August 23, 2025 • 41 mins
Day 21: Joy in Serving OthersScripture: “You were called to be free… through love serve one another” (Galatians 5:13). Affirmation: I find joy and fulfillment in serving others with love.Heaven measures greatness by towels, not titles. On this closing day, Jesus places a towel in our hands, reminding us that purpose is found where freedom meets love. Culture says, “Build your brand,” but the Spirit says, “Build My people.” Serving turns ordinary spaces into holy ground and directs every spotlight back to God.Serve means using God-given freedom to lift others higher—through love. When we serve, we mirror Jesus, the King who washed feet (John 13:14-15, 17); we resist self-indulgence; and we glorify God as love-fueled works shine (Matthew 5:16).Why serving amazes: It is God’s strategy for joy; gratitude multiplies as it moves through your hands. It is both command and gift; the Spirit supplies what He requires, shaping humility and courage. It multiplies impact; one seed of love grows into stories, culture, and change.My testimony: I didn’t chase a crown; I carried a towel. Saying yes to serving—connecting creators, sharing templates, giving credit, offering solutions—opened doors I never knocked on. People began calling me the Queen of Collaborations. Love scales; consistent service creates safety, safety builds community, and God gets the glory.How service spread across my platforms: Da Crew Podcast & Media Network gives voices a mic and a map through panels, takeovers, and spotlights. We prepare guests, refine messages, and connect them after episodes; partnerships and bookings have followed—Proverbs 11:25 in motion. Aspiring Authors Magazine amplifies new and rising writers with coaching, collaborative features, anthologies, and practical publishing help; vision met stewardship (Habakkuk 2:2; 1 Peter 4:10) as first features became first books. Queen of Collaborations Coaching & Consulting teaches collaboration as ministry and marketplace strategy; we offer a Collaboration Canvas, MOUs, launch checklists, shared promo calendars, and prayer-first planning. Clients launched summits, co-authored projects, and cross-promoted—living Matthew 20:26-28.My collaboration flywheel: Serve—lead with value (Galatians 5:13). Connect—bridge people and purposes (Philippians 2:3-4). Co-create—agree on roles, timelines, and wins (Amos 3:3). Celebrate—honor loudly and credit generously (Romans 12:10). Multiply—turn one partnership into many (Ephesians 4:16).Guardrails that keep God central: motive over spotlight (Matthew 5:16), integrity in agreements (Proverbs 11:1), dignity with justice and humility (Micah 6:8), Sabbath rest so God builds the house (Psalm 127:1-2).Join the movement this week: pitch your story to Aspiring Authors Magazine and nominate another writer; bring Da Crew a listener-serving idea and a second guest to spotlight; book a clarity session with Queen of Collaborations and execute one give-first action within 48 hours.Three takeaways: Freedom finds its highest purpose in love—we are saved to serve (Galatians 5:13; Ephesians 2:8-10; 1 Peter 4:10). Service is worship in motion—helping people honors God (Romans 12:1; Hebrews 13:16; Colossians 3:23-24). The joy you seek sits on the far side of someone else’s need (Acts 20:35; Isaiah 58:10-11; Philippians 2:3-4).Three ways to apply today: Pray and act—“Lord, who can I serve?” Then do one concrete thing: a meal, a referral, a voice note, or an hour volunteered (James 2:15-17; Proverbs 3:27; Luke 10:33-37). Spotlight someone—publicly elevate another’s work and worth (Romans 12:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; Hebrews 10:24). Start a towel list—choose three people, define specific actions and timelines (John 13:14-15; Titus 3:14; 1 Corinthians 16:14). A towel list turns love from feeling into action.Recap of our 21-day journey: Section 1—Shelter in the Storm: strength in adversity, peace amid chaos, trust beyond understanding, joy in every circumstance, courage to face fears, love beyond measure, strength in weakness (Psalm 46:1; Isaiah 26:3; Proverbs 3:5-6; Philippians 4:4; Joshua 1:9; 1 John 4:9-10; 2 Corinthians 12:9-10). Section 2—A Quiet Assurance: confidence in God’s plan, rest in His timing, assurance of His presence, anchored in His truth, hope in His promises, courage in silence, joy in His assurance (Jeremiah 29:11; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Psalm 46:10; John 8:32; 2 Peter 3:9; Isaiah 30:15; Romans 15:13). Section 3—An Everlasting Praise: gratitude in His presence, trust in His plan, strength in times of need, peace beyond understanding, love without limits, hope anchored in Him, joy in serving others (Psalm 16:11; Proverbs 3:5-6; Isaiah 41:10; Philippians 4:7; 1 John 4:9-10; Romans 15:13; Galatians 5:13).Stay the course: This is not an ending but a beginning. Choose the narrow way daily. Move from inspiration to transformation—walk with God, serve His people, and let His glory shine in ordinary places.A closing charge: Take one truth from the last twenty days
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good morning, good morning, good well, good afternoon, good afternoon,
good afternoon, good afternoon everyone, And welcome, welcome, welcome, Thank
you guys for joining, Thank you guys for joining. Y'all.
We are finally reaching the close of this devotion. We're
finally reaching the clothes of this devotion, and I want
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to thank everyone that has been on this twenty one
day journey with me. Hasn't been easy, no, but yet
I press today. Devotion is one that's kind of personal
for me. It's kind of personal for me. Joy in
serving others, This is really a personal devotion for me.
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But I just thank God for even allowing me the
opportunity to do this twenty one day devotion, to allow
me the opportunity to do the things that He allowed me.
And I may get emotional today because the enemy's been busy,
but yet the God that I serve, he yet shows up,
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and he yet shows who he is and yet who
he has called me to be. So I'm grateful on
this morning, Grateful on this morning. For those that truly
know me know that I have some health issues. I
don't talk about him because I serve an amazing God.
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I serve an amazing God. That has kept me and
that will continue to keep me as long as I
want to be kept. And I show up because I
know what He's done for me. And I thank Brother
Marco because this morning I went over to his life
and had another opportunity to share just what God has done.
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As I look back over my life, y'all, I tell
you that there's been plenty of times that the enemy
has wanted to take me out, but yet God yet
shows up, and yet shows out. So I have been
battling some health issues, but I still trust God because
he said that I am healed, and I believe that
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I am healed. Just have to do some things to
allow that healing to manifest in my life. So I
had to take a little trip to the YR. Just
wanted to just wanted to find out what the doctors
thought was going on with me, so that I can
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know how to go to my Daddy and ask him
to do the things that needs to be done in
my life and for him to allow me to utilize
the resources and the provisions that He's made for all
of us. You know, it's okay to do the holistic thing.
But he has equipped doctors, he has equipped nurses, He
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has provided hospitals and all of these different things so
that we can utilize them. He knew what we was
gonna need way back before he created any of this stuff,
you know, even though he just allowed us to walk
into these things to align with his word, to align
with that plan that he has for us. But y'all,
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I'm gonna go ahead and jump on in this lesson
because it's the lone one today. It's a lone one
today because when I tell you it's personal, it's personal
on today. It's personal on today, today, Day twenty one,
This is the actual final day inside of this journal,
this devotional journal. If you have not grabbed you a copy, y'all,
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y'all can go over to ww dot Angela Thomas Smith
books dot com and grab you a copy. If you
don't want this one, there's several other devotions that's available.
There's other books, there's poetry books, there's all types of
different things that is available on the website. But again,
I just thank God. I thank him for just being
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who he said he would be in my life and
just to be able to come on. Didn't think I
was gonna be able to do this devotion today. But
God he showed up, and he yet showed out. I'm
here and I'm glad to be in the land of
the living. He allowed me to see this new day.
