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August 8 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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In today's reading we will continue reading the Book of Nehemiah with Chapters 9 and 10. In today's reading we will see repentance and restoration, leading to a spiritual revival. This is the same equation that equals revival today! When the people were repentant for their sins and restored in their relationship with God by making a promise to obey His laws and commandments, especially in properly respecting the Sabbath, His appointed times, and giving their first fruits back to God, they had a spiritual revival!
In our discussion for daily application we will talk about the importance of observing God's rules even today. It is still just as important today for us to observe the Sabbath and God's appointed times, such as the Feast of First Fruits, Passover, and the Feast of Tabernacles, which is coming up in a couple of months. Another way we can obey God is by accepting Jesus as our Savior, who paid for our sins so that we might be reconciled to God. Belief in Jesus is the first step in restoring our relationship with God. Sin separates us from God but Jesus' atonement solves that problem so that nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Jesus, our Messiah. I will also share some of my experiences this year as a witness to God's faithfulness to provide for us when we seek His kingdom first. It is my prayer that during this year you will also become more faithful to God to honor and obey Him, His commandments, and observe His Appointed Times.
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Transcript
Introduction & Daily Reading Setup
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Hi everyone, this is Robin. I'm with In The Family Way Coaching and we are here for our daily Bible reading. We are going through the Bible this year, reading the Day by Day Kids Bible written by Karen Henley.
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If you are following along on your commitment calendar, it's time to take that out and your sticker or however you're marking it off because you're about to hear the Bible today. Look what tomorrow is.
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Tomorrow is the last day before we begin the New Testament on Sunday.
Old Testament Completion & New Beginnings
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I just realized today how amazing God's timing is.
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I know we've talked about it before, and I'm amazed again. The Saturday is the Sabbath day. I know as Christians, it tends to be celebrated on Sunday, but the true Sabbath is Saturday.
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And it is just amazing to me that God is finishing this year, this with this new Old Testament on Friday, the last day of the week.
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And we are going to be beginning the ah on on so Saturday, rather. Let's see. Saturday is this is the seventh day. And we're going to be finishing the Old Covenant on the seventh day.
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And then we will be starting the New Testament on the first day of the week. I love that. i just, I think that that is not a coincidence.
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I am just, I think that is so awesome. I was so excited when I realized that today. And I was like, wow, isn't that cool? Well, I think it's super cool.
Clarification & Nehemiah Focus
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So also yesterday, I noticed when I was reviewing my video for yesterday that I said that we were reading in the book of Jeremiah. And of course, we're not in Jeremiah. We're in Nehemiah. So today we are still continuing in the book of Nehemiah, not Jeremiah. We finished him some time ago.
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Those names are so similar.
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so if you caught that, you knew where we were. So sorry about the misspeaking there. Today, we are going to be picking up in Nehemiah chapters 9 and 10.
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Yesterday, we saw that ah Ezra was reading from the law book and that the people were celebrating the Feast of Booths and that their joy was very great.
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It says in our big Bible version, their joy was very great. And it says in our version, they were very happy. And i loved seeing that obedience brings joy.
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And so does learning and understanding God's word. So here we are going to be reading chapter nine entitled Remembering. And I think it is such a fitting closing to our ah Old Testament.
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We have one more day, but this is going to be giving us an overview of everything that happened in the Old Testament. This is like a ah synopsis is what we would call it of everything.
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And i am really tempted. ah ah been wanting to read it actually from the Bible because it is very complete.
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And it's really interesting because God had put it on my heart. to that I wanted to talk about like ah this very thing. And then to read chapter nine and find that it's exactly what I was wanting to do.
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ah That is just incredible. I find that God does that with me sometimes where he puts that in my heart that I want to do something and then it happens.
Intertestamental Reflection
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Isn't that amazing?
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I just love the way God works. And I wanted to do, if we had a day this year, for instance, like as if it were a leap year, if this is a leap year for you in the future, is it is not in 2025, but sometimes for leap year, we have 29 days in the month of February.
