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Cedric Pisegna - God Is Good

July 20, 2025 | 28:25

Cedric Pisegna - God Is Good
Father Cedric Pisegna is a Catholic priest. His program will inspire and encourage you to Live with Passion.
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Live with Passion with Father Cedric | Cedric Pisegna - God Is Good | July 20, 2025
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  • Father cedric pisegna: blessed are they who believe
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  • Without seeing.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: welcome to "live with passion."
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  • I'm father cedric pisegna.
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  • I pray that you will open your heart to the word of god because
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  • God is good all the time, and that's the name of this episode.
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  • Psalm 34 david was going through some problems and afflictions
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  • And troubles and he wrote the psalms.
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  • He wrote psalm 34 and he said, "i will bless the lord at
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  • All times.
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  • His praise will be continually in my mouth.
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  • My soul makes its boast in the lord.
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  • Let the afflicted hear and be glad.
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  • O taste and see that the lord is good."
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  • I was a preacher at an catholic national black congress.
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  • There were many people, some 3,000 people there, and there
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  • Were other preachers there.
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  • And one of them was a black priest and he got up there in
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  • Front of the congregation and he said, "god is good."
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  • Everybody said, "all the time."
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  • And then he goes, "all the time."
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  • And everybody said, "god is good."
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  • All the time god is good.
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  • Psalm 34 that i read to you, david was struggling, going
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  • Through afflictions and hardships and difficulties.
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  • People were chasing after him.
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  • His life was on the line, and he said, "i will bless the lord at
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  • All times.
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  • His praise will be ever upon my lips."
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  • And then he said, "taste and see the goodness of the lord."
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  • One of the reasons why people struggle with the goodness of
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  • God is because they suffer.
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  • They're going through difficulties.
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  • That's the great cry of atheists.
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  • "how can there be a good god when there's all this suffering
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  • In the world?"
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  • Well, the bottom line is that even though we go through trials
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  • And difficulties and hardships, god is still good.
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  • And the goodness of god actually outweighs the evil that's in
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  • The world.
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  • And i want you to trust that.
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  • This is a series called "we walk by faith and not by sight."
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  • And even though sometimes you don't see the goodness of god or
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  • Feel the goodness of god, i want you to walk by faith and not
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  • By sight.
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  • And as you walk by faith, believing in the goodness of
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  • God, his goodness will overwhelm you.
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  • It'll show up.
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  • It'll strengthen you.
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  • It'll help you.
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  • This inscription was written on a wall in a nazi
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  • Concentration camp.
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  • Wow, that's as bad as it gets.
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  • Talk about affliction.
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  • And the inscription went like this: "i believe in the sun even
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  • When it's not shining.
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  • I believe in love even when i'm not feeling it.
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  • I believe in god even when god is silent."
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  • Even if you're going through grieving, depression, suffering
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  • Physically, believe in god's goodness.
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  • Walk by faith, not by sight.
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  • God will bring you through.
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  • He brought david through.
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  • He brought the saints through.
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  • He'll bring you through.
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  • God is with you to help you and he will never fail or
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  • Forsake you.
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  • Now, what is goodness?
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  • We always hear that word god is good and life is good.
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  • And what does goodness mean?
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  • Goodness is defined as blessings or benefits or something of
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  • Excellent quality, the best.
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  • Evil is in the world, we all know what evil is, but goodness
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  • Far outweighs evil.
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  • And i'll try to share that with you.
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  • You have to understand in our life we're a fallen race.
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  • There is evil in the world, and we know all about it.
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  • All you have to do is watch the news, some of the sufferings and
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  • Trials that have come into your life.
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  • We know all about evil, but good far outweighs the evil in
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  • The world.
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  • And i want you to receive that goodness.
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  • You're a believer.
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  • Open up your heart to it.
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  • And as you believe and open up your heart, even though you're
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  • Suffering and having trials, taste and see the goodness of
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  • The lord--wow.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Have you ever noticed that plants always gravitate toward
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  • The sun?
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  • Sunflowers turn toward the sun.
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  • Animals go toward the sun.
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  • I used to have a cat, and she would lay outside not in the
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  • Shadow but in the sun.
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  • They love to soak in the rays.
