June 23, 2023 • 43 mins
In Today's World it is Getting Easier Who People Really Are, and It's Not Always Good. No Matter What Situations Or People We Encounter, Never Allow It To Make You Forget or Question Who Your FATHER IS....
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M hmmm, come up. Welcometo them, my man. It's the
hour where you didn't get some pairof change that doesn't feel a power already.
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Gotta dude, take one. I'llcheat the words of lights of Food.
Then he didn't get the voul happy, stay focused, ground hard.
He wouldn't. They don't notice thisthe holy water. Who's gonna help me
post to make a plaining, Butthe emotion they do. The emotion when
you chose this for the ones whoI spoken if you thought when you broken,
Welcome to them, my man.It's the hour where you didn't get
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some pair of change that doesn't feela power already. Gotta dudes, take
one. I'll shoot the words ofthe Lights of Food. Dan, he
didn't get the vowel into God's beautifulpeople. And welcome to another exciting episode
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of the mic minister. Our Iam your hostess, always the mic minister,
and you know it's always. Icount the blessing, I count of
the joy, I count the privilegeto be with you yet again, and
another episode of this thing we calllife. Another chance for us to get
closer to God, another chance forus to get better with one another,
another chance to understand the word betterunderstand how to apply the word better understand
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ourselves better, because the better weunderstand ourselves, the better we all moved.
The better we understand one another,the better we will treat one another,
the better we will listening to oneanother. The better it is for
all of us involved in this thingcalled life. But understand that we put
God first. If we keep Godfirst, if we are looking for God,
if we're searching for God, ifwe're listening to God, if we're
being obedient to God. I'm nottelling you that you won't have bad times.
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I'm not telling you that storms won'tcome. What I'm telling you is
when they do come, you don'tfeel lost when they will. When the
winds blow, you won't be movedto and fro like how the trees are
in the hurricanes. You'll be rooted. You be deeply rooted. No matter
how the waves crash up against theland. You won't move if you keep
God first, if you keep inthat relationship with God. So I'm asking,
I'm telling, I'm pleading all ofthat good stuff. If you don't
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have a relationship with God on today, start one. If you have a
relationship with God, is it deepenough. Have you slacked off all you're
doing all the things necessary? Weneed to really really do an inventory in
our lives and see where we're at, See where we're at with God,
see where we're at in life.And if we're not satisfied with where we're
at, guess what. As longas we're breathing, we have an opportunity
to change. As long as we'rebreathing, we have an opportunity to make
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it better. As long as we'rebreathing, we still got a chance.
So let us not take that chancefor granted. We say all the time,
especially now in boyhood, as timeis going by fast, all the
week is just flying by. Oh, it felt like it was just January
the first we see it. Timewaits for no man. To understand that
we can't wait any longer. Soif time don't wait for no man in
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time, it's one of the mostimportant commodities that we have, or we
should be looking at as important.Why are we waiting? What are we
waiting for? Man includes ourselves?Why are we waiting? You're to be
honest, You're not going to besmart enough before you start. You're not
going to know everything before you start. You're not going to be the best
at what it is you want tobe until you start. Practice makes perfect.
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So you're the practicing being better inyour life, or you're practicing being
lazy in your life. There isno in between. We keep justifying,
We keep saying, well, Igot to set this up. We even
say when it comes to coming toGod, I gotta get this right.
The flock to come to God.If we can get all these things right,
why would we need God? Thewhole point of God being in our
lives is to help us get thesethings right, help us get to those
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places we need to be, andsometimes not get to the places that we
want to be. That really isn'tfor us. So we thank God on
today. I encourage you. Iencourage you to get deeper with God.
Allow God to worship in your life. Allow him. When I say,
allow God to worship in your life. God loves us so much that he
serves us. He serves us.Think about that and all he asks for
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us to serve one another. SoGod is not your servant. Let's get
that straight. He's not your servant. Let's please, let's not mistake what
I'm saying. What I'm saying iswhen we need him. Doesn't he come
when we ask him to do things? Doesn't he come and do it?
Doesn't he love on us? Doesn'the ask only to he access for us
to love one another and follow hiscommandments. I promise you that's less than
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what we're asking of him. Sowe should want to worship God. We
should run to serve God. Weshould serve God's people being servant too,
and stop looking at it as you'rea servant, because a servant isn't appreciate
it. But somebody who does service. Matter of fact, when we see
the military, what's the first thingwe say to them. We thank you
for your service. We don't callhim service. We don't look at them
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like they're less than they're doing anhonorable service that assists and helps and protects
us. So God does that serviceto us all the time, all the
time, whether there's a war,whether it's not a war, God is
sewing service to us. So weshould not kind of robbery. We shouldn't
look at it as a strange weshouldn't be looking at it as a burden.
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Just to show a little bit ofservice to a little bit of service
to our brothers and sisters, That'swhat I'm saying. But we thank God
on today. God is such agood God. I pray. Since the
last time we spoke, you've beenallowing God to activate himself more in your
life. You've been allowing God tohave free course in your life. You've
been calling on God, you've beentalking to God, you've been worshiping God.
All those things that are needed tokeep that peace in your mind.
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Those things that are needed to helpus walk through this thing we call life.
Those things that are needed. Ididn't say one, So we get
caught up in once in life.That's why a lot of times we even
black what we need. But ifyou take care of your needs. We
need certain things, and there's alot of things that we say we need
we don't need. We just wantit real bad. So you need to
determine the difference between your wants inlife in which you need and take care
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of those needs. Because in everyrelationship and for your needs aren't getting met,
then you're ready to leave. Sowhat if you're in a relationship with
yourself twenty four to seven? Areyou meeting your needs? Are you taking
care of your needs? Are youdoing the things that is needed to keep
you uplifted, to keep you atpeace, to keep you close to God.
So if you're not taking care ofyour own needs, we can't expect
somebody outside of us to take careof our needs. We don't even know
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what that means. We don't evenknow what we're looking for. We're not
doing it, So keep that inmind. As always, I think each
and every one of you who whocomes in and listen to this encouragement,
I think I thank you sincerely.I ask if you hear something, if
something is being said, and maybea scripture that resonates with you, share
this podcast with somebody. I'm askingyou to subscribe. It doesn't cost you
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anything. I'm not asking for anydonations. I'm not asking for you to
go out in the streets and justand proclaim that the mic ministers here.
I mean, if you feel thatstrong about it here, I ain't gonna
stop you. Let people know.I don't mind them coming, but I
just want this word to get outto encourage God's people. So I always
think I take the time to thinkthe different platforms that allow us to be
on Amazon, allows us to beon Deezer Podcasts, Addict, Podchaser,
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Jile, Saving iHeart iTunes, castBox, spreaker dot Com, the Defilife
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look up the thh E Mike mI S Minister Hour and you should be
able to find a platform. Ijust name quite a few, but I'm
pretty sure there's something that I'm missand I apologize for that. But wherever
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you listen to your podcasts, I'mmore to show you can find these episodes
and I have quite a few,over fifty episodes, and it should be
something I know God is speaking throughme in over fifty times or those in
these podcasts. It has to besomething that God is saying through me to
you. But I thank you,I sincerely thank you. It's always I
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want to just thank God. Ijust thank God. I thank God.
I thank God. We should allbe thankful to God because the time that
we're living in it should make uswant to be closer to God. I
mean, I was, you know, the to touch on something that's recent
everybody knows about. On this week, there was the vessel that was going
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down, the submarine vessel that wasgoing down to try to look at the
Titanic and it got lost at seeingthen we found out I think it was
yesterday or this morning maybe that itimploded in and sadly, the people that
were on board lost their lives.Now, whatever side of the fence you
sit on, it's not my concern. And why I say that because it's
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not my business to know everybody's thoughtsall to be worried about what everybody's thinking.
You know, I'm a person ofGod, and I'm aware about people's
well being and if I could dosomething to help them. But something that
happened, and this is not thisis not the only situation where this happens.
