speaker 1: more fruitful. God wants to help you raising your children,

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Speaker 2: But here's the key.

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Speaker 1: God will only be involved in as much of our

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Speaker 1: lives as we allow him to. And the scripture says

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Speaker 1: here in Proverbs three six, if you acknowledge God in

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Speaker 1: all of your ways, notice not just some of your ways,

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Speaker 1: not just the big things. But if we can learn

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Speaker 1: to acknowledge God in all of our ways, then he

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Speaker 1: will guide and direct our path. Well, how do we

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Speaker 2: Letting him know that we're depending on.

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Speaker 1: Him, by relying on him, In other words, by involving

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Speaker 1: Him in every part of our lives. All through the day,

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Speaker 1: we should be saying things like, God, help me to

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Speaker 1: have a safe trip to the office. God give me

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Speaker 1: favor with these clients. Thank you Father for protecting my

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Speaker 1: children at school. God help me to find just what

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Speaker 1: I need in this grocery store. Just under your breath,

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Speaker 1: not a long prayer five or ten seconds. All throughout

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Speaker 1: do this, we're showing our dependency on God. We're saying,

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Speaker 1: in effect, God, I need you, I'm counting on you.

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Speaker 2: God, I know this day is not going to be

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Speaker 2: as fruitful without your help.

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Speaker 1: And if you'll acknowledge God before you go to the

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Speaker 1: grocery store, he'll help you to get the best deals.

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Speaker 1: If you'll acknowledge Him before you meet with those clients,

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Speaker 1: he'll give you the words to speak. If you'll acknowledge

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Speaker 1: Him before the trip home, he'll guard you and protect you.

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Speaker 2: But too often we have God in our Sunday morning box.

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Speaker 2: That's when we think about him. That's when we come

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Speaker 1: We pray, or maybe we pray a few minutes in

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Speaker 1: After all, we kind of think, what's so spiritual about

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Speaker 2: God's not concerned about that, sure he is. God knows

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Speaker 1: He knows our words before we even speak them. Why

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Speaker 1: where in everything we do we're acknowledging God. We're either

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Speaker 1: asking for his help, or we're thanking him for his goodness,

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Speaker 1: or we're meditating on his scriptures. When we keep God

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Speaker 1: it allows him to guid us and show us.

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Speaker 2: More of his favor.

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Speaker 1: And of course it's good to pray in the morning.

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Speaker 1: It's great you came to church today. It's great to worship,

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Speaker 1: but don't leave it here. Acknowledge God. When you're taking

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Speaker 1: thank you for this day. Thank you for blessing my

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Speaker 1: children at home in your everyday life. God, help me

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Speaker 1: to get this house cleaned up today. God give me

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Speaker 2: Father, thank you for giving me strength. Thank you for

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Speaker 2: my health.

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Speaker 2: In all your ways.

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Speaker 1: Let's acknowledge God. I found the more we depend on God,

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Speaker 1: the more of his blessings in favor will see. Jesus

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Speaker 1: said in John fifteen, apart from me, you can do nothing.

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Speaker 2: That's the attitude who we should live with. God. I

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Speaker 1: I know this day is not going to be as

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Speaker 1: successful without your health. So driving to work in the morning,

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Speaker 1: not a twenty minute prayer, just under your breath.

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Speaker 2: God, help me to have a safe trip to the office.

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Speaker 2: When you do that. You know what you just did.

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Speaker 1: You acknowledge God with that one little statement you said.

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Speaker 1: In effect, God, you are the lord of my life.

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Speaker 1: You are in control. And I humble myself to you,

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Speaker 2: This shows our dependency on Him.

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Speaker 1: And again, God will be evolved only in as much

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Speaker 1: or you can learn to acknowledge Him throughout the day. Really,

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Speaker 1: this should be a lifestyle that we developed going to

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Speaker 2: God, I acknowledge you. Help me to have a good lunch.

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Speaker 1: God, help me to bump into somebody I can bless,

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Speaker 1: somebody I can encourage. You'll be amazed at how your

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Speaker 1: days will go smoother, how you'll see the hand of

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Speaker 1: God's favor in your life when you get into a

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Speaker 1: habit of acknowledging God. And again, it doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: need God's wisdom, I just whisper God, I acknowledge you.

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Speaker 2: God, our lives are in your hands. We're asking for

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Speaker 2: God, I need your help.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about in your everyday life. If you're working

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Speaker 1: I'm asking for your favor in my life all through

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Speaker 2: Things don't go our way.

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Speaker 1: We go to the store and we can't find what

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Speaker 1: And you know, maybe that could have been avoided if

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying everything, of course, is going to

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Speaker 1: This is what I do every morning before I leave

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Speaker 2: Know you have given me this day. You've given me

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Speaker 1: You've given me my strength, You've given me my life,

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Speaker 2: Give this day back to you.

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Speaker 1: At the start, I acknowledge the true source of my strength.

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Speaker 1: I admit that I'm depending upon God. We may have

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Speaker 2: I like to run a lot of time in the mornings.

