"Divine Conversations: Ep 8: Unlocking God's Secrets"

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Music.

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast with your host,

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Connie Morris, where truth speaks, healing begins, and every word is rooted in faith.

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Before we begin, let us go before the Lord in prayer.

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Father God, we thank you for this moment. We thank you for every listener,

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every heart, and every home represented.

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We invite your presence into this space. As we begin, we stand on the words

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of Jabez in 1 Chronicles 4.10.

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And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying,

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Lord.

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Today we echo that same prayer. Bless us indeed.

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Bless every woman listening. Bless her mind, her body, her relationships,

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her dreams, and her destiny.

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Let your blessing not only surround her, but transform her.

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Enlarge our coast. Stretch us beyond what we thought was possible.

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Expand our influence, our impact, and the reach of this message.

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Not for our glory, but for yours.

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Let your hand be with us. Go before us in every conversation.

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Guide our words, anoint our purpose, and let every episode carry your truth with clarity and power.

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Keep us from evil that it may not grieve us.

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Shield us from harm, from cycles of sorrow, from spiritual attack and emotional heaviness.

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Cover us in your grace so we rise in strength, not in grief,

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in wholeness, not in wounds.

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And just as you granted Jabez what he requested, Lord, grant it unto us.

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Let this podcast be a wellspring of truth, a refuge for healing,

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and a launchpad for purpose. In the mighty name of Jesus, amen.

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All right. Hello, and welcome back to Diary of a Black Woman podcast.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris, and we are still trotting through the series of

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Faith on the Go when God wants to talk.

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And today we're going to dive into receiving divine revelation.

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No, receiving divine revelation. I think this episode is so good for those who

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love to know their future, love to follow prophets and hear what God is saying,

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because I'm one of those kind of people, right?

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But how many know that God wants to talk to you, that he has some divine revelation for you?

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So let's go to Jeremiah 33.

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Verse 3, it reads, call to me and I will

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answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

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Come on now. He says, call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and

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unsearchable things you do not know.

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How many of us want some things we do not know? And we don't want that from anybody.

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We want that from our Heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit of Jesus, right?

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We want somebody who can see afar off, right?

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But yet sometimes we get so caught up in searching through podcasts or not,

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I ain't hating on podcasts, but we want to hear God's voice through someone else.

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But we have the God that walks in the room and wants to talk directly to you

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and give it to you firsthand, right? Isn't that a good thing?

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And so let's dive into this episode regarding receiving divine revelation.

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And, you know, I was one of those people and I still kind of dig around and

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listen to some other podcasts when, you know, when knowing that my pastor is a prophet.

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So sometimes I just re-listen to what he's already spoken because he's been

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very accurate and very connected to God in a kind of cool way.

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And so most of the time you have

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a good pastor, it's best to kind of stay focused in that one run realm.

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Otherwise you get kind of tossed around through and forward and you start comparing and contrasting.

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And then that's what you call confusion. And so I have decided that I'm just

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going to focus on what my pastor is saying.

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And I might listen to something in the morning, but otherwise I don't try to

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contrast and contrarian contrast and compare because that causes confusion.

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But if you spend enough time with God, he will tell you those secrets that you

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so desire that you're searching after through people.

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And he wants you to focus on him. And so this series, or hopefully this July series,

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has helped you to kind of hone in to your giftings and to your relationship

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with God, because he wants to talk to you.

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He wants to talk to you. So let's just keep going here.

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So when God wakes us up in the night, I always say in the early morning,

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because sometimes it's in the middle of the night for me, Sometimes it's mostly

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early morning, like about two, three, four, around that time for me.

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He wants to reveal something specific, an insight, a direction,

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or a deeper understanding of his plans.

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This moment are invitations to receive wisdom directly from him.

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They require a heart that is open, expected, and ready to steward what is revealed, right?

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So he can give it to you, but are you ready to receive it? Are you ready to receive it?

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You know, like I mentioned before on other podcasts, people say,

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well, I heard that before.