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in which case we would keep reading and not skip. We would actually tend to be a day ahead then from February 29th and on.
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But this is the day that but it would catch up is if we had a day in between the Old and New Testaments as our intertestamental period where God was silent and he didn't send them any prophets.
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There were no writings during the intertestamental period. That's the period in between Malachi and the events recorded in Nehemiah. Malachi was actually the last prophet.
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Nehemiah was, we had already started his, ah not calculations, his and
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recording of events.
Nehemiah's Lessons on Faithfulness
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But Malachi was the very last prophet that God sent and whose words were recorded. God didn't send more messages until Jesus came.
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So I just thought it would be very fitting if we had... A day of silence, a day of rest where we had no readings. So if you find that that is the case for you in another year, I don't know exactly which year is leap year.
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I didn't look that up. Might be 2026 or 27. But whatever day it is, that's where you would take a rest in between and then begin the daily readings again so that you were on the right day instead of being a day ahead.
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So today we're going to be reading a history. of everything, of what God had done for the people. And i I just love how God answered that desire in me. He put that in me and then he fulfilled it.
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So chapter nine and 10.
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Oh, we're actually, yeah, chapter nine and 10, that's it. It's just one section entitled Remembering. So at the end of the month, this was the same month that the people had been celebrating the Feast of Booths. This was all during the seventh month.
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The people got together and they went without food. They went on a fast. And they wore clothes made of old sackcloth and they put dust on their heads. And they told God what their sins were.
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And what they were doing was they were observing
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This would be right about the time of the Day of Atonement. So in that seventh month, they would have the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles.
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And so it could be that this occurred around the time of that ah that Day of Atonement, where once a year God would atone for all of their sins, with they would the people would atone with a ah sin offering.
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And so all of this occurred, even if it's not right at that exact time, it's all within that period of time. So the people are very much ah repentant during this month, the seventh month, where they have gathered together and Ezra has read the scroll ah ah for Moses's law, the Torah.
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And during that time, ah we saw that they had been in obedience. So this is like a continuation of that same heart.
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So they were wearing clothes made of old sackcloth and they put dust on their heads and they told God what their sins were. They confessed. And
Israel's History of Disobedience & Repentance
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they said that they were sorry.
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They read from the law book. And the men from Levi's family stood on stairs. They called to God with loud voices. They said, Stand up and cheer for God.
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He lives forever and ever. Your great name is good. it is greater than anything we could say. Only you are God.
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You made the sky, the stars, and all of space. You made earth and sea and everything in them. You give life to everything.
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All of heaven worships you. You are the Lord God. You chose Abram. You made a special promise to him.
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You gave his family this land. You kept your promise because you are right and good. You saw the trouble your people had in Egypt.
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You sent wonders against Egypt's king. You made your name great. Your name is still great today. Amen.
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isn' god God's name is still great today. You brought your people out of Egypt. You led them by a cloud of fire at night. You came to the mountain, Mount Sinai.
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And you gave your people laws that are right. You gave them bread to eat. You gave them water to drink out of a rock.
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You told them to take the land you had promised them. But your people were proud and they didn't care about you. They did not obey you.
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but you are a forgiving God. You are kind and loving. And you don't get angry very fast. Your love runs over.
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So you did not leave them. You didn't leave even when they made a gold calf idle.
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You didn't leave your people in the desert. You kept leading them. And you kept them safe for 40 years. They didn't need anything.
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Their clothes didn't wear out. Their feet didn't even get hurt from walking. You
Commitment to God's Laws
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gave your people kingdoms and lands, and their families grew.
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There were as many people as there are stars. You took them to the land you promised them. They took over forts and fields, and they got all kinds of good things.
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They got wells, olive fields, grape fields, fruit trees. They ate until they were full. They enjoyed your goodness.
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But they turned against you. They forgot your laws. They killed your prophets, the ones who spoke your words.
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So you gave them to their enemies, and their enemies gave them trouble. Then they cried to you, you heard them from heaven, and you saved them.