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  • I went to the beach one time and it was cloudy.
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  • There was hardly anybody there.
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  • It was warm, but it was cloudy, so people didn't go to
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  • The beach.
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  • Next day it was sunny, beach was packed because everybody wants
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  • To soak in the rays.
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  • Similarly, god's goodness is like that.
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  • It's like the rays of the sun that you can soak in.
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  • And i want you to try to recognize, try to be aware of
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  • The goodness of god because sometimes we are jaded, we take
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  • It for granted, we don't really get it.
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  • Once god appeared to moses and he told moses, he said, "i'm
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  • Going to let all my goodness pass by you."
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  • And moses saw the glory.
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  • It was beautiful.
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  • And in a way, that's exactly what's happening in our life.
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  • God passes by.
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  • And whenever we experience anything good in our life,
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  • That's god revealing himself to us.
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  • What do i mean by that?
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  • What are some of the good things?
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  • Well, first of all, i've talked about affliction.
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  • And even though you go through suffering and it's hard, believe
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  • In the goodness of god because the goodness of god is there.
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  • Just like the sun that shines and it shines on everybody, you
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  • Got to soak it in.
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  • But also what happens is with the goodness of god we
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  • Sometimes forget.
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  • We just go on with our life, we become jaded, we take it for
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  • Granted, but the bottom line is that god is good all the time.
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  • We have to recognize it.
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  • And you are responsible for recognizing the goodness of god
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  • In your life and what you do with the goodness of god.
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  • Because i'll tell you, god's goodness is for believers and
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  • Unbelievers, but unbelievers don't recognize it.
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  • They live any way they want to live.
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  • But hopefully as a believer we walk by faith and not by sight.
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  • As a believer we recognize the goodness of god.
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  • And like david, "your praise will be ever on my lips, always
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  • In my mouth.
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  • I taste and see your goodness."
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  • Talking about goodness, what are some of the good things that god
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  • Gives us?
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  • Well, first of all, how about play?
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  • I like to play golf.
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  • When i'm out on a golf course, i take my watch off, i forget
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  • About the world and all the tragedy and the evil that's
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  • Going on, and i play.
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  • It's good to be out there.
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  • Some of you have pets, cats, dogs.
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  • I grew up with them.
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  • They're wonderful.
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  • Get in touch with the good things in your life.
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  • Appreciate that this is a manifestation of god in
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  • Your life.
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  • How about music?
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  • Love to listen to music.
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  • Lifts up my heart.
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  • Movies, hobbies that you have, these are all good things.
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  • Any talents that you have, that's god's goodness.
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  • Has god ever touched you?
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  • Have you experienced a healing?
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  • Have you been filled with the holy spirit?
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  • That's god's goodness.
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  • His praise will be ever upon my lips, always in my mouth.
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  • And then faith is a gift.
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  • This whole series is about we walk by faith and not by sight.
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  • I produced one whole episode about faith and i talk about
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  • Faith as something that it's our responsibility to decide and to
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  • Believe and to assent to it, but when push comes to shove it's
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  • God's gift.
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  • God is good to us, gives us the gift of faith.
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  • Wow.
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  • Those of you who are married, that's god's goodness.
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  • Finding your spouse, loving your spouse, your spouse loving you,
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  • And then, of course, friends, relationships.
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  • There's a whole plethora of things in our life that we have
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  • To recognize not just as happenstance or chance but this
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  • Is the way that god passes by us.
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  • And like moses, we have to recognize that this is god's
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  • Goodness to us because often times we--just we're jaded.
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  • We just take it for granted.
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  • I like to travel.
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  • Studied in israel, greece, rome.
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  • Led pilgrimages over to those places.
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  • Love going those different places, seeing the
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  • Different things.
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  • Love to eat food, course technology, iphones, computers,
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  • Televisions, radio.
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  • These are all things and realities that god has created
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  • To help us.
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  • I remember when paul was in athens.
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  • This is paul the apostle.
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  • He's trying to bring the good news to them.
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  • He's at a place called the areopagus and he's preaching to
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  • Philosophers and people that don't know about the
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  • Resurrection, don't know about jesus, and his strategy was to
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  • Talk about the goodness of god.
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  • He said that everyone has been given life and breath by god.
