What tries to distract you from worshipping God? The Bible tells us to guard our hearts because we have the ability to create an atmosphere of praise in any season! | TBN Prayer Line: 714-731-1000
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Better Together | Better Together LIVE - Episode 273 | July 9, 2021
- - What tries to distract you from worshiping God?
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- The Bible tells us to guard our hearts,
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- so how can we create an atmosphere of praise in any season?
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- Come on, let's talk about it.
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- ♪ Ooh
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- ♪ Ooh
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- - I was very blessed to grow up in a Christian home.
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- My parents taught us, from an early age,
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- to read the Bible and to pray,
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- to attend church and to serve,
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- and one of the ways that they served as I was growing up
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- was they would have college students come to our home
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- on the weekends and on holidays
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- from a local Bible school, here, in Dallas,
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- and so, you know,
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- college kids that didn't have anywhere to go,
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- as far as maybe they live too far,
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- or, you know, they were alone over the holidays,
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- and there was these two young women
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- that used to come to our home pretty regularly,
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- and they were worship leaders at this Bible school,
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- and, as a little girl,
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- I remember just leaning up against the wall
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- and listening to them sing worship to the Lord.
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- And, more times than not, it was acapella.
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- We had a little keyboard in the house
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- that sometimes they would play,
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- but just that worship that they would give
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- and that they would do in our home,
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- it changed the atmosphere,
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- and it was the first time, for me,
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- outside of a corporate setting, outside of church, you know,
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- that I had felt this tangible presence of the Lord.
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- And it was in that presence of the Lord,
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- the holy spirit started to speak to me, that,
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- Karen, this is what I want you to do.
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- I want you to sing.
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- I want worship ministry to be a part of your calling.
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- And I remember these two young women,
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- they took me under their wing,
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- they taught me how to sing,
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- they taught me what it meant to worship,
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- they taught me how to lead worship
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- and how to do all of that,
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- and I have to give a little shout out,
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- 'cause one of them, her name was Kizziah,
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- and one of them is actually sitting right there. (laughs)
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- Nicole's C.,
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- I wouldn't have been doing worship ministry
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- if it hadn't been for her coming to our home.
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- - Wow. - And demonstrating
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- and showing us, all those years ago,
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- as just a college student,
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- what the presence of the Lord looked like,
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- what it felt like,
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- and I think that is such a great conversation
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- for us to have today.
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- You know, what does it look like in your life?
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- How have you, practically?
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- Have you cultivated and created an atmosphere of worship
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- that allows the holy spirit to move in your life?
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- - First of all, let me just say
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- that I had no clue back then
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- what God would do through you,
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- and I am super proud, as one of your big sisters,
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- you know, in the faith,
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- as to what God has done and is doing in you for real,
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- like, I am super honored,
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- and, back then, you weren't calling me no Nicole C.
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- What were you calling me? Tell the truth.
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- - No, I wasn't.
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- You are bubbles. - Bubbles.
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- - (laughs) My nickname. - Bubbles, you will always
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- be Bubbles to me.
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- I've been having to correct myself this whole week.
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- Like, I have got to call her Nicole.
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- - No need, no need, you're good.
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- - She's Bubbles, she's bubbles.
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- - I've been Bubbles since I was two, okay?
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- Since I was a little, you know, on the stout side.
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- - But it's really just an honor to hear what you're saying.
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- And really, again, all glory to God because the Lord,
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- He knew the seeds that needed to have been sown in you.
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- And like the Bible says, some water, some plan.
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- But ultimately, God gives the increase.
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- So God is the one giving the increase in your life.
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- And so I'm thrilled to cheer you on as you're leading other
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- people in worship to our God.
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- And so - that's such a wonderful thing.
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- And for me, though, too, I will say this.
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- Just even my times of dedicated worship and praise have changed
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- throughout the years.
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- I have to admit, when my kids were younger, I was able to
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- get up before everybody else was going to school.
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- And I would have my prayer time at five a.m.
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- in the morning and get them up at six.
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- And then as they got a little older, I was able to move it
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- to six o'clock and then seven o'clock and eight o'clock.
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- And now that I am a newly Wed, I have to admit the time -
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- But the Lord is still number one in my life.
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- He is number one in my life.
