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So are you being used?

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Have you thought about it?

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I mean, is the enemy lying to you right now?

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Are you being used by the enemy to discourage others or is the enemy

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using thoughts in your mind to discourage you?

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I mean, there's a lot of different ways I could go with this today,

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But my point in what I'm sharing today is I is I really believe the

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enemy is playing games with the body of Christ.

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There's so much stuff out there that could play with your mind.

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So much of the stuff that's on social media is absolutely fake.

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So much of what's being distributed on social media is absolutely

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fake.

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So much of it is inundated with fear.

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I am tired of fear.

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God hasn't given me a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and of a sound

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mind and I'm going forward.

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How about you?

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I'm not going to let the enemy stop me now.

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I do have to readjust my thinking because that doesn't always manifest.

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I mean, I have my moments in there where it's kind of bleak, you know,

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and then I call a friend who I love or I talk to my husband or I call

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someone else and say this is what's in my mind right now.

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And then I realize, you know what?

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The enemy has been using me.

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He's been using my time.

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He's been using my thought life.

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Who's using you?

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Is it YouTube?

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What are you listening to on YouTube right now?

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Really?

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I mean, you really got to be careful what you're clicking through here

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because there's so much garbage on there.

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That's not even legit.

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Is Netflix using you?

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Are there things that God's told you to do but you're so busy with

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episode 9?

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I've been there.

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Okay, if there's something really interesting, it's like, let's do

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the next one, you know, but yet the Holy Spirit's trying to tell you

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to go over here and do this.

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Hmm.

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Are you being used?

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I love the Prophet Jeremiah.

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Jeremiah, his life is truly amazing.

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But let me, he had moments in there where he was being used.

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He was discouraged, man.

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Nobody was listening to him.

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The Holy Spirit was trying to tell him something.

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He was like, I don't think I want to do this and it got kind of bleak.

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But you know, God provided a friend in his scribe Baruch and Baruch was

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faithful to stand by Jeremiah.

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Even when Jeremiah was given words that the Israeli people, the Jewish

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people didn't want to hear that.

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He kept writing it down anyway.

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And they got mad at him.

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Can you imagine you're thrown down in a well and you're just like, okay,

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rot down there, Prophet, right?

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What you're telling us is true, right?

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He kept going and you know what he did?

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He wrote it down.

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He had a friend who helped him remember what God had said and they

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made a record of it and then they made copies of it.

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And the invading King that was coming in to destroy Israel got a hold of

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one of those copies and said, who is this prophet?

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It's written down this warning.

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And this prophet is trying to tell his people, you're going to be invaded.

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You're going to be attacked.

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You don't want to listen to this necessarily.

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I'm paraphrasing the land paraphrased version, right?

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This this written down transcript, so impressed this other King that when

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he invaded and he came in to destroy the people.

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He spared Jeremiah.

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Why?

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Because Jeremiah was trying to tell his people the truth and his track

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record was clear.

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It was clearly written down what he was saying.

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Thank God for a friend who came along at a time in Jeremiah's life.

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When he was really under attack and he was being used really.

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What I mean, when you think about it, are you being what's your distraction?

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Is it the persecution?

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You don't want to hear it anymore.

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Is it, you know?

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Oh, well, maybe if I maybe if I really say what the Bible says, somebody's

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going to be offended.

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Listen, they were friended offended by Jesus.

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What you think you're going to get away with it?

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You know, it's not you that people get offended by.

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They just don't like seeing the scripture.

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You know, I always go back to what does the Bible say?

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Well, give me scripture for that.

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Can you show me where that is in the word?

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Because it's not really my opinion that matters.

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Who am I?

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I'm nobody.

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Jesus is King. This Bible has been around for thousands of years. What? I get to change it now

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because I don't like it or it offends my feelings? No. Guard your mind. Guard your thoughts. If you

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don't, you're going to be used by the enemy. And oftentimes, guys, when you're right before

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the breakthrough comes, that's when the enemy comes to try to lie to you the most.

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You know, if you're not doing anything for the kingdom, why should the enemy waste time on you?

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But when right before you step into destiny, right before you step into your best days,

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right before you walk into purpose, you're going to have a little warfare.

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But if you will stand strong, write it down, guard your heart, put yourself in the place

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with others that are around you that will encourage you, speak life to you,

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and will help you write it down, you can look back and say, God, you did preserve me.

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And I wasn't played by the enemy. I wasn't played by the devil who tried to

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steal and kill and destroy my life. No, I stayed steady and strong. And I

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kept writing down what he said. And in the long run, God, you are my defender

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and you are my protector. In the day and the hour that we're living in, God wants to preserve

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he wants to protect, and he wants to empower you because your best days are right ahead of you.

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Have a good day.