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Can We Be Good Enough for God? | Better Together Episode 1148

March 4, 2026 | S8 E1148 | 50:59

Do you ever feel like you don't "measure up"? Our God meets our insecurities with His truth, our weakness with His grace, and turns what we feel is "not enough" into more than enough! | TBN Prayer Line: 714-731-1000

#IdentityinChrist #Truth #WordofGod #Insecurity #Failure #Weakness #Lies #Grace #SpiritualWarfare #HolySpirit #Faithfulness #VoiceofGod #Obedience #Humility #LaurieCrouch #SheilaWalsh #FaithEuryCho #DonnaPisani

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Better Together | Can We Be Good Enough for God? | Better Together Episode 1148 | March 4, 2026

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- when we question our value
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Or wonder if we're worthy of god's love,
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- god says, "yes, you are mine."
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And insecurity melts in his all consuming presence.
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Come on, let's talk about it.
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(bright music)
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- i have to say i love this week
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And i love the fact that we're answering the questions
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That a lot of the people who are part of our community
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Have asked over and over again
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For women who are different ages,
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You know, men who are in different stages of life,
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But have the same questions.
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And so what we're gonna talk about today
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Is something that i think it's a very pertinent question.
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Am i good enough for god?
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Now when you think about it,
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That should never even be a question
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'cause the whole point of christianity is no you're not.
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And that's why jesus came, right?
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But then i wonder,
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After we give our lives to christ,
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How much time do we spend thinking,
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"but am i measuring up?"
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Not realizing that the measuring stick
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Has never been applied to us?
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But it happened to me recently
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And it was really interesting
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'cause i think sunday is when people watch better together
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And they think, "well, most of you girls
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Have known the lord for a long time,
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So things you're sharing happened,
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You know, years and years ago."
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But this is just a few months ago
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I was speaking at a conference
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And i was just one of the season,
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You know, you're just tired.
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And you just feel kind of worn out.
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And the person who spoke before me
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Was just really brilliant.
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I mean, i love her anyway,
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But her message was so powerful and so strong.
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And i remember standing backstage
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And there's maybe just a couple of worship songs to go
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And thinking, "lord, i don't think i can do this anymore."
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Which kind of surprised me.
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You know, i don't usually feel like that,
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But thinking, you know,
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Maybe i'm passed myself by date.
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You know, maybe a ministry has a shelf life
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And asking god those really real questions.
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"lord, what do i do?
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Because i don't feel like i've got anything to give."
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And then the worship team started to sing a song
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By one of my friends, a girl called hope darst,
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She's got this incredible song
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And it's all about the blood of jesus christ.
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And it came to the part in the chorus
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Where it sings on the door post of my life
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Is the blood of jesus christ.
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And it honestly was like one of those moments,
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You know, you pray for the lord to show up
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And most of the time we just push through?
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But it was one of those moments
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When the lord just totally showed up.
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Because i felt like imagining what it was like
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That night in egypt, you know,
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All the children of israel have been told to get ready.
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They don't know what's gonna happen.
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They've been enslaved for years.
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They thought it was gonna be good because joseph came
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And blessed his brothers and everything was great.
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But then that pharaoh died and things shifted.
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So now they're all slaves.
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You know, will we all make it out?
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Will some of us die?
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What's gonna happen?
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And yet this command comes,
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All you have to do is take the blood of a lamb
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And put it on the door post of your house.
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And the more i went back actually and read it again,
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And it was like the angel of death
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That was passing over that night
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Didn't say to anybody in the house,
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"okay, how have you been living recently?
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You know, did you remember to read the torah last tuesday?"
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There was none of that.
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It was simply the only thing that made the difference
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Was the blood on the doorpost.
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- yes. oh, so good. - and so for me,
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It was like i stood there and i was like,
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"lord, please forgive me.
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I mean, i've walked with you for so many years
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And yet sometimes i still forget that it's never about
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I never have enough.
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But i don't ever have to have enough
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Because you take our not enough
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And make it more than enough.
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And it was just this lovely awakening
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Of remembering back to years and years ago,
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You know, when i was first saved
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Or when i've had moments in my life
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Where you're at the worst moments
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And the lord shows up in his beauty.
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But it was like this kind, kind, kind,
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'cause god is so kind. - he's so kind.
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- this kind reminder of, you know,
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Remember you don't have to put your blood on the doorpost.
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You don't need to have anything
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That showed that you did anything.
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Jesus did that for you
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So you just get to walk up there and be my daughter.
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And i cannot tell you the comfort.
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I mean, i think i laughed half through my message
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Because it was just this sudden kind of awakening again
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Of being able to say to these thousands of women,
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You know, here's the good news.
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It's not about us.
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It's about the finished work of christ.
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- you know, some of you have had the best days
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Of your life this week.
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Some of you had the worst days of your life this week.
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Some of you think you did the thing
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You said you'd never do again.
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But here's the good news.
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When we've placed our trust in jesus
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And he's placed that blood on the doorpost of our life
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Because of him, we're good.
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We've welcomed him.
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For years, i tried to be perfect.
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I pursued perfection.
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And as you can imagine, it didn't end well.
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I ended up feeling like i would never be enough,
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Feeling like i'd completely blown it
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Until i realized that that's not what god asks of me.
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That now i pursue jesus because he is perfect.
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And his grace accepts us as we are.
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We get to come as we are
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And focus not so much on trying to get everything right,
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But on concentrating.
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It's like almost taking your eyes off yourself
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And fix them on jesus and what he has already done.
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When he said it is finished on the cross, he was saying,
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"i've paid your bill in full.
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I've paid your bill in full."
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- wouldn't it be great if god just makes us better?
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Like i think about that a lot.
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Like wouldn't it just be great
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If god just makes us wiser, smarter?
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You know, all the things.
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It's interesting because the holy spirit
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Is so drawn to our weakness.
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And i think when we read the bible,
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We think of moses who saw the sea part.
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We think of apostle paul who was fiery to the very end.
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And we think of mary thinking,
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"oh my goodness, these are amazing people."
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Elijah seeing fire come from the sky.
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And in a way we feel this pressure
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Like we have to be these epic, sensational followers of god.
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But actually, you know,
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Those were just one scenes in the bible, right?
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When elijah was not bringing down fire from the sky,
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You know, right before,
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He was spending years being fed by ravens
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Or living off of a poor widow.
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He was in a season of hiddenness, right?
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And before moses was this great deliverer for israel,
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He had to leave the palace
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And be just an anonymous shepherd for a time.
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It's almost as if god does not want to use us
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For our greatness,
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But our weakness is just a resting place, you know?
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Apostle paul was pleading to god,
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"please take this thorn away."
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He's pleading and pleading and yet it just shifts.
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And he goes, "and i boast in my weakness."
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What changed?
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Because god didn't change the circumstances.
