July 29, 2025 • 25 mins
How can you demonstrate love and support in practical ways?
Proverbs 12:25
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Proverbs 12:25
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Want a family. Good morning, got blessed you. Welcome back
to the Morning Devo. It's your bro, Sam Lopez aka
Dj Sam Rock so Winners with a z dot org
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one urban gospel music station online since two thousand and eight.
Also streaming at live dot so one is with a
z do org. The most chill website that I've ever created.
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Less distractions, really no distractions. Amen. On there you have
an interactive Bible, a live chat, and a way you
could listen to the podcast, subscribe to the podcast and
listen via or watch via YouTube and subscribe to the
YouTube channel as well. So trying to make things very
easy and simple over there at live that so win
is with a z org So. Thank you so much
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for coming through. Thank you so much for visiting. If
this is your first time visiting, there's no coincidences. I
believe in divine appointments. Everything is on purpose, everything's planned
perfectly by God. God draws people to himself. Amen. He
doesn't need me, he doesn't need you per se, but
He wants a relationship with his creation because He loves
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us and order for us to know who he is
we should have a personal relationship with the Savior as well, Amen,
with the Lord Jesus Christ. It's just that way. Like,
if you want to get to know someone, you have
to be in the presence of that person or those
people that you want to get to know. If you
want to know about someone that you maybe not meet
face to face, you might want to research and do
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some reading about that person or those people. Amen, the
same way with the scriptures. We want to be a
source of encouragement Today on the Morning Devo, a source,
be a source of encouragement, Amen, today on the Morning Devo.
And what does that mean? Amen? I want you to
ponder this. How can you today demonstrate love and support
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in practical ways to people who need the love and
support Besides you know, just going up to them and
say I'll be praying for you and then walk away.
How could you be more practical and showing encouragement and
being a source of encouragement. Because we have the source,
we have God, We have the true, living, holy, righteous,
loving God living within us. So therefore we should be
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moving differently. We should be moving in love. We should
be magnets to the Kingdom of God, not to the
world of this world system, Amen, we should be moving
differently for the eye. And I see you, my brother,
God bless you, man. It's good to see you in
the morning Devo. Good morning, and God bless you. Blessing
to you, my bruh and my friend. So listen, we're
gonna be in Proverbs chapter number twelve, verse number twenty five.
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Proverbs twelve twenty five be a source of encouragement today
in the morning, Devo, and that's where we're gonna go.
That's what we're gonna try to realize in our own
lives and our personal lives and our personal walk, and
we're gonna move forward in that victorious way. Amen. So
if you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, please
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don't hesitate to leave it on the live chat. That's
what we're here for. Also, if you're listening audio only, Amen,
On soulin Is with a z do org the celebrate
a network that should be a way to connect with
us there as well. Amen, So feel free anything that
you have on your heart, anything you have on your mind,
if you prayer request anything along those lines, please again
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don't hesitate. You're truly invited to share what you want
to share on our morning devo. So let's go for it.
Let's pray first. After we pray, we share this out
for like sixty seconds, and then on the other side
of those sixty seconds, we'll get right into today's scripture,
which is Proverbs twelve, chapter twelve, verse number twenty five.
So let's pray. Father. I thank you so much for
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your evidence that leads to truth. Thank you so much
for leaving us the scriptures, leaving us a divine word
that speaks to our lives daily. Thank you for your wisdom.
Thank you for your perfect plan. Thank you for your salvation.
Thank you, Lord God for your grace, your mercy. Thank you,
Lord Jesus for your love. That you have sexacrifice your
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very own self once for all mankind, for all eternity,
and that sacrifice is worth more than silver or gold.
I thank you, Lord God, that you are purposely drawing
us to yourself, and that you are creating in us
a new heart, a new mind. And Lord God, that
we can be a source of encouragement because you are
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the source of encouragement. That you could give us peace
and we could go ahead and spread peace, because you
are the Prince of peace, that you could get ahead
and love us. So therefore we know what love is.
Once we experience your love, taste and see that the
Lord is good. Your word says and man, that we
taste and see that you're good, and this world system
has nothing to compare with the Kingdom of God. I
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thank you, Lord God for your hedei protection. I pray
that over myself daily. I pray a heda prosession over
every single person that's listening and watching right now, for them,
their families, myself, my wife, and our children, our families,
both sides of the marriage, both the youngest people the
oldest people in our families, and everyone in between. Our
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head of protection of the hosts of heaven to move
accordingly on our behalf according to the Word over our lives.
Thank you, little God, that you could do the same
for every single person on the other side of the
screen and on the other side of this mic. And
a powerful matchless name above every name, the name of
Yashowaha much Shi Jesus the Christ, the Lord on High.
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I pray this by faith in Jesus name, and those
who agree with say amen to the amen. Help me
share this out sixty seconds. Think about who you could
share this out if you were like the last sixty
seconds rapture was coming. The trump is blue. Who would
you call? Who would you reach out to? The Amen?
