Feb. 4, 2026
Sin City: Ep 9: Rooted in Love: How to Live in Sin City Without Growing Bitter
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Host Connie Morris continues the Sin City series in episode nine, teaching how to stay faithful long-term without growing cold or bitter.
Using Daniel as a model, she highlights three practices—consistent prayer, engagement without assimilation, and remembering God’s sovereignty—to keep compassion without compromise.
Practical takeaways: guard your heart, pray in your holy faith, and remain rooted in the love of God so you won’t “drink the Kool-Aid.”
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00:20 - Welcome to the Podcast
01:01 - Surviving Sin City
09:25 - Closing Thoughts and Community Love
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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast, where we pray bold prayers,
00:00:16.073 --> 00:00:19.953
walk in bold faith, and expect a bold God to show up.
00:00:20.093 --> 00:00:25.673
I'm your host, Connie Morris, and we open every episode with the same unshakable
00:00:25.673 --> 00:00:29.613
confidence Jabez had in 1 Chronicles 4.10.
00:00:29.893 --> 00:00:35.613
Lord, bless me indeed, enlarge my territory, let your hand be with me,
00:00:35.973 --> 00:00:39.973
keep me from evil, and keep me from causing pain. And the Bible says,
00:00:40.493 --> 00:00:41.833
God granted his request.
00:00:42.033 --> 00:00:45.573
So if you're here today, get ready, because we're praying big,
00:00:45.953 --> 00:00:51.813
believing big, and walking in everything God promised. Let's begin.
00:01:01.587 --> 00:01:06.287
Welcome back to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast. I'm your host Connie Morris
00:01:06.287 --> 00:01:10.307
and we are continuing our series of Sin City.
00:01:10.607 --> 00:01:18.047
We're episode nine and it's titled Surviving Sin City Without Losing Your Soul.
00:01:18.927 --> 00:01:26.167
By now we've talked through refusal, endurance, authority, and the enemy's last attempt.
00:01:26.827 --> 00:01:31.647
Today, we need to talk about the long haul because surviving Sin City isn't
00:01:31.647 --> 00:01:33.267
just about standing once.
00:01:33.487 --> 00:01:37.747
It's about standing faithful over time.
00:01:38.007 --> 00:01:45.527
The real danger at this stage isn't temptation, it's hardening of your heart.
00:01:45.827 --> 00:01:51.727
Sin City would try to change you from the inside, but here's the truth.
00:01:52.307 --> 00:01:56.507
Most people can refuse the Kool-Aid and still become bitter.
00:01:56.867 --> 00:02:03.087
You can stand for truth and still grow cold. You can endure pressure and slowly lose compassion.
00:02:03.687 --> 00:02:08.567
Scripture warns us about this. Because lawlessness will abound,
00:02:08.827 --> 00:02:11.647
the love of many will grow cold.
00:02:11.867 --> 00:02:19.927
Matthew 24.2. It says that you can, we can, I can still live in Babylon,
00:02:20.267 --> 00:02:24.707
not drink the Kool-Aid, but still be miserable, become bitter,
00:02:25.067 --> 00:02:27.747
become cold, lose compassion.
00:02:28.167 --> 00:02:29.767
How can we do that?
00:02:30.467 --> 00:02:34.607
Notice love grows cold after endurance, not before.
00:02:35.436 --> 00:02:38.296
People get tired and weary, right?
00:02:38.616 --> 00:02:43.616
You get tired of fighting. But I want you to know that Daniel never became hard.
00:02:44.336 --> 00:02:48.296
Daniel lived in Babylon for decades. That wasn't his home.
00:02:48.956 --> 00:02:52.256
Multiple kings, multiple threats, multiple systems.
00:02:52.656 --> 00:02:57.176
Every king had a new way of doing things. You know how you work at a job long
00:02:57.176 --> 00:02:58.716
enough, you get different.
00:02:58.936 --> 00:03:02.496
I was a police officer. You get different police chiefs. Every chief comes in.
