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Wait, I am everybody's moving mm. Everyone is going somewhere with everything.

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They're trying just to make it to
a place where I am not there.

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But when the noise is over,
still the small point you were here.

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I hope that you believe me when
I tell y'all I won't handle long of

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your can't just wait on me?
Be still. I know that I am

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God. Be still and know that
I am God. Just try me.

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I know that I know God and
I'm in the control. I am still

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God. Oh oh oh oh.
Chasing your ambition, try your guests to

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be there and that stop. If
it's the intention that you really want,

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then I already know who you are
and I love you that way, even

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what the noise though, Man me
till small punch you we get it get

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too und pard aging call, ain't
you planking? Just give me up?

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Pray that let me still wait on
he be still? I had no did

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I have God? Be still?
I had no that I am just trust

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that a God. I am God
whom God shoulder. I see God,

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you got paying a man playing on. I will be still for you are

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with me. I will be still
for you are with me. I will

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be still for you out with me. I will be still, I will

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be yeah, I will be still
be still, I will I well,

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I will be still, I will
be still, class will be still.

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Your wives still you? How well
you stay with your time with you?

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I'm gonna scarp Wapi stayd they still
how they stay? They still up?

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And still he's still let Then I
got he still land that I had got.

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Just try to stand. I'm in
control. I'm in controul. I

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am still in controul. So I
see in control. So I still God,

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God, I'm still God. I'm
still God. I'm still God.

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I have stayed mm hmm, wait
on you, m hmm. I would

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not be moved. Teach me how
to wait on you. This is the

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last Sunday and the last day of
the year. We have made it through

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yet another year, and I just
want to say thank you. Thank you

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to everyone that has Thank you to
everyone who has been faithful with us,

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who has endured throughout the year.
I'm on what is this wisdom today?

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It has been a while since I've
been on wisdom because I haven't been able

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to get everything together. But we'll
build that back up. We thank God

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for you all who are with us. I want it in the year.

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I want it in our last message
from the of the year, from the

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Book of Psalms, the Book of
Psalms. And I usually don't preach from

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the book of Songs. But I
woke up this morning and this message was

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on This scripture was on my heart. And I've been dealing with I've been

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doing a lot of writing, going
to come up with some stuff. And

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this particular message, this particular Psalm, it was all my heart, and

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it reads thus, I will bless
the Lord at all times, and his

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praises shall continually be in my mouth. I'm gonna read the entire Chapholid song.

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Bear with me, my soul shall
make her boast in the Lord.

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The Humbu shall hear thereof and be
glad old. Magnify the Lord with me,

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and let us itsalt his name together. Why because I sought the Lord,

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and he heard me and delivered me
from all my fears, they looked

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unto him and were lightened, and
their face faces were not ashamed. This

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poor man cried, and the Lord
heard him and saved him out of all

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of his troubles. The Angel of
the Lord in camp round about them,

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that fear him and delivered it all
taste and see that the Lord is good.

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Blessed is the man that trust in
him. Oh, fear the Lord,

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ye his saints, for their is
no want to them that fear him.

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And it continues to press on the
young lion do lack and suffer hunger.

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But they that seek the Lord shall
not want any good thing. Come,

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you children, hearken unto me.
I will teach you to fear the

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Lord. What man is he that
desires life and love? Many days that

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he may see good? Keep your
tongue from evil, and thy lips from

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speaking God. Depart from evil and
do good, Seek peace, and pursue

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it. The eyes of the Lord
are upon the righteous, and his ear

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are open unto their cry. The
face of the Lord is against them that

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do evil, to cut them off
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The righteous cry, and the Lord
hears and delivers them out of all of

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their trouble. The Lord is nigh
unto them that are broken heart saving,

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such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous,

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But the Lord delivered them him out
of them all he keepeth his bones.