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He didn't take away the thorns.
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But it was a perspective change.
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When he realized, "wait.
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God embraces my weakness and his grace is sufficient for me.
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His power is made perfect in my weaknesses."
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And so i think it's a reframing
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Of how we even see our weaknesses
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And this pressure we give ourselves
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To be sensational for jesus.
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- if weakness disqualified us,
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We would all be disqualified.
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I have felt weak every single day of my life
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The last 10 years.
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But the beauty of god's kingdom
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Is that it is an upside down kingdom.
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God doesn't pick the strong things of the world
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To display his glory.
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He picks the weakest of the weak
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To display that he's strong and he alone can do it.
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And we wanna be vessels,
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The vessels of grace that say,
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"jesus, i have nothing to give,
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But you are all that i need
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And you are all that everyone else needs."
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So i'm gonna encourage you
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If you feel too broken to be used of god,
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That you would literally just surrender your life and say,
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"god, this is what i have."
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- use it for your kingdom and use it for your glory
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And watch and see what he does.
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Because you know, there's so many times in all of our lives,
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I feel like i live that way every day.
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I'm like, "lord, i am just...
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I do not have enough today, but you are enough."
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And i'm always encouraged by the story of moses in exodus,
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Where god is calling him to do a big thing
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And he is not feeling equipped for it.
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He's feeling insecure with all of these things
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And really, when you look at moses' life,
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He actually was equipped for it.
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Like, he was trained in all these ways
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In egypt for this calling. - right.
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- but his insecurity is what came out.
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Instead of saying,
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"actually, you know,
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Lord, you've actually prepared me for all of this.
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I actually could do this."
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He's going, "how in the world? you picked the worst one."
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All this stuff.
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I love that god just reminds him who god is.
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He doesn't say,
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"hey, no, look at all i've done to prepare you."
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He just said, "tell him who i am."
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It's all about jesus.
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It's all about jesus. - right.
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- and so, i think in those moments, especially with women,
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When we can struggle with insecurity,
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Am i enough?
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Am i good enough? all that stuff.
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When we wrestle with it,
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We've talked about this so much this week,
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Going to the word of god,
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What does the word of god say? - yeah.
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- because our feelings can lie to us.
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- yeah. - the word of god
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Is the truth that we have to stand on in those moments,
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That there are gonna be so many times in our lives
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That we...
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I mean, frankly, every day i'm living.
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God, i am not enough, but you are enough,
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And in my weakness, i know that you are strong,
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And i know that grace runs to the lowest places,
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So god, i'm gonna place myself in this lowest place
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And ask that your grace and your mercy would find me here
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And that you would be enough in our lives,
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- when we feel like we're not enough, we tend to question,
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"okay, but how is god gonna fill in these gaps?"
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Especially when your limitations feel so real.
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And i would say it's god's grace that fills in the gap.
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Ultimately, the result and the impact is up to god.
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God will determine the results.
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Not your abilities, not your strategies,
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And not your strength.
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And so the good news of your weakness is in god's grace,
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Because where there is his grace, there is his power.
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- when god says to, to moses, he said,
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"tell him i am who i am." - yeah.
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- that means i am whatever you need,
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Right? - mm-hm.
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- i am there, i am here. i'm with you.
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I am everything. - right.
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- i am who i am. - yeah.
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- and so, for us to be able to trust god like that,
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When we find ourselves insecure,
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First of all, we've lost our identity.
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- right.
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- when we're insecure, we've lost,
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You know, whom we live and move
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And have our being in, (laughs)
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Because he is everything.
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And i understand insecurity.
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My father was very insecure, i believe,
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So then i think i got a little bit of that,
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You know, and i was told i could never communicate well
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And all the things.
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So, to sit where i sit today
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Is always just shocking to me.
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So moses, you know, sitting there for 40 years
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Working on his father-in-law's
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- sheep. - sheep, you know,
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And then god entrusting him.
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He says, "i choose the foolish things to confound the wild."
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And so, that's always in the back of my mind.
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I don't have to have it all together.
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- me too. - because if god
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Doesn't show up through me,
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Then it's a mess anyway,
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Right? - yeah.
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- because we are nothing without christ.
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- i think we live in this world of comparison though.
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- oh, so true. - because that's what
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Was coming to me that day.
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It was like the girl who was speaking before me,
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Her style is totally different,
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And i was just in awe.
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I was like, "that is just fabulous,"
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And it was almost like the holy spirit
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Held up a mirror in front of me and said,
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"you know, come on, take a look here.
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Who are you?" - yeah. right.
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- and go back to all the stuff i know inside.
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You know, i am a daughter of the king of kings.
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I'm part of heaven's royal family.
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- oh yeah. - i don't have to be that.
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- yeah. - run in your own lane.
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Do what god has called you to do
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Because you have a story
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Like nobody else's story. - that's right.
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- you have walked through faith challenges
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That i have not walked through.
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And you
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Encourage me by your faithfulness.
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- yep. yep.
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- that when i would've said, "come on, lord,"
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You say, "come on."
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So, thank you.
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So often, we compare ourselves to other people
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And we think, you know, we need them
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To like us or approve of us.
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And for years, i spent a lot of time thinking about that
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And working on that and trying to be
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What everybody else wanted.
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And honestly, it's exhausting.
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If you find yourself there right now. it's exhausting.
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And what for me was a breakthrough
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Was when i stopped really looking for other people
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To approve of me
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And began to concentrate,
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To focus on the fact of how much god loves me.
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That his heart toward me is always good,
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Always welcomes me home.
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And it's not that you should
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No longer care about other people,
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But it doesn't become your security.
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Your security becomes, i am loved by god.
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- i think it's interesting
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How we tend to make light of comparison, right?
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Like, as christians, - yeah.
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- we tend to be like,
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"oh, don't lust,
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Don't, you know, don't hate, don't slander."
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But when it comes to comparison, we tend to be like,
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Oh, it's like a cute habit we should stop doing.
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But then, when i think about when saul was comparing himself
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To david. - right.
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- and that was when... - yikes.
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- the evil spirit.
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- yeah, the holy spirit left him.
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- right? like, the evil spirit started to mess with him.
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It became a spiritual warfare
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That he opened himself up to
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Because he stopped listening to who god said he was.
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And he started to listen
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To what other people were saying david was, right?
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And so, i think you make a really amazing point
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In that we really shouldn't be taking comparisons
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So lightly. - yeah.
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- that this is a big deal.
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That it's not just something that women tend to do,
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Or you know, men do it a lot too.
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But i think to really think, "okay, no, this is warfare."
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- right.
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- it's warfare.
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And i love how apostle paul said,
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"we have these treasures in jars of clay."
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- yeah. - mm-hm.
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- which is ironic because jars of clay
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Was probably the cheapest thing you could get at the market.
