Better Together

Replace Negativity with Truth | Better Together Episode 1157

April 21, 2026 | S8 E1157 | 50:59

God’s truth has the power to silence every negative voice. When His Word fills your mind, lies no longer control your thinking. Speaking truth brings clarity and a renewed mind to move forward in all God has planned for you. | TBN Prayer Line: 714-731-1000

#Truth #Freedom #Faith #Discernment #Overcoming #Peace #Wisdom #IdentityinChrist #Encouragement #Transformation #NegativeThoughts #Lies #Illness #PersonalStory #Fear #WordofGod #Wordswespeak #VoiceofGod #Condemnation #Conviction #LoveofGod #LaurieCrouch #SheilaWalsh #DonnaPisani #AlexandraHoover #SusieLarson

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Better Together | Replace Negativity with Truth | Better Together Episode 1157 | April 21, 2026

- i'm not good enough.
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No one loves me.
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If lies and negative thoughts flood your mind,
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It's time to replace them with the truth of god's word.
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He says that you are wonderfully made and you are
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Greatly loved.
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Come on, let's talk about it.
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(music playing)
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- this is such a joy to be with you friends,
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And i've been thinking about the lies we believe and the
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Truths we need.
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And right away when i think of that idea i can think of two
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Lies.
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That i picked up when life let me down and they were these.
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And kind of like what you said, you know,
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First is that i'm always on the outside of the circle.
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And worse was i have to endure everything i fear those were
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So baked into me.
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And it's like you can be a serious follower of christ and
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Passionately worship him.
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But if you're constantly bracing for impact you will
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Just never, never received the fullness of what he has.
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And you'll never be able to experience all that he wants
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To do in and through you.
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And so just for context in my story.
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I grew up in a large family in a denomination where i knew
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God was real, but i didn't know jesus was accessible.
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The gospel wasn't preached, right?
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I knew about jesus, but as a child, i felt god's presence.
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I knew he was real.
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Again, my dad was the mayor, and it was just crazy town at
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Our house with all these kids.
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But i was a rule follower and a people pleaser i would say.
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And there was a season of life where my mom needed to get a
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Job to help put food on the table.
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And around that time my older brothers started to hang
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Around with creepy friends.
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And one day i came home from school,
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Was in the laundry room looking for a change of
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Clothes, and the door shut behind me.
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I was about 9 years old.
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In a matter of moments, i was pinned on the floor by 4 of my
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Brother's friends.
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No brother was there at that moment.
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And i experienced a sexual assault.
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But being my dad was the mayor.
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And these were my brother's friends.
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I thought i will bring scandal on our family,
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And so i shoved it into the basement of my soul.
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But you know, it just opens a canyon of fear and insecurity.
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- absoltuely.
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- and so i would say about a year later i'm walking home,
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So about 10 years old.
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I'm walking home from school, and i see those wretched bikes
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Out in front.
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I got that sick feeling in my stomach.
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And just shows you how confused my little mind was.
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Because i said out loud as i'm walking across the baseball
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Field.
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I don't care if god made me this way,
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Those boys will never touch me again.
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And a different group of boys were hanging out in a baseball
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Dugout.
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And all i heard in my peripheral was get her,
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And they ran out of the baseball dugout and they ran
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Me down and knocked me to the ground and pummeled me,
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Beat me.
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And i was 4 ft tall, and they punched me in the face,
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Pulled fistfuls of hair, kicked me in the stomach,
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And i'm this little girl.
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And i'm screaming and they're laughing wildly like i can
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Still remember the crazed look in their eyes.
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I know, but i know now in my adult mind they were high on
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Something.
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Because they had a kind of a crazed look and i had
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Scratches in my face.
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I was taking these blows, you know, and they,
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When they got done with me.
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They pushed off of me and walked away and we're laughing
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And they said, can you believe we just did that?
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I had my bell rung, my hair was snarled, my stomach hurt.
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I was so traumatized by that.
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And as they're walking away, i got up and i heard in my ear,
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And it was not audible, but it might as well have been.
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I heard.
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I can get you anytime, anywhere,
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And god will never stop me.
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And so then as a little girl i knew the devil was real too
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And fear entered my life in such a big way.
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I came to christ as a young teen.
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I became an overachiever, a gymnast,
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And you know this and that always just trying to earn my
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Way.
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I didn't--you know, i knew i was saved.
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I didn't know i was [indiscernible].
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And i think a lot of christians can say that's
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Probably true, right?
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And so, i was a striver.
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So even when i was a young married,
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I was on five committees at church, three out of passion,
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Two out of duty, you know what i mean?
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Like i did, i served because of passion,
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But i still didn't know who i was, so i was still earning,
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Right?
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And, ended up needing to go on bed rest for a high-risk
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Pregnancy and i was on bed rest for six months with a one
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And a three-year-old and.
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So when you're a doer and improver and all those things
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And you have to call in every friend a favor for six months.