But I'm noticing a trend, andit's not a trend that I'm proud
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of as us as human beings.And we've gotten to the place in life,
we've gotten into the place in society. We've gotten to the place in
our minds and our lives, inour hearts and minds. And I'm not
saying all of us, but it'ssometimes one is too many, but when
it's well more than one, andthen it's too many. But what I'm
referring to is I see on socialmedia and internet anytime something happens, I
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mean it could be a basketball gameand somebody slips gets dunked on. You
know, you got these memes andstuff of that nature. And I'm a
person I'll be. Anybody that knowsme knows I am a person that likes
to laugh. I'm a person wholikes to joke and kid around. I
mean, laughter is important to mein life because that helps us. That's
something that you can't take away.You can't take my joy away unless I
give it to you. But whyI'm saying that is some things in life
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we can joke about. And it'sokay. You know, you can't be
to the point or so holy andsaved or so angry oh that you do,
you can't laugh. So I'm neveragainst a good laugh. But we're
getting to the point where there aretragedies going on. People are dying,
people are losing their lives. Familiesare being lost, you know, loved
ones lives are being affected from him. Fourth and you're going the internet and
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there is all these memes of jokesabout people losing their lives. And regardless
of how you feel about the person, regardless of their economic status, regardless
of if they have more than whatyou think they have, or have less
than what you think they have.It is not the right thing for us
to be out here joking when peopleare losing their lives. I mean,
how numb has this society gun gotten? How much? Because to be honest,
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that ain't up God. So ifyou're sitting there laughing or you're joking
around about people losing their lives orpeople being in a place that is bad,
you need to check yourself. AndI'm saying that straightforwardly. That's not
God telling me to tell you.That's me telling me to tell you.
That's that's just it's wrong. Idon't care how you slicing it. And
you can say, oh, yousay, oh my minutes, you're being
sensitive. No, because the truthof the matter is if it was your
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family member that had died in thatsubmarine, you would not find it funny
to see pictures of some women ona jet ski tell about if that was
my man underneath their or somebody showingit was a whale mouth that. I
mean, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. You need to really check ourselves because
the truth of the matter is weall walk around and act like nobody cares.
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We all want to walk around attimes and act like nobody understands us
and nobody wants to be nobody wantsto listen to, nobody loves me.
But when it comes to time foryou to show that you're not like that,
then you turn and out the sameway of the people that we complain
about. So we can't be outhere talking about how people are, how
people treat us. And then whenyou get an opportunity to stand and show
that you're better than what you're fightingagain, so you say, then you
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show you're just the same. Sowhy should somebody sympathize with you? You
want somebody's sympathize with you for nobodycalling you for a week, but you
online laughing and joking and making commentsabout somebody losing their life because you felt
that they had so much money thatthey shouldn't have been there. Regardless of
what you felt, somebody may feelin your situation when you're going through that
they feel that, well, youshouldn't be there, you should have done
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this, or you maybe shouldn't havedone that. That's not what this is
about again. Regardless of how youfeel, whether you agree with the people
being there all the people not beingthere, I don't agree with anybody having
to lose their life in a tragicway. And I don't find any humor
in that. Now, some peoplemight think I'm being to whatever about it,
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but I take that because the truthis, if we don't cherish life,
you're just as bad as the devil. The devil don't cherish life,
and devil don't care about your soul. The only thing he cares about us
taking it. He want to kill, steal, killing, destroy, That's
what the devil care about. Soso I didn't find the humor in that.
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It's sad again now me personally,just being honest, I wouldn't go
in a submarine down there to checkthe Titanic wreckage and I saw how deep
it was, I would honestly,I don't want to go. Shoot.
You can't get me in six feetof water. Man talking about how far
down there was. But that's thestory for another day. But that's that's
that's my choice. And they hada choice and they chose so in life
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free way, we all have choices. You never know, you never know
you're looking at well, I wouldn'tnever get in a submarine, even I
just said it. I wouldn't getinto some smarine. But there are choices
that we make that could we couldlose our lives. We just think because
we don't underwater, that we're safe. You look at extremes. People like
to look at extremes and say whatI wouldn't do, But look at the
little silly stuff that we do.Something simple. How much salt, how
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much sugar? How much stress arewe allowing to be in our bodies.
You ain't gonna be underwater and thatwould take you out. It would suffocate
the life out of you. Soif that happens to you, if you're
depressed right now, should somebody belooking at you and saying, oh,
you're depressed, way, you're shittingI did this, I tell you what
now you know better. You wouldn'twant to hear that and you didn't even
lose your life. Just food forthought. But enough of that. That's
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not what we came for today.I just wanted to touch on that because
it was on my heart and Isaw it and then just honestly bothered me.
So I wanted to just just talkabout it. I just wanted to
talk about it. But what Godgave me to give to his people on
today, I can't touch on whatI just said and or what I just
talked about and help segue into wherewe're going. So I was talking about
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how we are these days. Youknow, let me expound on that.
You know, we're numb, we'renon trusting, we're honestly sometimes hateful,
resentful, we're cutting people off,We're telling people how that you don't fit
in mind. If you don't dothis for me, I don't need you
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in my circle. You ain't doingnothing for that person. But we have
we got into this place where weare selecting people to stay in our lives
off of what they're doing for us. Now, you should have people around
you that build you up, butthere is nobody's job to do extra for
you. You ain't that special.You special to God. But when it
comes to man, I shouldn't haveto overly come on your side to do
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things that you can do for yourself. Just being honest, I don't expect
I don't have an expectation for peopleto stop what they're doing a their life
to make sure my life is straight. Now along the way, we can
help each other along the way.But people are literally expecting people to stop
their lives just to cater to theirlife. No, no, no,
that's not even in the Bible.The Bible told me, as a child
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of God to look for ways tohelp one another. The Bible never told
me to stop people and look forways for them to help me. That's
selfish. If you do what Godasks you to do, if you seek
after God, God will make surethe things you need will be taken care
of. But we're in the worldthat does that. So it's us out
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here showing who we really are.This season, people are really showing who
they are. But we have toremember we should be getting closer to God
like never before in this season.And if we're getting closer to God,
if we're studying God, if we'rereally really wanting to it like God,
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then we all know how God is. So we just had on calendar years,
celebrated them, had Father's Day thispast Sunday, and started to do
this episode on Father's Day. ButI said no, I wanted to wait,
but I wanted to come back andtouch on it because it speaks to
the title. So God is theultimate Father. There is no Dad,
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no pops, no stepdad, nobonus dad, no real dad. Better
than God. Our Father is theultimate and love, protection, redeeming all
those things that we look for inlife. Sometimes we go through life and
we allow life to make us forgetwho God really is. So on today,
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I just want to give you alittle reminder, so I have to
use for a thought on today ismy Father is dot dot dot. And
you know when we see sentences orsomebody texts you and they put dot dot
dot, that lets you know there'smore to it than just what I wrote
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or get prepared. I'm about tosay some more or a lot of time
we put that dot dot dot andwe're leaving for you to think. But
I'm not gonna leave it for youto think. I'm going to cover a
few things. There is not enoughtime in all the podcasts that I have
for me to share every aspect ofwhat God is, what he can be,
how he can be in your life. But I do want to cover
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a few of them on today totry to encourage you to remember who our
father is, what he can bein your life if we just allow him.
So again, my title for today, I thought for today is my
Father is dot dot dot. Now, the first scripture I would like to
look at. It's going to beJeremiah the thirty first chapter in the third
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verse, and before I read eachscripture, I'm going to give a description
or characteristic. Let's do that,a characteristic that coincides with the scripture going
to read for us to see whoour father is or what our father is.
So the first one, it's loving. Jeremiah thirty one and three says
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the Lord hath a period of oldunto me, saying, yea, I
have loved thee when an everlasting love. Therefore, with loving kindness have our
drawn thee. God told us fromthe jump he has loved us with an
everlasting love. Everlasting means it neverstops, it never ends. There's nothing
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you can do. There's nothing youcan say that stops this love from coming.
In life in earth, we don'thave an everlasting love for each other.
We claim that we do. Weeven I always love you, I
always care for you. When webreak up with somebody and we're about to
leave them, we will say tothem, I'll always love you, You'll
always love me, but you're left. You always love me, but you
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can't stay. God loves you somuch that he'll never leave. See we
as man, woman, however,you want to put it even children.
We will say we love somebody,but we will leave them. We will
say we love somebody, but we'lltalk about them. We say we love
somebody, but we'll be looking atthem sideways. But God has an everlasting
love, everlasting love. His loveis so strong that that's what he pulls
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us with. He doesn't pulls uswith the anger of us turning us back
on him. He doesn't pull uswith telling us, or you need me,
you better, I'll tell you whatyou better do right, or you
need me. God could easily saythat to us, but that's not how
he draws us. He draws uswith love because he loves us so much.
He wants us to see how lifecan be if we just allow him
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in. But the thing we doa lot of time is we shut him
out, shut him out. Amatter of fact, we don't shut him
out. We want to keep himat baby. We only want to call
him in when we want to callhim in. We don't want to let
him all the way in. Wefool ourselves and saying, well, God
can't love me past this. Godcan't love me if I'm doing this.