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Somebody didn't make it this morning. Somebody didn't get that
grace and that mercy extended. But I got it again.
I may not be feeling the best, I may not
be in the best of health right now, but yet
I pressed. I'm gonna rest. I'm gonna get me some
rest in. But yet I had to come and share
his word and do that that he has called me to.
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So y'all, I'm gonna jump on into this lesson. I'm
gonna share some things with you, gonna drop some nuggets,
and then I'm gonna move on. Not y'all way, because
y'all know I don't like to stay on too long.
But I just want to be obedient. I just want
to share that that He's placed within me. Because guess what,
every test, every trial, every tribulation, it was for a reason.
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He knew what we would need, he knew who he
need to have in place. Because guess what, he could
have left me way back there in my afflictions. He
could have left me on my deathbed. He could have
took me out of here a long time ago. But
he's so fit because he knew this day would be
this day, and he knew what and who he would
need to have in place. So I'm grateful for the
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opportunity to share this devotion with you guys today again.
This is day twenty one. The title is joy in
serving others. We're gonna be coming from Galatians five and thirteen.
It said you were called to be free. Oh Lord,
excuse me, y'all, excuse me. I'm sorry. I have to
pray before I jump into this lesson. And sometime I
get excited, I get excited about the word, but I
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have to pray before I jump into this lesson. Father God,
in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you for
this hour. I thank you for this platform. I thank
you for yet another opportunity to share your word. So, Father,
I asked that you would decrease me in the flesh,
Lord God, and allow your spirit man to rise up.
Lord God, Father, do not allow me to operate in Angelo,
but allow me to operate in your spirit Man. Lord God,
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that that you placed in me, allow it to come forth,
and may it fall on the ears May it vibrate
to the ears that it needs to go to, Lord God.
And may these seas, these nuggets fall on fertile ground,
Lord God, that it may produce fruit in the lives
of those that receive it. Lord God Father, I thank
you right now in the name of Jesus, A man
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a man a man. I thank God for the space.
I thank Him for each and every one of you, guys.
I thank Him for just another opportunity. So Galatians five
and thirteen saying you were called to be free, but
do not use your freedom to indulge in the flesh. Rather,
through love, serve one another. Again, I say you were
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called to be free, do not use your freedom to
indulge in the flesh. Rather, through love, serve one another.
Our affirmation for today is I find joy and fulfillment
in serving others with love her I tell you what,
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God is so good. He's so good. He's so good.
He's so good, y'all. Heaven measures greatness by towels, not titles.
On the final day of this devotional journey, God hands
each of us a towel, the symbol of Jesus' choice
when he washed his disciples feet in a world that
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shouts build your brand. The spirit whispers build my people.
Serving isn't a punishment, It is a purpose. It's the
place where freedom meets love, where ordinary moments become holy ground,
and where our lives point beyond ourselves but to the
glory of God, the one that created us. I keep
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telling y'all everything that we do should point back to Him.
It should point back to to him. The word of
the day is served. The word of the day is served.
To serve is to use your freedom to lift someone
else higher. As we stated in Galatians five and thirteen,
it does not just say serve one another. It says
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through love that is the key. Service without love is duty.
Service through love is worship. When we serve, we reflect
Jesus the King put on a towel in John thirteen.
When we do the same, the world sees him. When
we resist self centeredness. Freedom isn't a license to live small.
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It's an imitation to live poured out. When we glorify God,
God works done and love become light that leads others
to other people to praise our Father. And that's Matthew
five and sixteen why serving is so amazing. Serving is
God strategy for joy. The fastest way out of discouragement
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is to pour into someone else. Joy grows when gratitude
flows through your hands. Serving Serving is God's commandment and gift.
It is not an optional for followers of Jesus. Yet
it is a commandment that carries It carries us not
in our own power, but the spirit that supplies what
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He requires, forming christ Like humility encourage within us. Serving
multiplies impact. One act of love is a seed. Seeds
become stories, Stories become culture, and culture can change families, teams, churches,
and cities. Let me share a brief testimony with y'all
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how serving birthed a movement across my platform. I didn't
chase a crown who hardy luvia, I didn't chase a crown.
I carried a tower saying yes to serve people. It
didn't just It turned into rooms that I never asked
to enter, relationships that I never could have engineered, an
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impact that only God can orchestrate. Collaboration became the language
I connected creators, shared my temp plates, gave credit on purpose,
and answered dms with solutions not sell pictures. Over time,
people started calling me the Queen of collaboration, but the
real headline it's the love scale. When you serve continuously, constantly,
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people feel safe to build with you, and God gets
the glory. It's never about Angela. How served this spread
across my black form? God allowed me. God allowed me
aspiring off this magazine. So what do we do? We
amplify new and rising writers, giving them a credible platform
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for them to share their voice and their story. How
do we serve? We offer editorial coaching, create collaborative features,
theme anathologies, and practical publishing resources. We highlight first time
authors alongside bestsellers, because honor isn't in hierarchicy fruit. We've
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seen writers gain their first features, founded co authors, and
moved from from just being sharing it on social media
or just having it in a journal, but being able
to publish it and put it in a book. Habacco
two and two says, write the vision and make it plain.
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When Habecca meets first Peter four and ten, he says,
be a steward over your gifts for the good of others.
Not just about you, but for the good of others.
We got to think about other people and not just ourselves.
He also gave me the crew, podcasts, Media outlet. What
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do we do? We give voice to a mic in
a map. We host panel conversations, cross platform takeovers. We
do spotlight episodes. We introduce emerging leaders in established audience.
We have right now ten hosts. We have nine amazing
queens that are the Queen of the Airways. We have
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one amazing king that's holding it down for the Kings
of the Airways. We believe in being the change that
we desire to see in this world. And we're not
doing it by We're not doing it by trying to
gain monetary gifts. We're not doing it by trying to
charge people for things. But we're doing it from the
kindness of our hearts. We're opening up our platforms so
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that others can allow their journey to be shared, so
others can see what God has done for us. And
we do it through educating, empowering and encouraging, and I
thank God for it so He allows us to serve.
We prep guests with media kids, We provide all types
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of stuff, We help refine their messages, and we are
intentional about making connections. We don't just bring you and
invite you to be on the show, but we try
to stay in connection with you because we honor We
honor your journey, and we want to make sure that
you know that you're not just the number, but we
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truly care about you thriving and striving in the kingdom
and taking your place at the end of the day,
that's what it's all about. We've seen guests and how
you know that you're moving and operating in the things
of God. You can see the fruit. We've seen guests
from their own partnerships. We've seen guests book other partnerships
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from being connected with us. We've had guests to even
be asked to be a part of other networks and
a part of different things coming across our platforms. And
it wasn't because huh, I was out to chase a crown,
but it was because I wanted to carry the towel
to say yes to serving God's people. God allowed these
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platforms to be birthed through me so that He could
be glorified. Because at the end of the day, it's
not about Angela, but it's about the things that He
allowed me to do because none of it would be
possible without him. Everything I do points back to him.
He allowed me to have Queen of collaboration, coaching and consulting.
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Why and what do I do where? I teach people
how to collaborate and I always keep the ministry. I
always keep God first because I want to help build
leaders huh that are willing to win, win in partnership
and also glorify God while growing an impact in the
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market place. Y'all, I provide collaboration collaboration canvas if you,
if you connect with any of my platforms, you will
see that I'm all about connecting, I'm all about creating.
