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What is going on everybody?
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Welcome back to another episode of Heck versus Hell where the truth we tell you know what it is, you know how we do, you know what time it is.
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Another day, another beautiful day to praise the Lord.
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So I hope you are all having a blessed one and chose for it to be a blessed day, right?
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Every day is a choice, and every day how we perceive it is a choice.
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We choose whether we see it as a blessing or a curse.
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And as children of God, we should always choose for it to be a blessing.
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That is our choice and our prerogative for how we want to view it.
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So remember that.
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Now let's get into this episode the absolute truth.
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This one I actually came up with from my own reflection.
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A lot of them do, you know.
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A lot of the ones that I come up with, they come from my own reflections, from seeing it from myself, and and so many of the things that I do see, because this is one thing that I learned.
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Okay, I know I'm jumping right into it, but I I I'm trying to get it off my mind.
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There's I do go and analyze other people, which we know as judgment, right?
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Being able to try to judge their fruits, being able to judge where their heart is positioned, so that I could understand if it is coming from a godly standpoint or not.
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Now it could be from a self-believing standpoint, as like we've mentioned before, there's three thought processes.
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One comes from the devil, one comes from our own mind, and who we see ourselves at, and our belief systems that we have set up, and the other comes from God.
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Now, ours is intertwined with the flesh and the spirit to where we have trauma, we have certain beliefs, we have certain things that can align with the word of God, and that can align with trauma and things we need to heal that do not align with the spirit and align with lies.
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So we stand in the center almost like a Venn diagram, in a way, except the devil and God never cross.
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The only thing that they can mutually agree on is the absolute truth, and even then the devil tries to lie about it.
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So that's kind of where it's kind of going from.
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But two things, and one is the understanding of how no matter what situation anyone has gone through and came through, we as human beings justify ourselves, and this comes from reinforcing our beliefs because it is who we are, therefore, we feel as though we are reinforcing ourselves.
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You see that in any group of people, it doesn't matter if you are from Timbuktu and you got a culture out there, it doesn't matter if you are from a continental culture, right?
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Maybe you're Asian, maybe you're European, maybe you're African, maybe you're American, maybe you're South American.
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Whatever aspect it is, we have a background and a nature of going about it.
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Whether you are in God or a child of the world, we all have implemented into us a self approval of sorts that relies on making sure that what we believe stays true.
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So in a way it keeps us alive.
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Whenever we justify ourselves, it keeps us alive because without our beliefs, we are floating nothings.
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Like our real our realities rely on our beliefs.
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Without it, without the foundation of God, we are not children of God.
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Without the found foundation of what mankind is and human beings are, we do not know who we are.
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And so many people that are lost do not know who they are or whose they are, what they are, and who they come from, the reflection of what they are made in.
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That's why they're children of the world because they do not see the image and the reflection, the image bearers that they are.
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So there is always going to be a point of loss with them, with us, even with us though, we still have to, in a way, justify certain things that we believe, and this is where it can get very interesting, especially because I was on this topic before, and now uh I remembered this parable that was in Luke.
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So it's actually a really good parable, a really beautiful parable that explains it so well and gives you a much deeper understanding about it, right?
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So, if none of what I said before, because it was kind of hard for me to articulate the full thought process of what I have in a faster mannerism.
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Let me read this.
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Okay, so this is from Luke.
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I already forgot the chapter, I didn't write it down, but I have the verses right in front of me uh because I wrote down the verses.
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But this is from Luke, I want to say chapter 14, verses 9 through 14.
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Might be Luke chapter 8.
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Something okay, just it's one of them, but the parable was about uh the parable of a Pharisee and a tax collector.
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That that's what you can look up and you'll find it.
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So this is verse 9 through 14.
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So it says, To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable.
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Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
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The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, God, I thank you that I am not like other people, robbers, evildoers, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
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I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.
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But the tax collector stood at a distance.
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He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
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I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God.
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For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted, exalted.
