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my question now is when we get to the
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point where the holy spirit makes a
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Bible verse important to us or we get a
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deeper uh understanding of a Bible
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passage is it important then to keep a
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written record of it for example in a
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personal Bible diary or Bible Journal
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because I don't want to lose the
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knowledge I received um so how do you
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handle this how can we organize and
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manage all the knowledge we receive so
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we don't lose it
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very practical the question you asked
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was my uh I remember in 2002 when I came
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to
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Synagogue Church ofin Nations I I
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discover things new there's a a
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teaching that was so deep and I was
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battling to understand it because of
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language barriers well because I'm a
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French speaking so anytime I come across
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uh a verse a Bible verse or a word of
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wisdom
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which seems so difficult for me I said
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to myself God help me to understand if I
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don't understand I don't reject it I
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will take the verse I will write it I
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what helped me a lot is that for example
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you say okay let me give an example the
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first word of wisdom I came say we are
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Sav to save others I said to myself how
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can we save
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others it's only Jesus I know as Savior
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how can we save others
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so I wrote it on a on a on a small note
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and I begin
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to meditate I never knew what meditation
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was about but I read to understand if I
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don't understand something it's very
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difficult to become part of me so but I
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will not reject it I will write it
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later I will go to the
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verse to read it once I read it I record
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it in my brain I memorize it I to do
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that before because I don't have time to
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read sometime sometime if you put it on
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a note because of activities you may
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even forget it but the Bible is meant to
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be stored in the speci in the shelf of
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our
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heart that's very it is effective so
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when you read the Bible and you come
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across a specific
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passage that speaks to you
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intimately so I write down and one day
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the prophet say I give you an advice
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create a file called don't go don't go
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don't let it go it was 2004 I grabed the
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idea anytime I come across a Bible verse
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I highlight you see my Bible it's
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highlighted everywhere full of colors
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rainbow rainbow yellow so when I
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highlight it I do something I use my
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phone I have a not
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note I write the
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verse and I learned and I learned the
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verse I make sure the verse I know this
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verse anytime I hear Matthew chapter I
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must know what it is because when you
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just get the the Matthew 11:28 what does
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it
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say I have to read it to possess it to
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become part of me and the prophet say if
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you take God's word to
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heart and made it a part of
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you that word by its very nature will
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change
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you and when it changes you you find
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yourself moved by the life of God so I
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said to myself okay since you are so
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busy attening to
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people people write notes on their
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hands do you remember it me I memorize
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it in my in my brain that's why
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meditation start thinking is not bad I
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memorize but if you memorize something
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as time goes on you lose it but I Contin
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to tell in my mind I want to understand
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what it means to understand what it
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means to understand it means before you
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realize it after one day it become part
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of me it's the exercise I did so I wrote
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it but after I wrote it I will go to the
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not when I go to the notes I will I will
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learn it learn it learn it by and
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continue to meditate it's meditation
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that keep the word into our
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heart because it's just like a computer
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so when I switch my computer on I have
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the RAM memory so if I type a uh a
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message if I don't save it and I switch
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off I may lose it so I have to record it
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somewhere so it's very good to keep
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record but what we need to do after
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reading after you have read whether a
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message or a Bible I go back to the
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message and that's where the key of
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meditation starts it's not something
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passive is
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active I will record it on the tablets
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of my heart once I understand the word
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it is with me it's is there forever just
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try to do it I said to myself okay every
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day I must get five words of wisdom five
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Bible verses I read in my Bible that
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must be part of me so if I'm in a
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vehicle or I'm in a bus I need to look
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for the Bible it there
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already now this is where Holy Ghost
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will help you Jesus said in John chapter
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14: 26
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that the holy spirit will bring to our
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remembrance the very words of Jesus yeah
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that's what I was thinking of and that's
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very the key sometime you think you have
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forgotten you okay you have read
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something in the
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morning but go to a quiet place and just
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try to remember what you have
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read while you doing ask Holy Ghost to
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bring to you'll be very surprised to
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realize that what you think you have
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forgotten begin to come begin good to