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- Well, I do honor Him in prayer.
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- And in Bible reading and through praise as well.
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- - I think what Karen was saying earlier about the home is so
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- important that you set the stage for God to be at home in
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- your home.
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- I think that's definitely the number one way that you protect
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- your praise, that you guard your heart.
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- And also going back to what Nicole was saying, you have to
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- plan to please Him.
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- You have to plan until it becomes the norm for you.
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- Then there's nothing wrong with putting an alarm clock.
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- It doesn't mean you don't love Jesus.
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- Doesn't mean you sleep.
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- Exactly.
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- And you can shift to according to your life.
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- The thing is, he has to be first.
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- - Absolutely.
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- - And then you put everything else around Him.
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- And that's how you protect your praise.
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- So many times we leave God at the last thing.
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- We put everything else in our lives.
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- We set that first.
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- And then it's like, "where can we put Him?"
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- That's not protecting your praise.
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- You're going to protect your praise and your relationship
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- with God by putting everything else in your life around Him.
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- - That's good.
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- - Redo that schedule.
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- If you have to redo the schedule, redo it like, like Nicole said,
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- if you got to get up a little earlier, you have to understand
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- that this is the most vital thing in your life and that is
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- your praise.
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- There's power in your praise.
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- There's victory in your praise.
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- You confuse the enemy with your praise.
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- Like, Jehosaphat did. Sometimes that is the way you're going to fight
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- the main way that the weapon of praise can be underestimated.
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- Sometimes it is so powerful to open up your mouth and to
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- give God the glory that's due to Him.
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- And so you have to make sure you make time for that.
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- And to put that first, because because that's a sign of protecting
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- your praise.
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- - That's good.
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- - That's good.
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- - You know CC, you said in the opening, you said, We live in a world
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- full of distractions.
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- And I think you asked the viewer, Do you have distractions
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- in your life?
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- And I kind of giggled because I was like a million distractions
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- is what I'm working with over here.
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- And I do see too. I was telling you guys, I'm parenting teenagers
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- now, and we have distractions.
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- And I have personal distractions.
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- And when I was parenting toddlers, they were different distractions
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- and different personal distractions, even as well.
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- I know a couple of things practically for me.
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- I just interviewed a woman on my podcast, and she has a saying
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- where she was saying that she always wants to have the word
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- before the world.
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- And I remember thinking, man, what a great way to think about
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- it, because we all have our phones right here and we pick
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- them up first thing in the morning.
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- And she said she was committed to not looking at anything
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- on her phone until she spent time in God's word.
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- And I love that so much.
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- And a couple of practical things that I have done over the
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- years putting on music and my home has always been important
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- for me.
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- When my kids were little, I felt it calm them down.
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- Now that I got teenagers, it's calming them down in a different
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- way. But putting on some music that is centering our thoughts
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- on what is true about God.
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- It does something to us when our home has a different Center
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- and a different rhythm to it with that.
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- Also, I always like to say, too, so many people were on the
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- go, and we think if I can't sit down and spend an hour and
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- a half in God's Word before I get the kids breakfast, then I must
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- not be a good Christian.
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- And listen, I have gotten now where I'm going through the
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- Bible on an app on my phone.
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- And there are some days I sit down with the physical Bible
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- and go through it.
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- And there are some days where I let God's Word just be spoken
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- over me as I'm doing my day.
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- And so I think too of protecting our praise.
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- Also, we got to say, how am I going to protect my priorities?
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- And if my price is getting in the Word of God every single
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- day, I want to just free some people up that that can look
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- different.
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- - That's right.
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- - And it looks different in different seasons
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- - Absolutely
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- - It looks different when you have
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- different health struggles.
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- It looks different when you are
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- in different stages of your marriage.
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- - Yeah
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- - And so I think too just to help people
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- like practically I've got apps
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- on my phone that helped me with that;
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- Putting music on in the house helps them with that;
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- Going through a Bible reading plan on my phone
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- helps me with that.
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- And so I think that there are ways
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- that we can even use technology
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- to help us protect our praise.
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- - Lovely
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- - Yeah. So many ways in this modern, modern technology and
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- and any way that we can, I think
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- figure out a way to kind of put it on autopilot, right.
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- That it's like this morning, you know
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- I made sure I said, you know what?
