Man Cave Edition - Praise Thanks

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So when it comes to trusting God, that means believing in his reliability, believing in his word, believing in his ability to solve all our problems, to go before us, to go behind us, to go all around us.

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The Bible says that God cannot lie.

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That he always keeps his promises that he loves each and every one of them Jeremiah 29 11 for I know the plans And the thoughts that I had for you says the Lord plans for peace and well being and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope.

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Guys, that is a promise from God himself.

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Rejoice.

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And

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to man 360 starts in three, two, one.

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This is Man to Man

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360.

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Hey, welcome to a brand new episode of man to man 360.

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And of course I am your host, Daryl Anderson, and I have a brand new episode this week.

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And as you know, this is our man cave week.

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So this past weekend we had the man cave men's fellowship.

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And of course I like to Bring those recordings to the man to man 360 podcast and play those for you.

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I think they're pretty cool.

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And I think that's something that you can pull from and encourage you guys out there.

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So this is another month.

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And this one, because we were coming out of Thanksgiving and going into The holidays last year we did this before and I want to bring it back sort of almost like an annual type of thing.

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So where we, the guys just do testimonies and, and give God praise and honor about for what he's done throughout the year in their lives.

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And this was just a great opportunity for guys to do that publicly in the big fellowship, but also in the smaller groups.

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And that type of thing.

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So this is a great opportunity.

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I love this part of the year and, and, and this particular fellowship.

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And I want you guys to hear this.

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So this is going to be, I believe the name of this one is praise and Thanksgiving or praise and thanks.

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And so that's what we're going to jump right in.

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I got three of the guys, though, they're going to be speaking and encouraging out of the word and just some exhortation.

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So they're going to do a couple of small, well, actually three short messages in this episode.

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So you're going to hear from James Mormon, Jesus Vega, and Paul Sutcliffe.

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These are my core guys, my staff guys in the, in the man cave.

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And so great guys, you're going to get a chance to hear from them and hopefully there'll be an encouragement to you all listening, especially as we go into the holiday season, especially going to the darkest time of the year, which is sometimes the most depressing time of the year.

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Regardless of where you are in the country.

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And so we wanted to always be uplifting at this time and hope that this is going to be an uplift, uplifting show as a result.

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So listen, without any further ado again, this is the man cave edition of praise and thanks.

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Here it goes.

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Hey, good evening, everybody.

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Good evening, guys.

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How you guys doing?

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Good.

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How was Friday?

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How was tonight?

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You guys had a good Friday?

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All right,

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you guys ready for the man cave?

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Okay.

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So, so, so tonight you guys know the theme tonight, right?

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It's Thanksgiving and praise.

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Thanksgiving and praise.

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So last year we did probably have it as an annual thing where we want to thank God for the year.

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So last year with, you know, whatever, however, God bless you throughout the year.

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Hey, we want to use tonight as that night.

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They were thinking God for what he's done for you this year.

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Amen.

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So I'm going to say this and I don't mean to say this to scare anybody, but the reality is well, let me speak for myself.

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I'm not promised to see 2025.

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That's the facts.

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That's the facts, right?

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Amen?

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And I'm healthy.

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I'm healthy as a horse, right?

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At least that's what the numbers say.

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Right?

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Don't know what the truck that I'm crossing the street will say.

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I don't know, right?

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But at the end of the day, I can't promise you that.

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So I gotta give God praise on this side.

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One of the things, and this is just, I don't know, I don't know, maybe it's just me, but Remember when the Oscars, I don't watch those shows anymore, I haven't watched those shows in like 10 years, but when I used to watch those shows, like the Oscars and the Grammys and what not, Every year they would have that sobering part where they would show all the people who had passed, right?

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And it was always interesting to me on, it seems like, maybe that's just the way it felt like, but it always seemed like, like the month of December would come in and it was like, okay, oh man, we got so many people that have to die before the end of the year.

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Let's just bump them all in right now, right?

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And you would get a lot of people, and you would watch on and be like, oh my God, he just died, oh my God, he died too.

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And it seemed like they all just Press them in before the end of the year.

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Like, wow! Man! So, I think that, I don't know if there's anything to that.

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But one thing I do know is that, when I see that kind of thing, it always reminds me, man, as rich and famous as those guys are too, Man, ain't nothing guaranteed.

