September 16, 2025 • 26 mins
Trading Weakness for Power [Morning Devo]
This is where you take the areas where you feel defeated, tired, or broken and exchange them for the strength and power of Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
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This is where you take the areas where you feel defeated, tired, or broken and exchange them for the strength and power of Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
the morning Devo, my brothers and sisters in Christ, those
who are first timers here, God bless you, welcome back
to the morning Devo. Amen. We're here on purpose, for
a purpose, a plan that God has set out. And
what we got going on here? Hold on all this
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stuff going on here crazily here we go. Oh things
going on, haywire. Let me go to the other screen here. Amen.
I don't know if that was all about my bad.
It's probably the morning the morning jitters aymen, healing journey.
I did that? Wow, so long ago. I guess that's
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the Lord speaking telling me. Reminded me of the Healing
Journey from way back when. But wait here, soone is
with a z do org also alive that soone is
with a z o RG streaming on social media platforms.
That a lot of stream to go through. We're back
on X. We took a time off or for Twitter,
but now we're back on X and Man formerly known
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as Twitter, we're there as well. Just in case it
matters to you, Amen, So listen today, we're gonna take
time to trade. We're gonna do some day trading. Then
We're gonna trade off some weakness for power. How many
people are winning with that? Trading your weakness for power
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today on the morning Devo. And what does that mean?
It means that this is where we're gonna take the
areas where you and I feel defeated, where we feel
tired or broken, and we're gonna exchange. We're gonna trade
those things for the strength and for the power of God,
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trading weakness for power, God's power. Second Corinthians, chapter number twelve,
versus nine and ten. Second Corinthians, Verse number twelve, versus
nine and ten. We're gonna be doing this today, trading
our weakness for power God's power today on the Morning Devo.
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You ready for that? If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
prayer requests, on anything along those lines, please don't hesitate
to use a live chat. That's what we're here for.
We're here to engage one another in victorious ways. Man.
We have so much more in common than you may think. Amen,
(02:29):
we have a lot in common, so much in common.
Even for those who don't believe we have a lot
in common. We are all in the same world. We
woke up today in the same world. Some people have
resources more than others. Some people have advantages more than others.
(02:49):
Some people have, you know, testimonies, some people have miraculous
testimonies more than others. But what we do have, all
of us have in common is weaknesses. We have weaknesses
in some place in your life. There's a weakness in
your life. There's a weakness in my life. So we're
gonna all kind of take those weaknesses and do some trading,
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trading those weaknesses for the power of God. Let's pray first.
After we pray, we share this out for like sixty seconds,
and then on the other side of those sixty seconds,
we'll come right back and we'll get right into today's morning.
Devote aymen Tewo Corinthians shot the twelve verses nine and
ten for those people who crack open their scriptures man,
and crack open in the Bible. That's what we're gonna be.
(03:35):
To make sure you keep me in check, make sure
I don't take this out of context, but keep it
in the context of Christ. So, Father God, I thank
you for right now, this moment in time. Thank you,
Lo God, regardless of how we feel today, of how
we woke up, if we woke up in a place
of victory, or we woke up in a place of sadness,
or we woke up in a place of weakness or discouragement.
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You are there. You are with us, You are eternally
with us. We thank you, Lord God. I thank you
Lor God from the depths of my heart. I know
that you are with us. You are for us, You're
working through us. You continue to work even when we
don't see your working process happening. You're still working. I pray,
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Lord God, a hedge of protection, a powerful hedge of protection.
Surround us with your protecting angels. Surround us with your love,
grace and mercy. Surround us with your truth. Surround us
with your love, Surround us with your power. Got no
weapon formed against us shall prosper. I pray that over myself,
over my wife, our children, our grandchildren, our families, amen
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on both sides of our families, from the very youngest
family member all the way to the very oldest family member,
and every single friend and every single person in between.
That I pray the same over every single person on
the other side of the screen or on the other
side of this MC. I pray the power of God.
I pray Lord God, that you will continue to remind
us that in our weakness, you, Lord God, willveal your strength,
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and I thank you for that as well. So I
speak peace, I speak life, I speak encouragement, I speak
the power of God through the Gospel of God. And
I thank you, Lord God for this opportunity to be
a part of what you're doing today in the lives
of many. And Jesus Holy Name, my praise about faith
and those who agree, we say amen too, the Amen.