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Speaker 2: Before I do. It's a habit now. I don't even

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Speaker 1: I just say, Father, thank you for giving me a

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Speaker 2: Just under my breath, I'm acknowledging God. A lot of times.

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Speaker 1: When Jonathan comes home from school, we'll go out and

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Speaker 1: good time. God, thank you for giving me a great son.

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Speaker 2: In everything we do, if we'll acknowledge God, it'll go smoother.

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Speaker 2: You've been cooking dinner for twenty years.

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Speaker 1: If you'll have that kind of attitude, God will remind

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Speaker 1: The man behind the counter hurt us talking and he said, Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: let me see your phone. He took it and he

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Speaker 1: looked up his number, and he told us for one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars we could turn Jonathan's phone in

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Speaker 1: and he could get a new one. I said, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't think we want to do that. Then he said,

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Speaker 1: what kind of phone do you have? I gave him

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Speaker 1: my phone. He looked it up, and he said, oh,

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Speaker 1: you're way over to you can pick out any new

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Speaker 1: phone free. And so I let Jonathan have the new phone,

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Speaker 1: and I took Jonathan's phone, which was much better than mine.

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Speaker 1: Then just as we're about to leave, he asked Victoria

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Speaker 1: what kind of phone do you have? And her phone

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Speaker 1: wasn't that old, but it was real beat up. She

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Speaker 1: had dropped it several times while she was driving and

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Speaker 1: tried to put on her makeup at the same time.

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Speaker 1: And I told him, no, we've already checked it out.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a couple hundred dollars we're going to pass.

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Speaker 1: He said, no, she's not going to leave without having

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Speaker 1: a new phone. He looked at his assistant and said,

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Speaker 1: just give her a phone. He said do what he said, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I said, just give.

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Speaker 2: Her a phone.

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Speaker 1: We walked out of there, and I thought to myself,

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Speaker 1: we went in to buy one phone. We came out

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Speaker 1: with three brand new phones, plus mine was practically new.

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Speaker 2: And we only paid for one phone. I was scratching

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Speaker 2: my head. I didn't see how that turned out.

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Speaker 1: You know what, That was God causing us to be

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Speaker 1: at the right place at the right time. That was

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Speaker 1: God directing our steps, his blessings chasing us down. When

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Speaker 1: we got in the car, first thing I said, thank

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Speaker 1: you Lord for your favor, Thank you Lord for your goodness.

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Speaker 1: If you'll acknowledge God in all your ways, in everything

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Speaker 1: you do, put in first place, you won't be able

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Speaker 1: to outrun the good things of God. All through the day,

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Speaker 1: we should be saying, thank you Lord for your favor,

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Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for a safe trip home, thank you

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Speaker 1: Lord for your peace. Thank you Lord for a good

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Speaker 1: night's rest tonight. In all your ways, acknowledge God. And

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Speaker 1: it's great to pray in the morning. It's great that

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Speaker 1: you are so faithful to come to church. But the

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Speaker 1: scripture says to pray without ceasing. That means all through

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Speaker 1: the day, under our breath, we should be talking to God,

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Speaker 1: asking for his help, thanking him for his goodness, acknowledging him,

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Speaker 1: making him a part of not just Sunday mornings, not

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Speaker 1: just of our devotional time, but all throughout the day. Now,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't realize prayer is just talking

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Speaker 1: to God. When it says pray without ceasing. Really, that's

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Speaker 1: an attitude. It means we have God constantly on our mind.

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Speaker 1: We are grateful, we have his praise as always coming

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Speaker 1: out of our mouth throughout the day. Thank you Lord

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Speaker 1: for your peace. Thank you Lord for helping me deal

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Speaker 1: with that situation.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Lord.

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Speaker 1: Forgiving me wisdom in life. See, it's okay to simply

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Speaker 1: talk to God. I know people anytime they pray, it's

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Speaker 1: like they turn into another person. They get very formal,

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Speaker 1: very stiff, very rigid. They pray in the King James

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Speaker 1: version of the Bible.

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Speaker 2: Oh God, thou art so great.

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Speaker 1: I'm asking THEE to help thy humble servant today.

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Speaker 2: No, you don't have to.

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Speaker 1: Pray in old English. And I know God sees your heart.

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Speaker 1: You want to be reverend, you want to be respectful.

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Speaker 1: But it's okay to talk to God, just like you

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Speaker 1: talk to one of your good friends. He's a friend

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Speaker 1: that sticks closer than a brother. And you know, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of funny.

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Speaker 2: The same people that I see praying, Oh.

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Speaker 1: God, Thou must help thy humble servant, they're saying to

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Speaker 1: their friends, what's going down homeboy?

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Speaker 2: And I'm not saying it's okay to call God homeboy.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I do that. But here's what I'm

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Speaker 2: saying here. There's nothing wrong y'all not even listening to me.

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Speaker 1: Now, There's nothing wrong with getting up in the morning

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Speaker 1: and saying, good morning, Lord, I love you today, thank

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Speaker 1: you for the good things you have in store.