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- I've got to, I've got to go
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- on my walk this morning and I've got to put
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- in my air pods and I've got to listen to CC wine.
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- (laughter)
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- And that's real, I'm telling you, I, I, I had to, you know
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- I walked for, you know, 20, 30 minutes, but
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- but I do that every day.
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- And it's a way to, to just, you know, to start
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- off the day in a beautiful way, and it's multitasking
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- and it's a way that I can, it's just built in to my day.
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- And, and so in the, you know, love, love the Bible apps.
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- We can listen to the word
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- we can listen to incredible podcasts
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- and messages while we walk outside enjoying, you know
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- God's creation nature, the sunshine, the spring time.
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- And so I'm always looking for those
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- those ways to kind of build it into my day, you know
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- when I'm cleaning the house and I do clean the house
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- and mopping my kitchen floor, you know, turning
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- turning the music on in the house, you know
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- using the living room sound system and
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- and using the Bluetooth
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- on my phone to make sure I've got worship going
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- creating an atmosphere in my home.
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- There are so many tools.
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- I mean, YouTube video after YouTube video of worship
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- that we can just, you know, utilize
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- these are incredible tools for us.
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- - Yeah. It really comes down
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- to just saturating your home with the presence of the Lord.
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- You know, really just having the presence of the Lord
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- soak into everything that we do.
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- And we've talked about some of the examples, you know
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- we set apart that time to worship.
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- You know, we set apart that time when we're riding
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- in our cars, y'all road-rage is real.
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- (laughing noise)
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- So I have worship playing
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- and I have little ones at home.
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- So it's like, for some reason when we get in the car
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- they're just nitpicking at each other in the car.
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- Like, they're totally fine everywhere else.
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- But so we'd have worship playing in the car
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- but going back to what you were saying, Nicole, about
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- like worship being in the home, we are primarily home a lot
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- and I homeschool our 13 year-old and our 10 year-old.
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- And then we have a 2 year-old little guy
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- that God decided to be funny and bless us with.
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- So, we're home all the time.
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- I run my business out of my home.
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- My husband has been working
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- from home since the pandemic started.
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- And I think it's really easy sometimes to just
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- kind of be in this, blah
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- you know, when we're home all the time.
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- And so we've been really intentional.
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- Jamie, I think you were talking
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- about this to like play worship music in the mornings
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- play worship music while we're doing homeschool.
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- Have worship music going either
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- on YouTube or on Spotify or Pandora, whatever it is.
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- But I go back to thinking, you know
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- we were created to worship
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- that that is what we were created to do
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- but a lot of times that worship can get misdirected
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- because of the distractions that we face.
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- And we start worshiping the creation more than the creator.
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- And we start to being in and start worshiping things
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- like even Christian bloggers and Christian speakers.
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- We start looking to them instead of digging into the word
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- of God for ourselves, we start looking to them
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- for revelations and to try to find that revelation
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- in our own lives, we start maybe glorifying
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- and worshiping a paycheck.
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- We start worshiping fame or the amount of social media
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- followers that we have.
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- And so when we start worshiping that creation, instead
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- of the creator, our worship gets misdirected.
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- And I love what Psalm 29-2 says.
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- He says, it says ascribe to the Lord, the glory due
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- his name were sipped the Lord and the splendor
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- of his holiness.
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- So when we live in that constant awareness
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- that everything was created by God and that it was created
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- for him.
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- It creates this desire in us to praise him and to
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- worship him and to protect that praise
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- and all the different areas of our lives.
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- - Yeah. I mean, going back to what you just said,
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- Karen, as far as protecting our praise,
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- the reason why we're talking about
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- protecting our praise today is
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- because the enemy is always trying to steal our pray.
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- And I just want everybody who's watching
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- you have to be aware
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- of the enemy's devices, all the distractions,
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- and you know
- 00:13:16.952 --> 00:13:18.487
- he'll use whatever he can to stop you from praising God.
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- And you have to make them
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- in your mind that I will not be silent
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- but I'm going to open up my mouth.
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- I will bless the Lord at all times.
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- His praise.
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- - Can you leave me in my mouth
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- because the enemy will steal our praise.
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- He comes to steal our praise through
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- through whatever we're going through, you know?