I'm all about collaboration. I believe in the four seas,
which is connect, collaborate, create, and community. Bill. I believe
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in that and I believe in allowing God's word to
come forth. So how do I do that? I serve.
I lead with value. I give first insight, tools and introductions.
I connect. I bridge people together with purpose making thoughtful
mission aligned intros. I cold create build together with clarity, roads,
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timelines and shared wins. We do that today. If you
go and look at my platform, and y'all will hear
me often mention that I have over one hundred and
fifty literary works, but none of that would be possible
if it was not for the people that come and
be a part of my platform and so into me.
But not only that, I celebrate others. I don't make
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it about me, but I celebrate others, and I help
remind them that it's all about us. Celebrate, it's all
about us uplifting each other. See a lot of us,
we would get on these platforms and we would think
it it's just about our platform. It's just about our
little lives, our little our little content, our little whatever,
and about gaining subscribers and gaining followers, and we forget
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about those that who support us, those that come on
our lives, those that are part of our anathologies, those
that are featured in a magazine. Don't forget those that
help you get to where you are. One thing my
mama used to tell me, God Rest her soul. She said,
the same people you pass on your way up, baby,
she said, you're gonna pass them on your way down.
So she said, you treat people how you want to
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be treated in spite of and that thing that stuck
with me. I try to treat people how I want
to be treated, in spite of how they treat me.
Too many people think that sometimes they're getting over on Angela.
But guess what you're not getting over on Angela because
guess what I work unto the Lord, and I work
from my heart. If God don't lay it on my heart,
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guess just what I'm not doing it. And oftentimes people say, well,
you don't even charge enough. You don't charge enough for this,
You don't charge enough. I charge what God lay in
my spirit to charge for whatever it is. And sometimes
a lot of people don't even have to pay. That's
the God that I serve. He will make room for
your gift, and he will make your name great amongst
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God and amongst people. And that is a that is
something that I have seen, something that I have witnessed,
not something that somebody has told me. Because you're talking,
you're looking at a little old girl from Lovelands, South Carolina.
People never heard of that place. But you're looking at
someone that is not only an editor, an owner of
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a magazine that has been in circulation for five years,
a podcast network that has ten hosts we're heading into
our fourth season. Not only that, I have been recognized
in the International Internet Radio Hall of Fame for broadcasting
thanks to WB and INN where I've been on that
network heading into six years. Doctor all that day Ngolzie,
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he helped. He saw something in me as a broadcaster
and invited me to come and be a part of
his network. I've been on his network now going into
six years. April will be six years. And I was
able to birth my own network from being a part
of that network. If you are willing to be used,
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he'll use you. I didn't think I had a voice,
but God kept allowing me. As I showed up, he
kept he kept doing it. I just showed up. He
was the voice. Every time I opened my mouth, he
would give me the things to say. I didn't think
I was qualified, I didn't think I was worthy, but
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I just begin to serve people. I would come on
lives and I would just go live where people are
charging twenty and thirty and forty and fifty and eighty
dollars to do interviews and to do things like that.
I was doing it for free or for a little
or nothing. And God began to put my name in
front of people's in front of people's table and laying
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it on their tables. And then when people didn't want
to invite me to their table, guess what. God allowed
me to build my own table and bring people in.
All you have to do is be obedient and show up.
He'll do it for you because who am I I have?
I ain't nobody and he has no respectable person. All
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you have to do is show up, even when you
don't feel good, even when you don't know what's going on,
even when you can't see what's happening. You got to
do is show up and allow him to be who
he said he will be. His word is not returning
to him void. His word is not returning to him
voy He's gonna watch over it into his perform and
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perfect it in our lives. And you gotta understand that.
You gotta believe that, and you gotta know that that
He is yet working in spite of, in spite of
I'm gonna drop some guard rails that keep God at
the center of what you're doing. Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly.
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Motive Is this about the kingdom? Impact of personal spotlight, integrity,
clear agreements, fair splits, and honest timelines, dignity. We serve
with honor and not savorism. Sabbath, we rest to remember
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who built the house you gotta take some time off.
I know we always say we gotta press, got to
do that, but you gotta take a day. You got
to take you a Sabbath day. Even in the midst
of doing all that we do out here for the kingdom,
all that we do for the kingdom. See when when
I'm on social media and when I'm doing these things,
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everything that I do is for the kingdom. See, I've
come from that phase of worrying about my personal life
because my personal life ain't no personal life anymore. Because
I'm a kingdom I'm a Kingdom child. So everything that
I do it its owns its own. It is open.
You know, people gonna scrutinize your personal life or whatever.
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So I have no personal life. My life is an
open book because what I do, it all has the
point to the one that created me. It all has
to point back to him, because this life that I'm
walking in, it's not mine's anymore. Because the enemy wanted
to take me out. The enemy wanted to take me
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out a long time ago. But God saw fit. He
raised me up off my bed of affliction, and I
said I would serve him. So for him, I do
these things I do these things. This journey that I
have been on has truly been a shaping journey. And
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he say joy in serving others. I don't want people
to think that I'm getting off topic, because the topic
for today is joy in serving others. And we come
from Galatians five and thirteen. Use your freedom to serve
one another through love. And these are some scriptures that
have shaped my life in my journey. Again, Galatians five
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and thirteen is a scripture for today, but that too
has been one of the scriptures that have shaped my journey.
The scripture that changed the outlook on my life was
Jeremih twenty nine and eleven December twenty twelve, when God
dropped it in my spirit. He said he had a
plan for me. His plan was to prosper me, not
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to harm me, for me to be in good health,
for me to have hope in the future, not knowing
that two years later I would experience domestic violence and
I would be pew pewed at point blank range with
a salt off shotgun. Got the evidence to show what happened.
But the God that I served raised me up off
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my bed that same day allowed me to walk down
the halls amaze the nurses. After being in surgery for
six hours in a pump that was pumping all of
the dead sails and all of the dead tissues out
of my leg, and I had a hole in my
leg this size. Took three months for that hole to
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seal up, had to be packed every day. But the
God that I served, he allowed me to raise up
off my bed of affliction, and I just wanted to
serve him. I just wanted to share his goodness. I
just wanted to let people know what he had done
for me, because he could have took me out, he
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could have let me expired. Because the doctor said that
I was a miracle. They said my whole right side
should have been blown off because I was pupil with
a soft off shotgun with a with a with a
with a pellet, and they said when it hit, it
spread it. But for some reason it did not spread
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the way that it normally spread, so it was only
able to spread in this much of an area. I
thank God for that, and I know that he was
with me. He's standing his grace and his mercy. So
I can't sit down on his goodness. I can't sit
down on the things that he has done, and I
can't sit down on his word. No, I may not
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be where I need to be or where I I
want to be, But every day I ask him to
use me and to decrease that flesh of minds and
allow his spirit man to rise up within me so
that I can take my rightful place in the kingdom.
That I won't lead people astray, that I won't that
I won't go astray, but I will stay on the
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straight and narrow, and that that I will be able
to help somebody that may not know him on today
come to know him so knowing and sharing. That's why
I serve. But this journey has truly been shaped by
Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven. He said, He declared that
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he knows the plans that he has for my life,
and it is to prosper me, not to harm me,
for me to be in good health, for me to
have hope in the future. Galatians five and thirteen. To
use your freedom to serve one another through love back
through twenty twenty six and twenty eight. Whoever wants to
be great must be a servant Proverbs eleven and twenty five.
