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On a family. Good morning, God bless you, welcome back
to the Morning Devo as you Bro Sam Lopez aka
Dj Sam Rock. So when is with a z ORRG
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gave me the word. Amen. Well I did was show
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up and activate that word. And God continues to show
himself in this ministry. Amen. God is good. He's faithful
to his word and he's faithful to us. Thank you Jesus.
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So God bless you to all the groups that allow
me to share this Morning Devo on your groups as well.
Today's topic for this new week, for this new start,
for this new day is lifestyle and purpose. Lifestyle and purpose.
A lot of people think because they're born again, that's
their ticket out of hell, and they're right, there's truth
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to that, but it's not about just having a ticket.
Salvation is not just a ticket to heaven, right, It
transforms how you live today. Salvation transforms your life. Jesus,
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the one who saves us, transforms us. The one who
gave us eternal life, wants us to live an abundant
life today. So there's a transformation, not just information that
we receive and not just a ticket to heaven. It
transforms how you live today. So because of it, you
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begin to desire holiness. You don't want to be a
common Christian just like common, like just do the abcs
of Christianity, just go with the flow of what your
church or what your community is doing. No, you don't
want to be common. You want to be holy, and
you begin to desire holiness, to love others deeply and
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to serve with purpose. Ephesians, Chapter two, verse number ten.
A man is where we're going to devote some time
to the Lord and this word. Amen. So thank you
for showing up. And this is a great start for
anybody's day. When you put God first in your day,
I believe that lines up everything else to prosper you
and to prosper me. Amen. Life is still going hit
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regardless of this time with the Lord. But it's so
assuring and it's so comforting knowing that when you go
through something that's hard in your life, you're not alone.
You have the living, loving, holy Righteous One living within
you by way of Holy Spirit. And although I might
want the storm to go away, or you you might
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want the storm to go away. All the hardship and
difficulties of life, the persecution, the death, the illness, the sickness,
we all don't want that. When it happens, it's so
assuring and comforting, and that we could rest in the love,
the grace, and the mercy, and then the knowledge of
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who God is in our lives in real time. So
that's a lifestyle and purpose. There's a change of our
lifestyle and purpose. I'll get to that later. Now, 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 Ephesians, chapter number two,
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verse number ten. Are you ready? If I have any questions, comments, concerns,
and prayer requests, the live chat is open. So Father,
I thank you that you have transformed, renewed, redeemed, restored,
and given us the born again experience for those all
those who will whoever is who called upon the name
of the Lord to be saved. We are born again,
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we are active in the body of Christ. We are
alive and the Kingdom of God. We're not in darkness anymore.
Thank you, Lord Jesus that you took us out of
that darkness and brought us into your marvelous light. I
pray Lo God, a hedge of protection, physical protection, mental protection,
spiritual protection over our lives right now, including myself, my wife,
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our children, our grandchildren, our son, a man of his
children which is my grandchildren, his wife, every single person
that's connected to our ministry, to our bloodline, to our
family members from the very youngest to the very oldest,
and every single person in between. And I pray the
same hedge of protection over every single person that's listening
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and watching right now. And the powerful name of Yashi
Wahama shik Jesus to Christ, the Messiah, the machic McGee,
I think one of God. I pray this by faith
knowing that you are able to do a Psalm ninety
one work in our lives according to your scriptures and
your purpose and plan. Thank you for a new life,
and thank you, Lo God for us having purpose in
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this life that we're living and meaning and we know
LogD that we will desire what you desire, and we
exchange our fleshly desire for holy desire that you have
given us in the powerful name of Jesus. I prayed
it's by faith and all those who agree, we say
Amen to the Amen. So help me share this out.
And then when we share this out, when we come
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back sixty seconds later, we'll get back into this morning
Devo right lifestyle and purpose. On the morning Deva, I'll
write back thank you so much for all those who
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helped me share this out. Man, it really matters. Thank
you again to all the groups that allow me to
share this in your group as well. Amen. Wow, stay connected.
There's a lot going on that God knows. The purpose
and plan for your life is one hundred percent complete
and perfect. Or you have to do sometimes, like I
always says, just show up and God does amazing works
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in your life. Shout out to Word on the way
for putting on from the time of this this recording, Amen,
yesterday was day one of four nights of Hope. Amen,
and me and my daughter we showed up, Amen, and
we saw the Lord move that ministry. Amen of two
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powerful Women of God. Amen, passing Nicole and sister Trinidad. Amen.
I'm saying her last name, Amen, and I'm so just
grateful for the connection. They're also available for you to
listen to on the Soul Winner's website in a podcast.