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It was not metal or glass
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Or anything that you could reshape or reform
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Or reuse, it's... - beautiful.
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- yeah, or beautiful. it's just earthenware,
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And they were likely thinking of
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One of those oil lamps,
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Right? - yeah.
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- and if it breaks, it's done.
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And it's just the cheapest form of carrying anything.
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And so apostle paul isn't like,
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"oh, we are just crushing it."
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Like, "we are awesome.
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We are the avengers of the kingdom of god."
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No, he goes, "we have these treasures in jars of clay,"
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Meaning the best thing about me is the holy spirit in me.
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It's the gospel that's ringing through me.
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It's not me.
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And so, for us to be like,
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"well, you know what?
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I love how you said, 'are we good enough?' 'no.'"
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You know? it's like...
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'cause i think some people will be quick to be like,
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"oh, don't say that about yourself."
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But i think it's a freeing honesty.
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- right.
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- that i don't need to be good enough.
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I'm not king saul trying to be like king david.
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I don't need to compare.
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I am just jars of clay.
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Psalms 139:14 says,
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"i praise you for i am fearfully and wonderfully made.
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Wonderful are your works and my soul knows it very well."
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One of my favorite parts of that passage is it says,
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"my soul knows it very well."
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We know his works. we know it through people.
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We know it through his goodness and experience
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And we are all wonderfully
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And fearfully made in the image of god.
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And he has been kind to us and good to us through it all.
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♪ ooh
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- i actually struggle significantly with
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Imposter syndrome.
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A lot of it's how i was raised. you always wanna be better.
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And it was from a good place,
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From my mom of wanting me to be better,
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To be resilient and for life to not be so hard
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Because you're working toward things.
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It also did a number on my self-esteem
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For a long time. - sure.
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- it was hard for a long time to sit in a circle like this
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With women that are so incredible
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And you look at them and you go,
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"man, that story, that story,"
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Yet we don't know what's going on
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On the other end of it, right?
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And so, just being able to say it out loud
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And then allowing god
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And your community to tell you the truth of who you are.
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And for me, something that was really good was,
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Even going back to the very beginning in genesis,
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God makes the world, right?
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Five days, he's making everything.
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Every single day, he makes it.
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At the end of the day, he says, "it was good."
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It was tov,
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Is the word in hebrew. - yeah.
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- and it gets to man and women.
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And it says, "so god created man and women in his own image,
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In the image of god he created them,
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Male and female, he created them."
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And you go to the very bottom and it said that,
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"god saw everything that he had made,
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And behold it was very good,"
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Very tov, right?
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And so for us, it's a reminder that we started out.
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- above all of it.
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God saw us at the very beginning as very good.
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And then the fall happened, of course,
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And then, of course,
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We start to think of all these things of ourselves.
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And then jesus comes to redeem us,
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And we forget that he came to redeem us.
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If we were the only one, he would've still come.
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- i think we start with,
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I am made in the image of god. (chuckles)
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God loved me.
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He made me just like i am.
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And so every day that i grow in christ,
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I become more like him.
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And so the insecurity starts falling away
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Because it's not about me,
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But it is christ in me, the hope of glory.
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And so as we mature, as we grow in our faith,
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All that little stuff starts dropping away.
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And then you get to the point where, you know what,
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It is not i that lives, but christ that lives in me,
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And god chose me.
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I am here for a reason.
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I don't have to be that person.
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I don't have to be that person.
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I can be me all by myself in god.
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The enemy has always been after our identity.
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- absolutely. - so true.
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- [laurie] did god really say?
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He said you were gonna be like him.
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They were already like god, they were already made in his...
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What more do you want?
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How much more can you get?
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You can't get more.
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But because of a lie, so it's always believing a lie.
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Bible says the truth cannot be found in him.
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And so believing that we are something without god
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Is a complete lie.
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We might think we are,
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But in reality we're nothing without god.
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And so it's been that struggle and then that comparison,
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Which god made us each just completely unique,
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Uniquely beautiful.
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Each one of us is different, all different.
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And he loves each and every one of us so much
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That he would come in the form of a man
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To look us in the eye and redeem us.
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That identity crisis i think that so many people go through
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Is what god wants to heal,
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Knowing that i am nothing without god.
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But with him, i can be everything that he created
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In the likeness of god.
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- when we accept god's radical love for us
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And the way that he has made a way for us,
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When we view our life through the lens of god's love,
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Through the lens of his character,
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His motivation towards us, his word,
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His promises that are true,
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It affects the way that we live.
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We can't walk in insecurity
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When our eyes are fixed on jesus,
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When our eyes are fixed on what he thinks of us,
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What the word of god says about us.
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So i just wanna encourage you,
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If you struggle with insecurity,
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If you struggle with viewing yourself as not good enough,
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To remember what jesus is,
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To remember his heart for you,
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And to remember that we are enough in jesus.
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And you know what happens is when we have those lies
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And we sit in them and we don't speak 'em out loud
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And you don't have other people in your community,
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A lot of times the lies start building
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In our hearts and lives.
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And then by the time it comes out, man,
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It created this huge thing.
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But god is so much bigger, he is so much greater.
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And we have victory in the name of jesus over all things.
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And so i think it's so important
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When we have these lies being thrown at us,
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To literally, that's what the body of christ is for.
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If i sat on so many of my lies,
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It would just build, build, build, build, build.
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But the lord sent me the greatest accountability partner
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In my husband, and there are many times
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That i'll be wrestling with something
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And i'm like, "babe, i just am really struggling."
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And he'll look at me and say, "that is such a lie."
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And i'm like, "no." (laughs)
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No!
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I feel like-
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- i'm gonna hang onto my lie. (laughs)
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- and it's not even for other people.
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They don't even question,
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They just know that is straight not true.
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But we start believing them when we sit on them.
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So i just wanna encourage anybody
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That's struggling with insecurity and those doubts
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And wondering, am i good enough,
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Can i do what god's called me to do,
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Is to bring it before the lord
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And ask the lord to show you truth.
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And then ask the body of christ
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To come alongside of you in it.
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And maybe you need help with,
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There's a specific lie that i have believed
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And i've struggled with,
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But my entire community knows about it,
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And they will ask me questions about it.
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They will give me scripture verses, they will pray over me.
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And you know what that does? - i love that.
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- it changes.
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- it does. - it gives you the victory.
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'cause you need the support.
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You need the aarons and the hurs to hold up your arms
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When you are in the battle against the enemy,
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You are a battle for identity,
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You are the battle for truth, to say, "you know what?
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You got this in jesus.
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Jesus has you.
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He has called you to this and he is gonna make a way.
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And this is what the word of god says about it,
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Not what you're feelings say about it."
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- probably one of the things
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That a lot of us struggle with more than anything,
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I know i did in my twenties and thirties was insecurity.