Who never refreshes others. We'll be refreshed one Peter four
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and ten. Use your gift to serve others as a
faithful steward Ephesians four and sixteen. The body builds itself
up as each part does its work. John thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
and seventeen. I have given you an example. Do it,
and you will be blessed. Y'd. He's given us so
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many examples in this Bible. All we got to do
is go over there and read it and apply it.
You got to learn how to put your name in
a place of those names that's in there, and speak
it over your life. He's given us that power and
Proverbs eighteen and twenty one to speak life or death.
So speak life over yourself. Speak some of these scriptures
over yourself. Remind yourself who he is and who he's
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called you to be. He's given you that authority. Use
it on today. Speak over your life. He said that
we should be living examples. He didn't drop us out
the sky. He didn't. He didn't drop us out the sky.
Know that. So as I prepare to close, I want
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you all to remember this freedom finds its highest purpose.
We are saved to serve. Secondly, service is worship in motion.
When we help people, we honor God. Learn how to
serve the joy. Thirdly, the joy that you see often
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sits on the other side of someone else's need. Serves
someone today, meet someone else's need. Ass as apostle Kimberly, always,
doctor Kimberly, Always say that that you do for someone else,
God would do it for you. How can we apply
this to our lives? First you have to ask, pray
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and ask God, Lord, who can I serve today? Lord?
How can I serve today? Lord? Where would you like
me to serve today? Ask him and he'll guide you.
He'll guide you, He'll lead you, He'll show you where
to go, learn how to use your platforms. If you're
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on these platforms. You don't have to have a podcast network.
You don't have to be a fluent speaker. I stutter,
I do all kind of stuff. I'm honey, please, I'm country.
But I don't allow that to stop me, because if
you know, it's Jeremiah, he studied you know. We all
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have our flaws because none of us are perfect. But
don't allow that to stop you from sharing the goodness
of God and the things that He's done for you.
Because somebody out there needs to hear it. Everybody got
a story, and there's somebody on the other side of
your store that needs to hear it because it can
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bring them out of what they're going through. Spot like somebody,
elevate another person's work and worth and watch what he
do for you. Thirdly, start a power list. Huh what
is a tower list? It is a simple, intentional plan
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to serve Pacific people in Pacific ways in a specific timeline.
Put a name after the tower Jesus used when he
watched his disciples feet and John thirteen, Verses fourteen and fifteen.
It turns love from feeling into an action and helps
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you live Galatians five and thirteen on purpose. Know that
you didn't get dropped out of the sky. It wasn't
a coincident that you came through. Even if you're hearing
this ass replay, if you're hearing a clip, however you
get it, know that what you're getting is needed. It
needed for the journey that you're on. It's needed for
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the lives that you too will impact. So pick you
three people today and be pacific in action and in timeline.
So I want to recap what we have been journaling
and going through over these last twenty one days of
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a devotion, our twenty one day journey. As we close
this devotional, I want to take some time to revisit,
to underline and apply what God has been building in
you and in me and in those that will hear
this as a replay. Let these things educate your mind,
empower your faith, and encourage your heart. The first week,
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in the first section, if you're going by the book,
in the first section, we talked about shelter in the storm.
Day one was strength inadversity. We came out of Songs
forty six and one. Day two was peace of miss
chaos Isaiah twenty six and three. Day three was trust
beyond understanding Proverbs three, five and six. Day four was
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joy in every circumstance, Philippians four and four. Day five
was courage to face fears Joshua one and nine. Day
six was love beyond measure First John four, nine and ten.
Day seven was strengths and Weakness Secod Corinthians twelve, nine
and ten, and the second with y'all we went into
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a quiet assurance. A quiet assurance was the section Tyle.
It was Day eight confidence in God's plan Jeremiah twenty
nine and eleven. Day nine was rest in God's time
in Ecclesiastics three and eleven. Day ten was assurance in
his prison. Songs forty six and ten. Day eleven was
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anchored in his truth. John eight and thirty two. Day
twelve was hope in his promises two Peter three and nine.
Day thirteen was courage and silence. Isaiah thirty and fifteen
and Day fourteen was joy in his assurance Romans fifteen
and thirteen. And then we went on over. We went
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on over too. Section three a everlasting praise, an everlasting praise,
Day number fifteen. Gratitude in his presence Psalm sixteen and eleven,
Day sixteen, Trust in His plan, Proverbs three, five and six,
Day seventeen, Strength and times of need, Isaiah forty one
and ten, Day eighteen, Peace beyond understanding, Philippians four and seven,
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Day nineteen, Love without limits first John four nine through ten,
Day twenty, hope anchored in him. Romas fifteen and thirteen,
and today hosted out with joy in serving others Galatians
five and thirteen. This is not the end, but it's
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yet the beginning. You have been equipped anchored and awakened.
Now stay the course. Choose the narrow way daily. Let
today mark the moment you move from inspiration to transformation.
Walking with God, serving his people, and shining his glory
in every ordinary place. A closing charge. Take one truth
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from the past twenty days and put it in motion
by serving someone today. Let your freedom become a condouant
for love. As you do, may your life become a
living doxology. Ordinary acts done with extraordinary love, bringing glory
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to God. Stay the course by choosing a holy rhythm.
Stay rooted, Abide in Jesus daily, open the word, open
your heart, and let the spirit lead your steps. Stay responsive,
turn truth into action. Serve one person every day in love.
Stay resilient, Do not grow weary and doing good, your
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seeds will bear fruit and do time a simple rule
of life for you. Daily share a word, Read the word,
meditate on the word, pray and act in one and
one act. Show one act of love. Just just act
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in love, because love is its action. Spend time within
your community worship. Find you a prayer group, Find you
some praying sisters. Find you a praying church. Find you
somewhere where you can worship with the commun unity and
one intentional collaboration that lifts someone other than yourself. Monthly,
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take you a quiet retreat hour to review your journey,
give thanks, and reset your course. Monthly if that means
you need to take you a spa trip, just take
your a drive to the waterfowl, to the mountain, whatever
you need to do, take you one one day, one week,
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in one time. That if it's just an hour to
sit and retreat to yourself, even if it's in your closet,
review your journey, give thanks, and reset your course. We
should do this monthly. When it gets hard. Remember if
you feel unseen, God sees you. Keep serving. If you
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feel tired, rest in Him, then rise again. If you
feel afraid, courage comes as you move. If you feel alone,
reach for the community. You will not called to walk along.
There's so many people out here on this journey, and
so many out here think that they are alone. So therefore,
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if there's a lot of us out here thinking that
we're on this journey together, that is a great opportunity
that we can come together. So reach out to your community, okay,
and pray, ask God to lead you. Tell him I
choose the way of love. Ask him to root you
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in his presence and align your desires with his will,
and then you make a life change. Ask him to
teach you to serve with joy, to preserve you with hope,
and to glorify and to give him praise. Ask him
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to order your steps, to give you peer motives, and
ask him to finish that that he's begun in you.
Will you pledge and commit to serve on today to
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serve someone other than yourself. I pledge that today I
will commit my walk to God daily, to serve, to
continue to serve with love consistently, and to continue to
collaborate generously. Oh it's glory. They didn't call me to
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queen up collaborations for nothing. I thank him forward. I
thank him for all of the platforms that he has
allowed me to obtain. It was by nothing that I've done.
And like I stated at the beginning, y'all, I'm gonna
share this again before I close. But like I stated
at the beginning, it wasn't about a crown because I
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didn't chase a crown. I carried the towel. I just
said yes to serving people, and y'all, it turned into
rooms that I never even asked to enter. It turned
into relationships I couldn't have never engineered and impact that
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only God could orchestrate. So I thank him. I thank
him for that person that spoke queen of collaborations over
my life. And I thank him for aligning those things
that I may walk into it. So I challenged you
on today, resting him and find joy and serving others.
