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Hello and welcome to Our Care Let's Pray Ministries. I hope you all had a wonderful and magnificent Sunday today. Today we're going to continue on our 14-day journey, which is this is the seventh day, actually, of renewing our minds, restoring our peace, and realigning our life with God's purpose. Amen. And today our scripture will be coming from Philippians 3, 13 through 14. And it reads this thus brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Amen. May the Lord have a blessing to the hearing and the reading and the doing of his word. Glory be to God. Let us go to the Lord in prayer before we get into our devotion. Honey Father, we thank you for this night. We thank you for this day. We thank you, oh God, for being who you are. Honey Father, you are the Alpha and the Omega. You are the beginning and the end. Holy Father, we just thank you because we know there's no in-between. Honey Father, we thank you for being our Father. Heavenly Father, we thank you, oh God, for never leaving our side. We thank you, oh God, for always being omnipresent. Holy Father, we pray right now that you take over this podcast and have your way. Honey Father, show us what the word is that you want us to speak to today, oh God. And that we will walk in your word and we will walk in your um will and we are walking your way, Holy Father. But God, speak to our heart, my soul, and spirit, because our goal is to be more like you each and every day. It's in your darling son, Jesus Christ's name. We pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Glory be to God. So I want you to know when we read Philippians 3, 13 to 14, what sticks out to me is him literally saying, press toward the mark. Press toward the mark. Paul said, press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Amen. He's literally saying there is movement in that statement. There is movement that you're supposed to be doing. There's movement that you're supposed to be reaching for, right? Paul wasn't standing still. Paul wasn't waiting for everything to be in sync. Paul was moving ahead. When the storms of life was hitting, when people wasn't around, he kept on going. He kept on pushing. And I'm telling you, this is a brand new week that we're starting. And you got to have that mindset that I'm going to keep on going. I know it's not perfect. I know I'm going to have setbacks. I know I'm going to have questions. But I got to keep on going. I got to keep on pressing. I got to pick up my cross and follow God. Amen. You have to keep on going. Keep on pushing. Because at the end of the day, because when you keep going and you keep pressing toward the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, I am telling you, you grow. I'm telling you, you will learn. I'm telling you, you will be healed. I'm telling you, you will develop. I'm telling you, you will be strengthened. Amen. I'm telling you that when you keep reaching, when you keep crawling, when you keep climbing, when you keep walking, when you keep pushing, God is right there. There is still purpose ahead of you. There is still healing before you. There is still the word of God above you. So I'm telling you, get up enough faith. Ask God to give you the strength to keep on pushing, to keep on climbing. Amen. I want you to know that seven days, these past seven days were not just a destination. It was setting the foundation of what we're going to do next week for the next seven days. Amen. So I want you to know that that's a simple word for tonight. For this new week that's about to come. Keep going. Keep pushing. Don't look back. Keep looking ahead. Ask God for strength. Ask God for mercy. Ask God for favor. Ask God for healing. Ask God for peace. God said, Ask and shall be given. Seeking ye shall find. Knocking the door shall be open unto you. Amen. So I am telling you, trust in the word of God. And then, as always, you got to do a declaration. As always, you gotta speak with power and authority. You gotta speak with power coming out of your tongue. And not in a negative way, but in a positive way, right? So you know you can say, I decree and declare that this week I'm gonna be moving in purpose, peace, and confidence. This week I decree and declare that I'm not worried about being perfection, being perfection. I'm worried about progressing. Amen. I want to progress toward the higher mark. I want to progress toward my father. I want to make sure I'm doing his will and his way. You have to decree and declare that I am learning from my past, but I ain't got to stay there. I decree and declare that I will take a glimpse but turn right back around to my future. You have to decree and declare that you will get up when you stumble, right? Because we all gonna fall, we all gonna stumble, we all gonna trip. But at the end of the day, we gotta say, God, give me your strength, give me your grace, give me your hand to help pull me up because I can't do this on my own. So I'm telling you, you got to start decreeing and