Help me share this out. Sixty seconds when we come back,
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We'll get right into it. I'll be right back. Hey man,
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we're back. We're back. Let's go for it. Help me out,
help me really take this to different levels by sharing
this out. Also by visiting our donate page. Someone is
with a ZEA orgy forward slash donate. Right there you'll
see not only a place where you can sow accede,
but a place where you can see the vision that
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God has given this ministry for many years and he
has He has kept his promise. Amen. So I'm doing
my part and together we could take this to a
different level knowing that God is behind us. Once we
know that God is for us, who can be against us, Amen,
together with so much better. So if God is really
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making you interested in what's going on with someone is
ink Soone is Ministry, Celebrator Network, the Blaze Bobber Study,
and what's happening right now in the morning Devo. When
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I spell out what God has given us amen to
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do on this side of eternity. And thank you so
much much for your prayers, thank you so much for
your donations, thank you so much for your support, thank
you so much for your shares, and all those people
out there who share this on your groups, thank you
so much. I'm grateful you're not only helping this ministry,
but you're helping other ministries and helping other families as
well as you do that, Amen, So let's go forward
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trading weakness for power. When God gave me that title,
I was like, yes, Amen, we could finally come to
a place in Christ that we could admit that we're weak,
and in a weakness we find God to be strong.
Right even when we think we got it all together.
If we're honest, we know this areas in our lives
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that we can be more better. That we are weak
in those areas. But because of Christ Jesus helping us
strengthen in us, we can recover, Amen, and we can
get to a place of victory and keep winning. Amen.
Nobody wants to lose in life. I haven't met anybody
that's out there purposely losing in their life. We have weaknesses,
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and we could confront those weaknesses with the power of God.
So let's trade it off. Amen. Let's trade trading weakness power. Amen.
God is good at his word. He's good for his word, Amen,
and we have what we need through him. Second Corinthings,
chapter number twelve. Amen. To make sure, let me make
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sure I got this right yet twelve, verses nine and ten.
But so that means something happened before this portion of
the thought of the scripture right here. But He has
said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, very personal,
very specific. I loving kindness and my mercy are more
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than enough, always available, available, regardless of the situation. See that,
regardless of what I'm going through, regardless of what you're
going through. God says his grace is sufficient. His mercy
is more than enough, always available, regardless of the situation.
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For my power, this is the Lord's power is being
perfected and is completed, and shows itself most effectively in
our weakness and your weakness and my weakness. Therefore I
will all the more gladly boast. This is what we do.
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We boast in our weaknesses, why so that the power
of Christ may completely and fold me and may dwell
in me. So I am well pleased with weaknesses, with insults,
with distresses, with persecutions, and with difficulties for the sake
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of Who, for the sake of Christ. Or when I
am weak in human strength, then I am strong, truly able,
truly powerful, truly drawing from God's strength. This is where
we get to a place in our relationship with the
Lord that we're honest, that we're vulnerable, that we are
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admitting our weaknesses. And then we say, listen, I'm weak,
and I know I'm weak, but I'm gonna start boasting
about this weakness because every time I show vulnerability, every
time I'm honest with people and honest with God. Every
time I'm testifying with God. Amen, even through persecutions, even
through when people insult me, even when I'm distressed, even
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through difficulties in life, financially, relationally, whatever the case may be.
When I'm weak and my human strength, I am strong.
I'm truly able, truly powerful, truly drawing from God's strength,
because why his grace over you and over me is
more than enough, His loving kindness, his mercy is more
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than enough. He's available sometimes. No, God's available all the time,
and his power is being perfected in our weakness. Right,
this is amazing. There's no other relation that I know
of that when you go and say, listen, I messed
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up a week, that there's some incredible grace other than
disgrace that we see in the scriptures from the Lord.
The grace of God is an amazing grace. That's why
so many people think they're getting away with sin. It's
because of an amazing, supernatural, more than enough, loving kindness,
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mercy of God. Be careful with that, amen. We shouldn't
send more, because grace is more than enough. We should
make sure that we're admitting I would sin to the
Lord first, confessing I woul sins to one another, so
that way we could be forgiven and healed and forgiven
for their sins. Amen. Good morning sisters, Joanne, I see you,
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Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to the morning
Devo with my sister and my friend. It's good to
see you. So that's where we're at. We're at a
place of weakness, right, admitting weakness, and a lot of
people don't want to admit that, especially people on social media,
people on public platforms, big platforms. They don't want to
admit that they have weaknesses in their life because they're
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not humble enough to admit that. Even though everybody knows
that this weakness and human in human and mankind, there's weaknesses.