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But then they did wrong again, so you let their enemies take over again. Then they cried to you, and you saved them again and again.
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told them to turn back to your laws, but they became proud. They did not obey you. You waited for them to come back.
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You waited many years. You sent prophets to teach them. They didn't listen. So you gave them to other nations. But you did not leave them alone.
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You did not get rid of them. And that's because you are a kind and loving God. You are great and strong and wonderful.
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And you keep your loving promises.
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We are slaves now. We are slaves in the land you gave our people long ago. And it's because of our sins. We have to give the crops we grow to the king and he rules over us and our animals.
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He does whatever he wants with us. We have hard times. So we are making a promise. We are writing it down. We all promise to follow the law of God.
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We promise not to marry people from the lands around us. We will not buy things on the worship day. We won't buy on any day that is special to God.
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We will give part of what we make every year. we will give it for the worship house. We will bring the first of what we grow each year. We will give it to God and we will give the first of our cows and sheep to God.
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We will fill up the storerooms at the worship house and we will bring grain, wine, and oil. We will not forget God's worship house.
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And that is the end of our reading today.
Repentance and Restoration
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Don't you love how repentance leads to restoration? That's all God wanted. The whole time it was all he wanted. He kept saying, come back to me. Come back to me.
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Come back to me. He said that when he exiled the people, it would be a purification time. And when they came back, they would have a heart for him. And that is exactly what he did.
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The people acknowledge their sins and they confess them and they made a covenant with God to obey his rules and his laws and his commandments. They recognized his great love for them.
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Today, we also want to as our daily application to recognize God's great love for us and acknowledge that God's ways are the best ways. They are the way. They are the way to life.
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Part of the way we can do that is by acknowledging that Jesus is our savior. He came to make that final atonement for us. He came to show us the way to live, how to live out God's laws.
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Nothing changes other than the fact that we don't need to make sacrifice for our sins because Jesus himself gave the greatest sacrifice. He sealed the his covenant with us, with his own blood.
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And so now we always have... forgiveness for our sins. And that does not give us a license to behave as we wish saying, Oh, I am forgiven. i am forgiven.
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i will. I don't need to worry about anything I do. I am forgiven. That would be disrespecting Jesus's sacrifice for us. And that is not what we are meant to do.
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Instead, we are meant to acknowledge God's ways are the way to live. They are right. God's laws are just and they are true. And there are things he wants us to do.
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just as then, even now, the Sabbath is meant to be holy. We are not meant to go shopping on our Sabbath day. That's a hard one. I've been working on that myself.
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I try to do my grocery shopping and get my laundry done and stuff like that on Fridays so that on Saturday, I have my Sabbath day.
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ah i i make sure that I don't go any grocery shopping and and it can be hard, but I even try sometimes not to go out to eat. ah So we just stay home. And if you remember when the people were wandering and God provided them with manna,
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He did not even want them to go outside to pick up the manna. On the Sabbath day, on the day before, on Friday, they were to gather twice as much. How hard could it have been to go outside and just pick them up off the ground?
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But God did not want the people to do that. He wanted them to gather enough so that on the Sabbath day they could rest. There are also other holy days, the appointed times, and those are the things like what we observed earlier this year with...
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I'm drawing a blank on the names of
Significance of Holy Days
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those holidays. I'm so sorry. We had the counting up of the Shavuot, to Shavuot for the 50 days. And we had the first feast. Oh, Passover. There we go. Passover. Thank you, Holy Spirit.
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ah Those days are still appointed holy days for God. but We are meant to observe them. We saw that Jesus observed the Passover. And we see that we are still actually meant to observe the Feast of Tents that they spoke about yesterday and observed.
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And that will also be fulfilled when Jesus comes again. But until then, we are still meant to follow those appointed days. That is part of living in obedience to God, is in following his rules.
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And so I wanted to bring that up too, because those days are coming up in the next couple of months. We have about 50 something days, and then it will be the first day of the Feast of Booths.
