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Good morning and welcome to Fresh Mercy Podcast, where God's mercy is fresh for you each and every morning. Good morning. Thank God we're at the final uh episode of the week. It's it's great, but then it's a little bit me-law too. And it's the ending of the week. But God is good. And I have to say, the past four episodes, this thing broke. Okay, we're good. Sorry, Walter. Uh the past four episodes has been unbelievable. The boys did an unbelievable job. And I just want to remind everyone if you guys didn't see those episodes, go, they're not longer, seven, eight minutes. Start your day with the Lord. Sebastian came up and talked about the Holy Spirit. Sonny came up and talked about the grace of God. Uh Jonathan came up and talked about Jesus loves us. And Santino came up and told us that we shouldn't neglect prayer, that we need to pray private as much as we can. So we want to thank God for one of the other men of God that's here. This is Sonny Deacon Johns from the New York Church. He's one of the men that help in the teaching ministry. Praise the Lord. And uh as all these guys are, these are the students that John Zaro said, hey, take over and help these guys.

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If you guys see the thing in the back, that's the uh the sign for the equip teachers class. Uh like we said before, teacher John, the Lord gave him the vision, and praise the Lord, me and Vinny has been uh I'll be allowed to be a part of it. Amen. And these men, uh all the men that came up are a part of that class. Hallelujah. And we thank the Lord because we're seeing the fruit that it's bearing. Thank you, you're seeing that these men came up, and this is the first time that was ever in the studio, the first time I was ever on a podcast. Yeah, and they did an unbelievable job better than ever me and Vinny ever did our first time. And uh we church says we thank the Lord for each and every man. And look how beautiful is this now, encouraging is this for everyone that maybe don't know about the school. There's maybe 60 to 70 men just like this all over the GGCC across America. Absolutely young men that is studying the Word of God and becoming upcoming teachers. So we thank the Lord for the class, we thank the Lord for everybody that's here.

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Amen. Sonny, whenever you're ready, take your time.

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But hurry up.

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Take your time and worship the Lord. Come on.

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God bless you, uh Vinny. Uh I just want to start off by saying uh I want to thank God for this opportunity. I want to say thank you to Deacon Vinny and Deacon Donnie. Uh these guys helped me a lot to grow in the Lord. Uh Donnie gave me assignments. Uh I call Vinny at three in the morning asking him questions.

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He wants to kill me. Uh he drives me up a wall, but it's okay. I do. Look, he could he'll text me three in the morning. I have a question about the Bible. All right, fine. Then he'll text me who was better, Andre the Giant or Hope. I look at the phone. Hello, good night. So it's good. We love these.

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I stopped, so I don't know who's he gonna text.

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No, it just has I uh I thank God for you and uh whenever I get a message uh prepared, I give them a title. And this one is titled God is Faithful. Amen. We're gonna be reading from uh Psalms 36, verse 5. This is New American Standard. Your loving kindness, O Lord, extends to the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Amen. What a verse. King David said that the faithfulness of God reaches the skies. This is from the Nelson's dictionary, and look what they say. Faithfulness is dependability, loyalty, and stability, particularly as it describes God and his relationship to human believers. How awesome is it that the God we serve, his dependability reaches the skies. That he wants to his loyalty reaches the skies.

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Uh look look look how much we can rely on God. That there's no measure, there's no limit to how much we can rely on him. Yeah. That he's faithful to us. And if God said he's faithful to us, uh what should we be worried about?

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There's some people that you can depend on, and some people you can't. And whatever it is, what it is. God you could God you can depend on him, as it dependability goes past the sky. Amen. Unbelievable. Very good, son.

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It's so good to know that we can always depend on God. To the viewer that's watching, whatever you're facing, depend on God. Depend on his love and depend on his faithfulness. Very good. Don't depend on anyone else. Depend on the Lord. God is also faithful in what he says. God is not a liar. That's it. Look what it says in Numbers 23, verse 19. God is not a man, so he does not lie. That's it. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Very good. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through? Whatever God says is true. Of today you need healing, God said he's the healer. Of today you feel alone, God said that He'll never leave us nor forsake us. Of today you feel like your situation, your problem is impossible, God said that what's impossible with man is possible with God. Amen. Hallelujah. I know, Donnie. Whatever it was I faced in life, God carried me through it.

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Every situation that we go through, it might seem small to others or it's big to us. No matter what we face, no matter what we go through, God was always faithful to us. That God was always there for us. That nothing was impossible for God. Whether it be a big thing, a small thing, no matter what problem we had, no matter what trial, God was always on our side.