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come begin good to come that's the work
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of Holy
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Spirit and that's where meditation will
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start you
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read after you have read you close your
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Bible and think about what you have
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read think about it think about it as
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you walk think about it think about it
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before you realize it the thing will
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sink into your
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heart Prophet say when you eat food I I
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I match it I it's my mouth chew it I
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chew it I chew it thank you very much I
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chew it before I realize it I instinctly
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swallow it once it enter my enters my
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stomach I have no control over it
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there's a process going inside so when
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you read your Bible you read it to
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understand it you read it to get it into
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your heart because that word is there
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forever that's why when you are
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praying we call it Spirit prayer prayer
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in the power of Holy Spirit Holy Ghost
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will bring that word to remance to you
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you start worshiping worshiping and the
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word just spring from your spirit so
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what we need to do now I kept record I
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write it I have full of them see if my
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phone is I want to show you even CER
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consum me I don't know what I like to
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do show
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you I I I even snap The Bible Pages I
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read not to forget it I will snap it and
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read it and read it and read it and read
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till become part of me so all these
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notes are I reading daily reading any
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time I read a passage that really
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strikes me see my Bible I snap it I snap
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the whole page on my Note and once I
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finish reading I go back to it I always
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go back to it to read it to meditate it
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and that's when the Bible will become
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part of
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you I strongly
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believe that the Bible explains Itself
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by
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itself you can read a passage that seems
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difficult to understand and later you
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come across one scripture that is cross
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reference to that one that give you more
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light so what I do I put those verses
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together in a very logical are way and
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read it and go over it I go over it I go
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I trust Holy Ghost before you realize it
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it is part of you and one day you begin
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to pray all of the scripture come to
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come to your spirit and when I read my
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Bible I I gave you one one testimony one
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day the prophet say if you read 40
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chapters per day you got the Bible in
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one year in in one
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month I I say how can you read the Bible
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in one month 4 chapters perday I did it
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it's so quick you don't remember
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anything but what is there something
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mysterious in this Bible
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anytime you read
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it you will discover something
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new any time you read it first I read it
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again my mind get refreshed any time you
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read something new happen so what we
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need to
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do is to record instead of our shelves
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but on the shelves of your human spirit
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and that's the area of meditation that's
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what helps a lot many of my reference I
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don't need anymore they become part of
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me but those verse I read them I read
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them I read them I read them and when
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one
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day the man of the Prophet was saying
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that this is my advice when you are
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reading a
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message and you see Bible
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scriptures don't just read your Bible
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alone read the Bible but read the
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message read the message and read the
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Bible whatever message you come across
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go to the Bible and find out what is in
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line with the scriptures and that's what
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helped me a lot so when I came across
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that quote that say we are safe to serve
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others I begin to search I say wow I
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remember Bible say in book of First
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Corinthian uh the ministry of
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reconciliation
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absolutely yes that's Mutual
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reconciliation so knowledge come
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first but understanding comes later
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there are many verse we read today but
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later we get the understanding of it so
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the cross ref ref of the Bible is very
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important I meditate I learn it by heart
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I stop in my memory I begin to think
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about it till I get spiritual
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understanding of it once what you
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understand is what you keep forever yeah
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that that's what I wanted to say just
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quickly because when you talked about
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the Holy Spirit bringing to our
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remembrance he can only bring to to our
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remembrance what's already stored in our
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heart it's only the word in our heart
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that he will bring back to us at the
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time that we need it and you know he
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will use that word to to strengthen us
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to to fortify us to comfort us to to he
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will use that word but that word has to
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be stored in our heart and when you were
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talking about um you know do we write it
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down it's it's different to like when
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you're revising for exams you know when
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you're Rising for exams you know you
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pick up bits and you learn it's all it's
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all academic you know you just can write
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it out write it out put it in different
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colors and write out so many times but
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this is a matter that's why I just
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wanted to focus on you said
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understanding if you understand
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something it will stay in your heart
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forever you can you can learn something
