December 29, 2025 • 25 mins
Jesus didn’t die so we could stay shattered. He died so we could be made whole, walk in freedom, and live on mission.
Luke 4:18
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wanting fan. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
the Morning Devo as you Broke. Sam Lofez aka DJ
Sam rock So winners with his z dot RG Live
do So winners with his z dot org streaming on
x formally known as Twitter. We're on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook
groups all over the country and all over the world
literally and we're with you. Thank you so much for
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coming through today in the Morning Devo. Today we're going
to get to something that's been in my heart for
a while. Man, and I just wait, be patient and wait.
When God tells you to speak about a thing, go
ahead and speak about it. Amen. So on today's Morning Devo,
I'm calling this one broken Alter, broken Alter, but it's
not probably what it sounds like. The title is not
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probably what you're thinking. Amen. So many times I hear,
especially the younger generation, young adults say that you know,
they're broken, and they sing worship songs that say they're broken.
They go around saying they're broke, and the girl on
the Mind saying that there are things that the scriptures
actually say they are no longer. Amen. So after a
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while you hear it, you know, I would say a
couple of things here and there without trying to offend
that trend. It's a trend, right, it's trendy. It sounds humbling,
it sounds like, you know, they're being moved into some
kind of humanity and they're broken, right. But I always
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used to think about that a little different. According to
Luke chapter four. Amen. And we're gonna be at verse eighteen.
But if you read Luke chapter four or the account
of Jesus there, you're gonna realize what I'm talking about. Hopefully, Amen,
Yad's gonna speak to you the way he wants to
communicate his message to you personally today, to me personally today.
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But I'm calling this broken altar because think about it
like this. Jesus didn't die so we could stay shattered.
He died so we could be made whole, walking freedom
and live on mission. Yesterday, we we visited vertical Church
le Have Valley, right, amazing church, the happiest church in
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le Have Valley. Pastor Noel leads that church well Amen,
with his wife and children. Beautiful to see a family
worshiping God together. Amen. And the message that was given
Amen had me thinking about this message because I've been
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saying this for a long time. Amen. Just because I
say something doesn't make it like right. When I see
the word of God change lives, amen, I see that
as right as righteous. But I thought about it and
it kind of like confirmed today what I was going
to speak about today, when I realized that Jesus didn't
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want us to be broken all our lives. Amen. He
didn't want to see us in chains. He didn't want
to see us in bondage. He didn't want to see
us in captivity. He didn't want to see us as prisoners.
He didn't know he takes care of the broken hearted,
the shattered. Amen. He didn't die so we could stay broken.
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He died so we could live a whole life and
be made whole. Yes, on this side of eternity, going
into the next, broken vessels, open to what God pours in,
and then we're sealed. Ladies and gentlemen by the Holy Spirit.
Think about it clearly, Amen. It might be overthinking things,
but we are no longer broken. We are made whole
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in Christ. So today broken. Also, if you have any questions, comments, concerns,
prayer requests, or anything along those lines, please don't hesitate
to leave it on the live chat. That's what we're
here for. Even if you're saying, Sam, no, you're taking
this too far, or whatever you could put it there
on the live chat Luke, chapter four, verse number eighteen.
That's where we're going to start. And I have some
bonus scriptures to go along with us as companions to
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get us to where God I believe, to where Holy
Spirit wants us to go today. So let's pray first.
After we pray, we'll shut us out for like sixty seconds,
and then on the other side of those sixty seconds
we'll get right into today's morning Devo broken Altar, Father,
I thank you that what you say goes amen, and
where you take us, amen, is the right place to
be at. We are here because you gave us the
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opportunity to be here. We stand because you gave us
the strength to stand. We believe because you gave us
someone and something to believe in and to trust in
the Holy Spirit Jesus and Yahweh the Father. I thank you,
Lord God for today right now. I thank you Lord
God that no weapon formed against me, my family, my friends,
everything that's connected to this ministry, everyone that's connected to
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this ministry. We know that no weapons against us shall
prosper Father God, I come against any demonic influence, any
demonic entity, any demonic force that tries to distract us,
that tries to take us off the course that you
put us. All a lot. God, in the powerful name
of Jesus, I come against demonic nightmares and the powerful
name of Jesus. That you will continue to be with
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us even while we're asleep, and that we will have
a sound sleep. We will have a peaceful sleep, and
we will wake up energetic, full of joy, full of grace,
full of mercy, and full of the truth of who
you are in our lives. Father God, I pray for
those who have lost loved ones during the season. A
Keino family, Perez family, man Vasquest family, the last Quest family,
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so many families around me that I know a man
losing loved ones. And it's not it's not easy to
lose a loved one. Shout out to Jay, the family
of Jay from from where I grew up or I
hung out at in New York. Amen, someone had just
passed as well. And Man, so many things going on,
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and man, if we stay looking, Lord God at those
things and forget that you are our comforter, that you
are our Father, that you love us, that you want
us to see what you're seeing, that you want to
make us whole. Father, God, help us in those areas
because we need your help to be made whole. So
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I thank you lo God for this time. I pray
lod God for all the families, like I said earlier,
that are struggling, losing loved ones and what's going on
in this world. I pray low God, Peace, be still
and know that you are God in our hearts and
in our minds and our lives in real time. And
I thank you for today and Jesus hold the name.