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This is the absolute epitome of what it is to be Christ-like is the humility aspect.
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I don't know if the tax collector was doing something that he wasn't supposed to be doing.
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Obviously, he was, uh, obviously, he saw it and he was aware of it, but becoming aware of where we are faulty, becoming aware of who we are, and it it this is where the difficulty therein lies, because we cannot see ourselves in a mannerism of us being so self-crucifying to where we believe that God is not merciful and we live in our despair, right?
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Where we're constantly saying, Oh, I am nothing but a sinner.
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That's that's all I am.
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That's not the point.
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That's not the point of the scripture.
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The point of the scripture was two contrasting people: one who followed the law and believed himself to be justified because of what he did, although there were many things that he might have not shown: love, mercy, grace.
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Right?
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He definitely was not showing the fruits of the spirit.
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Humility was definitely another thing that he was not showing, and the tax collector came and said, God, I am a sinner.
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Have mercy on me.
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The humility comes from knowing the positioning of the flesh and not justifying ourselves, not looking at ourselves to those that say to some who were confident of their own righteousness and look down at everybody else.
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It it it it comes from that is where arrogance is, is uh understanding arrogance and pride is understanding that you uh take a stance or a way that you see yourself as, but it is not really true.
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Either you amplify it to an extent to where you don't believe it and it does not align with what God said we are, because that is the absolute truth, or you want to be something else, therefore you are lying about it, but that is the facade that you were putting on, and yes, you know, there is that whole fake it till you make it kind of thing, and we do have the malleability of being who we want to be, but there is a pride that is in place from where you are and where you want to be, and there is always going to be in that space of where you are and where you want to be, either a pride or a humility.
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So applying that to us and to our lives, we truly have to check as many aspects and beliefs, no matter how big and small, as we can, and truly test everything.
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I mean, one of the most recent things that I was testing myself and that I was actually just thinking about earlier, whenever I was cooking, whenever I was making food, I'd be making some bomb food, y'all.
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I'm I mean, I be getting down, okay.
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I gotta praise God for giving me that skill set.
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Uh, and I do, I I give him thanks and I pray as I cook the food from time to time, you know, and thanking him for the hands that I have.
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But uh, you know, that call it call it a little prideful, but I call it having God in my in my hands, alright?
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Um but that is you know, that's something that that that's another story for another day.
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But I was thinking about how yeah, y'all hear the beautiful wind, uh the nature calling.
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Uh but I was I was thinking about that earlier, and how easy even the smallest aspects of what we were told, easy, like for example, a lot of people believed, and it might have been true at a certain time, or it might have been misconstrued through certain elements.
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Now, there could be a scientific aspect of it.
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Honestly, I have not looked at it, but I went and I made an intention to check on it and check every little aspect as much as I can from what I believe, and one of those things was being in the rain and getting sick.
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There is a correlation that I grew up on, and a lot of you may relate that my parents would tell me to wear a jacket or a sweater when going outside, and do not stand in the rain without a jacket or a sweater, or you will get sick.
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I don't know where that correlation came from.
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I don't know if it comes from some kind of acid rain or maybe mixing the rain with cold weather, and because you are wet, it therefore lowers your body temperature and you can get a cold, just as if you were going outside without a sweater in winter time.
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I have no idea where it came from, but it is something that I was taught, and I want to know if that is something that is true, because who taught that narrative, right?
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And even now, there's so many people even coming up with different things about how breakfast was a tool that was used in order to pump people with more gluttony, pump people with more food, and cause them to, you know, different aspects of what it was, but just forcing different narratives into the mainstream population so that consumption can be improved, therefore, companies are winning, right?
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And breakfast was one of those things.
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The Kellogg brothers making Kellogg's cornflakes was one of those aspects.
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So, even whenever it comes to that phrase, you know, eat your breakfast, the breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
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That was a lie made up from people that profited off of the lie.
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So that's exactly what I mean.
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How many things do we believe that are not true?
