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me to do the invocation and the benediction at the award ceremony that they have. And

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so that, and I was learning more about it, like, man, this organization does basically

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the things that I think that it wants to start to do. So really, as we should have friends,

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people that live in, there are organizations that are already designed to help neighborhoods

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how to grow. And we don't always have to reinvent that. We just need to partner with a wheel

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that's already spinning. Does that make sense? Right. And so that's why I want to make sure

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that we were aware of that. So today we are wrapping up our blueprint series. This is

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our basic plan for discipleship. We have gone through seven things and today is the last

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and final theme to a couple of the community tables. I'll pop on that theme. Wednesday,

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the last community table wraps up on that theme. We'll have a break from community tables

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for a couple of months, I think until February. So I'll be thinking ahead about being involved

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in one of those and building community a couple months from now. But we rest, right? We live

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table learning how to live that live that expands out into a prayer, meditating on scripture,

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listening to the spirit. We practice our faith and we forgive as we are forgiven. And all

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of this lead to the final theme in the blueprint of work. Because work is safe for last because

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work comes from somewhere. I want you to hear that. Work comes from somewhere. Work is the

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outcome of everything else that gets put in. Those of us that are like eight and older,

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so I go to the kids and the adolescent at Genesis and I always say like 44, you can

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decide whether that's old or not, right? Just like a little ice break. But it is. I'm officially

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old because I have a fish thinking about the work ethic of people that are younger than

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me. Right? And part of the reason we think that generation, then we start thinking, oh,

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because when is what you get out like, oh, well, I didn't this or that or that or maybe

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their parent did and we become judgmental about it. I know. But I think that what we

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say today is going to help temper that, give us insight about what's healthy regarding

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what goes in and then what comes out. We're aiming here in this church environment to

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have a culture where rest comes first because we want people to begin with an experience

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of a God that isn't looking to run them ragged. Isn't looking to ride away the second they

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walk through the door, hey, we've got a job for you. Because I think that what happens

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is a lot of times churches follow following the world's definition of work, the culture

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of work, instead of what the Lord is out in front of us. And so what do I mean? I mean,

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listen to what the court found about work this year, this year in 2022. 33% of workers

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report feeling engaged jobs. Only 33%. One third, one third. The other side point is

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that 60%, almost on the other side of that coin, that coin report being emotionally detached

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at work. 19% of workers say workers say that they are miserable. Are you having a hard

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time making friends at work? I think I know why. Because the majority of your majority

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of your either turning off turning off their emotional and or they're just miserable. That

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makes it pretty hard to develop relationships and friendships and community in an environment

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like that. Gallup also found also found that half of work for it feeling stressed at their

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job on a daily basis, not just not just like, oh, my job stress sometimes on a daily basis.

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41% feel worried. 22% are sad. 18% feel angry. It's what the world's version of work creates.

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And then for the most part, most part says, get over it. I'm not paying you to be happy

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me paying you to job. We might be tempted to think that that also just because of the

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hours or because of low pay or the commitment level that they're being asked for. But we

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would be wrong. Because the because the gal goes on to say, it's not just the hour work

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life balance or workplace location that leave workers dissatisfied. In fact, worker disengagement

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rose those when remote work a work weeks were introduced were introduced, whilst levels

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rose for in person and five day week workers reports even as the nature of one's working

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working schedule is an element in this. It is not the entire story. Workers are unhappy

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home home office and working 30 or 60 or 60 hour work week. Maybe you already knew this

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prior to the pandemic. Before this for this report, 60% of workers about five workers

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served surveyed in the United States were so unhappy in their current job, they they'd

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prefer to choose a whole new career, just so they could just so they could what they

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were doing. And do you know what happened dynamic 20% of people into their careers,

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not jobs, jobs, yours.

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Po that even now that another 45% still want to do something about how the world works

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does not work. I had no satisfaction saying this, but we should not pretend the issues

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that exist exist in the world work don't sneak their way into churches. Start poisoning

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the way that God God wants our work to be in it. I've experienced it. I think it was

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about probably the year we were launching this church church maybe in I was sitting

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at a simulcast for ship conference and the founder and multimillionaire pastor of a multi

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campus globe spanning congregation spoke spoke about grit, manliness, grit, and how

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sometimes we just have to work through the hurt, we just have to we just have to worry

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the injury. I knew he was wrong. He was wrong. The very least I believed believed I knew

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that what he was saying would be manipulated and used to make hurting church people just

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get back get back to work. Who says that you have to put you have injuries? injured people.