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Because it was like, i felt like i wasn't enough.
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And the truth was i wasn't enough.
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There were so many situations
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Where i didn't feel like i measured up.
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And i was measuring myself by a standard
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That this world tells us this is what you need to be.
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But the more that you stop listening
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To those kind of lies on social media or on television,
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And you say, "who does god say i am,"
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And god says i'm his daughter, he says i'm loved.
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And that's what he says to you, that you are beautiful.
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You are loved, you are chosen, you are seen.
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Don't believe what you read about yourself in social media
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Or what the ads in television say you need.
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Just remember, when you look into god's word,
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You're looking into a mirror of how god sees you.
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- the other day, my little girl came up to me,
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And i was just having a hard day.
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And she was like, "mom, a feeling is just a feeling.
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It's not in charge of you.
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You need to..."
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- she's like four.
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- she's four years old.
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And then she said- - going on 40.
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- she said, "ask god to help you
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And then talk to someone about it."
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And i'm like, from the mouth of babes.
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I mean, it was so shocking that i was like,
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"did that just happen?"
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- can i talk to you? (laughs)
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- and then i'm like, "where'd she get that from?"
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This whole moment.
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But it was crazy how god used my little girl
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In that moment to say, "a feeling is just a feeling.
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It's not in charge of you."
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And to ask god to help you.
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And i think in all of our lives,
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Too often we sit with our feelings.
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And our feelings can lie to us so often.
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But that's why it's so good to go to the truth,
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To the word of god.
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That never changes.
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He never changes.
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And i have never wasted a moment in god's presence ever.
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So when we are wrestling with perspective, identity,
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All of these things,
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When i spend time in the word, it honestly,
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It shifts everything from thinking about me
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To thinking about him.
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To thinking about who he is and what he can do.
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And that shifts the way we view everything.
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- what is god's cure for insecurity?
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I don't know if there's a cure
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As much as we keep ruminating about something
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That's not a thing.
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If we think about the very beginning,
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We talk about genesis one when he created humankind,
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And it's the first thing he said was very good.
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Not just good, but very good.
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So we're creating this narrative
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That's not even true within ourselves.
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And so i think the cure in itself is not even god curing us
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As much as us acknowledging
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That what our versions of what we are, are not the truth.
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- i mean, when you look throughout scripture,
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God doesn't really coddle our insecurities, you know?
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He has compassion and he's kind and he's merciful.
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But when people would come to him saying,
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"i'm just this, i can't speak,
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I can't do this." - moses.
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- god never goes, "moses, you're so great.
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What do you mean?"
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- [laurie] actually got upset at moses,
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At his lack of confidence.
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Like, hello, i'm with you.
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- yeah, i will be with you.
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And it's almost like we are so hung up on this thought
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That we create and we produce based on who we are
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And what we're capable of
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When it actually is about who we are with.
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If anything, the garden was supposed to grow and expand,
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Not because of adam and eve's amazingness,
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But because of their perfect communion with their creator.
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It was from there, the garden was supposed to grow.
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The moment humankind started to try
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To create their own tower of babel for their own name,
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By their own ability, god confounds it.
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And then right afterwards,
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He blesses just a man called abram
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Who was just faithfully just doing
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What a man would do back then.
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One would say a nobody.
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And so i think when we get really hung up
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On trying to be good enough,
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I think we miss the point.
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We miss the point entirely.
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Because like i said, god's not really focused on it,
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Neither is he shocked, right?
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And he always says, "and i'll be with you."
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Even in matthew 28.
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Go make disciples of all nations.
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Why?
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Not because you have a degree,
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Not because you're an experienced christian,
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But simply because i will be with you to the end of age.
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- [brittany] he doesn't call us to perfection,
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He calls us to faithfulness.
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So i think at the end of the day,
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If you go in and you obey the lord
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And you were faithful in it,
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It's gonna look imperfect every time.
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'cause hi, i'm brittany and i'm imperfect
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And i can't do anything perfectly.
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But i think at the end of the day, what we can rest upon is
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That all god wants from us is he cares about our hearts,
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He cares about our motives.
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And sometimes you just have to rest that, god,
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I was faithful with what you gave me today,
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And it looked different than what i wanted it to look.
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But god, i just wanna be faithful.
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It says, "well done, good and faithful servant," not...
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- a perfect servant,
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Not one that had it all together.
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- obedient, obedient. - obedient, obedience.
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- what helps me remain faithful to god
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Even when i don't feel good enough
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Is staying faithful to god anyways.
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And i know that sounds overly simplistic,
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But at the end of the day, feelings will change.
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One day i may not feel good enough, the next day i might.
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But as long as i remain faithful,
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Just as in a relationship, (gentle orchestral music)
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Remaining faithful in that relationship,
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Regardless of how you feel,
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Regardless of whether you have a disagreement or not,
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In that same way, is to stay faithful,
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Regardless of how i see myself in that season.
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- i love when you talk about the earthen vessels,
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Because that would be very familiar
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To his audience when he is writing
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Because it was basically, it was like the ups of the day.
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I mean, corinth was a port. (faith laughs)
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Everything came in in these earthenware,
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So anything was just, so, i mean, nobody would think,
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"oh gosh, look at this ups box.
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It's beautiful." (faith laughs)
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No, its only purpose is to carry.
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To carry.
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To deliver what's inside. - oh my goodness.
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- and so that's been such a help to me to think,
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You know what, i'm just a ups box,
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But what i get to carry is holy
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And precious and life changing.
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So i don't need
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To be surprised when god does something amazing.
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Because he's in the box.
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He's there.
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We get to bring him.
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- i remember when my son was, my oldest was little,
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And he came home from school
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And he said, "mom, you know what?
00:30:02.447 --> 00:30:04.782
I can't do this. i'm not good."
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Other kids were doing other things
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And he just couldn't kind of get the hang of it.
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And this is my son who's actually good
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At a lot of things.
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So i was thinking as a mom, like,
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"that's what you're stuck on?"
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And it was a moment where i could look him in the eye
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And say, "oh honey, you're so good at these things.
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You're not meant to be good at all those things,
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But you're good at these things."
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And i remember feeling in my own body,
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Like just this overwhelming sadness
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That my son was stuck on this thing when-
00:30:38.149 --> 00:30:41.519
- there was all this- - all these other things
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That he's so good at.
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And also as someone that struggled with infertility.
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We know how much has to align just for this human
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To have arrived on earth, right?
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And so if we just look through that lens
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And think about how god, how it's multiplied
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By god looking at us.
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Of all the things that had to happen
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For brittany, for faith, for lori, for sheila, for jenny,
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For us to be here in this time, in this moment in time
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And doing what we do, you know,
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I think it shifts that, right?
00:31:12.951 --> 00:31:14.585
And because i have my own imposter syndrome,
00:31:14.585 --> 00:31:16.554
I go back to that moment often
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And think about the delight that i have for my kids.