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Not that I needed them to know that, but nothing's guaranteed.

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So I just want to thank God for this side, just in case we don't make it over there.

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God's going to get the glory on this side.

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Amen.

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And we just want to give God some praise.

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Why?

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Because I also believe this.

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Praise is the launch pad into next year.

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If I can praise God for what he did this year, if I can, if I can thank him for what he, for the little things and the big things he's done this year, man, I'm expecting something for next year.

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And so I need my year to start right.

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Kramer.

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I need my year to start right.

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Because when 2025 comes in, I don't want guys to say, well, man, you didn't even honor me in the things I did for you last year.

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Amen.

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I want to be able to say, Hey, you know, you, you, you respected the little things.

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And so now let me open up some big things for you.

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Amen.

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That's why praise and Thanksgiving is super, super important tonight and this year and this month.

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So guys, whatever it is, don't, don't forget about comparing yourself to anybody.

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If you think.

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That there's a testimony that you have and it's just a it's a five second testimony Or it's maybe it's a two minute said don't let it be at six minutes But if it's a two three minute testimony testify of it.

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Thank God for what he's done for you whether it be in your health whether it be in your your your your your your your marriage or your Relationships or in your body or in your money or in the time that you spent with God or in the revelations that God has given you All those things are blessings that you're going to be able to use later.

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And you're going to be a blessing to somebody else by telling that testimony because somebody, I didn't know you was going through that, man.

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Well, well, I got to testify now because now I know I'm not the only one.

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I thought I was the only one suffering that.

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And, but God brought me through.

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No, no.

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It was not just you, me too.

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That's the opportunity guys.

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Amen.

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We're going into the darkest part of the year.

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Let's give God some praise because we don't know what else somebody's going through.

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So let's encourage them with the praise and the thanksgiving tonight.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Tonight's the night.

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This is the last man cave of 2024.

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Amen.

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Y'all ready to praise God?

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No, no, seriously.

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Are y'all ready to praise God?

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I mean like with hands clapping, with singing, with jumping and praising.

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How many of y'all ready to praise God?

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How many of y'all ready for the man cave?

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Well, then welcome to the man cave.

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I was telling the guys in our meeting earlier today and I think actually on Wednesday too, I think it was.

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That I think I had some kind of cold or something on, on, on Monday.

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I, I, we had a dinner here for leaders and what not and when I left here, I told my wife, I said, man, I'm feeling sort of achy, like in the joints of the world, like, like everywhere, right?

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Sort of like when you get like a flu or something like that, I'm like, ah, this ain't good.

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I might have to call in.

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I don't know.

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And so long story short, I took some some, some NyQuil and, and knocked me out and then I went to work and I couldn't shake this thing the whole day, man.

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I mean, after waking up, still couldn't shake it.

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Cause the achiness went away, but now the grogginess of the medicine actually had me messed up.

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And so anyway, long story short, as I was thinking about that and whatnot and just what we go through, there's a phrase that I know a lot of us say, and I know some of you have said this.

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I'm, I'm going here only because I want you to be thinking differently because I'm going to be, we're going to be sharing more of this next year, not this year.

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But when you go through something, stop saying, you ready?

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It's because we're getting older.

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It's because I'm getting older.

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It's because I'm getting older.

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Ah, well, but you know, we're getting a little older.

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Ah, it's because we're getting a little older.

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That's not true.

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Because God designed the body to live for over 900, 000 of years.

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You weren't even supposed to die.

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Well, you know, because of sin.

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Okay then, we have to live, our body shouldn't be breaking down at 40, 50, 60, 70.

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Amen?

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It's not because you're getting older.

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Rebuke that thought right now.

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Because you getting older is a good thing.

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Somebody say a good thing.

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I was talking to my wife about this.

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I was talking to my wife.

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She said, well, you know, because I said, no.

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I said, because if that's the case, then the other alternative is Don't get older.

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Die young.

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And I don't want to die young.

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I want to live out my days.

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I want to be like Caleb.

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He said, man, I'm 80 years old, man.

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I'm just as sure now as when I was in my thirties and forties.

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Stop saying it.

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I'm going to say this real quick and I'm gonna get out of the way.

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The reason a lot of our problems happen.

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I'm speaking about myself.

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I'll be dealing with this more next year though, because we'll be dealing with some health issues, not necessarily in here, but in separate breakouts.