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A couple of years a couple of years after that pastor resigned, when it came out that

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he had made it made inappropriate advances toward men, used used his position to obtain

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physical favors and fostered an environment of protection for his own personality. And

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then two after that, the other co founder same church had resigned for the same reasons.

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These were the men that over 40 years in America in America were in law are responsible for

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moving the American church into an obsession with leadership culture and work. They led

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a church growth growth, so effective, so so big so many roots. Their success trumped their

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secret secret sin. In the same way, so much so much of world overlooks misconduct, character

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flaws and narcissism, narcissism, bullying and its leaders. Church is tempted to let

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the end ends by the means. But the kingdom of God, God says capital N capital, oh no.

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Jesus says, says no. This morning and every month on the third Sunday, we pray together

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and pray together. Our prayer for we pray our work has been in Marson. Then we got clean

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up, make it right again again from a rest in life. How we work matters. How we work

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for Jesus matters. Work of the church church. Jours is meant to be a bastion and benefit

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to the world, not a mirage and imagine a mirror of what the world already does. So we got

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to talk about that. Let's get into what to what work should look like. God is asking

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us to be. Let's open up our Bibles, right? I'm going to be in John John 13 in Corinthians

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15. Those are both in the New Testament. If you don't have a physical Bible, we've got

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Bible on the bookshelf in the lobby. You're welcome to grab those on your way home today

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on the day. Take one home for or download a digital Bible from any of the digital app

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stores stores on 13. And if you you can go to either or first Corinthians 15. We have

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a tradition of giving the scriptures are full attention while they are read. And you can

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and you can do a number of ways you can you can sit or you can stand with me as you were

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able body or spirit as we read the scriptures. And so here we go. John 13 says this this

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John starting in verse 12. Well, it finished washing their feet. He put on his clothes

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and returned to his place. Do you understand what I have done? This is a story where Jesus

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is taken off his office outer robe and wrap around himself so that he could wash wash

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their feet. He says, Do you understand what I've done for you? He asked them. You call

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me to teacher and rightly so for that is what I am. Now that I your Lord and teacher have

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what you have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an

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example an example that you should do as I have done for you. First 15 verse three. For

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what I received, I passed on to you as a first first and died for our sins according to the

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scriptures in the verse 58. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters stand firm, let

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not move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord because you know when

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the Lord is not in vain. Let us pray. Father, thank you for the scriptures. We thank you

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that they exist that they have persisted throughout the millennia that we are able to open read

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them consider them better than meditate upon them. Whatever you have for us to learn. I

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pray that it would stick. I pray that would become a part of the framework of our faith

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that our faith that our faith from stronger you would become more more like your son.

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Jesus. Amen. Thanks y'all. You can have a seat. Okay, so Paul tells us to give ourselves

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fully to the to the work of the right. And so we should ask ourselves what is our work

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work. Is it that we are supposed to be giving ourselves fully into that in a health in a

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healthy way that the most precise and succinct answer and what Jesus said to his disciples

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that I have set you an example that you should do as I have done. I think our work is to

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do to do for others ever has done for us. Our work is to give what we have have. We

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we receive reciprocate in the context and verbiage and language of this to ship plan

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it can be boy it can be boil like this. Our work is to offer rest and life to others.

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Our work is to offer rare rare life to others. And so what does that look like like? Well,

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let's go on the way back way back machine. First, we've been given from the very beginning

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of the story God has been invited inviting people rest. And so our work our work is to

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us to others. For some of us this will be the most important work that we do for the

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rest of our lives lives offering rest is probably the single act of work that I have offered

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the most. Because after my decade my decade of experience around overworked churches.