That's the person that God wants you to reach out
during the sixty seconds. I'll be right back, and when
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we come back, we'll get right into be a source
of encouragement today on the morning Devo, I'll be right back,
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and men, we're back. Let's go for it, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's see what the Word of God has for us today.
The Word of God is amazing. The Word of God
is so powerful, alive and active that every time you
read the words, something happens to your soul, something happens
to your spirit, something happens to your mindset. The wisdom
of God is not like the wisdom of this world.
As a matter of fact, the scriptures say that all
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the wisdom of the world is foolishness. To God, Amen,
because he's high and lifted up. He's way above. His
thoughts are not like our thoughts. His ways are not
like our ways. He is supreme, the supreme being, a man,
the supreme other being. He's uber other a man, and
he's got all by himself, he's God alone. Amen. So
let me go ahead and put the scriptures on the
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screen for those who are just listening. No worries, A man,
I'm gonna be the word for words, so that way
you can hear exactly what we're reading together. Amen. Depending
if you have your Bible app. I use the BSB
I used to amplify version, the BSB version. Amen, you
might be like, what's the BSP. Go ahead and you
have the Bible app. Go to the B S B
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Boy Sam Boy translation and maybe you'll like it just
the way I like it. Amen. It's just so to me.
It's a clear translation of the scriptures. But we'll be
reading most of the time from the amplified version when
we do the morning sessions in the morning Devo. So
let me go ahead and put this on the screen
so we can see what's going on here. Be a
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source of encouragement. Amen. And of course the picture of
that we're looking at, it's like a rainbow going into
the brain the top part of a person. Amen. And
it's bringing out flowers. Amen. Because we're a source of
encouragement and we get that encouragement I believe from the
Lord himself. I wrote this big big letters today. Anxiety
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and a man's heart weighs it down. Say that again,
Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down. Proverbs chapter twelve,
verse twenty five. But hallelujah, thank you Lord, Jesus, thank
you God, Thank you Father. That there's a way around it.
A God, A good encouraging word makes it glad. So
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if you ever feel anxiety in your heart and you
go to another person that feels anxiety in their heart,
it's not gonna be a good day for you. Well,
if you find a person who has a good word. Amen.
I was with brother German for a little bit yesterday
from my church, Transformation Church, and he's always dropping good word.
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He's an encourager. Amen. He had an encouraging word for me,
an encouraging word and encouraging concept about being a father. Amen.
That I said, Wow, that's good, and it makes your
heart glad. When you're around people who are encourage your
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heart becomes glad. So be a source of encouragement by
way of the source of encouragement, which is the Word
of God. Amen. I hope that makes sense to somebody, right,
Be a source of encouragement. We're not done. Definitely not done,
but that scripture is tremendous in my way of thinking. Amen.
So I'm like, really this hope there's people out there
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who are meant to be your encouragement, that are meant
to be my encouragement. And I hope I'm encouraging somebody. Listen.
I know the Word of God is the ultimate source
that I have to use to help people when they're
in despair, when they need help, when they need prayer,
when they need encouragement. Amen. The Bible actually says, mourn
with people who are mourning, laugh with people who are laughing, Amen,
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Be concerned, be a part of somebody else's life life, Amen.
And it's not for everybody. Like to be honest, I
can't be around certain people because it does certain things.
It creates triggers, and it tries to re in state
or tries to re engage or reanimate my old man,
my own sinful man. And I don't like that. Amen.
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I have enough problems, if you know what I'm saying.
So I don't want to be around people who are
engaged in all kind of loose living. Amen. It's a
trigger for me. And this whole thing about the secrecy
and what you did the other day and why you
got drunk or why you got high, and people are
normalizing that. I'm talking about Christians. I can't be a
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part of that, Amen, And I hope you're not a
part of that either, because that's not a source of encouragement.
That's a source of sin, that's a source of discouragement.
That's a source of normalizing what God doesn't want you
or me to normalize. Amen, because we've changed people and men.
If we're saved and we're still talking about X y
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Z that we should talk about before we were saved,
and you need to go ahead and check your faith,
check us to see if you're still in the faith.
Since the joys, good morning, God bless you, Good morning,
God blessed. She says, blessings also to the group in
Jesus name. Very powerful to send a blessing in the
Lord's name, because he's the blesser. Amen. So that's me,
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that's where I'm at. I can't be around that. And
I think it's because Holy Spirit. God is grieved when
you surround yourself where people who say they're Holy Spirit failed,
but yet they're speaking or doing things just like the
world does. And they're creating some kind of band of
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believers that have this dark secret going on and you know,
within the body, and that's not cool, man, And don't
be deceived. God is not mocked. He knows every thought,
He knows our every word, he knows our reaction. You
know what we're experiencing, Amen, the grace of God. Amen.
