December 2, 2025 • 26 mins
The joy of giving isn’t about losing something; it’s about releasing something so God can multiply it.
Acts 20:35
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Morning Family, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
the Morning Devo. It's your bro Sam Lopez aka DJ
sam Rock. So Win is with a Z that RG
live that so Win is with a Z that org.
Streaming on social media platforms that allow a stream to
go through. Also on our YouTube page which is simply
called dj sam Rock, and also on x formerly known
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as Twitter if you're on that platform as well. Also
podcasting on your favorite podcast platforms hopefully where where you
want to be Amen on your podcast platforms as well.
So God bless you, welcome back. It's a new day,
a new start. And today, of all days, from the
time of this recording, today we call it Giving Tuesday.
It's Giving Tuesday today on the Morning Devo. And so
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we're going to talk about the joy of giving. Thank
your team Jesus for allowing me to be on your
group page and sharing this on your group page. The
joy of giving, the joy of giving, Thank you God
is great. Come and join a man. Thank you for
approving my post on your group page. The joy of giving.
Listen closely, isn't about losing something. I know a lot
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of people say, well, there is, is it? Access to
give something? So I'm gonna lose out on XYZ. The
joy of giving isn't about losing something. It's about releasing
something so God can multiply it whatever that it is, Amen,
Acts Chapter twenty verse number thirty five. Today in the morning, Devo.
That's we're going to be camping out at Amen. So
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we're gonna be there for today a man. Hopefully this
will inspire you to do something Amen, radical for someone else,
to do something, to give of your time, treasure, talent,
to do something generous for someone else and Amen, and
you will be blessed for it according to what the
scripture says and Acts Chapter twenty verse number thirty five.
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So if you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests,
or anything along those lines, the live chat is available.
Thank you for all those of my friends and members
of the group of the Blaze Bober Studies that shared
us out as well. Shout out to velvev Oltroua Hope
say your name right and your last name right. Amen
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for sharing out and for making a comment. I'm really grateful.
I see those things and encourages me and inspires me
to keep on going. So thank you so much. My
sister my friend. So let's go for it. We're gonna
pray first. After we pray, we'll share this out for
like sixty seconds, and then on the other side of
those sixty seconds we'll get into our morning Devo Amen
Action chapter number twenty, verse number thirty five. Ready, Father,
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I thank you so much for your gift, for your
eternal gift of eternal life, for your sacrifice, for dying
on a cross, for me, and for all those whosoevers
who call upon the name of the Lord. Now we
can see we have the revelation of what you did
on that cross. And for those little God who do
not know you, who do not know about your resurrection power,
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who do not know about your cross, who do not
understand about the sin that that you paid on that cross,
I pray that you will open their eyes by way
of your Holy Spirit today and that they will realize
that you gave your very best for us, for your creation,
Lord God, for your people, for your children, for your world.
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Thank you, Lord God, that you have encountered us with
the truth. Thank you, Lord God for saving us, rescuing us,
for giving us a new life, a new start. Thank you,
Lord God for putting generosity in our hearts, in our minds,
and that we can move forward generously helping others who
do not know you, and who need help and who
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need direction, who need guidance. Thank you, Lord God for
inspiring us to move and love, moving grace and moving
to mercy. Lord God, Thank you, Lo God that we
can have this joy, this joy, unexplainable joy of giving. Amen.
And I thank you Lord God for your love, in
your power, your authority. Right now, for every single person
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that's listening and watching, including myself, I pray I had
your protection over us all in the powerful name of Jesus.
I pray a hand your protection over myself, my wife,
our children, our grandchildren, our family members from the very
youngest to the very oldest, and every single person in between.
And I pray that same prayer daily for every single
person that's connecting now or who will connect later on
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the other side of the screen, on the other side
of Mike and the powerful, matchless the highest name above
every name, the name of Jesus to Christ is Shiwahamashiek,
the Lord God, Almighty, wonderful counselor Prince of Peace. I
pray this in the name of Jesus and those who agree.
We say, Amen, Sue and Amen, and let's help share
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this out. Amen, Sister joy Us, Good morning, God, bless you.
Welcome back to the morning deve with my sister and
my friend. Thank you so much for your presence, Amen,
and your friendship, and for being my sister and the Lord. Amen.
Sister Joanne the same as well. Thank you so much
for your dedication. You're here so many times. I think
you're the most consistent member of our group. So good
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morning to you, my sister, my friend, and blessings to you. Amen. Amen,
you're very welcome. For the prayer, Sister Joyce. Amen, thank
you for allowing us to share with one another. Amen,
and being here for the sharing and for the prayer.
Thank you so much. Help me share this out. Sixty seconds.