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I think the Lord's given me I see the tired that will not bite people work what what they

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need first is I'll tell you are people that belong here at this church I believe I believe

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it depths my heart my heart that are because they don't know how to receive rest. I remember

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one person in particular I met I messed to set up a coffee this is probably probably

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in like year two of of this church church and message him to set up a coffee a coffee

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to me just start coming to the church and I happened to also know son and so his son

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said hey my dad wanted to know why you to meet him and I go would you say goes I told

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me probably just wanted to get to know him. People with church in their aren't you aren't

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used to pastors and without an agenda. Because it feels it feels like trap. And that's why

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rest has to come first. Rest has to be the first to be the first we do in our offer offer

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rest. Because if we do not start with rest with the well rested before they begin to

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work then wounds won't heal and heal and the weary will nested and instead of buying binding

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up the broken heart we will actually build a house on bruised hearts. I've lost count

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of how many times I've gone to coffee with someone and they were like they were like

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oh is that all. Or or the hey so I really want to get involved and I have to go on are

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you good on are you good are you good you're good just just settle in. Let's figure out

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if this is really the home for you you know. Let's get you. Of course from from we are

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offering rest so that people can put put their burdens down right now got more. We asked.

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And then we offer life at the table. Paul says in Galatians 6 to carry each other's

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burdens and in the fulfill the law of Christ. So many people don't want to read rest.

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no to put them down or who they are without them. So when we have lived at the table he

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have come out rested and when we begin to live at the table we start to see who Jesus

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says says we are all of our heavy burden the burdens and we offer that life at the table

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to others and we take up their burdens. So that they don't have to. I think that what

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community is. This is a really important thing you read here okay. Some of us that are here

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even now are listening online. Some of us aren't as we believe everything that gets

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said from this pulpit. You are here you are here because you believe in what you see happening

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in this community. Every time every single time I will take I will take community of

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believers that loves and cares for each other really well over and above a community where

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everyone idolizes the pastor or we are growing so fast. Did you guys hear about what is happening

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it is growing so fast. I would rather have a community that loves each other well. That

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believes in what is happening in each other community that is always like man you got

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to hear this sermon that is preached. When we offer life for life working. Life only

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expands outward from there right from there right. Same way it does in the blueprint we

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offer that life to others. So we rest we begin to live at the table and then we abide and

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then we abide. We meditate on meditate on scripture we listen to it we we practice our faith we

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forgive as we have been forgiven given. Listen to what Jesus said in John 17 20. He said

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my prayer is not for my current for my current disciples I pray also for those who will believe

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in me through their message. Jesus prayed us we do what Jesus has done and so we work

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when we abide in prayer for others. Yeah so now so now don't raise your hand because I

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just praised you guys you guys about what a beautiful community we are. Don't raise

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your hand because I'm not looking to shame anyone but let's be honest how many of us

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have have prayed for prayed for someone else in the last 24 hours hours week months sometimes

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I said don't show your hands Cody Cody up here being all all holy I did. That was me

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I prayed for someone more. Some of us are wandering around the house of the Lord wondering

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what our work will will be. While we have people in our own homes that need to be prayed

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for prayed for that we can take what the life that God has offered us and turn that around

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as an as an act of work on behalf of someone someone else. Some of us were waiting for

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a grand idea. We're waiting for the thing that seems important enough. When even just

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praying for someone near you. It's not changing for somebody. All we need to do is stop stop

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offer we have already been given to the people around us pray for our family for our neighbors

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for our co-workers for strangers. I didn't prayer to grow in our relationship with Jesus

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and then we offer that that prayer to and for others. It's the same with the same with

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measure meditation on scripture scripture begins as a way to live to build our life

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and it grows into a way to others. Listen to what Paul says in Colossians 3 16. Let

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the word Christ dwell richly in you teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom

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singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thanks thanks thanks in your heart to

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God. See we don't only don't only meditate for ourselves the scriptures become the words

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we offer to each other. They become the songs that we sing. They are the foundation for

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the wisdom of the spirit of the spirit that we do. This happens to me all the time when

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I'm with people at the hospital a patient will say something and scripture will come

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to my come to my mind. And then instead of saying something that I could come up with

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I say sure. You know why that's powerful because those of you that have known me long enough

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know talk a lot. I have many things to say but here's the thing this they don't they

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don't know me but maybe they know or have heard some of the scriptures. The spirit that

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has brought sure to my mind has already prepared them to remember member or reminded of same

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scripture come out of my mouth. I'll have patience that they feel so discouraged so

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discouraged so worried. That is I'll say Jesus told us I will never leave never leave you