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Well, if you have done anything with what you've heard, if you haven't done

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anything with what you've heard and you haven't mastered it.

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Then you're going to keep hearing it.

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I mentioned before that the Bible is very repetitive.

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And as you get to know God, he's very repetitive.

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He's not going to give you so much that he's not just going to talk to hear

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himself talk. If you're not going to do with what he's told you to do,

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he's going to stop telling you things.

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Because he's like, I need you to do the first thing. You know,

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as parents, you know, can I borrow the car? You know, that's when they learn how to drive.

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And so what we do as parents, we test them.

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Can you go to the store and pick up a loaf of bread? You want and come back?

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You know, that's the test.

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Can you go put gas in a car and, you know, maybe you give them two things to

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do and then come back? You're testing them.

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Can you take the car out to the basketball game, football game,

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track game, whatever you send them out to do?

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And can you come back on time?

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You were just testing them. And the more you test them and they return the favor,

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that's the more you begin to trust them with more things to do with the car.

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Pretty soon they can take the car out of town and you're fine with it because

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they have already passed those little bitty tests.

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And I just believe God is the same way. He gives you these insights,

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this wisdom, this deeper understanding of what he wants to do.

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But then he watches to see what you do with it.

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So just for an example for me, I would say, and there's so many for me, he just says,

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It was just a weird thing, I can tell you. I was walking one day,

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I won't make this a long podcast, and he says, he mentioned to me in secret, whisper.

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That means that if he was whispering, what I always say, that he was in the

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room. But I was walking outside.

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I mean, he was walking with me because he whispered to me and says,

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diary of a black woman. And I was like, okay, Lord, is that a book?

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What is that? And so throughout the walk, I'm kind of meditating on this title,

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thinking what type of book would this be?

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What kind of chapters would this be in the book? And how would I write it and format it?

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Because I just finished two books and it was a lot of work writing those books.

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And I was like, I wasn't feeling the energy of writing another book.

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And so I had to figure out, okay.

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So I set it, I marinated on it. I call it marinated, but meditate on it.

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And I said, okay, Lord, I don't know what you want me to do with this.

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So I sat it down and, you know, time chance happened. My mom was having.

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God must have spoke to my mom.

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And my mom said, Connie, I've been reading devotionals and I think you can actually

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write, write some devotionals better than these. You know, your mom, right?

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And you, you know, God and my mom was probably talking. I said,

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you know what? Sure, mom, I write some, use some devotionals.

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How many do you want me to write?

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She says, just, just write. I'll tell you going to stop. And I said, okay.

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So I got to 40 devotionals and she said, I think that's enough.

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But as I'm writing these devotionals, my mom is, this is about having,

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you know, what am I talking about, right? Divine revelation.

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And it come in little bite-sized pieces, right? First the word and then the process.

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And so I said, okay. And as I'm writing these for my mom, my mom is pretty much

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critiquing them and sometimes I get too wordy and et cetera, et cetera.

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So your mom is kind of like the editor-in-chief, right?

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So she's helping me write these devotionals. And I said, okay, mom.

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Okay. And then she says, Connie, I think I've had enough of devotionals.

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Thank you so much. And so I had a stack of devotionals.

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And at the time I didn't have an iPad to put them on. So I was using a lot of ink and a lot of paper.

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I got them in my notebook. So when I go live, you'll see my notebooks behind me.

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They're in like big notebooks that I had printed them out. And lo and behold.

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The Lord then whispered, and now I want you to start a podcast.

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At the time, I didn't know. I'm listening to different podcasts,

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but I don't have an idea of how to start one.

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So I just spent some time researching, and he was helping me research.

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Come on now. If the Lord tells you to do something, you can trust in his wisdom

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to help you figure this thing out.

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And so I was like, I have one computer, and then I had a laptop that wasn't

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in use. And he said, use this laptop.

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So I had a little laptop set up, I bought a table.

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I'm stationed now in my bedroom, which is, I got a huge bedroom and I'd set it all up.