declaring over your life. Trust God's timing, trust his process, trust his purpose over your life. I want you to know that this week coming up, I'm praying that it's powerful. I'm praying you get a word, I pray that you get a blessing, I pray that you get healed, I pray that you learn, I pray that you grow, and I pray that you become a person that God is transforming on the inside more and more each and every day. Amen. So we're gonna go to the Lord in prayer. But tonight, the simple word is just keep moving forward, amen. Holy Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for bringing us through a whole nother week. Holy Father, as we prepare to get ready for this new work week, Holy Father, I pray that you will intercede on our behalf. And I pray that you go out, go throughout this entire week already, oh God, and seeing what's ahead and preparing us to walk into whatever's coming our way. God, I'm praying for your strength. I'm praying for your wisdom. I'm praying for your growth. I'm praying for you, oh God, to take over, Honey Father. God, I want to thank you for every lesson learned. I want to thank you for every moment of clarity. I want to thank you for allowing us to realize that you're working in our life. Honey Father, I just want to thank you for every mountain that we have climbed. Honey Father, I just want to thank you for every little blessing and every big blessing. Honey Father, I just thank you because you are definitely doing something new in our life. I thank you, oh God, because you're doing something great in our life. And I thank you, oh God, that you're giving us the strength to move ahead, to press ahead, to keep on going. So, Henry Father, I pray right now in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, you, oh God, I'm praying that you will give us the courage to celebrate progress without becoming complacent. Give us the strength to celebrate you and say thank you when we feel like we just boggle down with the life, life, and everything that's going on around us, God. Help us to still say thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah, holy, holy. God, we want to celebrate you even in the midst of our battles, even in the midst of our trials. Honey Father, help us to learn this week. Help us to grow this week. Help us to look to you, oh God, for instruction, Honey Father. That I'm just praying that you will speak new mercies upon us in the morning and right now, oh God. Speak favor like never before over our life, oh God. And I'm praying that you will help us to look to the heels which come with our help each and every day more and more and more. Honey Father, give us wisdom that will create space for you. Wisdom that will help us to discern what you're doing around us, oh God. Honey Father, I ask you right now to please, oh God, create in all of us a clean heart and renew the right spirit within us each and every day. God, I'm praying that you will cover us this week with your grace, cover us with your words. God, cover us through your with your Holy Spirit, oh God, because your Holy Spirit is going to guide us and speak through us, oh God. And I thank you for that. Honey Father, we know that every morning, every evening, every night belongs to you. So, Holy Father, we surrender all to you, Henry Father, and say, have your way, oh God. God, I just thank you for protecting us each and every day. Thank you, oh God, for protecting our time, protecting our attention, protecting our health, our relationships, our peace and our relationship with you, oh God. Help us to um stop giving our best energy to the things that don't deserve it, oh God. God, we want to give you all our energy. We want to give you our time, oh God. God, we want to give you our life. Holy Father, give us the discernment to recognize distractions in disguise, oh God, as opportunities, oh God, because we want to make sure that we're focused on you, oh God. So, God, I'm asking you to have your way, speak life, speak joy, speak clarity, oh God. I pray. God, have your way and show us how to keep pressing toward the mark, oh God. We need you to give us the wisdom to keep pressing toward the mark. God, we need you right now, like never before. Have your way, oh God. We thank you, oh God. We love you, oh God, and we say amen. Amen, amen, amen. Glory be to God. Thank you all for tuning in. And next, well, I'll say next week, which is really tomorrow. But tomorrow, we're gonna definitely talk about renewing our minds, restoring our peace, and really our life to God's purpose. That's the whole series, right? And we're just really going to dedicate talking to God because we want to talk about fueling our fueling F-U-E-L-I-N-G, the mind, right? We want to make sure that we're eating the word of God, right? Because when you eat the word of God, you get it full, you get clarity mentally, and you can just flow in God's gifts. Amen. So until tomorrow, have a blessed night. Sleep peacefully, and Lord's will, I will talk to you all in the morning. Have a blessed night.