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- And so that's why we have to,
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- we're saying protected.
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- why do we have to protect it?
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- Because the enemy wants desires
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- to sift us as wheat.
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- He desires to stop us from praising God
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- because when we magnify God and he's glorified
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- people will begin to know about him and
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- and God begins to move in our lives.
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- And, and, and, and when you protecting
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- your praise you're protecting your family.
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- You're protecting your home.
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- You're protecting all of that because all
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- of that is protected by our praise
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- and our worship.
- 00:14:07.603 --> 00:14:08.904
- The goodness of God, us re being reminded
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- that God is good.
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- That without him, I'm absolutely nothing that
- 00:14:12.908 --> 00:14:15.177
- without him my marriage will not work.
- 00:14:15.177 --> 00:14:17.346
- My children will, will not be on me, you know?
- 00:14:17.346 --> 00:14:20.182
- And so when you understand, and it's almost
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- it's so important that we're alert
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- and that we're aware because if not,
- 00:14:24.286 --> 00:14:27.022
- you'll leave the door unlocked.
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- You leave the windows open, you know,
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- in anything can come in.
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- You know?
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- And I thank God for my parents.
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- I thank God because you know, we,
- 00:14:34.596 --> 00:14:36.799
- we had to go to church,
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- you know, we had to listen to all gospel music.
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- We didn't want to
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- as kids when they were like, oh no, no, no, no, no.
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- Why are you in my house?
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- This is what you're going to listen to.
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- (Group laughing together)
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- - Yeah.
- 00:14:48.944 --> 00:14:50.212
- - So don't think kids don't want to hear it.
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- You know, you have to understand
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- as the mom, as the dad
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- that you know what I have to protect my praise
- 00:14:54.850 --> 00:14:57.820
- I have to protect what God has given me,
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- you know, because the enemy wants to take it
- 00:15:00.656 --> 00:15:02.925
- and so we praise, you know,
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- you we have to protect it
- 00:15:06.595 --> 00:15:07.863
- because praise for Texas.
- 00:15:07.863 --> 00:15:09.832
- - Yeah. I think it's so good.
- 00:15:09.832 --> 00:15:11.633
- because you're talking about how we have to protect this
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- and I think that means we have to be proactive,
- 00:15:14.036 --> 00:15:15.004
- Like, we're on offense here.
- 00:15:15.004 --> 00:15:16.638
- When you start playing defense against the devil
- 00:15:16.638 --> 00:15:18.707
- I feel like it's like, oh no, we're behind now.
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- Like we're authentic,
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- that's price.
- 00:15:22.344 --> 00:15:23.445
- - Right, Good.
- 00:15:23.445 --> 00:15:24.279
- - We have the sword
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- we have the tools we have God's word
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- in Romans 12
- 00:15:26.648 --> 00:15:28.417
- and it says, do not be conformed to this world
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- but be transformed by the renewal of your mind
- 00:15:30.352 --> 00:15:33.422
- - Hmm, Hmm.
- 00:15:33.422 --> 00:15:34.656
- - that by testing, you may discern
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- what is the will of God what is good and acceptable
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- and perfect.
- 00:15:37.326 --> 00:15:39.028
- And I think that we read this a lot,
- 00:15:39.028 --> 00:15:41.930
- but we talking about. I need to be transformed by the
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- renewal of my mind.
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- Do you know how we fight off the enemy is
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- that we are renewing our minds all the time
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- on the truth of God's word?
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- And so we talk about,
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- I want to protect the praise,
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- I want to, I want to bring praise into my home,
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- I want to have a house,
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- an office and apartment building
- 00:15:58.414 --> 00:16:00.015
- a college dorm that has a worshipful spirit.
- 00:16:00.015 --> 00:16:04.820
- I think it means we need to say we're going to
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- be people who are always going
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- to be renewing our minds
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- so that we are thinking on what is true,
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- We are thinking, what is your thinking?
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- What is good?
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- We are thinking, what is holy.
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- And listen.
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- That doesn't mean life is awesome.
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- That just means we're trusting God
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- for what he has for us
- 00:16:21.103 --> 00:16:22.371
- because we're renewing our minds through that,
- 00:16:22.371 --> 00:16:23.872
- and so I think for us to protect something,
- 00:16:23.872 --> 00:16:26.375
- we have to say we're going to fight for this.