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And I'm getting a little off topic here, I'm gonna be honest, but that's how intentional I have become with checking my own belief systems, with checking what I believe, and fact-checking everything, and cross-referencing into the Bible as much as I can.
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There is many things, and there are certain revelations that I cannot receive, even with uh this, you know, this is more recent, so if you're hearing this way in the future, with Pastor Otha, of how he said certain things about Christ going into hell and being molested on uh in hell, uh bearing the sins on us and taking it to that extreme nature, which is not in the Bible, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is untrue, although it is dangerous, and it was very interesting that he decided to actually say that because there are certain revelations that I have got that are a gathering of different contextual pieces that is not directly stated in the Bible, but that I know I will not put out there to the public.
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So if you're listening to this right now, you may never hear that revelation, and there may be some of you that will.
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So it feels like a burden that I'm carrying on my own in a way, you know.
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Um it's crazy, it's crazy.
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I've talked I've talked to uh Lex about it, I've talked to uh my wife about it, and it's something that stops there.
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I have not spoken to anybody about that except for them and God, and it is something okay, it is it is really cool, but testing it and cross-referencing it to the word and praying on it is one of the best things that we can do, and the humbling aspect of it comes from testing it because I feel as though it is very, very humbling.
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Like I'm the what what did uh what did Michael Scott say from the office?
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I'm the most no, it wasn't him.
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Who was it?
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It was uh it was it was Trump actually.
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Trump is out.
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I'm actually the most humblest guy, I'm the most humblest guy there.
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You don't even know how humble I am, right?
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Uh no, but I I I feel like that is an act of humility for you to check your belief systems because you are not shutting off your mind to other possibilities.
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Now that does not mean don't be double-minded because there's there's really a huge difference.
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There is testing everything, and then there is doubt, right?
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So there is a certain healthy skepticism that we must have, and there are beliefs that we have in place, and that might not work for everybody, but I feel like everybody should practice it to an extent, and one of the things that I have gotten really upset about, especially in testing my faith and wanting to align it more with God and wanting to align it more so much stronger, is the miracle aspect of it.
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And I was just like, I've been really ticked off recently in the recent weeks.
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So, whenever you see me happy, you know, you'll know I'm always pretty jolly, uh, you know, and I always have joy in God and and and just you know the joy of life, but I'm kind of ticked off right now because I I I do not fully possess the beliefs that I want to have and that I know are capable, and I'm mad about it because I know they are true, yet there's something blocking me from believing it so, and I'm trying to dig within myself and through my memories and through all my beliefs to try to find what it is that I believe that is blocking me from obtaining that, and what I mean is that miracle aspect of believing that we have the authority to perform miracles just as Christ did, of course, through the power of the Holy Spirit, but you gotta remember the disciples they didn't even have the Holy Spirit whenever Christ was walking around with them, whenever Christ had sent them out with the authority.
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That authority comes from us being children of God and disciples of Christ, it is enhanced and enabled through the Holy Spirit, absolutely, absolutely, but there are certain gifts and things that are implemented in us that was just designed is by design, like by the design of mankind that he made us to be so.
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That is why there are certain people that can do certain things through the belief system that they have, right?
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The belief and faith, that is one of those principles that is by design that we do not need the enabling of the Holy Spirit to do so, right?
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We all have a breath of life, we all have the image of God, so we all have certain authority that we have to believe that we have.
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And honestly, I'm gonna have to make a part two of this because this isn't even fully where I wanted to go with it.
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But it is me not believing all the way and taking the actionable steps.
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Because I can I believe it.
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I believe that it is possible.
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And I believe that I can do it.
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But for some reason, I do not believe that I can do it right now.
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And whether that is my guilt, whether that is my self-doubt, whether that is my pride or my ego, I am not certain yet.
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And I pray to take you along this journey, uh, you know, to to be able to find out what exactly it is, and I believe it's a combination of all of them to an extent.