God already know what you're doing.He already saw what you were doing while
you was doing it, and hestill called your name, So obviously it
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didn't stop the love that He hasfor you. We gotta stop fooling ourselves
and stop tricking ourselves on allowing theenemy to trick us to run away from
the love that God has for us, because that's what he want to do
ultimately, is love us. Nextthing, next characteristic, My Father is
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kind Ephesians the second chapter, theseventh through the eighth verse, and the
reads that in the ages to comehe might show the exceeding riches of his
grace and his kindness towards us throughChrist Jesus. For by grace are you
saved through faith? And that notof yourselves. It is the gift of
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God. By grace. You aresaved through faith. So it didn't say
by grace you are saved by bribingGod by doing this? What God?
If I do this? You knowGod? I'm sure you know God.
If you bless me, I'll dothis. You can't bargain with God,
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you have nothing to bargain with.You're you're gonna try to bargain with God
to do what he already told youto do. And you're gonna tell him,
Hey, God, I'll do it. If you're giving me this,
man, you keep y'all tripping.If you're doing that, you're tripping.
But also understand there is nothing thatyou can do to equate for the gift.
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What can you do to equate toGod giving his son to die for
your sins? What you're gonna do? What? What can I do?
What in the world can I doto equate to that his only son,
his only begotten son, Kim Dianedie for us? What I'm gonna do
to match that? You ever beenin a situation or been to a place
you know how you've seen, oryou'll be to a panel of people speaking
and somebody gets up and they saythis eloquent speech and the person got to
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come behind them. How are yougonna follow that? You're not about to
follow that? How you're gonna followwhat Jesus? Then you can't. But
what you can do is be appreciative. See. What we can do is
appreciate what God has blessed us with. What we can do is appreciate that
God loves us. What we cando is the same loving kindness that God
has shown us, we should beshown to our brother and sister. It's
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a gift. That gift that wehave should not be used like how we
used to get the Christmas gifts andyou messed around and got the best gifting.
You in front of your friends,and you're trying to show off.
You'll give off, look what Igot. My mama got me there,
My mamma got me that. Butyour mama and get you too, build
with. That's not what salvation shouldbe. It should be that gift to
him. Man, you ever hadyou've had that situation. You ever had
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the situation where all the kids getpikes at the same time, and now
y'all going outside, nobody talking aboutwho got the best bike. Everybody happy
they got a bike. So we'renow ride together? Where we going?
Can we ride down the street?Can we go down here? Salvation should
be like that bike. You wanteverybody to have a bike. You want
everybody to go where you're going,and you don't talk about you don't know
where a person goes through to gettheir gift. You should just be appreciative
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for the gift and be so appreciativefor the gift that God was so kind
to give us. Because keeping inmind, I'm saying, God is kind?
You know how kind God is?God did this a lot of sun
to come down in the midst ofthe world not listening, in the midst
of them being hard hit and stiffness. Can you imagine that, God,
imagine being kind to someone that's lyingto you, don't listen to what you
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say. Every time you ask themto do something, to go it other
way? How how long will yoube kind to them? On top of
that, would you give your sonto save them? I'm gonna let you
think on that for a second asI go to the next scripture. My
God, my God, it's merciful. How many of us are Psalms eighty
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six and five, For thou Lordart good and ready to forgive and plenteous
and mercy, and to all themthat call a plenty? He said,
God is good and ready to forgivem right there, Marinado that for a
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second. How many of us areready to forgive? My Father will forgive.
He will forgive you if you cashyour kids upon him. If you
confess your sins to God, hewill block them out. But are we
doing that? Aren't we? Whenyou confess to God, you're ready?
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He's saying a couple of things,but two things I want to point out.
You're saying to God, God,I'm ready to let this thing go.
I need you to forgive me ofthis thing. Not only that when
you take it to God, there'sa second thing that should be happening.
A lot of times we go toGod and we ask for forgiveness, but
we're not forgiving ourselves. If youdon't forgive yourself, why are you asking
God for forgiveness? You need toforgive yourself. Now, God will forgive
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you, but you don't forgive yourself. You're still walking it when you ask
God to forgive you. So nowyou've bonded yourself in a place that God
meant for you to be free.We're here all the time in the land,
in the world. That forgiveness isnot for the person that you're forgiving.
It's for you. You're who weare holding onto things that it's making
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us little sleep, not eat,be upset all the time. Person name
come up, You're all crazy andangry and the person ain't even around.
That's how much control we are givingwhen we don't forgive, but we keep
justifying it. Whatever you have inlife that you need to either forgive yourself
or forgive somebody else. For ourpromise you, it don't feel good when
you think about it. There's nevera time where you need to give forgiveness,
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either to yourself or to someone else. That you thought about that situation,
thought about that thing that was said, and you had a smile on
your face. As a matter offact, it made you mad. You
probably went back down the spire ofanger and talking about it all over.
How is that helping you? Myfather is so merciful that he tries to
show us with forgiveness is because surelyif he is merciful enough to forgive us
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for all the things that we've donerepeatedly, You mean to tell me we
can't find enough to forgive somebody forthat thing? No, I know,
I know you don't understand, Mikebetters to how much that thing hurt me.
You don't understand how they lied tome. You don't understand. I
may not, but I promise youGod knows, and I bet you God
understands way more than I ever will. And I'm pretty sure the same thing
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that were crying about that somebody didus, we did to God at one
point. So again, if Godcan't forgive us who are we? That's
where we can't forgive. But keepin mind God is merciful to where he
forgive. But he said in theword we say to our Father, prayer,
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Lord, forgive me. My trustpassesass I forgive. Those who trustpass
against us. So keep batching Godfor forgiveness. But you ain't want to
forgive. You're wasting your breath.Just want to let you know spoiler alert,
but my father is very merciful.Not only that my father, he's
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my strength. Oh this is uh, this is the one of these scriptures
that get quoted a lot. Buthow many of us are really standing on
this? Is God truly your strength? Are you la? Lawing God to
be your strength? Philippians four andthirteen says I can do all things through
Christ, which strengthens me. I'mpausing for a second because I've heard myself
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say this. I've heard people saythis quote the scription with boldness. But
then I see myself and I seeother people. We go through situations and
we forgot that Christ will strengthen us. We forgot that my Father is my
strength. You know, we getto the situation we speak about God with
nothing going on. We had charityaround people. Oh God, God,
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God, dude, Yeah, trustGod. We want to show people we
trust God. That's not when youshow that you trust God. It's when
nobody's around, nobody's coming for help. Your back is against the wall.
You don't know what's gonna happen.That you stand because you know God it's
gonna be there with me. Iknow God is my strength. I don't
need to call on my brothers sisterbecause God is my strength. Now God
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tells me to call on them forextra strength. Yes, I'm gonna call,
but that's not who I'm gonna callfirst. I'm gonna call on God.
I'm gonna see God for that strengththat I need. I know,
no matter the situation, I know, no matter who's there, who's not.
I know, no matter how bigor small, God will give me
the strength to go through. Whenyou really believe that, then you really
stand on that. When you reallystand on that, then your actions will
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show. You'll stop whimpering, You'llstop running away from situations. You stop
running. We are running away fromthings. Sometimes we don't really need a
lot of strength. We don't foolourselves to think that we are weak.
Some things. We don't even needto call on God. He don't gave
us enough strength. But we havespoken in our minds that, oh I'm
so weak. Yes, yes,yes, fleshly, by ourselves we are
weak. But if you got Godin your life, if God is running
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through you, if His spirit isin you, that's the strength that you
need for any situation. But thequestion is are we utilizing it? Are
you using the strength to answer thatwhat's happening when trials and tribulations come?
Are you standing or are you falling? If you're buckling too fast, then
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you're not honestly appreciating that God isyour strength. The next thing I would
like to look at, My fatheris compassionate. Let's look at Psalms the
seventy eighth chapter in the thirty eighthverse, and it says, but he,
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being full of compassion forgave their iniquityand destroyed them. Not yeay,
many a time turned he his angeraway and did not stir up all his
wrath. Man, let me telly'all something, man, for real,
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for real, we better be morethan thankful, more than happy, more
than lucky that God is so compassionate. Man, do you understand? Let
me. Let me put it thisway, So just take it for a
second rhetorically, just think for asecond, not your whole life. Just
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think about some of the stuff thatyou knowingly did wrong. Matter of fact,
think about some of the stuff thatright before you did it, and
you knew what was wrong. Yougot that feeling in the pit of your
stomach, and we thought it wasa vibe. Oh, it's the it's
the energy off the room. No, the Holy Spirit was telling you.
No, you knew what. Youknew what it was. How many times
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and God forgave you. God showcompassion. How many times have we put
ourselves in a situation not listening.God send word to you. God send
prophecy to you. God send peopleto talk to you. But your head
hard. You want to do whatyou want to do. You know,
I got to do it my way. You don't know how I know.
You don't know how I feel.Then people try to help you. That's
all I was trying to do ishelp you. You kept running off doing
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what you want to do, gotout here, got lost. Now need
somebody to come help you. AndGod send somebody after you ignore him.