Every single pastor, apostle, evangelist, prophet teacher their's weaknesses. And
I learned a long time ago, oh listen, when I'm
a weak in areas, let me go ahead and tell
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a brother in Christ. So that way they know they'll
have weaknesses. And then that conversation usually opens up another
conversation where it says, you know what, I didn't want
to tell anybody, but I'm weak in this air, in
that area. It brings honesty to the front. And then
once that happens, we are bringing all those things and
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trading those things of weaknesses, trading weakness for power, the
power of God. Amen. So confess your weakness, be honest. Right,
you could do it like this, Father the Lord, I
confess my struggles before you. I am weak. You name
the area of your weaknesses. It could be the weak
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in faith, a weak in health, humanly, patience, finances, relationship,
whatever it is, and then admit that I can't carry
this on my own. And we kind of all know
that if we're honest, we can't do this ourselves. We
can't do this on our own. Life hits hard sometimes
we can't be doing this all alone. But I know
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your strength, Lord is greater than my weaknesses. Right. So
when you take your weakness and you carry it to
the cross, Amen, there's power there, this forgiveness. There, there's
redemption there, right, there's grace there, there's love there, there's
sacrifice there, there's mercy there. Amen, there's victory there, there's salvation. There,
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there's the blood of Jesus. Carry your weakness to the
cross and you're going to find out that there's a Jesus,
the Christ, the Masik McGee, the Messiah, waiting to give
you his power. Jesus carried your sins and my sins,
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our burdens together of all the world actually and all
the pains of the world. Carry that all on a cross.
So every weekness that you may have, we place it
at the feet of the Lord. And we've become stubborn saints.
We refuse to hold that shame, We refuse to hold
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that fear, We refuse to hold on to defeat, and
we surrender what we can't handle and place it in
the hands of the Lord, a place where we know,
we find power, we find love. And people say, oh,
you know, Christians are always judging people. We're not judging.
We shouldn't be judging outside as the people who don't
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know Christ. We should be judging our own actions and judge, judge,
and use judgment over the brothers. Insists in the Lord
to make sure we're sharpening each other, make sure we
were correcting each other in love and gentleness and moving
in the right direction. Why would anybody this is spiritual war, right,
Why would anybody in any war or leave our brothers
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and sisters behind or in a dangerous place without turning
back and helping them back up and moving forward. No
greater love than this than a man or a woman,
or lay down their life for a friend. Amen, for
the cause of what God has for us. Amen. So
there's in exchange. It's a trade going on by faith.
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You can make this trade. It's like a daily trade, right,
a day trade. Amen. We're declaring this trade by faith. Lord,
I give you my fear and I receive your courage.
See that, Lord, I give you my doubt and I
receive your faith. This is good. Lord. I give you
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my fatigue when I'm tired, and I receive your strength
your power. You know, God never tires, right, he never fails,
he never slumbers, he never turns back on his PROMI
He's always the Yes. And Amen, bless your smith, God,
bless you. Welcome back to the morning. Devo, my sister,
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my friend. Yes, right, I give you my brokenness right
at times of brokenness, and I receive your wholeness. You
see that. I give you my weakness and I receive
your power. People want to see the power of God
in your life. Want to see the power God in
my life. So many people I know they're tired of
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hearing the preaching of the gospel. They want to see
the power of the gospel. I'm just saying Amen. They
don't want to see a bunch of sermons just happening
inside of building. They want to see the result of
those sermons outside of the building. Now I believe in church,
of course, I believe in the gathering place. Of course.
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That's a place where you get equipped to go ahead
and do the works of the ministry. It's not a
place where you sit down for ten, fifteen, thirty years
and say I go to I'm a part of I'm
a member of this church, and people say so, I
never knew that I knew you for like twenty years.
I never knew you went to church. Why because easther
either you never invited them or they never saw anything
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come outside of those four walls. That's not the church
that Gods is raising up or the God established. He's
established us to go. We have a message to go,
We have the green light to go and make disciples,
baptizing people in the name of the Father's Son and
the Holy Ghost. You know, touch people and they shall recover, Amen,
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and they shall be healed. We're supposed to be outside.
The equipping of the saints happens in the gathering. Right,
do not forsake the gathering but we need to take
it outside. So let me talk to some church leaders
that are so used to inviting people to your place.