00:03:02.656 --> 00:03:05.716
They want to do it a different way. You work in an organization,
00:03:05.976 --> 00:03:08.176
a new boss, new way of doing things.
00:03:08.316 --> 00:03:10.816
And that can get weary. That can get harsh.
00:03:11.096 --> 00:03:18.496
But yet scripture describes Daniel, did not describe Daniel as angry, cynical, or harsh.
00:03:18.696 --> 00:03:27.576
It's always said in Daniel 6.3, now Daniel so distinguished himself by his exceptional quality.
00:03:27.916 --> 00:03:30.116
Daniel stayed consistent.
00:03:30.476 --> 00:03:38.636
That doesn't mean he was loud. It means that he was consistent without going
00:03:38.636 --> 00:03:44.836
cold, growing weary, or growing with a hard heart, or even with bitterness.
00:03:45.736 --> 00:03:50.996
Bitterness is the strategy of the enemy. Sin city doesn't just want you to sin.
00:03:51.216 --> 00:03:53.756
It wants you to resent righteousness.
00:03:54.096 --> 00:03:58.516
Because bitterness does something subtle. It dulls your prayer.
00:03:58.716 --> 00:04:02.076
It shortens your patience. It hardens your judgment.
00:04:02.716 --> 00:04:08.636
Scripture warns us plainly in Hebrews 12, 5, See to it that no root of bitterness
00:04:08.636 --> 00:04:11.016
springs up and causes trouble.
00:04:11.823 --> 00:04:19.343
And by it, many become defiled. Bitterness is pollution in your system.
00:04:19.723 --> 00:04:24.703
Pollution, it's like a fog in the way of your communication with God.
00:04:24.923 --> 00:04:27.683
And you're bitter because you were enduring.
00:04:28.223 --> 00:04:32.383
Bitterness spreads, and that's why the enemy loves it.
00:04:33.063 --> 00:04:35.423
Compassion is not compromise.
00:04:36.243 --> 00:04:38.403
Here's where people get confused.
00:04:39.325 --> 00:04:46.005
In Sin City, compassion is often confused with agreement, but Jesus models something different.
00:04:46.505 --> 00:04:53.225
Matthew 9.36 tells us Jesus moved with compassion.
00:04:53.525 --> 00:04:57.065
Jesus loved sinners without adopting sin.
00:04:57.525 --> 00:05:02.405
Daniel did the same. He served kings without serving their gods.
00:05:02.845 --> 00:05:07.945
Compassion keeps your heart saw, while conviction keeps your feet firm.
00:05:08.505 --> 00:05:11.925
Daniel stayed clear long term.
00:05:12.385 --> 00:05:18.885
You know why? Because in the beginning of him in exile, he resolved not to eat the food.
00:05:19.045 --> 00:05:23.725
So that was only one thing that was mentioned. He also resolved not to bow to
00:05:23.725 --> 00:05:28.445
any other God besides the one Lord and Savior and King of Kings.
00:05:28.625 --> 00:05:30.325
He resolved some things.
00:05:30.525 --> 00:05:35.385
And if you read the book of Daniel, because he made a decision in the front end.
00:05:35.545 --> 00:05:39.525
He did not have to keep making decisions in the latter end.
00:05:39.745 --> 00:05:42.165
He just stand firm on what he said.
00:05:42.945 --> 00:05:47.565
Daniel did three things consistently. He maintained prayer and not reaction.
00:05:47.965 --> 00:05:53.805
Daniel 6.10 tells us he prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
00:05:54.305 --> 00:05:59.445
Prayer wasn't emotional. It was rhythmic. It was regular. It was consistent.
00:06:00.005 --> 00:06:05.805
Number two, he didn't isolate or assimilate. Daniel stayed engaged, but not absorbed.
00:06:06.285 --> 00:06:13.345
He knew what was going on in the system where he lived, but he never paid that any attention, right?
00:06:13.445 --> 00:06:17.725
He knew what was going on, but he engaged in what was going on,
00:06:17.845 --> 00:06:21.025
but he was never absorbed in what was going on.
