Sermon
Walking with Christ in a Stressful World: Week 2
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Good morning, Good morning, family. Is so good to be
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here this morning, so good to be able to celebrate
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and worship together. I don't know about Pastor James Thursday.
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I was six foot tall nine forty five. I was
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five eleven, and now I'm six foot and a half.
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I'm growing. I'm growing. Amen, I'm just glad to be growing.
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But listen, it is so good to be here with
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you as we dive into the second week of this series,
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walking with Christ in a stressful world.
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I hope that.
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The devotional has been a blessing to you as you've
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been diving in and taking time to reflect over how
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you can stay connected to Christ. This series probably couldn't
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have come at a better time. As we look at
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the world, things are chaotic. Better yet I would also
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say things are just crazy right now. But this is
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a time where we need to lean in even more
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into Jesus and allow him to guide us through uh
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this season. The world is always going to be like this,
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he said, And it's a word that you know, trouble
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will always be there. It's gonna be there. But He's
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overcome the world, and so that's the good news. So
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this morning, I know there were several persons who approached
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me this week and said, hey, I didn't get to
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get a devotional. Literally last week we sold out and
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so that was such a blessing. Thank you for those
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who paid it forward. So today I went into my stash, yeah,
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and brought some It's not that many, but there are
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several out there at the connect desk in case you
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needed a devotional. Uh, and it still would be at cost.
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Just my gift to the congregation. All of the proceeds
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that do that you purchase this with do go to
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the ministry where we serve kids who are incarcerated, so
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us know that is the background. I don't profit anything
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off of this, but it goes right into the ministry. Also,
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today I want to let you know that at both
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doors there will be a toolbox for you to take
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home with you. Today we'll talk through some practices that
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will help us to reduce the anxiety and stress that
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we face daily, some tools that we can just practice
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to help us stay connected to Christ as we navigate
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through this world. Amen, let us pray Father, I thank
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you that you are here in this place, that you
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hear us, and you have always heard us. We pray
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Lord that you would be in this space to meet
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the needs of your people. We come with very diverse needs,
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very diverse perspectives, but we are united in the fact
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that you are Lord. So we pray our Father, who
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are in heaven, hollow be your name, your kingdom.
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Come.
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Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us today our daily bread, and forgive our debts
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as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,
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but deliver us from the evil one.
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Amen.
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Today's big idea is long, but it's very important. God
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gives fresh grace for today. Receive it daily, Release yesterday
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to him, and rest in His care for tomorrow. Today
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we want to receive release and rest. There'll be several
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scriptures that are lived up today, and I want you
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to take those to heart and apply them to your life.
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Life is noisy.
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Deadlines, bills, notifications, opinions, all these things are bombarding us
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every day. But Jesus teaches this very simple prayer, and
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in that prayer in Matthew six, he says, give us
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today our daily bread. Jesus is at the point where
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he is having or teaching or giving the best sermon
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ever preach Now, there's a lot of preachers out here
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who think they really can preach. But Jesus delivers the
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best sermon ever preached. And in this Sermon on the Mount,
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he tells us not only about all of these pieces
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of life, but he offers us a prayer that we
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should pray. Now, if you're gonna pray, I think you
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should pray the way that Jesus prayed. Amen, because it's
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got will work. Because he is like the son of God.
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He is the one who laid down his life, picked
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it back up, has all power in his hand. I
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think this is the right prayer. I don't think we
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could come up with a better prayer. So Jesus offers
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this prayer in the midst of all that's going on
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today as we embrace the theme of daily bread. We're
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not talking about groceries, but we're talking about the sustaining
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presence of God's word and his spirit. So, just for
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background context, I want you to understand that as we
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look at the word that Jesus says, give us today
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our daily bread, this is a reference to the children
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of Israel in Exodus. In Exodus sixteen, we remember that
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the children of Israel were in a place of wilderness,
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and the Lord was providing them bread every day, what
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we call mana and mana was delivered every day and
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each person will get what they needed, and they knew
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that they couldnot keep it because it would spoil. And
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so every day they were learning to trust in God,
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to believe that the same God who provided yesterday will
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provide today, and he would provide tomorrow. But Jesus gives
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us the reference and says, give us today our daily bread.