That's supposed to be all of that. Right, you're supposed
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to equip the saints to do the works of the ministry,
and the works are outside of the building. We come
inside the building, we receive power, strength, prayer, we get
the teaching of the Lord, of course, the most powerful thing,
the Word of God. And then we should say, okay,
next week we're going to go and apply where we
just learned outside. These walls include the scriptures, what the disciple?
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Where were the disciples, ladies and gentlemen. Most of the
time when you read the scriptures and the Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John, where were they? They were outside? Let's be honest, right,
even in their weakness, they said, well, we decided to
follow the Lord Jesus. He's always outside, so we're going
to be outside right there with him. Amen. And then
when we need together, we'll go to Synagod. We'll get
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the teachings of the Lord. We'll get the teachings of
the rabbis, Amen. And then we'll take that information, learn
the information, pray about that information, apply the information and
then go outside and share that information. That information is
not only information for here that information is transformation. Amen,
glory to God. A trade. Lord, I give you my fear,
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exchange it for your courage. Amen. Yes, the powerful Lord
that we serve. Yes, Felicia, you on it, Yes, Yes,
praying and working in the community absolutely outside. Amen. Can
you imagine when the Church of Jesus Christ steps outside
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in the arena, outside of the walls, whether you go
on this side of the political idea, on that side
of the political idea, and when they see when the world
sees Us Christ, Jesus kingdom, minded people filled with the Lord,
united regardless of the persecution, regardless of the weakness, regardless
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of the discouragement, regardless of the stress, but where united
because of Him, the world will be like, Wow, there's
power in the name of whom they're calling on, In
the name of whom they serve, is power in the
Lord's Jesus, in the Lord's home, in the Lord's house
and the Lord's church, a man in the Lord's community.
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And we could show that, we could show that right
now today. We don't got to wait till a holiday.
We don't got to wait till a celebration. We don't
have to wait for a Sunday or Tuesday or Wednesday
or whenever you show up in the building that we
call church. We are the church. We are the family
of God. We are the purposed filled, holy, ghost filled
power of God living on this planet. And we're supposed
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to shine light. And we're supposed to be salty, not angry.
We're supposed to be preserving the Word of God in
our lives and working through our lives. Amen, we're training
weakness for power all the time. Think about it all
the time. We're doing this. Stand in God's promises. Regardless
whether or not you are instantly receiving the promise of God,
you hurt the promise, right, So wait and stand on
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God's promises. When I am weak, there's the promise that
I am strong. And we read that just now in
first second Corinthians, chapter numbers twelve versus nine to ten.
So when we hope in God, not hope in our
tray's bond stocks. Right, We're not hoping in you know,
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our baseball players, our football players, our basketball players. Amen.
When we hope in the Lord, we will renew our strength.
Hoping in God never disappoints. We might be thinking the
timing is off because I know when I pray, I
need things asap, like right there on the spot. God
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is like, do your part and I'll do mine. Amen.
Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
We see that in Isaiah chapter forty, verse thirty one,
very powerful, very familiar scripture to those who read their Bibles.
We model our wings of eagles like eagles, and we
saw never faints and never grow weary, and stay in
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that condition when we're hoping in the Lord. Because the
Lord will renew our strength. The Lord will resurrect all
those things that are dead that he promised to make
a live. God never leaves us broke, busted and disgusted.
He never puts us to shame. Amen. He never reminds
any of us. Have you ever noticed that? He never
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reminds me of my past, never reminds me of past sin.
Lord never reminded me ever since I got born again
in two thousand and one. He never reminded me of sin.
He never reminded me of who I was. I have
a testimony, and I could remind you of who I was.
But he himself never reminded me of who I was.
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And when I fall, he says, get back up, don't
start all over right, get back up and keep on
walking from that point to the point where he has
us going. Why, because you could declare with the word
says that I could do all things through Christ, who
does what, who strengthens me. Christ Jesus who strengthens So
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if God calls you to do something, tells you to
do something, he will empower you to get whatever that
something is done. Right. This is He's not playing semantics
and not playing tricks. Amen. Philippians for thirteen says I
can do all things, all the things that he calls
you to do. That means through Christ, who strengthens me.
So you could pray these verses aloud as declarations. Why
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because God's word is in contract? Is the contract of
the trade? Is God's word? Amen? That's all I got today.
I'm out of time, but thank you so much for
coming through. We were in Second Corinthians, chapter number twelve,
Verses nine and ten. I suggest you read the whole chapter.