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Section is called Word on the Way. It's amazing how
God uses people who surrender their life to them and
then God performs science, miracles, Wonders allows people to get
support and outreach to communities that need hope and need guidance.
So check them out. And if you're in the Lehigh
Valley area, Alentine, Bethlam Easton, Amen, come down to Bethlehem
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and check it out. I shared it all my socials
and for more information you can get on a social
media It's called Word on the Way for Night of Hope.
To shout out to my sisters over there. Amen. So
sister joining, I see you, good morning, God bless you.
Welcome back to the morning. Devo's good to see you,
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my sister and my friend Man. Well, God bless you
as well. God bless you, my brother. It's good to
see you in the morning Devo as well. Amen. So
I'm just gonna ask for a prayer requests pray for me,
because I'll be waking up one thirty, two thirty, three
thirty sometimes in the morning it's out of a sound
sleep and just waking up happening more and more. Maybe
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it's restlessness, maybe it's I don't know what it is,
but I get up and usually I don't get up
and walking around the house to check. But I've been
doing that a mixture of staying up praying and another
mixture of getting up physically and walking around the home
to check to see if everything and everybody's okay. Man,
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don't know what that's all about. What I'm humble enough
to ask for prayer? Amen? If you get revelation of
God speaks to you accordingly, So what that might mean,
just let a brother know. That's all Amen. I'm just
sharing because I know sharing is caring. And also, if
you care for my brother and sister of the Lord,
will you care for me? Amen? You'll pray for me
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as I pray for you often. Amen. So let's go
the word of God, lifestyle and purpose. Let me get
the scream ready for those who are watching, for those
who are just listening. No worries, no problems, I promise
you're going to read this word for word the way
we see it on the screen, but let's go for it.
Lifestyle and purpose, the Bible says in Ephesians chapter two,
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verse number ten, for we are His God's workmanship, his
own master work, a work of art created in Christ Jesus,
reborn from above, spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used
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for good works which God prepared for us beforehand, taking
past which he set that we're being preordained to do.
What we're doing in the Kingdom of God. That's exciting
to know. And God knows the outcome. And we give
God all the outcome, Amen, So that we would walk
in them, living the good life which He pre arranged
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and made ready for us. You could also cross reference
this to Romans chapter one, verse number twenty. We are
His workmanship. Once you and I realize that God has
everything planned out for our lives, we can trust him.
We could love him, support him, submit to him, surrender
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our lives. A man resist the devil, and the devil
will flee. Were created in Christ Jesus right we born
from above, spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used for
good works which God prepared for us beforehand, taking past
which he set. So if you're on the righteous path
of God, you're on the right path, Amen. And cross
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reference that with Romans one twenty and man, you got
to get a fantastic revelation of God's purpose for your life. Amen.
A lot of people have asked that question, what's the
sorry about that? What's the purpose amen? For our lives? Right?
What's the reason we're here? Well? God has that reason, Amen,
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and he preordained, He prepared and pre arranged our situation
as long as we're in his will. If you're outside
of God's will, then you're basically on your own. Amen.
I was on my own before Christ came and rescued me.
What about you? And I was doing what I wanted
to do, which wasn't really beneficial to my life and
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to others around me. It wasn't Amen. Manuel says, we
buy that restlessness spirit. Yes, thank you for the Manuel.
Might be restlessness, that's what it might be. Or you know,
just my mind racing and thinking about the next day
before the next day comes could be it too. We
are God's glory, Yes, I like that, and we also
carry the glory of God. Thank you Manuel for your comments,
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very grateful for that, my brother and my friend. So
the lifestyle and purpose that God has for us, let's
get back into it. Because to me, to be honest,
nothing else really matters if you're not living in the
will and purpose that God has for you and that
God has for me. What are we doing, a man,
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We're just watching the days of the calendar just fly by,
and we have no purpose, we have no plan, We're
doing nothing other than just existing. I'm alive in Christ.
You're alive in Christ if you're born again. So let's
activate what we know, wisdom, understanding the purpose, and let's
go out there and share what we know with someone
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who desperately needs the word of life, the word of
truth in their lives today. Amen. Manuel says, that's right.
God created us to do his will according to his
word by the spirit. Line it all up, brother Manuel,
let us know, Amen, that's a good lineup of events
created us. God is the creator. Amen, to do whose
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will our will? Know? To do his will according to
whose word? My word? No, according to his word by
the spirit. Come on, that's good right there, Dana Beltzing,
Good morning, God bless you. Welcome to the morning. Devo.
