Bible Study Proverbs 21:11-20

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For me that following week.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord,
as the rivers of water. He turneth it whethersoever he will.
God is in control of anyone that is in leadership.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
You know.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
We talked about that we don't actually have kings, but
anyone in any type of leadership in all, whether you
in leadership or not, your heart is in the Lord's
hand and he can do whatever we talked about. Gave
examples of Pharaoh and Cyrus. So that was that. That

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scripture came to pass this week this week, so I
thank God for that. And I'm not gonna say too
much else. But the other thing I enjoyed is when
we talked about motive and intent, the difference. There is
a difference and the motive and intent. But someone else, man,

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somebody else got a short person.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
I wanted to add to verse one.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
I was looking at it some more actually onto well,
I think I don't know, maybe today, but one thing
that I what came to mind was when we were
talking about the king's heart is in the in the
uh in the Lord's hand, and I was thinking about
just this, yeah, the world today and just everything that's

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going on, and and I think Pastor alluded to it
last week in regards to the people that are in office,
that are in charge of the world, and and and
things like that, and and in this the King is
referencing these people. But it's in the Lord's hand. And
I was thinking that because it's in the Lord's hand

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and the prayers of the righteous of al us much
all we gotta do is come together and pray and
just watch God begin to turn the things. But something
else that I wrote down says God does not need
to do violence to the human heart to guide it.
So he can do it by simply uh, arranging other circumstances.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's all I mean.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
He can do it without violence, just r arrange some circumstances,
and and God can turn the King's heart to to
our favor.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Amen. One another thing that I.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
In uh verse two, I wrote down, by nature we
justify ourselves. Sometimes we do it in sincerity, but sometimes.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's with deception and a pride for s uh.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Nature is what makes us do it within uh in
the you know, do it in deception. And every man
pretty much thinks that he's right, you know, in his
own in his own way. And I begin to think
about just people in general and people that I know,

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and how some people try to use scripture to justify
their wrongness or their h just whatever, but by nature.
But sometimes people do that and they do it in sincerity.
So that doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong. It's just they
really don't know that they're wrong in that sense. Let's

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see what else.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Prism.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Verse three talks about. Well, what I wrote down last
week was do nto others as you want them to
do onto you, kind of like the Golden rule, which
is what I teach in Sunday school every Sunday morning
to the kids when they're there, remember the Golden Rule.
So I also wrote down how we treat others is

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more important to God than our service, because we can
do service. But if we're not treating people right, we're
doing service in vain. Because he gonna say, depart from me,
you workers of iniquity.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
I know you not. Verse five.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Pastor said think it through and talk it out, and
I wrote down shortcuts can sometimes.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Lead to failure Verse eight. The path we walk with
display who we are.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
M H.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
That's it. Maybe if somebody else got something, they won't.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Say, hey man, we got one more.

Speaker 6 (04:55):
Okay, But I'm just go over with some persons kind
of la put in my own words, my own words.
Verse one was talking about the hand. The Lord's hand
is as a river, as a river of water. He
turns it whethersoever he will. He is always in control.

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And verse to his and my own words said, man's
way is all right in his own eyes. But the
Lord punders the heart. God knows our motive and what
is in our hearts. Verse three do what is right,
and pharaoh, obedience is better than sacrifice. And verse four
talk about proud look, haughty spirit, selfish attitude. You know

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that sins then is at the door, okay. And and
sin is sin when it's it's sin when it is finished,
it leads to death, okay. And verse five talking about
careful planning bring about plenteousness. So if we plan, plan things,
and instead of letting do it, better to plan than
it than to do things on our own on to

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go out just you just do it without planning, and
you subject defaulty if you gonna you don't uh, you
don't plan a Verse six air line tongue may lead
to death. It's ill ill gotten treasures is vanity. Verse
seven say wickedness may destroy one who does evil deeds, Yet.

Speaker 7 (06:22):
There is hope.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
Verse eight froward person is a prone to wickedness guilty,
and perverse verse nine say better to live in a
corner of the house than to live with a brawling,
contentious woman. Promote hum promote harmony and health to living,
not live grievously, okay, And verse ten is the soul

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of the wicked do its evil, selfish living shows no mercy.

Speaker 7 (06:52):
That's what I got.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Heymen, for those that are listening, we want to let
you know that this is Bible study. However, we want
feedback and in order. Just like a teacher, when a
teacher is teaches a lesson, she gets gets joy when
her students can give her some feedback. This lets her

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know even though even if they put it in their
own ways. We have already said that Solomon is saying
some things multiple times, but it is in his multiplicity.
He might say it one way and then say it
another way so that we can get a better understanding.
So that's what this Bible study, you might say, Well,

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Bible study is you know, the teacher does teaching, don't nobody.
No one says anything in return, but in this Bible study,
I'm asking for feedback to make sure that what I've
said and what that you've you're learning it and you
if you learn it, you can apply it to your life.
Ay man, do we have any morebody else? Yes, sir,

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one more. I'm liking these feedback.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
On verse six talk about wealth coming through line tongus.
It made me think about like these certain companies that
you know come out and they just blazing like everyone is,
you know, getting their product, but like they do some
underhand stuff, you know, and they're not truthful and everything,
and next thing you know, they end up getting shut

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down because people find out that they was doing some
illegal stuff.