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And long story short, I just set it up and I started figuring out where can

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I distribute the podcast on.

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And I didn't really do a lot of editing in my first couple of podcasts because

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I didn't know nothing about editing. I just wanted to get started.

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That's all I wanted to do because Lord told me to start.

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And it all started as these morning wake up calls, these walks that I was doing

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with the Lord and the way that he kept walking me through each and every step.

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And that's happened. This is not the first time he's done this.

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This is just how he walks and talks with me. I wrote two books the same way,

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a whisper and then the process.

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A whisper, process of understanding the process, and then actually starting the process.

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So these moments of revelation are invitation to receive wisdom from him,

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wisdom from God on how to do something that you never ever done before.

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But many times people don't start because they say, I don't know how to do this.

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I've never done this before.

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Now that was good back about maybe 30 years ago, but you can turn on a YouTube video.

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Come on people and figure it out from there. There's so many how to do things

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that you can get started on about anything.

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So when God gives you wisdom, he will tell you the process on how to get started.

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But one thing it does require, it requires you to have an open heart that's

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expected and ready to steward what he tells you to do.

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And so how did I steward what he says?

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So I started out with 40 devotionals. And how did I get those? By prayer and fasting.

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Lord would speak to me in the morning and I would steward his words and research

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his words out and then write it all out, just like a book, a preface, an introduction.

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You go to my website, Diary of a Black Woman LLC, you will get a copy of those devotionals.

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Find a way to create some fun covers for it.

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It was just fun. That was my 40 devotionals, just using some kind of AI pictures

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or let those drawings kind of create themselves.

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Just some fun, fun times, right?

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And then he said, use those 40 devotionals to start your podcast.

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What I'm going to talk about, Lord, boom, you already got the material. 40 devotions.

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Devotionals with all the topics can turn into like 80 different podcasts.

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I mean, you can stretch them. You know how the word of God is.

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It can be expounded. You can make topics out of them. It was just awesome, right?

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But the first thing you had to do when God speaks to you is you have to have an open heart.

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You have to expect him to talk and then you have to steward it.

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And I think we missed that part about stewarding.

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When God speaks to you in the morning, are you writing it down or are you taking it to memory?

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Because we know that Satan comes right away and snatched that word.

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And so you'll think, what did he say? You didn't write it down.

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You didn't steward it. So you forgot and you lost it. But yeah,

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God will give it back to you.

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We learned in this month that he caused Samuel twice.

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So I think almost three times. And then the other third time,

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he stood in the room so you wouldn't miss it.

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So if it's something urgent and you intentionally want to learn it,

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he's not going to let you miss it.

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But if you're just brushing it off, trust me, he's going to let you brush it

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off. And that bright idea will go to someone else, right?

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But remember, these moments of revelation are invitations.

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Revelations are invitations to receive wisdom directly from him.

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So throughout the scripture, God has used quiet times to unveil his plans.

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Daniel, if you read the book of Daniel, Daniel had dreams.

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He had visions and he lived a mighty long time because he had different kings that he ruled with.

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That's how bad Daniel was, right? Because he started out young and he said,

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okay, I'm not going to eat all this food. This is not good for me.

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And then that part got imparted some wisdom into him then and continue throughout his life.

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It doesn't stop when you begin to honor God

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When you begin to listen, when he wants to talk and he wants to talk to you,

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he doesn't stop giving you revelation and wisdom.

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I think a lot of people, I'm just saying many people are here getting,

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well, you know, Moses was 80, you know, I had Noah, I think,

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I don't know how old Noah was, but he was 600 or something or more, right?

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And so you limit your age.

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You limit what God can do by saying certain words, you know?

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You limit what God can do for you because you keep saying, I'm almost at this age.

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What does that mean to God? A God that lives forever.

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A God that created your body, right? So that's wisdom.

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So when you receive wisdom directly from him, you can do whatever you want.

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It's not limited by time. You keep working until God calls you home.

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So we just talked about Daniel received dreams and vision that revealed the future.