- 00:16:26.375 --> 00:16:28.277
- I'm going to fight to keep this the way I want it to be.
- 00:16:28.277 --> 00:16:31.513
- And listen, ladies.
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- I'm not telling y'all nothing y'all don't know
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- fighting to protect that is sometimes
- 00:16:34.516 --> 00:16:36.685
- one of our hardest jobs we do throughout our day.
- 00:16:36.685 --> 00:16:38.554
- - Right.
- 00:16:38.554 --> 00:16:40.022
- - It just be easier to lay down and just be like,
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- I can't, I don't have time for this.
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- This is too hard.
- 00:16:43.092 --> 00:16:44.293
- - Yeah, Yeah.
- 00:16:44.293 --> 00:16:45.561
- - But we know the outcome of
- 00:16:45.561 --> 00:16:47.262
- of giving up has bigger consequences
- 00:16:47.262 --> 00:16:50.232
- than even how hard it will be to find it.
- 00:16:50.232 --> 00:16:51.600
- - Yeah, yeah.
- 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:53.135
- - So I just hope that encourages somebody today.
- 00:16:53.135 --> 00:16:54.403
- - Absolutely, You know, I think also
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- - Yeah
- 00:16:56.038 --> 00:16:57.139
- - piggybacking on what you said
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- is that in order to guard something
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- in order for us to protect it,
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- we have to be careful
- 00:17:01.110 --> 00:17:02.344
- as to what goes in our irrigate too
- 00:17:02.344 --> 00:17:03.912
- because praise comes down around the house,
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- but whatever we take into here
- 00:17:05.747 --> 00:17:07.850
- has a possibility of contaminating our praise,
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- if we're not careful.
- 00:17:10.786 --> 00:17:11.620
- - Hmm.
- 00:17:11.620 --> 00:17:12.821
- - And I love the scripture that says,
- 00:17:12.821 --> 00:17:14.056
- guard your heart above all else for out of
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- it flows the issues of life,
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- and I think of that as the, well,
- 00:17:16.492 --> 00:17:18.494
- you know people would protect the well
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- because if you got contaminants in the well
- 00:17:20.429 --> 00:17:22.831
- then people would drink contaminated water,
- 00:17:22.831 --> 00:17:25.200
- - Hmm.
- 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:26.235
- - So you have to be careful what you allow in.
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- So that contamination doesn't come out.
- 00:17:27.903 --> 00:17:29.171
- And I think in the same way,
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- we have to be careful.
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- Even sometimes on the media
- 00:17:32.074 --> 00:17:33.275
- we have to turn the television off.
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- We have to be careful of the
- 00:17:34.743 --> 00:17:36.512
- broadcast that we watch or
- 00:17:36.512 --> 00:17:38.347
- the just the influences that we take in
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- because it will influence our praise
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- and our worship, So we want to make sure
- 00:17:42.918 --> 00:17:44.586
- we're feeding ourselves on the word,
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- we're feeding ourselves on things that are godly.
- 00:17:46.755 --> 00:17:49.191
- And when you all were talking about,
- 00:17:49.191 --> 00:17:50.659
- you know setting the atmosphere in your home,
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- you know
- 00:17:52.794 --> 00:17:53.629
- I love to do that.
- 00:17:53.629 --> 00:17:54.563
- But if you come into my home,
- 00:17:54.563 --> 00:17:55.831
- honestly, I'll say this in the past,
- 00:17:55.831 --> 00:17:57.332
- you probably wouldn't hear as much music
- 00:17:57.332 --> 00:18:00.802
- as you would the word,
- 00:18:00.802 --> 00:18:01.803
- but now that I'm married
- 00:18:01.803 --> 00:18:02.804
- I will say my husband has
- 00:18:02.804 --> 00:18:05.174
- Christian radio Olin all the time.
- 00:18:05.174 --> 00:18:06.875
- He's a black guy.
- 00:18:06.875 --> 00:18:08.143
- You take good care of me all the time now.
- 00:18:08.143 --> 00:18:10.779
- Okay, For real.