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And i think, how much more do you delight in me lord, right?
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(gentle orchestral music)
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- you know, when my boy walks in, (laughs)
00:31:26.931 --> 00:31:31.402
My heart just leaps with joy.
00:31:31.402 --> 00:31:34.138
And so us being evil parents, the bible says,
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How much more does god look down on us and love us?
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He created you.
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He tattooed your whole life on the palm of his hand,
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The bible says.
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There's no one like you to god.
00:31:49.887 --> 00:31:52.523
You are special.
00:31:52.523 --> 00:31:53.791
I think you're his favorite.
00:31:53.791 --> 00:31:54.892
I think i'm his favorite. (laughs)
00:31:54.892 --> 00:31:57.862
And i just can't imagine how much he would love us
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To actually send his son to die for us.
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And so i encourage you today
00:32:04.335 --> 00:32:06.771
To just bask in how much god loves you.
00:32:06.771 --> 00:32:12.076
And i think that'll change a lot of things for you
00:32:13.077 --> 00:32:15.446
And your relationship with him.
00:32:15.446 --> 00:32:17.815
- about a year ago we were walking
00:32:18.549 --> 00:32:20.151
Through something really hard
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And it like hit the head, like,
00:32:21.619 --> 00:32:23.454
Literally the day i was supposed
00:32:23.454 --> 00:32:24.889
To speak and i was supposed to get on the stage,
00:32:24.889 --> 00:32:26.858
And i'm dealing with phone calls, sobbed all day long.
00:32:26.858 --> 00:32:29.927
And just thought like, "lord, how do i even, like,
00:32:29.927 --> 00:32:32.663
How do i get up
00:32:32.663 --> 00:32:34.232
And talk about your goodness when i just feel like, 'lord,
00:32:34.232 --> 00:32:37.201
I have nothing to offer.'"
00:32:37.201 --> 00:32:39.404
So i get ready, you know, put the concealer on.
00:32:39.404 --> 00:32:42.273
I get ready.
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I'm like, "god, you show up.
00:32:43.207 --> 00:32:44.475
Jesus, all i have is you."
00:32:44.475 --> 00:32:45.643
And i'm just so just broken.
00:32:45.643 --> 00:32:48.179
I go downstairs to leave,
00:32:48.179 --> 00:32:49.447
And my precious little boy came up to me
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And said, "mama, i made you something."
00:32:52.183 --> 00:32:54.018
And he gives me this jar of clay
00:32:54.018 --> 00:32:56.354
That he had made from outside.
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- what a little prophet! - and he said,
00:32:58.356 --> 00:32:59.657
"i felt like god wanted me to give you this."
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He made it from the creek that day while i was crying.
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And he gave it to me.
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And i held that crazy clay with dirt coming all off
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And perfectly shaped.
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And god just reminded me, "this is what you are
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To show the surpassing greatness of me.
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Not you. you are broken.
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And every woman in that room that you're gonna be talking
00:33:25.950 --> 00:33:28.553
To today is broken.
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We all are messy. we all have this.
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But you are to show them the surpassing greatness of jesus.
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Not the surpassing greatness of an easy life
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Or comfortable thing,
00:33:40.064 --> 00:33:41.299
But the surpassing greatness of jesus."
00:33:41.299 --> 00:33:43.167
I mean, talk about one of those shocking moments
00:33:43.167 --> 00:33:45.169
Where you're like, from this precious little dumpling boy.
00:33:45.169 --> 00:33:48.906
And so i went up to, i said, "this is, wow,
00:33:48.906 --> 00:33:52.777
You just randomly made this?"
00:33:52.777 --> 00:33:54.045
And he said, "i was out in the creek
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And i just felt like god wanted me to do that.
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And then i put it aside.
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I didn't give it to you earlier.
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And i just felt like i was supposed to give you right now."
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And i looked in and i said,
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"god used you in such a powerful way in my life
00:34:04.322 --> 00:34:07.525
At the perfect timing.
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You always listen to god's voice."
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And it gave me the courage in my insecurity,
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In the brokenness i felt to get on that stage
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And open up holding my jar of clay.
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And that's how i opened that up.
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And we are all feeling broken today,
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But the surpassing greatness of jesus is what we all need.
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- what a wonderful thing to be able to say to your son.
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God used you, you know?
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I think that's just a,
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What a gift to him,
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And for him to know, my life makes a difference,
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At at his age. - right, yes.
00:34:36.120 --> 00:34:37.788
And to listen to that voice when it feels uncomfortable
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Because how many times when we, you know,
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Hear god's voice, you question,
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"oh, should i not do that?
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Is it my voice?"
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And we should always obey even when it's uncomfortable
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'cause you never know
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How it's gonna change other people's lives too.
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(gentle piano music)
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- when we're focused in on our lack,
00:34:52.737 --> 00:34:56.207
Things that we don't have,
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Things that we're not gifted with,
00:34:57.608 --> 00:34:58.809
Things that we're not purposed for.
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It takes us away from what we were created to do.
00:35:00.311 --> 00:35:04.549
And of course, that's what the enemy wants us to do.
00:35:04.549 --> 00:35:06.617
The enemy wants to keep us distracted and distraught
00:35:06.617 --> 00:35:10.421
And lost, but we were made
00:35:10.421 --> 00:35:12.390
And we're created in this time for a specific purpose.
00:35:12.390 --> 00:35:15.660
So if things go wrong, yes, lack will happen.
00:35:15.660 --> 00:35:18.930
Yes, mistakes will happen.
00:35:18.930 --> 00:35:20.231
But if we focus back in and remember day
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After day we have a new beginning, it's a new time,
00:35:23.634 --> 00:35:25.870
It's a new opportunity, it's a new chance.
00:35:25.870 --> 00:35:28.339
It allows us to actually shift from this scarcity mindset,
00:35:28.339 --> 00:35:32.376
This lack into this profound abundance as sons
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And daughters of the most high king.
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(uplifting orchestral music)
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Okay, we have another question here.
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Joanna from poland asked this,
00:35:48.793 --> 00:35:50.628
"what does healthy self-esteem look like, faith?"
00:35:50.628 --> 00:35:53.764
What does it look like?
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"how can we love ourselves god's way?"
00:35:54.932 --> 00:35:57.001
This is a good question for you to start with
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'cause i do struggle with this still.
00:35:58.436 --> 00:36:00.404
- still? you think?
00:36:00.404 --> 00:36:02.273
- just five minutes ago.
00:36:02.273 --> 00:36:03.608
Yeah, yeah. yeah.
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No, it's real.
00:36:04.742 --> 00:36:05.876
And this is a very good question.
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And i would say, when you are free
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To love others. - ooh!
00:36:11.449 --> 00:36:13.217
- because a lack of self-love
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And a lack of healthy self-esteem will always keep us
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From truly loving others.