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I pray that there's something that you got us have
been blessed by on today, Father God, in the name
of Jesus, Lord, I thank you. I thank you for
this time. I thank you for this space. I thank
you for yet another opportunity. I thank you for your
word that you allow me to share on today, Lord God. Father.
I pray that it falls on fertile soil. Lord God,
that these sees, these nuggets that I've shared on today,
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Lord God, would bless someone, Lord God, and that it
would produce fruit in their lives. Or God, Father, we
thank you. We thank you for every gift, we thank
you for every talent, We thank you for every opportunity
that you allow us to walk into. Father, continue to
decrease us in the flesh or God and allow your
spirit man to come forth within us. That we all
may take our rightful place within the Kingdom Lord God,
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that everything that we touch, everything that we do, that
it will point back to you that you may be glorified. Father,
We thank you, We thank you for this time. We
thank you for each and every person that has tuned in.
We thank you for those that will even hear it
as a replay. Father, we asked that you would touch
their hearts or God, that they would move and want
to serve. Father, I thank you right now for all
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that you have done, all that you are doing, and
all that you shall do. And I ask these things
in your son Jesus' name, A man a man, a
man a man. I thank God for each and every
one of you. Guys. I pray that you are blessed
beyond what you can see in the natural, and I
pray that God would move mightily on today. Y'all have
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a great day, and know that I love you with
the love of Christ and there's absolutely nothing you can
do about it. Be blessed, and I will see y'all
back here on tomorrow. Tomorrow, we're gonna go through the
last section of this journal, even though we have completed
the twenty one day Devotion. There's still one more section
in the book. It is a section four. It is
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a self reflection section. We're gonna go over that section
tomorrow and then I will let you know what other
book we will be working out of in the coming weeks,
and we may take a break from the Devotion and
just go out of the Bible for a couple of
days until I decide what book we're gonna be coming
out of again. I thank you guys for being a
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part of Data Devotion. Y'all. We've been doing this for
five months and until God tell me to do different,
y'all am gonna keep showing up and I'm gonna keep
sharing his word because truly he's been good to me,
and I just won't. I just want to shout it
from the mountaintops because he truly didn't have to. He
could have took me out in my scene, but yet
he allowed me to do the things that I do.
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So y'all be blessed and know that I love y'all
with the love of Christ. Amen. Amen.
Good morning, good morning, good well, good afternoon, good afternoon,
good afternoon, good afternoon everyone, And welcome, welcome, welcome, Thank
you guys for joining, Thank you guys for joining. Y'all.
We are finally reaching the close of this devotion. We're
finally reaching the clothes of this devotion, and I want
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to thank everyone that has been on this twenty one
day journey with me. Hasn't been easy, no, but yet
I press today. Devotion is one that's kind of personal
for me. It's kind of personal for me. Joy in
serving others, This is really a personal devotion for me.
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But I just thank God for even allowing me the
opportunity to do this twenty one day devotion, to allow
me the opportunity to do the things that He allowed me.
And I may get emotional today because the enemy's been busy,
but yet the God that I serve, he yet shows up,
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and he yet shows who he is and yet who
he has called me to be. So I'm grateful on
this morning, Grateful on this morning. For those that truly
know me know that I have some health issues. I
don't talk about him because I serve an amazing God.
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I serve an amazing God. That has kept me and
that will continue to keep me as long as I
want to be kept. And I show up because I
know what He's done for me. And I thank Brother
Marco because this morning I went over to his life
and had another opportunity to share just what God has done.
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As I look back over my life, y'all, I tell
you that there's been plenty of times that the enemy
has wanted to take me out, but yet God yet
shows up, and yet shows out. So I have been
battling some health issues, but I still trust God because
he said that I am healed, and I believe that
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I am healed. Just have to do some things to
allow that healing to manifest in my life. So I
had to take a little trip to the YR. Just
wanted to just wanted to find out what the doctors
thought was going on with me, so that I can
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know how to go to my Daddy and ask him
to do the things that needs to be done in
my life and for him to allow me to utilize
the resources and the provisions that He's made for all
of us. You know, it's okay to do the holistic thing.
But he has equipped doctors, he has equipped nurses, He
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has provided hospitals and all of these different things so
that we can utilize them. He knew what we was
gonna need way back before he created any of this stuff,
you know, even though he just allowed us to walk
into these things to align with his word, to align
with that plan that he has for us. But y'all,
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I'm gonna go ahead and jump on in this lesson
because it's the lone one today. It's a lone one
today because when I tell you it's personal, it's personal
on today. It's personal on today, today, Day twenty one,
This is the actual final day inside of this journal,
this devotional journal. If you have not grabbed you a copy, y'all,
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y'all can go over to ww dot Angela Thomas Smith
books dot com and grab you a copy. If you
don't want this one, there's several other devotions that's available.
There's other books, there's poetry books, there's all types of
different things that is available on the website. But again,
I just thank God. I thank him for just being
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who he said he would be in my life and
just to be able to come on. Didn't think I
was gonna be able to do this devotion today. But
God he showed up, and he yet showed out. I'm
here and I'm glad to be in the land of
the living. He allowed me to see this new day.
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Somebody didn't make it this morning. Somebody didn't get that
grace and that mercy extended. But I got it again.
I may not be feeling the best, I may not
be in the best of health right now, but yet
I pressed. I'm gonna rest. I'm gonna get me some
rest in. But yet I had to come and share
his word and do that that he has called me to.
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So y'all, I'm gonna jump on into this lesson. I'm
gonna share some things with you, gonna drop some nuggets,
and then I'm gonna move on. Not y'all way, because
y'all know I don't like to stay on too long.
But I just want to be obedient. I just want
to share that that He's placed within me. Because guess what,
every test, every trial, every tribulation, it was for a reason.
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He knew what we would need, he knew who he
need to have in place. Because guess what, he could
have left me way back there in my afflictions. He
could have left me on my deathbed. He could have
took me out of here a long time ago. But
he's so fit because he knew this day would be
this day, and he knew what and who he would
need to have in place. So I'm grateful for the
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opportunity to share this devotion with you guys today again.
This is day twenty one. The title is joy in
serving others. We're gonna be coming from Galatians five and thirteen.
It said you were called to be free. Oh Lord,
excuse me, y'all, excuse me. I'm sorry. I have to
pray before I jump into this lesson. And sometime I
get excited, I get excited about the word, but I
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have to pray before I jump into this lesson. Father God,
in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you for
this hour. I thank you for this platform. I thank
you for yet another opportunity to share your word. So, Father,
I asked that you would decrease me in the flesh,
Lord God, and allow your spirit man to rise up.
Lord God, Father, do not allow me to operate in Angelo,
but allow me to operate in your spirit Man. Lord God,
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that that you placed in me, allow it to come forth,
and may it fall on the ears May it vibrate
to the ears that it needs to go to, Lord God.
And may these seas, these nuggets fall on fertile ground,
Lord God, that it may produce fruit in the lives
of those that receive it. Lord God Father, I thank
you right now in the name of Jesus, A man
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a man a man. I thank God for the space.
I thank Him for each and every one of you, guys.
I thank Him for just another opportunity. So Galatians five
and thirteen saying you were called to be free, but
do not use your freedom to indulge in the flesh. Rather,
through love, serve one another. Again, I say you were
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called to be free, do not use your freedom to
indulge in the flesh. Rather, through love, serve one another.