My prayer is by faith with thanksgiving, knowing that you're
hearing these prayers and your answer them according to each
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and every individual person that needs you right now today
in Jesus Holy Name. Amen. Today, Amen, this is Joanne.
I see you. Good morning. God, bless you my sister.
I hope your holiday, your Christmas season was great. Thank
you so much for your blessings to my family, the gifts. Amen.
Thank you for thinking about us. We bless you in
the name of Jesus. Thank you so much. Amen. We
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have to do something for you. Amen. My wife said
the same thing, so listen, let's go for it. Help
me share this out. We're gonna be sixty second sharing mode. Amen.
When we come back, we'll get right into today's Morning Deva.
I'll be right back. Hey man, we're back. Thank you
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so much for helping me share this out. Sister June
has a comment, Let's read it. I just want to
share something with my brothers and my sisters. My Christmas
was not good, so sorry to hear that my sister
ended up in the Lehigh Valley Hospital at ce De Crest,
and that was on the twenty fourth. I asked you
to pray for her. She's still in the hospital yet
she is so stubborn. She's telling everybody she don't want
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to be here, so wants to die. That's the will
of a person who's struggling. So we need to be
patient and kind to yourself. To sister Joanne, I asked
you to put your hands on her. I wish somebody
would go and see her and talk to her. Amen.
I'm I'm pretty sure someone from the prayer team will
go visit Amen. And there's ministers that could go visit
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her in the hospital. Just sending the information d ming information.
I'll put the information of her room and all that
on this on this platform right now due to DM
you direct message me, Amen, and I'll try my best
to get over there as well. So we'll be continuing
praying for your system. But remember, the will of a
person that's struggling is different, right, It's different. Just think
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it's just different because they're going through something. They're going
through things. Amen. And if I realized my podcast is
not recording, so let me just get out of it
and get to that later. Amen. So yeah, it's tough, Jayne.
People have their own will, and when it's struggling and
the body's hurting them, not feeling well on the medication,
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they're in the place they don't want to be in.
All that comes into factors. So we need to be
patient with those who are struggling. This is a perfect
message for her to hear if the Lord leads her
to hear this, Amen, the broken Ultra message, because this
is where maybe she finds herself. She finds herself feeling
that she's broken and no one could make her whole.
I'm not realizing that Jesus came to make a whole
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completely whole. Amen. Isn't that amazing? The Lord made her
completely whole if she's in Christ. That's the message I've
been trying to tell our young adults, Amen, since the
Joint says the thing of it is, she lost her
husband and she lost her son too. She feels so lonely,
but she has me. Amen. I remember you can remind
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her that she's never alone. But again, be patient. She's struggling,
a lot of things have gone on in her life, right,
so we have to be patient, pray and ask God
for mercy over her life and grace and for us
to have wisdom of what to tell her. Sometimes you
don't have to say a word. Just go and visit.
Just be there, amen, and let her talk. Let her
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speak her heart, Amen, And as long as she knows
she's being heard, I think that will help us well. Ultimately,
we want the Lord to intervene, right, and we want
brothers and sisters to come alongside of her. And you're right,
and thank you for putting it out there, so some minister,
ministers or maybe ministry could get to her as well. Right.
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The body of Christ, we're a body with an organism
more than an organization, where an organism of living, breathing
body of Christ on this earth. So thank you sister
for sharing that, and we'll keep you and your sister
in prayer as always. Amen. So let me go ahead
and put this on the screen for those who are watching,
for those who are listening on so when is with
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a z do orgy to celebrate a network. Amen. It
looks like everything's up. I just don't understand why my
podcast was in recording the audio. I have to check
on that in a couple of minutes after this, right,
Luke Chapter four, verse number eighteen, Luke four. In eighteen,
the Lord says, right, I was gonna say the Jesus, Amen,
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the Messiah. The Lord said it like this, and this
is the completion of what the prophet Isaiah said as well,
amazing prophecy. The spirit of the Lord is upon me,
the Messiah, because he has anointed me to preach the
good news to the poor. And it doesn't mean like
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poor financially as much as it means poor and spirit
poor without Christ, poor without Jesus. He has sent me
to announce release, pardon forgiveness to the captives, and recovery
of sight to the blind, to set free those who
are appressed, downtrodden, bruised, crushed by tragedy. You see, like
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the message I'm trying to repeat, what Jesus says is
that he doesn't want to see you broken all your life.
Doesn't want to see you shattered all your life. He
doesn't want to see you in pain all your life.