00:36:20.258 --> 00:36:22.059
If anything, it leaves you starting to use others,
00:36:22.059 --> 00:36:26.063
To build what you feel like is lacking.
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And so instead of using others,
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You would actually be serving others and loving them
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If you have a healthy love for self,
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If you love yourself the way god sees you.
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- mm, that's really good.
00:36:40.378 --> 00:36:41.412
You know, in matthew,
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When it talks about the greatest commandment is
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To love the lord god
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With all your heart, mind, soul, and strength.
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And then the next thing is
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To love your neighbor as yourself.
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And the way is written is to love your neighbor as yourself.
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You have to love yourself in order
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To love your neighbor well.
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And so if you are loving the other,
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Like you said, absolutely,
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I think that's a really good kind of snapshot
00:37:00.364 --> 00:37:02.900
Of where you're at in this.
00:37:02.900 --> 00:37:04.535
And really i think it doesn't hurt for you
00:37:04.535 --> 00:37:06.771
To write these affirmations of who you are on your mirror
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And just, when you're looking in the mirror,
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You're reminded what god has said about you already.
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Put scriptures on there.
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And it may seem cheesy.
00:37:17.782 --> 00:37:18.883
And maybe put it in your dashboard,
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Put it wherever you look like, often.
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And i have friends that put it on their phone.
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It's a good reminder
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That you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
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You're made exactly for the time is this.
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(uplifting piano music)
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- if you're finding yourself trying so hard to please god
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But always feel like he's disappointed in
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You, you must know
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That you are already pleasing to god.
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By the blood of jesus and because of his grace,
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He sees you through the lenses of his mercy,
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Through the lens of what he's already accomplished for you.
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So you don't try to be pleasing to god.
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You have to know that you are pleasing to god
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And everything you do must be an overflow
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Of that conviction.
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(upbeat guitar music)
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Isn't it amazing how we're always trying to be something
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That god's not even looking for?
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(all laugh)
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'cause you know, it's like we're trying, you know,
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My husband, he loves to make me laugh.
00:38:33.992 --> 00:38:36.128
We had a season in our marriage
00:38:36.128 --> 00:38:38.263
And you know, we are like having a deep talk,
00:38:38.263 --> 00:38:40.132
Like, you know, like, "let's work on this," right?
00:38:40.132 --> 00:38:43.168
And he's like,
00:38:43.168 --> 00:38:44.503
"you just don't laugh at my jokes anymore."
00:38:44.503 --> 00:38:47.839
And i remember thinking, "i didn't marry you
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'cause you're funny," (all laugh)
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As in like, i'm not looking for that, right?
00:38:52.444 --> 00:38:55.347
So, but i just thought that it was sweet
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Because we're like that with god.
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And we're trying to be all these things
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That god's not looking for.
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If you really look at it on paper,
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Saul was a great candidate to be the king.
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You know, he was a head taller than everybody else.
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He was so impressive.
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And he was gifted, right?
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But then even samuel couldn't recognize
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God's chosenness over david.
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Even a prophet who sees the things of god could not.
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- recognize that god chose this little david,
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That even his father didn't even think
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To bring him out when samuel came.
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And i just think about that all the time,
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That, you know, i feel like a lot of us
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We're always trying to be like us all, right?
00:39:40.192 --> 00:39:43.361
Like, someone that's epic and sensational,
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Somebody that's a head taller than everybody else,
00:39:46.331 --> 00:39:48.934
When god, his eyes were on david,
00:39:48.934 --> 00:39:52.003
Who was just faithfully overlooked, right?
00:39:52.003 --> 00:39:56.775
Just somewhere taking care of the sheep in the pasture.
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Not even considered to be a candidate
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To stand in front of a prophet.
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And so, yeah, i don't know.
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I think when we consider the eyes of god,
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I wonder, who are we trying to live for?
00:40:10.121 --> 00:40:12.691
Who are we trying to become?
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And is it actually something that god wants of us?
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The things that god is looking for in us
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Is not that attractive to this world.
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He's looking for devotion, love, loyalty,
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Obedience, faithfulness.
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And all of this usually happens in ordinary,
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Everyday, mundane moments.
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It's not attractive, it's not fantastic.
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It's not something that draws attention
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Because god looks for things that human beings do not.
00:40:38.783 --> 00:40:42.988
- i remember talking once to chuck swindoll,
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Who's just this brilliant theologian.
00:40:46.057 --> 00:40:48.760
- right, uh-hmm. - dear friend.
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And i was going into a new situation i hadn't done before
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And i was a little nervous and i said to him,
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"okay, this is a really ridiculous question,
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But i'm gonna ask it.
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If somebody said to you, 'okay, gimme the key to ministry,'
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What is it?"
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And he said, two words,
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"show up." - mm.
00:41:03.775 --> 00:41:05.844
- i was like, "that's it."
00:41:05.844 --> 00:41:06.778
He said, "yeah." - wow.
00:41:06.778 --> 00:41:08.280
- you show up with you're not enough
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And then you let jesus do what only he can do.
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- come on, wow. - and i can't tell you
00:41:12.484 --> 00:41:13.852
How that has helped me because when you think
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You have to have enough and be ready
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And be good and be better than that,
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You're in a total mindset that has nothing to do
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With the kingdom of god. - right.
00:41:22.894 --> 00:41:24.296
- that is a worldly mindset. - uh-hmm.
00:41:24.296 --> 00:41:26.097
- and i have to reject it constantly.
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That is not the kingdom of god.
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- it's good. - the kingdom of god
00:41:29.501 --> 00:41:30.635
Is that he has come to live in us
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And through us. - oh.
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- and that makes all the difference in the world.
00:41:33.638 --> 00:41:36.975
- and that, you know, your ministry
00:41:36.975 --> 00:41:38.410
Is wherever your feet are. - yeah.
00:41:38.410 --> 00:41:39.411
- you know? - that's right.
00:41:39.411 --> 00:41:40.679
- and you know what, most of the time my feet
00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:42.147
Are in front of a kitchen sink
00:41:42.147 --> 00:41:43.648
And i am washing a lot of dishes.
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And the hidden places have been the holiest places.
00:41:45.617 --> 00:41:47.719
- that's right. - yeah.
00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:48.853
- those places with the lord,
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I would not trade for anything in the world.
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- yeah. - the impact that we have
00:41:52.524 --> 00:41:53.925
For the kingdom is being obedient wherever god places us.
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So if you are a grandmother who is sick and bedridden
00:41:57.028 --> 00:41:59.898
And you are praying for your grand babies,
00:41:59.898 --> 00:42:01.766
You are making more a difference
00:42:01.766 --> 00:42:03.335
Than anyone could ever imagine for eternity.