Our affirmation for today is I find joy and fulfillment
in serving others with love her I tell you what,
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God is so good. He's so good. He's so good.
He's so good, y'all. Heaven measures greatness by towels, not titles.
On the final day of this devotional journey, God hands
each of us a towel, the symbol of Jesus' choice
when he washed his disciples feet in a world that
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shouts build your brand. The spirit whispers build my people.
Serving isn't a punishment, It is a purpose. It's the
place where freedom meets love, where ordinary moments become holy ground,
and where our lives point beyond ourselves but to the
glory of God, the one that created us. I keep
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telling y'all everything that we do should point back to Him.
It should point back to to him. The word of
the day is served. The word of the day is served.
To serve is to use your freedom to lift someone
else higher. As we stated in Galatians five and thirteen,
it does not just say serve one another. It says
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through love that is the key. Service without love is duty.
Service through love is worship. When we serve, we reflect
Jesus the King put on a towel in John thirteen.
When we do the same, the world sees him. When
we resist self centeredness. Freedom isn't a license to live small.
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It's an imitation to live poured out. When we glorify God,
God works done and love become light that leads others
to other people to praise our Father. And that's Matthew
five and sixteen why serving is so amazing. Serving is
God strategy for joy. The fastest way out of discouragement
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is to pour into someone else. Joy grows when gratitude
flows through your hands. Serving Serving is God's commandment and gift.
It is not an optional for followers of Jesus. Yet
it is a commandment that carries It carries us not
in our own power, but the spirit that supplies what
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He requires, forming christ Like humility encourage within us. Serving
multiplies impact. One act of love is a seed. Seeds
become stories, Stories become culture, and culture can change families, teams, churches,
and cities. Let me share a brief testimony with y'all
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how serving birthed a movement across my platform. I didn't
chase a crown who hardy luvia, I didn't chase a crown.
I carried a tower saying yes to serve people. It
didn't just It turned into rooms that I never asked
to enter, relationships that I never could have engineered, an
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impact that only God can orchestrate. Collaboration became the language
I connected creators, shared my temp plates, gave credit on purpose,
and answered dms with solutions not sell pictures. Over time,
people started calling me the Queen of collaboration, but the
real headline it's the love scale. When you serve continuously, constantly,
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people feel safe to build with you, and God gets
the glory. It's never about Angela. How served this spread
across my black form? God allowed me. God allowed me
aspiring off this magazine. So what do we do? We
amplify new and rising writers, giving them a credible platform
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for them to share their voice and their story. How
do we serve? We offer editorial coaching, create collaborative features,
theme anathologies, and practical publishing resources. We highlight first time
authors alongside bestsellers, because honor isn't in hierarchicy fruit. We've
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seen writers gain their first features, founded co authors, and
moved from from just being sharing it on social media
or just having it in a journal, but being able
to publish it and put it in a book. Habacco
two and two says, write the vision and make it plain.
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When Habecca meets first Peter four and ten, he says,
be a steward over your gifts for the good of others.
Not just about you, but for the good of others.
We got to think about other people and not just ourselves.
He also gave me the crew, podcasts, Media outlet. What
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do we do? We give voice to a mic in
a map. We host panel conversations, cross platform takeovers. We
do spotlight episodes. We introduce emerging leaders in established audience.
We have right now ten hosts. We have nine amazing
queens that are the Queen of the Airways. We have
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one amazing king that's holding it down for the Kings
of the Airways. We believe in being the change that
we desire to see in this world. And we're not
doing it by We're not doing it by trying to
gain monetary gifts. We're not doing it by trying to
charge people for things. But we're doing it from the
kindness of our hearts. We're opening up our platforms so
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that others can allow their journey to be shared, so
others can see what God has done for us. And
we do it through educating, empowering and encouraging, and I
thank God for it so He allows us to serve.
We prep guests with media kids, We provide all types
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of stuff, We help refine their messages, and we are
intentional about making connections. We don't just bring you and
invite you to be on the show, but we try
to stay in connection with you because we honor We
honor your journey, and we want to make sure that
you know that you're not just the number, but we
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truly care about you thriving and striving in the kingdom
and taking your place at the end of the day,
that's what it's all about. We've seen guests and how
you know that you're moving and operating in the things
of God. You can see the fruit. We've seen guests
from their own partnerships. We've seen guests book other partnerships
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from being connected with us. We've had guests to even
be asked to be a part of other networks and
a part of different things coming across our platforms. And
it wasn't because huh, I was out to chase a crown,
but it was because I wanted to carry the towel
to say yes to serving God's people. God allowed these
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platforms to be birthed through me so that He could
be glorified. Because at the end of the day, it's
not about Angela, but it's about the things that He
allowed me to do because none of it would be
possible without him. Everything I do points back to him.
He allowed me to have Queen of collaboration, coaching and consulting.
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Why and what do I do where? I teach people
how to collaborate and I always keep the ministry. I
always keep God first because I want to help build
leaders huh that are willing to win, win in partnership
and also glorify God while growing an impact in the
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market place. Y'all, I provide collaboration collaboration canvas if you,
if you connect with any of my platforms, you will
see that I'm all about connecting, I'm all about creating.
I'm all about collaboration. I believe in the four seas,
which is connect, collaborate, create, and community. Bill. I believe
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in that and I believe in allowing God's word to
come forth. So how do I do that? I serve.
I lead with value. I give first insight, tools and introductions.
I connect. I bridge people together with purpose making thoughtful
mission aligned intros. I cold create build together with clarity, roads,
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timelines and shared wins. We do that today. If you
go and look at my platform, and y'all will hear
me often mention that I have over one hundred and
fifty literary works, but none of that would be possible
if it was not for the people that come and
be a part of my platform and so into me.
But not only that, I celebrate others. I don't make
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it about me, but I celebrate others, and I help
remind them that it's all about us. Celebrate, it's all
about us uplifting each other. See a lot of us,
we would get on these platforms and we would think
it it's just about our platform. It's just about our
little lives, our little our little content, our little whatever,
and about gaining subscribers and gaining followers, and we forget
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about those that who support us, those that come on
our lives, those that are part of our anathologies, those
that are featured in a magazine. Don't forget those that
help you get to where you are. One thing my
mama used to tell me, God Rest her soul. She said,
the same people you pass on your way up, baby,
she said, you're gonna pass them on your way down.
So she said, you treat people how you want to
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be treated in spite of and that thing that stuck
with me. I try to treat people how I want
to be treated, in spite of how they treat me.
Too many people think that sometimes they're getting over on Angela.
But guess what you're not getting over on Angela because
guess what I work unto the Lord, and I work
from my heart. If God don't lay it on my heart,
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guess just what I'm not doing it. And oftentimes people say, well,
you don't even charge enough. You don't charge enough for this,
You don't charge enough. I charge what God lay in
my spirit to charge for whatever it is. And sometimes
a lot of people don't even have to pay. That's
the God that I serve. He will make room for
your gift, and he will make your name great amongst
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God and amongst people. And that is a that is
something that I have seen, something that I have witnessed,
not something that somebody has told me. Because you're talking,
you're looking at a little old girl from Lovelands, South Carolina.