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No one of them is broken evil
shall slay the wicked. And they

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hate the righteous show and they that
hate the righteous shall be desolate. The

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Lord redeems the soul of his servant. None of them that trust in him

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shall be desolate. The word of
the Lord is blessed. I wanted to

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read all of that, but I'm
not going to preach all it. Put

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it in the context. But when
I do reference it, I want you

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to be able to understand what I'm
referencing. The word of the Lord,

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I said, is blessed. This
particular song was written by David, and

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I find it amazing at what was
going on in David's life when he wrote

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this song. When he wrote the
song, he was a leader of six

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hundred men on a run from his
mentor into the place where he found fame,

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one of his enemies where he found
fame. So he was running from

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the king saw and he was going
into Palestine. And he stays and settles

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into Palestine for a year and a
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And while he was in Palestine a
number of things began to happen. And

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it was here that he journaled this
song. What happened while he was there.

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As I said, he had six
hundred men with him. If you

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know anything about David, he got
on a map by defeating Goliath. I

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said, Palestine, Philistine. Sorry, that's the same region of Philistine as

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Saul and his brother's coward and the
army coward, because they were afraid of

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Goliath, who was a giant.
He hurts him in the head with a

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rock. And now some years later, on the run from Saul, he

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ends up in Philistine or Philistine camp, goes into covenant relationship with the king

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of Philistine, the Philistines at the
time, and they catch out him a

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piece of land, and while he's
on that piece of land, he declares

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his allegiance from Saul to the king
of the Philistines. And in this time

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frame, after he pledges his allegiance, war breaks out, and now he

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has to go against the man that
he loves and and keep his word and

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show the Philistines that he is who
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he had six hundred men, that
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does not include the number of wives
and children. Where at this time David

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has two wives with him. On
the way to battle, encounters the Philistines,

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journeymen or soldiers whom the king refers
to as his lords, who tells

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him we can't trust David, send
him back and this king and David gets

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into this argument because David really wants
to go and prove himself because he found

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refuge within this nation. David becomes
the first king of Judah after this year

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and a half, and the third
king of Israel. I want to give

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the historical context and make it made
sense to the end of the year.

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And that's why I keep repeating,
all of this happened in one year.

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While he was arguing, he didn't
understand the providence of God was bringing him

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back to his place of refuge,
his home which had been invade invaded while

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he was gone, and when he
came back, everything was gone. The

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six hundred men turns against him and
said, look, because of your leadership,

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we lost our children. The Bible
says that all of the children in

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this reference can be found in First
Samuel. We lost the children, we

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lost the things that we had.
And David doesn't move out of haste,

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but he prays, and we talked
about prayer extensively as we ended. As

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we moved towards the close of this
year, he praised, and he had

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Scott who was okay for him to
pursue, and he gets the okay,

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he goes and pursue. God said
that you will recover all. He goes

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and pursue, and out of the
six hundred, because they went on a

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three day, three night journey with
no food, two hundred of the men

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couldn't continue on with the journey.
So they went into this battle with four

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hundred men. David begins to faint, but he's so angry that he pushes

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forward and he sees a man from
his enemies camp, another enemy. This

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man from his enemies camp provides David
with food and food for his men,

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and he begins to tell David.
Because David really had no idea where he

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was going, but he knew that
the Lord told him that he would get

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the battle, and he had to
pursue, and he pursued, and divine

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providence now and again kicks in and
God now allows the enemy to get David's

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strength, and not only does he
get his strength back, the guy that

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he encounters on his way to pursue
his enemy was betrayed just like David was

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by his king, and he was
left to die in the wilderness. He

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fainted. So he makes covenant with
David, and he says to David,

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I'll show you where they are if
you promise to help me, or you

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promise to keep me, and you
promise to allow me to make covenant with

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you and sustaining. Now, David
had just found favor with his enemy,

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so now he has to give favor
back in kind. You see how that

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works that parallel. So this man
gives David the information, David goes into

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the camp. David now does everything
that the Lord promised him that he would

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do. He wins his wives,
and he wins his spoilers, and he

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takes all that these enemies have.
And as he's penning this psalm, I

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can imagine because this is out of
this time and will bless the Lord at

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all times. Notice what he doesn't
say in the text. He doesn't say

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I had a bad year. I
cursed Scott. He doesn't say why me.

