Hello, my friends, and welcome back to the morning mindset. I hope you're ready. It's time for you and me to get our minds aligned with the truth of God's word for this day. And we're going to be looking at James Chapter 1, verses 17 through 18. As we pursue our God in this new year, we're doing a 15-day jumpstart to the year,

aligning ourselves with some foundational truths about our God and about life on this planet.

We call it Earth.

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Okay, friends, before we dive into James chapter 1, verses 17 to 18, we need to pray so that we

can receive God's instruction.

Our Father, we honor you by acknowledging that you've given us this word in James

Chapter 1.

We want to honor you by believing it and we want to honor you by applying it rightly in

our thinking and in our actions.

So show us how to do that today.

We ask in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Okay. James 1, 17 and 18 says this. Every good gift

and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no

variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will, he brought us forth

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