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Daniel 2.19, it's all throughout Daniel.

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He received so many visions.

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He had, my gosh, Gabriel showed up for him.

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I believe in the Bible that Jesus showed up for him because he was always in a state of expectation.

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He was always in a state of prayer. He was always praying, always in a state

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of expectation and God was constantly, he was always available when God wanted to talk.

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I might, look at that, I'm going to write this down. I might do something on Daniel.

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Thank you, Lord, because Daniel was available for God and that's why he was

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able to just do what he do, saved by the lions in the fire.

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Hello, people. That's what I'm talking about. Let's talk about Samuel.

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He was, as a boy, he was awakened in the night to hear God's call.

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1 Samuel 3.10, Paul received divine revelation to guide his ministry in Galatians 1.12.

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We know Paul and Silas, they prayed at midnight. What happened at midnight?

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They were loose. So there's things that happen when God wants to talk.

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These examples remind us that God's revelations are not random.

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They are purposeful and meant to align us with his will.

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Remember, when you make yourself available to God, when he wants to talk,

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then he says he will give you unsearchable things you do not know.

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That means that we as Christians don't have to run around trying to hear from

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different, it's okay, I ain't saying it's wrong, but you know,

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like I shared with you before another podcast,

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we run each other over trying to hear from the when a special prophet comes

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to the church, when you actually get the prophet.

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Remember talking to you at night when God wants to talk. He can tell you what

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they're going to tell you.

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However, receiving revelation requires us to be intentional.

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The reason we have to be intentional, and I think I have a devotional on this

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one, that God is intentional.

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God is intentional.

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Okay, he doesn't do nothing by mistake. It's not an accident.

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He purposefully wants to talk to you at a particular time.

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You know that, right? And sometimes it ain't your time, but it's his time.

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But during that time, he says, I will tell you things you did not know.

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Isn't that what we want to know? What about our future? What about this? What about that?

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We want to know that. And he says, I'm going to tell you that.

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It's easy to dismiss nighttime awakenings as coincidences.

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But what if we approach them with faith? In the stillness, God may be offering

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answers to questions, information of decisions, or insights into character.

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Our role is to listen, reflect, and act on what he reveals.

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You know, this is probably not one of our action plans, but I want to just challenge

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you. This is something extra.

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Is there something that you have on your mind that you need an answer to?

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Pray before you go to bed. Ask God about it.

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And then if he awakens you in the night, I believe you will have your answer.

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I remember when I said, Lord, should I quit this job?

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Because I do not think that, you know, me being spiritual, I don't think this

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is of the Lord for me to work 70 hours a week.

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I just don't think that's of the Lord. And I just went to bed.

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But, you know, I'm a little worried, a little worried, like,

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I just got to quit this job.

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And I just, it's like kind of what I felt like this.

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And you might can relate to this. You go to a swimming event,

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but you don't really want to swim. You just want to be cute, right?

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But yet someone pushes you in the pool thinking it's funny.

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But once you're in the pool, you're already wet. And so you just stay in the

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pool for the rest of the event. And that's how it is with God.

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Once you jump into that pool of faith, there's nobody that can pull you out of it.

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So sometimes in our journey, we just have to just get wet in our faith and just

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trust God. Just like Peter stepped out on the water, he stepped out in total faith.

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Water was still water, but he stepped out on it and he was able to walk on it.

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It, right? Just for that moment, he was able to walk on it. And we have to do that with God.

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We have to believe that he is a God of wisdom.

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He is a God that will guide us for our plans. And then if he wakes us and he

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has an answer, now check this out.

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If he wakes you and gives you the answer, do that.

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Whatever he says to do, do that.

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Just trust it. I remember he said, it's kind of so okay for you to quit.

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And I was like, when? When can I quit? And he said, Friday.

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He said, it was Monday, Monday, good day. I said, how should I quit?

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Because I never quit a job before.

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You ever been in a situation where you never quit a job before? I said, how do I quit?