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He takes inventory of everything that happened, and it be kings to lead

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with gratitude. I don't know what
you've been going through this year. I

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don't know how your year is ending, and don't have the mindset I'm so

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glad that the year is over.
I'm so glad this, oh man,

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this was a long year. It
was the same three hundred and sixty five

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days, the same twenty four hours, the same seven days, the same

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sixty seconds, the same sixty minutes
in the hour. It was the same.

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And all of those days wasn't down
days. So we gotta learn like

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David to even in the midst of
our down days, to say, I

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will bless the Lord, not sometimes, but at all times, and his

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praises shall continually be in my mouth. I want to leave us this this

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this day, by sharing with you
that the world of science is now catching

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up with the world of David.
The Bible declares that David was a man

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after his own heart. And we
see here now David in the act of

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gratitude practice. He wasn't praising the
universe, he wasn't praising the most high.

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He wasn't praised. He was praising
the God that brought him out.

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And he says, I will bless
the Lord. He was gracious, not

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sometimes, And we just went through
the historical nature of what it was that

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he was going through. He could
have said, oh, the Lord allowed

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my mentor to turn against me.
Oh, the Lord allowed me to go

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and my men upset with me.
I came back home and everything was gone.

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Oh I had to go into a
fight. And then these events that

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took place in this year in four
months didn't cause him to throw his hands

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up. I had to repent as
I began to really put this together because

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there were some events that happened in
my life. I've had some years in

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my life that caused me to throw
my hands up, not even say I'll

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bless the Lord. I said,
oh, Lord, why have God forsaken

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me? But David had the resolve
to say, I will bless the Lord

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at all time and watch this and
his praises shall continually be in my mouth.

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Most of you who are listening to
us, whether you're listening on our

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podcast later on, or you're listening
on oh, whatever platform you're listening on,

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I'm a mindfulness coach and it has
fascinated me in this last year as

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I begin to put some stuff together
because we're pushing out more content and we're

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going to be doing some amazing things. Is that we've got inundated now,

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especially in the West, with this
concept of gratitude practice and journaling and the

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benefits of gratitude practice are improvement to
health. If we regularly express gratitude,

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it links to increased levels of happiness, and it's a reduction of depression,

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and it lowers levels of stress.
And we understand that gratitude practice, a

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healthy gratitude practice, leads to better
physical health. Being grateful reports to better

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sleep, reduction in blood pressure,
it strengthens our immune system. Having a

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gratitude practice not only improves our mental
health, not only improves our physical health,

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but it improves our relationship because it
enforces social connections and empathy, and

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it leads to stronger relationships and increase
satisfaction in those relationships. And it also

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increases resiliency. It helps individuals cope
with challenges, and it helps individuals state

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with a positive outlook when emotionally they
should be reduced to negativity and fall apart.

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But it has neurological effects because the
study of gratitude shows that the brain

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produces doper meanings that reinforce positive feelings
and motivation. So look at what David

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says in the text, I will
bless the Lord at all times, and

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his praises shall continually be in my
mouth We see that he was able to

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endure the battle. We see that
he was able to endure loss and hardship.

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We see that he was because of
his mindset. He doesn't just stop

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there, but he says, my
soul shaw make her boast in the Lord,

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and a humble shall hear thereof and
be glad. And then he invites

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those the social aspects. He invites
those that are with him in community.

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Oh, magnifa, the Lord with
me, and let us exalt his name

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together. I lost my stuff,
but I sought the Lord, and he

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hurt me. And then not only
does he hear me, but he delivers

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me from all my fears. They
looked upon me and were lightened, and

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their faces were not ashamed. See, when we have an effective gratitude practice,

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we can have an effective praise practice. When we have an effective gratitude

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practice, we are effectively thankful,
we are effectively lifting, We are effectively

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understanding that in all things we should
give thanks. Then what happens is that

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the mind begins to shift and things
begin to happen within us. And before

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we couldn't explain it, but science
has caught on, and it amazes me

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that now the church is talking more
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world, instead of saying, I
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I understand what the news is saying. I understand what's going on, but

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his praises shall continually be in my
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I will bless the Lord. The
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on man and what man is doing. We love to praise the new movie.