Speaker 7 (08:31):
Let me see what else?

Speaker 5 (08:33):
Oh yeah, verse two your attended motives. While wrote down
your attended motives, God knows because God sees beyond it,
Like he's able to go pass your intensive motives and
get to like the root cause.

Speaker 7 (08:45):
Of why you do what you do.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
Let me see, it's better to do what is right
verse three than to sacrifice, like basically without got out
of it is you're supposed to show integrity in everything
that you do. Because even though you can like you know,
give to the church, or you can like give, you know,

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close off your back to people, but your integrity, like
what you your lifestyle.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Just going to church right in the services, being an usher,
being a deacon, those are your services. But if you,
like you said, if you don't treat everybody right, it's
people right right, he's not accepting.

Speaker 7 (09:30):
That, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
So yeah, you got to have love in your heart
for everybody.

Speaker 7 (09:37):
Let me see what else? Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Five, Careful planning leads to plenty and like being imposed
to like trying to quickly get stuff, it can leads
to waste because you put all that elf and time
in without thought and then this thing, you know, whatever
you try to gain quickly end up losing it.

Speaker 7 (09:58):
H Seven. If you refuse counsel.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
Like you refuse counsel for your wickedness, your wickedness is
gonna eventually destroy you, just like how we tell our
you know, you know, children to do certain things like hey,
don't do that, stop touching that. If you touch that,
that's gonna you know, you're gonna eventually get burnt. But
they go ahead and do it anyway, and that finger.

Speaker 7 (10:21):
Get destroyed, you know, get burnt. So let's see what else. Uh,
that's it?

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Hey, man, give everybody a hand. One thing I thought
somebody is gonna say, because they mentioned about it's better
to dwell in the corner of a housetop than with
a brawling woman, and I made I said something to
the fact that it doesn't just have to be a woman, right,

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It don't have to be I thought maybe the man
would have said, or a woman would have said, well,
especially a man would have said, don't have to be
a it could be me. Amen. So we're gonna have
to remember that. You know, he talking about a woman,
but he's talking about harmony, right, and the harmony has
to be between the man and the woman. And we're

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gonna talk a little bit more about that in this
next group of scriptures, and we're gonna start before we
get to that. When we were talking about fairness, and
we talked about that last week and the week before
I saw a commercial and it had like, uh, I'm
just gonna throw it out, throw a date out there.

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Nineteen sixty five And this man runs into the room
and opens up a bag of chips and had his
bowl sitting there and pours his chips out and it
fills the bowl, and then it goes to like twenty
twenty five. He runs in the room and get his bowl,
opens up his bag of chips and it just was

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down in the bottom of the bowl. And we were
talking about how things have changed. They robbing us blind
and there's nothing we can do about it but pray.
That's all we can do. We'd even talk about the
fabric softener in the in the the the spray bottles.

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It's supposed to be full. Now, if it's not gonna
be full, why make the bottle? They say the bottle
is We'll say sixteen ounces, So you're expecting sixteen ounces
of a liquid and it's not. Some of us back
in the day candy bars was big as it, I
guess because we were little. No, we were. I'm gonna

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not gonna even talk about the candy Bartley. I'm gonna
talk about the honey bun bigger than your hand, the
big honey bun. And now you get it, it's like
what happened to it? It's right in our face. It's

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right in our face. Go ahead.

Speaker 5 (13:18):
And fragasis and anytime, like before I get something, I'll
do review. And you know how like you get your
favorite one that you bought and you done, haved it
for years and you used it up, and like a
lot of people, they'll say like they'll go back and
repurchase that same fragments that they had, and it'd be
so watered down that they don't even last long. No
more so, like all those classic ones like we used

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to get back in the day, they didn't change up
the formulation. They use like a cheaper ingredients and wares,
so basically you spread on and by the time you
walk out the door, you're like, I don't smell it
no more so. Yeah, they couldn't back on everything.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
When you say that used to be a commercial that
says a little dad or do you you go? It
takes more than a dab. I even d heard about
read about uh hair products. If you get a hair product,
say it was shine, slick and shine and it was
real good. When people start purchasing more and more and

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more of it, they start watering it down. Cause even
one of the the the style has said it then
used to be this watery, right, So what's the what's
the problem. People are enjoying it, they are liking it,
they like the product. But since you like the product,
there's more. It's more in the demand. Okay, so let's
add add something liquified to it, and then you don't

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get the same results. Right, it's right there in our face,
and the world can get away with it. Amen, alright,
that one was a good one. Uh. Let's go to
Proverbs twenty one and eleven.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise.
And when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
When when you're punished a proud person who laughs at
that at what is right? And fools learn something, But
a little instruction is enough for a wise person to
learn something. And when I was researching on this, it
says a wise person will learn from instructions, but the