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We're talking babysitting for a one and a three-year-old,
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I mean we were going broke and you know it was confronting
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All my insecurities surface, you know,
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Because i couldn't earn anymore.
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And i was getting kind of depressed.
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And one of the doctors said, let's get you up and see if
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You're ok to go out.
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So i met an old college roommates.
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It was a fall day in the midwest, went for a walk.
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It proved to be too much.
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We had lunch and a walk and so i was back on bed rest that
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Night and two weeks from that outing, i'm on bed rest.
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A friend came to visit, and she said, hey,
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Can i get you your water?
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And i go, yeah, it's over here.
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And i pointed and pins and needles shot out my arm.
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And she's talking and while she's talking it's numbing,
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Buzzing, pulsating started in the base of my skull and just
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Started to pulsate on my face.
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My whole face started to go numb,
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And my vision started to blur and she's like, what is wrong?
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And i said, i don't know, something's going on in my
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Body.
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And this dear friend had had grown tired of me and i really
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Don't blame her.
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But she developed the gift of discouragement, you know.
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[laughing]
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So anyway, she would say these things that
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Had barbs in them that were so painful.
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She's just, she's like, you know,
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If it's not one thing with you, it's another.
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And it was true and i-- - it's not helpful.
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- it's so not helpful.
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And then she went on to say, you know,
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I guess it's personalities like yours that most often
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Get ms.
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So that's probably what it is.
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And she left and there's more fear and i still had three
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Months to go.
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And i, you know, i, i could tell my friends are tired of
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Me and long story, short.
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I delivered our son and my health plummeted.
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And they ruled out brain tumor,
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Ms and a year later found out it was lyme disease.
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And i don't have time to talk about what the journey has
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Been like.
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But it's been a 36-year battle and sheila knows very well.
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She's seen me in some of my lowest points,
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And it's a challenge.
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I have to work really hard to be ok and i'm so grateful that
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I'm alive.
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But i had a pretty massive health relapse 10 years ago
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And i was getting ready to go to the radio station and my
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Arms went numb and my face went numb.
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And i'm like, oh no, oh no, oh please no, not at this age,
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Please no, please no.
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And it just i had neurological fireworks going on in my body.
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And i heard the whisper in my ear from the lord,
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Storms reveal the lies we believe and the truths we
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Need.
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- wow, that's powerful.
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- and i heard it again.
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The storms reveal the lies we believe in the truths we need.
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And i'm like, what's the lie that i believe?
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And then my whole neck went numb,
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And my esophagus spasmed and i felt like the enemy had me by
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The throat.
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I can get you anytime, anywhere,
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And god will never stop me and god back that's the lie.
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You are a serious follower of christ.
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Yes, you do follow me with earnestness.
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But you have no idea this is not true.
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It is not true.
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He can get you anytime, anywhere.
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You don't even know what i've prevented in your life,
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And you don't know what i've provided.
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Then he said, i'm not going to let you lose,
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But i have to let you fight.
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God redeemed so much, you know,
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There were hard places in the journey.
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But i needed that storm because i was still walking
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With a limp that i didn't need.
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Do you know?
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I was still believing lies that or i needed truth.
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And so i really went on a rampage against the spirit of
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Fear.
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I mean i really like i could function around it sometimes,
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But it did impair me a lot.
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And i mean i remember one of my docs saying that is causing
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More inflammation.
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The fear of the things that might happen is causing more
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Inflammation in your body than the actual diseases.
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I mean you're flared, but this fear has got to go.
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- i think it's so powerful when you realize that god
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Doesn't give you the spirit of fear.
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Fear is never from god.
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So, if you're experiencing fear,
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That is straight from the pits of hell.
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And what i've discovered is that behind the fear,
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The insecurity, or the failure,
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Generally there's something that that god wants to show
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You.
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So the fear, the insecurity, and the failure is almost
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Intimidating you from actually seeing where god is.
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But i've discovered it's an indicator.
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So now, if i feel fear in any way, i'm like, wait a minute,
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What is the enemy trying to hide?
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What is he lying to me about that god wants to show me.
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But i can't see because there's this massive screen of
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Fear in front of it, in front of it.
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So if i could just say to you right now,
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Anytime you feel fear.
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In any capacity, start thinking about it as an
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Indicator that god's doing something that the enemy
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Doesn't want you to see.
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Why?
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Because when you get a hold of the truth of what god wants
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You to see, you're going to destroy the kingdom of hell.
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And he doesn't want you to do that.
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So, it's not about you being less than.
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It's about what the enemy's trying to keep you from seeing
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So that you don't hinder his kingdom.
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- i am convinced the abundant life is ours,
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But it does not come in wrapped in a nice bow.
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We have a thief and his intent is to steal, kill and destroy.
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But it's not an equal fight when you've got the spirit of
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God in you and so all that to say i would love to know even
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Some of the lies you've believed and the truths you've
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Made because it's.
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The truth that sets us free.
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It's the spirit who leads us into all truth.
