Where is My Bride: Ep 7: Midnight Cry: Enter the Wedding Feast

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

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Connie Morris, where healing has a voice and truth is no longer silent.

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Father God, like Jabez, we cry out that thou would bless us indeed.

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Bless every woman listening beyond trauma, beyond limits, beyond what she thought

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was possible. Enlarge her territory.

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Expand her purpose. Let your hand be upon this moment.

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Saturate every word with oil and truth. break cycles, cancel every curse sent

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to silence her. This isn't just a podcast.

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This is holy ground. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Welcome to the Diary. Welcome back to the Diary of Black Women podcast.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris, and we've come to the final part of our prophetic

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series, Where Is My Bride?

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Episode 7, The Wedding Feast, Enter In.

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We've walked through the stains of sin, the wrinkles of compromise,

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the danger of counterfeit coverings, and the shame of being unprepared.

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But we've also seen the hope the bride made ready, clothed in fine linen, bright and clean.

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Now we lift our eyes to the promise, the wedding feast of the Lamb.

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The midnight cry has sounded, the bridegroom has come, and the ready bride enters.

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Beloved, this is a culmination of our faith, not just attending church services,

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not just serving on committees, not quoting scripture.

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Not standing, but standing face to face with Christ, entering into eternal joy,

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intimacy, and union with him.

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This is what we are preparing for, the wedding feast. Let's go to scripture.

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Matthew 25, verses 6, 7, and 10.

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It reads, at midnight, the cry rang out, here's the bridegroom. come out to meet him.

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Then all the virgins woke up, trimmed their lamps.

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The bridegroom came and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding

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banquet and the door was shut.

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Revelation 19, 19 reads, blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the lamp.

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Let's just take a pause here. You ever been invited to a wedding?

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Isn't that important? I was just thinking about that before I read this.

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This episode, being invited to the wedding. I'm thinking, what should I wear to the wedding?

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I'm not in the wedding, so I don't have to, you know, not the bride.

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I'm a guest to the wedding, right? And so it's still just as important,

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but to be invited is important too.

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And so we are all invited.

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How many have accepted the invitation to be at the wedding supper of the Lamb?

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Some are holding on to it, waiting to the last minute. Some already got their

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invites in saying, hey, you know, I'm ready right now. Come and take me.

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They're ready for the rapture.

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And Jesus is saying like, wait a minute, I'll let you know when I come because

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I don't know when I'm coming, but I want you to just be ready.

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You know, so we see in Matthew 25 that the cry rang out that here comes the bridegroom.

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We see here in Revelation 19 that it is a blessing to be invited.

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But these verses bring us to the moment of fulfillment.

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The midnight cry rings out and only those who are ready rise to meet the bridegroom.

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Notice something important.

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All the virgins were invited.

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We're all invited. But only those who have prepared entered.

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The difference wasn't the invitation. It was the readiness.

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Revelations declared a blessing.

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Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.

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Think about that. The greatest celebration in history, no more stains,

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no more wrinkles, no more shame, just eternal joy, intimacy, and union with our King.

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The wedding feast is not a metaphor.

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This is not a metaphor we can't afford to overlook. It's our destiny.

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It's the moment where faith becomes sight and the promises is sure.

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The bridegroom will come and the prepared will enter in. That is a definite.

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The bridegroom will come and the prepared will enter in.

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All the warnings, all the calls for repentance, all the preparation,

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they lead up to this very moment.

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Cry at midnight. The arrival of

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of the bridegroom. For the true bride, this is not a day of fear, but a day of joy.

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She has allowed the spirit to cleanse her.

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She has kept her lamp full of oil. She has surrendered, compromised.

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Washed her garments, and clothed herself in righteousness.

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You see the things that she had to do? We always say, would Jesus do it?

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No, there's some things you have to do.

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And when the moment comes, she rises with confidence and she enters with her bridegroom.

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This is our hope, our calling, our destiny to live every day in light of the

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coming wedding feast, to rejoice even now because the groom is faithful and his promise is true.

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So let's think about some things. Do you live ready of awareness daily that

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Christ will return at any moment.

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One thing that keeps bringing out to my heart is at midnight,

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at midnight, at midnight. Many times at midnight, we're sleeping.

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So how do we know at midnight? Would you be ready? I just believe just as Jesus.

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The Holy Spirit, Father knows how to get in contact with us when we're doing

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bad, good, or ugly to stop us.

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He can also whisper to us to be ready at midnight.

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He told the children of Israel how to cut the lamb, how to cook the lamb,

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and how to put the blood on the doorpost, and how to be dressed fully.

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Come on, they were fully dressed and ready to go at that time.

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And so I just believe he would do that to his children.

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I know when you get this podcast, people had a calling that Jesus was coming

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on September 24th, and that some people are going to still be here on that day on September 24th.