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  • God has blessed you so you would seek him.
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  • And that's my strategy right now.
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  • Some of you are tuning in and you really haven't been going to
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  • Church or you don't know who jesus is or you're not even sure
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  • If there's a god.
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  • You got to understand that he's given you life and breath and
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  • Everything that's good in your life so that you would seek him.
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  • And i'm praying that through this episode you will seek god
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  • In a deeper way simply by recognizing how good god is all
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  • The time.
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  • Even when you suffer, his goodness is there and he can
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  • Bring you healing, bring you cure.
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  • I read about a saint in the catholic church.
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  • St. josephine bakhita.
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  • She was a slave, a black slave from africa, wasn't
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  • Even religious.
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  • And one night she went outside.
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  • She looked at the stars and the moon.
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  • And this is what she said when she saw all the beautiful things
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  • In nature.
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  • She said, "who is the master of all these beautiful things?"
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  • And that seeking, that looking, that recognizing the beauty in
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  • Nature caused her to start to believe in god.
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  • God touched her.
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  • She became a religious person and a saint.
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  • That's exactly what the book of wisdom says.
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  • That we can get a corresponding idea of god by looking
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  • At nature.
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  • So all kinds of different things as i've enumerated here that are
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  • Good things in our life, you should recognize that god is
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  • Good all the time.
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  • I remember a song by amy grant.
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  • Amy grant is one of my favorite singers.
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  • And she had a song called "doubly good to you."
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  • Here's a few of the verses.
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  • "if you see the moon rising gently on your fields, if the
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  • Wind blows softly on your face, if the sunset lingers while
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  • Cathedral bells peal, you can thank the father for all he's
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  • Done, thank him for all he's yet to do because he's been doubly
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  • Good to you."
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  • And that's my prayer for you as you watch this episode and
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  • Listen by radio, that you will recognize the goodness of god in
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  • Your life and worship, give him thanks.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Yes, there's evil in the world.
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  • Yes, there's suffering and affliction.
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  • We're all very familiar with it.
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  • As i said, all you have to do is turn on the news and you'll
  • 00:12:01.971 --> 00:12:05.207
  • See it.
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  • Many of you are suffering physically, going--some of you
  • 00:12:06.542 --> 00:12:08.410
  • Are going through a divorce, going through hard times, trying
  • 00:12:08.410 --> 00:12:12.181
  • To raise your children right and they're straying from the faith.
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  • I know about the evil in the world.
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  • I hear it all the time.
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  • People email me, write me, i talk to you in counseling.
  • 00:12:18.154 --> 00:12:20.890
  • But the goodness of god is more than double, triple, a hundred
  • 00:12:20.890 --> 00:12:25.895
  • Times more than all the evil in the world, and one day it will
  • 00:12:25.895 --> 00:12:29.832
  • Be revealed in all its fullness.
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  • It will be vindicated.
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  • God is good all the time, all the time god is good.
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  • And if you're not seeing it or recognize it, try to walk by
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  • Faith, simple belief, and watch what happens.
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  • I read an article.
  • 00:12:47.316 --> 00:12:48.684
  • It's called "your glass is fuller than you think."
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  • And it said this: "if you have food in your fridge, clothes on
  • 00:12:52.288 --> 00:12:55.958
  • Your back, a roof over your head, and a place to sleep,
  • 00:12:55.958 --> 00:13:00.362
  • You're richer than 75% of the world."
  • 00:13:00.362 --> 00:13:03.332
  • Wow, things that we just kind of assume and take for granted.
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  • "if you have money in the bank, you're among the world's--8% of
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  • The world's wealthiest people."
  • 00:13:12.374 --> 00:13:13.843
  • If you have money in the bank.
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  • "if you've never experienced the danger of battle, the agony of
  • 00:13:16.212 --> 00:13:19.949
  • Imprisonment or torture, the horrible pangs of starvation,
  • 00:13:19.949 --> 00:13:25.154
  • Then you are more blessed than 500 million people who suffer
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  • With this right now.
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  • And if you can read, you are more fortunate than 3 billion
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  • People who are illiterate."
  • 00:13:36.098 --> 00:13:39.034
  • Things that we oftentimes take for granted like reading, these
  • 00:13:39.034 --> 00:13:42.671
  • Are all blessings.