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And we actually go to a new place with every new
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Revelation of truth.
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Which means more people are helped through our life
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Because we're walking more free.
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So do you have thoughts?
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I'm sure you've got something coming to mind.
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- i was just thinking about ufos.
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[laughing]
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Let me explain.
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- yes, please.
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- i've got this written at the back of my bible,
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And it's this.
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It's untruths, false narratives, overreactions.
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And that for me has been so important,
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Particularly like overreactions.
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When i overreact to something, there's always history
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Involved.
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You know, when it's just when my response is way out of
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Proportion, like when barry and i were first married.
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There would be times when he would say something.
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But what came in the package to me had so much weight.
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You know, back to when my father was mentally ill and,
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And violent with me.
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I suddenly found myself afraid of my own husband.
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And so for me it's like, ok, what are the untruths that i
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Have believed.
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Because i think if when i was a teenager,
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Even in my twenties, if you'd dug down to the basement of my
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Soul.
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You'd have found kind of inscribed in the stone,
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I'm too broken to be loved.
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And that was the first untruth that god began to unpack.
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No, you're mine and i love you.
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And i see you and then false narratives.
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What are the things that play over and over in our heads?
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That's right.
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But they're actually, they're not true.
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They're something that we've just,
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It's been kind of scarred into us.
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- but you give them power if you leave them unchallenged.
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- yeah, right. absolutely.
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And then, and overreactions, and i've learned to bring all
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Of that.
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So i have this litmus test from philippians chapter four
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Where it says verse eight.
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And i love the fact that paul says,
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And now dear brothers and sisters, one final thing.
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He has talked about so much in this letter to the church
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In philippi.
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But he's saying, ok, all of that, really great.
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Listen to this one final thing.
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Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable.
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And right, and pure and lovely, and admirable.
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Think about things that are excellent and worthy of
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Praise.
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So i run these ufos through this.
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Is this true?
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Is this lovely?
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Is this worthy of praise.
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And it's just given me this great ability to be able to
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Say, oh well, no, you just failed the test.
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You just failed the litmus test, no.
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And i think it's the power of the word of god that
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Contradicts the lies of the enemy.
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No matter how long we have believed them.
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Because i believed that for years.
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I even remember i was speaking at a conference in london.
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And it was a big conference and it was wembley arena and
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There's like 25,000 women.
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But it was a church that was kind of known for everybody
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Being very thin and wearing black clothes and looking very
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Glamorous, and i can remember-- - her face contorts.
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[laughing]
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- i remember and all these beautiful people
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Came to the conference.
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And at the end of the conference everyone was going
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Back to this person's house for an after party
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And i didn't go.
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I got my driver to take me back to the hotel and i
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Remember sitting in my hotel room thinking,
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Why didn't i go?
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Because i felt like i didn't fit in.
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I felt like i wasn't, i didn't have the right credentials to
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Be in that space.
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And so for me it's this intentional.
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It doesn't happen overnight, intentional combating every
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Lie with what god says is true and not allowing it to take
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Root.
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And it used to stay for longer, now when it comes, i,
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I just confront that thing, there's going to be no ufos
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In my head.
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- i love that.
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- how do we keep our eyes on the thoughts of god,
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The things of god, what's true, what's lovely,
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What's right, what's good?
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You know, i always say we don't default to those places,
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We default to fear, doubt, worry, and anxiety.
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So i would say apply ourselves to think about what we're
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Thinking about.
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Everywhere you turn, there's evidence of god's goodness.
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Everywhere you turn, there's evidence of his beauty.
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So when you start to notice, you become a noticer.
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I mean notice the sunrise, slow down and thank god.
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Imagine a gift tag to you from god, you know,
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Taste your food and thank god.
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When you start to marinate in and meditate on the gifts of
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God that are right in front of you,
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You will see how truly rich you are.
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- i love how paul tells us, don't throw away
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Your confidence.
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I think we're constantly throwing confidence away and
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Clinging to the lie and the insecurity, the negativity.
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And oftentimes feeling like we don't fit or whatever it looks
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Like.
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I mean, i think there's a million thoughts that can come
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Through.
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I think it'd be really awesome if we took every lie that we
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Are listening to, because sometimes we don't realize
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They're lies.
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They like you were talking about the other day walking
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And just the enemy coming in with those thoughts.
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We all have that.
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You never get past that.
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What you do learn is to identify it and then
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Immediately surrender it.
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2000 years ago, jesus said it is finished.
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That's--every debt, every sin, every failure has been paid
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For.
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And yet we live like we're still fighting for it.
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You're fighting from a victory that's already been won.
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And it is just us accessing what he's already done.
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- when we realize what jesus did on the cross,
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What he paid for with his blood.
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The victory that we have in christ today,
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We start declaring things.
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We start praying from a place of victory that is already
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Done.
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That we're just declaring things that that jesus already
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Did are now here on earth with what happens in heaven happens
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On earth now.
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And that's where we say we are healed, we are saved,
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We are redeemed, we are set free.