He doesn't want you to be poor in the spirit
all your life. Amen. He doesn't want you to be
in captivity all your life a man. He doesn't want
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you to walk in unforgiveness all your life. He doesn't
want you to be blind all your life. He wants
to set you free. He wants you to set you
free from oppression. He wants you to set you free from
crushed spirit. When you're going through tragedy, when you're bruised,
when you're lonely, when you're sick, you see that he
wants to make you whole. And the thing about it
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is that a lot of people are saying that we
need to be broken and stay broken. And that's not
the message of the Messiah. That's not why Jesus died.
That's not why Jesus came. He came to preach kingdom.
He came to save, seek the loss, and save the
loss a man. He came on mission, and he completed
his mission on the cross, and that mission is complete.
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So now we have new life in Christ. But our part,
what's our part to play in all of this? Right,
we have to receive his message and a man we
have to believe. And the one who was born from
a virgin lived a sinless life. He did not sin right,
laid out his life for us on the cross, forgave
us Amen. Or while he was on the cross, he said, Father,
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forgive them, for they do not know what they do.
And men died, went into a borrowed grave. Three days
later rose again right right, the bodily resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ appeared to many. After his resurrection eight
with the disciples proved to the doubting disciple Thomas that
he is the Messiah Amen. And then before he ascended,
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he made a promise. He's not going to send he said,
I gotta go, but I'm going to send one just
like me, the promised Holy Spirit. And we're signed, sealed
and delivered. We're made whole in Christ. Why because Jesus
is the completion, the whole of Yahweh. I know a
lot of people don't like that. They don't like Jesus
to be the fulfillment of the scripture. They don't want
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Jesus to be the fulfillment of the Lord and the prophets.
They don't want Jesus to be God. They don't want
Jesus to be Yahweh's completion. No, they want Jesus just
to be a good man, a good prophet. He's more
than that. Though the Scripture said, I believe it, Jesus
said it man. That's why the Jews wanted him to
be crucified. That's why the Jews called him a blasphemer,
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because he himself was claiming to be God. The Jews
understanding is understood exactly what Jesus was saying. That's why
he's baffling to me now all these years later, of
why we don't understand what Jesus was claiming. When the
original people that he was speaking to at the time
that he was on this earthly ministry, they knew exactly
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what he was saying, and it seems like we don't
know what Jesus said. It's amazing, right, amazing. So a
life in Christ is really not the find of how
broken me or you are or how broken me and
you were. But it's defined by how we got restored
right and how we're becoming more and more like the
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wholeness that God wants us to be. Testimonies don't end
with I was broken right. They continue with what God right? Having.
You noticed, before Christ, you were in certain situations and lifestyles.
You were moving in a pattern that was destructive. You
were on your way to a place separated from the
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Lord for all eternity, until Jesus met you where you
were and met me where we were. Now we had
a personal encounter with the living, holy, righteous, loving God,
and he changed our destination. He transformed their life, and
he stopped Hell from entering into our heart. That's an
amazing thing. And no brokenness no more. We're not broken anymore. Yes,
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we fall shore of the glorious and so God. But
find me a scripture or find me where Jesus said,
or the disciples say that they've broken after Christ, that
they're still sinners after Christ, that they identify with someone
else than Christ. Jesus himself. Brokenness introduces us to Christ.
That's how he humbles us. Right, introduces us to Christ.
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But it's not where God intends us to live. Our
residents were already seated in heavily places, the scripture says, right,
and that's because of the finished work of God. Now,
the applied work of God in our lives we're living
in right now. Amen. We don't have to go around
saying where anything outside of what God says we are
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or who God says we are. Amen. Yes, God meets
us in our brokenness Psalms Chapter thirty four and eighteen.
Check it out for yourself Psalm thirty four eighteen. Go
ahead and search some scriptures. But He does not leave
us broken. He doesn't leave us there. He doesn't leave
us the same way he found us. Amen. We were lost.
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God is not lost. I know when I first got saved,
and I know some people are still saying this, and
sometimes I say it and I have to correct myself.
Sometimes I say I found God. I know what I'm saying,
I know what I mean, and I know what so
many other people mean when they say I found God.
The fact of the matter is that God found us.
We were lost. God was never lost. The Cross was
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not only about forgiveness. The Cross was about transformation. Think
about it right, Think about it real clearly, brokenness leads
us somewhere where does brokenness lead a person to repentance?
And sometimes when you're broken and you find that leading
to repentance, some people refuse to repent even in their brokenness.
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Why pride, simply pride, I'm telling you, amen, Repentance leads
to what renewal? Right, when you turn from your goodness
and turns to the righteousnes of God, you are made
new right there in that path of righteousness. Renewal leads
to what new life? We see that two Corinthiance, chapter
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number five, verse number seventeen, probably like the first scripture
that the Lord etched into my heart and then when
I got saved, because I was convinced at that point
when I got saved, that I was a different person.