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foolish will learn by seeing others receive punishment or chastisement.
But you know, a wise person will see that too.
If so and so got spanked for doing something and
I was getting ready to do it, my wisdom will

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tell me, don't you do that? Amen. Wisdom can be
gained by just observation and negative You can have either
a good review or negative consequences. Because some people would
just right over that what that happened to them, It's
not gonna happen to me. So it's up to you

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which one you're gonna choose. You're gonna observe and see
what happened, or you're gonna observe and see what happened
and say, oh, that's not gonna happen to me. And
that's a lot of what our young people are facing now. Well,
it happened to them, that's not gonna happen to me.
I you know, I've been dreaming. I've been smoking like
this for for you know, for years. That's not gonna

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happen to me. But what if you've been smoking a
lower grade and then you happen to get a higher grade,
a pure form or something that's laced. It's gonna be.
It's gonna be. Are you gonna be the the wise
one or the foolish one? Amen? Twelve.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked.
But God overthrow with the wicked for their wickedness.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
God is good, He knows what the wicked are doing,
and he will punish them. This goes partly with God
vengance his mind saith the Lord. We serve a sovereign God,
and sometimes we see how people are doing things. It's
like we see the world and how businesses are doing

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and how they're teaching the people. That sometimes we can't
do anything about it. So all we can do is pray.
And I know sometimes as saints of God, you get tired.
I prayed and we still being jacked over. Amen. And
so he knows what's going on with the wicked. The
righteous may see and even know what's going on, but
the Lord is the one who will bring the just.

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We have to have that in our hearts and in
our minds and say, well, the Lord he knows. Their
success may be built on evil or ill gotten game,
but we have to believe that their day is coming. Yes,
it's gonna be grabbing. Might tastes sweet, now, it might

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be nice to be that buttery soft bread, But after
why you get the chewing and you're gonna hit a
rock and break some teeth. Amen. So it's letting us
know that we see things, and there are some things
we can't do anything about it, So we have to
give it to our sovereign God. Amen. Thirteen.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor,
he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Those who refuse to help the poor will not receive
help when they need it themselves. It's sort of like
that reaping and so on. We shouldn't turn a deaf
ear to the cries of the poor. We need to
be generous and show compassion to those that are in need.
And as I was studying, I think about how people

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use the church, and sometimes it's gonna have to be
some discernment. And I know Solomon is not telling us
about this a decernment. He's just giving some observation. Amen.
So if we so compassion, you should also reap it. Amen.
But if we be able to offer assistem when we

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are if we are able, sometimes we're not able to
do it. As a small church. Sometimes we're more concerned
about when we upstar church. We're concerned about the people
inside the church. They're the ones that's given their ties
and their offerings. And a leader may not feel comfortable
unless he goes in his own pocket. He's not gonna

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go to the church's account. He may go in his
own pocket, and I know Apostles used to do that
a lot of times. He go in his own pocket.
But he's only gonna go in his own pocket for
a while. Because when a person can't, won't help will
not help themselves. And I'm just going beyond what this

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scripture is saying. But he's telling him, don't don't. Don't
have a deaf ear when somebody really needs something. And
sometimes you really know you you can tell somebody really
really needs something. Amen. But we just have to pray
and ask God for discernment because there's a lot of
people out there just they use the church because they
know the scriptures too, and they would throw these scriptures

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at back at you. Well, the the scripture says, don't
turn a deaf ear to the poor, and I'm poor,
throw it back at him. I'm poor too, Can you
help me? I just don't have it? Yeah, right, look
at the way you do. You don't know where I
got mine from. Somebody may have given it to me.

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And back in the day, some of us wore the
same thing over and over. We just kept it clean, Amen,
or switched it up. Amen. Fourteen.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
A gift and secret pacify it. Anger and a reward
in the buzzom strong rap.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
If anyone is angry with you, give them a gift
in private. A gift given in secret can come even
the strongest anger. Sometimes when you have an aught with somebody.
It's not good to do something out in the open
because it's gonna either show you up or that person up. Amen.

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Once again, Solomon is making an observation. This is what happens.
Sometimes we can't allow our right hand know what our
left hand is doing when we're helping someone. Amen. It's
better to give an angry person a gift in private
than to give it to them openly, because people are
gonna say why they're giving him that, what does she do?