00:06:21.445 --> 00:06:25.865
He remembered, number three, he remembers who the real king was.
00:06:26.545 --> 00:06:28.325
It's not was, but still is.
00:06:29.135 --> 00:06:32.295
And he realized in Daniel 4, 7, he said this.
00:06:32.715 --> 00:06:37.175
People will quote this, but Daniel said this. And now you know why he said it.
00:06:37.335 --> 00:06:42.015
He says, the most high rules in the kingdom of men.
00:06:42.255 --> 00:06:47.575
You know how he knows that? Because Daniel, while in exile, matured into an
00:06:47.575 --> 00:06:53.095
older man, and he watched God move in the kingdom of men.
00:06:53.095 --> 00:06:59.155
That perspective right there, knowing that God moves within the kingdom of man
00:06:59.155 --> 00:07:02.115
will keep bitterness from taking root.
00:07:02.635 --> 00:07:08.855
When you stop reacting to everything, sensitivity will say, you don't care anymore.
00:07:08.855 --> 00:07:10.555
You're cold. You're detached.
00:07:10.995 --> 00:07:17.275
But the Bible tells us, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it.
00:07:17.495 --> 00:07:22.295
Proverbs 4.23 Guarding is not hardening. It's protecting.
00:07:22.875 --> 00:07:29.615
Let's bring it home. Some of you are tired. I get that. You're not tempted. You're just tired.
00:07:30.095 --> 00:07:36.415
And that tiredness is dangerous because it makes bitterness feel justified.
00:07:37.075 --> 00:07:42.295
But scripture says, keep yourself in the love of God. How do you do that?
00:07:42.535 --> 00:07:46.815
You want to pray in your most holy faith. That's in 120.
00:07:47.535 --> 00:07:52.115
Dude, 120 tells us, keep praying in your holy faith. June 21,
00:07:52.515 --> 00:07:58.055
that right there, as you pray in your holy faith, it keeps you in the love of God.
00:07:58.295 --> 00:08:01.715
It wraps around you. It protects you from growing hard.
00:08:02.615 --> 00:08:05.715
That's an instruction from the Bible we have to take heed to.
00:08:05.935 --> 00:08:08.235
It's not a feeling. It's never how you feel.
00:08:08.895 --> 00:08:11.375
Sometimes I don't feel like getting up in the morning praying,
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but I automatically tell my body, I resolve that I would do that.
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Right? And you set your tone. We're still in January, you know,
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so you can still set your tone. You can still set your tone.
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Final truth here. You don't beat Sin City by becoming cruel.
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You don't survive deception by losing tenderness.
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Daniel stayed clean because he stayed anchored.
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Not angry, not numb, not mad about anything, not sad about anything.
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He just stayed anchored.
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And that's what we have to do. We have to stay anchored.
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We have to have that same resolve as David and Daniel did.
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This is Diary of a Black Woman podcast. I'm your host, Connie Morris.
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Next time, we're going to close this series by talking about what it means to
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live in Babylon without drinking the Kool-Aid permanently.
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Like, don't even pick it up. Don't think about it.
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Be like Daniel. Be engaged.
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Stay in your consistency. Stay
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with consistency. and resolve in the beginning that I will not do that.
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So stay rooted, stay wrapped in the love of God and do not drink the Kool-Aid.
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I'll see you on our final episode.
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Family, thank you for spending this time with me today.
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To every woman listening who has ever felt hidden, overlooked,
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or pushed aside, I want you to hear me clearly.
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God has not forgotten you, and neither have I.
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That's why I moved everything to our new home on pod page, so you would have
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one place to connect with me, read the devotionals, listen to the podcast,
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it's all there at DiaryOfABlackWomanLLC.com.
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you'll find a Buy Me, a coffee link on the site as well.
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No pressure, just love and community. Before we leave, I want to speak the word
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that I close with every time because somebody needs this reminder today.
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It comes from Jeremiah 29, 11, 14.