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If you live 20 years doing a thing the wrong way, you are now eating the fruit of doing something 20 years the wrong way.

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If I've been eating things that cause inflammation in my body, and inflammation was developing my body for 20 years, then after 20 years, I'm like, wow, that's because I'm getting older.

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No, it's because you've been doing something the wrong way for 20 years.

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Just like if you've been doing something right with your body.

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You would say, wow, okay, man, I'm doing little things here and there, but praise God.

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Why?

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Because you've been doing certain things right for 20 years.

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So you're eating the fruit of that.

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It's not because of age.

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It's because of what you've been doing with the time.

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If you spent time in God's word for 20 years, you're going to eat the fruit of that.

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If you neglected God's word for 20 years, you're going to eat the fruit of that.

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Are y'all still with me?

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If you did your money right for 20 years, you're going to eat the fruit of that.

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If you split it all up, you're going to eat the fruit of that for 20 years.

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Has nothing to do with age.

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Y'all still with me?

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Y'all still with me?

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Has nothing to do with it.

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So I wanted us to change our mindset on that, because in other words, it's never too late to do the right thing, and I can switch my life around just like that.

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Man, I've been so abusive to my wife verbally.

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Oh my God.

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She's gonna walk away.

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She probably would because she's been doing that, you've been doing that for the last 10, 20, 15 years.

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But I can switch it.

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I can, I can change my tongue on how I speak to my wife, how I speak to my kids, how I speak to my boss, how I show up late all the time, how I, how I, how I treat ministry, how I treat church, and I show up when I get there.

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You've been doing that for 20 years and nobody respects you and that's why you never get promoted.

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Oh, got real quiet again.

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Sorry.

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Amen.

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But if I switch it, if I switch it, you've never been plugged in.

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You've never been plugged up, you've never been accountable to anybody, and you're wondering why certain things don't happen a certain way, and you're jealous when you, when you see certain guys prospering in certain areas, or they get promoted in certain areas.

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Guys, that's about to change.

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We're gonna, we're gonna help every last guy in here, including everybody in here, go to the next level and prosper in those areas, whether it be in health, whether it be in spiritual things, whether it be in ministry, whether it be in my relationships, my family, and guess what?

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Don't, don't throw away the friends! Don't throw away the friend.

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Jesus spent three and a half years with friends.

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So what you do with your time is going to be real crucial to the next thing.

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Yeah, but I got to work.

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Everybody got to work.

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Stop that lie.

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Everybody in here got to work.

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Everybody got to go to sleep.

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Everybody got to eat.

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Stop.

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We all got to do the same thing.

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Nobody's different.

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But what are you doing with your time?

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That's the next level.

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Somebody say victory.

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The theme 2025 that's been really been pressing on my heart for the last several weeks was victory.

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We're gonna be walking in victory, guys.

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Amen?

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We're gonna be walking in victory.

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And guys, so let's look forward to next year.

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Let's thank God for tonight and for this year.

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But let's give God some praise.

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Where's Reed?

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Reed, come on up here.

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Reid has an awesome testimony to share.

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And I want him, because he raised his hand to share, and I want him to share this tonight with you guys right now.

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Alright, I've had a rough year this year, and started with I got an infection in my ear, and so I went to the emergency, or the, the urgent care.

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They put me on antibiotics, and I figured, okay, it's gonna take, a while to several days for it to cure up, but it didn't, it got worse.

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So I ended up in the emergency room and it's a good thing I showed up there that day because they said they found an abscess in my brain.

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So long story short, they got the drills I'll drill all in my brain and remove the abscess, put me on antibiotics.

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Okay.

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I'm healing.

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They sent me home maybe a week and a half, two weeks later, all of a sudden I'm getting even sicker now.

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Okay.

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There was some reaction with the antibiotics.

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So I'm back in the emergency room again and they had to figure out what was going out with my antibiotics.

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So I, I ended up approximately six weeks of shooting antibiotics in my arm.

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They gave me a, what they call a pick line.

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So I had a little spot where I take the antibiotics and, and, and inject it into my arm and it would get into my system.

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Finally I heal from that.

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Praise God.

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You know, I never lost any doubt.

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Everybody in this, this group here and the entire church family was praying for me.

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I'm, I'm the poster child for how good that prayer works, you know.