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  • Count your blessings.
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  • Stop complaining.
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  • It's easy to complain and to murmur.
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  • I heard it said that if you complain you'll remain, if you
  • 00:13:52.882 --> 00:13:55.217
  • Praise you'll be raised, and i really like that.
  • 00:13:55.217 --> 00:13:58.287
  • Praise god.
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  • "i will bless the lord at all times.
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  • His praise will be continually in my mouth."
  • 00:14:03.325 --> 00:14:05.594
  • This is psalm 34.
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  • This is david in the midst of all his trials.
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  • And then let's talk about simple life.
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  • I've talked about many different blessings, but i really haven't
  • 00:14:14.136 --> 00:14:17.006
  • Said this yet.
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  • The fact that you have been born.
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  • The fact that you have been created.
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  • You didn't just happen to be.
  • 00:14:25.714 --> 00:14:28.450
  • God was the one who created you.
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  • That's what psalm 139 said.
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  • And i'll talk about that in just a moment, but the odds of you
  • 00:14:32.588 --> 00:14:36.725
  • Not being born are more than the odds of you being born.
  • 00:14:36.725 --> 00:14:43.065
  • Psalm 139 said that god purposely and intentionally, get
  • 00:14:43.065 --> 00:14:48.971
  • The image, knit you together in your mother's womb.
  • 00:14:48.971 --> 00:14:52.875
  • The knitting process is something that a woman does or a
  • 00:14:52.875 --> 00:14:55.511
  • Man does carefully and watchfully.
  • 00:14:55.511 --> 00:14:57.379
  • And you see, you just didn't come to be by odds
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  • Or happenstance.
  • 00:15:02.251 --> 00:15:04.553
  • God intentionally, intricately made you.
  • 00:15:04.553 --> 00:15:10.025
  • You have the capacity for greatness, unlimited potential.
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  • Why? because you have god's dna.
  • 00:15:13.362 --> 00:15:16.065
  • You're in god's likeness and image.
  • 00:15:16.065 --> 00:15:18.634
  • Every heartbeat, every breath, every moment is a gift from the
  • 00:15:18.634 --> 00:15:25.107
  • Goodness of god to you and to me.
  • 00:15:25.107 --> 00:15:28.243
  • Simply get in touch with that, the truth.
  • 00:15:28.243 --> 00:15:31.981
  • And then it says in genesis 1, genesis first couple chapters,
  • 00:15:31.981 --> 00:15:39.188
  • That god created the heavens and the earth, the stars and the
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  • Moon, vegetation, animals, plants, insects, all that we
  • 00:15:42.958 --> 00:15:50.332
  • Know on earth, and he said it was good.
  • 00:15:50.332 --> 00:15:54.636
  • We're talking about the goodness of god.
  • 00:15:54.636 --> 00:15:56.171
  • These things didn't just happen to be.
  • 00:15:56.171 --> 00:15:59.541
  • God had a purpose.
  • 00:15:59.541 --> 00:16:00.876
  • He intentionally knit all this together and made it, and
  • 00:16:00.876 --> 00:16:04.880
  • Oftentimes we just kind of walk around oblivious to it all.
  • 00:16:04.880 --> 00:16:09.585
  • Light, life.
  • 00:16:09.585 --> 00:16:13.155
  • And then on the sixth day you remember what happened.
  • 00:16:13.155 --> 00:16:15.324
  • He created human beings, men and women.
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  • And it wasn't just good, it was very good.
  • 00:16:18.127 --> 00:16:22.031
  • You aren't just good, you are very good.
  • 00:16:22.031 --> 00:16:25.634
  • You have the image of god.
  • 00:16:25.634 --> 00:16:27.536
  • Wow.
  • 00:16:27.536 --> 00:16:28.871
  • Life is precious, of inestimable value, and oftentimes we just
  • 00:16:28.871 --> 00:16:35.377
  • Take it for granted.
  • 00:16:35.377 --> 00:16:36.845
  • It was st. john paul ii who said that we have a culture of death,
  • 00:16:36.845 --> 00:16:42.818
  • Abortion on demand.
  • 00:16:42.818 --> 00:16:44.953
  • And oftentimes what we do is we get jaded to life.