Second Corinthians, chapter twelve so you can make sure I
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was in context. Amen. So God bless you all, God
keep you all. Or remember always God is good. Peace,
One family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
the morning Devo, my brothers and sisters in Christ, those
who are first timers here, God bless you, welcome back
to the morning Devo. Amen. We're here on purpose, for
a purpose, a plan that God has set out. And
what we got going on here? Hold on all this
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stuff going on here crazily here we go. Oh things
going on, haywire. Let me go to the other screen here. Amen.
I don't know if that was all about my bad.
It's probably the morning the morning jitters aymen, healing journey.
I did that? Wow, so long ago. I guess that's
(00:43):
the Lord speaking telling me. Reminded me of the Healing
Journey from way back when. But wait here, soone is
with a z do org also alive that soone is
with a z o RG streaming on social media platforms.
That a lot of stream to go through. We're back
on X. We took a time off or for Twitter,
but now we're back on X and Man formerly known
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as Twitter, we're there as well. Just in case it
matters to you, Amen, So listen today, we're gonna take
time to trade. We're gonna do some day trading. Then
We're gonna trade off some weakness for power. How many
people are winning with that? Trading your weakness for power
(01:25):
today on the morning Devo. And what does that mean?
It means that this is where we're gonna take the
areas where you and I feel defeated, where we feel
tired or broken, and we're gonna exchange. We're gonna trade
those things for the strength and for the power of God,
(01:48):
trading weakness for power, God's power. Second Corinthians, chapter number twelve,
versus nine and ten. Second Corinthians, Verse number twelve, versus
nine and ten. We're gonna be doing this today, trading
our weakness for power God's power today on the Morning Devo.
(02:09):
You ready for that? If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
prayer requests, on anything along those lines, please don't hesitate
to use a live chat. That's what we're here for.
We're here to engage one another in victorious ways. Man.
We have so much more in common than you may think. Amen,
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we have a lot in common, so much in common.
Even for those who don't believe we have a lot
in common. We are all in the same world. We
woke up today in the same world. Some people have
resources more than others. Some people have advantages more than others.
(02:49):
Some people have, you know, testimonies, some people have miraculous
testimonies more than others. But what we do have, all
of us have in common is weaknesses. We have weaknesses
in some place in your life. There's a weakness in
your life. There's a weakness in my life. So we're
gonna all kind of take those weaknesses and do some trading,
(03:13):
trading those weaknesses for the power of God. Let's pray first.
After we pray, we share this out for like sixty seconds,
and then on the other side of those sixty seconds,
we'll come right back and we'll get right into today's morning.
Devote aymen Tewo Corinthians shot the twelve verses nine and
ten for those people who crack open their scriptures man,
and crack open in the Bible. That's what we're gonna be.
(03:35):
To make sure you keep me in check, make sure
I don't take this out of context, but keep it
in the context of Christ. So, Father God, I thank
you for right now, this moment in time. Thank you,
Lo God, regardless of how we feel today, of how
we woke up, if we woke up in a place
of victory, or we woke up in a place of sadness,
or we woke up in a place of weakness or discouragement.
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You are there. You are with us, You are eternally
with us. We thank you, Lord God. I thank you
Lor God from the depths of my heart. I know
that you are with us. You are for us, You're
working through us. You continue to work even when we
don't see your working process happening. You're still working. I pray,
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Lord God, a hedge of protection, a powerful hedge of protection.
Surround us with your protecting angels. Surround us with your love,
grace and mercy. Surround us with your truth. Surround us
with your love, Surround us with your power. Got no
weapon formed against us shall prosper. I pray that over myself,
over my wife, our children, our grandchildren, our families, amen
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on both sides of our families, from the very youngest
family member all the way to the very oldest family member,
and every single friend and every single person in between.
That I pray the same over every single person on
the other side of the screen or on the other
side of this MC. I pray the power of God.
I pray Lord God, that you will continue to remind
us that in our weakness, you, Lord God, willveal your strength,
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and I thank you for that as well. So I
speak peace, I speak life, I speak encouragement, I speak
the power of God through the Gospel of God. And
I thank you, Lord God for this opportunity to be
a part of what you're doing today in the lives
of many. And Jesus Holy Name, my praise about faith
and those who agree, we say amen too, the Amen.