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And so this message might still be, this message will be new to those who will

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be coming to the podcast,

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that just as Jesus has whispered to us in the past about, he don't know when

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he's coming, but I know that just as he has whispered in the past in our ears about,

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especially for the prophets, I'm not saying I'm prophetic, but he talks to me.

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That he can prepare the Israelites for not to get, they say,

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tell them, he told them to be fully clothed while they're eating the lamb.

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You read in Genesis that he, that they were preparing for their exodus,

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that I think that he can tell us, he can tell us be fully clothed from coming

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at midnight or whatever time of day that he's coming.

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He will speak to us as his children.

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And just because he does things discreetly, it won't be like it won't be a chance

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where you'll be able to call three friends and make it a podcast episode.

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It will be just that moment where he will shake you. Get your shoes on.

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Get your coat on. It's time.

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You don't have time to be calling people. You're going to podcast about it.

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Oh, it's going to be time for you to go. He said the twinkling of our eye.

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So it might just be just that quick. He wakes you up and then you're gone.

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And so the question is, do I live ready?

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Do I live every day ready for Christ to return at any moment?

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Am I keeping my lab filled with oil through prayer, the word, and through intimacy?

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And do I look forward to the wedding feast with joy? Or do I still feel unprepared?

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Stay prepared so you don't have to get ready. Keep on your ears for God so that

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he can speak to you when he needs to.

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Just as you get that inkling saying, don't go down that street or don't go right

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or don't go to work or don't do this.

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Those things that he tells you every day on how to run your life as you are in tune with him.

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I just don't believe that. I just don't believe he would do that.

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I just don't believe he would do that. And so let's just pray.

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And then after we pray, I want to do closing charts and do some decrees.

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And then this will be the final episode.

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And then we're going to, next time you hear my voice, we'll be doing a new episode.

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I don't know what that is. I think it's going to be misbehaving in the church,

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but we'll see. We'll see how God moves.

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So let's do this prayer.

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So Father, I thank you for the invitation of the wedding feast.

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We thank you for calling us, cleansing us, and cleansing and clothing us in

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righteousness. Keep us faithful, keep us watchful, and keep our lamps burning until you come.

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Let our life be a testimony of readiness and joy so that we may rejoice with

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you at the marriage supper of the Lamb.

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Let's decree. We decree that I am among the wise and not the foolish.

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My lamp is full. Our lamps are full. Our garment is white and our heart is ready.

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When the cry at midnight sounds, see that midnight is up again.

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We will rise and answer with my bridegroom, with our bridegroom.

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Blessed are we, for we are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb. In Jesus' name, amen.

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And I want to do this chart. It says, Beloved, the question of the series has

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been the same from the beginning.

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Where is my bride?

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The Spirit of God is still asking the question today, not because He doesn't

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know, but because He wants to awaken us.

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He's not coming back for a church that looks the part but misses the heart.

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He's not coming back for a patched up bride, hiding behind the image and activity.

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He is coming back for a radiant bride, holy, washed, renewed, and alive in him.

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The cry at midnight is closer than we think.

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And when it comes, it will be too late to get ready.

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We must be ready. So I leave you with this. Don't settle for empty religion. Don't cover the stains.

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Don't ignore the wrinkles. don't live counterfeit.

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Let the Spirit cleanse you, press you, clothe you in righteousness.

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Keep your land full of oil.

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Keep your eyes on the bride because the door will shut.

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But for those who are ready, joy unspeakable waits. The wedding feast is coming.

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The bridegroom is faithful.

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The only question remains is this. When he comes, will he find you ready?

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And let's decree. We decree that we are the bride of Christ,

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washed by his blood, renewed by his spirit, and clothed in his fine linen, bright and clean.

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We decree that every stain of sin is removed, every wrinkle of compromise is

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pressed out, and every counterfeit covering is stripped away.

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We decree that our lamp is full of oil, our heart is awake, our eyes are fixed on the bridegroom.

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We decree that we will not be found busy but prepared. We will be found holy,

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ready, and radiant when Christ returns. We decree that we are invited to the

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wedding supper of the Lamb.

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And by his grace, we will enter in with joy. The bridegroom is coming, and we will be ready.

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This is Diary of Black Women podcast.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris, and until we meet again, be radiant,

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stay ready, and remember, the bridegroom is coming soon.

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Thank you for listening to this episode. And before we close out,

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I want to speak a word of promise over you from Jeremiah 29-11. through 14.

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Father God, you declared, I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper

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you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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So today we received that truth. You said when we call on you,

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you will listen. So we pray.

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You said that when we seek you with our hearts, you will be found.

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So we pursue. You said you will restore us from captivity.

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So we declare freedom over every place where our listeners feel stuck, silenced, or small.

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Thank you for always drawing near when we show up in faith. In Jesus' name, amen.

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