  • 00:16:44.953 --> 00:16:48.323
  • Mother teresa called abortion the greatest evil of our time.
  • 00:16:48.323 --> 00:16:53.162
  • See, life is good and precious.
  • 00:16:53.162 --> 00:16:55.898
  • Everybody should have a chance to live, not be aborted.
  • 00:16:55.898 --> 00:17:00.836
  • Cardinal o'connor, founder of the sisters of life, had
  • 00:17:00.836 --> 00:17:04.006
  • A saying.
  • 00:17:04.006 --> 00:17:05.374
  • I put it on my wall in my bedroom.
  • 00:17:05.374 --> 00:17:08.043
  • The dazzling value of one soul.
  • 00:17:08.043 --> 00:17:10.846
  • Wow.
  • 00:17:10.846 --> 00:17:12.214
  • The dazzling value of one soul.
  • 00:17:12.214 --> 00:17:15.751
  • Each person on earth, and there's 8.2 billion people on
  • 00:17:15.751 --> 00:17:20.656
  • The face of the earth, each person displays the goodness
  • 00:17:20.656 --> 00:17:25.461
  • Of god.
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  • The intricacies of our bodies, study it sometime, our brain,
  • 00:17:26.795 --> 00:17:30.399
  • Our bodies, the capillaries, the blood vessels, our heart, all
  • 00:17:30.399 --> 00:17:34.169
  • The organs, wow, we could not design something like this.
  • 00:17:34.169 --> 00:17:38.574
  • That's the goodness of god.
  • 00:17:38.574 --> 00:17:40.109
  • Remember god passed by moses and said, "i will show you
  • 00:17:40.109 --> 00:17:43.212
  • My goodness."
  • 00:17:43.212 --> 00:17:44.580
  • He's showing us his goodness.
  • 00:17:44.580 --> 00:17:47.249
  • Open up your heart in faith.
  • 00:17:47.249 --> 00:17:49.084
  • Take a look.
  • 00:17:49.084 --> 00:17:50.552
  • Have the eyes to see and the ears to hear, as jesus
  • 00:17:50.552 --> 00:17:53.288
  • Would say.
  • 00:17:53.288 --> 00:17:54.656
  • The dazzling value of one soul.
  • 00:17:54.656 --> 00:17:57.593
  • Heard about a woman who was contemplating suicide.
  • 00:17:57.593 --> 00:18:00.162
  • She was going through a divorce, she was struggling with raising
  • 00:18:00.162 --> 00:18:02.764
  • Her children, having financial problems, and she went to see a
  • 00:18:02.764 --> 00:18:06.235
  • Counselor, she went to see a priest, and she told him what
  • 00:18:06.235 --> 00:18:09.771
  • Was going on.
  • 00:18:09.771 --> 00:18:11.373
  • And he gave her an interesting prescription.
  • 00:18:11.373 --> 00:18:14.710
  • He said to her, "i want you to close your eyes and get in touch
  • 00:18:14.710 --> 00:18:17.946
  • With your breath."
  • 00:18:17.946 --> 00:18:19.615
  • And she did.
  • 00:18:19.615 --> 00:18:20.983
  • She closed her eyes and started breathing.
  • 00:18:20.983 --> 00:18:23.952
  • And as she got in touch with her breath, she realized what a
  • 00:18:23.952 --> 00:18:29.057
  • Precious gift her life was and she made a decision to live.
  • 00:18:29.057 --> 00:18:37.099
  • Sometimes we got to get back to basics.
  • 00:18:37.099 --> 00:18:40.135
  • Sometimes we have too much and we forget all the good things
  • 00:18:40.135 --> 00:18:44.339
  • That we have because we have so much.
  • 00:18:44.339 --> 00:18:46.742
  • I remember one time i went to mexico to work with the poor
  • 00:18:46.742 --> 00:18:49.845
  • Down there.
  • 00:18:49.845 --> 00:18:51.380
  • They were dirt poor, had very little, yet they had this joy
  • 00:18:51.380 --> 00:18:55.884
  • And the celebrative spirit that was beautiful because they
  • 00:18:55.884 --> 00:18:59.688
  • Appreciated the little that they had.