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We are overcomers.
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All the things, we have the mind of christ,
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All the things that jesus did, has already happened.
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We just get to walk in that.
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We get to walk in that victory and we get to pray from that
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Place of victory.
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- jesus said, i have all power.
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We can believe in something, but it does not have power.
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We can't give it power because it has no power, right?
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Jesus said, i've come to seek and save the lost.
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I have come to destroy-- - the works of the enemy.
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- the works of the enemy.
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And then he said, it is finished.
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Then he said, last thing, all power.
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So if he has all power, how much does the devil have?
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- right.
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- right?
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So, and he says that satan is the father of lies.
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I love how jesus did warfare.
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He said, satan, you get behind me.
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I'm not going to look at you anymore.
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It started a few decades back when i felt like i got reborn
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Again.
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When i realized that there wasn't-- you know god and the
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Devil fighting this battle.
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And sometimes god won, sometimes the enemy won.
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You know, and then when i realized and when i had the
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Revelation.
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That there is no power but of god says it himself.
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And then i don't have to look through anything that's
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Stopping me for what god has for me.
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So when lies come, you can immediately,
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I immediately know a lie when i hear it, spiritually.
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That that's not from god because there's no truth
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In it.
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It says the truth cannot be found in the devil.
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And so i think a lot of us live our lives from what we
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Believe did or didn't happen at the cross of christ.
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And what it is, is it's knowing what god says about
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Us.
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That's why it's so important to get into god's word.
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And when you hear something that i'm not enough i'm not
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This, i'm not that.
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I'm all that stuff that we can replay over and over.
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You hold it up to what the truth of god's word is and
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Then you say satan, you get behind me.
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I'm not looking at you anymore.
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There's nothing that i have to go i don't have to go through.
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The devil and his lies to get what i need from god.
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Every good and perfect thing comes from jesus.
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So i'm going to go directly to him and i'm not going to look
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At what satan could do or what he has done or what i feel
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He's done or any power that i think he has.
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You fix your eyes on what jesus has said.
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And who he says we are through him.
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You know, and all those things i am loved.
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God is not done with me yet.
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I'm still a work in progress.
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I still, you know, the good work that he has started,
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He will complete inside of me, you know,
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And so i think just-- speaking truth to a lie and i think
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Saying it with your mouth.
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
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Jesus says today i put before you life and death so there's
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Good things and there's bad things.
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We can all look around and see all the bad things saying
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Choose life, choose this.
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This and so when we do that, we get everything we need from
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God.
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And i think that's just a powerful mindset that changes
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It changed my life.
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And i actually we actually got down on our-- i've been saved
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All my life.
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My husband and i got in the middle of our living room with
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Our pastors and got on our knees and i said i have
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Believed that there has been this--
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- cosmic war.
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- cosmic war against god almighty.
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The one who has all power.
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And so for us to be able to put power to some being.
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I think that's all in our head that we believe a lie and we
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Can have whatever we believe.
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As a man thinks, so is he.
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Jesus says, today, choose life.
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Choose what god says about us.
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- why we should be intentional about aligning our words with
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The word of god is.
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I would say it's because we're perpetual forgetters.
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We're so hard on the israelites of the old
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Testament for their proneness to wander,
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Their proneness to forget.
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But i would say after living a long life and through some
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Pretty hard battles.
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I think nobody defaults to faith, hope and love.
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We default to fear, worry, doubt, anxiety, insecurity.
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That is where our brain goes.
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That's where our gaze goes.
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I mean, we are just earthbound by nature.
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But when we have the spirit of god alive in us,
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We can be dead to sin, dead to thoughts that weaken us.
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And i think that takes steady application.
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And again as someone who's battled a lot i have to say
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I've learned a lot about brain science and neuroplasticity.
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And i've learned some miracles that the way god has wired us.
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Is that when we start thinking new thoughts today our body
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Starts firing synapses in our brain.
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God has wired our bodies to help us think redemptively and
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No one can do that for us.
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And the more that we apply ourselves to the truths of
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God's love.
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Honestly, the more intuitive they become.
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If that becomes your norm to be pondering and thinking
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About the love of god, the word of god,
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The truths of god.
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When the storms hit your default instinctive
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Perspective will be based on god's word.
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But don't you think that we give weight to the enemy's
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Words is what keeps us in bondage?
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- it just keeps you in bondage--
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- but it does, it does impact your life.
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Yes, you know, but when you make that, distinction,
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It shows that he won it all.
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We don't have to do this.
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- there's nothing we're fighting for.
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- we begin from victory.
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We begin from he's overcome. but you've seen
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People live broken and they're giving a lot of weight and
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They're even giving away power.
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- i do think it's a matter of what we come into agreement
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With.
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More than who holds the power.
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I think when i, when i think about that,
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I think it's what we choose to--
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- as a man thinks.
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- yeah, right, as a man thinks,
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What we choose to come into agreement with,
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What we choose to believe you can have is law, right?
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We can have it.