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So I wrote up the resignation letter and I put it on the Outlook,

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kind of a timed Outlook where it will go off, it will get sent at a certain time.

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And I was like, okay. And then I wanted to be busy at that time because I never quit a job.

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I've had many, many jobs, but never really quit a job.

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Because you know, we, we from old school, we, we don't quit. We usually like resign.

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Well, resigning is quitting. Right. But actually quit. I don't know.

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Maybe make it sound funny.

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Maybe I have quit job before, but not, you know, you give your two weeks notice

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where they work you like a Hebrew slave for those two weeks.

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But no, no, no, I'm not going to work.

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I don't have energy to work two weeks for that job. I just, I gotta go.

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But sometimes we just have to just do what God says, Use his wisdom.

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I don't know why I went on that trip. That little, that little, little John-ger.

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Let's go deeper. Position yourself to receive God. Revelation requires intentional

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preparation. Keep a journal, a Bible, a pen nearby.

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When God speaks, write it down immediately. Whether it's a word,

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a scripture, or a sense of direction, just write it down.

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I have a journal on my phone and I like to keep it.

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Just, it could be anywhere. I just write down some word, you know,

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like today during offering. It was so powerful what she was saying.

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And I was like, wow, that was good. So just write down that word.

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And that's God speaking directly to you.

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And even in the morning, like I said, this is when God wants to talk.

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Usually it's in the morning. It's whenever he wants to talk.

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And so make sure that you steward his word by writing it down.

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Test what you hear. Now, every thought is from God. So it's essential to test

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revelation against scripture.

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God, where is that in your word? God would never contradict his word.

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Pray for discernment and confirmation. So if you don't know your Bible well,

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look it up. Has he done this before?

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Sometimes God can do unprecedented things. And then he, like he said,

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he will confirm it if it's him.

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You know, you don't have to be confused. But if he tells you to go jump off

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something, I always say if it's something negative, I'd be like, no, that ain't the Lord.

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You know, and then I wait until, I've never done anything negative. that say it was from God.

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Except resign from a job. If that's negative, then hallelujah to that, right?

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And the third one is be obedient. God's revelation often comes with instruction,

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whether it's a call to action or a shift in perspective.

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Obedience is the key to unlocking his promises. So it says go deeper.

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How do we go deeper? We position ourselves, yourselves to receive.

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And so we're always ready to receive from God. Number two, you test what you

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hear. Don't be following strange voices.

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God speaks from his spirit, and usually it sounds like you, right? So it's essential.

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It's an annoying in your heart. It's annoying.

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And then you always want to test it against scripture. And then if you have

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a little doubt, you wait, because God is very persistent.

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He's not going to let you walk off a bridge and do anything that's not of him.

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He's very patient, right?

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And then, like I said before, be obedient. God's revelation often comes with instructions. It does.

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It's kind of a how to do this. Whether it's a call to action or a shift in perspective,

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obedience is key to unlocking his promises.

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Scriptural insight. For the Lord gives wisdom from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

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Proverbs 2.6. Revelation flows from God's wisdom and it lines with truth. I like that.

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Deuteronomy 29.29. I love this one. The secret things belong to the Lord,

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our God, but the things revealed belong to us and our children forever.

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So there's some things that God does keep secret, but then there's some other

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things that he reveals to us and our children forever.

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29, 29, you're like, Lord, why does this happen? Sometimes you won't get that

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answer. And so don't go hang in your hat,

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Saying that the Lord didn't talk to me. He didn't give me that answer.

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You know, that's interesting because this came up today.

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And I had took the day off from serving, but I did attend church.

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And a lady said, I asked the Lord if I could take the day off.

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Take any time off. And he said, he didn't say anything. I said,

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sometime he will be quiet and let you use wisdom.

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And she said, then I guess I'm taking next week off. Like, wow.

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So sometimes God, you've been mature enough that you can actually use wisdom.

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And that is where God reveals what you need for our growth and purposes.

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So sometimes we have to kind of grow up in areas.

