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Devotional podcast. Now, here's Pamela to get you fired up for all God has available for you today.

Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life. Happy Friday, my friends. Are you so

excited like I am so excited that it's Friday? We have a weekend of life just ahead of us and we are so

blessed to get to be alive. I love Fridays because occasionally I take the opportunity to just go completely unscripted. There is no

script. There is no transcript today. We're just opening up our Bibles and doing some Bible study

time together. So if you have your Bible, we're going to be in Psalm chapter 30 today. This morning I got up and I was

getting ready and typically when I'm in the bathroom, I listen to a church podcast or some praise

music, something. And this morning I was listening to an old church sermon and they said,

give God the credit.

And it just like stood out to me.

It was as if God had just highlighted it.

And I couldn't stop thinking about giving God credit giving God credit now

what do you think of when you think of giving God credit you think of right like praising God

that's that's one definition of credit like acknowledging as the source. It's praising God. But understand that God works

on credit. The actual meaning, the root of credit is the Latin verb credit, which means one

believes. It's an action. It is a belief. God works on credit.

Credit also means trusting for later payment and agreement of trust. Now in my former life before I quit all my work and

started doing this full time, my husband and I ran a mortgage company and we're very familiar

with credit. Your credit score told us everything. Your credit score

determined what we could or could not offer you as far as money for a house. If you had a great

credit score, what that told us is we can trust you. We can go into an agreement with you based

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