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I mean, i think about 2 corinthians 10:5, we demolish.
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Right?
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Arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against
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What?
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The knowledge of god, right?
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And so what we do what we do with that is we take captive
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Every thought to make it obedient to christ.
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I think i spent a lot of my life living from the agreement
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That i was powerless and abandoned.
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It's easy to live that way.
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It's actually easier and more comfortable to live rejected
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And abandoned-- - and it feels sure.
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- it feels sure and true because you always have
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An excuse.
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You all sure, right?
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And so where i think where the enemy comes in
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And for everyone.
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Really for us it is what we choose to believe.
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But we become so comfortable with our pain that it's the
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Inability to look at it and say oh i have come into
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Agreement.
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- right.
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- right, i'm not even the enemy has not made us do a
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Single thing.
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I have said this is law scripture is saying,
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Does it come up against the knowledge of god?
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We've joked about this, i was stuck in canada, ha ha.
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I was there after one of the messages i gave,
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There was a woman that came up to me,
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And i was teaching on first samuel and obedience.
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And learning to discern the voice of god,
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Which is so important on this topic.
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How do we learn to discern the voice of god?
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And she had said to me, i think i've got the gift of the
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Prophetic.
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I think i've began to discern certain things.
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Can you help me?
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I'm having a hard time discerning what i'm hearing
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From the lord or what i'm sensing.
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And i said, sure, really easy.
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If it's to know the voice of god, you know the word of god.
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So do you know, do you know who he is in his word?
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Do you know how he sounds, right?
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So the lord, he's not condemnation, right?
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So that the voice of god does two things.
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He comforts and convicts.
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And so god is consistently comforting and consistently
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Convicting so that we can become more like him.
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But he's never condemning you.
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He's never going to come and condemn and so as we are
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Auditing our thoughts, right, conviction will come because
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That's how we are sanctified.
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And so to rule out any uncomfortable feeling would be
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Unwise.
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We are made in the image of christ and his likeness as we
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Are convicted of our things and sins.
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And god will reveal uncomfortability in things in
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Our lives.
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But he won't condemn us, right?
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And so if you're a woman watching today, right,
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And you are trying to discern how to move forward out of our
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Pain and out of that rehearsing.
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I'd ask like what are you living from condemnation?
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Have you come into agreement with thoughts of condemnation?
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If you have, that is not the voice of the father, right?
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That's that's an easy pivot right out.
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That's an easy audit to say like, oh,
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I'm living from from an agreement that i made with
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Condemnation, with shame, with rejection, with abandonment,
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Whatever narrative has become your lens.
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We break the ties, break the agreements,
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And we move into the power that we have in christ jesus
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And the knowledge, right.
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That we have in christ.
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I am a huge advocate for auditing our thoughts
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And beliefs.
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I am a woman who has endured many seasons where people
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Spoke things over me.
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And i picked them up as truth.
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And i want to say that again.
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People will speak things over you.
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And you will unknowingly pick those things up,
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Those thoughts, those beliefs that they have handed to you
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Will pick them up as truths.
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So it's incredibly important that you stop and say,
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What am i believing about myself?
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And also, what am i believing god believes about me?
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I had a boss a few years ago, and i think i've shared this
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Before on better together in one of the episodes.
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I had a boss who essentially said to me like,
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You're not cut out for this.
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Essentially called me dumb.
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I'm not-- quite literally.
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And i remember leaving the meeting so devastated and
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Allowing those words to confirm beliefs from my
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Childhood that i was dumb.
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Inadequate, not smart enough, not educated enough to do the
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Things that god had called me to do.
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And i spent years untangling those beliefs from my identity
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In christ.
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God came after me and brought people to me to remind me that
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I am equipped, that i am called,
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Not because of my own gifting.
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And that's so important that i that you hear that.
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It's not because of what you can do,
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But because of christ in you.
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And that will set us absolutely free.
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- difference between condemnation and conviction,
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It's like condemnation says you don't belong.
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Conviction pulls you close.
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- conviction sets you free.
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- yeah, absolutely.
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- right?
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It's like that revelation of what it is that he's inviting
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Us into it's freedom. and i think freedom feels more
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Attainable when you grab what she just said.
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Because i do think we go around thinking this is some
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Equal fight and we hope god wins.
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You might even say you believe something different in your
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Head, but if it's not really manifest in your life.
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You really wonder if he's going to show up in your
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Battle.
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But if you come to what you just said it's like this is
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Not an equal fight.
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It's not like god's fighting he can he's the only uncreated
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One he can breathe.
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You know and obliterate him and jesus won such a sound
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Victory so when we get to that place then we can go after the
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Lies saying i am a child of god.
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And you do not get to lie to me.
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But there needs to be something in us that gets
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Activated, don't you think?
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- absolutely.
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- we want freedom enough to fight.
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- well, you know, paul said put on the full
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Armor of god to what? to fight.
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No, he said to stand.
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- to stand, that's right.