- 00:18:10.779 --> 00:18:12.347
- But I love it because it's,
- 00:18:12.347 --> 00:18:14.383
- it's an atmosphere in our home
- 00:18:14.383 --> 00:18:16.118
- - Yeah.
- 00:18:16.118 --> 00:18:17.352
- - to where it's an atmosphere of peace.
- 00:18:17.352 --> 00:18:18.387
- It's the atmosphere of Joy.
- 00:18:18.387 --> 00:18:19.521
- - Yeah, yes.
- 00:18:19.521 --> 00:18:20.756
- - It's when we can have fun in the
- 00:18:20.756 --> 00:18:22.324
- Lord's presence,
- 00:18:22.324 --> 00:18:23.825
- we can plan his presence, we can pray in his presence,
- 00:18:23.825 --> 00:18:24.826
- we can worship in his presence.
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- We can do what we do in his friends
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- None of y'all business.
- 00:18:27.729 --> 00:18:28.931
- But I'm just say we, you set the....
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- - In your home for God to show up and for God to work,
- 00:18:30.766 --> 00:18:34.369
- and he will do that.
- 00:18:34.369 --> 00:18:35.904
- - And I think another way that we protect our praise
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- and set an atmosphere in our home
- 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:40.175
- are the words we use and how we honor one another,
- 00:18:40.175 --> 00:18:43.378
- how we honor our husbands,
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- and even how we relate to our children,
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- that, yes, we can bring godly correction,
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- but we're speaking words of life.
- 00:18:50.085 --> 00:18:51.887
- I love the scripture, Ephesians 4:29,
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- don't don't use foul or abusive language,
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- let everything you say be good and helpful
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- so that your words will be an encouragement
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- to those who hear them,
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- and then Proverbs 18:21.
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- I love the message translation.
- 00:19:06.034 --> 00:19:07.636
- It says, "Words kill, words give life."
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- And so, I think, as we learn, really,
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- the power of honoring one another
- 00:19:14.076 --> 00:19:17.145
- and speaking life over one another
- 00:19:17.145 --> 00:19:19.014
- doesn't mean that we can't have real, honest conversations
- 00:19:19.014 --> 00:19:21.950
- and get to the core of an issue,
- 00:19:21.950 --> 00:19:24.019
- but that we're not tearing each other down.
- 00:19:24.019 --> 00:19:25.787
- You know, nothing can change the atmosphere in our home
- 00:19:25.787 --> 00:19:28.657
- quicker than when momma's in a bad mood.
- 00:19:28.657 --> 00:19:30.892
- And I mean, I'm telling you, that's just real. (laughs)
- 00:19:30.892 --> 00:19:32.995
- My kids can tell you the truth!
- 00:19:32.995 --> 00:19:34.429
- - With the thermostat! - Yeah, (laughs)
- 00:19:34.429 --> 00:19:39.201
- Again, it's not that we're not real
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- or correcting things that need to be corrected,
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- but it's the way that we do it,
- 00:19:42.771 --> 00:19:44.873
- that, you know, we see the gold inside,
- 00:19:44.873 --> 00:19:48.844
- that we're not just criticizing.
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- We may speak to what needs to be corrected,
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- but then we see the gold that's inside our children
- 00:19:52.781 --> 00:19:55.751
- and that's in our husband, and we speak to that.
- 00:19:55.751 --> 00:19:58.253
- We speak life into that.
- 00:19:58.253 --> 00:19:59.721
- - That's good. - That's good.
- 00:19:59.721 --> 00:20:01.156
- And I love that you just said, Nicole,
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- we speak life into it,
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- 'cause when you think about praise,
- 00:20:04.192 --> 00:20:06.094
- you think about celebration.
- 00:20:06.094 --> 00:20:08.397
- You know, you think about the spirit of joy, you know.
- 00:20:08.397 --> 00:20:13.702
- In the presence of God, there's fullness of joy, you know?
- 00:20:14.803 --> 00:20:17.339
- And so, I think that's very important
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- when we're protecting our praise,
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- that we make sure that we speak life
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- and that our words are seasoned with grace,
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- because you never want to correct someone
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- in a way that that brings defeat or condemnation.
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- You know, you wanna be able to correct them with the love,
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- you know, children, no matter how small,
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- you wanna correct them, but you do it with love.