On the other side of these sixty seconds, we'll come
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back and we'll get into our scirptule. I'll be right back. Amen,
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we're back. Thank you so much for helping me shut
this out. Sister Joanne has a comment here since Johanne says,
I asked you to pray for my son. I was
an emergency from eleven o'clock to eight o'clock last night
and they kept them. They took him right away up
to his room. I asked you to pray for him. Amen,
we are praying for your son's sister Joanne right now,
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Powerful Name of Jesus, that whatever's going on with Joanne's son,
Lord God, that you would cover him, that you will
guide him, that you will help every single person that's
trying to help him in the hospital to be successful
of what they do over his life and in his
life through medical means, through prayer, Amen, through just being
there for him. I pray that he will be encouraged
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to stay encouraged and know that there was a God
who loves him in Jesus Holy Name. Amen to the Amen.
Thank you sister Joanne for sharing that about your son
so that way we could know what to pray for
and be more specific. Thank you so much. Amen. So
let's go forward. Let's see what the Word of God
will say to us today. Because you know the word
of God is alive, right. You know the word of
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You know the word of God is sharpened at any
double edged sword, and you know his word is true,
objectively true, absolutely true. We have a God who speaks truth.
We have a God who speaks out of love and
kindness and gentleness. We have a God of all power,
all authority, yet he's a kind spirit. We have a
God that's omnipresent. We have a God that's all knowing.
We have a God who sees all things. We have
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a God who provides for every single one of our needs.
He sees our needs before we know we need them,
and he provides for every single one of them. That's
a giving God. Amen. And because we have a given God,
we have the joy of giving ourselves. Amen. We need
take eternal life to be given the gift of gratitude
and the gift of faith. Amen. Jesus is our faith.
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We don't have faith in faith, ladies and gentlemen, we
have faith in the Lord Jesus, the Christ of Nazareth. Amen,
God Almighty, through the person Jesus. So let me put
this on the screen for those who are just listening,
No worries. We're gonna just share this word for word
the way we see it on the screen. So the
joy of giving. Today's Giving Tuesday. Amen. That for a
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lot of people out there who have nonprofits, you know,
this is an important day for us. Amens. A way
that we could stay encouraged and keep ongoing, Amen, and
doing what we do in ministry, doing what we're doing
for nonprofits work. Amen. And this will be a boost
for us if people are willing to join us and
partner with us. So I pray that if you're willing
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a man, pray first ask God what he have you
do for the ministry of Soul winn Is Inc. Celebrator Network. Amen.
And if you're blessed, be a blessing and you will
get the joy of giving. Amen. I know for sure
that I do with myself. I love to help people, Amen,
because it gives you a joy. And to know somebody
else's being help because of what your hand has put
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on your hand, to what you have put your hand
to your placing it for someone else, that's a beautiful feeling, man,
and it's a beautiful thing to do. Acts Chapter twenty,
verse number thirty five. In everything I showed you, this
is I believe the apostile speaking by example, that by
working hard in this way you must help the weak.
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And remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he
himself said, quote it is more blessed and brings greater
joy to give than to receive. That's a quote from
the Lord Jesus. Amen. This is not a stretch. This
is not some kind of way of me trying to
get you to give to the ministry. This is actually
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what the Lord Jesus said, and he's being quoted and
everything I showed you by example that by working hard
in this way, you must help the weak and remember
the words of the Lord Jesus. The weakest people maybe
that are unfortunate, the people who are struggling, to people
who need assistance, to people who need food, the people
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who need guidance, the people who are struggling with their families.
Right now is the season to give. When the time
it's recording, we are what twenty four days away from
Christmas celebration in the United States at least, so we're
in a giving more mode. We're in a giving spirit. Amen.
And as a believer, actually, I think in my humble
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opinion that we should be always in a giving spirit,
because when you give, you've received the joy of what
you're giving. Amen, the joy of giving. Jesus said to himself,
it is more blessed to give than to receive. But
I'm going to kind of trust and believe in the
joy of giving by way of what the Lord Jesus spoke. Amen,
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I kind of believe the one who rose from the grave.
I kind of believe him, Amen. And to be truthful,
to know exactly about life and the things that lead
to life. He's a life giver. He's the one who
promises us eternal life. So we should be gracious and
gratitude and have gratitude, and our attitude should be gratitude. Amen. Amen.
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Amen to that. Maria Rosario, thank you so much. God
bless you. Welcome for why watching from YouTube. Thank you,
my sister and my friend, sister friend Cilia here. Okay,
sister friend Celia, God bless you. It's good to see
you on the morning dev with my sister, my friend. Amen.
So listen. The gift of giving brings the joy to
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our hearts into our minds. Right. I can't make it up.
You feel when you give of your time, treasure, talent,
when you give to someone else and it's not for
us to get something back. Right. A lot of times
we'll give to a stranger and maybe we will never
see that stranger. We probably won't even get it. Thank you. Sometimes,
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But it's okay because when I give, Amen, out of
my heart, and I give sometimes out of my lack.
I know it's going to help someone, it's for a purpose,
it's for a reason. Amen. And when God blesses your
giving and your gift, he will multiply that day. So
it's something powerful that happens right when we give. And
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I'm not talking about just financially. I'm talking about our time,
our encouragement, right, I'm talking about our love, our service.
So when Jesus was quoted in the Book of Acts,
chapter twenty, verse thirty five, Jesus is inspiring us to
give because it's more blessed to give than to receive.