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- so if my feet are shot with peace to go to battle,
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It's to stand.
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He's only told us to fight one fight.
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That is the good fight of faith,
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To stand on god's word and who he says, what he says.
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- yeah, that's so powerful because i think what,
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What we do, it's easier to live in the lie.
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But honestly, i mean, you, you just have to get to the place
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Where you're just tired of it.
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And you're like, i'm done and i'm going to do the work.
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I mean, that's where i came to.
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That's where each of us has come to.
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You just kind of, ok, i'm going to stand up in this.
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And it's something that i saw in the past couple of weeks as
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I've been doing some research.
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I had never seen this before, but the first time we hear the
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Enemy speaking.
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With quotations, he says, did god say?
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So the anatomy of a lie usually involves a question
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That makes you question whether god is good or not.
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Because he was saying to them, did god really say you
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Couldn't?
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Because he'll know that if you eat from this,
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Then you're going to be more like god.
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But they were already made in god's image.
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So eve operating in the i'm not enough, and i,
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I'm entitled to more yields to the lie at the same token.
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The first time that we see god speaking is in the same story
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With quotations where god says, where are you?
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So they've yielded to the lie that they weren't enough,
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And they needed something else, and god says,
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Where are you?
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It's right, exactly.
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And they're hiding in shame again.
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We're talking about shame.
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But here's what's so beautiful i had never seen before and it
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Blew my mind.
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In the hebrew, where are you?
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Is the hebrew word ayeka.
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Which is the only time it's used is in genesis and
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Literally what that means.
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It's a longing of a father who's heartbroken because his
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Children, he didn't come in hot and say, where are you?
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You sinned.
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You did, why'd you listen to the enemy?
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He comes in heartbroken.
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He's like, i don't want that disconnection.
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Where are you?
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- one of the biggest things i think most of us struggle with
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Is this idea of, i'm not enough.
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I have felt that for years.
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And my opinion on it now is maybe not what everyone else
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Would agree with.
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I've come to the place where i get it,
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I'm not enough and that that's ok.
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I don't think i need to be enough.
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I think that i used to pursue perfection.
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I wanted to be perfect so that god would love me.
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And then i realized that that is just not the whole story of
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The gospel.
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So i no longer pursue perfection, i pursue jesus,
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Who is perfect.
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You get to come on your best days and your worst days and
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You don't have to get it all right.
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- so the enemy's question dislocates you and tries to
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Make you question god.
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God's question is an invitation to come home.
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He's constantly never not standing there.
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It's so powerful, but that's god's mo throughout the
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Scriptures.
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That's his story.
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He's constantly saying, where are you?
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I'm not obviously, by the way, god doesn't ask a question
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Because he doesn't know where we are.
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But throughout the new testament there's recorded 300
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Questions that jesus asked.
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Asks so god asks us questions because it helps us dislocate
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Us.
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It helps us locate where we are because you can't get to
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The destination if you're not paying attention to where you
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Are.
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So i think when you're talking about hearing the lie or the
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Truth, the anatomy of a lie is it makes you question god's
00:29:18.903 --> 00:29:21.372
Goodness.
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Because god's good to you and he's you,
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But he's really not good to me because if he was good to me,
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Why would this be happening?
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God asks questions because this is so powerful.
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Even scientifically, biologically,
00:29:32.984 --> 00:29:34.819
They've proven that when i ask you a question.
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It begins to create new neural pathways.
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It's neuroplasticity you're thinking through.
00:29:40.291 --> 00:29:42.794
God wants us to wrestle with the truth so that we're not
00:29:42.794 --> 00:29:45.797
Just speaking it, but we become it.
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We're saturated with it.
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We're obsessed with it.
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And that's, i, i don't know.
00:29:52.036 --> 00:29:53.304
I've been following jesus long enough right now.
00:29:53.304 --> 00:29:55.640
I know who i'm not, right.
00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:58.109
But i know the only way i can exist, survive,
00:29:58.109 --> 00:30:01.779
Or even do what he's asked me to do is like i've got my face
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In this.
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This is my oxygen tank.
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- that's right.
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I mean, breathe into me.
00:30:07.252 --> 00:30:08.453
- because, so i think sometimes we're answering the
00:30:08.453 --> 00:30:11.623
Wrong question.
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Yeah, or letting it linger over our lives.
00:30:12.957 --> 00:30:14.692
- we're responding to, that's good.
00:30:14.692 --> 00:30:16.561
- what, whose question is defining my life right now?
00:30:16.561 --> 00:30:18.529
Is that jesus saying, who do you say that i am?
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- yes.
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- so yesterday you were wonderful and you were doing
00:30:22.233 --> 00:30:26.271
All sorts of good things for today we got a bad diagnosis.
00:30:26.271 --> 00:30:29.007
Who do you say that i am?
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Tell me who i am.
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Well, i believe you're my healer, you know.
00:30:32.110 --> 00:30:34.913
I believe that today is the day that god has made.