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thank you. So many times some something they say causes sure to come from me me and tears

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to come from them. We have meditated on the script on the scriptures God knows how to

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turn that into a work we could not fabricate fabricate on. We learned to listen to the

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spirit for as that as an act of work we have received and listening to the spirit spirit

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we are filling the words of Jesus in John 14 26 when he said this but the helper the

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Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name he will teach you all all the things

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all things and bring to your your remembrance all that I have said to you. Every part of

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the blueprint becomes a source for us to work with God's God's arrest in life. All of every

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single bit. I could go on and on about each other elements but I want to wrap that wrap

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that part up because I need to move forward with the time that I have left because I always

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want also want to make it clear everything that we are given becomes what we are able

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to have that balances and that's as important because if all we do is rest then I believe

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that we atrophy all that we do is live I believe that we develop a sense of entitlement all

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that we do is work or that we develop a sense of resentment. So let me explain that a bit

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more one of the reasons my knees got so bad the last few years is because during the pandemic

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my pattern my patterns and my physical activity changed dramatically that's true for some

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of us but I have coffee shops at least I'd be walking from the bar to the coffee shop

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and I would sit and I would sit in such a way my knees were bent maybe I'd get maybe

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I'd get up and do other things but during the pandemic I was like why don't really

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leave my house and so I would sit in my bed and I would work in my bed and I would just

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chill maybe have something on the TV and on the TV background working out my legs would

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be eggs would be straight a lot of the day so when I started going to therapy for my

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knees they were saying oh like your muscles that have atrophied I spent just just enough

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time in a different position that caused the muscle my knees to atrophy to a point other

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muscles could pull on my pull on my kneecaps what had been a minor pain to a major pain

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because too much rest to atrophy in recent years actually in the medical field doctors

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have figured out that when a patient has knee replacement or a injury they need to actually

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get them up as possible they need to it used to be oh I need to stay in this chair for

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this amount of time this number of days and they started to realize negative outcomes

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if they if they did not have people begin to get up and have physical therapy sooner

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rather than later I think the same thing is true for true for our lives and rest in a

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church in a relationship with God if we never step forward life of a church into scripture

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meditating on on scripture and practicing our faith and so on I think our hearts atrophy

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just that first off first offered spade heal will become the same place that we at we atrophy

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we have to move forth but if all but if all that we do live at the table and do the things

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underneath the banner of live I think that we run that we run the risk of becoming an

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adult entitlement is when we look around and we say why would I do something all of this

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is here for me I'm just enjoying all the benefits of the community that's great that has a season

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that has a balance but we do not move from healthy living to healthy working and then

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we become entitled this isn't always comfortable to talk about years ago there was a young

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lady that had been coming to the church for a couple of years he attended services consistently

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she went to community tables I'd meet her for a bunch of times I met her for for coffee

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life about relationships and ships a whole gamut when I finally asked her hey I was thinking

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about this for you there might be an opportunity for city for you to step in in health with

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this she said she was still in a she was still in a without realizing what she didn't realize

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she wasn't in a wasn't in a season she was a season in a season of living and receiving

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everything everything that the community had for without out giving of herself she'd become

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entitled titled I would she hold the door for someone someone she was resting we're

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supposed to hold the door for her door for her and I'm not I'm not saying this because

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I'm like wounded or wounded or hurt it's just the really what happens to some of us some

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of us rest too long we can atrophied if we get stuck in in the living portion too long

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we can become we can become not seeing that there is an entrance for me for me to offer

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in return saying and I've seen this seems I've seen this happen across generations okay

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I'm not picking I'm not picking on anyone generates where I've seen it in it in Millennials

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I've seen it in teachers I have seen it in boomers everyone is at risk of slipping entitlement

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if they do not find healthy work now while at reason healthy entitlement is extremely

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unattractive if engines I think that the most poisonous possibility happens happens what

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we do is work because when all that we do is work risk of becoming resentful we do not

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do not rest in life and work at some point our work will get will get is with resentment

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if we are not careful then resentment will poison every free one week with everything

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that we offer them in my book when I wrote about this I described it this way is it at

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a house that was spotless yeah most of us you were asked to remove your shoes second

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you came in you you want to use a coaster for your drink for your drink in the living