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When I was a kid, my grandmother had a record player.
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Now many of you probably triggered because you remember the
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record players that sometimes would break down and you have
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to put a coin on top of the arm in
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order to keep the record on the record player, and
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it would play a song. But she would play this
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one song, and I grew to love it, even though
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I did not understand it as a kid.
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It was one day at a time.
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Amen, I got some people who remember, right, And so
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she would play that song. And then later in life,
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my mom would always not She wouldn't allow us to
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say goodbye. You couldn't say goodbye to anyone, and you
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had to say I'll see you soon, because we didn't
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know when we would see a person, if we would
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see them here or there. But she taught that, and
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then my grandmother added this phrase, if the Lord is willing.
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We've heard that before, If the Lord is willing. Now,
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every service that I've done, someone walks up to me
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and they say, you've got the second part and the
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creek don't rise. Well, my grandmother didn't live by a creek,
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so I didn't know about the creek rising, okay, but
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I know that phrase. And so the reality is that
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all of this culminated into an understanding that all we
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have is today. It created a theology of sanity that
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today is what I got. I can't worry about yesterday,
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and I really can't focus on tomorrow. So if stress
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lives in yesterday and tomorrow, Jesus teaches us how to
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live today. There are three steps that we're gonna take
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today to help reduce the stress that we face. As preachers,
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we often teach the gospel with the hope that when
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you leave, you will consult God about the implementation. But today,
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for the purposes of this gathering, we're gonna look at
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not just what to do, but I'm gonna give you
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some examples on how to do it. First step one,
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receive today's portion.
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I'm gonna say that again.
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Receive today's portion. This is presence over panic. Jesus says,
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give us today our daily bread. Two things are happening
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in this statement this phrase. There's a request and then
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there's the statement to let us know that bread comes daily,
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but we want to receive bread today. And so we
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are introduced to this idea of that bread's coming, but
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let's get it today.
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In Exodus sixteen.
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It helps us to remember the idea of where Jesus
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is coming from because the Lord it says this in
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Exodus sixteen sixteen. This is what the Lord has commanded.
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Everyone is to gather as much as they need.
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Take an omer for each person.
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You have in your tent, and an omer is about
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forty three dry ounces of grain. This is what the
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Lord was providing so that they could eat. And so
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he said, give us this day our daily bread. That
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was a reference to those who were from a long
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time past history, so they would understand that this is
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something I need daily. But then he comes around in
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John six thirty five and he says, then Jesus declared,
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I am.
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The bread of life.
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Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever
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believes in me will never be thirsty. So he changes
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the ideology from something that we receive to a person
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that we're not looking for stuff.
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Help us Lord today.
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We're not looking for stuff, but we are looking for
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the personhood of Jesus. Because when we have Jesus, we're good.
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Let me offer you this truth. God gives fresh bread
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for this day. Yesterday mana mod Yesterday's grace was real,
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but today needs today's portion. When we were talking about man,
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I want you to understand that it would mold, it
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would spoil.
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It could not be held over the day.
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It couldn't be held for weeks or month, it would spoil.
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And so God was providing it every day. And when
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he gave it was real, it was ready, It was
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for right now, but it would spoil. We need the
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Lord today. Christ says, I am the bread of life.
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So we're not asking for anything but his presence, for
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his guidance, for his direction. Whatever we need can be
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found in Jesus. This is where we take a shift.
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We have to shift in our anxiety. Everybody has a
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form of anxiety. Anxiety happens at different levels. Some people
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get anxiety if there's no coffee. No one should be
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anxious today, a man, it's coffee in the lobby if
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you need it, right. So people get anxiety over different things.
