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Declutter for Peace: Kitchen Pantry Organization | A Biblical Approach to Letting Go
Jun 26, 2025
Welcome to Episode 1 of Declutter for Peace: A Biblical Approach to Letting Go. Today we’re beginning in the kitchen and pantry, one of the most used and most cluttered spaces in the home.
This isn’t just a cleaning video. It’s a peaceful reset for your heart, your home, and your spirit. Join me,, as we take this space back, not for perfection, but for purpose.
Let's organize, and reflect on what the Bible says about peace, provision, and letting go.
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🧺 Coming next: Episode 2 — The Living Room: Letting Go of Busyness to Make Room for Rest
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have you ever stood in your kitchen and
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just felt tired not just physically
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tired but also emotionally tired and
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drained the kind of tired that comes
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from seeing clutter on every counter
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dishes in the sink again a pantry
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overflowing with food you don't even
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remember buying but still feeling like
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you don't have what you need it's more
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than just mess it's also mental noise
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and in the middle of it we ask ourselves
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"Why can't I keep up?" But maybe
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maybe God isn't asking you to keep up
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maybe he's inviting us to slow down to
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let go and to make room room for peace
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because peace doesn't come from having a
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spotless kitchen it comes from having a
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still and quiet heart and today we are
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starting right here in the kitchen and
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pantry not just to clean but to clear
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space in our hearts and homes for what
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matters most
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1 Corinthians chapter 14:33 tells us
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"For God is not a God of confusion but
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of peace." So let's walk into that peace
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together one drawer one shelf and one
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surrendered moment at a time
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welcome to episode one of Decluttering
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for Peace a biblical approach to letting
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go i'm so glad that you are here because
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in this series we'll move room by room
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releasing clutter from our homes and our
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hearts through the lens of scripture
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today we are going to begin right here
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in the kitchen pantry a place that
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nourishes our families but also holds
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excess guilt and even chaos
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what if God is inviting us to create
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peace right here on our shelves in our
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drawers and in our pantry
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let's open up our hearts to him and our
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cabinets too and allow him in to create
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the peace in our hearts that we so
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desperately strive for
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the kitchen is often the center of a
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home and just like our hearts it can
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become cluttered overflowing with too
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much and not enough space to breathe but
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God doesn't call us to overwhelm or
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chaos he calls us to peace and peace
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often begins with letting go
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proverbs 15:16 says "Better is a little
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with the fear of the Lord than great
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treasure and trouble with it." Let's
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just think about that
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what are we holding on to out of fear
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fear of lack fear of waste guilt from
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money spent let's remember that our
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peace is not in the pantry it's in the
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provider we can trust him to fill us
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even as we empty what no longer serves
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the pantry holds more than food it often
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holds emotions that bag of rice we
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forgot about that can soup that we keep
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just in case i'm guilty of this those
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snacks that you bought hoping to get
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your peaky eater excited they all tell a
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story maybe of good intentions maybe of
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fear maybe of a season of lack whatever
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story they tell I want to remind you
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that God he sees you
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proverbs 3 and 5 says "Trust in the Lord
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with all your heart and lean not into
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your own understanding."
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So as you clean let this be more than a
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physical task but let it be a moment of
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trust and an act of release
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we start by taking everything out yes
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everything out of the cabinets and
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pantries i'm going shelf by shelf
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because I just don't have enough space
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on top of my counter to just put
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everything on there at once so shelf by
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shelf we're pulling out each item and
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we're going to do a quick check is it
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expired do we actually use it is it
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nourishing and healthy for our family
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right now if it's expired let it go
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throw it away if it's unopen and unused
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consider donating it and if it doesn't
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support your family's current season
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then just release it
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you might feel guilt rise up over wasted
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food forgotten supplies or clutter that
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you let pile up but there's grace here
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psalm 103:12 says "As far as the east is
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from the west so far has he removed our
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transgressions from us." This includes
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the ones that we carry quietly while
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standing in front of our pantry of
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unhealthy snacks of excess food of
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things that we let expired
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ask yourself am I holding on to these
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items out of fear am I trying to control
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instead of trust am I feeling things
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that serve the past am I keeping things
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that serve the past but not the present
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let it go it's okay receive fresh mercy
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and make room for his peace
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while taking things out of our pantry
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try to strategically place them in a way
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that you want to be able to easily
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access it once you put it back inside of
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the pantry a good way to go about this
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is to group things alike grains with
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grains snacks with snacks canned goods
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together breakfast items together dinner
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options together i like to keep my
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pastas together my oatmeal and pancake
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mix together my flowers together it's
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going to feel messy in the middle but
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just keep going because God often works
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right in the mess before he reveals the
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peace i know it may not feel like it
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right now surrounded by cans and bags
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and chaos and boxes but you're doing a
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good thing stewarding your home and your
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resources the clutter in our homes often
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reflects the clutter in our minds but
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let's remember this truth spoken in the
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beginning of this video god is not a God
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of confusion but of peace first
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Corinthians 14 and:e 33 reminded us of
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that so the clutter in our homes often
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reflects the clutter in our minds but
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decluttering isn't about performance
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it's not about having Pinterest perfect
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pantries it's about creating a space for
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presence presence with God presence with
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our children and our spouse presence
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with our own thoughts so if it feels
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slow or emotional just let it you're not
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just organizing you're also obeying
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you're making room for peace in your
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home but also in your mind and in your
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heart
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when we place things back into our
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pantry let's focus only on what's
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purposeful set aside anything that
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causes guilt or overwhelm we don't need
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five halfused bags of pasta keep the
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fresh ones and let go of the rest so
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often we think that more equals better
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but peace often lives in the less he's
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not asking for perfectly labeled shelves
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he's asking for surrendered hearts so
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try to put things back in a way that
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works for you
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not a system that you saw online but a
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system that brings peace in your rhythm
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group your meals together if that helps
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keep snacks in reach if it saves you
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time label it if it makes things easier
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don't label it if it adds pressure as
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you organize just pray over your space
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lord we thank you for feeding our family
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and we thank you for every meal you've
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provided help us to use what we have
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wisely and without waste
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because the real provider isn't Costco
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it's Christ and when we trust him to
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provide daily bread fresh grace our
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hearts can truly rest
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once we have placed all of our
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essentials into the pantry let's finish
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out strong let's toss the trash wipe the
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shelves and breathe in the clean space
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and while we finish tiding let's also
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reflect
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the kitchen teaches us about rhythms
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daily meals dishes routines and in the
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same way God invites us into rhythms of
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grace let this space become a reflection
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of trust trust that what we have is
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enough trust that what we release will
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not leave us empty trust that peace is
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possible right here psalm 90 verse1 17
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says "May the favor of the Lord our God
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rest on us establish the work of our
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hands." Yes even the work of cleaning
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out a cabinet or pantry can be holy when
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done in faith let's end with prayer
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father we thank you for this kitchen
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thank you for every meal you've provided
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and every moment of laughter around the
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table help us to let go of what no
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longer serves this season fill these
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shelves with what's needed and nothing
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more we trust you to be our portion our
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peace our provider let this kitchen be a
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place of grace and generosity in Jesus
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name amen thank you so much for walking
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through this with me if this episode
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encouraged your heart I invite you to
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subscribe and share it with a friend
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next week we're going to declutter the
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living room and talk about hospitality
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boundaries and rest let's remember that
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peace doesn't come from a perfect
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kitchen it comes from a heart fully
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surrendered to the Lord so thank you
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guys for walking through this with me
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and watching this video i'll see you
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guys next time happy homemaking
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