That's the type of compassion. Matterof fact, we ask people tell somebody
something more than once and they don'tlisten to you, and then they come
to you and ask me help.No, you shouldn't listen to me on
first time. I try to tellyou three times, No, you're gonna
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listen to me. Where you're onyour own? Don't we say that?
Do we not say that? Boldly? Where's our compassion? How many times
were we hardeaded? How many timesdid we not listen? How many times
did we know to go right butwent left because that's what we wanted to
do? And God still showed uscompassion. God still showed us love.
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God still thought it no robbery tocome down and save us. How dare
we walk around wanting to be noncompassionate? You know, it's even crazier.
We'll have the audacity to not wantto have compassion for people that we
just met because of something somebody elsedid. Huh huh, betty. Yet
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we will have the audacity not tohave compassion for people, but want people
to have compassion for us, andnot only that, want God to have
compassion. Why why should you getwhat you're not giving? We tell people
all the time, let's give it, take you you gotta give something to
get something. We say that,but what is our turn? Are you
giving all? You? Really?Because the Word said it is better to
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give than receive. We're always lookingfor something. We always want somebody to
give us something, validation, sometype of money, something. What are
we giving? How compassionate are youon today? What are you doing to
show the compassion or the thankfulness forthe compassion that God gave you? H
We can't be walking around like Jonah. Jonah didn't show compassion. You know
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the story of Jonah. God wasshowing compassion, being a compassion to God
wanting to send word to stop hispeople from dying perishing. Jonah like,
no, I don't have no compassion. That's how we get they they desire
what they get. That's how wewere getting that Jonah places. They desire
what they get. It ain't goingdown there and tell him nothing. Where's
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your compassion? Didn't somebody tell yourknucklehead something when you was doing wrong?
Didn't somebody have to pray for you? And I hope you heard a passion
on my voice because you wrong ifyou don't have a compassion. People who
don't have a compassion, although Godgives you compassion. Sometimes you just don't
deserve it. I'm talking about myselftoo. If I don't show compassion to
others, I don't deserve compassion tobe shown to me. It's that simple.
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Now, the Lord God did nottell me to say that last statement.
That's how I feel. I thinkit's unfair for us to be walking
around being uncompassionate to people, butexpect people to be compassionate to us.
That's not right, it's not Butmoving on, because again, it's not
my job to dictate how people act. It's just my job to give you
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the word that God gave me.But I want to say this just to
recap my father. Our father isloving. He'll give great care to every
aspect of your life. Our fatheris kind, He's sympathetic to what we
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go through, sympathetic to our shortcomings. He showed sympathy in times where he
could really punish us. And he'smerciful. He shows that by forgiving our
sins, we in turn should havemercy towards one another. We have to
forgive in order to be forgiven.That's biblical. It's biblical. You can't
walk around holding grudual somebody and talkingabout how much God love you or God
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when you're going to heaven. No, you ain't. You got hate in
your heart and that's not of God. My Father is our strength. We
are weak and our weakness he makesus strong. It's when we realize.
Let me touch on that again.Understanding that our Father is our strength means
that you know you have to relyon him for everything. Stop thinking that
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you got enough strength to do it. You only have the strength that God
allows you to have. When you'rehonest about that, then you will umble
yourself and look to Him for thestrength to stop thinking that you got it.
You don't have it. If youhad it, you be had it.
By now you get what I'm saying. Our father's compassionate. He shows
pity and concern nobody. I'm nottelling you to pity people. There's a
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difference between pity and people and showingpity for a person, showing concern.
I'm not telling you to pity anybody. I don't want to be pity.
Nobody wants to feel like they're pitied. Nobody wants to feel like their charity
case. But you could still becompassionate to what's going on with me.
You still can show care without makingme feel like a charity case. That's
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what we're asking, that's what Godis looking forward. That's what God does
for us. But if we're notconsiderate, if we're not mindful, if
we're not appreciative to all these thingsthat our Father is. Before I leave
you for today, let me remindyou of another thing that my Father is,
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and that's wrathful. Let's turning theRomans first chapter in the eighteen first
and it reads, for the wrathof God is revealed from Heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who holdthe truth and unrighteousness. So again,
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as I said and recaptas, thereare so many beautiful things, unlimited beautiful
things of who God is. Ididn't even go over everything that God is.
I just went over some key pointsthat will help you along the way.
But as you go through these things, I understand how he loves,
how he has compassion, how kindhe is, how merciful he is.
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But just like us, if you'rebeing kind to someone, you keep being
merciful to them, keep giving themsecond and third chances. We've all been
here, We've had compassion, we'veall been there in some relationship in our
life a lot of times just manon women, or it might be a
job you had compassion, they treatedyour wrong, You still came in Stow,
was kind to everybody. But therecomes a point in time where you
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get you had enough, enough isenough, And we know when we get
to that point, then the rathcomes and we don't want We try so
hard not to allow people to seeus in our wrath. Unless you just
a butthole or somebody who's ignorant,We're gonna walk around and act like you
a bully or something. Those typeof people that I'm not talking about them.
And the truth of the matter iseven those people are not what they're
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claiming to be. They have fearinside that they're projecting us angling outside.
But we're talking about that on anotherday. But going back to what we're
talking about again, if we getto the place where we get tired and
say enough is enough and not awrath is being shown, the most we
could do or our rath these daysis cutting people off. But the truth
is me cutting you off does nothing. That just means's one or less person
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that you're gonna talk to today.That's one of less person you got to
worry about me. Cutting anybody offdoesn't affect their livelihood, doesn't affect their
spirit, doesn't affect where they gowhen they leave here. But if God
cuts you off, if God getstired of you, if God turns you
to a reprobative mind, there isnothing no one nowhere can do to help
you. So I'm encouraging you onthe day with a God, with a
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father that's so merciful, so kind, so compassionate, that loves us so
much. Why would we want tosee his wrath at all? Be encouraged
in God today. Allow God inyour life. Allow those things that God
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is manifest in your life, thatit become a part of your spirit,
and then it will manifest outside ofyou as you take your daily walk.
But it's only until we sit downand really appreciate, really cherish, and
really hone in on who our Fatheris, we'll still be walking loss.
I thank God for this word.I thank God for being a father that
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he is. I encourage you toget the type of relationship where you can
see the type of father that Godis or can be in your life.
Let us pray, dear Heavenly FatherLord, We thank you once again,
Father for another episode. God,we thank you for another day, We
thank you for another week. Wejust thank you God, how you continue
to keep us, How you continueto cover us, How you continue to
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love us and be kind and compassionatewith us. Father. We are speaking
right now, Father that we wantto be better. We are speaking that
we want to be closer to you. We are speaking that we want to
search for you more Father and findyou, because you said in your words,
seek me, Why yet I maybe found calling me? Why I
am net here? We thank youGod for coming when we call on you.
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God. We thank you God forloving us. God. We thank
you Father for sometimes you held yourwrath away from us even when we deserved
it. So we thank you ontoday. God, Allow us to be
more forgiving to one another, Allowus to forgive ourselves. Allow us to
be encouraging to one another. Bekind those things that you are to us,
God, because we know and welove the feeling that it is when
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you bestow those things on us.So allow us to be that us and
that bestowers to others. Because yousaid, with loving kindness, have you
drawn us loving kindness? So allowus to walk in that as well.
God, No matter what the situationis. No matter what they say,
let it not change who we areand what we are about. And that's
your business. God. I askto watch over every family, watch over
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every ear, every mind, everyheart that listens to this podcast. Allow
them to be encouraged. Father,allow it to encourage them to get closer
to you. I thank you forbeing a tool to be utilized to reach
your people. God, I takeit now for Grandfather. I ask that
you watch over everyone Father, overthis weekend, Over this week, the
next week, the next few months, the rest of this year. Father,
allow people to get closer to youlike never before. We just thank
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you, Father. Touch those inhigh places, touch those in low places,
Touch the homeless, touch the sickand shunning, Touch the children,
touch the widowers, Touch the widows. Right now in the name of Jesus,
fathers, just touch us, allFathers, that we be better,
better, better for not only you, but for ourselves and each other.
We thank you, God, wepray you, but most of all we
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love and reverence You was in yourson Jesus name that we pray. Amen
and Amen. Remember God loves you, and so do I be blessed.
M come up, Welcome to them. My man, it's the hour where
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you didn't get some pair of trains. Not doesn't feel a power already,
Gotta do it. Take one illthe words of the lights of food.