00:30:34.913 --> 00:30:38.349
I will rejoice into what's happened today because god
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Bates our passion, right?
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I think i've lived long enough to know that when something
00:30:44.923 --> 00:30:48.559
Blindsides us, i'm quick to say, ok,
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.597
What's god saying today?
00:30:52.597 --> 00:30:54.999
What's god asking me today?
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He's baiting my faith.
00:30:59.304 --> 00:31:01.272
He's baiting my passion to want to know him.
00:31:01.272 --> 00:31:04.509
To want to hear him, to want to lean into him,
00:31:04.509 --> 00:31:06.411
And we can all get there it's your perspective changing
00:31:06.411 --> 00:31:10.581
Instead of turning and rebuking and i'm thinking this
00:31:10.581 --> 00:31:13.751
Is pushing me forward somewhere.
00:31:13.751 --> 00:31:15.820
God is taking me somewhere all i need to do is lean into him
00:31:15.820 --> 00:31:19.991
And what he's saying today.
00:31:19.991 --> 00:31:21.326
Ok, all right, who do who do i say you are today i say you're
00:31:21.326 --> 00:31:24.195
My joy, you're my peace, you're my strong tower.
00:31:24.195 --> 00:31:28.599
You're my strength, you're everything i need you're my
00:31:28.599 --> 00:31:31.803
Satisfaction, you're my provision.
00:31:31.803 --> 00:31:33.805
Everything that i need you've got for me right here,
00:31:33.805 --> 00:31:36.841
Right now.
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And i think that's the currency of heaven.
00:31:37.875 --> 00:31:40.044
- and god's saying you do that say that i am through the
00:31:40.144 --> 00:31:41.679
Emotions and you make that declaration.
00:31:41.679 --> 00:31:43.181
I feel a physiological shift in my body.
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- absolutely.
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- yeah.
00:31:46.617 --> 00:31:47.819
- it's powerful because you're coming in line with what
00:31:47.819 --> 00:31:49.854
The word of god says.
00:31:49.854 --> 00:31:50.688
- yes, yeah.
00:31:50.688 --> 00:31:52.523
- first samuel chapter seven, verse 12 talks about ebenezer
00:31:52.523 --> 00:31:55.493
Stones.
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And i'm obsessed with this.
00:31:56.227 --> 00:31:58.196
I wrote an entire book about it.
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It's called eyes up.
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It's my first book ever.
00:32:00.198 --> 00:32:01.432
And the lord walked me through what i like to call the
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Theology of remembrance.
00:32:04.635 --> 00:32:06.037
Which essentially means learning to remember the
00:32:06.037 --> 00:32:09.073
Goodness of god.
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I am a perpetual doubter or have been a perpetual doubter.
00:32:10.375 --> 00:32:13.478
I often say it's the thorn in my side that i wrestle out my
00:32:13.478 --> 00:32:17.448
Faith.
00:32:17.448 --> 00:32:18.683
I often doubt, and mark 9:24, lord, i believe,
00:32:18.683 --> 00:32:21.552
Help my unbelief is like my life first.
00:32:21.552 --> 00:32:23.554
Because i have been a woman who has had to either borrow
00:32:23.554 --> 00:32:27.125
Faith from many people, many times or has gone to god and
00:32:27.125 --> 00:32:30.928
Said, help me to see it.
00:32:30.928 --> 00:32:32.096
And so if that's you, i see you.
00:32:32.096 --> 00:32:34.265
And in first samuel chapter seven, verse 12,
00:32:34.265 --> 00:32:36.501
There is a verse that says, i have brought you this far and
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I won't stop now.
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That verse helped change my belief that god was not only
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Faithful.
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But would never abandon me, would never leave me where he
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Met me.
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And it replaced the lies around rejection and
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Abandonment and god's faithfulness for me.
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And it changed everything.
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It reminded me that god will never leave me nor forsake me
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And that when i feel abandoned or maybe like god isn't
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Faithful or good to me, that he is and that he's not done
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Yet.
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- hi, sheila here with susie.
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And we're behind the scenes at better together and answering
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Some of your questions.
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So let me kick off with this one.
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This is martha, who watches us on instagram.
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Hey martha, and this is a question,
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How can i get over people's negative comments about me?
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I've become so insecure.
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And of overwhelming anxiety.
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Wow, that's hard.
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- that's really hard.
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I just know for me there was a moment as a young mom where i,
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You know, battling lyme disease, three little kids,
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A lot of medical debt.
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And my friends had health and they had wealth.
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I wasn't making it up.
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Their lives really were better than mine at that point.
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And i had my bible and i'm like, god,
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Where's the victory here?
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I mean, i read, i fast, i pray,
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I'm doing as much as i can as a sick young mom.
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But i get it from this place and i'm the same insecure
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Person.
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I still have all those fears and anxieties.
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I'm no different, so where's the victory?
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And i'll never forget it.
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There was a moment where god thundered in my spirit and
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Said, susie, i know that you love me.
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But you don't seem to know that i love you.