  • 00:18:59.688 --> 00:19:02.124
  • And we live in a world, especially in the united states
  • 00:19:02.124 --> 00:19:04.660
  • We live in a culture where we have so much that sometimes it
  • 00:19:04.660 --> 00:19:07.963
  • Jades us to the blessings that we have.
  • 00:19:07.963 --> 00:19:10.933
  • Taste and see the goodness of the lord.
  • 00:19:10.933 --> 00:19:13.402
  • And even if you're going through some afflictions and hardships,
  • 00:19:13.402 --> 00:19:16.705
  • Realize that god is there and that god is good all the time.
  • 00:19:16.705 --> 00:19:22.277
  • Life is good.
  • 00:19:22.277 --> 00:19:24.046
  • Appreciate it, receive it, never take it for granted.
  • 00:19:24.046 --> 00:19:29.585
  • And i'm hoping that this episode right now as you're listening by
  • 00:19:29.585 --> 00:19:32.154
  • Radio, watching by television will just simply help you to
  • 00:19:32.154 --> 00:19:35.824
  • Receive all the good things that you have, help you to be lifted
  • 00:19:35.824 --> 00:19:40.996
  • Up in your attitude.
  • 00:19:40.996 --> 00:19:42.364
  • Maybe some of you have been complaining and murmuring and
  • 00:19:42.364 --> 00:19:44.533
  • It's been bringing you down.
  • 00:19:44.533 --> 00:19:45.867
  • Well, it's time to get lifted up.
  • 00:19:45.867 --> 00:19:47.936
  • That's one of the goals that i have for my program.
  • 00:19:47.936 --> 00:19:51.573
  • I want to reach out to believers to inspire you, to lift you up
  • 00:19:51.573 --> 00:19:55.777
  • And also i want to reach out to those of you that aren't
  • 00:19:55.777 --> 00:19:58.180
  • Believing, that maybe you have fallen away, to bring you back.
  • 00:19:58.180 --> 00:20:02.684
  • Just like that saint that i was talking about, look at creation,
  • 00:20:02.684 --> 00:20:07.489
  • Look at the good things.
  • 00:20:07.489 --> 00:20:08.957
  • These things don't just happen.
  • 00:20:08.957 --> 00:20:11.560
  • This is god passing before you, making his goodness pass before
  • 00:20:11.560 --> 00:20:16.565
  • You so that you will seek him and come to deeper faith, come
  • 00:20:16.565 --> 00:20:21.637
  • To believe.
  • 00:20:21.637 --> 00:20:23.005
  • And whatever level of faith that you have, i pray it'll get
  • 00:20:23.005 --> 00:20:26.208
  • Deeper and more advanced as you listen because faith comes
  • 00:20:26.208 --> 00:20:29.745
  • By hearing.
  • 00:20:29.745 --> 00:20:31.780
  • Rather than giving up, this woman recognized how precious
  • 00:20:31.780 --> 00:20:35.717
  • Life was and what a good gift it was.
  • 00:20:35.717 --> 00:20:38.720
  • People right now, and i visit them, they're in hospitals.
  • 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:44.726
  • Many people, thousands, millions of people, hospitals, receiving
  • 00:20:44.726 --> 00:20:50.399
  • Chemo treatment for cancer, open heart surgeries, treatments for
  • 00:20:50.399 --> 00:20:55.971
  • All kinds of sicknesses because they're struggling.
  • 00:20:55.971 --> 00:21:02.477
  • But why do they receive chemo even though it's hard or go
  • 00:21:02.477 --> 00:21:05.347
  • Through the trauma of a heart surgery or go to the doctor to
  • 00:21:05.347 --> 00:21:09.017
  • Repair broken bones and different things?
  • 00:21:09.017 --> 00:21:10.819
  • Because we all have an instinct deep within us to want to
  • 00:21:10.819 --> 00:21:14.389
  • Survive, because life is good.
  • 00:21:14.389 --> 00:21:18.393
  • And even though chemo is hard and radiation is hard, we want
  • 00:21:18.393 --> 00:21:21.663
  • To live.
  • 00:21:21.663 --> 00:21:23.565
  • Hospitals are full of sick people, but still god is good
  • 00:21:23.565 --> 00:21:26.601
  • Even in the midst of that.