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Speaker 2: God.

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Speaker 1: I acknowledge that you've given me my strength, You've given

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Speaker 1: me my life, and I'm here to say I need

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Speaker 1: you God. I'm count on your favor, on your strength,

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Speaker 1: on your wisdom, on your guidance in my life today.

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Speaker 1: Then all through the day, you're talking to him, you're

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Speaker 1: thanking him for his goodness. You're making him a part

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Speaker 1: of your everyday life. The word depend in one translation

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Speaker 1: of the Bible, means to hang down. Think of a

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Speaker 1: piece of fruit on a branch. It's hanging there like

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Speaker 1: an apple and orange. In other words, without the strength

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Speaker 1: of the.

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Speaker 2: Tree, it's going to fall. It's not going to make it.

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Speaker 1: Jesus said, I am divine, You are the branches. If

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Speaker 1: you abide in me, you will bear much fruit. Just

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Speaker 1: the opposite would be true. If we don't abide in him,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to be fruitful. Not being fruitful means

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Speaker 1: we're not as productive. We're not as successful as God

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Speaker 1: wants us to be. You've all had days when you've

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Speaker 1: driven across town to pick up something, only to get

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Speaker 1: there and find out that it's closed. Or you work

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Speaker 1: all day on your computer and something goes wrong and

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Speaker 1: you lose your information. You go to workout and the

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Speaker 1: place is passed, or you forgot.

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Speaker 2: Your tennis shoes.

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Speaker 1: Just little things that cause us to not be productive.

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Speaker 1: Not every time, of course, but sometimes it's because we're

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Speaker 1: not acknowledging God.

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Speaker 2: We're not abiding in him.

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Speaker 1: We've gotten off to where we're doing everything in our

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Speaker 1: own strength.

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Speaker 2: Now God has to just back away. He's not guiding us.

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Speaker 1: Directing us, giving us his favor like he would if

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Speaker 1: we'd start relying on him.

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Speaker 2: Once again, that.

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Speaker 1: Word abide indicates is something that we continually do. In

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Speaker 1: other words, you don't get up in the morning and say, Okay, God,

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Speaker 1: I prayed, I read a chapter in the Bible. I'm

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Speaker 1: set for the day, went to church on Sunday, I'm

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Speaker 1: set for the week. Know all through the day under

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Speaker 1: your breath, God, I need you. Something good happens. Father,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your goodness at the office. God give

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Speaker 1: me your wisdom driving home. Thank you Lord for protecting me.

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Speaker 1: If you will abide in Him, you'll be fruitful, you'll

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Speaker 1: be productive, You'll see your days go much much smoother.

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Speaker 1: So let me challenge again today. Get God out of

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Speaker 1: your Sunday morning box. Make him a part of your

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Speaker 1: everyday life. Learn to talk to him often. Get in

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Speaker 1: that habit all through the day. God, I need you.

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Speaker 1: I'm counting on you. Remember, Apart from Him, we can

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Speaker 1: do nothing. If you'll learn to acknowledge God. If you'll

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Speaker 1: put him first in everything you do, God will crown.

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Speaker 2: Your efforts with success.

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Speaker 1: He'll guide you and direct you, and I know you'll

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Speaker 1: live the life of victory he has in story.

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Speaker 2: Amen, do you receive it today? I know you do.

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Speaker 1: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to make.

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Speaker 2: Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 2: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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Speaker 2: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 1: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 1: got born again.

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Speaker 2: Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place.

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Speaker 2: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am,

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Speaker 2: I have what it says I have, I can.

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Speaker 1: This is the first Bible that my parents gave me

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Speaker 1: I was six years old. They taught me the importance

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Speaker 1: of believing what God says about you and letting that

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Speaker 1: determine your self image to how through the Scripture you

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Speaker 1: can learn to handle challenges and pursue your dreams.

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Speaker 2: Some people tell me.

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Speaker 1: That the Bible's not practical for them, and how they

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Speaker 1: don't understand it.

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Speaker 2: We've created a new resource called how to Read your

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Speaker 2: Bible and Enjoy It. It provides twelve distinct lenses that

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Speaker 2: will help you see the Bible with fresh eyes so

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Speaker 2: you can discover the hidden treasures that increase your faith,

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Speaker 2: practical truths that will help you in your everyday life.

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Speaker 1: When you tap into the power of God's word, there's

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Speaker 1: no limit to where He'll take you.

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Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 3: of any size to the ministry this month, Joel would

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Speaker 3: the Bible can feel confusing, out of touch, or even

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Speaker 3: You'll discover fresh inspiration on every page of your Bible.

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Speaker 3: The twelve lenses give you the power to see the

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Speaker 3: passion in your life.

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Speaker 1: When you get God's Word down in you, it brings

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Speaker 1: the Bible. Thanks so much for being a part of

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Speaker 1: the ministry. Victoria and I pray for you and your

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Speaker 1: family every day and we appreciate your prayers and support.

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Speaker 1: Remember you can watch the services online every Sunday morning,

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