Help me share this out. Sixty seconds when we come back,
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We'll get right into it. I'll be right back. Hey man,
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we're back. We're back. Let's go for it. Help me out,
help me really take this to different levels by sharing
this out. Also by visiting our donate page. Someone is
with a ZEA orgy forward slash donate. Right there you'll
see not only a place where you can sow accede,
but a place where you can see the vision that
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God has given this ministry for many years and he
has He has kept his promise. Amen. So I'm doing
my part and together we could take this to a
different level knowing that God is behind us. Once we
know that God is for us, who can be against us, Amen,
together with so much better. So if God is really
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making you interested in what's going on with someone is
ink Soone is Ministry, Celebrator Network, the Blaze Bobber Study,
and what's happening right now in the morning Devo. When
you have time, take an opportunity to check out the
website Soone is with a zea org Amen, and press
that donate button. It'll take you to a page where
I spell out what God has given us amen to
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do on this side of eternity. And thank you so
much much for your prayers, thank you so much for
your donations, thank you so much for your support, thank
you so much for your shares, and all those people
out there who share this on your groups, thank you
so much. I'm grateful you're not only helping this ministry,
but you're helping other ministries and helping other families as
well as you do that, Amen, So let's go forward
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trading weakness for power. When God gave me that title,
I was like, yes, Amen, we could finally come to
a place in Christ that we could admit that we're weak,
and in a weakness we find God to be strong.
Right even when we think we got it all together.
If we're honest, we know this areas in our lives
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that we can be more better. That we are weak
in those areas. But because of Christ Jesus helping us
strengthen in us, we can recover, Amen, and we can
get to a place of victory and keep winning. Amen.
Nobody wants to lose in life. I haven't met anybody
that's out there purposely losing in their life. We have weaknesses,
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and we could confront those weaknesses with the power of God.
So let's trade it off. Amen. Let's trade trading weakness power. Amen.
God is good at his word. He's good for his word, Amen,
and we have what we need through him. Second Corinthings,
chapter number twelve. Amen. To make sure, let me make
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sure I got this right yet twelve, verses nine and ten.
But so that means something happened before this portion of
the thought of the scripture right here. But He has
said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, very personal,
very specific. I loving kindness and my mercy are more
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than enough, always available, available, regardless of the situation. See that,
regardless of what I'm going through, regardless of what you're
going through. God says his grace is sufficient. His mercy
is more than enough, always available, regardless of the situation.
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For my power, this is the Lord's power is being
perfected and is completed, and shows itself most effectively in
our weakness and your weakness and my weakness. Therefore I
will all the more gladly boast. This is what we do.
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We boast in our weaknesses, why so that the power
of Christ may completely and fold me and may dwell
in me. So I am well pleased with weaknesses, with insults,
with distresses, with persecutions, and with difficulties for the sake
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of Who, for the sake of Christ. Or when I
am weak in human strength, then I am strong, truly able,
truly powerful, truly drawing from God's strength. This is where
we get to a place in our relationship with the
Lord that we're honest, that we're vulnerable, that we are
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admitting our weaknesses. And then we say, listen, I'm weak,
and I know I'm weak, but I'm gonna start boasting
about this weakness because every time I show vulnerability, every
time I'm honest with people and honest with God. Every
time I'm testifying with God. Amen, even through persecutions, even
through when people insult me, even when I'm distressed, even
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through difficulties in life, financially, relationally, whatever the case may be.
When I'm weak and my human strength, I am strong.
I'm truly able, truly powerful, truly drawing from God's strength,
because why his grace over you and over me is
more than enough, His loving kindness, his mercy is more
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than enough. He's available sometimes. No, God's available all the time,
and his power is being perfected in our weakness. Right,
this is amazing. There's no other relation that I know
of that when you go and say, listen, I messed
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up a week, that there's some incredible grace other than
disgrace that we see in the scriptures from the Lord.
The grace of God is an amazing grace. That's why
so many people think they're getting away with sin. It's
because of an amazing, supernatural, more than enough, loving kindness,
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mercy of God. Be careful with that, amen. We shouldn't
send more, because grace is more than enough. We should
make sure that we're admitting I would sin to the
Lord first, confessing I woul sins to one another, so
that way we could be forgiven and healed and forgiven
for their sins. Amen. Good morning sisters, Joanne, I see you,
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Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to the morning
Devo with my sister and my friend. It's good to
see you. So that's where we're at. We're at a
place of weakness, right, admitting weakness, and a lot of
people don't want to admit that, especially people on social media,
people on public platforms, big platforms. They don't want to
admit that they have weaknesses in their life because they're
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not humble enough to admit that. Even though everybody knows
that this weakness and human in human and mankind, there's weaknesses.