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by
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memory all of us have gone through the
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education system you know we we learned
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so many things that now we can't
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remember you know I'm sure so much of of
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of but the process of of that learning
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stays with us forever and once you
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understand something that understanding
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is in your heart and that doesn't leave
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you and and because what struck me from
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your question is you know how how can we
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make sure that all of this um doesn't
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leave us that we don't lose um what we
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read and I really like that point you
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made because um it's it's you know it's
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not just a matter of reading and it
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going in one ear and out the other you
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know we can't lose this because this is
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our life how do we how do we not lose it
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well we have to understand spiritually
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that's only through the help of the Holy
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Spirit but we have to start somewhere so
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don't condemn yourself don't
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if we're all on this journey together
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and that's why we said at the beginning
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that if your life is in Christ it's a
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new creation there's there's new
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revelation every day when you read the
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Bible and ask the Holy Spirit to help
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you you can read read things oh now I
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understand now I understand so it's a
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it's a it's a lifelong Learning Journey
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but I just wanted to emphasize on that
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point of understanding when you
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understand it with the spirit's help
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then you can't lose it you you you you
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might not know exactly the chapter and
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verse you know Vine is a walking
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Encyclopedia of the Bible I not like
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this if you ask him anything he'll be
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able to tell you the chapter and verse
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look I'm going to be honest with you I
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don't want to provoke you to say that I
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was not born Master when I was I was a
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young boy Muslim when I was young I
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learned to learn the Quran by
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heart I went to Quran in school and I
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learned them by heart and all those
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verses I learned by heart I still
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recorded here so I apply the same
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technique when I read the
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Bible I will read it I will memorize the
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whole thing so I will begin to read it
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in my memory I don't need to carry bible
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I memorize I now when I came across the
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book of prover if you have your Bible
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when you see the Book of
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Proverbs 4 verse 20-
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23 my
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son attend to my words I learn it by
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heart keep them in the midst of your
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heart for there are life for those who
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find him and health to all flesh keep
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them way in the midst of your heart and
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that's what is the most difficult we
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need to allow that word in the midst of
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our heart through that process of
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meditation meditating the Bible because
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I we said already that we meditate
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because we want to understand the Divine
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meaning Jesus spoke lot of Parables do
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will really understand what it means to
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apply
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it he
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said if your right hand disturb you
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catch it off or plag it off it's a he
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was speaking his Parable that's why in
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the in the parable of the s in Matthew
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chapter 13:
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19 Jesus said can you read it for
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us Matthew chapter 13: 19
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it's good to keep
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record when anyone hears the word of the
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kingdom and does not understand it then
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the wicked one comes and snatches away
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what was sown in his heart this is he
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who received seed by the
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wayside when anyone hears the word of
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the kingdom when you hear the word of
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the kingdom and does not understand it
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and we do not understand it then the
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wicked one comes and snatches away what
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was sewn in his heart that's is it the
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importance of understanding the Divine
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meaning of what I'm bring so when you
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are reading and you find you come across
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a a section sometime it is personal to
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you your heart will begin to ring that's
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why the prophet say read your Bible
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slowly attentively
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repeatedly mean sometimes some heart are
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very slow to understand that's dependent
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nature of our heart
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you go to read it you read it you read
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it slowly like the Ean un did in the
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book of act chapter8 he was reading he
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could not understand but did not drop it
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he kept on reading reading until he
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became a part of you once you understand
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it's there forever you may not remember
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the number of the Matthew 12 whatever
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but the meaning is inside of you that's
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what I wanted to say that's where I was
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going when I said that rine will know
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the exact chapter and verse
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I'm saying even if if you know we're not
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we all have different anyway everyone's
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different what I want to say is that the
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understanding of the scripture like for
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example you
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know what it says you might not know
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exactly where it is but you know what it
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says and you understand it and you apply
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it to your life that is what counts um
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you know and because for example this is
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the blueprint that we have The Sermon on
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the Mount in Matthew 6 you know this
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when when Jesus explained how we should
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live our life
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you know that that you might not know
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everything word for word but we know