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And the question somebody should be asked is why, why,
Sam Why is it more blessed to give than to receive?
Because giving this and closely connects us to the very
heart of God, because he gave his very best right.
So we have a given God. So when we give
to others, that connects to the heart of God. God
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is a giver himself. He's a giver of life. He
is a giver of life. He gave us life right,
he gave us grace, and he gave us his only
begotten son to life Jesus Christ the perfect sacrifice. He
gave Jesus to us. Then Jesus gave us his spirit.
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This is a win win situation for every single hosoever
who called upon the name of the Lord to be saved.
Joanne says, God is good. On Thanksgiving, I made a
lot of food and nobody came here to eat. I
have containers that I get from Bjay's with Lizon, I
packed everything up and I gave them to the homeless.
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Praise the Lord. See God sees, and he gives me
more strength to do what I gotta do. Amen, Thank you.
That's a testimony. That's what I'm talking about. Amen. She
made a lot of food, nobody showed up, so she
put everything containers and gave what she had to those
who were in need. That's beautiful, and I'm pretty sure
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she experienced the joy of giving. She was able to
give to the homeless. She was able to do something
for others. That's why I like that joy. When you
take the word joy, you put Jesus first others than you. Right.
When you do it in that order where you put
God first, you put others before you. Amen, God will
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show up in your life and giving will give you joy,
and that's the joy of giving. Thank you so much,
Sis you're wearing Pastor Michael Jays, good morning, God, bless you,
my brother and my friend. Thank you so much for
coming through to the morning. Devo's good to see you.
If you're not following Pastor Michael James, please follow him.
He has a ministry of the word Amen. He will
impact your life. He will inspire you and encourage you. Amen.
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And he's consistent, think probably more consistent than I am.
So thank you so much, PMJ for showing up. And
every time we give, we look a little more like Jesus. Amen.
So when we give, at least when I give, Amen,
I can't speak for everyone else. When I give, I
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promise you when I give him my time, treasure, and talent.
I'm not looking at it as oh well, I'm in
an investment, so I'm going to return on an investment. No,
I'm looking at it. It's like, thank you Lord that
I was able to do something for someone else. Thank
you Lord that I was able to travel and take
somebody where they need to go. Thank you Lord for
giving me the time to go help somebody else. Thank
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you Lord for allowing me to connect with one of
your children. Thank you Lord. If it wasn't for God,
I won't have anything to give. It wasn't for God,
you won't have anything to give. Amen. So I look
at what I have, Amen, and I make sure that
I'm not hoarding. I make sure I'm not just getting
fat in the world and just storing everything up for
me Amen, and my family. I make sure I give,
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and that bothers a lot of people. A man. I
know people look at it as well. If you're always
giving out to XYZ, what about your own family. Well,
my family's blessed, Amen, and not because of what I'm doing.
It's because of what God has done in our family.
So when it comes to giving, I take it personal.
I know that I have to give Amen out of
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our heart, because God has given me out of his
very best. Amen. What about you? Don't you sense the
giving of the Lord in your life? Amen? That He
gave us breath, he gave us life, he gave us abundance,
he gave us his promises, He gave us the Lord
Jesus Christ. And now we have Holy Spirit God living
in us, the eternal hope of glory, the hope of
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glory for this world, and we could speak life, we
could speak the promises, we could engage people with the gospel. Amen,
the gospel message of the Lord Jesus. That's a giving moment,
and that giving moment when we share the gospel, when
we share our resources, where we share from our heart,
God will give us the joy that goes back with
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that amen that comes with it. It's a win. I
always say that because God will do things through us
that man books should be written about, right, And there's
no book that can contain what God has done his miracles,
what Jesus did his miracles. And I think the saying
goes for all his children. There's no book that can
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contain the miraculous work He has done for all the
people who called upon his name to be saved. And
now we are in the body of Christ. Now we're
in the eternal, forever family of God. It's an amazing thing.
It's an amazing thing. Since a joy says, Amen, praise
the Lord's sister, joear and God bless amen. So you
feel the love, the concern for and the connection that
we have from one another. And that's a way of
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giving as well. We give of our encouraging words we
give of life. Amen. So God is a giver, so
we should be givers. And every time we give, we
look a little more like Jesus giving right, crazy joy? Why?
Because it shifts our focus from what we do and
what we need or what do I need? So how
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can God use me to meet someone else's need? Amen?
It just shifts your focus, Like, man, I have this,
I'm not using this, so maybe I could use this
to give to someone else. It breaks selfishness. You can't
be a selfish person and be a giver, a generous
give at the same time. It's impossible, even if you're
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faking it, it's impossible. You know that as soon as
you release something that was yours, that was a value
of yours. Amen, maybe you worked hard, like everything I have,
like this mic right here, for instance, I had to
work hard for this mic. It's not the greatest mic, amen,
but it's a mic and it's unplugged, and I use
it for things in the studio. Right. But as soon
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as the Lord says listen, you're not using that as much.