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I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and
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not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future, then you will call upon
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me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you.
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You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
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I will be found by you, declares the Lord.
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Beloved, God has a plan for your life, a real one, a good one,
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and as long as you keep seeking him, you will find him even from the hidden places.
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I love you. I'm praying for you and I'll meet you next time.
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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast, where we pray bold prayers,
00:00:16.073 --> 00:00:19.953
walk in bold faith, and expect a bold God to show up.
00:00:20.093 --> 00:00:25.673
I'm your host, Connie Morris, and we open every episode with the same unshakable
00:00:25.673 --> 00:00:29.613
confidence Jabez had in 1 Chronicles 4.10.
00:00:29.893 --> 00:00:35.613
Lord, bless me indeed, enlarge my territory, let your hand be with me,
00:00:35.973 --> 00:00:39.973
keep me from evil, and keep me from causing pain. And the Bible says,
00:00:40.493 --> 00:00:41.833
God granted his request.
00:00:42.033 --> 00:00:45.573
So if you're here today, get ready, because we're praying big,
00:00:45.953 --> 00:00:51.813
believing big, and walking in everything God promised. Let's begin.
00:01:01.587 --> 00:01:06.287
Welcome back to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast. I'm your host Connie Morris
00:01:06.287 --> 00:01:10.307
and we are continuing our series of Sin City.
00:01:10.607 --> 00:01:18.047
We're episode nine and it's titled Surviving Sin City Without Losing Your Soul.
00:01:18.927 --> 00:01:26.167
By now we've talked through refusal, endurance, authority, and the enemy's last attempt.
00:01:26.827 --> 00:01:31.647
Today, we need to talk about the long haul because surviving Sin City isn't
00:01:31.647 --> 00:01:33.267
just about standing once.
00:01:33.487 --> 00:01:37.747
It's about standing faithful over time.
00:01:38.007 --> 00:01:45.527
The real danger at this stage isn't temptation, it's hardening of your heart.
00:01:45.827 --> 00:01:51.727
Sin City would try to change you from the inside, but here's the truth.
00:01:52.307 --> 00:01:56.507
Most people can refuse the Kool-Aid and still become bitter.
00:01:56.867 --> 00:02:03.087
You can stand for truth and still grow cold. You can endure pressure and slowly lose compassion.
00:02:03.687 --> 00:02:08.567
Scripture warns us about this. Because lawlessness will abound,
00:02:08.827 --> 00:02:11.647
the love of many will grow cold.
00:02:11.867 --> 00:02:19.927
Matthew 24.2. It says that you can, we can, I can still live in Babylon,
00:02:20.267 --> 00:02:24.707
not drink the Kool-Aid, but still be miserable, become bitter,
00:02:25.067 --> 00:02:27.747
become cold, lose compassion.
00:02:28.167 --> 00:02:29.767
How can we do that?
00:02:30.467 --> 00:02:34.607
Notice love grows cold after endurance, not before.
00:02:35.436 --> 00:02:38.296
People get tired and weary, right?
00:02:38.616 --> 00:02:43.616
You get tired of fighting. But I want you to know that Daniel never became hard.
00:02:44.336 --> 00:02:48.296
Daniel lived in Babylon for decades. That wasn't his home.
00:02:48.956 --> 00:02:52.256
Multiple kings, multiple threats, multiple systems.
00:02:52.656 --> 00:02:57.176
Every king had a new way of doing things. You know how you work at a job long
00:02:57.176 --> 00:02:58.716
enough, you get different.
00:02:58.936 --> 00:03:02.496
I was a police officer. You get different police chiefs. Every chief comes in.
00:03:02.656 --> 00:03:05.716
They want to do it a different way. You work in an organization,
00:03:05.976 --> 00:03:08.176
a new boss, new way of doing things.
00:03:08.316 --> 00:03:10.816
And that can get weary. That can get harsh.
00:03:11.096 --> 00:03:18.496
But yet scripture describes Daniel, did not describe Daniel as angry, cynical, or harsh.
