Good morning everyone and welcome back to the messy masterpiece podcast

which had in Tory happy Sunday happy Sunday y'all welcome to our

super special so whatever episode episode I yeah I need I really got to get that one down.

Anyways, if you're looking for a church to stream, check out our old church in California,

Legacy City Church, you can find them on YouTube.

And today's episode, for those of you who are new.

We're going to do our devotional and then we're going to get into a long-form topic and

today's topic is simple ways to love people and before you glaze over I want you to know that this is

imperative yeah it really is we're called to love people and some of us myself

included can feel this huge pressure where we need to be up on stage and

proclaiming and changing lives that way but not everyone is going to be able to do

that yeah and so there are so many small but yet powerful ways to love on people that we can be practicing every day

Multiple times a day and so we're gonna be unpacking that and then we'll continue that conversation even further over on our patron.

But without me continuing to yep yep yep, yep,

yep, yep, why don't we jump into today's devotional?

Yes, let's do it.

We are reading out of the Thrive Bible and the devotional is titled A True Friend.

And the verse is First Samuel 20 verses 16 and 17.

It says, so Jonathan made a solemn pact with David, saying,

may the Lord destroy all your enemies.

And Jonathan made David reaffirm his vow of friendship again,

for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.

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