Like I can't explain it to you right now how
God did it, but I could tell you that he
did it. He transformed my life. And I know there's
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people who can testify of God's transformative power through the
Gospel when they had their own personal encounter with the
Lord Jesus themselves. You can't tell me this is all
made up. You can't tell me that we're conspiring with
one another, calling people up before morning DeVos and Bible studies,
or calling pastors and saying, yo, make sure you say
the same thing similar to what these other people are
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saying all over the world. We're no one has time
for that. We just know that God is real because
we had a personal encounter with him. Right. Scripture never
presents believers as permanently defeated. Think about that, and I know,
and this is not a shot to the younger generation,
to the young adults that go around saying and singing
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brokenness and broken and we're broken and with this, you know,
broken vessels. It's you know, this is not a shot.
This is just to encourage you to search deeper into
the scriptures of what God has done in your life
and what He is doing in your life. He's not
keeping you in a broken state. You're not in a
defeated state. You're not always gonna sin. You know, you
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could go without days with days and days without sinning. Yes,
I said it. Looking at scriptures, scripture never presents believers
as permanently defeated, permanently wounded, or powerless. Right scripture describes
us as new creations. Right scripture describes us as more
than conquerors Romans eight thirty seven. Healed by Who's wounds,
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by the Lord's wounds. The prophet Isaiah in chapter fifty
three and verse number five strengthened in weakness. Strengthened in weakness.
That's not. A broken person will never get strengthened in
any kind of battle or any type of situation. If
you're broken, you're in pieces all your life. Amen. God's
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putting it all together. He's making us whole. Strengthen the weakness.
Second Corinthians, Chapter twelve, verse nine. So God uses the
brokenness in our lives. He uses that to humble me,
He uses that to humble you. He uses that to
humble us. But he also uses healing to mobilize us.
I was selling my brother in Christ a couple of
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weeks back. Listen, I'm learning how to move even when
I'm hurt. I'm learning how to move even when things
are not going my way. I'm learning how to move
regardless of what's happening in my life. Because we move forward,
God is mobilizing his church, he's mobilizing his sons and
daughter in Christ. We keep on moving, not knowing what
is going to happen. That's why we walk by faith,
not by sight. A man as long who's been on
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the righteous path of the path of the Lord. Nothing,
no one, no demon, no curse, no witch, no warlock
can stop the direction that God has is going in.
God uses brokenness to humble us, but he also uses
healing to mobilize us. So a life in Christ is
not defined by how broken we are or we were
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past tense, but it's how restored we've become. Right. So
if you never move past your pain, right, if your
testimony never moves past your past, a man, you need
to search your heart and see a follower, because you
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could you could go around saying your believer a man,
the devil believes too, but the devil doesn't follow. So
I believe in Christ, so I follow Christ. Right, the
devil believes in Christ, but he doesn't follow Christ. Think
about it, Amen, People are going around saying they're Christian,
but they don't want to serve. People are going around
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saying they're Christian, but they're not attached to the body
of Christ. Amen, I know so many people that are
like they always post scriptures, they always post encouragement. You know,
they take a little bit from the New Age. They
took a little bit from the take a little bit
from the scriptures. Then they post all these things, but
they never attached to the Body of Christ. They never
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go to church. They have excuses of why they don't
go to church. It could be because they have kids,
it could be church heard, it could be that they
don't believe in the organized church. Whatever the case is.
But when you say you're a believer, you also should
be following who you believe in, the Lord, and that's
the Lord Jesus. Amen, Jesus said, follow me. The believing
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part Amen is there at that moment too, because you
won't follow someone you don't believe in. Right, life in
Christ is not defined by how broken you are or
how broken you say you are. So if you can't
move past your pain, you risk glorifying your pain or
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your wounds instead of glorifying the one who healed you
from those wounds. You risk going around saying you're broken
for the rest of your life instead of exalting the
one who puts you all together. Jesus didn't die so
we could stay shattered. He didn't die so we could
stay broken. Brokenness is the altar. Wholeness is the assignment. Amen,
I just wanted to get this out there. Man spilled
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the Lord and Luke chapter four, verse eighteen, the way
Jesus presented that. Amen, I realized that yesterday at the
church I was visiting vertical Church Lehigh Valley, and the
preacher and then the pastor at the end confirmed this
in my heart, that we don't stay broken, we don't
stay in chains. And man, we're free. Who the sun
sets free is free indeed. Amen. So that's just something
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for you to think about. I hope this has encouraged you, Amen,
to think scripturally biblically. Amen, go to the scriptures for yourself.
We were in Luke chapter four, verse number eighteen. Read
the whole chapter Luke chapter four, and see for yourself. Amen.