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room before you had the chance you were told not to leave the kitchen with any food or

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food or drinks you brought your kids be kids because you thought it would for them and

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then sit still the whole time never offered any toys and see and see thought send them

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outside to the yard to play oh play only to be told to stay off the grass the homeowner

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resented the very idea that you would even consider the risk of leaving risk of leaving

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on the table or let your kids leave a toy on the toy on the carpet some of us have experienced

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that that's resentment that is the kind of resentment that starts to glaze work lays

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ways explain why when you assume that no one appreciates appreciates the work that you

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you begin to feel no joy when someone benefits from it from it when you assume that no one

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appreciates the work you've done you become resentful you get to you get to this where

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you feel no sense of joy that someone benefits from it does that make sense what happens

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is you start to treat people passive aggressively as though they have no idea how hard I've

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been working some of us are thinking about ourselves right now some of us are thinking

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about others try to take your mind off the person you're thinking of us back to ourselves

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we're not here to judge the other we're here to think is this happening to me am I annoyed

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annoyed when someone doesn't know I worked so hard on hard on they didn't even say thank

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you can't believe they left their shoes there there and then they pick up that blanket why

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didn't they put you in cup where it belongs why didn't they straighten out that row when

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they got up when anyone hold the door for me or for me some of us have seen it some

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of us have been this so what if you find yourself in one of these what if you find yourself

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find yourself in the area fear entitlement or resentment what two directions here here

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okay to think about in the concept of this blueprint of rest live at the table the table

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abide in prayer aid on scripture listen to the host into the Holy Spirit our faith forgive

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as you've been forgiven and work there's two directions that we need to think about first

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it sounds counterintuitive intuitive but row in an area we go back we go backwards if you

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lack forgiveness you don't need to hurry up and move into work is what I'm saying if you

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lack the ability to forgive then you actually need to actually need to go backwards into

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the spirit if you feel like you are struggling willing to listen to the spirit you don't

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need to hurry up and move forward or do you need to go to go back meditate on the scriptures

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scriptures find it difficult to meditate on the scriptures you don't hurry up and go oh

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I'm just gonna just gonna listen to it and do whatever the Holy Spirit says you move

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you move backward into you move backwards if you need to grow and then you go okay okay

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now that informs firms I move forward but if you get where you're wounded where you're

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atrophied and titled or resentful we move forward to forward to heal makes makes you

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are atrophied you have to move forward live you have to do something with your muscles

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you have to enter into a community you have to flex and start to work that spirit spiritual

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muscle in prayer in meditating on reading on scripture listening to the spirit you hear

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it you need practicing doing all of these exercises is building all the different things

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so that your life to stay atrophied in that plate in that place rest if you feel entitled

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then you need to find your work there is work for everyone everyone actually no one should

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ever get stuck only living in the life of the church and then if you're resentful you

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need to go for rest because the thing about the blueprint beginning in rest and ending

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in work is that it's not just linear they're all they're all connected to each minded of

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what Paul said he said in Galatians where he says let us not grow weary of doing good

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works right but that connects back to what Jesus said Jesus said come to our weak weary

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of trying to do all of these things so if we need to grow we go back right and if we

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need to if we need to feel we move forward so we need to do now take a minute we need

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to take to pray to ourselves to think about those eight things and ask the Lord where

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am I on this journey on this journey where architectural disciples and do I need to

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move forward am I lacking some do I do I feel wounded do I need to get forward and move

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out of just resting to living do I need to need to move move from live working understand

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understanding they are only meant to be in just one of these things that they all lap

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they're all all work work off of each all important thing thinking all the way and I

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said why do we need to play a plan because eventually we can improvise the eyes this

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so let's so let's take let's abide in prayer let's ask the Lord where are we there's something

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lacking that we need backing that we need to backwards on the thing that builds it up

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empowers that thing are we wounded and to move forward into something that will give

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us life this life just pray.

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God of rest I thank you that you offer us a place to heal.

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I pray that you give us wisdom that our hearts not become atrophied.

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Thank you for being the God of life.

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Pray that you give us wisdom that we not we not become entitled.

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You have good work for us.

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Pray that you our hearts that we not become resentful.

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Teach us when to go back.

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When to go forward.

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Amen.