Then he didn't get the voul heppy, stay focused, grund hard. He
wouldn't They don't notice this the Holywater. Who's gonna help me? Pol
to make complaint and put it inmotion that they do the most when you
chose this for the ones who Ispoken. If you up when you broken,
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welcome to them. My man,it's the hour where you didn't get
some pair of chins. Nothn't feela power already, Gotta do. Take
one ill the words of lights offood. Dan, he didn't get the vower
M hmmm, come up. Welcometo them, my man. It's the
hour where you didn't get some pairof change that doesn't feel a power already.
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Gotta dude, take one. I'llcheat the words of lights of Food.
Then he didn't get the voul happy, stay focused, ground hard.
He wouldn't. They don't notice thisthe holy water. Who's gonna help me
post to make a plaining, Butthe emotion they do. The emotion when
you chose this for the ones whoI spoken if you thought when you broken,
Welcome to them, my man.It's the hour where you didn't get
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some pair of change that doesn't feela power already. Gotta dudes, take
one. I'll shoot the words ofthe Lights of Food. Dan, he
didn't get the vowel into God's beautifulpeople. And welcome to another exciting episode
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of the mic minister. Our Iam your hostess, always the mic minister,
and you know it's always. Icount the blessing, I count of
the joy, I count the privilegeto be with you yet again, and
another episode of this thing we calllife. Another chance for us to get
closer to God, another chance forus to get better with one another,
another chance to understand the word betterunderstand how to apply the word better understand
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ourselves better, because the better weunderstand ourselves, the better we all moved.
The better we understand one another,the better we will treat one another,
the better we will listening to oneanother. The better it is for
all of us involved in this thingcalled life. But understand that we put
God first. If we keep Godfirst, if we are looking for God,
if we're searching for God, ifwe're listening to God, if we're
being obedient to God. I'm nottelling you that you won't have bad times.
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I'm not telling you that storms won'tcome. What I'm telling you is
when they do come, you don'tfeel lost when they will. When the
winds blow, you won't be movedto and fro like how the trees are
in the hurricanes. You'll be rooted. You be deeply rooted. No matter
how the waves crash up against theland. You won't move if you keep
God first, if you keep inthat relationship with God. So I'm asking,
I'm telling, I'm pleading all ofthat good stuff. If you don't
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have a relationship with God on today, start one. If you have a
relationship with God, is it deepenough. Have you slacked off all you're
doing all the things necessary? Weneed to really really do an inventory in
our lives and see where we're at, See where we're at with God,
see where we're at in life.And if we're not satisfied with where we're
at, guess what. As longas we're breathing, we have an opportunity
to change. As long as we'rebreathing, we have an opportunity to make
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it better. As long as we'rebreathing, we still got a chance.
So let us not take that chancefor granted. We say all the time,
especially now in boyhood, as timeis going by fast, all the
week is just flying by. Oh, it felt like it was just January
the first we see it. Timewaits for no man. To understand that
we can't wait any longer. Soif time don't wait for no man in
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time, it's one of the mostimportant commodities that we have, or we
should be looking at as important.Why are we waiting? What are we
waiting for? Man includes ourselves?Why are we waiting? You're to be
honest, You're not going to besmart enough before you start. You're not
going to know everything before you start. You're not going to be the best
at what it is you want tobe until you start. Practice makes perfect.
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So you're the practicing being better inyour life, or you're practicing being
lazy in your life. There isno in between. We keep justifying,
We keep saying, well, Igot to set this up. We even
say when it comes to coming toGod, I gotta get this right.
The flock to come to God.If we can get all these things right,
why would we need God? Thewhole point of God being in our
lives is to help us get thesethings right, help us get to those
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places we need to be, andsometimes not get to the places that we
want to be. That really isn'tfor us. So we thank God on
today. I encourage you. Iencourage you to get deeper with God.
Allow God to worship in your life. Allow him. When I say,
allow God to worship in your life. God loves us so much that he
serves us. He serves us.Think about that and all he asks for
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us to serve one another. SoGod is not your servant. Let's get
that straight. He's not your servant. Let's please, let's not mistake what
I'm saying. What I'm saying iswhen we need him. Doesn't he come
when we ask him to do things? Doesn't he come and do it?
Doesn't he love on us? Doesn'the ask only to he access for us
to love one another and follow hiscommandments. I promise you that's less than
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what we're asking of him. Sowe should want to worship God. We
should run to serve God. Weshould serve God's people being servant too,
and stop looking at it as you'rea servant, because a servant isn't appreciate
it. But somebody who does service. Matter of fact, when we see
the military, what's the first thingwe say to them. We thank you
for your service. We don't callhim service. We don't look at them
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like they're less than they're doing anhonorable service that assists and helps and protects
us. So God does that serviceto us all the time, all the
time, whether there's a war,whether it's not a war, God is
sewing service to us. So weshould not kind of robbery. We shouldn't
look at it as a strange weshouldn't be looking at it as a burden.
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Just to show a little bit ofservice to a little bit of service
to our brothers and sisters, That'swhat I'm saying. But we thank God
on today. God is such agood God. I pray. Since the
last time we spoke, you've beenallowing God to activate himself more in your
life. You've been allowing God tohave free course in your life. You've
been calling on God, you've beentalking to God, you've been worshiping God.
All those things that are needed tokeep that peace in your mind.
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Those things that are needed to helpus walk through this thing we call life.
Those things that are needed. Ididn't say one, So we get
caught up in once in life.That's why a lot of times we even
black what we need. But ifyou take care of your needs. We
need certain things, and there's alot of things that we say we need
we don't need. We just wantit real bad. So you need to
determine the difference between your wants inlife in which you need and take care
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of those needs. Because in everyrelationship and for your needs aren't getting met,
then you're ready to leave. Sowhat if you're in a relationship with
yourself twenty four to seven? Areyou meeting your needs? Are you taking
care of your needs? Are youdoing the things that is needed to keep
you uplifted, to keep you atpeace, to keep you close to God.
So if you're not taking care ofyour own needs, we can't expect
somebody outside of us to take careof our needs. We don't even know
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what that means. We don't evenknow what we're looking for. We're not
doing it, So keep that inmind. As always, I think each
and every one of you who whocomes in and listen to this encouragement,
I think I thank you sincerely.I ask if you hear something, if
something is being said, and maybea scripture that resonates with you, share
this podcast with somebody. I'm askingyou to subscribe. It doesn't cost you
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anything. I'm not asking for anydonations. I'm not asking for you to
go out in the streets and justand proclaim that the mic ministers here.
I mean, if you feel thatstrong about it here, I ain't gonna
stop you. Let people know.I don't mind them coming, but I
just want this word to get outto encourage God's people. So I always
think I take the time to thinkthe different platforms that allow us to be
on Amazon, allows us to beon Deezer Podcasts, Addict, Podchaser,
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Jile, Saving iHeart iTunes, castBox, spreaker dot Com, the Defilife
podcast network, Spotify, and whereveryou listen to your podcasts, you can
look up the thh E Mike mI S Minister Hour and you should be
able to find a platform. Ijust name quite a few, but I'm
pretty sure there's something that I'm missand I apologize for that. But wherever
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you listen to your podcasts, I'mmore to show you can find these episodes
and I have quite a few,over fifty episodes, and it should be
something I know God is speaking throughme in over fifty times or those in
these podcasts. It has to besomething that God is saying through me to
you. But I thank you,I sincerely thank you. It's always I
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want to just thank God. Ijust thank God. I thank God.
I thank God. We should allbe thankful to God because the time that
we're living in it should make uswant to be closer to God. I
mean, I was, you know, the to touch on something that's recent
everybody knows about. On this week, there was the vessel that was going
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down, the submarine vessel that wasgoing down to try to look at the
Titanic and it got lost at seeingthen we found out I think it was
yesterday or this morning maybe that itimploded in and sadly, the people that
were on board lost their lives.Now, whatever side of the fence you
sit on, it's not my concern. And why I say that because it's
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not my business to know everybody's thoughtsall to be worried about what everybody's thinking.
You know, I'm a person ofGod, and I'm aware about people's
well being and if I could dosomething to help them. But something that
happened, and this is not thisis not the only situation where this happens.
