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Jehovah Supports Those Who Support His Kingdom · Thursday’s talk, section 2 of 5
9:40 of 10:00 · at your 146 words a minute
3:04
of 2:50 · 0:14 over
ran 3:11 last time
So let’s set the scene. Judah, around 609 B.C.E., is a nation torn right down the middle. On one side you’ve got people saying, “We need to submit to Babylon, that’s the only sensible option.” On the other, a louder crowd insisting Egypt will save them, that Jerusalem can’t fall, that the temple is here so God must be on their side.
And into that argument steps Jeremiah, with a message neither side wanted. Read with me Jeremiah 37, verses 6 to 10
That is a real part, as it looks on a Thursday. Every figure is how long it takes to say.
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Who this is really for
Some congregations have a handful of elders, and the same names come round on the schedule. Treasures one week, the Congregation Bible Study the next, Living as Christians the week after, often two of them on the same night. The ministerial servants take up what is left, usually before they have had the years of practice that make preparation fast.
They are men with jobs, with children, with elderly parents. The part still has to be ready by Thursday.
This will not prepare it for them, and it is not meant to. What it takes away is the hour that goes into staring at an empty document.
Ask for the part, and it comes back as a shell: the sections, what each one is for, the scriptures already gathered and timed. Then they talk it through with the app, a section at a time, until the words are theirs. When they stand up, what they read is what they wrote.
It is the same for one student talk, or one comment on a Sunday. What you are carrying changes. What comes back does not.
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If you already prepare
Talk 54 took me 60 hours of research and writing, years before anything like this existed. Preparing the same talk here is thirty to forty-five minutes of tinkering — reading what has been drafted, changing the lines that do not sound like me, asking for a better way into the second point.
— the brother who built this, and still gives the talks
And if this is your first student assignment, the clock is not what you are worried about.
What you want is to finish the week holding something you are not embarrassed to stand up and read. Something that sounds like you, rather than like a stranger wrote it. That is the same tool, pointed at a different fear.
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What it puts on the screen
Each section is drafted from the point it develops and the paragraphs cited for it. Then you talk to the wordsmith about what is in front of you: ask for a livelier introduction, a smoother segue into the next point, this idea developed further.
It answers with a change you can see: what your part says now, struck through, beside what it would say. You accept it, you edit it afterwards, or you reject it and ask for something else. Nothing arrives finished, and nothing on the page changes until you say so.
Section 2 · Jehovah’s loyal love is daily
Jehovah's loyal love is shown to us every day, and we should be grateful for it. The psalmist described it well.Jehovah's loyal love does not arrive once and then stop; it reaches us personally, and it reaches us daily. Think of a handwritten note left on the kitchen table each morning by someone who loves you, torn off and read, and replaced the next morning with another. In a similar way, Jehovah's loyal love is not one grand gesture we look back on but a daily one. Notice how the psalmist puts it.
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When you have to give it
Practise it against the clock and YourWords learns how fast you actually speak. The next part you prepare is timed to your voice instead of an average, and if a section runs long you are told which one, while there is still time to do something about it.
When it is your turn, the part scrolls at your own pace, so you are looking at the audience instead of down at a page. Speed it up or slow it down on the platform and it takes that as the better number, because what you did standing up is worth more than what you did at a desk.
Or take it with you.
A finished part exports to a Word document, or to Markdown or plain text if you would rather lay it out yourself. Print it, mark it up, read it off paper. It is your part, and it should not be stuck in here.
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Is it still yours
Scripture wording comes only from the official source, never from a model.
Every verse you see on a part or beside a question is fetched and shown as it is published. Nothing here paraphrases a verse, and nothing here writes one out from memory. If the wording could not be fetched, you get the reference and a link to it rather than an invented quotation.
Your voice is taught by your own writing.
The comments and sections you write yourself are what the platform learns how you speak from. A rewrite that the model proposed and you accepted is marked as proposed and is kept out of that entirely, so it can never start learning from its own suggestions and drift away from the way you actually talk.
You are the editor the whole way through, and the words that come out of your mouth at the lectern are yours: in your own words, ready to deliver.
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What it costs, and how to start
Writing your own comments and keeping your own work is free, for as long as you use it: the Watchtower, Spiritual Gems and your own student parts, prepared by hand. A subscription adds the parts an elder or ministerial servant prepares, and lets the model draft in your voice. You will see the price once you are signed up, before you are asked to pay for anything.