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If it's about your kids, or it's about your spouse,
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it's about certain.
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Things, you become anxious. So check this out.
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We have to shift in our anxiety because panic says
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or anxiety says, I don't have enough, but presence says
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the giver is here. Anxiety says I don't know if
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I'll ever be healed, but presence says, the healer is here.
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So we shift out of our anxiety and we embrace
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who Christ is in our life, so we don't have
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to worry.
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So I'm going to give you.
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The first tool for your tool, and the first tool
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is called the first bite. This is something you do
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in the morning when you wake up, and in the morning,
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what you would want.
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To do is first start with the Word of God.
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Now I'm gonna say something I didn't say to other services,
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but try not to read the Word of God on
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your phone because you already got notifications. And if you're
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anything like me, when you open that notification, you find
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yourself at whatever you've been notified about Instagram, Facebook, email,
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and then you say, oh, no, that wasn't what my
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intentions were. Find a written copy of the Word of God,
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so you don't even have that distraction. You can avoid
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that temptation. Open the Word of God and spend four
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minutes reading from a Psalm or from the Gospel. And
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after you read from the Gospels, I want you to
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ask this question.
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What is today's bread for my soul?
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Lord?
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What is today's bread for my soul? What are you
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saying to me? Out of what I just read, I
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believe and I know that God will speak to you.
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You ask a question, God will answer. Secondly, pray, pray
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the Lord's prayer, but pray it slowly. Pray it slowly,
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because I remember when I was a kid, we used
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to pray. See how fast we could pray the Lord's prayer.
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Our Father, But you are and have a hollow be
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thy name of the King, come to give this an
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they out of prayer. You know you got that think, No,
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that doesn't work. That doesn't work, because that's a checklist.
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That's something we did. We checked the box.
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We did it.
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But when you are reflective and thinking about the words
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that you are saying, the words that Jesus said that
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now you repeat because he says you should pray life
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this it is more meaningful. Take your time when you
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get to the park where it says, give us this day,
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give us two day our daily bread. Thirdly, take two
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minutes and sit in silence.
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Now. I know if you have little ones, you're gonna have.
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To get up a little bit earlier because they're moving
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around right, But two minutes in silence, stillness, and I
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want you to breathe this out after those two minutes. Jesus,
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you are enough. Jesus, you are enough. And finally, a blessing.
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Whether you text a blessing if your phone you can
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use your phone at this point text a blessing, maybe not,
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because you might get distracted, or you walk in the
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room and your kids are still asleep and you wake
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them up with a blessing. Lord, bless little Sarah, bless
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her day, helpe her to have the most fantastic day.
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I bless you.
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In the name of the Lord, that everything you do,
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everywhere you go, you feel blessed, You feel safe, you
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feel loved in Jesus' name. That's a blessing, so you
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bless someone else as part of this practice. Now, I
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know many of us as soon as we do this,
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we're like, oh, I'm good. I'm good. Then we get
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in a car. It's always a big mistake to get
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in the cars.
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One. You know, leaving your home is a.
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Big mistake most times because the world will hit you
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right because you just had a great time with Jesus.
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But now we're in traffic.
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And somebody cuts you off, and they don't just cut
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you off, they give you all kinds of fingers and
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stuff like that. So in that moment, this is a
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micro tool that you can use anytime. This is morning, noon, night,
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in the middle of night, you have a bad dream,
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wake up, you can use this micro tool. And this
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is what we call breathe and cast. Breathe and cast.
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So you're going to inhale four seconds. Let's do that
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right now together you're ready, and then we're going to
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exhale six seconds. In hell for exhale six I explain
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that in a minute. You're ready, let's try that. Let's
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go exhale. Now say this, I cast this care on you.
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I cast this care on you. Whatever just was there,
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cast it let it go. And the reason why we
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take six seconds to breathe out because there's something on
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the inside you need to let go.
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Let that go.