And if you go around after you read this, and
after you praise the Lord and ask Holy Spirit to
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teach you or to move you in the direction he
wants you to go. And if you're still saying you're broken, Amen,
I try I try to convince you otherwise. Amen, you're
made hold in Christ because God wants you hold a
man not in broken pieces all your life. So God
bless you all, Thank you for listening. God keep you all,
and remember always that God is good. Peace,
Wanting fan. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
the Morning Devo as you Broke. Sam Lofez aka DJ
Sam rock So winners with his z dot RG Live
do So winners with his z dot org streaming on
x formally known as Twitter. We're on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook
groups all over the country and all over the world
literally and we're with you. Thank you so much for
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coming through today in the Morning Devo. Today we're going
to get to something that's been in my heart for
a while. Man, and I just wait, be patient and wait.
When God tells you to speak about a thing, go
ahead and speak about it. Amen. So on today's Morning Devo,
I'm calling this one broken Alter, broken Alter, but it's
not probably what it sounds like. The title is not
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probably what you're thinking. Amen. So many times I hear,
especially the younger generation, young adults say that you know,
they're broken, and they sing worship songs that say they're broken.
They go around saying they're broke, and the girl on
the Mind saying that there are things that the scriptures
actually say they are no longer. Amen. So after a
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while you hear it, you know, I would say a
couple of things here and there without trying to offend
that trend. It's a trend, right, it's trendy. It sounds humbling,
it sounds like, you know, they're being moved into some
kind of humanity and they're broken, right. But I always
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used to think about that a little different. According to
Luke chapter four. Amen. And we're gonna be at verse eighteen.
But if you read Luke chapter four or the account
of Jesus there, you're gonna realize what I'm talking about. Hopefully, Amen,
Yad's gonna speak to you the way he wants to
communicate his message to you personally today, to me personally today.
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But I'm calling this broken altar because think about it
like this. Jesus didn't die so we could stay shattered.
He died so we could be made whole, walking freedom
and live on mission. Yesterday, we we visited vertical Church
le Have Valley, right, amazing church, the happiest church in
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le Have Valley. Pastor Noel leads that church well Amen,
with his wife and children. Beautiful to see a family
worshiping God together. Amen. And the message that was given
Amen had me thinking about this message because I've been
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saying this for a long time. Amen. Just because I
say something doesn't make it like right. When I see
the word of God change lives, amen, I see that
as right as righteous. But I thought about it and
it kind of like confirmed today what I was going
to speak about today, when I realized that Jesus didn't
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want us to be broken all our lives. Amen. He
didn't want to see us in chains. He didn't want
to see us in bondage. He didn't want to see
us in captivity. He didn't want to see us as prisoners.
He didn't know he takes care of the broken hearted,
the shattered. Amen. He didn't die so we could stay broken.
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He died so we could live a whole life and
be made whole. Yes, on this side of eternity, going
into the next, broken vessels, open to what God pours in,
and then we're sealed. Ladies and gentlemen by the Holy Spirit.
Think about it clearly, Amen. It might be overthinking things,
but we are no longer broken. We are made whole
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in Christ. So today broken. Also, if you have any questions, comments, concerns,
prayer requests, or anything along those lines, please don't hesitate
to leave it on the live chat. That's what we're
here for. Even if you're saying, Sam, no, you're taking
this too far, or whatever you could put it there
on the live chat Luke, chapter four, verse number eighteen.
That's where we're going to start. And I have some
bonus scriptures to go along with us as companions to
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get us to where God I believe, to where Holy
Spirit wants us to go today. So let's pray first.
After we pray, we'll shut us out for like sixty seconds,
and then on the other side of those sixty seconds
we'll get right into today's morning Devo broken Altar, Father,
I thank you that what you say goes amen, and
where you take us, amen, is the right place to
be at. We are here because you gave us the
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opportunity to be here. We stand because you gave us
the strength to stand. We believe because you gave us
someone and something to believe in and to trust in
the Holy Spirit Jesus and Yahweh the Father. I thank you,
Lord God for today right now. I thank you Lord
God that no weapon formed against me, my family, my friends,
everything that's connected to this ministry, everyone that's connected to
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this ministry. We know that no weapons against us shall
prosper Father God, I come against any demonic influence, any
demonic entity, any demonic force that tries to distract us,
that tries to take us off the course that you
put us. All a lot. God, in the powerful name
of Jesus, I come against demonic nightmares and the powerful
name of Jesus. That you will continue to be with
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us even while we're asleep, and that we will have
a sound sleep. We will have a peaceful sleep, and
we will wake up energetic, full of joy, full of grace,
full of mercy, and full of the truth of who
you are in our lives. Father God, I pray for
those who have lost loved ones during the season. A
Keino family, Perez family, man Vasquest family, the last Quest family,
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so many families around me that I know a man
losing loved ones. And it's not it's not easy to
lose a loved one. Shout out to Jay, the family
of Jay from from where I grew up or I
hung out at in New York. Amen, someone had just
passed as well. And Man, so many things going on,
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and man, if we stay looking, Lord God at those
things and forget that you are our comforter, that you
are our Father, that you love us, that you want
us to see what you're seeing, that you want to
make us whole. Father, God, help us in those areas
because we need your help to be made whole. So
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I thank you lo God for this time. I pray
lod God for all the families, like I said earlier,
that are struggling, losing loved ones and what's going on
in this world. I pray low God, Peace, be still
and know that you are God in our hearts and
in our minds and our lives in real time. And
I thank you for today and Jesus hold the name.