People never heard of that place. But you're looking at
someone that is not only an editor, an owner of
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a magazine that has been in circulation for five years,
a podcast network that has ten hosts we're heading into
our fourth season. Not only that, I have been recognized
in the International Internet Radio Hall of Fame for broadcasting
thanks to WB and INN where I've been on that
network heading into six years. Doctor all that day Ngolzie,
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he helped. He saw something in me as a broadcaster
and invited me to come and be a part of
his network. I've been on his network now going into
six years. April will be six years. And I was
able to birth my own network from being a part
of that network. If you are willing to be used,
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he'll use you. I didn't think I had a voice,
but God kept allowing me. As I showed up, he
kept he kept doing it. I just showed up. He
was the voice. Every time I opened my mouth, he
would give me the things to say. I didn't think
I was qualified, I didn't think I was worthy, but
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I just begin to serve people. I would come on
lives and I would just go live where people are
charging twenty and thirty and forty and fifty and eighty
dollars to do interviews and to do things like that.
I was doing it for free or for a little
or nothing. And God began to put my name in
front of people's in front of people's table and laying
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it on their tables. And then when people didn't want
to invite me to their table, guess what. God allowed
me to build my own table and bring people in.
All you have to do is be obedient and show up.
He'll do it for you because who am I I have?
I ain't nobody and he has no respectable person. All
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you have to do is show up, even when you
don't feel good, even when you don't know what's going on,
even when you can't see what's happening. You got to
do is show up and allow him to be who
he said he will be. His word is not returning
to him void. His word is not returning to him
voy He's gonna watch over it into his perform and
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perfect it in our lives. And you gotta understand that.
You gotta believe that, and you gotta know that that
He is yet working in spite of, in spite of
I'm gonna drop some guard rails that keep God at
the center of what you're doing. Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly.
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Motive Is this about the kingdom? Impact of personal spotlight, integrity,
clear agreements, fair splits, and honest timelines, dignity. We serve
with honor and not savorism. Sabbath, we rest to remember
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who built the house you gotta take some time off.
I know we always say we gotta press, got to
do that, but you gotta take a day. You got
to take you a Sabbath day. Even in the midst
of doing all that we do out here for the kingdom,
all that we do for the kingdom. See when when
I'm on social media and when I'm doing these things,
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everything that I do is for the kingdom. See, I've
come from that phase of worrying about my personal life
because my personal life ain't no personal life anymore. Because
I'm a kingdom I'm a Kingdom child. So everything that
I do it its owns its own. It is open.
You know, people gonna scrutinize your personal life or whatever.
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So I have no personal life. My life is an
open book because what I do, it all has the
point to the one that created me. It all has
to point back to him, because this life that I'm
walking in, it's not mine's anymore. Because the enemy wanted
to take me out. The enemy wanted to take me
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out a long time ago. But God saw fit. He
raised me up off my bed of affliction, and I
said I would serve him. So for him, I do
these things I do these things. This journey that I
have been on has truly been a shaping journey. And
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he say joy in serving others. I don't want people
to think that I'm getting off topic, because the topic
for today is joy in serving others. And we come
from Galatians five and thirteen. Use your freedom to serve
one another through love. And these are some scriptures that
have shaped my life in my journey. Again, Galatians five
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and thirteen is a scripture for today, but that too
has been one of the scriptures that have shaped my journey.
The scripture that changed the outlook on my life was
Jeremih twenty nine and eleven December twenty twelve, when God
dropped it in my spirit. He said he had a
plan for me. His plan was to prosper me, not
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to harm me, for me to be in good health,
for me to have hope in the future, not knowing
that two years later I would experience domestic violence and
I would be pew pewed at point blank range with
a salt off shotgun. Got the evidence to show what happened.
But the God that I served raised me up off
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my bed that same day allowed me to walk down
the halls amaze the nurses. After being in surgery for
six hours in a pump that was pumping all of
the dead sails and all of the dead tissues out
of my leg, and I had a hole in my
leg this size. Took three months for that hole to
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seal up, had to be packed every day. But the
God that I served, he allowed me to raise up
off my bed of affliction, and I just wanted to
serve him. I just wanted to share his goodness. I
just wanted to let people know what he had done
for me, because he could have took me out, he
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could have let me expired. Because the doctor said that
I was a miracle. They said my whole right side
should have been blown off because I was pupil with
a soft off shotgun with a with a with a
with a pellet, and they said when it hit, it
spread it. But for some reason it did not spread
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the way that it normally spread, so it was only
able to spread in this much of an area. I
thank God for that, and I know that he was
with me. He's standing his grace and his mercy. So
I can't sit down on his goodness. I can't sit
down on the things that he has done, and I
can't sit down on his word. No, I may not
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be where I need to be or where I I
want to be, But every day I ask him to
use me and to decrease that flesh of minds and
allow his spirit man to rise up within me so
that I can take my rightful place in the kingdom.
That I won't lead people astray, that I won't that
I won't go astray, but I will stay on the
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straight and narrow, and that that I will be able
to help somebody that may not know him on today
come to know him so knowing and sharing. That's why
I serve. But this journey has truly been shaped by
Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven. He said, He declared that
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he knows the plans that he has for my life,
and it is to prosper me, not to harm me,
for me to be in good health, for me to
have hope in the future. Galatians five and thirteen. To
use your freedom to serve one another through love back
through twenty twenty six and twenty eight. Whoever wants to
be great must be a servant Proverbs eleven and twenty five.
Who never refreshes others. We'll be refreshed one Peter four
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and ten. Use your gift to serve others as a
faithful steward Ephesians four and sixteen. The body builds itself
up as each part does its work. John thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
and seventeen. I have given you an example. Do it,
and you will be blessed. Y'd. He's given us so
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many examples in this Bible. All we got to do
is go over there and read it and apply it.
You got to learn how to put your name in
a place of those names that's in there, and speak
it over your life. He's given us that power and
Proverbs eighteen and twenty one to speak life or death.
So speak life over yourself. Speak some of these scriptures
over yourself. Remind yourself who he is and who he's
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called you to be. He's given you that authority. Use
it on today. Speak over your life. He said that
we should be living examples. He didn't drop us out
the sky. He didn't. He didn't drop us out the sky.
Know that. So as I prepare to close, I want
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you all to remember this freedom finds its highest purpose.
We are saved to serve. Secondly, service is worship in motion.
When we help people, we honor God. Learn how to
serve the joy. Thirdly, the joy that you see often
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sits on the other side of someone else's need. Serves
someone today, meet someone else's need. Ass as apostle Kimberly, always,
doctor Kimberly, Always say that that you do for someone else,
God would do it for you. How can we apply
this to our lives? First you have to ask, pray
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and ask God, Lord, who can I serve today? Lord?
How can I serve today? Lord? Where would you like
me to serve today? Ask him and he'll guide you.
He'll guide you, He'll lead you, He'll show you where
to go, learn how to use your platforms. If you're
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on these platforms. You don't have to have a podcast network.
You don't have to be a fluent speaker. I stutter,
I do all kind of stuff. I'm honey, please, I'm country.
But I don't allow that to stop me, because if
you know, it's Jeremiah, he studied you know. We all
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have our flaws because none of us are perfect. But
don't allow that to stop you from sharing the goodness
of God and the things that He's done for you.
Because somebody out there needs to hear it. Everybody got
a story, and there's somebody on the other side of
your store that needs to hear it because it can
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bring them out of what they're going through. Spot like somebody,
elevate another person's work and worth and watch what he
do for you. Thirdly, start a power list. Huh what
is a tower list? It is a simple, intentional plan
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to serve Pacific people in Pacific ways in a specific timeline.
Put a name after the tower Jesus used when he
watched his disciples feet and John thirteen, Verses fourteen and fifteen.
It turns love from feeling into an action and helps
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you live Galatians five and thirteen on purpose. Know that
you didn't get dropped out of the sky. It wasn't
a coincident that you came through. Even if you're hearing
this ass replay, if you're hearing a clip, however you
get it, know that what you're getting is needed. It
needed for the journey that you're on. It's needed for
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the lives that you too will impact. So pick you
three people today and be pacific in action and in timeline.