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So, August 1st, I'm at the church.

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I put the bulletins together.

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You know, I do that work every week just to make sure.

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It's a Thursday.

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Man Cave's gonna start.

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I'm all psyched up to go to Man Cave.

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I pull out of onto Lake Ave.

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I'm heading south towards the 7 Eleven.

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I, I didn't even get to the 7 Eleven.

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Some guy come across the lane that was going north.

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I'm going south.

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Crash right into the front of my car and Grace of God, I, I'm, I'm alive.

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I mean, I took a hard hit.

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My, my vehicle got pushed back into a tree.

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So the back end got smashed in, the front end got smashed in.

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The, the airbags went off and somehow I managed to get out of that vehicle only with a broken collarbone.

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So, I mean, that, that was just a miracle.

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I had surgery.

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I'm recovering from that.

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I can't, my arm is still a little, you know, I can't do like, but it's, it's working, you know, I know God is healing me and it's, it's just going to take time.

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One other time I had, because of that infection in my ear, I had to go back and they did what they call a mastoidectomy.

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There's a little bone in the back of your ear that, They wanted their check out and make sure everything was fine with that.

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So they went in and they, they healed that and, and I'm all good.

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So I'm on the healing process and I have this whole family, this group here, everybody to, to thank for that.

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Plus God, obviously.

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All right, guys.

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So tonight, I've got a couple of surprises for you, First up, I've got, Brother James is going to be actually speaking for a few minutes, about five minutes, whatever.

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And just encouraging you guys, I ask the guys, if there's a word that you have for the guys, it can be whatever you want.

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Um, You know, share that with the guys and this is going to be your encouragement to take you out of 2024 and into 2025.

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So um, everybody is, let's give it up for James Mormon.

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We'll pick up from there right after this.

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The man cave is developed around, we call it the five pillars.

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There's praise and worship, where we sing a song or two, and really just invite the presence of God in, get the guys singing and clapping and whatever, and really make a push on getting guys into the music.

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Because typically guys like to avoid praise, or lifting of hands, or singing and that type of stuff, so we really put a focus on that.

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And then we go right in from that into prayer, you know, intercession prayer.

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We ask guys if there's certain things that they want us to pray for, to agree with them in prayer for and we make sure to focus it on them.

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Sometimes guys will say, Hey, yes, and I got this neighbor, can you pray for them?

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And we're like, no, no, no.

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We want to know what is it that you need prayer for?

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Because, because you're the neighbor, that's your job to pray for your neighbor.

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From there, we actually.

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going to the competition part.

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Now that's the exciting part of the man cave.

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It just creates that competitive piece, makes it exciting, but it gets that testosterone bubbling up and everything else.

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And there's a reason to that really too.

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I've been doing men's ministry now for almost 30 years.

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A lot of times men don't really have those men focused things at churches.

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So in some cases, To guys, it can feel a little feminine or emasculating in some cases.

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And because of that, we want to make sure that there's a masculine feel to men's fellowship.

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It's both fun.

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It's inviting.

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It's also used as a fish bait to get guys out.

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The other reason that we do competition is so we can create two teams.

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And in creating two teams, we create a camaraderie between those guys.

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They stay on those teams for the duration.

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You don't go from second Friday to second Friday.

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No, you're contacting guys in between guys, able to reach out.

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Guys are able to, Hey man, I'm really dealing with this thing.

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I'm struggling with this thing.

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So they can reach out to somebody.

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We go from the competition part and then we go into the work.

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We go into scripture.

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We do some teaching and then we make.

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Breakout into breakout groups, the breakout groups allows guys to be able to answer some things or share their thoughts on those same tough topics that was just preached a few minutes ago.

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The word is a two headed sword.

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It cuts open things.

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It exposes us to ourselves, at least.

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To what's really happening on the inside or the things we've been trying to cover up and hide.

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And then we break from there and then we, we eat.

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That's a great time to be able to dive in and just really see how guys are doing.

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Pastors and churches don't have a men's ministry.

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You're missing out on the opportunity to be a man.

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Free that man from that thing he's been trapped in that that stronghold has been in his life In's ministry allows him to be free vulnerable and then free

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Raise the Lord brothers So they're all asked us to pick a scripture and guys I find it amazing how much you can get out of one Verse the Lord is my strength and my impenetrable shield my heart trusts You With unwavering confidence in him, and I am helped therefore my heart Greatly rejoices and with my song.

