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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

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Hey, everybody. So glad you've joined us today. My name is Mike Bro and get the privilege of hanging

with you just for a few minutes each day as we unpack some truth from God's Word.

And just trying to learn together what it means to walk with him and how to reflect his love to a watching world.

And what we're doing is working through Romans chapter 12 in the New Testament of the Bible.

We're just kind of taking a verse at a time, reflecting on that verse throughout the day.

We're just humbly asking God, Father, that verse right there, may that be true of me today.

And we're all the way down now to verse number 14.

If you're just joining us for the first time, you can go back and catch up.

I urge you to do that.

But today we land on this challenging verse. Verse 14. Bless those who

persecute you. Bless and do not curse. Anybody else just want to move on in the next verse?

Because none of us naturally want to do that. Yeah, have you ever heard the term agape love?

It's a Greek word agape love. My dad taught me a poppe love. Somebody pops you. You a

pape them right back, right? So to bless those who persecute you, that's just not a natural reaction.

That's why we need the supernatural power of God's spirit working in us. Because it's not easy to bless those who disagree.

It's not easy to bless those people who say mean stuff about us

and post-negative stuff and label us and ridicule us or persecute us, is it?

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