  • 00:21:26.601 --> 00:21:28.203
  • And even if you pass away, we believe that god is going to
  • 00:21:28.203 --> 00:21:31.239
  • Raise you up through faith in jesus.
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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:21:34.910 --> 00:21:43.151
  • Psalm 23 says, "even though i walk through the valley of the
  • 00:21:43.151 --> 00:21:46.555
  • Shadow of death, i fear no evil because you're with me, and i
  • 00:21:46.555 --> 00:21:49.624
  • Believe that only goodness and mercy shall follow me all the
  • 00:21:49.624 --> 00:21:52.861
  • Days of my life."
  • 00:21:52.861 --> 00:21:54.429
  • David was going through hardships, going through the
  • 00:21:54.429 --> 00:21:56.732
  • Valley of the shadow of death and he was saying, "i believe
  • 00:21:56.732 --> 00:22:00.102
  • That goodness will follow me, mercy will follow me."
  • 00:22:00.102 --> 00:22:03.538
  • What is mercy?
  • 00:22:03.538 --> 00:22:05.273
  • Undeserved kindness.
  • 00:22:05.273 --> 00:22:08.243
  • God is a god of mercy.
  • 00:22:08.243 --> 00:22:10.278
  • And this is one of the ways that he shows his goodness to us, in
  • 00:22:10.278 --> 00:22:13.348
  • Creation, by blessing us in many different ways that i've talked
  • 00:22:13.348 --> 00:22:17.152
  • About, helping us when we're afflicted, but also lavishing
  • 00:22:17.152 --> 00:22:22.457
  • His mercy and forgiveness upon us.
  • 00:22:22.457 --> 00:22:25.460
  • It says in the bible that god is the father of mercies, plural.
  • 00:22:25.460 --> 00:22:30.565
  • And we need mercies, plural, because we sin over and
  • 00:22:30.565 --> 00:22:33.769
  • Over again.
  • 00:22:33.769 --> 00:22:35.504
  • And then in the book of lamentations it says that god's
  • 00:22:35.504 --> 00:22:38.407
  • Mercy is new every day.
  • 00:22:38.407 --> 00:22:41.643
  • We get a fresh batch of mercy every day.
  • 00:22:41.643 --> 00:22:45.480
  • I love what it says in the scriptures.
  • 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:47.015
  • "i have cast your sins into the depths of the sea."
  • 00:22:47.015 --> 00:22:51.987
  • This is god's mercy.
  • 00:22:51.987 --> 00:22:53.355
  • And you know how deep the sea is.
  • 00:22:53.355 --> 00:22:54.689
  • You can't even see the bottom.
  • 00:22:54.689 --> 00:22:56.057
  • It's way deep, the mariana trench miles deep.
  • 00:22:56.057 --> 00:22:59.428
  • "i have cast your sins into the depths of the sea.
  • 00:22:59.428 --> 00:23:02.564
  • As far as the east is from the west, i have put your
  • 00:23:02.564 --> 00:23:04.933
  • Transgressions from me," says the lord.
  • 00:23:04.933 --> 00:23:07.335
  • Jesus said, "come to me, all you who labor and are heavy
  • 00:23:07.335 --> 00:23:11.506
  • Burdened, and i'll give you rest."
  • 00:23:11.506 --> 00:23:13.675
  • Wow.
  • 00:23:13.675 --> 00:23:16.311
  • One of my favorite religious songs, "great is
  • 00:23:16.311 --> 00:23:18.680
  • Your faithfulness."
  • 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:21.283
  • "pardon for sin.
  • 00:23:21.283 --> 00:23:23.218
  • A peace that endures.
  • 00:23:23.218 --> 00:23:25.921
  • Your own presence to cheer and guide.
  • 00:23:25.921 --> 00:23:29.057
  • Strength for today, bright hope for tomorrow.
  • 00:23:29.057 --> 00:23:32.260
  • Blessings all mine and 10,000 besides.
  • 00:23:32.260 --> 00:23:36.298
  • All i have needed your hand hath provided.
  • 00:23:36.298 --> 00:23:39.801
  • Great is thy faithfulness."