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- You know, when you're talking
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- to your brother and your sister, it's with love,
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- and all of that brings protection.
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- I think someone said it, maybe it was Karen,
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- you know, it goes back to the presence of God
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- and, really, the word of God.
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- As we walk out this word,
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- it gives us the protection that we need
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- in order to remain sincere,
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- in order to remain the worshipers
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- and the people of God that we are, you know?
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- 'Cause sometimes, we can make it
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- more difficult than what it is,
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- and I just want people to understand,
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- because there's so many distractions,
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- and if you focus on the issues more than the solution,
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- then you'll never have peace, let me just say it like that.
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- But when you focus on the solution,
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- how can I open up my life
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- where the love of God is a part of my lifestyle.
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- You know, when I'm listening to the word,
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- or the Bible tells us how to talk, it tells us how to walk,
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- it tells us how to treat one another,
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- all of that brings protection.
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- It protects our praise.
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- All of that teaches us how to worship God.
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- So when we focus on him, the Bible says,
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- "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
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- and everything else will be added."
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- We're aware that we have an enemy,
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- but we don't have to worry about the enemy.
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- You know, you're aware you have the enemy,
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- so now, focusing in on just getting to know
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- the king of Kings, getting to know the Lord of Lords,
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- getting to know your heavenly father,
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- and teach your children how to know him,
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- teach them what you know,
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- and then teach them the word of God,
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- and they'll begin to embrace that as a lifestyle, you know?
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- And when you embrace him, you're embracing protection.
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- When you're embracing him, you're gonna guard your mouth.
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- You know, you're not gonna say anything.
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- As a believer, we don't say everything.
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- The Bible says, out of the same faucet
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- shouldn't come bitter and sweet water, you know?
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- But we preserve our words
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- for words that are going to be edifying
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- and that are going to lift him up
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- and things that are going to magnify his name
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- and bring life, you know?
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- Again, going back to life,
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- when you speak life, you bring protection.
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- - [Jamie] That's so good. - Yeah.
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- - It's so good.
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- You know, devotion to the Lord
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- drowns out the deception of the enemy,
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- and I think that, when we think about that,
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- his voice drowns out every other voice in our heads,
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- and when we can take out the noise that's around us,
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- take out the noise, the distractions,
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- whether it's TV, whether it's entertainment,
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- whether it's news,
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- - Whether it's social media, whatever it is,
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- taking out that noise in our lives helps us to hear
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- and see the voice of the Lord better
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- and to see what His plans are for our lives.
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- So, if you're watching today and you're wondering
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- like how on earth am I supposed
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- to protect the praise in my home?
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- My home feels so at unrest.
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- There's not a lot of peace here.
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- There's not a lot of joy.
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- And I wanna encourage you.
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- I hope you take some of these practical suggestions
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- that we talked about today of practicing His presence,
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- setting ourselves apart for the Lord.
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- What does it look like to renew our minds?
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- Changing the atmosphere in our homes,
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- in our cars, in our workplaces, everywhere that we go
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- and that the Lord will show you practical ways
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- to be able to protect your praise
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- and to be able to hear His voice
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- above all of the other voices that are surrounding you.
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- So let's pray today.
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- Father, we just thank you so much for your love.
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- We thank you for your mercy, for your grace.
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- We thank you for your goodness, for your faithfulness.
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- We worship you.
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- We honor you.
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- Father, we praise you for what you've done for us.
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- We worship you for who you are.
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- We are so grateful for your presence in our lives.
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- And so father today, as we start to cultivate an atmosphere
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- of worship in our homes that welcomes the Holy Spirit,
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- as we start to protect the praise
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- that should be yours and yours alone, no one else's.
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- Father, I pray that you'll give us the wisdom,
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- the encouragement, the know-how, to walk in You,
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- walk with You, and walk through You.
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- Allow You to work in and through our lives
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- and in our homes over our children, over our marriages,
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- over our jobs, over everything that we put our hands to.
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- Father, that You will shine bright through it.
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- We give You the praise and the honor
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- and glory for it's in Your name that we pray.
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- Amen.
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- - Amen. - Amen.
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- Tomorrow's conversation is all
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- about how to make worship a part of our daily lives.
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- It's not a duty, it's a lifestyle.
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- We'll see you soon.
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