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People are like, oh, you know, nothing's happening, so I
guess I can keep it moving. Nobody knows or just
us we're the only ones who know. But God knows
all things. I don't know if we forget that or
you know, in our humanity we're like, oh no, don't
worry about it. God is a forgiving god, Yes he is.
God's got of grace, Yes he is. But it seems
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to me like, since we don't know the time or
a day that the Lord Jesus is coming back when
no trump is blow, if you're not ready at that day, Amen,
I always think about it. How about if I'm doing
good all these years, you know, try trusting God, you
know in the word walking right, and then I just
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decide to let my simple desires take over, the flesh
take over for that one day and just live a
loose life for that one day and the trump is blow.
I'm like, really, that'll be a hard times. I don't
know what to happened. I'm not saying I know exactly
what's gonna happen if you're found in that state, saved
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but found in a state of loose living. I don't
know what happened, but I don't want to risk that.
I don't know about you. That's like playing eternal Russian Roulette,
and I don't want to play that game. A man.
I hope you don't want to play that game either.
Trust in God. He's good. He'll give you every single
desire that you will ever need in your life. Not
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everything that you want, but everything you need. He will
fulfill that desire, those desires. And as a matter of fact,
if we're born again, our desires should be his desires.
We have a new heart and a new mind, a
man incredible life that we could be living. That we
should be living, that should we should be moving in
in a supernatural not in a normal life. A man
that people say, oh, that's everybody's doing that. No, not
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everybody has a supernatural encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Sister Joanne I see you good morning, God, blessing my sister,
my friends get to see you on the morning, Devo.
So to be a source of encouragement is not as
hard as you might think. I could be having the
worst day and I've had bad days, and for somehow,
some way, for some reason, God will show up in
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my life and use me to encourage somebody else. And
side I'm like, man, I'm having a worst day. I
need somebody to encourage me. And hello, he is encouraging me.
If I'm able to encourage somebody else in my worst day,
that means God himself is encouraging me enough to encourage
somebody else. You ever thought about it that way? I'm
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having a bad day, so therefore I want everybody to
have a bad day. That's a worldly way of thinking
about it. And like Greeves, the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit
is like, hey, I live inside of you. I know
you're not having a good day. I know things are
hard right now, But that doesn't mean you have to
search around for other people who are having a bad
day and agreeing with their hardness of heart or their
bad day as well, because that's not going to encourage anyone.
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When you're present and when you're available to listen to
someone else's position, or listen to somebody else's reasoning, or
listen to somebody else's day. Amen, you are in a
good place. You're in a place for God to use
you as a source of encouragement. Now, if you speak,
if you walk up to somebody and they're speaking down
about themselves, they speaking down about others, they're having a
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bad day, they start cursing and swearing, and you go
ahead and do the same thing, then there's no encouragement
in that, a man, there's only discouragement. There's no connection
with God right there, that's only a disconnection. Everybody has
good days, everybody has bad days. Trust me, a man.
If you're a human like me and you live on
this planet Earth like us, Amen, welcome to the new day.
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God created a new day, so we'll be glad and
rejoicing it regardless. And if you're from another planet, and
if you're somebody from another Solar system or whatever, welcome
to the planet Earth. God is lord over your planet
as well. We welcome to the morning devo. Just in
case because people are like, oh, there's others living among us,
Praise God. Amen, it's not like they're in secret. God
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sees all things. God knows all things. We might not
know everything, for sure, we don't know everything, but God does. Amen,
So rejoice with those who rejoice, mourn with those who mourn. Right,
that's in Romans twelve fifteen. So not only are we
to be encouraged encouragers, right, we need to be present
and available for those who need encouragement. Amen. It's good
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to surround yourself with positive people all day, every day.
I suggest it. But if you're outside, like I'm outside
a lot an meaning that I'm among the community, right
and among neighborhoods that you know, they need hope, they
need Christ, they need Jesus, they need the light, they
need salvation. Right, they need hope, they need it. So
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you're in a position where you could be a blessing,
an encourager to someone who needs love, someone who needs
it's mercy, someone who needs to be introduced to the
one who could forgive them for all the stuff they've done, right,
which is the Lord Jesus. So show up physically. I
know we're in a virtual situation. This is a virtual situation.
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Right now, I'm in front of a camera, live streaming
to anyone who wants to check it out for themselves.
So it's not really physically per se, but I'm a
physical being, supernaturally waking up early in the morning to
present the Word of God the way God presented it
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to me in real time. I don't edit these videos.
I don't rehearse what to say. I just rely, I
want you to present the Holy Spirit to speak through me.
Even when I don't have words to say. We have
the word to read and the word to repeat. So
show up physically or virtually like we're doing now during
hard times. Sometimes a phone call, sometimes a messenger, sometimes
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the DM. It hits me all the time. When I
get a DM certain points in my life, I'm like,
how did this person know? Well, maybe they didn't know,
or an encouraging word. Yesterday a bro that I grew
up with through high school, man, and we're still connected
via social media and man, we're connected to a certain friend.