But I'm noticing a trend, andit's not a trend that I'm proud
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of as us as human beings.And we've gotten to the place in life,
we've gotten into the place in society. We've gotten to the place in
our minds and our lives, inour hearts and minds. And I'm not
saying all of us, but it'ssometimes one is too many, but when
it's well more than one, andthen it's too many. But what I'm
referring to is I see on socialmedia and internet anytime something happens, I
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mean it could be a basketball gameand somebody slips gets dunked on. You
know, you got these memes andstuff of that nature. And I'm a
person I'll be. Anybody that knowsme knows I am a person that likes
to laugh. I'm a person wholikes to joke and kid around. I
mean, laughter is important to mein life because that helps us. That's
something that you can't take away.You can't take my joy away unless I
give it to you. But whyI'm saying that is some things in life
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we can joke about. And it'sokay. You know, you can't be
to the point or so holy andsaved or so angry oh that you do,
you can't laugh. So I'm neveragainst a good laugh. But we're
getting to the point where there aretragedies going on. People are dying,
people are losing their lives. Familiesare being lost, you know, loved
ones lives are being affected from him. Fourth and you're going the internet and
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there is all these memes of jokesabout people losing their lives. And regardless
of how you feel about the person, regardless of their economic status, regardless
of if they have more than whatyou think they have, or have less
than what you think they have.It is not the right thing for us
to be out here joking when peopleare losing their lives. I mean,
how numb has this society gun gotten? How much? Because to be honest,
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that ain't up God. So ifyou're sitting there laughing or you're joking
around about people losing their lives orpeople being in a place that is bad,
you need to check yourself. AndI'm saying that straightforwardly. That's not
God telling me to tell you.That's me telling me to tell you.
That's that's just it's wrong. Idon't care how you slicing it. And
you can say, oh, yousay, oh my minutes, you're being
sensitive. No, because the truthof the matter is if it was your
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family member that had died in thatsubmarine, you would not find it funny
to see pictures of some women ona jet ski tell about if that was
my man underneath their or somebody showingit was a whale mouth that. I
mean, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. You need to really check ourselves because
the truth of the matter is weall walk around and act like nobody cares.
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We all want to walk around attimes and act like nobody understands us
and nobody wants to be nobody wantsto listen to, nobody loves me.
But when it comes to time foryou to show that you're not like that,
then you turn and out the sameway of the people that we complain
about. So we can't be outhere talking about how people are, how
people treat us. And then whenyou get an opportunity to stand and show
that you're better than what you're fightingagain, so you say, then you
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show you're just the same. Sowhy should somebody sympathize with you? You
want somebody's sympathize with you for nobodycalling you for a week, but you
online laughing and joking and making commentsabout somebody losing their life because you felt
that they had so much money thatthey shouldn't have been there. Regardless of
what you felt, somebody may feelin your situation when you're going through that
they feel that, well, youshouldn't be there, you should have done
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this, or you maybe shouldn't havedone that. That's not what this is
about again. Regardless of how youfeel, whether you agree with the people
being there all the people not beingthere, I don't agree with anybody having
to lose their life in a tragicway. And I don't find any humor
in that. Now, some peoplemight think I'm being to whatever about it,
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but I take that because the truthis, if we don't cherish life,
you're just as bad as the devil. The devil don't cherish life,
and devil don't care about your soul. The only thing he cares about us
taking it. He want to kill, steal, killing, destroy, That's
what the devil care about. Soso I didn't find the humor in that.
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It's sad again now me personally,just being honest, I wouldn't go
in a submarine down there to checkthe Titanic wreckage and I saw how deep
it was, I would honestly,I don't want to go. Shoot.
You can't get me in six feetof water. Man talking about how far
down there was. But that's thestory for another day. But that's that's
that's my choice. And they hada choice and they chose so in life
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free way, we all have choices. You never know, you never know
you're looking at well, I wouldn'tnever get in a submarine, even I
just said it. I wouldn't getinto some smarine. But there are choices
that we make that could we couldlose our lives. We just think because
we don't underwater, that we're safe. You look at extremes. People like
to look at extremes and say whatI wouldn't do, But look at the
little silly stuff that we do.Something simple. How much salt, how
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much sugar? How much stress arewe allowing to be in our bodies.
You ain't gonna be underwater and thatwould take you out. It would suffocate
the life out of you. Soif that happens to you, if you're
depressed right now, should somebody belooking at you and saying, oh,
you're depressed, way, you're shittingI did this, I tell you what
now you know better. You wouldn'twant to hear that and you didn't even
lose your life. Just food forthought. But enough of that. That's
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not what we came for today.I just wanted to touch on that because
it was on my heart and Isaw it and then just honestly bothered me.
So I wanted to just just talkabout it. I just wanted to
talk about it. But what Godgave me to give to his people on
today, I can't touch on whatI just said and or what I just
talked about and help segue into wherewe're going. So I was talking about
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how we are these days. Youknow, let me expound on that.
You know, we're numb, we'renon trusting, we're honestly sometimes hateful,
resentful, we're cutting people off,We're telling people how that you don't fit
in mind. If you don't dothis for me, I don't need you
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in my circle. You ain't doingnothing for that person. But we have
we got into this place where weare selecting people to stay in our lives
off of what they're doing for us. Now, you should have people around
you that build you up, butthere is nobody's job to do extra for
you. You ain't that special.You special to God. But when it
comes to man, I shouldn't haveto overly come on your side to do
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things that you can do for yourself. Just being honest, I don't expect
I don't have an expectation for peopleto stop what they're doing a their life
to make sure my life is straight. Now along the way, we can
help each other along the way.But people are literally expecting people to stop
their lives just to cater to theirlife. No, no, no,
that's not even in the Bible.The Bible told me, as a child
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of God to look for ways tohelp one another. The Bible never told
me to stop people and look forways for them to help me. That's
selfish. If you do what Godasks you to do, if you seek
after God, God will make surethe things you need will be taken care
of. But we're in the worldthat does that. So it's us out
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here showing who we really are.This season, people are really showing who
they are. But we have toremember we should be getting closer to God
like never before in this season.And if we're getting closer to God,
if we're studying God, if we'rereally really wanting to it like God,
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then we all know how God is. So we just had on calendar years,
celebrated them, had Father's Day thispast Sunday, and started to do
this episode on Father's Day. ButI said no, I wanted to wait,
but I wanted to come back andtouch on it because it speaks to
the title. So God is theultimate Father. There is no Dad,
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no pops, no stepdad, nobonus dad, no real dad. Better
than God. Our Father is theultimate and love, protection, redeeming all
those things that we look for inlife. Sometimes we go through life and
we allow life to make us forgetwho God really is. So on today,
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I just want to give you alittle reminder, so I have to
use for a thought on today ismy Father is dot dot dot. And
you know when we see sentences orsomebody texts you and they put dot dot
dot, that lets you know there'smore to it than just what I wrote
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or get prepared. I'm about tosay some more or a lot of time
we put that dot dot dot andwe're leaving for you to think. But
I'm not gonna leave it for youto think. I'm going to cover a
few things. There is not enoughtime in all the podcasts that I have
for me to share every aspect ofwhat God is, what he can be,
how he can be in your life. But I do want to cover
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a few of them on today totry to encourage you to remember who our
father is, what he can bein your life if we just allow him.
So again, my title for today, I thought for today is my
Father is dot dot dot. Now, the first scripture I would like to
look at. It's going to beJeremiah the thirty first chapter in the third
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verse, and before I read eachscripture, I'm going to give a description
or characteristic. Let's do that,a characteristic that coincides with the scripture going
to read for us to see whoour father is or what our father is.
So the first one, it's loving. Jeremiah thirty one and three says
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the Lord hath a period of oldunto me, saying, yea, I
have loved thee when an everlasting love. Therefore, with loving kindness have our
drawn thee. God told us fromthe jump he has loved us with an
everlasting love. Everlasting means it neverstops, it never ends. There's nothing
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you can do. There's nothing youcan say that stops this love from coming.
In life in earth, we don'thave an everlasting love for each other.
We claim that we do. Weeven I always love you, I
always care for you. When webreak up with somebody and we're about to
leave them, we will say tothem, I'll always love you, You'll
always love me, but you're left. You always love me, but you
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can't stay. God loves you somuch that he'll never leave. See we
as man, woman, however,you want to put it even children.
We will say we love somebody,but we will leave them. We will
say we love somebody, but we'lltalk about them. We say we love
somebody, but we'll be looking atthem sideways. But God has an everlasting
love, everlasting love. His loveis so strong that that's what he pulls
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us with. He doesn't pulls uswith the anger of us turning us back
on him. He doesn't pull uswith telling us, or you need me,
you better, I'll tell you whatyou better do right, or you
need me. God could easily saythat to us, but that's not how
he draws us. He draws uswith love because he loves us so much.
He wants us to see how lifecan be if we just allow him
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in. But the thing we doa lot of time is we shut him
out, shut him out. Amatter of fact, we don't shut him
out. We want to keep himat baby. We only want to call
him in when we want to callhim in. We don't want to let
him all the way in. Wefool ourselves and saying, well, God
can't love me past this. Godcan't love me if I'm doing this.