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Um, but there is definitely some belief that I have not fully found yet, that I have not been able to uncover within myself that is blocking me from believing that.
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At this point, I'm just trying to force it is laying my hands on people and having them be healed as though we as we were given the authority to do so, lay my hands on people and have them come back to life as we were told to do so.
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That's right, move the movement of the wind, so beautiful, and that is my current positioning, and that is the part one of this.
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I'm gonna leave it at the part one of this because the second part was gonna be going further into the self-justification aspect, but we do need to analyze the belief systems that we have in place and which ones we need to trade in, and that's also why we are doing so much of the curriculum that we do and so much of the work frames that we do in order to do that because there are big beliefs, big things that we can't believe.
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That's actually why I'm gonna write The Beauty of the Rain, too, because three of those come from such great replacements that cured me from depression is through the words of God and through understanding those aspects, right?
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And Romans 8 28 is definitely one of them.
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Uh, the perfect timing of God is definitely one of them, and a combination of those and his mercy, his mercy and grace, and understanding how truly everything does happen for the best of us, you know.
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Genesis 50-20.
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It's a combination of these, so combining them in the same way we form our belief systems is what we must do whenever it comes to our personal beliefs so that we can amplify the mission and purpose that we were meant to do.
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And remember, we're always gonna be on this walk, there's always gonna be steps that we take, and there's always gonna be something we have to improve because we are meant for greatness and things greater and the greater potential than maybe we can ever become.
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Right now, and we are believing and seeing aspects that are man-made that blow my mind, especially with now Chat GPT 6 coming out and what it's capable of doing with different AIs and how advanced they are becoming.
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They are never going to there is not, and it is no possible way that man-made creations and any creation for that matter that was not from God directly will ever outdo God's.
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Let's take the challenge, let's do the challenge together.
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I love you all.
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I hope you have a blessed one.
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I'm gonna come up with part two next week, Lord willing, if we make it that far.
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But let's live in the present because today is a gift.
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I love you all, have a blessed one, and we will catch you on the flip side.
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What is going on everybody?
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Welcome back to another episode of Heck versus Hell where the truth we tell you know what it is, you know how we do, you know what time it is.
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Another day, another beautiful day to praise the Lord.
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So I hope you are all having a blessed one and chose for it to be a blessed day, right?
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Every day is a choice, and every day how we perceive it is a choice.
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We choose whether we see it as a blessing or a curse.
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And as children of God, we should always choose for it to be a blessing.
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That is our choice and our prerogative for how we want to view it.
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So remember that.
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Now let's get into this episode the absolute truth.
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This one I actually came up with from my own reflection.
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A lot of them do, you know.
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A lot of the ones that I come up with, they come from my own reflections, from seeing it from myself, and and so many of the things that I do see, because this is one thing that I learned.
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Okay, I know I'm jumping right into it, but I I I'm trying to get it off my mind.
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There's I do go and analyze other people, which we know as judgment, right?
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Being able to try to judge their fruits, being able to judge where their heart is positioned, so that I could understand if it is coming from a godly standpoint or not.
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Now it could be from a self-believing standpoint, as like we've mentioned before, there's three thought processes.
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One comes from the devil, one comes from our own mind, and who we see ourselves at, and our belief systems that we have set up, and the other comes from God.
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Now, ours is intertwined with the flesh and the spirit to where we have trauma, we have certain beliefs, we have certain things that can align with the word of God, and that can align with trauma and things we need to heal that do not align with the spirit and align with lies.
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So we stand in the center almost like a Venn diagram, in a way, except the devil and God never cross.
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The only thing that they can mutually agree on is the absolute truth, and even then the devil tries to lie about it.
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So that's kind of where it's kind of going from.
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But two things, and one is the understanding of how no matter what situation anyone has gone through and came through, we as human beings justify ourselves, and this comes from reinforcing our beliefs because it is who we are, therefore, we feel as though we are reinforcing ourselves.