And I was like, Wow, how do you know this person?
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But at the end of the DM, he said, Man,
you've helped a lot of people in so many ways.
You blessed so many people in so many ways. I
hope you know that. And I'm like, man, that's encouraging
to know, Amen, because I bless him in the name
of Jesus, and my brother Matt, my boy Matt from
way back man Niggard, and we're still in connection virtually. Right.
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We might not be able to see each other face
to face, but virtually sometimes is enough to know that
someone we knew from years ago it's still connected with us, Amen,
And that's an encouragement. Sit down with somebody in silence.
I was saying this to a brother yesterday. Silence is supernatural. Silent,
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at least for me. I don't know about you, but
being silent, quiet, it's a supernatural move God in my life. Silence.
If they're grieving as a sister in Christ that's going
through so much losing family members, just thought her mom,
And when I saw her yesterday, I just said, I'm sorry.
I have no words, but I hugged her. Amen. She's
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expecting a child in about two weeks and she suffered
tragic losses in a family. I don't have no words.
I just have a hug and let her know and
let her family know that my heart is grieving with them. Amen.
It might not seem real to people when some people
say that right. But listen, there's a lot going on
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in life, and when you're grieving for other people's grief, Amen,
you feel it. You feel like, man, they lost so much,
and you can't just go on by your day, about
your day without praying for those people, for that person, Amen,
about that loss, because it just grieves you too. Roll
the Bible shows up and says, mourn with those who
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mourn Romans twelve fifteen. Sit down with somebody's silence if
they're grieving, Your presence alone speaks. Your presence alone speaks. Amen.
Sister Juanna has a comment here. She says, I've been
down that road and still going on, and God is
there with us, and I thank the Lord. I thank
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the Lord for everything. Amen. That's right. Listen, we are
on the road. Let's travel. Trust me. This is not
the broadway that leads to destructions. This is a narrow
path that leads to righteousness, the narrow path that leads
to life. And when we're in this together, right, we
are a powerful force to reckon with a powerful force
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of love. Our weapon is not carnal, you know, with
guns and pistols and knives. Our weapon is supernatural. Bring now, strongholds, Amen,
that try to hold people captive, Praying over the sick,
and they shall be healed. Grieving with those who are grieving,
rejoicing with those who are rejoicing. I love to celebrate
people's victories. I'm not a hater by no stretch of imagination. Amen.
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And when somebody I know is experienced a good, victorious
time in their life, We're gonna celebrate, you know why,
because we might not get that chance again to celebrate
with that person. Never thought about that. Amen. If you're up,
I'm up with you. If you're down, I'm gonna see
what's going on. How can I be an encouragement. I
saw some encouragement in your life, even if I'm going
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through the worst time of my life. Amen. That's why
we need the Body of Christ. I'm not into, you know,
gang mentality in the church. I'm not into clicks in
the church. I'm into soulo and Man. I love people, Amen.
I love people so much that sometimes I try to
put stuff on the side a little bit too much.
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And that's if I love So. If I love you
and I see that you're going in the wrong direction,
and I don't say nothing, I think I'm accountable to
God for that. He says, well, you've seen I'm allowing you.
God allows us to see things right. And if we
don't speak a man, we're telling indirectly telling that person
I don't care about you. Go ahead and keep on
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going in that direction. That's leading you to destruction, and
we'll talk about you later. Nah, that's not cool. That's
not being a source of encouragement. That's being a source
of discouragement. That's not being a lover of soul. That's
actually being hated paters of soul. And we're justifying it
by different ways. And I don't want to be a
part of that. A man, I hope you don't want
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to be a part of that either. Check in with
people regularly. Thank you Jesus. There's men of God that
I know that checking on me. People will be like, oh,
Sam is busy? Sam is this? He must be surrounded
a lot of people. That's not true at all. Jesus
only had twelve right. The Elijah thought he was by
himself as a prophet. The last one he thought he
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was so many people. In the scriptures, you might be thinking, well,
they were surrounded by Moses, surrounded by what million people
or so something like that. Amen. He had times of loneliness.
Jesus had times of loneliness, and he was one with
the Father. So don't make assertions or assumptions that just
because there's a ministry or a minister or somebody like
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me on the live stream that we have so many
people surrounding us to be encouragement. Sometimes that's not true.
So the ones that do stay connected, amen, that I
can be a connection with them, a source of encouragement
to them. And there's a source of encouragement, I cherish
that right. I don't take that for granted at all.
Even the groups that share this out. I'm grateful for that, amen,
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because not a lot of support comes outside of those groups.
But I'm grateful for all the support, all the prayers, amen,
all the donations in the ministry. So show up checking
regularly regularly, not just once, Amen. And I'm guilty of that.
