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favorite music, podcasts, and audiobooks, all on the Amazon music app. Kind of unintentionally went into a

miniseries from Philippians. I want to share from Chapter 4. Holy Spirit, give me accuracy and

precision to speak this word. May it get through my mouth, but may it come from

your heart. In Jesus' name. Amen. Philippians chapter four, and I want to link this message

with the other messages from Philippians I'm not going to be dragging anybody across the stage

in a chain this week. I figured it's a bad pattern. But I do want to go to this

great passage of scripture that was originally like a PS that Paul put in his letter

to the Philippian Church. And he just kind of tagged it on at the end to thank them for the

gift that they sent to help him with his defense, his legal defense.

And from a prison cell, he writes, and he's like, full of joy, which is counterintuitive, that you'd be in jail and have joy.

Or lose your job and still trust God and call him your provider.

Or be single, but still know that you're not

alone, or maybe be wronged, but know that God is even using that to ultimately bless your

life and to use you. And all of this is taught in the book of Philippians, but I find myself coming

back to this section, which is like a PS, not only a postscript,

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