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What did he do? When it's just it's between both
you two, you open it up to everybody. Amen. So
it emphasizes the power of being thoughtful and discreet in
order to diffuse a situation. Because you know, you do

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it out in the open, and you don't give them
a warning, they might ask you what do you give
me this for? And you don't want to lie. Are
you trying to embarrass me? Or or then they You
know a lot of things can come up, So just
do it discreetly, let it be between There's certain things

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that happened in life, happened that needs to be brought
out into the open. That's just like Facebook and snapchat
and all this kind of stuff. Everybody's airing their dirty laundry.
Why if somebody says something bad about you on Facebook messaging,
message them that's personal. Just just send them a personal

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message and say, well, you know, we can handle this
another way. People don't want to. I don't know what's wrong.
I don't know what it is about this US now
we want to put everything out there, all our business.
Heymen were living in a new day. Like I said,
Solomon's making an observation. They didn't have Facebook and Instagram

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back then. But he's letting you know, if you're gonna
do something, do it discreetly. It can apply to Facebook,
it can, yes, sir.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
This generation likes to show stuff out in the open.
They want somebody to side with them, because.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
What do we talk about cold signing?

Speaker 5 (24:06):
Yeah, people they love miss like people are flocked to
something negative before something positive and everyone to have their
opinion about it. But you know it'll be some people
in there they'll see through the foolish this and call
them MAP And I was like, yeah, tell the truth,
shame the devil. But yeah, that's what's what's the generation.

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They always want someone to side with them because once
you standing by yourself you got to deal with that.
You got to deal with that, uh, you know, whatever's
in your heart that got you acting up like that.
So when people signed with it, it's basically given more
power to them. They feel like, Okay, I can continue
to push this narrative or continue having this type of
attitude because people justify so.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
And just like the scripture says, you heap coals of
fire on a person's head when you heap coals when
you do something nice. When he's saying, he's emphasizing the
power of being thoughtful, not letting everybody know what you're doing, uh,
and discreet it may it may, It doesn't show embarrassment

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to the other person. And it also keeps everything on
a one on one basis. Everybody don't have to know. Now,
you know, if you do something, you know, if I
give somebody something, you know, just and everybody can see it,
somebody canna say, what'd you? Why did you give them
that business? Where's mine business? If I had something for you,

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I would have you know, So, I mean, you know,
well anyway fifteen fifteen, it.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Is joy to the just to do judgment, but destructure
destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
A decision that is fair makes good people happy, but
it makes those who are evil very afraid. The righteous
fine fulfillment injustice, but it scares the unjust because they
know if something. Solomon is emphasizing that the joy felt
when what's right, it's justice prevails, while the unjust feels

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that their wickedness will have consequences. Be sure your sins
will find you out. Such fear also can cause the
wicked to repent. Now he didn't add that, but I
was just thinking about that and how he was saying,
how that the unjust, the unjust, will will be afraid

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when he sees what happened if somebody is just. So
I added that, you know, such fear can also cause
the wicked to repent and turn from his wickedness. And
I use the scripture Isaiah fifty five. And let the
wicked forsake his ways and the unrighteous man his thought,
and let him return unto the Lord, and he will

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have mercy upon him and to our God, for he
will abundantly pardon. And then Acts three in nineteen say repent,
ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be
blotted out when the time of refreshing shall come and
the presence from the presence of the Lord. Amen. It

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is just letting us know that even though a wicked
person will be afraid because be sure your sins will
find you out, it may give him an opportunity to
switch up and say and repent, so I will not
have You may have to suffer some consequences for what
you've done, but you may not have to suffer any

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consequences because I'm not gonna do that. Amen.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
About like I can't remember exactly where is that in
spiritual but like if there's like a a person in
the church, a saint one that starts sinning and like
you know, you try to get them to turn and
multiple people try to get them to turn from it,
but they keep doing basically like they're putting living in

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the church, like they're sining is affecting others, And like
how Paul will say, like, you know, you got to
put them out so that they can be, you know,
eventually be shameful about what they're doing. And then they'll
eventually put them in a place where they can repent
because while they're in the congregation doing what they doing,
they just feel like they can freely do it. They
don't feel no shameful. But when you basically separate yourself

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from and put them out, like, hey, you can't come
back in here until you get right with God, it
gives them time for God to deal with they conscious
and for them to be, you know how shame about
what they're doing.

Speaker 7 (28:56):
Then they'll turn around to repent.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
And also too, it's a another one who Paul turns
someone over to the devil for the description that they
flitch because they were spreading fast heresy. So he's like, look,
your wickedness on't go ahead and let the devil.

Speaker 7 (29:10):
Have its way with you.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
When you get tired of it, don't work it on you.
You're gonna visual repeat it, you know, and come back
to the fold.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Amen. Amen. So we are giving him an opportunity to
repent of his evil ways. Amen. Sixteen.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding
shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Amen. Whosoever leads leaves the path of wisdom will be
on their way to an early death. It's those who
turn away from wisdom and righteous wisdom will ultimately face
negative consecuit. Quincess energy in at the straight gate for

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why it is the way that leadeth to destruction in
my quote net right. But it's emphasizing the important portions
are staying on the right path. Sometimes, you know what
is the two two roads? The road not taking. That's
one of one of the Apostle's favorite poems by Robert Frost.