And if somebody comes to the studio say hey, using
that mic, I'll just give it to them, not blended
to them. I would give it to them. Why because
God gave me when I needed amen, And maybe that
time of the mic is over and now it's for
someone else to use for the glory of God. Get
what I'm saying. Every time that we give, we look
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more like Jesus. So joy of giving isn't about losing
something like I said earlier, It's a out releasing something
so God can multiply what he has given us for
someone else. Have you noticed someone says, man, I need
like ten dollars and you're looking around. This happened to
me a couple of months ago. True story, someone to
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ask me for money. I was like, man, I don't
have it. Then I hope h my wallet there was,
and I'm looking at it. The first thing that in
my fleet said, well, nobody knows you have that money,
so you might as well just keep it. And I
looked at it. I was like, praise God, here here
you go. It's amazing how God can do things when
your heart is aligned with what He wants to do
for others. A man, that's the joy of giving. So today,
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even though it's you know, it's Giving Tuesday, so people
might think, oh, he is an angle on it well.
The angle I have is acts shot to twenty verse
number thirty five, quoting what Jesus said, It is more
blessed to give than to receive, because God is a giver.
God gave us life, God gave us grace. God gave
us his son. His son gave us Holy spirit. God,
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So don't underestimate a simple act of generosity. Don't underestimate
that man by noon, Nest, good morning. God bless you.
God bless you your beautiful family. God bless you as well.
My sister, my friend, thank you so much for the
blessing of your time and for coming to the morning Devo.
God bless you so today. Don't underestimate the simple act
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of generosity. It could be a small gift. That small
gift could go a long way, especially if you give
it to the Lord for the blessing and then you
give it to someone else. God has a way of
multiplying your gift, big or small. About a text of encouragement.
Text somebody that needs encouragement, Text somebody offer them. Hey,
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I'm texting you. If you need prayer, I'm here for you.
I'm the person that will be praying for you for today.
Beautiful you'll get the gift of joy, the joy of
giving Amen. When you give a text of how about
a prayer for someone who needs strength? The joy of
the Lord is our strength. Say amen. When we approach
somebody with joy. That joy is contagious, especially if it's
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the joy of the Lord, and it brings strength to
someone who feels weak. So you never know. You never
know how you're giving, how you sacrifice your ministry, how
you love, how your encouragement, how your concern, how you're
listening ears. You never know how that could be someone's
answered prayer. Amen, and the doorway to your very own joy.
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The joy of giving Amen is powerful. We know it
because the Lord Jesus quoted himself and said it is
better to give more blessed to give than to receive.
If you study that quote out, it will take you
to places in the scripture you'd be like, wow, this
is amazing. Right, so many times when people gave, right,
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God will bless with the giving is and the giver.
He will bless what you're giving, and he will bless
the giver. So think about it. Maybe this will change
your focus, and maybe this will change your perspective when
it comes to giving. Maybe you've been all this time like, well,
I don't have it. I can never say that and
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look at anybody in the face and say I don't
have I don't have it. I have something. If it
came down to it, amen, and I had to do
something and sell something from my studio to me, to
need my family, to me, the need for others or whatever.
I can't say I don't have a means to help
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in that situation. I can't. And if you're honest, and
if you know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior,
and you're in the Kingdom of God, and you're in
the family forever Family of God, and you're a part
of the Body of Christ, you can't be honest and
say you don't have either. If you're come pair on
yourself to the Joneses, the ones who have the beautiful
you know, Christmas tree and the decorations and lights in
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front of their homes. And when you look at your
own home, you probably only have one light, and that's
the light in the kitchen. Whatever. Praise the Lord, don't compare.
Just go over and give that person that seems like
they have everything together, that family across the street, your
neighbor or whatever that seems like they have all the
lights and the glitter and all that. They might be empty.
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They might not be walking in Christ, they might not
know God, they might not be even happy. They might
just be going with the flow of tradition. You will
never know until you go and knock on the door
and offer them a word of encouragement or introduce yourself.
Amen to the neighbors. And you will never know what
they're going through unless you present yourself. And that's the
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way of giving too, your giving of your time, you're
giving of your listening ear Amen, and you can give
a blessing right there on the spot when a knee
comes up, and that you receive the joy of giving.
I hope this helps you and it helps me out
encourages me every time I hear Jesus quoted. Amen, and Acts,
Chapter twenty, verse number thirty five. Amen, Read it for yourself.
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Read the whole chapter twenty of the book or Acts
if you have time today, and receive the joy of giving.
It's a powerful, powerful thing that the Lord has done
in the lives of all those who call upon his
name to be saved. We are givers now, Amen, and
we give of our time, talent, and treasure, and we
have the joy to continue to give. So I hope
you were blessed. Amen, take a look at the website,
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so when is with zee that Org. Look around the
donate button there if you have received that email, because
if you're on the email list, amen, you know what
I'm talking about. If not, Amen, just stay encouraged. Go
help somebody else right now today. Amen, there's somebody right now.