I gotta get better at that myself, to check in
on the people who I love. Amen. So I'm out
of time. I hope you get this. Proverbs chapter twelve,
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twenty five. We camp that are out at read Proverbs
chapter twelve. The whole chapter for yourself and I'm out
of time. Be a source of an encouragement to somebody
today and let me know how that went in your life. Amen.
God bless you all, God keep you all, and remember
always that God is good. Please,
Want a family. Good morning, got blessed you. Welcome back
to the Morning Devo. It's your bro, Sam Lopez aka
Dj Sam Rock so Winners with a z dot org
sell Our Radio Network, which is the Lehigh Valley's number
one urban gospel music station online since two thousand and eight.
Also streaming at live dot so one is with a
z do org. The most chill website that I've ever created.
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Less distractions, really no distractions. Amen. On there you have
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is with a z org So. Thank you so much
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for coming through. Thank you so much for visiting. If
this is your first time visiting, there's no coincidences. I
believe in divine appointments. Everything is on purpose, everything's planned
perfectly by God. God draws people to himself. Amen. He
doesn't need me, he doesn't need you per se, but
He wants a relationship with his creation because He loves
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us and order for us to know who he is
we should have a personal relationship with the Savior as well, Amen,
with the Lord Jesus Christ. It's just that way. Like,
if you want to get to know someone, you have
to be in the presence of that person or those
people that you want to get to know. If you
want to know about someone that you maybe not meet
face to face, you might want to research and do
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some reading about that person or those people. Amen, the
same way with the scriptures. We want to be a
source of encouragement Today on the Morning Devo, a source,
be a source of encouragement, Amen, today on the Morning Devo.
And what does that mean? Amen? I want you to
ponder this. How can you today demonstrate love and support
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in practical ways to people who need the love and
support Besides you know, just going up to them and
say I'll be praying for you and then walk away.
How could you be more practical and showing encouragement and
being a source of encouragement. Because we have the source,
we have God, We have the true, living, holy, righteous,
loving God living within us. So therefore we should be
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moving differently. We should be moving in love. We should
be magnets to the Kingdom of God, not to the
world of this world system, Amen, we should be moving
differently for the eye. And I see you, my brother,
God bless you, man. It's good to see you in
the morning Devo. Good morning, and God bless you. Blessing
to you, my bruh and my friend. So listen, we're
gonna be in Proverbs chapter number twelve, verse number twenty five.
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Proverbs twelve twenty five be a source of encouragement today
in the morning, Devo, and that's where we're gonna go.
That's what we're gonna try to realize in our own
lives and our personal lives and our personal walk, and
we're gonna move forward in that victorious way. Amen. So
if you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, please
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don't hesitate to leave it on the live chat. That's
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you have on your heart, anything you have on your mind,
if you prayer request anything along those lines, please again
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don't hesitate. You're truly invited to share what you want
to share on our morning devo. So let's go for it.
Let's pray first. After we pray, we share this out
for like sixty seconds, and then on the other side
of those sixty seconds, we'll get right into today's scripture,
which is Proverbs twelve, chapter twelve, verse number twenty five.
So let's pray. Father. I thank you so much for
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your evidence that leads to truth. Thank you so much
for leaving us the scriptures, leaving us a divine word
that speaks to our lives daily. Thank you for your wisdom.
Thank you for your perfect plan. Thank you for your salvation.
Thank you, Lord God for your grace, your mercy. Thank you,
Lord Jesus for your love. That you have sexacrifice your
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very own self once for all mankind, for all eternity,
and that sacrifice is worth more than silver or gold.
I thank you, Lord God, that you are purposely drawing
us to yourself, and that you are creating in us
a new heart, a new mind. And Lord God, that
we can be a source of encouragement because you are
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the source of encouragement. That you could give us peace
and we could go ahead and spread peace, because you
are the Prince of peace, that you could get ahead
and love us. So therefore we know what love is.
Once we experience your love, taste and see that the
Lord is good. Your word says and man, that we
taste and see that you're good, and this world system
has nothing to compare with the Kingdom of God. I
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thank you, Lord God for your hedei protection. I pray
that over myself daily. I pray a heda prosession over
every single person that's listening and watching right now, for them,
their families, myself, my wife, and our children, our families,
both sides of the marriage, both the youngest people the
oldest people in our families, and everyone in between. Our
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head of protection of the hosts of heaven to move
accordingly on our behalf according to the Word over our lives.
Thank you, little God, that you could do the same
for every single person on the other side of the
screen and on the other side of this mic. And
a powerful matchless name above every name, the name of
Yashowaha much Shi Jesus the Christ, the Lord on High.
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I pray this by faith in Jesus name, and those
who agree with say amen to the amen. Help me
share this out sixty seconds. Think about who you could
share this out if you were like the last sixty
seconds rapture was coming. The trump is blue. Who would
you call? Who would you reach out to? The Amen?
That's the person that God wants you to reach out
during the sixty seconds. I'll be right back, and when
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we come back, we'll get right into be a source
of encouragement today on the morning Devo, I'll be right back,
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and men, we're back. Let's go for it, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's see what the Word of God has for us today.