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Everybody's praising the color purple, and
everybody's talking about Oprah Winfrey, and

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everybody's talking about this, and everybody's
talking about that. But if we took

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on, oh, brother David's mindset, we would not. First of all,

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we would understand that the practice of
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That the practice of gratitude came from
the man that invented the human He

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said, praise me because I'm praiseworthy. Who loves praise. He inhabits the

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praise of his people. So David, who is a man after his own

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heart, now becomes the mentor for
the church. Has God been good to

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you this year better than you have
been to yourself. Have God helped you

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to get through some trying times that
you can just stop and say, you

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know what, instead of holding my
head down, I will bless the Lord

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at all times, and it's praise
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Went another. But I still will
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it's praise shall continually be in my
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I will still bless the Lord at
all times, and his praise shall continually

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be in my mouth. My girl
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I will bless the Lord at all
times, and his praises shall continually

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be in my mouth. Not during
the end result. It's easy to bless

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them on the other side of victimy. It's easy to bless them when we

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get to the other side of the
journey. But David now takes the time

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out to journal and chronicle what it
is that he went through, which leads

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me to my second point. He
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them to taste and see that the
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fear the Lord, because as we
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help but to respect him. And
as we respect him, we can't help

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but to reverence him. And as
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of us that fears him, and
not fear as a lord who is the

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lording over his community, like Saul
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fear and trembled out of terror for
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holiness. When he comes into the
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his king, and he says,
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I saw the lord and his train
filled the temple. Isaiah is moved

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with fear. When the fishermen encountered
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they were casting their nets, and
nothing was happening. And in Jesus telling

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them to cast their nets on the
other side, they were naked, they

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were finishing up, they were tying
up their nets, they were done for

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the day. And when he said
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man, we've been fishing all day. We know this business. And they

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did it anyway, and they got
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boys threw themselves off the boat out
of fear, because who is this man?

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What manner of man is? This
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from a reverence. This type of
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This type of fear is one that
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who is revered saying, I will
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don't care what the year looks like. He never left me, nor for

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sake me. I don't care what
pushing towards. He will never leave me,

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nor for to sake me. So
praise now helps to translate the mentality

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of the praiser, ah Man,
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one that's being gracious. That's why
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why we are thankful when we get
home. That's why we're grateful for another

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day. That's why we're grateful for
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close. What is it that you
can say, I will bless the Lord

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for but don't just bless him for
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all times. He pens and goes
on, and he says, what Man

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verse twelve, is he that desires
life and love many days that he may

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see good. Keep your tongue from
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you keep your tongue from evil,
and you keep your tongue from speaking God,

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because if you're blessing at all times, you can't be cursing anything else.

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And that's what happened in the early
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asks Peter, what have I created
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Challenges Peter's world, How dare you
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just cries unto the Lord and he
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uses. Verse sixteen, He talks
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face of the Lord is against the
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that it is this face that cuts
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Verse seventeen, he talks about the
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He talks about the Lord saving those
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talks about the Lord during close to
them that have a broken heart. Has

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this year year brought you broken heart? Has this year broken your spirit in

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some way? Did you know that
the Lord those that has a contrite spirit,

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that's why we bless them at all
times. Did you know was your

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heart broken? Did you know that
that he draws close to those that have

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a broken heart? That's why we
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moving even when we can't trace him, even when it feels like all hope

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it's gonna even if it feels like
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he moves. And then out in
here verse nineteen, many are the affliction

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of the righteous, but the Lord
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somebody, this year has been challenging
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But the reason why we bless the
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Lord has delivered us out of all
of those afflictions. Big Mind used to

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say, when I look back over
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I can truly say that I've been
blessed. And that's why I will bless

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the Lord at all times. As
we close out twenty twenty three and we

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begin to set our sights on twenty
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the mentality of not being grateful.
Don't go in waiting for something to happen

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for you to start praising. Go
in with the mentality that I will bless

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the Lord at all times. I
started the message by saying that David journals

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this particular portion of his life new
Age. We talk about journaling and the

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importance of journaling and the benefits of
journal When they come out of the battle,