  • 00:23:39.801 --> 00:23:42.938
  • Wow, so many reasons about god's goodness, so many blessings.
  • 00:23:42.938 --> 00:23:49.811
  • We've been created.
  • 00:23:49.811 --> 00:23:53.181
  • Even in our afflictions god walks with us.
  • 00:23:53.181 --> 00:23:57.319
  • Multitude of blessings, the mercy of god, simply want you to
  • 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:02.157
  • Receive that now.
  • 00:24:02.157 --> 00:24:03.792
  • Open up your heart to the goodness of god and be
  • 00:24:03.792 --> 00:24:06.828
  • Like david.
  • 00:24:06.828 --> 00:24:08.430
  • "i will bless the lord at all times."
  • 00:24:08.430 --> 00:24:10.432
  • Don't complain when you're going through hardships.
  • 00:24:10.432 --> 00:24:12.934
  • Recognize the goodness, see the goodness of god, and give
  • 00:24:12.934 --> 00:24:16.738
  • God praise.
  • 00:24:16.738 --> 00:24:18.273
  • Taste and see the goodness of the lord.
  • 00:24:18.273 --> 00:24:21.376
  • And even though you walk through the valley of the shadow of
  • 00:24:21.376 --> 00:24:25.247
  • Death or darkness, or hardships, or afflictions, or sufferings,
  • 00:24:25.247 --> 00:24:30.218
  • You believe that god is with you with his rod and staff to
  • 00:24:30.218 --> 00:24:33.255
  • Comfort you, and only goodness and mercy shall follow you all
  • 00:24:33.255 --> 00:24:38.260
  • The days of your life.
  • 00:24:38.260 --> 00:24:40.028
  • Yes, god is good all the time and all the time god is good.
  • 00:24:40.028 --> 00:24:45.133
  • Don't just live, live with passion.
  • 00:24:45.133 --> 00:24:48.003
  • I received a letter from a man, and he said, "i've been moved by
  • 00:24:51.806 --> 00:24:55.777
  • Your sermons.
  • 00:24:55.777 --> 00:24:57.145
  • You address everyday life.
  • 00:24:57.145 --> 00:24:58.947
  • Thank you so much for your inspirational messages."
  • 00:24:58.947 --> 00:25:02.417
  • And i have to tell you, when it comes to god's goodness, life,
  • 00:25:02.417 --> 00:25:07.522
  • Many blessings with us in hard times, mercy, one of the
  • 00:25:07.522 --> 00:25:12.294
  • Blessings and one of the ways that i see god's goodness is
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  • Through my benefactors and partners, the donors to
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  • My ministry.
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  • There are many people who give and who support my dream and
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  • Vision of reaching out to all people of the gospel.
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  • Thank you to those of you who have been donating.
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  • And if you're like me, when you receive a blessing you want to
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  • Be a blessing.
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  • What i mean by that is if i'm helping you in any way, if you
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  • Enjoy what i'm preaching, would you support me?
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  • Support me in my endeavor to reach out beyond the walls of
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  • The church to those who are lost, to inspire believers,
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  • People in prison, and also reaching out to the poor.
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  • Thank you in advance.
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  • I'm going to invite you to make a donation.
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  • Maybe become a partner with my ministry.
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  • Simply call 844-fatherc.
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  • Operators are standing by.
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  • Go to my website, you can donate there, or write me in
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  • Houston, texas.
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  • Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  • God is good all the time and all the time god is good.
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  • And don't just live, live with passion.
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  • Female announcer: the motto of father cedric's ministry is
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  • Touching lives and saving souls.
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  • His programs air on two major networks and many tv and
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  • Radio stations.
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  • His mission is to reach out to every person with the gospel.
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  • Father cedric: you cannot know who you are until you know whose
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  • You are.
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  • Announcer: to donate to father cedric, simply call 844-fatherc.
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  • That's 844-328-4372.
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  • Write him at 430 bunker hill road, houston, texas 77024 or
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  • Log on to frcedric.org and give online.
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  • Donate one time or become a monthly partner.
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  • Father sees every donation and lifts you up in prayer.
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  • Thank you in advance for your generosity.
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  • Together, we are touching lives and saving souls.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: made possible by the friends and partners of tbn
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  • And "live with passion."
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