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You see that in any group of people, it doesn't matter if you are from Timbuktu and you got a culture out there, it doesn't matter if you are from a continental culture, right?
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Maybe you're Asian, maybe you're European, maybe you're African, maybe you're American, maybe you're South American.
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Whatever aspect it is, we have a background and a nature of going about it.
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Whether you are in God or a child of the world, we all have implemented into us a self approval of sorts that relies on making sure that what we believe stays true.
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So in a way it keeps us alive.
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Whenever we justify ourselves, it keeps us alive because without our beliefs, we are floating nothings.
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Like our real our realities rely on our beliefs.
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Without it, without the foundation of God, we are not children of God.
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Without the found foundation of what mankind is and human beings are, we do not know who we are.
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And so many people that are lost do not know who they are or whose they are, what they are, and who they come from, the reflection of what they are made in.
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That's why they're children of the world because they do not see the image and the reflection, the image bearers that they are.
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So there is always going to be a point of loss with them, with us, even with us though, we still have to, in a way, justify certain things that we believe, and this is where it can get very interesting, especially because I was on this topic before, and now uh I remembered this parable that was in Luke.
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So it's actually a really good parable, a really beautiful parable that explains it so well and gives you a much deeper understanding about it, right?
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So, if none of what I said before, because it was kind of hard for me to articulate the full thought process of what I have in a faster mannerism.
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Let me read this.
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Okay, so this is from Luke.
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I already forgot the chapter, I didn't write it down, but I have the verses right in front of me uh because I wrote down the verses.
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But this is from Luke, I want to say chapter 14, verses 9 through 14.
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Might be Luke chapter 8.
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Something okay, just it's one of them, but the parable was about uh the parable of a Pharisee and a tax collector.
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That that's what you can look up and you'll find it.
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So this is verse 9 through 14.
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So it says, To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable.
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Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
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The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, God, I thank you that I am not like other people, robbers, evildoers, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
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I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.
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But the tax collector stood at a distance.
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He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
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I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God.
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For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted, exalted.
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This is the absolute epitome of what it is to be Christ-like is the humility aspect.
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I don't know if the tax collector was doing something that he wasn't supposed to be doing.
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Obviously, he was, uh, obviously, he saw it and he was aware of it, but becoming aware of where we are faulty, becoming aware of who we are, and it it this is where the difficulty therein lies, because we cannot see ourselves in a mannerism of us being so self-crucifying to where we believe that God is not merciful and we live in our despair, right?
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Where we're constantly saying, Oh, I am nothing but a sinner.
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That's that's all I am.
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That's not the point.
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That's not the point of the scripture.
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The point of the scripture was two contrasting people: one who followed the law and believed himself to be justified because of what he did, although there were many things that he might have not shown: love, mercy, grace.
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Right?
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He definitely was not showing the fruits of the spirit.
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Humility was definitely another thing that he was not showing, and the tax collector came and said, God, I am a sinner.
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Have mercy on me.
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The humility comes from knowing the positioning of the flesh and not justifying ourselves, not looking at ourselves to those that say to some who were confident of their own righteousness and look down at everybody else.
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It it it it comes from that is where arrogance is, is uh understanding arrogance and pride is understanding that you uh take a stance or a way that you see yourself as, but it is not really true.
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Either you amplify it to an extent to where you don't believe it and it does not align with what God said we are, because that is the absolute truth, or you want to be something else, therefore you are lying about it, but that is the facade that you were putting on, and yes, you know, there is that whole fake it till you make it kind of thing, and we do have the malleability of being who we want to be, but there is a pride that is in place from where you are and where you want to be, and there is always going to be in that space of where you are and where you want to be, either a pride or a humility.
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So applying that to us and to our lives, we truly have to check as many aspects and beliefs, no matter how big and small, as we can, and truly test everything.
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I mean, one of the most recent things that I was testing myself and that I was actually just thinking about earlier, whenever I was cooking, whenever I was making food, I'd be making some bomb food, y'all.
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I'm I mean, I be getting down, okay.
