My friend, I want to let you know whether friend or foe, the Bible calls us to seek to get along with everyone.

In your sphere of influence, make sure that you are doing what promotes harmony and peace in your relationships with other people.

Love your enemies. Pray for those who persecute you. Turn the other cheek. No one said

that Christian life would be easy. Hello and thanks for stopping by for today's Destin for Victory

featuring the teaching ministry of Pastor Paul Shepard.

You know, when Jesus asked us to treat our enemies well,

to forgive them, and to pray for them,

he was only asking us to do what he himself had always done.

But how can we, as sinful human beings, hope to follow in the steps of Jesus?

Stay with us for the next 20 minutes or so to find out.

But if you can't, remember, you can visit our website, Pastor Paul.net, where you can listen

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Destined for Victory Message, Improving Your Serve.

One of our families was in a dire need, about to lose a home, and we said, we've got to do something. We had taken the ties and offerings earlier in the service, and I got up before preaching and said, there's a need among us. I've checked it out. It's legitimate, and it's urgent. And so let's do what we can. We're going to take a second offering. If you have something to share, please no, I don't want to put them on the spot. But if you give, we'll make sure that every dime goes to meet this need of one of the

sisters in our fellowship. And so we took up the second offering. And that was a day when we had, as one

of the visitors, a rather noted author. I didn't know her at the time, but some of our people knew when she spoke her name.

I heard this little buzz in the church.

And so during the meet and greet time, somebody ran up to me and said, do you know who that is? I said, no. And they said, oh, she's a famous author. And they told me the books that she has written and how popular they were. I said, oh, great. Well, glad to have her. So, you know, I know she was, so didn't, you know, didn't register with me much, but, you know, I was glad to have her so uh you know i know she was so didn't you know didn't register with me much but you know it was glad to have her like all the visitors and so after that i went on and

preach my message well after this service she walked up to the stage i was breaking down the

instruments with the other musicians and uh she walked up on the stage and introduced herself

and and told me she really enjoyed the service.

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