My prayer is by faith with thanksgiving, knowing that you're
hearing these prayers and your answer them according to each
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and every individual person that needs you right now today
in Jesus Holy Name. Amen. Today, Amen, this is Joanne.
I see you. Good morning. God, bless you my sister.
I hope your holiday, your Christmas season was great. Thank
you so much for your blessings to my family, the gifts. Amen.
Thank you for thinking about us. We bless you in
the name of Jesus. Thank you so much. Amen. We
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have to do something for you. Amen. My wife said
the same thing, so listen, let's go for it. Help
me share this out. We're gonna be sixty second sharing mode. Amen.
When we come back, we'll get right into today's Morning Deva.
I'll be right back. Hey man, we're back. Thank you
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so much for helping me share this out. Sister June
has a comment, Let's read it. I just want to
share something with my brothers and my sisters. My Christmas
was not good, so sorry to hear that my sister
ended up in the Lehigh Valley Hospital at ce De Crest,
and that was on the twenty fourth. I asked you
to pray for her. She's still in the hospital yet
she is so stubborn. She's telling everybody she don't want
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to be here, so wants to die. That's the will
of a person who's struggling. So we need to be
patient and kind to yourself. To sister Joanne, I asked
you to put your hands on her. I wish somebody
would go and see her and talk to her. Amen.
I'm I'm pretty sure someone from the prayer team will
go visit Amen. And there's ministers that could go visit
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her in the hospital. Just sending the information d ming information.
I'll put the information of her room and all that
on this on this platform right now due to DM
you direct message me, Amen, and I'll try my best
to get over there as well. So we'll be continuing
praying for your system. But remember, the will of a
person that's struggling is different, right, It's different. Just think
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it's just different because they're going through something. They're going
through things. Amen. And if I realized my podcast is
not recording, so let me just get out of it
and get to that later. Amen. So yeah, it's tough, Jayne.
People have their own will, and when it's struggling and
the body's hurting them, not feeling well on the medication,
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they're in the place they don't want to be in.
All that comes into factors. So we need to be
patient with those who are struggling. This is a perfect
message for her to hear if the Lord leads her
to hear this, Amen, the broken Ultra message, because this
is where maybe she finds herself. She finds herself feeling
that she's broken and no one could make her whole.
I'm not realizing that Jesus came to make a whole
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completely whole. Amen. Isn't that amazing? The Lord made her
completely whole if she's in Christ. That's the message I've
been trying to tell our young adults, Amen, since the
Joint says the thing of it is, she lost her
husband and she lost her son too. She feels so lonely,
but she has me. Amen. I remember you can remind
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her that she's never alone. But again, be patient. She's struggling,
a lot of things have gone on in her life, right,
so we have to be patient, pray and ask God
for mercy over her life and grace and for us
to have wisdom of what to tell her. Sometimes you
don't have to say a word. Just go and visit.
Just be there, amen, and let her talk. Let her
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speak her heart, Amen, And as long as she knows
she's being heard, I think that will help us well. Ultimately,
we want the Lord to intervene, right, and we want
brothers and sisters to come alongside of her. And you're right,
and thank you for putting it out there, so some minister,
ministers or maybe ministry could get to her as well. Right.
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The body of Christ, we're a body with an organism
more than an organization, where an organism of living, breathing
body of Christ on this earth. So thank you sister
for sharing that, and we'll keep you and your sister
in prayer as always. Amen. So let me go ahead
and put this on the screen for those who are watching,
for those who are listening on so when is with
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a z do orgy to celebrate a network. Amen. It
looks like everything's up. I just don't understand why my
podcast was in recording the audio. I have to check
on that in a couple of minutes after this, right,
Luke Chapter four, verse number eighteen, Luke four. In eighteen,
the Lord says, right, I was gonna say the Jesus, Amen,
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the Messiah. The Lord said it like this, and this
is the completion of what the prophet Isaiah said as well,
amazing prophecy. The spirit of the Lord is upon me,
the Messiah, because he has anointed me to preach the
good news to the poor. And it doesn't mean like
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poor financially as much as it means poor and spirit
poor without Christ, poor without Jesus. He has sent me
to announce release, pardon forgiveness to the captives, and recovery
of sight to the blind, to set free those who
are appressed, downtrodden, bruised, crushed by tragedy. You see, like
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the message I'm trying to repeat, what Jesus says is
that he doesn't want to see you broken all your life.
Doesn't want to see you shattered all your life. He
doesn't want to see you in pain all your life.