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And then we are meant to build tents. And if you remember from yesterday's reading, some people built the tents in their on their patios, which is up on their roof, in their yards.
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Some of them were in the city. And so I want to encourage you to start putting that on your heart to obey God. And I'm sure that just as it brought the people great joy in observing that Moedim, that at appointed time for God, and to obey his order to observe this festival that reminds us of how the people dwelt in the desert for 40 years, being provided for on a daily basis by God with the manna.
Joy in Obedience
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and then with quail and with water from a rock to remember that God provides for us every day and that God dwells with us. We have Jesus with us now and that Jesus is coming again to dwell again on earth.
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And so I just wanted to put that on your hearts and on your minds to begin preparing as a family. or if you're not a family, just as an individual, to get a tent and so to be able to set set that up.
00:19:20
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Start preparing now so that you are acclimated to the idea and start making preparations as to ah where you're going to put it in your yard and how you're going to do it. Maybe you have to clear a spot, getting things ready so that you can live in a tent in your backyard for seven days.
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And I'm sure that we will have great joy just as we did when we counted up the 50 days to Shavuot for the receiving of the Holy Spirit. And I don't know about you, but I definitely feel that God has poured out his Holy Spirit on me this year.
Personal Reflections & Conclusion
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I've had so many, many blessings this year. God has provided and multiplied my harvest, not ah with like a greater income, but in in a pouring out of his spirit and he has provided other means and he has paid for expenses and bills when i had the refrigerator that needed to be purchased and the washer god has recently provided ah money to pay for that in full so that we are not going to have that payment any longer
00:20:27
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And so I share that not to brag but to for myself, but to boast for God, to say, look what God is doing. I have been faithful to God this year to do his will and to make him the most important and to observe his festivals.
00:20:42
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And I do feel that God has blessed me. And we don't obey with the anticipation of goody, now I can't wait for my payout. That's not what it's about. We see that it's about honoring God and making him the most important and and loving him.
00:20:59
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But we know also that he does reward us for our obedience. And it it can be with joy. it can be with provision when we are faithful to give our tithe.
00:21:10
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When the people spoke about the fact that they were going to bring in their tithe, they were going to be bringing in their first fruits. So we had the the Feast of First Fruits. And that is Jesus, who is is ah what that was foreshadowing. And so we celebrated the Feast of First Fruits.
00:21:28
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And by bringing an offering into the church for that. And It is, and we are rewarded by that. God says, he you cannot out give me. He says, test me in this.
00:21:41
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So when we are faithful and obedient to him, God sees that and he does reward us. And so i I can tell you in my own experience this year that when I find that I have slapped and not obeyed and ah not remembered or been to church to bring in my tithe ah because I have spent it on something else, I try to catch up and then repay that so that I am square with God and making sure that I honor what he has provided.
00:22:14
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I have stopped working on the Sabbath at my work and God has still provided to pay for my bills, despite the fact that I am working on average 15 hours less a week, maybe 27 to 30 hours a lot of times.
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Whereas before I used to work 45 hours a week. And yet, despite that fact, as I was so concerned about, um you know, being able to pay the bills, God has been faithful to to pay my expenses.
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Things just happen. And so I want to give the glory glory to God for that and give my testimony as God's witness that he does do and does take care of us.
00:22:56
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When we, as Jesus taught us, seek his kingdom first, as the people we're doing here, God is so faithful and he will take care of us in every way he because he knows what we need.
00:23:11
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And I have definitely experienced that this year. So God is definitely growing me this year in that regard. And I pray that God is growing you in this regard as well this year, as you ah have ever increasing faith to obey and put God first in your life.
00:23:27
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So I hope that you feel that God has lit your light today in this remembering, as we had a little bit of a recap as to what we've been reading about this year. So thank you for joining me today on August 8th.
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And I will be here for everyone again tomorrow as we complete the Old Testament and get ready for the New Testament. Thank you for being here with me. And I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day today.