00:03:18.696 --> 00:03:27.576
It's always said in Daniel 6.3, now Daniel so distinguished himself by his exceptional quality.
00:03:27.916 --> 00:03:30.116
Daniel stayed consistent.
00:03:30.476 --> 00:03:38.636
That doesn't mean he was loud. It means that he was consistent without going
00:03:38.636 --> 00:03:44.836
cold, growing weary, or growing with a hard heart, or even with bitterness.
00:03:45.736 --> 00:03:50.996
Bitterness is the strategy of the enemy. Sin city doesn't just want you to sin.
00:03:51.216 --> 00:03:53.756
It wants you to resent righteousness.
00:03:54.096 --> 00:03:58.516
Because bitterness does something subtle. It dulls your prayer.
00:03:58.716 --> 00:04:02.076
It shortens your patience. It hardens your judgment.
00:04:02.716 --> 00:04:08.636
Scripture warns us plainly in Hebrews 12, 5, See to it that no root of bitterness
00:04:08.636 --> 00:04:11.016
springs up and causes trouble.
00:04:11.823 --> 00:04:19.343
And by it, many become defiled. Bitterness is pollution in your system.
00:04:19.723 --> 00:04:24.703
Pollution, it's like a fog in the way of your communication with God.
00:04:24.923 --> 00:04:27.683
And you're bitter because you were enduring.
00:04:28.223 --> 00:04:32.383
Bitterness spreads, and that's why the enemy loves it.
00:04:33.063 --> 00:04:35.423
Compassion is not compromise.
00:04:36.243 --> 00:04:38.403
Here's where people get confused.
00:04:39.325 --> 00:04:46.005
In Sin City, compassion is often confused with agreement, but Jesus models something different.
00:04:46.505 --> 00:04:53.225
Matthew 9.36 tells us Jesus moved with compassion.
00:04:53.525 --> 00:04:57.065
Jesus loved sinners without adopting sin.
00:04:57.525 --> 00:05:02.405
Daniel did the same. He served kings without serving their gods.
00:05:02.845 --> 00:05:07.945
Compassion keeps your heart saw, while conviction keeps your feet firm.
00:05:08.505 --> 00:05:11.925
Daniel stayed clear long term.
00:05:12.385 --> 00:05:18.885
You know why? Because in the beginning of him in exile, he resolved not to eat the food.
00:05:19.045 --> 00:05:23.725
So that was only one thing that was mentioned. He also resolved not to bow to
00:05:23.725 --> 00:05:28.445
any other God besides the one Lord and Savior and King of Kings.
00:05:28.625 --> 00:05:30.325
He resolved some things.
00:05:30.525 --> 00:05:35.385
And if you read the book of Daniel, because he made a decision in the front end.
00:05:35.545 --> 00:05:39.525
He did not have to keep making decisions in the latter end.
00:05:39.745 --> 00:05:42.165
He just stand firm on what he said.
00:05:42.945 --> 00:05:47.565
Daniel did three things consistently. He maintained prayer and not reaction.
00:05:47.965 --> 00:05:53.805
Daniel 6.10 tells us he prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
00:05:54.305 --> 00:05:59.445
Prayer wasn't emotional. It was rhythmic. It was regular. It was consistent.
00:06:00.005 --> 00:06:05.805
Number two, he didn't isolate or assimilate. Daniel stayed engaged, but not absorbed.
00:06:06.285 --> 00:06:13.345
He knew what was going on in the system where he lived, but he never paid that any attention, right?
00:06:13.445 --> 00:06:17.725
He knew what was going on, but he engaged in what was going on,
00:06:17.845 --> 00:06:21.025
but he was never absorbed in what was going on.
00:06:21.445 --> 00:06:25.865
He remembered, number three, he remembers who the real king was.
00:06:26.545 --> 00:06:28.325
It's not was, but still is.
00:06:29.135 --> 00:06:32.295
And he realized in Daniel 4, 7, he said this.
00:06:32.715 --> 00:06:37.175
People will quote this, but Daniel said this. And now you know why he said it.