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I believe it was the road not not taking. It's
just emphasizing that we need to stay on that that
righteous path cause straying away. It's just like this, bring
it down to now you wanna find a shortcut when
the GPS is telling you go a certain way. Now,

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mind you, sometimes the GPS got you going all the
way around. I'm just using this as an example. And
you're on a highway with lots of lights. But then
you say, well let me go this way. Take it
to the left. This seems like a quicker way. Yeah,
but they got winding roads, no lights. Deer, you're gonna

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end up hurting yourself, hey man. So when you taking
a chance, when you leave the plaid path of wisdom,
you're taking a chance when you don't when someone is
telling you what which way to go and you decide
to go your own way, that's your choice. Amen. Seventeen.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man. He
that loveth wine and all shall not be rich.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Amen. I remember this, what scripture was that? Oh okay,
he was using a using things that was of value.

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Love is pleasure more than etan. I'm sorry, Uh, pleasure
shall be poor, and he that loves wine and oil
shall not be rich. He's using things that that people
tend to use and forget. They forget their lifestyle. If
I can say it right, loving pleasure leaves to poverty.

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If you just wanna be like that grasshopper, right, you
just living for the moment, Amen, Wine and luxury will
never make you wealthy. You just live in for the day,

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and that's it. It's not saying that you it is
wrong to be having nice things. But if that's if
a man's if you are, what's the scripture? Life consistent
in the abundance of the things that he have now
on this earth. Yeah, it's coming, but it's leaving me.

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Our life does not consist in the abundance of the
things that we possess. Yeah, we we this stuff down here.
It's gonna stay down here. I mean, it's only temporal.
So he that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.
He that loveth wine and oil shall not not be

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because you're doing too much. Amen, Loving pleasure leads to poverty,
and wine and luxury will never make you wealthy. You
can have wealth. You can have wealth and still be sad.
You can have everything this life can offer, and you

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still have some issues. I was looking at some reels
about some of the actors that has all this money
and still not happy. I want to jump back up
to the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding,

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shall remain in the congregation of the dead. I saw
I read something about this actor and you all may
know him on John the Waltons. You know the father.
The father was a minister, and the backstory on him

(35:12):
is that his daughter died unexpectedly. And remember I said,
it can either our trials can either run us away
or run us toward. That ran him away. He decided
he did not want to be a preacher anymore. He

(35:33):
didn't want to go to church anymore. I think he
had about three or four wives, and his pursuit was
in the arts. Now he you know, did good in
the arts, but he left God. In the end, your
life do not consist of the things the abundance of
the things you possess down down ere Amen, So to

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have to have a lot of wealth doesn't make you happy,
will not make you happy. I think about Robin Williams.
There's a lot of them committing suicide because the backstory
on them. They have these smiles on their faces. Their actors,

(36:21):
they can act yes, And when it comes to the church,
you got people coming in the church acting. They act
like they're happy because I'm supposed to be happy because
the joy of the Lord is my strength, But inward
they're hurting and they don't know how to talk about

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it because everybody is supposed to be happy. But we
learned it's okay not to be okay. And when you
learn that it's okay not to be okay, you've already
voiced it. Now you have to wonder, think, how do
I get over this. I don't want this church to
feel like everybody has to be on cloud nine and

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you don't go through nothing. And if you do go
through something, were gonna talk about you. The joy of
the Lord is supposed to be your strength. There's a
process in everything, Amen, So I guess I'm I'm veering
off of this part because it was you know, talking
about that wine and luxury will never make you wealthy.

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It won't. It won't make you happy. You may. It's
a temporal thing. And when you look at all the
people that had I remember a testimony if somebody at
a former church. She said that she was married. Her
husband gave her everything she wanted in life. I didn't
have to want for nothing, she said, but I was sad.

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There was something in me, part of me was not fulfilled.
And because it wasn't fulfilled, she didn't know what she
wanted to do, and she got fulfilled when she got
the presence of God in her life. Amen. It's a
boy that's in our lives. Amen.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
All right, Amen, First lady, Yes, that scripture is sank
Luke twelve and fifteen, and he said, unto them, take
heed and be aware of covetousness. For a man's life,
it is considerate, not in the abundance of the things
which he possesses.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
All right, all right, we have to learn how to prioritize.
Don't put all this wealthy stuff, all this other stuff,
met worldly stuff above happiness and don't think that you

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can get all this worldy stuff and be happy, because
you can have it and still be sad. You can
have it and still be lonely. A lot of times
they're lonely. Ayvan, Yes, go ahead. We're going back to sixteen.

Speaker 4 (39:19):
Who wanders from the way of understanding?