I guarantee that the Lord has given you in your
mind and in your heart, place that person on your
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mind and your heart right now to go and help
that person, and go ahead and do it. God bless
you all, got to keep you all, and remember always
that God is good. Peace. M
Morning Family, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
the Morning Devo. It's your bro Sam Lopez aka DJ
sam Rock. So Win is with a Z that RG
live that so Win is with a Z that org.
Streaming on social media platforms that allow a stream to
go through. Also on our YouTube page which is simply
called dj sam Rock, and also on x formerly known
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as Twitter if you're on that platform as well. Also
podcasting on your favorite podcast platforms hopefully where where you
want to be Amen on your podcast platforms as well.
So God bless you, welcome back. It's a new day,
a new start. And today, of all days, from the
time of this recording, today we call it Giving Tuesday.
It's Giving Tuesday today on the Morning Devo. And so
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we're going to talk about the joy of giving. Thank
your team Jesus for allowing me to be on your
group page and sharing this on your group page. The
joy of giving, the joy of giving, Thank you God
is great. Come and join a man. Thank you for
approving my post on your group page. The joy of giving.
Listen closely, isn't about losing something. I know a lot
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of people say, well, there is, is it? Access to
give something? So I'm gonna lose out on XYZ. The
joy of giving isn't about losing something. It's about releasing
something so God can multiply it whatever that it is, Amen,
Acts Chapter twenty verse number thirty five. Today in the morning, Devo.
That's we're going to be camping out at Amen. So
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we're gonna be there for today a man. Hopefully this
will inspire you to do something Amen, radical for someone else,
to do something, to give of your time, treasure, talent,
to do something generous for someone else and Amen, and
you will be blessed for it according to what the
scripture says and Acts Chapter twenty verse number thirty five.
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So if you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests,
or anything along those lines, the live chat is available.
Thank you for all those of my friends and members
of the group of the Blaze Bober Studies that shared
us out as well. Shout out to velvev Oltroua Hope
say your name right and your last name right. Amen
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for sharing out and for making a comment. I'm really grateful.
I see those things and encourages me and inspires me
to keep on going. So thank you so much. My
sister my friend. So let's go for it. We're gonna
pray first. After we pray, we'll share this out for
like sixty seconds, and then on the other side of
those sixty seconds we'll get into our morning Devo Amen
Action chapter number twenty, verse number thirty five. Ready, Father,
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I thank you so much for your gift, for your
eternal gift of eternal life, for your sacrifice, for dying
on a cross, for me, and for all those whosoevers
who call upon the name of the Lord. Now we
can see we have the revelation of what you did
on that cross. And for those little God who do
not know you, who do not know about your resurrection power,
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who do not know about your cross, who do not
understand about the sin that that you paid on that cross,
I pray that you will open their eyes by way
of your Holy Spirit today and that they will realize
that you gave your very best for us, for your creation,
Lord God, for your people, for your children, for your world.
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Thank you, Lord God, that you have encountered us with
the truth. Thank you, Lord God for saving us, rescuing us,
for giving us a new life, a new start. Thank you,
Lord God for putting generosity in our hearts, in our minds,
and that we can move forward generously helping others who
do not know you, and who need help and who
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need direction, who need guidance. Thank you, Lord God for
inspiring us to move and love, moving grace and moving
to mercy. Lord God, Thank you, Lo God that we
can have this joy, this joy, unexplainable joy of giving. Amen.
And I thank you Lord God for your love, in
your power, your authority. Right now, for every single person
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that's listening and watching, including myself, I pray I had
your protection over us all in the powerful name of Jesus.
I pray a hand your protection over myself, my wife,
our children, our grandchildren, our family members from the very
youngest to the very oldest, and every single person in between.
And I pray that same prayer daily for every single
person that's connecting now or who will connect later on
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the other side of the screen, on the other side
of Mike and the powerful, matchless the highest name above
every name, the name of Jesus to Christ is Shiwahamashiek,
the Lord God, Almighty, wonderful counselor Prince of Peace. I
pray this in the name of Jesus and those who agree.
We say, Amen, Sue and Amen, and let's help share
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this out. Amen, Sister joy Us, Good morning, God, bless you.
Welcome back to the morning deve with my sister and
my friend. Thank you so much for your presence, Amen,
and your friendship, and for being my sister and the Lord. Amen.
Sister Joanne the same as well. Thank you so much
for your dedication. You're here so many times. I think
you're the most consistent member of our group. So good
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morning to you, my sister, my friend, and blessings to you. Amen. Amen,
you're very welcome. For the prayer, Sister Joyce. Amen, thank
you for allowing us to share with one another. Amen,
and being here for the sharing and for the prayer.
Thank you so much. Help me share this out. Sixty seconds.
On the other side of these sixty seconds, we'll come
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back and we'll get into our scirptule. I'll be right back. Amen,
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we're back. Thank you so much for helping me shut
this out. Sister Joanne has a comment here since Johanne says,
I asked you to pray for my son. I was
an emergency from eleven o'clock to eight o'clock last night
and they kept them. They took him right away up
to his room. I asked you to pray for him. Amen,
we are praying for your son's sister Joanne right now,
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Powerful Name of Jesus, that whatever's going on with Joanne's son,
Lord God, that you would cover him, that you will
guide him, that you will help every single person that's
trying to help him in the hospital to be successful
of what they do over his life and in his
life through medical means, through prayer, Amen, through just being
there for him. I pray that he will be encouraged
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to stay encouraged and know that there was a God
who loves him in Jesus Holy Name. Amen to the Amen.