God already know what you're doing.He already saw what you were doing while
you was doing it, and hestill called your name, So obviously it
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didn't stop the love that He hasfor you. We gotta stop fooling ourselves
and stop tricking ourselves on allowing theenemy to trick us to run away from
the love that God has for us, because that's what he want to do
ultimately, is love us. Nextthing, next characteristic, My Father is
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kind Ephesians the second chapter, theseventh through the eighth verse, and the
reads that in the ages to comehe might show the exceeding riches of his
grace and his kindness towards us throughChrist Jesus. For by grace are you
saved through faith? And that notof yourselves. It is the gift of
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God. By grace. You aresaved through faith. So it didn't say
by grace you are saved by bribingGod by doing this? What God?
If I do this? You knowGod? I'm sure you know God.
If you bless me, I'll dothis. You can't bargain with God,
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you have nothing to bargain with.You're you're gonna try to bargain with God
to do what he already told youto do. And you're gonna tell him,
Hey, God, I'll do it. If you're giving me this,
man, you keep y'all tripping.If you're doing that, you're tripping.
But also understand there is nothing thatyou can do to equate for the gift.
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What can you do to equate toGod giving his son to die for
your sins? What you're gonna do? What? What can I do?
What in the world can I doto equate to that his only son,
his only begotten son, Kim Dianedie for us? What I'm gonna do
to match that? You ever beenin a situation or been to a place
you know how you've seen, oryou'll be to a panel of people speaking
and somebody gets up and they saythis eloquent speech and the person got to
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come behind them. How are yougonna follow that? You're not about to
follow that? How you're gonna followwhat Jesus? Then you can't. But
what you can do is be appreciative. See. What we can do is
appreciate what God has blessed us with. What we can do is appreciate that
God loves us. What we cando is the same loving kindness that God
has shown us, we should beshown to our brother and sister. It's
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a gift. That gift that wehave should not be used like how we
used to get the Christmas gifts andyou messed around and got the best gifting.
You in front of your friends,and you're trying to show off.
You'll give off, look what Igot. My mama got me there,
My mamma got me that. Butyour mama and get you too, build
with. That's not what salvation shouldbe. It should be that gift to
him. Man, you ever hadyou've had that situation. You ever had
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the situation where all the kids getpikes at the same time, and now
y'all going outside, nobody talking aboutwho got the best bike. Everybody happy
they got a bike. So we'renow ride together? Where we going?
Can we ride down the street?Can we go down here? Salvation should
be like that bike. You wanteverybody to have a bike. You want
everybody to go where you're going,and you don't talk about you don't know
where a person goes through to gettheir gift. You should just be appreciative
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for the gift and be so appreciativefor the gift that God was so kind
to give us. Because keeping inmind, I'm saying, God is kind?
You know how kind God is?God did this a lot of sun
to come down in the midst ofthe world not listening, in the midst
of them being hard hit and stiffness. Can you imagine that, God,
imagine being kind to someone that's lyingto you, don't listen to what you
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say. Every time you ask themto do something, to go it other
way? How how long will yoube kind to them? On top of
that, would you give your sonto save them? I'm gonna let you
think on that for a second asI go to the next scripture. My
God, my God, it's merciful. How many of us are Psalms eighty
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six and five, For thou Lordart good and ready to forgive and plenteous
and mercy, and to all themthat call a plenty? He said,
God is good and ready to forgivem right there, Marinado that for a
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second. How many of us areready to forgive? My Father will forgive.
He will forgive you if you cashyour kids upon him. If you
confess your sins to God, hewill block them out. But are we
doing that? Aren't we? Whenyou confess to God, you're ready?
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He's saying a couple of things,but two things I want to point out.
You're saying to God, God,I'm ready to let this thing go.
I need you to forgive me ofthis thing. Not only that when
you take it to God, there'sa second thing that should be happening.
A lot of times we go toGod and we ask for forgiveness, but
we're not forgiving ourselves. If youdon't forgive yourself, why are you asking
God for forgiveness? You need toforgive yourself. Now, God will forgive
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you, but you don't forgive yourself. You're still walking it when you ask
God to forgive you. So nowyou've bonded yourself in a place that God
meant for you to be free.We're here all the time in the land,
in the world. That forgiveness isnot for the person that you're forgiving.
It's for you. You're who weare holding onto things that it's making
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us little sleep, not eat,be upset all the time. Person name
come up, You're all crazy andangry and the person ain't even around.
That's how much control we are givingwhen we don't forgive, but we keep
justifying it. Whatever you have inlife that you need to either forgive yourself
or forgive somebody else. For ourpromise you, it don't feel good when
you think about it. There's nevera time where you need to give forgiveness,
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either to yourself or to someone else. That you thought about that situation,
thought about that thing that was said, and you had a smile on
your face. As a matter offact, it made you mad. You
probably went back down the spire ofanger and talking about it all over.
How is that helping you? Myfather is so merciful that he tries to
show us with forgiveness is because surelyif he is merciful enough to forgive us
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for all the things that we've donerepeatedly, You mean to tell me we
can't find enough to forgive somebody forthat thing? No, I know,
I know you don't understand, Mikebetters to how much that thing hurt me.
You don't understand how they lied tome. You don't understand. I
may not, but I promise youGod knows, and I bet you God
understands way more than I ever will. And I'm pretty sure the same thing
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that were crying about that somebody didus, we did to God at one
point. So again, if Godcan't forgive us who are we? That's
where we can't forgive. But keepin mind God is merciful to where he
forgive. But he said in theword we say to our Father, prayer,
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Lord, forgive me. My trustpassesass I forgive. Those who trustpass
against us. So keep batching Godfor forgiveness. But you ain't want to
forgive. You're wasting your breath.Just want to let you know spoiler alert,
but my father is very merciful.Not only that my father, he's
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my strength. Oh this is uh, this is the one of these scriptures
that get quoted a lot. Buthow many of us are really standing on
this? Is God truly your strength? Are you la? Lawing God to
be your strength? Philippians four andthirteen says I can do all things through
Christ, which strengthens me. I'mpausing for a second because I've heard myself
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say this. I've heard people saythis quote the scription with boldness. But
then I see myself and I seeother people. We go through situations and
we forgot that Christ will strengthen us. We forgot that my Father is my
strength. You know, we getto the situation we speak about God with
nothing going on. We had charityaround people. Oh God, God,
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God, dude, Yeah, trustGod. We want to show people we
trust God. That's not when youshow that you trust God. It's when
nobody's around, nobody's coming for help. Your back is against the wall.
You don't know what's gonna happen.That you stand because you know God it's
gonna be there with me. Iknow God is my strength. I don't
need to call on my brothers sisterbecause God is my strength. Now God
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tells me to call on them forextra strength. Yes, I'm gonna call,
but that's not who I'm gonna callfirst. I'm gonna call on God.
I'm gonna see God for that strengththat I need. I know,
no matter the situation, I know, no matter who's there, who's not.
I know, no matter how bigor small, God will give me
the strength to go through. Whenyou really believe that, then you really
stand on that. When you reallystand on that, then your actions will
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show. You'll stop whimpering, You'llstop running away from situations. You stop
running. We are running away fromthings. Sometimes we don't really need a
lot of strength. We don't foolourselves to think that we are weak.
Some things. We don't even needto call on God. He don't gave
us enough strength. But we havespoken in our minds that, oh I'm
so weak. Yes, yes,yes, fleshly, by ourselves we are
weak. But if you got Godin your life, if God is running
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through you, if His spirit isin you, that's the strength that you
need for any situation. But thequestion is are we utilizing it? Are
you using the strength to answer thatwhat's happening when trials and tribulations come?
Are you standing or are you falling? If you're buckling too fast, then
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you're not honestly appreciating that God isyour strength. The next thing I would
like to look at, My fatheris compassionate. Let's look at Psalms the
seventy eighth chapter in the thirty eighthverse, and it says, but he,
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being full of compassion forgave their iniquityand destroyed them. Not yeay,
many a time turned he his angeraway and did not stir up all his
wrath. Man, let me telly'all something, man, for real,
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for real, we better be morethan thankful, more than happy, more
than lucky that God is so compassionate. Man, do you understand? Let
me. Let me put it thisway, So just take it for a
second rhetorically, just think for asecond, not your whole life. Just
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think about some of the stuff thatyou knowingly did wrong. Matter of fact,
think about some of the stuff thatright before you did it, and
you knew what was wrong. Yougot that feeling in the pit of your
stomach, and we thought it wasa vibe. Oh, it's the it's
the energy off the room. No, the Holy Spirit was telling you.
No, you knew what. Youknew what it was. How many times
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and God forgave you. God showcompassion. How many times have we put
ourselves in a situation not listening.God send word to you. God send
prophecy to you. God send peopleto talk to you. But your head
hard. You want to do whatyou want to do. You know,
I got to do it my way. You don't know how I know.
You don't know how I feel.Then people try to help you. That's
all I was trying to do ishelp you. You kept running off doing
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what you want to do, gotout here, got lost. Now need
somebody to come help you. AndGod send somebody after you ignore him.