Speaker 3 (39:23):
And when I was looking.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
At that, I was like, so that means that they
had understanding, but they walked away from the understanding, or
it says wonders away.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
So doesn't mean it was a process.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
It didn't just happen like boom, I woke up and
I'm just gonna turn from this. But the scripture that
came to mind was it says hold on. I think

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it's Luke.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
And sixty two. I think that's it. Putting your hand
putting in his.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
Hand to the plow, looking and looking back. That's the
scripture that came to mind. It's like it says when
you put your hand to the plow and then you
look back, it says you're not.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Fit for the kingdom.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
And when this when we were reading this scripture, that's
what came to mind, because you were once there, but
for whatever the reason, you walked away from the understanding,
walked away from the truth, and then you you're.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Basically walking into death.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
But that's the scripture that came to mind, putting your
hand in then looking back, you're not fit for the kingdom.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
M all right, that's good, that's really good. Eighteen.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous and
the transgressor for the upright.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
The wicked must pay for what happens to good people.
The cheaters will be taken in exchange for the honest.
Mmm mmmm. There's consequences. There's consequences for your actions. Amen. Ah.

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The wicked must pay for what happens. He will pay,
but not on our time. It's God's time. The verse
suggests that the consequences that the wicked people face can
insum sense act as a substitute for payment for the righteous.

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You know, you know, like when they get when they do,
when they do get their due, it's like, okay, I'm
good now. It's not that you want to you want
to see them fall, but they did something bad and
it might have been to you, but we gotta understand
and that it may not happen in our time. And

(42:04):
that's what kind of gets us. It's like God you said,
you see it, why don't you do something about it? Now?
I need to feel. I need to feel the release,
don't you don't. Forgiveness is not for the other person.
Forgiveness is to refree you, not that you condone what

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they did, but it frees you to move forward. But
if you don't forgive, you're still stuck right And a
lot of people say you forgive and forget. No, you're
not forgetting. You're freeing them. You're freeing yourself, whether they
ask for forgiveness or not. But we were back at

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that point. God is the one that's in control and
we have to be subject to that, whether we like
it or not.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
The the Malachites when Israel was going through the willness,
you know, coming out of Egypt, and how they uh
they killed the the old in the week, and how
God didn't get them until during the days of Saul.
So it's like they didn't even see their h you know,

(43:22):
revenge come up on their enemy. It was way later
before you know it happened. So I just thought about that.
You said, how it might not happen in our time,
but God is going to uh, you know, do justice.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Because even in the scripture he said, I'm gonna get
you for what you did back then. But like the
other people gone, they didn't see it. They could have
been murmuring too, and say, Lord, you saw what we
put our our women in the week in the back
behind us, and that's what they did. They just slaughtered
the ones that was in the back. When you're gonna

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get when we gonna get our revenge. That's why he
have to keep saying bingees. His mind said the Lord,
I'll repay. He's gonna repay in his own time, not
our time. Yeah, yeah, that's what we say. His way
is better. But in the back of my mind sitting no, no.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
If we do it, If we do it, it may.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Be just.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Okay, just say for instance, if we do it, it
may be just.

Speaker 7 (44:30):
Being uncomfortable for a day.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
But if he do it, like you said, you.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Putting your money in a bag of holes, You'll never
be right until you do right, until you come full circle,
you gonna you're gonna forever be in this state of
trying to climb and never get there.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
I remember what Sealy told, mister. Until you do right
by me, everything you touch or think about, it's gonna fair.
How dare you put it. I'm not putting no X
on you. I'm just letting you know, Amy, you could
have put thus said the Lord on that. Amen. Okay,

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we're back at nineteen.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
It is better to dwell and the wilderness than with
a contentious and angry woman or man. It doesn't say man,
no woman, one man, one.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
Man, both your one man, the woe and the man.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness than then
to live with a contentious and angry I'm gonna say person.
We talked about this, and at first he was on.
He was in that you were in the house, then

(45:54):
you were on the in the on the top of
the house, in the corner of the roof top, and
then I said it would be better to be out
in the wilderness. Now he's coming back saying it better
be out in the wilderness. I'm leaving. And it's so
funny because I used to love little house on the

(46:16):
player at Prairie and uh, mister, not Ingles, the one
at the storekeeper, not the Ingles. I just anyway, nails
the nail nails. His name was Neil well Well. He
cooked in the house. The wife didn't know how to cook.

(46:38):
And when she did cook, she burned stuff up. I'm
going somewhere with this. So one day he you know,
he's just been having these issues and so Nellie he
didn't have time to cook, and Nellie said she didn't
want cold sandwiches, and so he said, well, he had
to do something. And he told his wife, you know,
take the whatever he had in the oven out the oven.

(47:00):
And when he comes back, she is burned up, and
that everybody's complaining. So he just got so upset and said,
y'all gonna do whatever you want to do. I'm leaving
and missus I can't even think of a name. Yeah,
Harry looks at him, like, what are we gonna do?
He said, I don't know, but I'm leaving here. He

(47:24):
would rather be out of the house. He probably went
fishing somewhere. But this is saying that I would rather
be in the wilderness than to be with a contentious woman. Again,

(47:44):
we're talking about the value of peace in the home.
When you go ahead, go ahead, because I got mind
written out.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
I remember when me and Tyne was talking about how
that Solomon had lot of wives. So I think about
how this kept coming up because I probably he dealt
with a lot, you know, all the different women, so
he probably dealt with a lot of contingents women. So
because it kept coming up, like they said, he had