Every single pastor, apostle, evangelist, prophet teacher their's weaknesses. And
I learned a long time ago, oh listen, when I'm
a weak in areas, let me go ahead and tell
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a brother in Christ. So that way they know they'll
have weaknesses. And then that conversation usually opens up another
conversation where it says, you know what, I didn't want
to tell anybody, but I'm weak in this air, in
that area. It brings honesty to the front. And then
once that happens, we are bringing all those things and
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trading those things of weaknesses, trading weakness for power, the
power of God. Amen. So confess your weakness, be honest. Right,
you could do it like this, Father the Lord, I
confess my struggles before you. I am weak. You name
the area of your weaknesses. It could be the weak
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in faith, a weak in health, humanly, patience, finances, relationship,
whatever it is, and then admit that I can't carry
this on my own. And we kind of all know
that if we're honest, we can't do this ourselves. We
can't do this on our own. Life hits hard sometimes
we can't be doing this all alone. But I know
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your strength, Lord is greater than my weaknesses. Right. So
when you take your weakness and you carry it to
the cross, Amen, there's power there, this forgiveness. There, there's
redemption there, right, there's grace there, there's love there, there's
sacrifice there, there's mercy there. Amen, there's victory there, there's salvation. There,
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there's the blood of Jesus. Carry your weakness to the
cross and you're going to find out that there's a Jesus,
the Christ, the Masik McGee, the Messiah, waiting to give
you his power. Jesus carried your sins and my sins,
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our burdens together of all the world actually and all
the pains of the world. Carry that all on a cross.
So every weekness that you may have, we place it
at the feet of the Lord. And we've become stubborn saints.
We refuse to hold that shame, We refuse to hold
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that fear, We refuse to hold on to defeat, and
we surrender what we can't handle and place it in
the hands of the Lord, a place where we know,
we find power, we find love. And people say, oh,
you know, Christians are always judging people. We're not judging.
We shouldn't be judging outside as the people who don't
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know Christ. We should be judging our own actions and judge, judge,
and use judgment over the brothers. Insists in the Lord
to make sure we're sharpening each other, make sure we
were correcting each other in love and gentleness and moving
in the right direction. Why would anybody this is spiritual war, right,
Why would anybody in any war or leave our brothers
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and sisters behind or in a dangerous place without turning
back and helping them back up and moving forward. No
greater love than this than a man or a woman,
or lay down their life for a friend. Amen, for
the cause of what God has for us. Amen. So
there's in exchange. It's a trade going on by faith.
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You can make this trade. It's like a daily trade, right,
a day trade. Amen. We're declaring this trade by faith. Lord,
I give you my fear and I receive your courage.
See that, Lord, I give you my doubt and I
receive your faith. This is good. Lord. I give you
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my fatigue when I'm tired, and I receive your strength
your power. You know, God never tires, right, he never fails,
he never slumbers, he never turns back on his PROMI
He's always the Yes. And Amen, bless your smith, God,
bless you. Welcome back to the morning. Devo, my sister,
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my friend. Yes, right, I give you my brokenness right
at times of brokenness, and I receive your wholeness. You
see that. I give you my weakness and I receive
your power. People want to see the power of God
in your life. Want to see the power God in
my life. So many people I know they're tired of
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hearing the preaching of the gospel. They want to see
the power of the gospel. I'm just saying Amen. They
don't want to see a bunch of sermons just happening
inside of building. They want to see the result of
those sermons outside of the building. Now I believe in church,
of course, I believe in the gathering place. Of course.
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That's a place where you get equipped to go ahead
and do the works of the ministry. It's not a
place where you sit down for ten, fifteen, thirty years
and say I go to I'm a part of I'm
a member of this church, and people say so, I
never knew that I knew you for like twenty years.
I never knew you went to church. Why because easther
either you never invited them or they never saw anything
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come outside of those four walls. That's not the church
that Gods is raising up or the God established. He's
established us to go. We have a message to go,
We have the green light to go and make disciples,
baptizing people in the name of the Father's Son and
the Holy Ghost. You know, touch people and they shall recover, Amen,
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and they shall be healed. We're supposed to be outside.
The equipping of the saints happens in the gathering. Right,
do not forsake the gathering but we need to take
it outside. So let me talk to some church leaders
that are so used to inviting people to your place.