That's the type of compassion. Matterof fact, we ask people tell somebody
something more than once and they don'tlisten to you, and then they come
to you and ask me help.No, you shouldn't listen to me on
first time. I try to tellyou three times, No, you're gonna
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listen to me. Where you're onyour own? Don't we say that?
Do we not say that? Boldly? Where's our compassion? How many times
were we hardeaded? How many timesdid we not listen? How many times
did we know to go right butwent left because that's what we wanted to
do? And God still showed uscompassion. God still showed us love.
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God still thought it no robbery tocome down and save us. How dare
we walk around wanting to be noncompassionate? You know, it's even crazier.
We'll have the audacity to not wantto have compassion for people that we
just met because of something somebody elsedid. Huh huh, betty. Yet
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we will have the audacity not tohave compassion for people, but want people
to have compassion for us, andnot only that, want God to have
compassion. Why why should you getwhat you're not giving? We tell people
all the time, let's give it, take you you gotta give something to
get something. We say that,but what is our turn? Are you
giving all? You? Really?Because the Word said it is better to
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give than receive. We're always lookingfor something. We always want somebody to
give us something, validation, sometype of money, something. What are
we giving? How compassionate are youon today? What are you doing to
show the compassion or the thankfulness forthe compassion that God gave you? H
We can't be walking around like Jonah. Jonah didn't show compassion. You know
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the story of Jonah. God wasshowing compassion, being a compassion to God
wanting to send word to stop hispeople from dying perishing. Jonah like,
no, I don't have no compassion. That's how we get they they desire
what they get. That's how wewere getting that Jonah places. They desire
what they get. It ain't goingdown there and tell him nothing. Where's
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your compassion? Didn't somebody tell yourknucklehead something when you was doing wrong?
Didn't somebody have to pray for you? And I hope you heard a passion
on my voice because you wrong ifyou don't have a compassion. People who
don't have a compassion, although Godgives you compassion. Sometimes you just don't
deserve it. I'm talking about myselftoo. If I don't show compassion to
others, I don't deserve compassion tobe shown to me. It's that simple.
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Now, the Lord God did nottell me to say that last statement.
That's how I feel. I thinkit's unfair for us to be walking
around being uncompassionate to people, butexpect people to be compassionate to us.
That's not right, it's not Butmoving on, because again, it's not
my job to dictate how people act. It's just my job to give you
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the word that God gave me.But I want to say this just to
recap my father. Our father isloving. He'll give great care to every
aspect of your life. Our fatheris kind, He's sympathetic to what we
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go through, sympathetic to our shortcomings. He showed sympathy in times where he
could really punish us. And he'smerciful. He shows that by forgiving our
sins, we in turn should havemercy towards one another. We have to
forgive in order to be forgiven.That's biblical. It's biblical. You can't
walk around holding grudual somebody and talkingabout how much God love you or God
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when you're going to heaven. No, you ain't. You got hate in
your heart and that's not of God. My Father is our strength. We
are weak and our weakness he makesus strong. It's when we realize.
Let me touch on that again.Understanding that our Father is our strength means
that you know you have to relyon him for everything. Stop thinking that
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you got enough strength to do it. You only have the strength that God
allows you to have. When you'rehonest about that, then you will umble
yourself and look to Him for thestrength to stop thinking that you got it.
You don't have it. If youhad it, you be had it.
By now you get what I'm saying. Our father's compassionate. He shows
pity and concern nobody. I'm nottelling you to pity people. There's a
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difference between pity and people and showingpity for a person, showing concern.
I'm not telling you to pity anybody. I don't want to be pity.
Nobody wants to feel like they're pitied. Nobody wants to feel like their charity
case. But you could still becompassionate to what's going on with me.
You still can show care without makingme feel like a charity case. That's
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what we're asking, that's what Godis looking forward. That's what God does
for us. But if we're notconsiderate, if we're not mindful, if
we're not appreciative to all these thingsthat our Father is. Before I leave
you for today, let me remindyou of another thing that my Father is,
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and that's wrathful. Let's turning theRomans first chapter in the eighteen first
and it reads, for the wrathof God is revealed from Heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who holdthe truth and unrighteousness. So again,
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as I said and recaptas, thereare so many beautiful things, unlimited beautiful
things of who God is. Ididn't even go over everything that God is.
I just went over some key pointsthat will help you along the way.
But as you go through these things, I understand how he loves,
how he has compassion, how kindhe is, how merciful he is.
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But just like us, if you'rebeing kind to someone, you keep being
merciful to them, keep giving themsecond and third chances. We've all been
here, We've had compassion, we'veall been there in some relationship in our
life a lot of times just manon women, or it might be a
job you had compassion, they treatedyour wrong, You still came in Stow,
was kind to everybody. But therecomes a point in time where you
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get you had enough, enough isenough, And we know when we get
to that point, then the rathcomes and we don't want We try so
hard not to allow people to seeus in our wrath. Unless you just
a butthole or somebody who's ignorant,We're gonna walk around and act like you
a bully or something. Those typeof people that I'm not talking about them.
And the truth of the matter iseven those people are not what they're
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claiming to be. They have fearinside that they're projecting us angling outside.
But we're talking about that on anotherday. But going back to what we're
talking about again, if we getto the place where we get tired and
say enough is enough and not awrath is being shown, the most we
could do or our rath these daysis cutting people off. But the truth
is me cutting you off does nothing. That just means's one or less person
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that you're gonna talk to today.That's one of less person you got to
worry about me. Cutting anybody offdoesn't affect their livelihood, doesn't affect their
spirit, doesn't affect where they gowhen they leave here. But if God
cuts you off, if God getstired of you, if God turns you
to a reprobative mind, there isnothing no one nowhere can do to help
you. So I'm encouraging you onthe day with a God, with a
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father that's so merciful, so kind, so compassionate, that loves us so
much. Why would we want tosee his wrath at all? Be encouraged
in God today. Allow God inyour life. Allow those things that God
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is manifest in your life, thatit become a part of your spirit,
and then it will manifest outside ofyou as you take your daily walk.
But it's only until we sit downand really appreciate, really cherish, and
really hone in on who our Fatheris, we'll still be walking loss.
I thank God for this word.I thank God for being a father that
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he is. I encourage you toget the type of relationship where you can
see the type of father that Godis or can be in your life.
Let us pray, dear Heavenly FatherLord, We thank you once again,
Father for another episode. God,we thank you for another day, We
thank you for another week. Wejust thank you God, how you continue
to keep us, How you continueto cover us, How you continue to
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love us and be kind and compassionatewith us. Father. We are speaking
right now, Father that we wantto be better. We are speaking that
we want to be closer to you. We are speaking that we want to
search for you more Father and findyou, because you said in your words,
seek me, Why yet I maybe found calling me? Why I
am net here? We thank youGod for coming when we call on you.
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God. We thank you God forloving us. God. We thank
you Father for sometimes you held yourwrath away from us even when we deserved
it. So we thank you ontoday. God, Allow us to be
more forgiving to one another, Allowus to forgive ourselves. Allow us to
be encouraging to one another. Bekind those things that you are to us,
God, because we know and welove the feeling that it is when
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you bestow those things on us.So allow us to be that us and
that bestowers to others. Because yousaid, with loving kindness, have you
drawn us loving kindness? So allowus to walk in that as well.
God, No matter what the situationis. No matter what they say,
let it not change who we areand what we are about. And that's
your business. God. I askto watch over every family, watch over
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every ear, every mind, everyheart that listens to this podcast. Allow
them to be encouraged. Father,allow it to encourage them to get closer
to you. I thank you forbeing a tool to be utilized to reach
your people. God, I takeit now for Grandfather. I ask that
you watch over everyone Father, overthis weekend, Over this week, the
next week, the next few months, the rest of this year. Father,
allow people to get closer to youlike never before. We just thank
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you, Father. Touch those inhigh places, touch those in low places,
Touch the homeless, touch the sickand shunning, Touch the children,
touch the widowers, Touch the widows. Right now in the name of Jesus,
fathers, just touch us, allFathers, that we be better,
better, better for not only you, but for ourselves and each other.
We thank you, God, wepray you, but most of all we
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love and reverence You was in yourson Jesus name that we pray. Amen
and Amen. Remember God loves you, and so do I be blessed.
M come up, Welcome to them. My man, it's the hour where
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you didn't get some pair of trains. Not doesn't feel a power already,
Gotta do it. Take one illthe words of the lights of food.
Then he didn't get the voul heppy, stay focused, grund hard. He
wouldn't They don't notice this the Holywater. Who's gonna help me? Pol
to make complaint and put it inmotion that they do the most when you
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