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What's up, beautiful world changers? I am so thankful for you and it is a delight to welcome you to the

compelled podcast. I'm your host, M.M.A. And you mean so much to me and you mean an even greater

deal to God. And so I just want to encourage you that whatever you are carrying, whatever you have

brought with you

into these moments, lay them at the feet of the Lord. Castor cares upon him because he cares

so much about you. You are important to him. You know what I've been thinking about recently is how

refreshing it is to refresh other people. And not only how refreshing it is to bless other people and encourage them,

but also how much that intention to do that really does a good job at combating jealousy.

And I want to really get into that today because Paul,

he lays such a beautiful

demonstration of the power of encouraging other people and how we are called to do that. And that

not only blesses those we're encouraging, but it actually really blesses us as well. So in Philemon,

we're going to Philemon today. When was the last time you went and

hung out in that book? In Philemon 1 verses 5 through 7, it's incredible. It's a very short book,

but there is so much as every book in the Bible, so much to unpack, so much to learn from.

Right after the greeting in Paul's letter to Philemon,

he says this. He says, I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, because I hear about

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