He doesn't want you to be poor in the spirit
all your life. Amen. He doesn't want you to be
in captivity all your life a man. He doesn't want
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you to walk in unforgiveness all your life. He doesn't
want you to be blind all your life. He wants
to set you free. He wants you to set you
free from oppression. He wants you to set you free from
crushed spirit. When you're going through tragedy, when you're bruised,
when you're lonely, when you're sick, you see that he
wants to make you whole. And the thing about it
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is that a lot of people are saying that we
need to be broken and stay broken. And that's not
the message of the Messiah. That's not why Jesus died.
That's not why Jesus came. He came to preach kingdom.
He came to save, seek the loss, and save the
loss a man. He came on mission, and he completed
his mission on the cross, and that mission is complete.
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So now we have new life in Christ. But our part,
what's our part to play in all of this? Right,
we have to receive his message and a man we
have to believe. And the one who was born from
a virgin lived a sinless life. He did not sin right,
laid out his life for us on the cross, forgave
us Amen. Or while he was on the cross, he said, Father,
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forgive them, for they do not know what they do.
And men died, went into a borrowed grave. Three days
later rose again right right, the bodily resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ appeared to many. After his resurrection eight
with the disciples proved to the doubting disciple Thomas that
he is the Messiah Amen. And then before he ascended,
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he made a promise. He's not going to send he said,
I gotta go, but I'm going to send one just
like me, the promised Holy Spirit. And we're signed, sealed
and delivered. We're made whole in Christ. Why because Jesus
is the completion, the whole of Yahweh. I know a
lot of people don't like that. They don't like Jesus
to be the fulfillment of the scripture. They don't want
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Jesus to be the fulfillment of the Lord and the prophets.
They don't want Jesus to be God. They don't want
Jesus to be Yahweh's completion. No, they want Jesus just
to be a good man, a good prophet. He's more
than that. Though the Scripture said, I believe it, Jesus
said it man. That's why the Jews wanted him to
be crucified. That's why the Jews called him a blasphemer,
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because he himself was claiming to be God. The Jews
understanding is understood exactly what Jesus was saying. That's why
he's baffling to me now all these years later, of
why we don't understand what Jesus was claiming. When the
original people that he was speaking to at the time
that he was on this earthly ministry, they knew exactly
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what he was saying, and it seems like we don't
know what Jesus said. It's amazing, right, amazing. So a
life in Christ is really not the find of how
broken me or you are or how broken me and
you were. But it's defined by how we got restored
right and how we're becoming more and more like the
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wholeness that God wants us to be. Testimonies don't end
with I was broken right. They continue with what God right? Having.
You noticed, before Christ, you were in certain situations and lifestyles.
You were moving in a pattern that was destructive. You
were on your way to a place separated from the
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Lord for all eternity, until Jesus met you where you
were and met me where we were. Now we had
a personal encounter with the living, holy, righteous, loving God,
and he changed our destination. He transformed their life, and
he stopped Hell from entering into our heart. That's an
amazing thing. And no brokenness no more. We're not broken anymore. Yes,
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we fall shore of the glorious and so God. But
find me a scripture or find me where Jesus said,
or the disciples say that they've broken after Christ, that
they're still sinners after Christ, that they identify with someone
else than Christ. Jesus himself. Brokenness introduces us to Christ.
That's how he humbles us. Right, introduces us to Christ.
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But it's not where God intends us to live. Our
residents were already seated in heavily places, the scripture says, right,
and that's because of the finished work of God. Now,
the applied work of God in our lives we're living
in right now. Amen. We don't have to go around
saying where anything outside of what God says we are
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or who God says we are. Amen. Yes, God meets
us in our brokenness Psalms Chapter thirty four and eighteen.
Check it out for yourself Psalm thirty four eighteen. Go
ahead and search some scriptures. But He does not leave
us broken. He doesn't leave us there. He doesn't leave
us the same way he found us. Amen. We were lost.
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God is not lost. I know when I first got saved,
and I know some people are still saying this, and
sometimes I say it and I have to correct myself.
Sometimes I say I found God. I know what I'm saying,
I know what I mean, and I know what so
many other people mean when they say I found God.
The fact of the matter is that God found us.
We were lost. God was never lost. The Cross was
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not only about forgiveness. The Cross was about transformation. Think
about it right, Think about it real clearly, brokenness leads
us somewhere where does brokenness lead a person to repentance?
And sometimes when you're broken and you find that leading
to repentance, some people refuse to repent even in their brokenness.
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Why pride, simply pride, I'm telling you, amen, Repentance leads
to what renewal? Right, when you turn from your goodness
and turns to the righteousnes of God, you are made
new right there in that path of righteousness. Renewal leads
to what new life? We see that two Corinthiance, chapter
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number five, verse number seventeen, probably like the first scripture
that the Lord etched into my heart and then when
I got saved, because I was convinced at that point
when I got saved, that I was a different person.