The Word of God is amazing. The Word of God
is so powerful, alive and active that every time you
read the words, something happens to your soul, something happens
to your spirit, something happens to your mindset. The wisdom
of God is not like the wisdom of this world.
As a matter of fact, the scriptures say that all
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the wisdom of the world is foolishness. To God, Amen,
because he's high and lifted up. He's way above. His
thoughts are not like our thoughts. His ways are not
like our ways. He is supreme, the supreme being, a man,
the supreme other being. He's uber other a man, and
he's got all by himself, he's God alone. Amen. So
let me go ahead and put the scriptures on the
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screen for those who are just listening. No worries, A man,
I'm gonna be the word for words, so that way
you can hear exactly what we're reading together. Amen. Depending
if you have your Bible app. I use the BSB
I used to amplify version, the BSB version. Amen, you
might be like, what's the BSP. Go ahead and you
have the Bible app. Go to the B S B
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Boy Sam Boy translation and maybe you'll like it just
the way I like it. Amen. It's just so to me.
It's a clear translation of the scriptures. But we'll be
reading most of the time from the amplified version when
we do the morning sessions in the morning Devo. So
let me go ahead and put this on the screen
so we can see what's going on here. Be a
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source of encouragement. Amen. And of course the picture of
that we're looking at, it's like a rainbow going into
the brain the top part of a person. Amen. And
it's bringing out flowers. Amen. Because we're a source of
encouragement and we get that encouragement I believe from the
Lord himself. I wrote this big big letters today. Anxiety
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and a man's heart weighs it down. Say that again,
Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down. Proverbs chapter twelve,
verse twenty five. But hallelujah, thank you Lord, Jesus, thank
you God, Thank you Father. That there's a way around it.
A God, A good encouraging word makes it glad. So
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if you ever feel anxiety in your heart and you
go to another person that feels anxiety in their heart,
it's not gonna be a good day for you. Well,
if you find a person who has a good word. Amen.
I was with brother German for a little bit yesterday
from my church, Transformation Church, and he's always dropping good word.
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He's an encourager. Amen. He had an encouraging word for me,
an encouraging word and encouraging concept about being a father. Amen.
That I said, Wow, that's good, and it makes your
heart glad. When you're around people who are encourage your
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heart becomes glad. So be a source of encouragement by
way of the source of encouragement, which is the Word
of God. Amen. I hope that makes sense to somebody, right,
Be a source of encouragement. We're not done. Definitely not done,
but that scripture is tremendous in my way of thinking. Amen.
So I'm like, really this hope there's people out there
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who are meant to be your encouragement, that are meant
to be my encouragement. And I hope I'm encouraging somebody. Listen.
I know the Word of God is the ultimate source
that I have to use to help people when they're
in despair, when they need help, when they need prayer,
when they need encouragement. Amen. The Bible actually says, mourn
with people who are mourning, laugh with people who are laughing, Amen,
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Be concerned, be a part of somebody else's life life, Amen.
And it's not for everybody. Like to be honest, I
can't be around certain people because it does certain things.
It creates triggers, and it tries to re in state
or tries to re engage or reanimate my old man,
my own sinful man. And I don't like that. Amen.
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I have enough problems, if you know what I'm saying.
So I don't want to be around people who are
engaged in all kind of loose living. Amen. It's a
trigger for me. And this whole thing about the secrecy
and what you did the other day and why you
got drunk or why you got high, and people are
normalizing that. I'm talking about Christians. I can't be a
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part of that, Amen, And I hope you're not a
part of that either, because that's not a source of encouragement.
That's a source of sin, that's a source of discouragement.
That's a source of normalizing what God doesn't want you
or me to normalize. Amen, because we've changed people and men.
If we're saved and we're still talking about X y
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Z that we should talk about before we were saved,
and you need to go ahead and check your faith,
check us to see if you're still in the faith.
Since the joys, good morning, God bless you, Good morning,
God blessed. She says, blessings also to the group in
Jesus name. Very powerful to send a blessing in the
Lord's name, because he's the blesser. Amen. So that's me,
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that's where I'm at. I can't be around that. And
I think it's because Holy Spirit. God is grieved when
you surround yourself where people who say they're Holy Spirit failed,
but yet they're speaking or doing things just like the
world does. And they're creating some kind of band of
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believers that have this dark secret going on and you know,
within the body, and that's not cool, man, And don't
be deceived. God is not mocked. He knows every thought,
He knows our every word, he knows our reaction. You
know what we're experiencing, Amen, the grace of God. Amen.
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People are like, oh, you know, nothing's happening, so I
guess I can keep it moving. Nobody knows or just
us we're the only ones who know. But God knows
all things. I don't know if we forget that or
you know, in our humanity we're like, oh no, don't
worry about it. God is a forgiving god, Yes he is.