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God doesn't tell you to get up and brush your teeth. Does he hear that every

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day? Brush your teeth, wash your face.

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Some things you do out of just pure, regular human knowledge,

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right? And so you don't have to ask him for those things.

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I've never asked him for that, you know?

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And she said, because sometimes we get so super spiritual about different things.

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And then we don't do something that doesn't really matter.

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And then God gives us something revelatory to do. And then we sit there and

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we wait forever and never do anything.

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So there's so many different things. We just need to use wisdom in our walk with God too.

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God would tell you to move and you move. But does he tell you every step of

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every way of every day? Sometimes he wants you, just like your mom,

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when you start learning how to walk as a baby.

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Think about that. When you were a little child, your mom gave you 101 instructions

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when you went off to school.

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Then as you got into seventh grade, you got less and less instructions on how to go to school.

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When you got to high school, you got less and less.

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And then when you became adult, you got really not many. You probably didn't get any instruction.

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And that's how God treats us. He doesn't give us, he gives us instructions,

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but not the day by day instructions, you know, simple things go,

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you need to brush your teeth, you need to wash your face.

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Unless there's some other things that he's working with you on.

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You know, if you're a messy Marvin, he might be helping you help keep your house clean.

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You know, that might be something, but it's not going to always be that way.

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At a certain point, he'd expect you to grow up and do it without him reminding you.

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All right, so Daniel 2.22 says, He reveals deep and hidden things.

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He knows what lies in darkness and light dwells in him. God,

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revelation often bring clarity to areas of confusion or mystery.

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So if you are confused, go. Jesus will help you clear it out.

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I always, you know, if you are a prayer, a prayer, you love to pray.

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If you don't, you shouldn't.

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God will not let you walk into, I love the Daniel and three Hebrew boys in the fire.

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Even though they had to get in the fire, even though Daniel had to get in the

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lions, in, guess who was in there with them?

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You see, because he was in the room because the lions couldn't eat him.

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Daniel and them was in the fire, but they didn't get burned.

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So we got to understand that when we walk in the wisdom of God and receive divine

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revelation, we can't be touched. We cannot be touched.

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The action steps for this week or today or tonight or tomorrow,

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it says, number one, you want to prepare your heart.

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Before bed, you want to pray, Lord, I'm ready to hear from you.

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Reveal to me what I need to know and guide my heart to receive it.

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Yes, sometimes we have to ask

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and to have a heart to receive it because we might not be able to receive it.

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What is it that you ever had a friend that you only could tell them only so

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much, but you can't tell them everything because they panic or they get into that kind of uproar.

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God knows our heart and he knows what we can receive and what we can't receive.

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And so you have to ask if you're one of those people, Lord, help my heart to

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receive it. Once again, listen and write.

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When you wake up, sit quietly and reflect what comes to mind.

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Write down anything you sense God's revealing, even if it doesn't make sense at first.

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And yeah, just write it all down. Because once you review it later on,

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maybe in a couple of weeks or after that, whoever you're dealing with passes,

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then you have a better understanding of what that really means.

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And today I went for a quick walk before I went to church.

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And I was like, Lord, why am I in this situation I don't really like drama.

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I run from it. And this Joey thing is causing a lot of drama because people

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are holding on to stuff that's not really theirs.

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And Laura said, because I know

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you can handle it. I want you to clean house and then you can move on.

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And I said, okay. And I said, I'll do that. I'll do that. And it was a quick response.

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It wasn't like I had to pray and fast for it. I was just, because he was probably

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walking. I could say he was walking with me and he knew I was going to ask that

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question because he knew how much I hate drama.

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And I spent a lot of time writing emails and requesting things that I should

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not be having to request.

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But he says, just take care of it.

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And you'll be able to move on. And you know the five, it was a story.

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It's called, the guy gave, it was a workman.

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He hired, he had three people that worked for him. He gave one worker five talents.

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He gave one worker three talents.

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And he gave one worker one talent.

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And so the one with the five talent knew exactly what to do with his five talents.