(48:14):
a wife like three sixty five days and year, he
had had one that he could visit every day day
of the year. So I know he went through it
and seen it all.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
There's a statement. I know you all heard, happy wife,
happy life. But like I said, we're talking about in
a relationship, we need to prioritize, be able to prioritize
each other's happiness because he's he wants us to be
in harmony. Everybody's house may not be the same, did

(48:52):
you hear me? Everybody's house may not be the same.
So if a preacher get up and say, I'm saying
this out of experience, a preacher was preaching, a female
preacher was preaching, and they were saying that your husband's
bath need to be ready in his light, his clothes

(49:13):
needs to be laid out when he comes home from work.
That ain't gonna work with everybody. And my thing was,
what if he don't like taking baths and he wants
to shower. Now, what if we both coming in at
the same time. So whatever you can in your relationship.

(49:39):
You can prioritize and compromise to make your household happy.
That's your household. Maybe you don't like cleaning the bathroom,
and they say women are supposed to be the ones
that are doing this, doing that, Maybe the man will
do it. Those are things that you talk about. So

(50:05):
it's not a B C, D e FG. It may
be a D X y Z, And then come back
to a you understand what I'm saying. So we need
to be able to respect each other. So just like
I said, a man can be contentious and a woman

(50:28):
can be contentuous. We bring it up today even though
we said that in the beginning, Solomon is doing some
absurd observation. But I gotta bring it up to now. Amen.
So I found a saying instead of saying happy wife,
happy life, happy spouses, happy houses. I didn't make it up.

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I got it in quotes. Happy spouses make happy houses.
So we we it's one sided. When it says happy wife,
happy life, that means the man's knees may not get
met because it's all about the wife. But in a marriage,

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it's not all about the wife. It's about it's it's
you cleave to your wife. Even though the scripture says
husbands love your wives. He didn't tell the wives to
love the husband, but it said husbands love your wives,
even as Christ loved the church and he gave himself.

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We can take it too far and somebody's gonna be hurt. Hey, man,
we live in a day and time. That I mean,
there's a lot of stuff that happened back in the
day because it wasn't happy wife. It was happy man
and sad wife. You you want to live by this book.

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If you live by this book, mama stays at home wife,
he stays at home do the cooking and the cleaning.
But if she's working and doing the cooking and the
cleaning and taking care of the kids, somebody's gonna be hurt.
And I used to hate to hear when when people

(52:28):
when when certain men would say, well, that's that's what
they did back in the day. The woman did all
this and had these babies, and da da da da
da da da. Okay, she was at home in the house.
Would you you you want me to go to work too,
outside the house so you can't have your cake and

(52:52):
eat it too. So that means if you're gonna go
outside and allow your wife to work, or a lot
of husbands because some of the husbands are house husbands. Amen,
We're gonna flip it back. We living in that day
where there's house husbands, there's God's yes, especially with the remote,

(53:12):
you know they get that remote work work. Amen. So
we have to just what he's trying to do. We're
trying to say, we need to respect each other as
a husband and wife. We got to respect each other's needs.
And the only way you can do that is to communication.
We got to communicate, even if it might hurt somebody's feelings,

(53:36):
that the feelings get hurt, that they can be mended.
It's not destroyed, it's just hurt.

Speaker 5 (53:45):
Yes, I just think about my own household. How did
by me and Jackie, Like when we first got got together,
we didn't communicate as well, but as time went by,
we learn how to communicate, and we just learned how
to basically play at our own sprints with certain things

(54:06):
in the house. And I know, like if I help
her out, it'll free up where because the kids like
she oldly stimulated, you know. And then like if I
if she only stimulated by the kids and not come in,
you know, her conversation gonna be short and everything. So
if I come in and help out, then I could
get more out of it. I could get more conversation

(54:28):
out of hers, you know, more attention and everything.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
So but yeah, this is what I mean.

Speaker 7 (54:38):
You got to communicate, You got to.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
Yeah, I did a seminar and I found an article
that says that this is a newspaper article it had
where a husband and wife relationship was much better when
the husband helped the wife around the house. And like

(55:01):
you said, if if you she fixed dinner and you eat,
and a possel and I used to wash dishes together
all the time, and it will allow you more personal time.
But see when you eat, go to your chair, read

(55:22):
your newspaper. That's what they used to do. Read your newspaper,
look at the news. Go to sleep. She's cleaning the kitchen,
putting dishes away, making sure the babies, if if they're babies,
they're making sure they put away, I mean put up,
put to sleep, you know what I'm saying. And she

(55:44):
getting ready. Then you go to bed. You you laying
in the bed, and all of a sudden, she gets
ready to go to bed and you wake up. I'm ready, baby,
ready for what? Uhuh, go back to sleep. I'm tired.
What you tied for? No, you don'e ate watch the news,
put your feet up, haven't done anything. She done clean