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to four hundred men wanted to keep
all of the stuff and leave out

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the two dred man. This is
why David was a great king. The

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four hundred said they didn't do no
fighting, why should they get a part

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of the spoils. David said,
we all together. They didn't do no

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fighting there, but they held down
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if somebody would have came, it
would have been on them to hold it

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down. And we have to see
ourselves as one. And he distributed amongst

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the group. And this is before
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And I want to encourage you in
twenty twenty four, if you haven't

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begun to journal yet, begin writing
things down, because the science is starting

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to see the emotional benefits or the
brain benefits of journal. One is an

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emotional outfit. Two, it provides
clarity and focus. Three, it brings

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us to a place of self reflection. Before, it helps enhance our memory

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vib it helps reduce our stress,
and the last to it boosts our creativity

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and it also tracks our progress.
The reason why we can't bless the Lord

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at all times is because we forgot
some of the great things that He's allowed

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us to do, and we are
only measuring his blessing or measuring our blessing

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him based upon what he has done
for us. But all One Ministries and

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those who listen to me going on
One Ministries podcast, those who listen to

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me wherever you are, will you
take the time out to start journaling and

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chronicling, start today so that you
can get the testimony that all of my

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good days outweigh my bad days.
And I will bless the Lord at all

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times because even when my heart was
broken, found out that he says or

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draws close to those who are broken
heart. Even when my spirit was contrived,

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I found out that He delivers us
from all of our trouble. I

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know now that my afflictions the afflictions
of the righteous, the afflictions of the

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righteous, who is the righteous of
our times, We are covered in the

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righteousness of Christ. David now was
a type of Christ who would come,

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and he now extends. The kingship
of David. David dies, But our

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Christ lives, and only does he
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He doesn't live in the Philistine camp, he doesn't live in the temple that

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Solomon builds. He lands and dwells
inside of us. So when we walk

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up around with a contrite spirit,
he's already in us. So he's already

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not to remind ourselves that we don't
want to leave the spirit that lives inside

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of us. So I will bless
the Lord at all times. I'm ending

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this year, and I'm starting the
year blessing the Lord and his praise as

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shall continually be in my mouth.
I don't have enough time to talk about

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what somebody else is doing. I
will lift him up because he said it

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be lifted up. I'll draw all
men unto thee. I hope this message

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bless you. I hope that you
it was something that you can take away.

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I hope it something that you can
add. I hope that you begin

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to have a gratitude practice. I
hope that you understand that the gratitude practice

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is not from without, the gratitude
is from within. Because he says,

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if you pray in secret, I
will bless you openly. So my mind

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now from within shall see the goodness
the Lord. Even when I feel there's

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nothing good going on. I will
bless the Lord how at all times his

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praise shall be in my mouth continually
our soul will make its boasting. The

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Lord humble will hear thereof and be
glad. Lord, I thank you for

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another year. If it be is
the same. In the next few hours,

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some of us will enter into twenty
twenty four. I pray for our

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children who are out. I pray
for those who don't know you. I

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pray for those that felt like this
year is a loss. They're making resolutions

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for next year. They're trying to
get this stuff together, and they're anticipating

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a change of years so that they
can have a change of circumstance. But,

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oh Lord, I thank you that
in the scriptures you remind us to

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bless you at all times and let
your praise continually be in our mives.

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So we lift you, so we
praise you, so we magnify you,

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so we adore you. We come
together as one body, drawn nah by

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the blood of the lam, come
together as one praise team, lifting you

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up because you're worthy to be lifted. Forgive us of our sins, for

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our sins are many. We sin
against you alone, creating us a clean

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heart and renew the spirit. Thank
you, Lord for another year's journey.

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Thank you for every financial blessing.
Thank you for everything that you've done for

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us, and most of all,
thank you for redemption bringing us into full

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and complete fellowship. What a fellowship, What a joy divide. We lean

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on your arms, and we magnify
you, and we glorify you, and

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we bless your name. For the
Lord is good, your mercy is everlasting,

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and your truth endures to all generations. Have a blessed to everyone who's

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listening in God bless you. If
y'all want to come on and say good morning,