00:42:03.335 --> 00:42:05.704
- amen. - if you are a mom
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At home with your kids and you are loving,
00:42:07.005 --> 00:42:08.807
You are being faithful to them,
00:42:08.807 --> 00:42:10.342
If you are a wife who's desire to have babies for so long
00:42:10.342 --> 00:42:14.212
And you are seeking the lord
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And you are loving other people when it's hard,
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Like wherever you are
00:42:17.682 --> 00:42:20.018
And you're being faithful and obedient,
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That's what god's after. - that's right.
00:42:21.586 --> 00:42:23.188
- that is where he is after, and we make a difference.
00:42:23.188 --> 00:42:24.956
So many times we think, "oh, we have to do
00:42:24.956 --> 00:42:26.691
These great things to honor god and to expand the kingdom."
00:42:26.691 --> 00:42:30.562
You know what it takes, it takes those mundane
00:42:30.562 --> 00:42:33.264
But holy marvelous things. - yeah.
00:42:33.264 --> 00:42:35.300
- life is built out of mundane after mundane after mundane.
00:42:35.300 --> 00:42:39.070
Oh, and then there's a marvelous thing,
00:42:39.070 --> 00:42:40.271
Mundane after mundane, you know,
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And you have those things. - yeah.
00:42:41.973 --> 00:42:43.808
- but the faithfulness in those seasons
00:42:43.808 --> 00:42:47.212
Is what makes the marvelous
00:42:47.212 --> 00:42:48.980
The marvelous. - yeah.
00:42:48.980 --> 00:42:50.115
- mm. - you know, if we are not
00:42:50.115 --> 00:42:51.349
Obedient to god in those little things
00:42:51.349 --> 00:42:53.218
That god tells us that are not little things.
00:42:53.218 --> 00:42:55.754
The little things that i do with my kids
00:42:55.754 --> 00:42:57.422
Are gonna build up their entire childhood,
00:42:57.422 --> 00:42:59.257
Their entire makeup of who they believe god is
00:42:59.257 --> 00:43:02.427
Based on what i do in this daily laundry and cleaning
00:43:02.427 --> 00:43:06.564
And dishes and the way that i talk about god in my home.
00:43:06.564 --> 00:43:09.567
You know what, none of you will ever see that.
00:43:09.567 --> 00:43:11.202
You're not in my home every day.
00:43:11.202 --> 00:43:12.604
But my kids see it. - yeah.
00:43:12.604 --> 00:43:13.805
- god sees it and it matters to him.
00:43:13.805 --> 00:43:15.640
And so i think it's so easy to think our perspective of god,
00:43:15.640 --> 00:43:19.811
"this job is not what i want it to be.
00:43:19.811 --> 00:43:21.946
This life is not what i wanted to."
00:43:21.946 --> 00:43:24.049
You know what, god cares about you.
00:43:24.049 --> 00:43:25.984
- yeah. - and he cares
00:43:25.984 --> 00:43:27.018
About your heart wherever it is
00:43:27.018 --> 00:43:28.586
That he's called you to.
00:43:28.586 --> 00:43:29.988
And sometimes, we have these moments where you think,
00:43:29.988 --> 00:43:31.589
"oh, this is what i was designed to do."
00:43:31.589 --> 00:43:33.491
And sometimes you have these hard things that you go,
00:43:33.491 --> 00:43:35.627
"this is not what i feel like i'm designed to do,
00:43:35.627 --> 00:43:38.229
But god, i'm gonna obey you in it.
00:43:38.229 --> 00:43:39.931
I'm gonna give it all that i have,
00:43:39.931 --> 00:43:41.966
'cause i know that every moment matters to you.
00:43:41.966 --> 00:43:44.335
And it matters for eternity.
00:43:44.335 --> 00:43:45.670
And we were called to such a time for this."
00:43:45.670 --> 00:43:48.239
- yeah. - i was rereading
00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:49.774
Brother lawrence's book,
00:43:49.774 --> 00:43:51.009
"the practice of the presence of god."
00:43:51.009 --> 00:43:52.310
- right, it's so good. - and i've forgotten
00:43:52.310 --> 00:43:53.645
How great it was. - mm, it's so good.
00:43:53.645 --> 00:43:55.046
- and his whole thing is, "i'm gonna be a monk.
00:43:55.046 --> 00:43:56.381
I'm gonna be the best monk.
00:43:56.381 --> 00:43:57.549
I'm gonna be monkier than anybody."
00:43:57.549 --> 00:43:59.084
(everyone laughs)
00:43:59.084 --> 00:44:00.885
And instead of that, he's put in the kitchen, you know?
00:44:00.885 --> 00:44:03.722
And he's like, "no, actually you're peeling potatoes."
00:44:03.722 --> 00:44:06.157
- yeah. - and it was standing
00:44:06.157 --> 00:44:07.325
In the kitchen sink. - that's right.
00:44:07.325 --> 00:44:08.927
- peeling potatoes that he began to practice
00:44:08.927 --> 00:44:11.162
The presence of god because he realized
00:44:11.162 --> 00:44:13.131
The presence of god changes everything.
00:44:13.131 --> 00:44:14.799
- yeah. - and god is in the business,
00:44:14.799 --> 00:44:16.801
The history of our scriptures tell us
00:44:16.801 --> 00:44:19.571
That god uses the least likely.
00:44:19.571 --> 00:44:21.639
You talked about david, right? - yes.
00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:23.041
- jesus didn't call disciples out of the temple
00:44:23.041 --> 00:44:26.711
Or the rabbis. - no.
00:44:26.711 --> 00:44:27.979
- he called disciples that had basically
00:44:27.979 --> 00:44:30.081
Failed outta school, right? - yeah.
00:44:30.081 --> 00:44:31.249
- the fishermen, tax collectors,
00:44:31.249 --> 00:44:32.350
Everybody hated the tax collector.
00:44:32.350 --> 00:44:33.852
So why would that be different today for us, right?
00:44:33.852 --> 00:44:37.889
All of us have a purpose.
00:44:37.889 --> 00:44:39.657
And of course, you know, we are good enough
00:44:39.657 --> 00:44:42.060
Because god made us. - yeah.
00:44:42.060 --> 00:44:43.561
- yeah, i love how you mentioned brother lawrence
00:44:43.561 --> 00:44:46.264
Because i think the irony of all time,
00:44:46.264 --> 00:44:48.333
And totally the way god works, is the fact that this monk
00:44:48.333 --> 00:44:51.736
That was just peeling potatoes is like a bestseller.
00:44:51.736 --> 00:44:55.607
- yeah. - you know what i mean?
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Like he changed the world, right?
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And which reminds us that kingdom impact is up to god.
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- that's right. - absolutely, hundred percent.
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- you know, it's god that determines what
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He's going to do.
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- it's his church. - with peeling potatoes.
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You know, and i think sometimes we forget,
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Mary, she just had a kid.