Like I can't explain it to you right now how
God did it, but I could tell you that he
did it. He transformed my life. And I know there's
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people who can testify of God's transformative power through the
Gospel when they had their own personal encounter with the
Lord Jesus themselves. You can't tell me this is all
made up. You can't tell me that we're conspiring with
one another, calling people up before morning DeVos and Bible studies,
or calling pastors and saying, yo, make sure you say
the same thing similar to what these other people are
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saying all over the world. We're no one has time
for that. We just know that God is real because
we had a personal encounter with him. Right. Scripture never
presents believers as permanently defeated. Think about that, and I know,
and this is not a shot to the younger generation,
to the young adults that go around saying and singing
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brokenness and broken and we're broken and with this, you know,
broken vessels. It's you know, this is not a shot.
This is just to encourage you to search deeper into
the scriptures of what God has done in your life
and what He is doing in your life. He's not
keeping you in a broken state. You're not in a
defeated state. You're not always gonna sin. You know, you
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could go without days with days and days without sinning. Yes,
I said it. Looking at scriptures, scripture never presents believers
as permanently defeated, permanently wounded, or powerless. Right scripture describes
us as new creations. Right scripture describes us as more
than conquerors Romans eight thirty seven. Healed by Who's wounds,
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by the Lord's wounds. The prophet Isaiah in chapter fifty
three and verse number five strengthened in weakness. Strengthened in weakness.
That's not. A broken person will never get strengthened in
any kind of battle or any type of situation. If
you're broken, you're in pieces all your life. Amen. God's
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putting it all together. He's making us whole. Strengthen the weakness.
Second Corinthians, Chapter twelve, verse nine. So God uses the
brokenness in our lives. He uses that to humble me,
He uses that to humble you. He uses that to
humble us. But he also uses healing to mobilize us.
I was selling my brother in Christ a couple of
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weeks back. Listen, I'm learning how to move even when
I'm hurt. I'm learning how to move even when things
are not going my way. I'm learning how to move
regardless of what's happening in my life. Because we move forward,
God is mobilizing his church, he's mobilizing his sons and
daughter in Christ. We keep on moving, not knowing what
is going to happen. That's why we walk by faith,
not by sight. A man as long who's been on
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the righteous path of the path of the Lord. Nothing,
no one, no demon, no curse, no witch, no warlock
can stop the direction that God has is going in.
God uses brokenness to humble us, but he also uses
healing to mobilize us. So a life in Christ is
not defined by how broken we are or we were
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past tense, but it's how restored we've become. Right. So
if you never move past your pain, right, if your
testimony never moves past your past, a man, you need
to search your heart and see a follower, because you
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could you could go around saying your believer a man,
the devil believes too, but the devil doesn't follow. So
I believe in Christ, so I follow Christ. Right, the
devil believes in Christ, but he doesn't follow Christ. Think
about it, Amen, People are going around saying they're Christian,
but they don't want to serve. People are going around
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saying they're Christian, but they're not attached to the body
of Christ. Amen, I know so many people that are
like they always post scriptures, they always post encouragement. You know,
they take a little bit from the New Age. They
took a little bit from the take a little bit
from the scriptures. Then they post all these things, but
they never attached to the Body of Christ. They never
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go to church. They have excuses of why they don't
go to church. It could be because they have kids,
it could be church heard, it could be that they
don't believe in the organized church. Whatever the case is.
But when you say you're a believer, you also should
be following who you believe in, the Lord, and that's
the Lord Jesus. Amen, Jesus said, follow me. The believing
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part Amen is there at that moment too, because you
won't follow someone you don't believe in. Right, life in
Christ is not defined by how broken you are or
how broken you say you are. So if you can't
move past your pain, you risk glorifying your pain or
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your wounds instead of glorifying the one who healed you
from those wounds. You risk going around saying you're broken
for the rest of your life instead of exalting the
one who puts you all together. Jesus didn't die so
we could stay shattered. He didn't die so we could
stay broken. Brokenness is the altar. Wholeness is the assignment. Amen,
I just wanted to get this out there. Man spilled
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the Lord and Luke chapter four, verse eighteen, the way
Jesus presented that. Amen, I realized that yesterday at the
church I was visiting vertical Church Lehigh Valley, and the
preacher and then the pastor at the end confirmed this
in my heart, that we don't stay broken, we don't
stay in chains. And man, we're free. Who the sun
sets free is free indeed. Amen. So that's just something
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for you to think about. I hope this has encouraged you, Amen,
to think scripturally biblically. Amen, go to the scriptures for yourself.
We were in Luke chapter four, verse number eighteen. Read
the whole chapter Luke chapter four, and see for yourself. Amen.
And if you go around after you read this, and
after you praise the Lord and ask Holy Spirit to
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teach you or to move you in the direction he
wants you to go. And if you're still saying you're broken, Amen,
I try I try to convince you otherwise. Amen, you're
made hold in Christ because God wants you hold a
man not in broken pieces all your life. So God
bless you all, Thank you for listening. God keep you all,
and remember always that God is good. Peace,
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