So I want to recap what we have been journaling
and going through over these last twenty one days of
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a devotion, our twenty one day journey. As we close
this devotional, I want to take some time to revisit,
to underline and apply what God has been building in
you and in me and in those that will hear
this as a replay. Let these things educate your mind,
empower your faith, and encourage your heart. The first week,
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in the first section, if you're going by the book,
in the first section, we talked about shelter in the storm.
Day one was strength inadversity. We came out of Songs
forty six and one. Day two was peace of miss
chaos Isaiah twenty six and three. Day three was trust
beyond understanding Proverbs three, five and six. Day four was
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joy in every circumstance, Philippians four and four. Day five
was courage to face fears Joshua one and nine. Day
six was love beyond measure First John four, nine and ten.
Day seven was strengths and Weakness Secod Corinthians twelve, nine
and ten, and the second with y'all we went into
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a quiet assurance. A quiet assurance was the section Tyle.
It was Day eight confidence in God's plan Jeremiah twenty
nine and eleven. Day nine was rest in God's time
in Ecclesiastics three and eleven. Day ten was assurance in
his prison. Songs forty six and ten. Day eleven was
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anchored in his truth. John eight and thirty two. Day
twelve was hope in his promises two Peter three and nine.
Day thirteen was courage and silence. Isaiah thirty and fifteen
and Day fourteen was joy in his assurance Romans fifteen
and thirteen. And then we went on over. We went
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on over too. Section three a everlasting praise, an everlasting praise,
Day number fifteen. Gratitude in his presence Psalm sixteen and eleven,
Day sixteen, Trust in His plan, Proverbs three, five and six,
Day seventeen, Strength and times of need, Isaiah forty one
and ten, Day eighteen, Peace beyond understanding, Philippians four and seven,
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Day nineteen, Love without limits first John four nine through ten,
Day twenty, hope anchored in him. Romas fifteen and thirteen,
and today hosted out with joy in serving others Galatians
five and thirteen. This is not the end, but it's
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yet the beginning. You have been equipped anchored and awakened.
Now stay the course. Choose the narrow way daily. Let
today mark the moment you move from inspiration to transformation.
Walking with God, serving his people, and shining his glory
in every ordinary place. A closing charge. Take one truth
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from the past twenty days and put it in motion
by serving someone today. Let your freedom become a condouant
for love. As you do, may your life become a
living doxology. Ordinary acts done with extraordinary love, bringing glory
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to God. Stay the course by choosing a holy rhythm.
Stay rooted, Abide in Jesus daily, open the word, open
your heart, and let the spirit lead your steps. Stay responsive,
turn truth into action. Serve one person every day in love.
Stay resilient, Do not grow weary and doing good, your
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seeds will bear fruit and do time a simple rule
of life for you. Daily share a word, Read the word,
meditate on the word, pray and act in one and
one act. Show one act of love. Just just act
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in love, because love is its action. Spend time within
your community worship. Find you a prayer group, Find you
some praying sisters. Find you a praying church. Find you
somewhere where you can worship with the commun unity and
one intentional collaboration that lifts someone other than yourself. Monthly,
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take you a quiet retreat hour to review your journey,
give thanks, and reset your course. Monthly if that means
you need to take you a spa trip, just take
your a drive to the waterfowl, to the mountain, whatever
you need to do, take you one one day, one week,
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in one time. That if it's just an hour to
sit and retreat to yourself, even if it's in your closet,
review your journey, give thanks, and reset your course. We
should do this monthly. When it gets hard. Remember if
you feel unseen, God sees you. Keep serving. If you
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feel tired, rest in Him, then rise again. If you
feel afraid, courage comes as you move. If you feel alone,
reach for the community. You will not called to walk along.
There's so many people out here on this journey, and
so many out here think that they are alone. So therefore,
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if there's a lot of us out here thinking that
we're on this journey together, that is a great opportunity
that we can come together. So reach out to your community, okay,
and pray, ask God to lead you. Tell him I
choose the way of love. Ask him to root you
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in his presence and align your desires with his will,
and then you make a life change. Ask him to
teach you to serve with joy, to preserve you with hope,
and to glorify and to give him praise. Ask him
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to order your steps, to give you peer motives, and
ask him to finish that that he's begun in you.
Will you pledge and commit to serve on today to
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serve someone other than yourself. I pledge that today I
will commit my walk to God daily, to serve, to
continue to serve with love consistently, and to continue to
collaborate generously. Oh it's glory. They didn't call me to
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queen up collaborations for nothing. I thank him forward. I
thank him for all of the platforms that he has
allowed me to obtain. It was by nothing that I've done.
And like I stated at the beginning, y'all, I'm gonna
share this again before I close. But like I stated
at the beginning, it wasn't about a crown because I
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didn't chase a crown. I carried the towel. I just
said yes to serving people, and y'all, it turned into
rooms that I never even asked to enter. It turned
into relationships I couldn't have never engineered and impact that
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only God could orchestrate. So I thank him. I thank
him for that person that spoke queen of collaborations over
my life. And I thank him for aligning those things
that I may walk into it. So I challenged you
on today, resting him and find joy and serving others.
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I pray that there's something that you got us have
been blessed by on today, Father God, in the name
of Jesus, Lord, I thank you. I thank you for
this time. I thank you for this space. I thank
you for yet another opportunity. I thank you for your
word that you allow me to share on today, Lord God. Father.
I pray that it falls on fertile soil. Lord God,
that these sees, these nuggets that I've shared on today,
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Lord God, would bless someone, Lord God, and that it
would produce fruit in their lives. Or God, Father, we
thank you. We thank you for every gift, we thank
you for every talent, We thank you for every opportunity
that you allow us to walk into. Father, continue to
decrease us in the flesh or God and allow your
spirit man to come forth within us. That we all
may take our rightful place within the Kingdom Lord God,
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that everything that we touch, everything that we do, that
it will point back to you that you may be glorified. Father,
We thank you, We thank you for this time. We
thank you for each and every person that has tuned in.
We thank you for those that will even hear it
as a replay. Father, we asked that you would touch
their hearts or God, that they would move and want
to serve. Father, I thank you right now for all
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that you have done, all that you are doing, and
all that you shall do. And I ask these things
in your son Jesus' name, A man a man, a
man a man. I thank God for each and every
one of you. Guys. I pray that you are blessed
beyond what you can see in the natural, and I
pray that God would move mightily on today. Y'all have
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a great day, and know that I love you with
the love of Christ and there's absolutely nothing you can
do about it. Be blessed, and I will see y'all
back here on tomorrow. Tomorrow, we're gonna go through the
last section of this journal, even though we have completed
the twenty one day Devotion. There's still one more section
in the book. It is a section four. It is
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a self reflection section. We're gonna go over that section
tomorrow and then I will let you know what other
book we will be working out of in the coming weeks,
and we may take a break from the Devotion and
just go out of the Bible for a couple of
days until I decide what book we're gonna be coming
out of again. I thank you guys for being a
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part of Data Devotion. Y'all. We've been doing this for
five months and until God tell me to do different,
y'all am gonna keep showing up and I'm gonna keep
sharing his word because truly he's been good to me,
and I just won't. I just want to shout it
from the mountaintops because he truly didn't have to. He
could have took me out in my scene, but yet
he allowed me to do the things that I do.
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So y'all be blessed and know that I love y'all
with the love of Christ. Amen. Amen.
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