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21 Days To Be Fearless Prayer Themes! (Week 1)
21 Days To Be Fearless Prayer Themes! Over the next 21 days we will focus our prayers on being fearless in 2024! Our family, friends, and even our foes are in danger of an eternity in the Lake of Fire, all because they choose … Continue reading
									
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		21 Days: What Will We Fast For?
As we prepare to cry out to Jesus for the first 3 weeks of January, we answer the question, what shall we pray for? Each of the three weeks in January we will pray over 7 key areas in our … Continue reading
									
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					Tagged 2020, breakthrough, career, faith, family, fast, fasting, financial, Intellectual, physical, social, spiritual				
				
				
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		21 Days – Why Do We Fast?
The core reason to fast is to reconnect with God! Life has a way of causing our spiritual life to drift in the currents of our hectic lifestyle. Connection with God gets sketchy. Time alone with God can be diminished … Continue reading
									
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		Hope For Today – Don’t Give Up!
I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Today to encourage you: Don’t Give Up because God speaks Hope For Today when he says in 2 Chronicles 15.7, (CSB) from the distress of His people in … Continue reading
									
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					Tagged Almighty, believer, breakthrough, Christ, death, died, discouraged, discouragement, distress, doubter, dream, drop, drop out, faith, give up, hard, hope, Jesus, Job, loser, marriage, model, navigate, person, press forward, promise, promotion, quit, refuse, relationship, reward, see, sight, solution, strong, temptation, today, victory, victory lap, way, work				
				
				
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		Questions for the New Year
As the calendar counts down its last days of this year, I stop as I always do and ponder a few questions that help me refocus. As Paul so clearly told us, “When Christ who is your life appears, then … Continue reading
									
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					Tagged Bible, breakthrough, Christian, ealthy, eternity, focus, God, helathh, Holy Spirit, Inventory, Jesus, New Year, promptings, questions, weight loss, Worldiness				
				
				
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		Transformed Episode #253: The Discipline of Giving Up to Get Alone With God!
“Fasting is giving up food or some other activity in order to devote more serious time and attention to prayer.” ~ Dan Southerland As we open this episode of the Transformed Podcast, we are here today to help you … Continue reading
									
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					Tagged breakthrough, courage, fasting, fear, prayer, strength, weakness				
				
				
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		Transformed Episode #221: Our God is Trustworthy!
Nothing is more encouraging than God’s amazing faithfulness to us! Welcome to the Transformed Podcast. As we return to our series, “What a Mighty God We Serve!”, Pastor Matthew Lee Smith, explains to the people of Pacific Baptist Church … Continue reading
									
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					Tagged amazing, arrogance, breakthrough, bully, crisis, defiance, God, hope, idolatry, ignorance, love, offense, prayer, protect, provision, punishment, Trust				
				
				
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		Episode 145 – Going After the Heart of God!
God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him! According to Hebrews 11.6, God rewards when we diligently seek Him … In today’s episode, Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California shares … Continue reading
									
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					Tagged Bible, bless, blessing, breakthrough, Christian, disciple, discipleship, extra mile, fast, forgiveness, God, Holy Spirit, hypocrite, Kingdom, love your neighbor, ministry, paycheck, Pharisee, poor, prayer, pretender, reward, sacrifice, spring cleaning				
				
				
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		Episode 144 – Going After a Life God Rewards!
2013 is finally here! Over the last 3 months of 2012 Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church prayed, fasted and sought God’s face for His will and direction for the congregation there in El Segundo, California … Continue reading
									
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					Tagged breakthrough, Christian, extra mile, faith, fast, first place, generosity, give, God, Jesus, life, misthos, obedience, obey, please God, poor, pray, reward, sacrifice, seek, treasure, Trust				
				
				
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