Ch4: Intro: Unlocking the Extraordinary: Faith's Journey from Simple to Supernatural

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast. I'm your host Connie Morris.

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In this podcast series, I was yelling, sorry about that.

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What is in your, chapter 4, what is in your hands from the simple to the supernatural?

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We will explore the impact of faith, particularly how the simple things in your

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hands can be transformed into the supernatural when we entrust it to God.

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Chapter four of our devotional, What's in Your Hands? From the simple to the

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supernatural delves into the powerful concept through various biblical narratives.

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So join me as we journey through five compelling episodes, each revealing how

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God uses the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary.

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Are you ready for that? For God to do the extraordinary in your life,

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to take the simple to the supernatural in your life. That's what they do best, right?

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So let's let them do it. So we have five episodes.

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First one, the widow's oil that's found in second Kings.

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And our first episode, we will explore the story of the widow's oil.

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She was facing a desperate situation. She was getting ready to go to jail for a debt.

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That her husband couldn't pay. So the little small jar of oil becomes the source

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of a miraculous provision when she acts in faith.

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This narrative teaches us what we have, no matter how small,

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can be multiplied by God to meet our needs and more.

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So no matter what we have can be multiplied supplied by God to meet our needs and more.

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Episode two, we'll talk about Moses' staff.

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And Moses' story, it starts in Exodus, I think it's three or so.

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And we'll turn to Moses. We won't read the whole thing, but we'll talk about

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Moses' staff, which is his shepherd's tool.

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So he uses that all the time.

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What do you have in your hand that you use all the time? an instrument that

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you have, especially our carpenters, you know, that uses a tool.

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And this tool is transformed into an instrument of God's power,

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performing miraculous signs.

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And during this episode, it will encourage us to see the potential in the ordinary

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things we possess when we surrender it to God's purpose.

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Episode three, the Queen of Sheba. That's in our third episode.

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We will examine the journey of Queen of Sheba. It's found in Matthew and also in the Old Testament.

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I think it's in Kings. Her quest symbolizes the value of seeking and recognizing divine truth.

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So she came a long ways to see Solomon, to talk to him about the wisdom of God.

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And we will reflect on her pursuit of wisdom and how it leads us closer to God's greater purpose.

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Sometimes it's not about stuff.

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Sometimes it's just about the wisdom, the understanding, and the knowledge of

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God that can get us into some doors that only he can open, that only he can close.

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How good is that, y'all? And then episode four, we're going to talk about the widow of Zarephath.

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It tells the story of a widow who in a time of famine gave her last bit of flour

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and oil to the prophet Elijah.

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Her faith and obedience led to an unending supply of food.

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This episode highlights the importance of trusting God and giving in faith, even in scarcity.

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You know, so it's a time where, you know, it's a time in our,

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and even in our day, in today's world, where they keep talking about food scarcity.

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Well, if we have the faith of this woman and what we have in our hands, come on now, y'all.

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And we trust in God that we won't have to worry about whatever the world is

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trying to shake up and make us nervous about running out.

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We can believe God that in the time of famine, that we will not run out of food

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because our God is more than enough.

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He will supply all our needs. Sound like a song, right, y'all?

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Yeah. Yeah, so let's get our faith built up before they try to scare us with

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another shortage of any kind, right?

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What do you have in your hands?

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I remember, I shouldn't share this story now, but my mom, we were never really

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rich, but our cabinets was never really, really full, but we were never really, really hungry.

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Our mom knew how to make something out of nothing, and it was always delicious.

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Delicious and so i just trust that

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god was always with us even when we didn't have much so when they start talking

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scarcity i'll be like what do i have in my cabinet i'm quite sure when you look

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in your cabinets there's something in there you can mix up so let's not let

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fear take over i don't know that was a side note let's go to episode five.

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The blessing of tithing. When we start talking about money, people turn off,

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turn those ears back on, turn up that volume.

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In our final episode, we discussed the blessing of tithing. What do you have in your hands?

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If you've got a job, you've got some money. If you're still broke,

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you ain't tithing. Come on now.

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God promised to open the floodgates of heaven for those who bring their tithes and offerings.

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So this episode, we're going to talk about spiritual principle of giving back

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to God, what he gave to you. He gave you that job.

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So blessing him is giving it back so he can give you more because that check

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probably ain't making it. Come on.

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And so when you bless him, he said he will open what? The flood gates of heaven.

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Different translation says it different, the windows of heaven, right?

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So God says, give me what you got in your hand and I'm going to take care of you.

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If you haven't heard my series, taking God seriously, when you take him seriously, he takes you seriously.

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No, I'm not going to preach the introduction, but don't get me started.

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So let's just review just how,

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what we're going to cover in our five episodes. They are good episodes.

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And I said, this is one devotional and I don't want to like give it to you all

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at once. That's a lot to get.

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And so I like to give it to you in little bite-sized pieces so you can chew on it a little bit.

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And then once you chew on it a little bit, maybe you'll put something to action.

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Maybe something will stick, but just a little, I like to give a little bit at a time.

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You know, we'll hear a sermon for 45 minutes and we'll leave and we'll forget

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it. I don't know if that's you.

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But if I give it to you a little bit at a time, you go, I didn't know that.

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That's pretty interesting. And so how I have it set up this time is like every other day.