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what he said and we we apply it we we
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understand okay what it means when turn
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the other cheek okay love your enemies
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okay do this do that okay it it's
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something which becomes a part of you in
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the same way the more you read and
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that's why it's so um important that
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we're doing this journey through the
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Bible together we're going all the way
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through you know many people it's
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difficult to read through many many
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books in the Old Testament you know
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um and so to actually go through this
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whole journey encourages you to actually
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see okay what what can I see in this and
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as you read things will just jump out at
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you and when they jump out at you
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definitely everyone has a different way
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okay you can underline it highlight it
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write it down somewhere else like rasine
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said he takes a picture with his phone
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um any way that's the best for you but
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the the most important is that H you you
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you ask the Holy Spirit to help you
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understand and apply it to your life
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then can never you can never lose it you
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can never lose it it's it's here that's
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the Heavenly currency that that will
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will get you what you need in the
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kingdom of God and please continue
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reading because one day you say I've
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heard about this
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somewhere sometime I read one verse and
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I remember Paul said this I quickly go
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to Paul and make the connection because
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the Bible is Interlink
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once I got the connection important
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verses I make sure I get it by heart
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because there some like everybody know
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John 3:16 God so loved the world that we
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know those verse you know Romans 10:1 17
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Faith but when you come across your
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Bible there are some section where if
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your heart is a lord it will strike
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you you may forget you you either you
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highlight depend on system you have me
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what I do as I show you I snap the page
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this is the page I snap the page
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directly and then when I finish my day I
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will go back to the pages I read you see
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them this is my I'm sharing my technique
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to you because you ask me this is how I
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do I read this morning and I see the
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connection God was talking about let me
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tell you why was say about prophecy God
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say I will raise for them a prophet like
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you in the midst of the Brethren I will
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put my words what strike me is two words
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God say I will
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raise Prophet I will put my words I say
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wow this mean God is the one that raised
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the prophet not
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man number two I will put my words in
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his
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mouth means it's not just about
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receiving inspiration it's about
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expressing the word of God from your
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mouth mean the spirit of God will speak
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through
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you so I wrote those two I said wow this
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is teaching me lessen that God will
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raise and God will put the word mean the
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expression of Prophecy came through the
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power of Holy Spirit and I to ask myself
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what is the purpose of Prophecy I write
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that question later when I was reading I
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went to another section that gave me the
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answer and I and I noted here in the
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book of Jeremiah it's here he
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said if they are prophets and if the
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word of the Lord is with them let them
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now make
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intercession for the for the for the for
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the Lord of host that the vessel which
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they left in the house of the Lord will
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be taken back so that mean the purpose
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of the prophecy is to bring people to
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their heart back to God so I take those
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two verses and I get them into my heart
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now that understanding fix them for
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forever now God will raise and God will
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put his word in your lips so nobody can
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teach you to prophesy holy ghost that
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speaks through you so I read my Bible I
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take I take attention of every single
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word there are some words are so
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powerful why God you say it why this
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word why this verb why this and that's
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that understanding now make the Bible to
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become part of you as you continue to
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practice it to practice it to practice
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before you realize it it is there
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forever once you understand it but this
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is my record keeping record is very
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good so if you go to a church a service
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or you hear somebody preaching a
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wonderful
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message I heard the word wisdom I write
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it I heard something I write it when I
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go home I begin to meditate the more you
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meditate new revelation will come new
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understanding will come and that's just
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how this you transfer from the letter to
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the spirit from the written to Your
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Heart by thinking about it meditating we
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just have that time sometime we read we
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don't have to go back to it go back to
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it don't read it again turn it over turn
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it over till you get it right it's a
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gift of Holy Spirit and that's why I
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just wanted to say finally is that there
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is a power in actually reading the word
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you know it is a blessing as well to
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listen to the audio version of the Bible
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and have for example listen to have it
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how can I say listening to to scripture
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but there is such a power in physically
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reading your Bible um that's what I just
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wanted to encourage you with that you