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That's it.
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Most of her days was washing dishes,
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Getting the kids together, feeding them.
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That was just her life.
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But yet god used that little life
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And changed the world. - and that's right.
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- and i think we feel as though we need to make the impact,
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That we need to shine bright,
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When actually we just need to let god shine through us.
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And whether you are driving your kids to school,
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Whether you are taking the trash out
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Or spending the holidays alone, whatever you are doing,
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It's god that determines what that will do for eternity.
00:45:51.129 --> 00:45:55.266
- so the opposite of pride is humility.
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So the more we practice in that, the more we go low,
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The more god can fill us up and actually lift us up
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And platform us.
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And not in a way of like showing us off,
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But like, "this is my creation.
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I created this.
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Look how beautiful she is.
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Look how beautiful he is."
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So humility actually brings us
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Into a more organic and real space
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Than whatever we can muster for ourselves.
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- you know, one of my sweetest times with the lord,
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It's crazy when you look back
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And you just think of god preparing the way.
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But with my three little boys, we did cloth diapers
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'cause we were so poor and we just didn't have
00:46:36.040 --> 00:46:38.109
Enough to do regular diapers.
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And at that time, nobody was doing cloth diapers.
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So i mean, everyone thought we were crazy,
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But i'm telling you, every day i washed these diapers,
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And folded them, and did it.
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And god would meet with me every day.
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- yeah. - as i would pray
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And do that 'cause it would take so long
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Hanging them outside, watch my little ones.
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But you know what, i had no idea
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That six months later i was gonna lose my husband.
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I had no idea what was ahead of me.
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But communing with god in the mundane
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Built up the trust in god that if god can meet me in this,
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Then he would meet me in that.
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He was preparing the way in my heart
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Through the mundane things that you're doing.
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And so i just think wherever we are, whether we think,
00:47:15.246 --> 00:47:18.182
"okay, this is gonna make a difference or not."
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Like, you're right.
00:47:20.118 --> 00:47:21.686
God, kingdom work, that is we have nothing to do with it.
00:47:21.686 --> 00:47:24.355
It is all jesus and jesus alone.
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And that can take away all the pressure.
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- yeah. - the rest in god
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And rest in his plan that is so much greater than ours.
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- because that's not about charisma, that's
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About character,
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Isn't it? - oh yes.
00:47:34.899 --> 00:47:36.434
- i think as a culture, we're so obsessed with charisma.
00:47:36.434 --> 00:47:38.336
And i think as a church, we've done a bad job
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In turning spotlights on people and making it like,
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You know, well, this is god's person.
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As opposed to if you've given your life,
00:47:45.643 --> 00:47:48.980
Your heart to jesus,
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Anything is possible. - that's right.
00:47:50.448 --> 00:47:52.116
- and what's being accomplished now in heaven
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That we will maybe not see till we get home.
00:47:54.819 --> 00:47:57.188
- mm. - i've loved this girl.
00:47:57.188 --> 00:47:59.257
I just love you all.
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I'm just so grateful for everything you've shared.
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Let's pray for our people. - yes.
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- well, father, we are so grateful,
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So grateful for who you are,
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For the parts that we understand
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And the parts that we don't understand.
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We just wanna acknowledge that you're amazing.
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But lord, as a group of sisters here,
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We wanna pray for our community,
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Particularly for those who feel today,
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"i am not enough.
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I'm not good enough.
00:48:26.985 --> 00:48:28.252
I'll never measure up."
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Lord, thank you that because of what you did on the cross,
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That we get to come as we are.
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And that we are loved as we are, that we're embraced.
00:48:35.026 --> 00:48:38.629
That the blood that's over the doorpost of our life
00:48:38.629 --> 00:48:42.934
Says we belong.
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We are family.
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So today, lord, i ask for anyone who's struggling
00:48:45.703 --> 00:48:48.973
To be able to come right now
00:48:49.574 --> 00:48:51.542
And just lay those insecurities at your feet
00:48:51.542 --> 00:48:55.646
And to stand up knowing i'm a daughter of the king.
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I'm a son of the most high god.
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And because of that, we are the carriers
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Of your fragrance to this world.
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Lord, give us the grace to do it today.
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In jesus' name.
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Amen. - amen.
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- [narrator] connect with us on social media
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And let us know how our team can pray for you.
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(gentle music)
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- so ecclesiastes 3:1 says,
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"there is a time for everything
00:49:27.412 --> 00:49:28.880
And a season for every activity under the heavens."
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And i think what i love about this scripture is,
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First of all, it tells me there's seasons.
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So a season when kids are small
00:49:37.188 --> 00:49:39.524
And you're running around,
00:49:39.524 --> 00:49:40.658
It's gonna look completely different
00:49:40.658 --> 00:49:41.826
Than any other season in your life.
00:49:41.826 --> 00:49:42.860
Maybe you're single right now
00:49:42.860 --> 00:49:44.429
And it's a season where you can give yourself
00:49:44.429 --> 00:49:46.064
Wholly to serving god
00:49:46.064 --> 00:49:47.465
'cause there's not a lot of just other distractions.
00:49:47.465 --> 00:49:49.434
Or maybe it's a season where you're an empty nester.
00:49:49.434 --> 00:49:52.303
And so what that looks like is completely different.
00:49:52.303 --> 00:49:54.539
I love the idea of seasons.
00:49:54.539 --> 00:49:56.974
And the other thing that i love
00:49:56.974 --> 00:49:58.409
Is that you're not gonna accomplish everything possible
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For your whole life in one season.
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I know i love life to the fullest.
00:50:03.414 --> 00:50:05.783
I wanna do everything that i possibly can.
00:50:05.783 --> 00:50:07.919
But i think there's times when you have to realize
00:50:07.919 --> 00:50:09.720
That the season that you're in right now
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Might have limitations on it
00:50:12.557 --> 00:50:14.192
And it might have restrictions on it.
00:50:14.192 --> 00:50:15.760
And your season's not gonna look like
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:17.161
Somebody else's season.
00:50:17.161 --> 00:50:18.196
And being okay with that
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And not comparing your season to somebody else's,
00:50:19.630 --> 00:50:21.666
Just being patient that you have a god in heaven
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Who loves you, sees you, knows where you are right now,
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And has the perfect day set for you,
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The perfect week set for you, the perfect month set for you,
00:50:29.173 --> 00:50:32.710
And just resting in him and trusting in him,
00:50:32.710 --> 00:50:34.979
And listening to what the holy spirit's
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Instructing you to do helps set you up for a win
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For the next season.
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- [narrator] stream full episodes of "better together"
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On-demand, go to bettertogether.tv
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To stream all of our latest conversations.
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Can We Be Good Enough for God? | Better Together Episode 1148

March 4, 2026 | S8 E1148 | 50:59

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