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Uh Donnie. I want to say about depending. And honey, when people depend on other things, it fails them. People depend on their money. I'll never forget it, I won't say no names. Many, many years ago, uh, me, Elder Archie, went to someone in the hospital that was very, very, very sick. And the people are well to do already attempted. And we went there, and the person was crying, saying, I went to the head doctor of the hospital and offered no limit to money to help my family. And the doctor said, There's nothing to do with it, it's not a money situation. So depending on money, it doesn't work. So that person got on their knees and depended on God. And guess what happened? The situation turned around. So maybe you're depending on money today, you're depending on family members, you're depending on your business, you're depending on everything else. It's gonna fail you. It will absolutely 100% fail you, but depending on God, depending on his power, depending on his character, depending on his word, that will not fail you because the Bible says that God is faithful, he will not deny himself. That's who he is. We learned a few episodes back that God is love, that's his nature. Don, you said something real good. Uh, what how do you say it again about his love?

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Uh love is an emotion for us. Yes. But to God, that's who he is.

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Who he is. He's love, and he's also point it.

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I gotta write it down. It was of the Holy Spirit.

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Amen. It was great. God is love, he's also faithful. That's his nature. Praise the Lord. Very good.

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Uh, this is my last verse. This is uh 2 Timothy chapter 2, verse 13. If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful. Amen. For he cannot deny who he is. Praise the Lord. Sometimes we're not faithful to God. Sometimes God can depend on us. But even when we're unfaithful, God remains faithful. Hallelujah. Why does God remain faithful when we're not faithful? Because faithfulness is God's nature. It's his attribute.

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Back to that again. Yeah. It's not something that he has. It's who he is. Who he is.

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It says he can't deny who he is. God can't deny his character because God's character is faithfulness. Amen.

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Now, Sonny's family, I'm not forgiven introduction from the sunny, I forgot. But uh, this is Deacon John's son.

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Yeah, I said it's a deacon.

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And uh his uncle is Deacon Lawrence. And every time he sees me, he gets mad at me because I'm not faithful to the month to the Friday Bible study. Something happened and out of the car, whatever, every time he gets mad at me. Yo, where you at? Little light. Uh little light, man. Like I'm not feeling the love from you. He gets mad from me. And then I want to be faithful, but sometimes I fail. Happens, yeah. God never fails. Very good. God is always faithful to us. Very good. No matter what we go through, no matter what we face, no matter what happens, that God will be faithful to us because he cannot deny who he is.

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Like Lawrence goes to you, and then we mess up to leave Lawrence kills us, fellas. What's going on, Mary? He'll come to us. What's going on? Where have you been? What happened? We don't have to do that to God. We don't gotta go to God and say, What happened, God? Why didn't you show up? Where have you been, God? He's always there. We leave him, we neglect him.

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He's always there. Here's the problem, Vinny. A lot of times we don't see the hand of God work right away. No. And we think that he's far from us. We think that, oh, then the verse was wrong that he says that he's not faithful. Oh no, no. His timing is perfect. We're flawed. Our timing is wrong. We're wrong. He's right. And it's our job to learn the verses, to read Sonny, and to learn God's will for us and depend on his perfect timing. And his perfect.

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Close out the podcast and give your final word to the people as they start their day. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 9:24

As I close out, I just want to say this. As you begin your guys' day, know that God is faithful. Know that he loves and he cares for you. Amen. Depend on him and depend on his faithfulness. If God was faithful enough to send his one and only Son to die for you, he's faithful enough to get you through your situation today.

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Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen. Lead us impress, honey.

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Come on, let's pray. Lord, in the name of Jesus, we come before you now, Devla. Father, we thank you for who you are. We thank you for your faithfulness, Devla. Lord, I pray now for the viewer that's watching, Devla, that they will know you're faithful. That they will know, Devla, that you love them. I pray, Devil, that you would bless our days today. Be with us. Holy Spirit, refill us. In Jesus' holy name. Amen and amen. Amen and amen. Praise the Lord.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

Uh, this was an awesome week of podcasts. Yes, it was. We love all the men that came. We love you guys. Continue to do the good work. Be encouraged. Stay in the scriptures, stay in the verses. And whoever's watching, if these guys inspired you, well, praise the Lord. Very good. You guys can be up here too. Lord willing. The Dell O Dell. Very good. Stay strong in the Word, in the Word. Stay strong in the Lord. We love you guys. Have a blessed weekend. We'll see you guys next Monday.

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God bless.