God's got of grace, Yes he is. But it seems
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to me like, since we don't know the time or
a day that the Lord Jesus is coming back when
no trump is blow, if you're not ready at that day, Amen,
I always think about it. How about if I'm doing
good all these years, you know, try trusting God, you
know in the word walking right, and then I just
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decide to let my simple desires take over, the flesh
take over for that one day and just live a
loose life for that one day and the trump is blow.
I'm like, really, that'll be a hard times. I don't
know what to happened. I'm not saying I know exactly
what's gonna happen if you're found in that state, saved
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but found in a state of loose living. I don't
know what happened, but I don't want to risk that.
I don't know about you. That's like playing eternal Russian Roulette,
and I don't want to play that game. A man.
I hope you don't want to play that game either.
Trust in God. He's good. He'll give you every single
desire that you will ever need in your life. Not
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everything that you want, but everything you need. He will
fulfill that desire, those desires. And as a matter of fact,
if we're born again, our desires should be his desires.
We have a new heart and a new mind, a
man incredible life that we could be living. That we
should be living, that should we should be moving in
in a supernatural not in a normal life. A man
that people say, oh, that's everybody's doing that. No, not
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everybody has a supernatural encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Sister Joanne I see you good morning, God, blessing my sister,
my friends get to see you on the morning, Devo.
So to be a source of encouragement is not as
hard as you might think. I could be having the
worst day and I've had bad days, and for somehow,
some way, for some reason, God will show up in
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my life and use me to encourage somebody else. And
side I'm like, man, I'm having a worst day. I
need somebody to encourage me. And hello, he is encouraging me.
If I'm able to encourage somebody else in my worst day,
that means God himself is encouraging me enough to encourage
somebody else. You ever thought about it that way? I'm
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having a bad day, so therefore I want everybody to
have a bad day. That's a worldly way of thinking
about it. And like Greeves, the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit
is like, hey, I live inside of you. I know
you're not having a good day. I know things are
hard right now, But that doesn't mean you have to
search around for other people who are having a bad
day and agreeing with their hardness of heart or their
bad day as well, because that's not going to encourage anyone.
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When you're present and when you're available to listen to
someone else's position, or listen to somebody else's reasoning, or
listen to somebody else's day. Amen, you are in a
good place. You're in a place for God to use
you as a source of encouragement. Now, if you speak,
if you walk up to somebody and they're speaking down
about themselves, they speaking down about others, they're having a
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bad day, they start cursing and swearing, and you go
ahead and do the same thing, then there's no encouragement
in that, a man, there's only discouragement. There's no connection
with God right there, that's only a disconnection. Everybody has
good days, everybody has bad days. Trust me, a man.
If you're a human like me and you live on
this planet Earth like us, Amen, welcome to the new day.
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God created a new day, so we'll be glad and
rejoicing it regardless. And if you're from another planet, and
if you're somebody from another Solar system or whatever, welcome
to the planet Earth. God is lord over your planet
as well. We welcome to the morning devo. Just in
case because people are like, oh, there's others living among us,
Praise God. Amen, it's not like they're in secret. God
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sees all things. God knows all things. We might not
know everything, for sure, we don't know everything, but God does. Amen,
So rejoice with those who rejoice, mourn with those who mourn. Right,
that's in Romans twelve fifteen. So not only are we
to be encouraged encouragers, right, we need to be present
and available for those who need encouragement. Amen. It's good
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to surround yourself with positive people all day, every day.
I suggest it. But if you're outside, like I'm outside
a lot an meaning that I'm among the community, right
and among neighborhoods that you know, they need hope, they
need Christ, they need Jesus, they need the light, they
need salvation. Right, they need hope, they need it. So
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you're in a position where you could be a blessing,
an encourager to someone who needs love, someone who needs
it's mercy, someone who needs to be introduced to the
one who could forgive them for all the stuff they've done, right,
which is the Lord Jesus. So show up physically. I
know we're in a virtual situation. This is a virtual situation.
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Right now, I'm in front of a camera, live streaming
to anyone who wants to check it out for themselves.
So it's not really physically per se, but I'm a
physical being, supernaturally waking up early in the morning to
present the Word of God the way God presented it
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to me in real time. I don't edit these videos.
I don't rehearse what to say. I just rely, I
want you to present the Holy Spirit to speak through me.
Even when I don't have words to say. We have
the word to read and the word to repeat. So
show up physically or virtually like we're doing now during
hard times. Sometimes a phone call, sometimes a messenger, sometimes
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the DM. It hits me all the time. When I
get a DM certain points in my life, I'm like,
how did this person know? Well, maybe they didn't know,
or an encouraging word. Yesterday a bro that I grew
up with through high school, man, and we're still connected
via social media and man, we're connected to a certain friend.
And I was like, Wow, how do you know this person?
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But at the end of the DM, he said, Man,
you've helped a lot of people in so many ways.