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That's the casting portion. Cast that care on Jesus because
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he cares for you. So receiving today's bread is one step.
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But what about the regrets and fragments from yesterday? We
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all have some regrets, some fragments from the things that
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may have happened to us when we were five, when
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we were twelve, when we were thirty two, whatever that was.
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Those things in our past or our yesterday's that seem
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to creep into today, and so today we want to
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address those things. So step two is to redeem yesterday's fragments.
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To redeem yesterday's fragments recycled, not trash. When I was
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a kid, I remember waking up in the morning and
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on Saturday morning particularly, and I would hear the trash
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cans being rustled through because there would be people who
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were grabbing the bottles to be able to redeem them
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or take them so they could receive a nickel for
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each bottle.
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Actually I did that a couple times too.
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You know, cool way to make a dollar You only
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need twenty bottles man so that redemption or recycling of
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those bottles created value. There are things from yesterday that
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still have value today.
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Let's look at this a little bit deeper.
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Remember I said to you that Mana was a daily
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thing that had to be consumed in that day, and
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if you saved it, it had no usage. But now
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we're moving from Mana to Jesus.
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Oh, my God, the bread of life.
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Jesus never spoils. Jesus never goes stale. Jesus never molds.
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Jesus is always applicable every day. But we need to
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look at what happened yesterday so we can use the
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usefulness of it into today. Check this out. This is
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what the screech church would say. John six twelve says this.
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When they had all had enough to eat, he said
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to his disciples, gather the pieces that are left over.
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Let nothing be wasted.
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Now this happens when there was a multitude, and you
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remember the story of Jesus and the crowd wanted to
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be with Jesus so bad that they go to this
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remote place where there's no place that they could buy
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or get too easily or accessible. And there was a
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kid with two fish and five loads. You remember that
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now in one of the passages. I always joke about this,
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but I really it never says that the kid willingly
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gave his lunch up, so I always feel like he
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might have got jacked.
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Nevertheless, a miracle happened.
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Amen, the kid did eat that day, right because they
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all had enough. But Jesus, after this miracle takes place,
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there's the leftovers, and he says, hey, let nothing be wasted,
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and they collect twelve basket full of bread. I can
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go real deep and ask question, well, while were there
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no fish? While were there only bread? And we'll do
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that some other time, but not today. He says, let
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nothing be wasted. Interestingly enough, Matthew six' six twelve six',
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twelve says after or in the midst of, this prayer,
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he says and forgive us, our debts as we also forgive.
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Our debtors jesus mounts this idea of bread. And forgiveness
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there is two. Things happening at the. Same time he is,
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offering bread but he's also saying there's got to be
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an offering, a forgiveness and forgiveness is us releasing some things?
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From yesterday there are some things in yesterday that we
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are stuck at and it causes us to miss the bread.
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For today i'm gonna say. That again i'm gonna try
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to say. That, again lord help make this.
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Make sense there's, some situations there's.
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Some circumstances there's some things that are happened that either
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we have not forgiven someone or we are still operating
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under that thing from Yesterday that god, is saying if
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you would move from yesterday and stop focusing, on it learn,
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from it.
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Then you can receive.
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Today's BREAD when i work with my kids who are in,
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DETENTION centers i always ask them when something goes wrong
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and they they crash out.
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As kids, SAY today i, always say what did? You learn?
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What, happened happened but what did you pull away? From
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it what is the bread out of? The Situation the
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lord always. Offers bread we need to be people who
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can receive. The bread let me offer you, This truth.
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Jesus says gather. The fragments let nothing. Be Wasted, with
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jesus yesterday's broken pieces, aren't trash but they are ingredients for.
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TOMORROW'S testimony i don't know, about you but you want
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to make a good dressing some of y'all call. It
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stuffing i'm. Sorry now if you call, it stuffing have.
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Ad it BUT when i, grew up they, had dressing
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and dressing had all kinds, of stuff and like, you
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know chicken thighs and onions and celery and. All this
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the Broth from oh, my lord it was. So good matter,
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Of fact i'm getting Hungry while i'm talking.