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know when you read it it's like
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literally the word can just jump out of
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the page at you um and so don't
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underestimate or under mind the power of
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actually reading the Bible your your
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physical your physical Bible um yeah
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yeah and second not on your tablet or
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your iPad or your phone I'm I'm all for
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physical physical Bible it's we like to
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but sometime you may situation where I
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have my physical Bible I have both but
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one thing is important I used to read a
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lot of Bible
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study sometime you want something quick
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what they say about this it's very good
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to read the Bible study we commentary we
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learn a lot from this but learn to
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develop build your own correct Bible
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Bible references cross references that
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will help you a lot because this thought
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expressed by this Apostle has been
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expressed by another one in a different
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way and they interconnect themselves and
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number two my personal experience when I
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read for example the Gospel of John now
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John is very deep so when I read John
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after I finish John I will go to First
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John second John third John he has a way
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of expressing the same truth in a
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different way and it will help you to
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get the context and the mind that's why
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if you say key verses you should write
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them write them write them and by you
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you meditate that Bible is always when
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you are praying now holy ghost will use
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that word in your heart to
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pray that's the
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key because when you are praying your
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prayer must be filled with the
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scriptures that's why it says the holy
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spirit will pray for you absolutely was
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you don't understand Spirit prayer okay
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Spirit prayer prayer in the power of the
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Holy Ghost Springs from need what is the
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need at the time of need Holy Ghost will
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bring to your remembrance the very word
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you pray for as you pray the scripture
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will come the scripture will come just
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trust him for
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that we went to a very good school you
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know the same when you have when the
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prophet will call who has message to
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preach to the church
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tomorrow wow you know prepare a message
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and preach to a
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congregation how can it
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be you write your message there's
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something to have a message you prepare
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you write there's another thing to stand
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before the public and to deliver the
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message and by the time you read the
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message you write the message you the
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way you study the Bible you study the
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message you you understanding
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order it by the time you begin to talk
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you realize that new inspiration become
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better than what you wrote the holy
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spirit will give you that's the work of
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holy spirit so when you are reading just
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on your bed try to remember what you
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have read without opening the Bible say
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holy spirit help me Lord bring to my
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remembrance just like your
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dream your dream but you woke up in the
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morning the dream vanish you don't
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remember you're trying to grab bits of
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it and it's like vanished
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that's where you close your eyes and ask
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Holy Ghost to help you to remember to
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remember he that's his job he bring to
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our remance the very words of Jesus at
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the time of
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need sword of the spirit but if the
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heart is empty there's nothing for him
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to remind you of so there are many
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things you learned when you were at
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school primary school and you must have
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forgotten but they are deeply
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embedded one day you will just come to
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your mind the same for a heart so it's
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good to to do like like the animals when
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they eat food they will bring it out and
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bring it out bring it out bring it out
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bring it out you refresh your mind
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refresh your Spin and before you realize
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it the seed the word settles in your
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heart at the point of
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understanding that is it once you
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understand it conviction come it is
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there
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forever so please I encourage you
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keeping record is good excellent keep
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giving your record but much more don't
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don't don't forget your so busy go back
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to the record read it in the night read
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it and meditate make sure every single
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day you get one or two scriptures you
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part of you was my my my my discipline
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dedication and
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discipline I dedicate my heart to the
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word and I discipline my mind by
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thinking meditating while the public
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transport I meditate on the Bible when I
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have break in my job I meditate the
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Bible so it become part of me because I
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I rehearse it rehear it become fully
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part of me that's that's what I
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did thank you thank you so much for that
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question um I believe it's blessed many
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people and we hope that you're you're
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blessed as well thank you so much and I
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want tell something you know one day you
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can meet somebody in the street can say
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can you tell me about who is Jesus
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you'll be surprised that day Holy Ghost
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will bring all the verses you have been
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reading
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and that's the expression the expression
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of the Holy Spirit to your remembrance
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it will flow like a river it is there
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thank you