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I gotta praise God for giving me that skill set.
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Uh, and I do, I I give him thanks and I pray as I cook the food from time to time, you know, and thanking him for the hands that I have.
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But uh, you know, that call it call it a little prideful, but I call it having God in my in my hands, alright?
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Um but that is you know, that's something that that that's another story for another day.
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But I was thinking about how yeah, y'all hear the beautiful wind, uh the nature calling.
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Uh but I was I was thinking about that earlier, and how easy even the smallest aspects of what we were told, easy, like for example, a lot of people believed, and it might have been true at a certain time, or it might have been misconstrued through certain elements.
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Now, there could be a scientific aspect of it.
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Honestly, I have not looked at it, but I went and I made an intention to check on it and check every little aspect as much as I can from what I believe, and one of those things was being in the rain and getting sick.
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There is a correlation that I grew up on, and a lot of you may relate that my parents would tell me to wear a jacket or a sweater when going outside, and do not stand in the rain without a jacket or a sweater, or you will get sick.
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I don't know where that correlation came from.
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I don't know if it comes from some kind of acid rain or maybe mixing the rain with cold weather, and because you are wet, it therefore lowers your body temperature and you can get a cold, just as if you were going outside without a sweater in winter time.
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I have no idea where it came from, but it is something that I was taught, and I want to know if that is something that is true, because who taught that narrative, right?
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And even now, there's so many people even coming up with different things about how breakfast was a tool that was used in order to pump people with more gluttony, pump people with more food, and cause them to, you know, different aspects of what it was, but just forcing different narratives into the mainstream population so that consumption can be improved, therefore, companies are winning, right?
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And breakfast was one of those things.
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The Kellogg brothers making Kellogg's cornflakes was one of those aspects.
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So, even whenever it comes to that phrase, you know, eat your breakfast, the breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
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That was a lie made up from people that profited off of the lie.
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So that's exactly what I mean.
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How many things do we believe that are not true?
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And I'm getting a little off topic here, I'm gonna be honest, but that's how intentional I have become with checking my own belief systems, with checking what I believe, and fact-checking everything, and cross-referencing into the Bible as much as I can.
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There is many things, and there are certain revelations that I cannot receive, even with uh this, you know, this is more recent, so if you're hearing this way in the future, with Pastor Otha, of how he said certain things about Christ going into hell and being molested on uh in hell, uh bearing the sins on us and taking it to that extreme nature, which is not in the Bible, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is untrue, although it is dangerous, and it was very interesting that he decided to actually say that because there are certain revelations that I have got that are a gathering of different contextual pieces that is not directly stated in the Bible, but that I know I will not put out there to the public.
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So if you're listening to this right now, you may never hear that revelation, and there may be some of you that will.
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So it feels like a burden that I'm carrying on my own in a way, you know.
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Um it's crazy, it's crazy.
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I've talked I've talked to uh Lex about it, I've talked to uh my wife about it, and it's something that stops there.
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I have not spoken to anybody about that except for them and God, and it is something okay, it is it is really cool, but testing it and cross-referencing it to the word and praying on it is one of the best things that we can do, and the humbling aspect of it comes from testing it because I feel as though it is very, very humbling.
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Like I'm the what what did uh what did Michael Scott say from the office?
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I'm the most no, it wasn't him.
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Who was it?
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It was uh it was it was Trump actually.
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Trump is out.
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I'm actually the most humblest guy, I'm the most humblest guy there.
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You don't even know how humble I am, right?
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Uh no, but I I I feel like that is an act of humility for you to check your belief systems because you are not shutting off your mind to other possibilities.
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Now that does not mean don't be double-minded because there's there's really a huge difference.
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There is testing everything, and then there is doubt, right?
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So there is a certain healthy skepticism that we must have, and there are beliefs that we have in place, and that might not work for everybody, but I feel like everybody should practice it to an extent, and one of the things that I have gotten really upset about, especially in testing my faith and wanting to align it more with God and wanting to align it more so much stronger, is the miracle aspect of it.