Thank you sister Joanne for sharing that about your son
so that way we could know what to pray for
and be more specific. Thank you so much. Amen. So
let's go forward. Let's see what the Word of God
will say to us today. Because you know the word
of God is alive, right. You know the word of
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You know the word of God is sharpened at any
double edged sword, and you know his word is true,
objectively true, absolutely true. We have a God who speaks truth.
We have a God who speaks out of love and
kindness and gentleness. We have a God of all power,
all authority, yet he's a kind spirit. We have a
God that's omnipresent. We have a God that's all knowing.
We have a God who sees all things. We have
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a God who provides for every single one of our needs.
He sees our needs before we know we need them,
and he provides for every single one of them. That's
a giving God. Amen. And because we have a given God,
we have the joy of giving ourselves. Amen. We need
take eternal life to be given the gift of gratitude
and the gift of faith. Amen. Jesus is our faith.
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We don't have faith in faith, ladies and gentlemen, we
have faith in the Lord Jesus, the Christ of Nazareth. Amen,
God Almighty, through the person Jesus. So let me put
this on the screen for those who are just listening,
No worries. We're gonna just share this word for word
the way we see it on the screen. So the
joy of giving. Today's Giving Tuesday. Amen. That for a
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lot of people out there who have nonprofits, you know,
this is an important day for us. Amens. A way
that we could stay encouraged and keep ongoing, Amen, and
doing what we do in ministry, doing what we're doing
for nonprofits work. Amen. And this will be a boost
for us if people are willing to join us and
partner with us. So I pray that if you're willing
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a man, pray first ask God what he have you
do for the ministry of Soul winn Is Inc. Celebrator Network. Amen.
And if you're blessed, be a blessing and you will
get the joy of giving. Amen. I know for sure
that I do with myself. I love to help people, Amen,
because it gives you a joy. And to know somebody
else's being help because of what your hand has put
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on your hand, to what you have put your hand
to your placing it for someone else, that's a beautiful feeling, man,
and it's a beautiful thing to do. Acts Chapter twenty,
verse number thirty five. In everything I showed you, this
is I believe the apostile speaking by example, that by
working hard in this way you must help the weak.
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And remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he
himself said, quote it is more blessed and brings greater
joy to give than to receive. That's a quote from
the Lord Jesus. Amen. This is not a stretch. This
is not some kind of way of me trying to
get you to give to the ministry. This is actually
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what the Lord Jesus said, and he's being quoted and
everything I showed you by example that by working hard
in this way, you must help the weak and remember
the words of the Lord Jesus. The weakest people maybe
that are unfortunate, the people who are struggling, to people
who need assistance, to people who need food, the people
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who need guidance, the people who are struggling with their families.
Right now is the season to give. When the time
it's recording, we are what twenty four days away from
Christmas celebration in the United States at least, so we're
in a giving more mode. We're in a giving spirit. Amen.
And as a believer, actually, I think in my humble
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opinion that we should be always in a giving spirit,
because when you give, you've received the joy of what
you're giving. Amen, the joy of giving. Jesus said to himself,
it is more blessed to give than to receive. But
I'm going to kind of trust and believe in the
joy of giving by way of what the Lord Jesus spoke. Amen,
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I kind of believe the one who rose from the grave.
I kind of believe him, Amen. And to be truthful,
to know exactly about life and the things that lead
to life. He's a life giver. He's the one who
promises us eternal life. So we should be gracious and
gratitude and have gratitude, and our attitude should be gratitude. Amen. Amen.
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Amen to that. Maria Rosario, thank you so much. God
bless you. Welcome for why watching from YouTube. Thank you,
my sister and my friend, sister friend Cilia here. Okay,
sister friend Celia, God bless you. It's good to see
you on the morning dev with my sister, my friend. Amen.
So listen. The gift of giving brings the joy to
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our hearts into our minds. Right. I can't make it up.
You feel when you give of your time, treasure, talent,
when you give to someone else and it's not for
us to get something back. Right. A lot of times
we'll give to a stranger and maybe we will never
see that stranger. We probably won't even get it. Thank you. Sometimes,
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But it's okay because when I give, Amen, out of
my heart, and I give sometimes out of my lack.
I know it's going to help someone, it's for a purpose,
it's for a reason. Amen. And when God blesses your
giving and your gift, he will multiply that day. So
it's something powerful that happens right when we give. And
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I'm not talking about just financially. I'm talking about our time,
our encouragement, right, I'm talking about our love, our service.
So when Jesus was quoted in the Book of Acts,
chapter twenty, verse thirty five, Jesus is inspiring us to
give because it's more blessed to give than to receive.
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And the question somebody should be asked is why, why,
Sam Why is it more blessed to give than to receive?