00:06:37.335 --> 00:06:42.015
He says, the most high rules in the kingdom of men.
00:06:42.255 --> 00:06:47.575
You know how he knows that? Because Daniel, while in exile, matured into an
00:06:47.575 --> 00:06:53.095
older man, and he watched God move in the kingdom of men.
00:06:53.095 --> 00:06:59.155
That perspective right there, knowing that God moves within the kingdom of man
00:06:59.155 --> 00:07:02.115
will keep bitterness from taking root.
00:07:02.635 --> 00:07:08.855
When you stop reacting to everything, sensitivity will say, you don't care anymore.
00:07:08.855 --> 00:07:10.555
You're cold. You're detached.
00:07:10.995 --> 00:07:17.275
But the Bible tells us, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it.
00:07:17.495 --> 00:07:22.295
Proverbs 4.23 Guarding is not hardening. It's protecting.
00:07:22.875 --> 00:07:29.615
Let's bring it home. Some of you are tired. I get that. You're not tempted. You're just tired.
00:07:30.095 --> 00:07:36.415
And that tiredness is dangerous because it makes bitterness feel justified.
00:07:37.075 --> 00:07:42.295
But scripture says, keep yourself in the love of God. How do you do that?
00:07:42.535 --> 00:07:46.815
You want to pray in your most holy faith. That's in 120.
00:07:47.535 --> 00:07:52.115
Dude, 120 tells us, keep praying in your holy faith. June 21,
00:07:52.515 --> 00:07:58.055
that right there, as you pray in your holy faith, it keeps you in the love of God.
00:07:58.295 --> 00:08:01.715
It wraps around you. It protects you from growing hard.
00:08:02.615 --> 00:08:05.715
That's an instruction from the Bible we have to take heed to.
00:08:05.935 --> 00:08:08.235
It's not a feeling. It's never how you feel.
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Sometimes I don't feel like getting up in the morning praying,
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but I automatically tell my body, I resolve that I would do that.
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Right? And you set your tone. We're still in January, you know,
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so you can still set your tone. You can still set your tone.
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Final truth here. You don't beat Sin City by becoming cruel.
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You don't survive deception by losing tenderness.
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Daniel stayed clean because he stayed anchored.
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Not angry, not numb, not mad about anything, not sad about anything.
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He just stayed anchored.
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And that's what we have to do. We have to stay anchored.
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We have to have that same resolve as David and Daniel did.
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This is Diary of a Black Woman podcast. I'm your host, Connie Morris.
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Next time, we're going to close this series by talking about what it means to
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live in Babylon without drinking the Kool-Aid permanently.
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Like, don't even pick it up. Don't think about it.
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Be like Daniel. Be engaged.
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Stay in your consistency. Stay
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with consistency. and resolve in the beginning that I will not do that.
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So stay rooted, stay wrapped in the love of God and do not drink the Kool-Aid.
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I'll see you on our final episode.
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Family, thank you for spending this time with me today.
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To every woman listening who has ever felt hidden, overlooked,
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or pushed aside, I want you to hear me clearly.
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God has not forgotten you, and neither have I.
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That's why I moved everything to our new home on pod page, so you would have
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one place to connect with me, read the devotionals, listen to the podcast,
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and reach out whenever you need to.
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If you want to leave me a message, send an email, or simply find encouragement,
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it's all there at DiaryOfABlackWomanLLC.com.
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And if this podcast has blessed you and you want to support the work I'm doing,
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you'll find a Buy Me, a coffee link on the site as well.
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No pressure, just love and community. Before we leave, I want to speak the word
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that I close with every time because somebody needs this reminder today.
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It comes from Jeremiah 29, 11, 14.
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I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and
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not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future, then you will call upon
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me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you.
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You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
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I will be found by you, declares the Lord.
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Beloved, God has a plan for your life, a real one, a good one,
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and as long as you keep seeking him, you will find him even from the hidden places.
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I love you. I'm praying for you and I'll meet you next time.