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Hey Forever GodGirl, I'm your host Iz, and welcome

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or welcome back to the Forever GodGirl Podcast

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in today's episode We will talk about intentionally

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loving and serving others just like Christ did

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loving and serving others Yeah, no loving and

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serving others doesn't mean letting people walk

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all over you It just means acting like Christ

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to the people around you. Oh, well to be honest,

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that's still pretty hard to do I mean, why do

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we intentionally love and serve others anyways?

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Hmm. That's a good question and we all struggle

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with this but in Mark 10 verse 45 It says for

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even the Son of Man came not to be served but

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to serve and to give his life as a ransom for

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many. Let me start off by saying that the love

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Jesus showed to us is agape love and the love

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that we should show to others as well as ourselves

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is also agape love. Isn't agape love the highest

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holiest and purest form of love? Correct. And

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as humans, we can't intentionally love and serve

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others without God's agape love. So the first

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thing we need to know is if we're going to intentionally

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love and serve others just like Christ did, we

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can't do it in our own strength. We have to do

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it in God's strength. That's right. We love because

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God first loved us. And whenever we serve others,

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it's not just unto - the other person, but it's

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also unto God. Wow, that actually reminds me

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of a scripture, Colossians 3 verse 23 in the

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easy English Bible translation, which says, whatever

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things you are doing, do them well. Remember

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that you are serving the Lord. You are not only

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serving people. Correct. This scripture is such

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an encouragement, especially when we don't want

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to do something, which brings me into the next

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thing we got to talk about. What do we do when

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we don't necessarily have the attitude and the

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want to love and serve others? Well, when we

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don't feel like being kind and using the fruit

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of the spirit, God wants us to come to Him. But

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when I'm having a bad attitude, doesn't God want

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me to work it out before I pray? I used to think

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this too, so I understand you. But no, God actually

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wants us to come to Him because He will work

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it out of us. He fixes us, not ourselves. Because

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when we go down to pray, we take all of our burdens,

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bad attitudes, and icky feelings, lay it at His

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feet, and then rise up in faith. That way, we

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can radiate his agape love. Okay, great, but

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some people are hard to love, let alone serve.

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Why would I want to waste my time serving someone

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who's mean to me? Okay, I do see where you're

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coming from, but if we keep thinking about it

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in that perspective... that person is going to

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be even more difficult to love and serve. So

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firstly, change your perspective about that person.

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Look at them through the lens of Christ. And

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secondly, forgive them, because especially when

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people are mean to us, we can hold stuff against

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them and not even realize. Now listen, if somebody

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is really mean to you and physically hurts you,

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forgiving them doesn't mean you're going to become

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besties. But it does mean that we won't have

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anything to hold against them. And in that situation,

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the best thing to do is to pray for them. The

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last scripture I want to remind all of us about

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is Romans chapter 12 verse 10 Which says love

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one another with brotherly affection and out

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do one another in showing honor Now it's time

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for our special segment and yes, you know it.

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It's time for some song trivia What song do you

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think that is? If you guessed Heaven on My Mind

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by TobyMac, then you are, drum roll please,

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correct! This has been a really fun special segment,

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but now it's time to talk about something a little

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bit more serious, salvation. See, all these things

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that we talked about in today's podcast episode

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won't be able to help you unless you give your

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life to Christ and have his Holy Spirit. So,

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if you have a personal relationship with Jesus

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Christ, then this episode will help you. But,

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if you don't have a personal relationship with

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Jesus Christ, then I invite you to give your

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heart to the Lord today. To receive him into

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your heart, go to Romans 10, 9 -10. It says,

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If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus,

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and believe in your heart that God has raised

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him from the dead, you will be saved. For with

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the heart one believes unto righteousness, and

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with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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If you said this prayer with sincerity, you are

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saved and now have eternal life with Jesus. You

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are saved from all your sins, past, present,

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and future sins you may commit. Now, this truth

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is not a free pass to sin anytime. Instead, Jesus

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gives you power over all wrong choices and empowers

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you to spread the gospel to others. You are saved

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forever and your name is written in the book

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of life. Did you just give your life to Jesus?

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If you did, give yourself a pat on the back.

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I am so godly proud of you. Thank you so much

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for listening to this podcast episode. I trust

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that it helped you and that you learned something.

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And remember, in John 13 verse 14, it says, if

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then I, the Lord and teacher, have washed your

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feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

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