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Every day, I think I have the podcast dropping at about every day,

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about three o'clock Central Time, because I live in Central Time Zone. on.

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And so every other day, I probably have it every Tuesday or Thursday.

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I think that's good enough. So you have enough time to, to get to them,

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you know, listen to it twice.

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Then it for, before the next one drop, because I want, I don't want to just

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be dropping podcasts and you're not like absorbing it.

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I want you to get to absorb it. Let the word of God be like part of who you

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are, you know? So you say, I heard that.

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Look up the scripture, get the scriptures in your eyeballs, Get to know these

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Bible characters by name.

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Where can you find their address?

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Their address is a biblical scripture. Know their addresses,

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you know, get to know them.

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And so that when it happens again, you can remember it.

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And then you can say, oh no, Lord God, this widow with the oil,

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you did a miracle for them.

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I believe that you can do a miracle for me, right? Right.

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So you can have your faith exactly where you need it when it's neat, when it's time.

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You can have a supernatural faith with your simple. Right. Because you have

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an address of where God did it before.

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So God did it before. He can do it again and he can do it, do it for you.

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Same way with Moses. Moses, even though it's a diary of a black woman podcast,

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there are some men characters in here that I love some men characters in the Bible. Hello, women.

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Right. And so we can still put our faith with our husband, you know,

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but we also can use women.

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We have jobs. What tools do you use in your job?

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You know, I'm a, I work, I'm an educator. So I have a lot of books,

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computers. What can we use in our job? You can pray for your husband.

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And if men happen to pick up this podcast, they can have some faith out there.

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They can use these same tools.

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They use oil and they were for oil company. Come on now. Hello.

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And use their faith to find oil on their land that they bought some farmland

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that they bought and they're rich now.

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Right? So just keeping the faith going.

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God needs us as Christians, especially as Christians, to keep our faith active,

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keep it moving so that people who are not believers can actually say there is

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a God out there and he is still doing the supernatural.

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He is still doing the miraculous.

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He is still doing the simple to the supernatural.

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He is still that God in the Bible. God wants to show out for us in that way

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so people can believe him and stop mocking and playing around with him like that, right? So, hello?

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Stop mocking and playing with the God of the Bible. He's still alive.

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But then we also want to believe in ourselves, too, that the God will use you

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and not be afraid of those small beginnings.

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The Bible says, do not be afraid of small beginnings because God said he rejoices when we start.

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So just start something. I think I share that in every episode,

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but just start something.

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Maybe that's the theme of the podcast. I don't know, but just start something.

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What do you have in your hands?

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What is it that he's trying to get you to do? What is it to move?

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Like I'm thinking of a time when I had the kids that grew up out of all their

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little clothes and all their little toys.

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And we and it was fun

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we had a little garage sale and we

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set everything up and they were still young

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but they enjoyed selling their little toys and

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clothes you know we folded them up and whatever they sold it was their money

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you know and after that we put it in a little bank account and first they got

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to go buy some new clothes with the money they made but also it was their money

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so So they learn how to mind. We have another sale.

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Yeah, another couple of years when you get rid of us. So they were learning

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how to take care of the clothes that they had, that they grew out of.

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So we made it a little business until they got older, you know, but that's what you do.

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You teach the kids the things that you learn from God.

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What do you have in your hands from the simple to the supernatural?

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So we're going to talk about the widows or Moses staff, Queen of Sheba.

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She had a lot of stuff, but she didn't have wisdom. I mean, you know that you

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have you have some friends who so they're beautiful, they rich,

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but they don't have wisdom.

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They come to you for wisdom because you have the wisdom of God.

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Girl, you got all that stuff, but I don't have wisdom like you.

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I'll give you, you know, whatever they give you.

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For the wisdom that you have. And then the tithe, we cannot forget that we honor

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God with what he's given us. Then that makes room for more.

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And that's all I have for our introduction. So you see how excited I am about that.

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So we're going to start episode one after this introduction.

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But so I want to thank you again for the support you have given me on the podcast

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series, Diaries of a Black Woman podcast.

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And we're only on chapter four of about 100, and I think I'm at 114 devotionals.

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And so I have a lot more to go, but God also has other resources He wants me

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to explore as far as bringing it out to the podcast.

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So God always got new things. Like I said, whatever you have in your hand,

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once you open a door to God regarding your time and your giving and your effort,

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he's going to keep pouring it in. You're never, ever going to run out.

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Trust me. Trust me. Just give God a chance.

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But meanwhile, I got some podcasts, episodes to podcasts.

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Got stuff to do. So let's get this episode completed and I'll see you on the next podcast.

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So thank you for joining me here on this journey through a chapter introduction

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of chapter Chapter four on what's in your hands from the simple to the supernatural.

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So as we explore these stories, may you be inspired to recognize the extraordinary

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potential and what you hold in your hands and offer it to God in faith.

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Stay blessed and keep believing.

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And I also want to encourage you that each and every devotional is on my website,

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site, diaryofablackwomenllc.com.

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You can access also other resources there.

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And if you want to stay connected or seek further guidance or just share your

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journey or insights, please don't hesitate to reach out.

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You can email me directly at ConnieMorris at diaryofablackwomenllc.com.

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Your stories and experiences are enriching and help build a better community, right?

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And a stronger walk with Jesus. Signing off, this is Connie Morris at the Diary

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of a Black Woman podcast.

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Until we meet again, bye-bye.