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About it but you take bread that was already old.
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Or mature it wasn't fresh bread out of the oven
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that to eat, that day but whatever it was from the,
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day before you take that to make, this dressing and
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oh how good.
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It was jesus.
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Seasons and gives us the ingredients for a testimony if
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we would apply our.
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Apply it.
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Notice that these two are melted. Together forgiveness as, we
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released we're also able.
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To receive we're able to.
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Lighten the load, of guilt lighten the load of a
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heavy heart when we. RELEASE forgiveness i don't know, about
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you but if you've been on a, plane before you
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know they adjust the weight on the plane so that
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they can take off. And LAND and i would say
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taking off and landing, is great but landing is more
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important than.
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Taking off and so we want to be able to.
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Land well and so, this unforgiveness whatever it is that
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we need to, deal with we need to release it
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so that we we can receive fully What the lord has.
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For us this is the second practice in.
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Our toolbox this is what we call the recycling ben
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because we want to recycle and Remember what jesus offered
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us yesterday without being stuck.
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In yesterday, hear that what's the lesson?
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From, yesterday first if something, happened wrong you don't know what,
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it is whether it was yesterday or what is. Happening,
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today lord here's what, broke today here's what. Broke yesterday
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we need to.
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Name it name what. It is this is. What broke
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and after we, name it hand.
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It over picture yourself placing it in the hands Of the.
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Lord and some. Of us we want to write. It
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down write down, what broke write down, what happen write.
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It down and then after you have, it there imagine
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placing that piece of paper in the hands Of. The lord,
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and thirdly receive a word to cover. That thing.
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Take the Word of god and apply it to.
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That thing maybe you wrote what it is and you
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write the scripture all. Over it to remind yourself that
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this is covered by the Word. Of god maybe you
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say something Out, of romans and, you say and we
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know that all things work together for the good of
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them Who love god and.
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Those who are called according to.
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Its purpose that this crazy thing that, happened yesterday this
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crazy thing that, happened today, guess what it's working together
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for my Good because god has done.
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Something or is doing something. Through it and then finally
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practice the act, of release.
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If possible make, one reconciliation, call, text apologize release It
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to god that forgiveness that needs to, be given so
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that your heart is light and your belly can now
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be filled with the blessing of the bread.
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From, today well we received today's bread and redeemed.
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Yesterday's crumbs but anxiety also spikes when we try to.
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Control tomorrow any control freaks in, the house, come.
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On wave your hands in, the air weave even. Like
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it just, don't care but, you do.
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Okay control many of us want to be in control
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because when you're, in control you can manage, the pain
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you can manage. The hurt many of us in this
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room you've been. Injured before many of you remember just
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a few, WEEKS ago i pulled, a HAMSTRING and i was.
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Walking Around, ONE sunday i came in with, a crutch
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AND then i, Kept saying i'm gonna be Healed. By
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SUNDAY but, i REMEMBER and i was Healed, By sunday Praise.
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The lord BUT.
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While i was walking around with, A crutch i was
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trying to manage my PAIN because i KNEW if i stepped,
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JUST right i was gonna fill that muscle pull and
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the pulling up that muscle WAS something i didn't want.
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To EXPERIENCE so i was trying to manage. By limping
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and some of us have been limping through life when
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you've already, been healed but you're trying to.
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Avoid It the lord has already healed you, of that.
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But you've been safeguarding yourself so you don't experience.
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The.
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Pain well Step three Rest in, tomorrow's provider.
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Trust.
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OVER control i want you to Trust. In jesus whatever you're,
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going through place your trust, in him because he can handle.
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Your tomorrow matthew six thirty, Four, says therefore do not worry,
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about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry. About itself each day
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has enough trouble of.
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Its own.