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And I was just like, I've been really ticked off recently in the recent weeks.
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So, whenever you see me happy, you know, you'll know I'm always pretty jolly, uh, you know, and I always have joy in God and and and just you know the joy of life, but I'm kind of ticked off right now because I I I do not fully possess the beliefs that I want to have and that I know are capable, and I'm mad about it because I know they are true, yet there's something blocking me from believing it so, and I'm trying to dig within myself and through my memories and through all my beliefs to try to find what it is that I believe that is blocking me from obtaining that, and what I mean is that miracle aspect of believing that we have the authority to perform miracles just as Christ did, of course, through the power of the Holy Spirit, but you gotta remember the disciples they didn't even have the Holy Spirit whenever Christ was walking around with them, whenever Christ had sent them out with the authority.
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That authority comes from us being children of God and disciples of Christ, it is enhanced and enabled through the Holy Spirit, absolutely, absolutely, but there are certain gifts and things that are implemented in us that was just designed is by design, like by the design of mankind that he made us to be so.
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That is why there are certain people that can do certain things through the belief system that they have, right?
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The belief and faith, that is one of those principles that is by design that we do not need the enabling of the Holy Spirit to do so, right?
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We all have a breath of life, we all have the image of God, so we all have certain authority that we have to believe that we have.
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And honestly, I'm gonna have to make a part two of this because this isn't even fully where I wanted to go with it.
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But it is me not believing all the way and taking the actionable steps.
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Because I can I believe it.
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I believe that it is possible.
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And I believe that I can do it.
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But for some reason, I do not believe that I can do it right now.
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And whether that is my guilt, whether that is my self-doubt, whether that is my pride or my ego, I am not certain yet.
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And I pray to take you along this journey, uh, you know, to to be able to find out what exactly it is, and I believe it's a combination of all of them to an extent.
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Um, but there is definitely some belief that I have not fully found yet, that I have not been able to uncover within myself that is blocking me from believing that.
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At this point, I'm just trying to force it is laying my hands on people and having them be healed as though we as we were given the authority to do so, lay my hands on people and have them come back to life as we were told to do so.
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That's right, move the movement of the wind, so beautiful, and that is my current positioning, and that is the part one of this.
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I'm gonna leave it at the part one of this because the second part was gonna be going further into the self-justification aspect, but we do need to analyze the belief systems that we have in place and which ones we need to trade in, and that's also why we are doing so much of the curriculum that we do and so much of the work frames that we do in order to do that because there are big beliefs, big things that we can't believe.
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That's actually why I'm gonna write The Beauty of the Rain, too, because three of those come from such great replacements that cured me from depression is through the words of God and through understanding those aspects, right?
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And Romans 8 28 is definitely one of them.
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Uh, the perfect timing of God is definitely one of them, and a combination of those and his mercy, his mercy and grace, and understanding how truly everything does happen for the best of us, you know.
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Genesis 50-20.
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It's a combination of these, so combining them in the same way we form our belief systems is what we must do whenever it comes to our personal beliefs so that we can amplify the mission and purpose that we were meant to do.
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And remember, we're always gonna be on this walk, there's always gonna be steps that we take, and there's always gonna be something we have to improve because we are meant for greatness and things greater and the greater potential than maybe we can ever become.
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Right now, and we are believing and seeing aspects that are man-made that blow my mind, especially with now Chat GPT 6 coming out and what it's capable of doing with different AIs and how advanced they are becoming.
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They are never going to there is not, and it is no possible way that man-made creations and any creation for that matter that was not from God directly will ever outdo God's.
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Let's take the challenge, let's do the challenge together.
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I love you all.
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I hope you have a blessed one.
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I'm gonna come up with part two next week, Lord willing, if we make it that far.
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But let's live in the present because today is a gift.
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I love you all, have a blessed one, and we will catch you on the flip side.