That's supposed to be all of that. Right, you're supposed
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to equip the saints to do the works of the ministry,
and the works are outside of the building. We come
inside the building, we receive power, strength, prayer, we get
the teaching of the Lord, of course, the most powerful thing,
the Word of God. And then we should say, okay,
next week we're going to go and apply where we
just learned outside. These walls include the scriptures, what the disciple?
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Where were the disciples, ladies and gentlemen. Most of the
time when you read the scriptures and the Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John, where were they? They were outside? Let's be honest, right,
even in their weakness, they said, well, we decided to
follow the Lord Jesus. He's always outside, so we're going
to be outside right there with him. Amen. And then
when we need together, we'll go to Synagod. We'll get
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the teachings of the Lord. We'll get the teachings of
the rabbis, Amen. And then we'll take that information, learn
the information, pray about that information, apply the information and
then go outside and share that information. That information is
not only information for here that information is transformation. Amen,
glory to God. A trade. Lord, I give you my fear,
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exchange it for your courage. Amen. Yes, the powerful Lord
that we serve. Yes, Felicia, you on it, Yes, Yes,
praying and working in the community absolutely outside. Amen. Can
you imagine when the Church of Jesus Christ steps outside
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in the arena, outside of the walls, whether you go
on this side of the political idea, on that side
of the political idea, and when they see when the world
sees Us Christ, Jesus kingdom, minded people filled with the Lord,
united regardless of the persecution, regardless of the weakness, regardless
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of the discouragement, regardless of the stress, but where united
because of Him, the world will be like, Wow, there's
power in the name of whom they're calling on, In
the name of whom they serve, is power in the
Lord's Jesus, in the Lord's home, in the Lord's house
and the Lord's church, a man in the Lord's community.
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And we could show that, we could show that right
now today. We don't got to wait till a holiday.
We don't got to wait till a celebration. We don't
have to wait for a Sunday or Tuesday or Wednesday
or whenever you show up in the building that we
call church. We are the church. We are the family
of God. We are the purposed filled, holy, ghost filled
power of God living on this planet. And we're supposed
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to shine light. And we're supposed to be salty, not angry.
We're supposed to be preserving the Word of God in
our lives and working through our lives. Amen, we're training
weakness for power all the time. Think about it all
the time. We're doing this. Stand in God's promises. Regardless
whether or not you are instantly receiving the promise of God,
you hurt the promise, right, So wait and stand on
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God's promises. When I am weak, there's the promise that
I am strong. And we read that just now in
first second Corinthians, chapter numbers twelve versus nine to ten.
So when we hope in God, not hope in our
tray's bond stocks. Right, We're not hoping in you know,
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our baseball players, our football players, our basketball players. Amen.
When we hope in the Lord, we will renew our strength.
Hoping in God never disappoints. We might be thinking the
timing is off because I know when I pray, I
need things asap, like right there on the spot. God
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is like, do your part and I'll do mine. Amen.
Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
We see that in Isaiah chapter forty, verse thirty one,
very powerful, very familiar scripture to those who read their Bibles.
We model our wings of eagles like eagles, and we
saw never faints and never grow weary, and stay in
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that condition when we're hoping in the Lord. Because the
Lord will renew our strength. The Lord will resurrect all
those things that are dead that he promised to make
a live. God never leaves us broke, busted and disgusted.
He never puts us to shame. Amen. He never reminds
any of us. Have you ever noticed that? He never
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reminds me of my past, never reminds me of past sin.
Lord never reminded me ever since I got born again
in two thousand and one. He never reminded me of sin.
He never reminded me of who I was. I have
a testimony, and I could remind you of who I was.
But he himself never reminded me of who I was.
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And when I fall, he says, get back up, don't
start all over right, get back up and keep on
walking from that point to the point where he has
us going. Why, because you could declare with the word
says that I could do all things through Christ, who
does what, who strengthens me. Christ Jesus who strengthens So
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if God calls you to do something, tells you to
do something, he will empower you to get whatever that
something is done. Right. This is He's not playing semantics
and not playing tricks. Amen. Philippians for thirteen says I
can do all things, all the things that he calls
you to do. That means through Christ, who strengthens me.
So you could pray these verses aloud as declarations. Why
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because God's word is in contract? Is the contract of
the trade? Is God's word? Amen? That's all I got today.
I'm out of time, but thank you so much for
coming through. We were in Second Corinthians, chapter number twelve,
Verses nine and ten. I suggest you read the whole chapter.
Second Corinthians, chapter twelve so you can make sure I
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was in context. Amen. So God bless you all, God
keep you all. Or remember always God is good. Peace,
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