Because giving this and closely connects us to the very
heart of God, because he gave his very best right.
So we have a given God. So when we give
to others, that connects to the heart of God. God
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is a giver himself. He's a giver of life. He
is a giver of life. He gave us life right,
he gave us grace, and he gave us his only
begotten son to life Jesus Christ the perfect sacrifice. He
gave Jesus to us. Then Jesus gave us his spirit.
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This is a win win situation for every single hosoever
who called upon the name of the Lord to be saved.
Joanne says, God is good. On Thanksgiving, I made a
lot of food and nobody came here to eat. I
have containers that I get from Bjay's with Lizon, I
packed everything up and I gave them to the homeless.
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Praise the Lord. See God sees, and he gives me
more strength to do what I gotta do. Amen, Thank you.
That's a testimony. That's what I'm talking about. Amen. She
made a lot of food, nobody showed up, so she
put everything containers and gave what she had to those
who were in need. That's beautiful, and I'm pretty sure
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she experienced the joy of giving. She was able to
give to the homeless. She was able to do something
for others. That's why I like that joy. When you
take the word joy, you put Jesus first others than you. Right.
When you do it in that order where you put
God first, you put others before you. Amen, God will
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show up in your life and giving will give you joy,
and that's the joy of giving. Thank you so much,
Sis you're wearing Pastor Michael Jays, good morning, God, bless you,
my brother and my friend. Thank you so much for
coming through to the morning. Devo's good to see you.
If you're not following Pastor Michael James, please follow him.
He has a ministry of the word Amen. He will
impact your life. He will inspire you and encourage you. Amen.
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And he's consistent, think probably more consistent than I am.
So thank you so much, PMJ for showing up. And
every time we give, we look a little more like Jesus. Amen.
So when we give, at least when I give, Amen,
I can't speak for everyone else. When I give, I
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promise you when I give him my time, treasure, and talent.
I'm not looking at it as oh well, I'm in
an investment, so I'm going to return on an investment. No,
I'm looking at it. It's like, thank you Lord that
I was able to do something for someone else. Thank
you Lord that I was able to travel and take
somebody where they need to go. Thank you Lord for
giving me the time to go help somebody else. Thank
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you Lord for allowing me to connect with one of
your children. Thank you Lord. If it wasn't for God,
I won't have anything to give. It wasn't for God,
you won't have anything to give. Amen. So I look
at what I have, Amen, and I make sure that
I'm not hoarding. I make sure I'm not just getting
fat in the world and just storing everything up for
me Amen, and my family. I make sure I give,
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and that bothers a lot of people. A man. I
know people look at it as well. If you're always
giving out to XYZ, what about your own family. Well,
my family's blessed, Amen, and not because of what I'm doing.
It's because of what God has done in our family.
So when it comes to giving, I take it personal.
I know that I have to give Amen out of
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our heart, because God has given me out of his
very best. Amen. What about you? Don't you sense the
giving of the Lord in your life? Amen? That He
gave us breath, he gave us life, he gave us abundance,
he gave us his promises, He gave us the Lord
Jesus Christ. And now we have Holy Spirit God living
in us, the eternal hope of glory, the hope of
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glory for this world, and we could speak life, we
could speak the promises, we could engage people with the gospel. Amen,
the gospel message of the Lord Jesus. That's a giving moment,
and that giving moment when we share the gospel, when
we share our resources, where we share from our heart,
God will give us the joy that goes back with
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that amen that comes with it. It's a win. I
always say that because God will do things through us
that man books should be written about, right, And there's
no book that can contain what God has done his miracles,
what Jesus did his miracles. And I think the saying
goes for all his children. There's no book that can
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contain the miraculous work He has done for all the
people who called upon his name to be saved. And
now we are in the body of Christ. Now we're
in the eternal, forever family of God. It's an amazing thing.
It's an amazing thing. Since a joy says, Amen, praise
the Lord's sister, joear and God bless amen. So you
feel the love, the concern for and the connection that
we have from one another. And that's a way of
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giving as well. We give of our encouraging words we
give of life. Amen. So God is a giver, so
we should be givers. And every time we give, we
look a little more like Jesus giving right, crazy joy? Why?
Because it shifts our focus from what we do and
what we need or what do I need? So how
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can God use me to meet someone else's need? Amen?
It just shifts your focus, Like, man, I have this,
I'm not using this, so maybe I could use this
to give to someone else. It breaks selfishness. You can't
be a selfish person and be a giver, a generous
give at the same time. It's impossible, even if you're
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faking it, it's impossible. You know that as soon as
you release something that was yours, that was a value
of yours. Amen, maybe you worked hard, like everything I have,
like this mic right here, for instance, I had to
work hard for this mic. It's not the greatest mic, amen,
but it's a mic and it's unplugged, and I use
it for things in the studio. Right. But as soon
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as the Lord says listen, you're not using that as much.