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He invested in his five talents.

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The one with three knew exactly what to do with his three talents.

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But the servant with the one talent, he wouldn't hid his one talent.

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And the owner was really not too happy and pleased with him.

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And so I was thinking about, God has given me five different talents.

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We're always thinking that we want. I remember when I first heard that story

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about five talents, I thought, dang, I wish I had five talents.

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But you didn't realize the responsibility of having five talents.

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God expects you to do a lot with five talents.

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You get five days a week just like everybody else.

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And you have still the same amount of work to do as everybody else.

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But that five talents takes up a lot of time in your life with your 24-hour

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days. And you sleep in most of it, right?

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And so you have to pray for wisdom on how to handle each of your talents. So you listen and write.

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And so that's so important. So when God began to say, I put you there because

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I want things to move, I want you to clean house, I was like, wow, not by yourself.

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I'm right there with you, okay?

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And number three, you want to pray for understanding. Ask God for clarity about what he has revealed.

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If it's a decision or action, seek his guidance on the next steps.

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And that's what I've been partnering with him as we clean house in our HOA.

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Like I've never, I've been on HOA, but not when it's so messed up like this.

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And then the people that's working with me, you know, they've been here before,

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but they never got this far. So it's all new to them.

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And I'm going in, I'm going in like a bull in a china house because I'm just

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want everything to happen quick and fast in a hurry.

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The Lord just said, you know, it's not gonna happen. So you need to slow down

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and just work it slow because God knows the plan. Remember, understanding.

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Don't go in there because I like things done quick and fast. You know you're wrong.

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You know, as a retired police officer, you know, sitting on cases is not my

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thing. You did it wrong. Let's go get them.

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But then I learned with that job, just sit back.

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Most of the time, the case become easy because people actually begin to incriminate themselves.

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They create the case for you. And so it makes it easier when you just let God do the work.

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And so remember, action steps. Prepare your heart.

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Listen and write and pray for understanding. I want to pray for you.

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Father God, in the name of Jesus, I thank you for revealing your truth and wisdom.

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Help me to be attentive to your voice and be open to what you want to share.

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Give me discernment to recognize your revelation and the courage to act on them.

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Thank you for trusting me with what is in your heart.

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The challenge for the week is, each night this week, ask God to reveal something

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specific to you. It could be about your purpose, a decision,

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or a deep understanding of his word.

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Journal everything you sense and revisit your notes at the end of the week to

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reflect on his faithfulness.

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This is such a faith exercise because many times people say,

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I don't think God spoke to me. I didn't hear his voice.

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But when you do this exercise, you will see that he is actively present.

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In the room, guiding and directing every step that you take.

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This is your host, Connie Morris with Diary of a Black Woman podcast.

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Thank you for just being a part of this journey with me.

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If this episode has helped you in any way, share with a friend,

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even a foe, write a review.

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And also you can check out my website at diaryofablackwomenllc.com to download

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some devotions, devotional,

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especially this one, when God wants to talk, just to have a refresher to keep

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it near you so you can always be available for him.

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And so we thank you, Lord, for this episode. And until we meet again, goodbye.

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As we close this episode of the Diary of a Black Woman podcast,

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we declare the word of the Lord from Jeremiah 29 11.

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I speak this over every listener. You'll rise again.

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You'll recover what was lost, and you'll walk boldly into what God has prepared

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with no shame, no fear, and no apology.

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May every broken place become a place of breakthrough. May every delay become divine preparation.

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And may the fire of God stir up every gift lying dormant within you.

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This is more than a podcast.

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This is a call to arms. We're not just healing. We're rising.

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We're not just telling stories. We're building an army of women walking in truth,

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in power, and in purpose.

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This has been the Diary of a Black Woman podcast with your host, Connie Morris.

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Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone God is calling higher.

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Visit www.diaryofablackwomanllc.com to stay connected, get resources, and join the movement.

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And I'll see you on the next episode, because God's not finished and neither are we.

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Music.