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That's something it never says don't worry about. Tomorrow today
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you can handle it tomorrow and take care of tomorrow
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because you. Got, tomorrow no it doesn't. Say that it
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says tomorrow will. Handle, tomorrow well who? Is, Tomorrow well jesus.
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Is tomorrow, he's, yesterday today, and forever so. You're tomorrow
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he has Already handled so don't worry about Tomorrow because jesus.
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Got It been philippians for six.
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And, seven listen if there's an anchor for, this series
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this is.
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The anchor this is.
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The anchor i'm giving you. The anchor if you're reading,
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the devotional this is suggested that you would put it in.
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Places now Talking to, gene's WARNING and i saw on
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her phone she actually has the scripture on her phone so.
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That she can see it and.
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Be reminded as one of the practices that the devotion
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will suggests that you can be reminded not to.
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Be anxious but this is how the whole scripture, reason.
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Says do not be anxious, about anything but in, every
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situation by prayer, and petition, with thanksgiving present your Request,
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to god and the Peace, of god which transcends, all
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understanding will guard your hearts and Minds In.
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Christ jesus that's. A mouthful.
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That's the lord doing a. Whole lot but, it says
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do not, be anxious don't worry.
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About it.
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Don't Worry because jesus will guard your heart.
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AND mind i like to offer. This truth peace rides,
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with trust. Not control peace rides, with trust.
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Not, CONTROL recently i have a beloved brother who not
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so recent but, recent enough who was picking me up
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from the AIRPORT when i come in, and OUT when
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i was coming in, and out AND sometimes i even ride.
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With HIM now i don't. Know why matter, of fact
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he's taking me to. AIRPORT today i hope. He remembers
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but one day he picks me up and he's, like
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driving and while, HE'S driving i am trying to figure
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out what's going on in. His vehicle he HAS an
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EV and i noticed that he did not have.
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His hands on the. Steering wheel this was a problem.
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For me we're on four sixty five and.
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You know how many trucks Come through indianapolis and you
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don't have your hands on the.
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Steering wheel and so then he explained to me that
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he had. Self drive it was in a self, drive mode.
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And that it was the, safest thing and he starts
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playing all. THIS stuff i really. DIDN'T care i just
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needed him to put his hands on the steering wheel
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to give. ME comfort i needed to feel like somebody was.
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In control it was BAD enough i was in the,
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passenger seat but now you don't even have your hands
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on the. Steering wheel he's my brother and. MY buddy
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i started a. New thing so if you hear it,
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around here you'll know it started hearing. The service it's.
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Called bruddy so, you say, what's?
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Up, bruddy ah you. Heard it somebody already heard it from. Last.
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Service AMEN but i had to become comfortable with the
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fact of not being.
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In control my kids have been trained a, certain way
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and it's. My fault it really is. My fault when they,
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were younger we would go out, to eat and, my
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kids we allowed them to order off, the menu and
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we started with the. Children's menu you could pick someone
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off the, children's menu and usually, you know it's like four.
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Ninety nine now it's like seven.
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Ninety nine it's the same, chicken nuggets but it's seven ninety.
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Nine now but then they carry that over when they
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were no longer able to eat off the, children's MENU
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and i would, Sit there, i'm like and then they
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want to order, a drink and a drink literally is like,
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six bucks and it's six of us in, our family
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and so you start adding.
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That up that gets.
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Really expensive And so, i'm like everybody's, Getting water.
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Mama can get a.
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Sweet tea and so another thing that they would do,
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is that as they all of them did at one time,
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or another when the bill, would come they, Would, say
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daddy how much did?
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That Cost and.
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I'd, BE like i would move the bill away, and
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say if, you look you gotta pay.
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For it they never. Asked again we need to adopt
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that Mentality.
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That jesus is going to pay. The price he's taking care.
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Of IT so i don't need to worry about how much.
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IT costs i don't need. To WORRY all i need
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to do is to consume the bread that he's.
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Offering. Me TODAY when, I do i. Have peace.