And if somebody comes to the studio say hey, using
that mic, I'll just give it to them, not blended
to them. I would give it to them. Why because
God gave me when I needed amen, And maybe that
time of the mic is over and now it's for
someone else to use for the glory of God. Get
what I'm saying. Every time that we give, we look
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more like Jesus. So joy of giving isn't about losing
something like I said earlier, It's a out releasing something
so God can multiply what he has given us for
someone else. Have you noticed someone says, man, I need
like ten dollars and you're looking around. This happened to
me a couple of months ago. True story, someone to
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ask me for money. I was like, man, I don't
have it. Then I hope h my wallet there was,
and I'm looking at it. The first thing that in
my fleet said, well, nobody knows you have that money,
so you might as well just keep it. And I
looked at it. I was like, praise God, here here
you go. It's amazing how God can do things when
your heart is aligned with what He wants to do
for others. A man, that's the joy of giving. So today,
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even though it's you know, it's Giving Tuesday, so people
might think, oh, he is an angle on it well.
The angle I have is acts shot to twenty verse
number thirty five, quoting what Jesus said, It is more
blessed to give than to receive, because God is a giver.
God gave us life, God gave us grace. God gave
us his son. His son gave us Holy spirit. God,
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So don't underestimate a simple act of generosity. Don't underestimate
that man by noon, Nest, good morning. God bless you.
God bless you your beautiful family. God bless you as well.
My sister, my friend, thank you so much for the
blessing of your time and for coming to the morning Devo.
God bless you so today. Don't underestimate the simple act
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of generosity. It could be a small gift. That small
gift could go a long way, especially if you give
it to the Lord for the blessing and then you
give it to someone else. God has a way of
multiplying your gift, big or small. About a text of encouragement.
Text somebody that needs encouragement, Text somebody offer them. Hey,
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I'm texting you. If you need prayer, I'm here for you.
I'm the person that will be praying for you for today.
Beautiful you'll get the gift of joy, the joy of
giving Amen. When you give a text of how about
a prayer for someone who needs strength? The joy of
the Lord is our strength. Say amen. When we approach
somebody with joy. That joy is contagious, especially if it's
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the joy of the Lord, and it brings strength to
someone who feels weak. So you never know. You never
know how you're giving, how you sacrifice your ministry, how
you love, how your encouragement, how your concern, how you're
listening ears. You never know how that could be someone's
answered prayer. Amen, and the doorway to your very own joy.
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The joy of giving Amen is powerful. We know it
because the Lord Jesus quoted himself and said it is
better to give more blessed to give than to receive.
If you study that quote out, it will take you
to places in the scripture you'd be like, wow, this
is amazing. Right, so many times when people gave, right,
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God will bless with the giving is and the giver.
He will bless what you're giving, and he will bless
the giver. So think about it. Maybe this will change
your focus, and maybe this will change your perspective when
it comes to giving. Maybe you've been all this time like, well,
I don't have it. I can never say that and
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look at anybody in the face and say I don't
have I don't have it. I have something. If it
came down to it, amen, and I had to do
something and sell something from my studio to me, to
need my family, to me, the need for others or whatever.
I can't say I don't have a means to help
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in that situation. I can't. And if you're honest, and
if you know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior,
and you're in the Kingdom of God, and you're in
the family forever Family of God, and you're a part
of the Body of Christ, you can't be honest and
say you don't have either. If you're come pair on
yourself to the Joneses, the ones who have the beautiful
you know, Christmas tree and the decorations and lights in
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front of their homes. And when you look at your
own home, you probably only have one light, and that's
the light in the kitchen. Whatever. Praise the Lord, don't compare.
Just go over and give that person that seems like
they have everything together, that family across the street, your
neighbor or whatever that seems like they have all the
lights and the glitter and all that. They might be empty.
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They might not be walking in Christ, they might not
know God, they might not be even happy. They might
just be going with the flow of tradition. You will
never know until you go and knock on the door
and offer them a word of encouragement or introduce yourself.
Amen to the neighbors. And you will never know what
they're going through unless you present yourself. And that's the
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way of giving too, your giving of your time, you're
giving of your listening ear Amen, and you can give
a blessing right there on the spot when a knee
comes up, and that you receive the joy of giving.
I hope this helps you and it helps me out
encourages me every time I hear Jesus quoted. Amen, and Acts,
Chapter twenty, verse number thirty five. Amen, Read it for yourself.
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Read the whole chapter twenty of the book or Acts
if you have time today, and receive the joy of giving.
It's a powerful, powerful thing that the Lord has done
in the lives of all those who call upon his
name to be saved. We are givers now, Amen, and
we give of our time, talent, and treasure, and we
have the joy to continue to give. So I hope
you were blessed. Amen, take a look at the website,
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so when is with zee that Org. Look around the
donate button there if you have received that email, because
if you're on the email list, amen, you know what
I'm talking about. If not, Amen, just stay encouraged. Go
help somebody else right now today. Amen, there's somebody right now.
I guarantee that the Lord has given you in your
mind and in your heart, place that person on your
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mind and your heart right now to go and help
that person, and go ahead and do it. God bless
you all, got to keep you all, and remember always
that God is good. Peace. M
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