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the kitchen, put up some clothes, made sure the kids
was ready for bed, and got into bed, and if
they had homework. And then you wake up refreshed and
ready to pounce. No, that ain't working. That ain't gonna work.
Then you get mad. Yeah, it's funny, you said there.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
I saw a video real of this husband and wife
and he was just like observing her. It was like
a quick thing. He kept observing her some of the
things you were talking about, and it like a light
bulb came on in his head. So it's like the
next time she every time she was getting ready to
do something, he.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
Was like, no, no, baby, I got it.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
I got the dishes, and she kept looking like and
then he got took the trash shop and then he
changed the load. She was getting all like was like
getting excite.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Shit, it's like getting excited.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
It was like, you know, versus another woman, like giving
him money, giving her money and.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Take it on a shopping space. Baby.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
He was in there cleaning and doing stuff. She had
got all excited over.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
She's like, and that's what that article was saying. That's
exactly what that article was saying. And this is not
people in church, this is the world is saying this. Amen,
all right, oh, let me let's do twenty red right quick.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
There is treasure to be desired and oil and the
dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man spended it up.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Wise people save the nice things, and they have fools
using up everything as soon as they get it. Solomon
is using imagery and he's using treasure in oil, uh,
things of value. The wise will manage them wisely, whereas
a foolish. The foolish will be wasteful and impulsive. He's

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emphasizing us to be wise and faithful stewards. Basically, that's
what he's telling us, to be wise and faithful stewards
because like we said in previous scriptures, if you give
a fool money, he's gonna just waste it. He's gonna
do whatever. He is here today and gone today. Hey man.

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So like I said, he's just observing, and this is
what's happened. This is what what will happen. The wise
is gonna manage their stuff. But the fool is just
gonna be wasteful. They don't care. They'll use all up
all the toilet paper on just a little bug. I

(58:43):
mean a big water toy, you know, toilet paper. Or
pull off a roll of paper towel. And now you
got the paper towel with the with the four pieces.
Are you when when when couson goes in to wash
his hand, if I use that tie for paper towel,
he just gets that one piece. His hands is not
that big. But when we have guests at the house,

(59:08):
I see big wads of paper towel and all they
did was just do this and were that all they
needed was just a little piece. Amen. So a wise
person is gonna, you know, make sure they they they're
they're not frugal, but they're not gonna be impulsive and
they're they're gonna make sure they they manage things wisely. Amen.

(59:32):
So it's basically we're gonna be good stewards. Amen. I
didn't mean to be that long, but you are we good? Amen?
Stand to your feet. We want to think and praise
God for those that have been listening. No, we didn't
say anything about these is These are good nuggets for
just practical living, just practical living, Amen. And if we

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can get past get through this, just think how lovely
it's gonna it is. When you're saved and saint and
feel with the Holy Ghost, you can really do it. Amen.
It's hard to do it. It's hard but not impossible.
But it's hard to do it when you don't have
the spirit of God in you. Because sometimes we are
indundated with a whole lot of other stuff. What other

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people do, and we want to emulate what they do, Amen,
but we want to do it God's way, like when
we had our seminars marriage, God's way, Amen, Praise God.
So we just think and praise God for those things.
That was just the things that you've heard. And I'm
hoping and praying that God will bless you to just

(01:00:35):
reach out to different churches that are Bible based where
you can get more of what you're hearing on tonight. Amen.
And if you're not saved, this is the time to
get saved. You just reach out to God and ask them, Lord,
I like what I've heard, but I know I can't
do without your presence, without your spirit. So I'm asking

(01:00:55):
you Lord, just come into my life, save me, and
after you get saved, you need to go one step
further and get No, you need to go a step
further and get filled with the Holy Ghost. The other
step is to find a Bible based church, because we
can't do this alone. Where people are saying, we don't
have to go to church. If you believe in the scripture.

(01:01:17):
He said for us to cut gather together. What does
scripture say, forsaken not to assemble yourself together like minds
need to be together, like saints need to be together,
so we can boost each other up. Amen that if

(01:01:37):
you're gonna believe in one part of the scripture, you
need to believe in that part too. Amen. For those
of you that are here on tonight, if you have
any prairie question, you can get it right where you're standing.
You don't have to come down to your heavenly Father. We
thank you for the feet of those that are here
on tonight. Lord, we ask that you just bless them

(01:01:59):
and keep them in the name of Jesus. Bless those
that are out, either sick or whatever the cau's case
may be. Bless those that those families that are still
finding loved ones that have perished in this flooding. We
ask your Lord just to give them solace. Lord, give
them peace. In the name of Jesus, we want to
thank and praise God for all things and Everything's Lord,

(01:02:22):
we just need you to guide us, guide us in
the right way, give us a mind to want to
do even more for you. In the name of Jesus, Lord,
ask we're asking that we don't give up the fight,
no matter how hard it seems, no matter what it
looks like. We know that you are the one that's
large and in charge. We serve as sovereign God, and

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we thank you for this and these blessings. We ask
in your son Jesus's name. Amen and Amen.