So listen. When you have a changed and transformed heart,
you're going to have a change and transformed lifestyle, and
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you know the purpose behind it. When someone is saved,
their way of living is no longer centered, centered on self,
no longer sent are on sin or even in the world,
but on Christ. Salvation doesn't just change your status before God.
It transforms your heart, mind and actions. Think about it.
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God changed us. He saved us, not to be the
same that we were before we were saved, but to
be different, to be transformed, renewed, redeemed. Now the pressure
that people put on themselves because people, I hear this
a lot, it's so hard, meaning a Christians, so hard
following the Lord, which the Bible says completely opposite. The
Bible says that God's yoke is easy and his ways
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to follow him is not hard. Hey, man, think about it.
I mean, I know the saying, I know what people
are saying, like, man, it's you know, it's hard. It's
the flesh doesn't give up our old evil sinfle desires.
But God's joke is easy a man, his burdens are light,
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the scripture says, so it's not hard to follow Jesus.
The flesh is making things hard er to go in
the way that God wants us to go. Our old evil,
sinful desires and deliverance ministries. I don't know why I'm
saying this when you see them all over social media,
on TV and on YouTube delivering people from demons right
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casting out demons, and those people are professing Christians. A
lot of them that say they have a demon. I
think that's not a demon. I think the flesh amen
like ninety percent of those deliverance services. In my humble opinion,
it's not really casting out demons out of Christians. It's
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really helping Christians realize their whole faith trust in Jesus,
and they're wrestling with their own flesh. Some of them
are being overcome by the flesh way more than they
overcome a man. That has to be a fight, the
good fight of faith, the Word says, and we're fighting
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against not against flesh and blood a man. And yes,
we have the power to cast out demons in the
name of Jesus. But I'm mindful. I don't know about
the other deliverance ministries out there, but I'm mindful that
if I cast out a demon in the powerful name
of Jesus, I'm trying to get to that person quickly
for them to get them to understand that they have
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the power of the Holy Spirit of God who lives
within them to resist, submit to God, resist the devil,
and the devil will flee. And there's no occupancy between
Holy Spirit and a demon at the same time. Now,
if they're not born again, it makes sense why they
were bound by a demon. And once you cast those
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demons out, if the person's not saved, the Bible says
that the house will be clean. But if they don't
have the Spirit of God living inside them, then several
more demons and it'll be worse, be worse off for those people. Amen.
So I'm mindful of that. So if you are in
the deliverance ministry, you're casting out demons, the very next
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assignment should be to get those people into a position
that they could get into a loving relationship with the
Almighty God by way of Holy Spirit. They need to repent,
turn from their wicked ways, and turn to the righteous One. Amen.
So that way, by the time those demons try to
come and attack again, they'll be like, oh wow, we
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can't get back in that person because Holy Spirit lives
within them. You get what I'm saying. Brother Frank, good morning,
my brother, God bless you and your family as well,
and everybody on the morning Devo. Thank you for the blessing.
Thank thanks for showing up my brother, and my friend
for the friend. Amen. So we're going to have a
new desire. And once we're born again, once we're trusting,
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hoping and having faith from the Lord, we're gonna have
new desires and that desires you to be to please God.
So before salvation right, life revolved around our personal desires.
We're very prideful, we have worldly attitudes, and we were
approving everything that the world wanted to do. Once you're
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born again, the Holy Spirit places a desire within you
to honor God. And not only just to speak that
you just to say that you honor God, but even
in your thoughts, even in through your words, and even
through your deeds, You're gonna want to honor God everywhere
you go. You're not gonna want to be a closet Christian.
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You're not gonna want to be a private eye professing believer.
You're gonna want to preach the Gospels, sometimes not using words.
You don't have to always use words when you're showing
up and being a born again believer when you're in
a supermarket. You don't have to go down to ours
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the supermarket and saying, you know, preaching and supporting scriptures.
You can if that's your calling to do, but you
don't have to. Just be kind of people, just be loving,
and just be intentionally listening to people when they speak
to you. Eye contact love people, show them that there's
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a new way of life when you're born again, and
when they ask you the question, hey, why are you
like that? Then that opens up the conversation to witness
to others about the gospel message that when you heard
it and when I heard it and we went to
Jesus changed our lives and we have a lifestyle and
purpose now that's worth living. Amen. Brand Well says, that's right.
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We fight not against flesh and blood, but spirit and
principality and powers and rulers of darkness. Yes. So if
you think that Halloween and Man is just about fun
and gains, excuse me, pumpkins and family time a man
and it's all fun and games. Nah, that's about darkness.