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I'm not WORRY because i Serve a god who provides
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for EVERYTHING that.
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I need.
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I told you earlier my grandmother, would say If the lord,
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is willing, and everyday.
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Can we get ice? Cream tomorrow If the lord, IS willing.
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I feel Like the lord was always willing to get,
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ice cream WELL until i became, lactose intolerant but that's.
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Another story.
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But everything was If the lord, Is willing i'll. See
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you If the lord, Is willing i'll. Go here If
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the lord, is willing AND so. I would some would
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assume that this, is fatalism, but no this is. Not
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fatalism this. IS freedom i don't need to worry about
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TOMORROW because i am living. In.
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Today tomorrow god will take care.
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Of TOMORROW all i need. TO do i got. One
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job you got. One job we've got, one job and that.
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Is today SO today i need to DO everything i
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can AND while. I can THAT means i only need
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to Love like i've never. LOVED before i need to
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display pre PEACE like i never displayed. PEACE before i
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need to have the joy Of the lord like. Never
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before because tomorrow's not promised. To me i've, got today
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and today.
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Is enough.
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Oh we would hope for tomorrow because somebody's got to
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plan a wedding. PLAN tomorrow i don't know why they're
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getting Married, on monday but it.
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Is cheaper.
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But guess what if we don't make it to? A
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WEDDING did i show THEM that i. Love, them today.
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All we got.
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Is today this is the final part of. Your toolbox
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this is what we Call the Lord is. Willing posture
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name three things that you're, grateful for whatever those. Things,
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Are lord i'm glad you woke me up. This morning
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i'm glad THAT when i got to church they had
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a lot. Of, Coffee god i'm so glad that the
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seat is comfortable and the temperature in this place is.
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Just right.
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I'm GRATEFUL that i got to see this one Person
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because i've been thinking. About, Them lord i'm so GRATEFUL
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that i got to hear your.
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Word today i'm so grateful they sang. That song that
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song helped me.
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To remember just three things that you're grateful, for today
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not what he did five. Years, ago today then release.
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This prayer this is what we do at the end of,
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the day at the end of our. Full Day and
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i'm gonna. Encourage you listen when you. Do this don't
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HAVE the, Tv on LET that tv, Be off Get
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in god's presence and take just five minutes and pray. This,
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PRAYER lord i entrust tomorrow to you.
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Your will.
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YOUR way i entrust tomorrow to you, your will, your
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way and then finally close with this simple prayer or
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blessing for your sleep Found in psalms. Four eight, IN
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peace i will lie down and sleep for. You, alone
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lord make me dwell in safety.
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This morning.
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There are many people who don't, feel safe who, are
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anxious who, are worried who. Are CONCERNED but i want
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you to know That, the Lord our god allows us
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to sleep and rest in his.
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Divine protection.
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When you step, out today be sure to pick up
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one of these toolboxes to help you through. Your days,
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this morning to, THE believer i pray that you receive,
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fresh bread not, yesterday's leftovers not, tomorrow's Fantasies but jesus.
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Himself today he's enough to the heart.
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That's, searching jesus the bread of life satisfies all hunger
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and quenches. Every thirst why don't you say yes to?
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Him today if you find yourself in either category under pressure,
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or searching would you repeat this prayer with me as
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we repeat it as. A, congregation.
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Jesus my bread, OF.
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Life i receive your portion. FOR today i place yesterday's
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fragments in. Your hands let nothing. BE wasted i release
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tomorrow to, your care.
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My heart and mind.
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With.
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Your peace if you pray, THAT prayer i pray that prayer,
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for you that you, might receive that you, might release
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and that you might rest bow, your heads and let
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us pray together this.
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Morning we hard in.
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Follow to be li kingdom will be.
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Nor as he in the.
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Fastiday our bread and forging, on side as we forgive powers.
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And the not into.
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Tempting shine but you leave ross.
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From me.
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Is the king, of hand the.
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Hand the doll to oh