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I shall thank him and praise him Guys, I'm gonna start with strength God is the source of our strength not only This physical strength this strength God breathed life into our lungs when we were born.

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God himself breathed life into each and every one of us.

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God wakes us up every single day so we can provide for our families.

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We can watch over our kids.

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We can watch our communities.

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God is the source of that strength.

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He is my shield.

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Guys, when I think of shield, I think of like a medieval knight with a big giant shield with arrows in it.

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Guys, those arrows are imminent death that God has put between us in death and God is that shield.

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Oh Lord.

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Trust.

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Trust is a firm belief in the reliability, the truth, the ability, the strength, the Of someone or something guys, we trust in God almighty.

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So when it comes to trusting God, that means believing in his reliability, believing in his word, believing in his ability to solve all our problems, to go before us, to go behind us, to go all around those guys.

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The Bible says that God cannot lie.

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that he always keeps his promises that he loves each and every one of us.

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Jeremiah 29, 11 for I know the plans and the thoughts that I have for you says the Lord plans for peace and wellbeing and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope guys, that is a promise from God himself.

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Oh, rejoice.

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The definition of rejoice is to feel or show great joy or delight.

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I will rejoice in the Lord always.

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Again, I say rejoice.

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Let your gentleness be known to everyone.

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The Lord is near.

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Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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Guys, we get to rejoice every single day for everything that he's done for us, guys.

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We got a lot to be thankful for.

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And now, Jesus.

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Give the Lord a round of applause, man.

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Seriously, man.

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Uh, Uh, I'm gonna, I'm Gonna be talking about, we were talking about Thanksgiving praising the Lord, right?

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I'm going to go into Daniel 6, 10, Daniel 6, 10.

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Now, when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows were open towards Jerusalem.

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And three times a day, he got down in his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his Lord, just as he had done before.

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Three times a day, he gave thanks to the Lord.

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He prayed, thanking the Lord.

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He didn't pray, Oh God, I need this.

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Oh God, I need that.

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I didn't no, deliver me from, no.

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He gave thanks to the Lord, as he had done before.

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That means, That no matter what circumstances were ahead of him and no matter what other circumstances Were before him he remembers who delivered him from all those situations.

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Amen This man was getting ready to go and face some lions.

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Amen And he said thank you lord for what you have done in my life.

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So we as Fleshly living beings, right?

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Sometimes, we go through some good times, and we go through some bad times.

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And I guarantee you, most of us, if not all of us, have had some valleys this 2024.

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Only one, Dad.

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Only one, Ed.

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I guess everybody here is perfect.

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Huh?

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I guess everybody here, right?

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Oh, no, they looking, oh, looking good.

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But guess what?

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Even if you didn't go in 2024 and 2025, there's gonna be some valleys.

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Amen?

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In fact, like Pastor says, guess what?

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As soon as you leave out of here, right?

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You may face a valley.

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My brother just talked about that in his testimony.

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He was here doing God's work.

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And as soon as he left out of here, he was getting ready to go to the retreat.

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Amen.

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That was the weekend of the retreat, the day that he was going to go to the retreat, stopped in his tracks.

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There's that valley.

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And sometimes what happens with us, because we all live in our emotions and our fleshly self, we tend to forget.

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Am I speaking to somebody?

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We tend to forget all the good things that the Lord has brought us from all the things that the Lord has brought us from first Thessalonians.

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Writes it up really really beautiful fives first Thessalonians 5 16 to 18 says rejoice always pray continually giving thanks in all Circumstances he's saying some he's saying here then this circumstance.

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No, he said all circumstances for his but this is God's will and For you in Christ Jesus.

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This year has been hectic for myself.

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And I'll give you the testimony, and I've shared it before.

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God has put some things in our, that challenged us in a way with our child, with our son, that we had to pull him out of school, we were doing homeschooling, all that stuff.

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And my wife, we had to pull, I had to pull her from work so she could homeschool.

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So for the first time in 22 years, in 22 years that we've been together, we went to a one income household.

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One income household.

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That is a struggle for somebody, for a couple that have been working and working and working together, making the financials needs at the home to go to a one income household.

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It is tough, but, but God, but God, but God, but God was able to sustain us throughout the whole process in that time.

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