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And we don't team up with darkness. We team up
with lights. Amen. So my thing and will always be
until the Lord comes back. If you're a born again
believer and you're celebrating Halloween, pray yourself, write, pray yourself lights,
and pray yourself out of those traditional things that lead
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people into dark places and disguising yourself as a family activity.
Trust me, I know, so Alsia. Good morning, God, bless you,
Good morning, God, bless you. Welcome back to the morning. Devo,
my sister and my friend. I hope you have a
blessed day. A man actors actions or as actor actions
man well said the fruit of the spirit. Yes, we
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don't need to impress the world. We need to bear fruit.
And once the world sees the fruit bearing person of God,
the fruit bearing brother and sister in Christ, the fruit
bearing man or woman of God, they going to want
to find out where we get this fruit from. And
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that's another conversation that leads people to the glorious gospel
message of God. Amen. So, whether we at home, whether
you're away on vacation, whether you're at work running your business,
taking the kids to school, whether you're a teacher a student, Amen,
wherever we are, we make it our aim to please
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the Lord. Right to please the Lord. Why not? This
world don't care about anybody else, accept themselves. The world
is full of pride, selfishness. The world system is bent,
hell bent, and the world system is only concerned about itself.
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So when you see someone that's in the world's system
and they're lost and they're broken, usually everything that you
hear them say is going to be about them. Amen.
When you bump into a believer who loves Jesus, nine
out of ten times it'll be like, I want to
help somebody else. And people who are seeking truth or
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seeking God, they have traits of goodness because they're looking
for something outside of this world system. You get it.
So we have seekers, we have believers, you have unbelievers.
You have people in the light, people in the dark.
You have the kingdoms of this world and the kingdom
of God. Amen. There's always two options is yes, there's
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no there's light, there's dark, there's right, there's wrong, there's evil,
there's good. Man. It keeps on going. God gives us options.
There's always a two way option. Amen. We know who
we are because God shows us who we are. We
know what we're capable, we know our potential because God
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tells us our potential in life, and we just follow. Yes,
holidays are pagan. A pagan holiday and one of them
is Halloween, and Amen. And I could go down a
rabbit trail and say Christmas, Easter and all those other
holidays have pagan things involved in it. That's why it's
so important to know the scriptures, so important to follow Jesus.
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Amen through these holidays. As long as you're following the Lord, Amen,
you will get out of some traditions that God didn't
put there, right, You would get out of some ritualistic,
ceremonial traditions that God is not pleased with. But when
you're following Jesus and your eyes on the Lord, Amen,
you could come through those holiday seasons knowing that you
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have a good conscience right, and you could bear witness
of God's power and holiness. Man Well wrote, Therefore, whatever
we eat or drink, we do it unto the Lord, Amen,
not unto idols. Yes, thank you, brother. So when we're
born again, when believers, when we're active believers in the
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Kingdom of God, and we're moving forward in the scriptural way, Amen,
not in a selfish way. We are turning from sin
to holiness. People are real judgmental, right, So I say
I'm a believer, I say I'm a Christian, and if
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someone sees me sinning or doing something out of order,
they'd immediately judge that right and rightfully so. But the
pressure is not for me to hold on to that judgment.
The pressure is not for you to hold on to
that judgment or hold on to that sin. What we
do is we cast our burdens right, the sins and
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all that we go through in life. We could take
it to the feet of Jesus Amen, and ask him
to help us through returning from sin to holding it. So,
salvation doesn't make you perfect overnight, right. A lot of
people won't preach that, teach that, or mention that to
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a believer. Salvation doesn't make you perfect overnight, but it
begins a process called sanctification, being set apart for God.
And once you're setting yourself apart for God, you're going
to realize those old sinful ways are starting to lose
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grip on us. Right man, I used to always do that,
and you'll find out months, years, weeks later that hey,
that thing doesn't really get to me as it used
to anymore. That's the sanctification. That's God setting us apart
from Christ. Amen. And I shouldn't even put this here,
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that's a bot or something else. But anyway, let's see
the old habits and destructive patterns lose their grip. That's
what I was trying to get at. Lose their grip. Amen.
And once those old patterns lose their grip, God reshapes
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our character and our lifestyle becomes different and our purpose
becomes clearer. Amount of time, though, Amen, go back and
read Ephesians chapter number two, verse number ten, and then
read the whole chapter for context. Amen. Amount of time,
But thank you so much for listening and watching. Amen.
And I know that God's gonna move and do some
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incredible things in your life today when you activate what
you know according to His word, his power, his authority,
his love, his grace and his mercy. So God bless
you all, God keep you all, and remember always that
God is good. He's