You blessed so many people in so many ways. I
hope you know that. And I'm like, man, that's encouraging
to know, Amen, because I bless him in the name
of Jesus, and my brother Matt, my boy Matt from
way back man Niggard, and we're still in connection virtually. Right.
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We might not be able to see each other face
to face, but virtually sometimes is enough to know that
someone we knew from years ago it's still connected with us, Amen,
And that's an encouragement. Sit down with somebody in silence.
I was saying this to a brother yesterday. Silence is supernatural. Silent,
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at least for me. I don't know about you, but
being silent, quiet, it's a supernatural move God in my life. Silence.
If they're grieving as a sister in Christ that's going
through so much losing family members, just thought her mom,
And when I saw her yesterday, I just said, I'm sorry.
I have no words, but I hugged her. Amen. She's
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expecting a child in about two weeks and she suffered
tragic losses in a family. I don't have no words.
I just have a hug and let her know and
let her family know that my heart is grieving with them. Amen.
It might not seem real to people when some people
say that right. But listen, there's a lot going on
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in life, and when you're grieving for other people's grief, Amen,
you feel it. You feel like, man, they lost so much,
and you can't just go on by your day, about
your day without praying for those people, for that person, Amen,
about that loss, because it just grieves you too. Roll
the Bible shows up and says, mourn with those who
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mourn Romans twelve fifteen. Sit down with somebody's silence if
they're grieving, Your presence alone speaks. Your presence alone speaks. Amen.
Sister Juanna has a comment here. She says, I've been
down that road and still going on, and God is
there with us, and I thank the Lord. I thank
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the Lord for everything. Amen. That's right. Listen, we are
on the road. Let's travel. Trust me. This is not
the broadway that leads to destructions. This is a narrow
path that leads to righteousness, the narrow path that leads
to life. And when we're in this together, right, we
are a powerful force to reckon with a powerful force
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of love. Our weapon is not carnal, you know, with
guns and pistols and knives. Our weapon is supernatural. Bring now, strongholds, Amen,
that try to hold people captive, Praying over the sick,
and they shall be healed. Grieving with those who are grieving,
rejoicing with those who are rejoicing. I love to celebrate
people's victories. I'm not a hater by no stretch of imagination. Amen.
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And when somebody I know is experienced a good, victorious
time in their life, We're gonna celebrate, you know why,
because we might not get that chance again to celebrate
with that person. Never thought about that. Amen. If you're up,
I'm up with you. If you're down, I'm gonna see
what's going on. How can I be an encouragement. I
saw some encouragement in your life, even if I'm going
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through the worst time of my life. Amen. That's why
we need the Body of Christ. I'm not into, you know,
gang mentality in the church. I'm not into clicks in
the church. I'm into soulo and Man. I love people, Amen.
I love people so much that sometimes I try to
put stuff on the side a little bit too much.
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And that's if I love So. If I love you
and I see that you're going in the wrong direction,
and I don't say nothing, I think I'm accountable to
God for that. He says, well, you've seen I'm allowing you.
God allows us to see things right. And if we
don't speak a man, we're telling indirectly telling that person
I don't care about you. Go ahead and keep on
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going in that direction. That's leading you to destruction, and
we'll talk about you later. Nah, that's not cool. That's
not being a source of encouragement. That's being a source
of discouragement. That's not being a lover of soul. That's
actually being hated paters of soul. And we're justifying it
by different ways. And I don't want to be a
part of that. A man, I hope you don't want
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to be a part of that either. Check in with
people regularly. Thank you Jesus. There's men of God that
I know that checking on me. People will be like, oh,
Sam is busy? Sam is this? He must be surrounded
a lot of people. That's not true at all. Jesus
only had twelve right. The Elijah thought he was by
himself as a prophet. The last one he thought he
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was so many people. In the scriptures, you might be thinking, well,
they were surrounded by Moses, surrounded by what million people
or so something like that. Amen. He had times of loneliness.
Jesus had times of loneliness, and he was one with
the Father. So don't make assertions or assumptions that just
because there's a ministry or a minister or somebody like
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me on the live stream that we have so many
people surrounding us to be encouragement. Sometimes that's not true.
So the ones that do stay connected, amen, that I
can be a connection with them, a source of encouragement
to them. And there's a source of encouragement, I cherish
that right. I don't take that for granted at all.
Even the groups that share this out. I'm grateful for that, amen,
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because not a lot of support comes outside of those groups.
But I'm grateful for all the support, all the prayers, amen,
all the donations in the ministry. So show up checking
regularly regularly, not just once, Amen. And I'm guilty of that.
I gotta get better at that myself, to check in
on the people who I love. Amen. So I'm out
of time. I hope you get this. Proverbs chapter twelve,
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twenty five. We camp that are out at read Proverbs
chapter twelve. The whole chapter for yourself and I'm out
of time. Be a source of an encouragement to somebody
today and let me know how that went in your life. Amen.
God bless you all, God keep you all, and remember
always that God is good. Please,
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