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And until i tell you different,
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Every time you want to say i love you, lord.
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I want you to flip it around and say do you love me, lord.
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Say it now.
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And i said, do you love me lord?
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And the fact that it felt so foreign made me realize that i
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Was putting way more emphasis on my love for him than i was
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On his love for me.
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And the more that i applied myself to his love.
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And then i would read it in scripture to know this love is
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To be filled with the fullness of god that's what changed
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Everything.
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So to me it's not about reasoning your way through
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People's critiques.
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It's living as a deeply loved child of god that really
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That's when the gap widens between how people.
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Affect you and how god affects you.
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- that's so true, that's so good.
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I remember before he went home to be with jesus.
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My friend brennan manning said to me that he thinks that when
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He gets home, the first thing jesus will ask him is,
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Did you believe that i loved you?
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Because i think when you believe, martha,
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That you are loved by god.
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And honestly it's like a muscle you have to just
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Develop.
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And keep working, keep reading about the love of god,
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Do as susie does.
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I like that, i'm going to start doing that,
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Saying thank you lord, you love me.
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- join the conversation on our better together youtube
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- and i'm thinking of that story in the gospels when
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Jesus said, who do people say i am?
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Well, some say, you know, prophet and whatever.
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And he says, who do you say i am?
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And peter's like, you're the messiah,
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The son of the living god.
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And the lord said, you know what, the,
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The heaven revealed that to you.
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You didn't come to that on your own.
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And since peter was postured to get a revelation about who
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Jesus was.
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Then jesus took that opportunity to give peter a
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Revelation about who he is.
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Because he said it happened on the rock, you know.
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And he starts talking about peter's calling.
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And it's just a matter of moments they're walking on a
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Little bit longer and jesus is talking about going to the
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Cross and it's peter who jumps in the path may it never be
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Forbid.
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You know he jumps into that realm.
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And then jesus says get behind me satan and i wondered like
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How do you go from a divine revelation to, you know,
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A deathly one in a matter of moments.
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Like he said peter, you are the rock and you know and on
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This, you know, i will give you the keys to the kingdom
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And then get behind me satan.
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So what, what was the what was the force behind it was fear.
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Fear because he did not want to hear that jesus needed to
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Go all the way to the cross and i think of how.
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And fear gets in the way.
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- well, even when jesus, when they came to get jesus in the
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Garden, you know.
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He whips out a sword to cut the hair off, and jesus says,
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What are you doing?
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You're, you're trying to stop me from going to my destiny.
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This is what i'm doing right now.
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Stop-- - you know, i have a lot of empathy for peter
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Though, because they do the same thing.
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- yeah, i mean, absolutely.
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- i don't want to go garden.
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I think he was thinking, i will die with you.
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I'm just not going to lay down here like a lamb.
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He just didn't understand.
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He'd been following, he'd been following a lamb all his life.
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That that's who jesus is.
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And so i think when circumstances are unexpected.
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That's when we tend to think what happened here,
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As opposed to making this absolute internal conviction.
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God is good, god is in control,
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God is sovereign all the time.
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He's not sovereign some of the time and he loses out about 50
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On a tuesday.
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No.
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God is sovereign, god is good, god is for us.
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And whenever i feel any of those negative thoughts from
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The past, i have this thing now where i'll just stop and
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I'll say, sorry, i'll have to talk to my father.
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It's like, no, you know, don't even have time to entertain
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That because that's not who my father says i am.
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- and i think when you practice that,
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You're aware of when the negative thoughts are like you
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Become more sensitive to it because it doesn't feel
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Natural like it used to.
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- jesus said, get behind me, satan.
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I'll no longer look at you.
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And so then anything that comes towards us, anything,
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Any circumstance that doesn't, isn't on your bingo card,
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As they say.
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Anything that might surprise you, you know what,
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That's your time to call on god,
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He said you call on me and i'll answer you.
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Everything belongs to him.
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The earth is the lord's in the fullness thereof.
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Everything that pertains to life and godliness is
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From god.
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And so what are we looking at him for?
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There's no reason to ever even, i'm sorry,
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I don't even consider what he's doing.
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I'm looking forward to the prize of the high calling.
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I'm thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
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We're doing it right here on earth.
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We're getting the kingdom established here on earth
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Today.
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- and i love this story about peter.
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One of the things i had never seen before is, you know,
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Thinking through, yes, it's fear.
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But what did jesus say to him first?
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He said, get behind me, right?
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So what was the first calling on peter's life?
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Follow me.
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So if i'm following.
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Then why am i needing to be told to get behind?
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That means peter didn't feel control anymore.
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He loved being like all the miracles,
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But jesus now it's shifting.
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The story's changing and he doesn't know what it's going
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To look like.
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So then he tries to lead.
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Like i have a phd in control.
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[laughing]
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Yeah, i love knowing what's going to happen.
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And that to me is like, i think a superpower.
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Like it can be a superpower as long as you're still yielding
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To jesus.
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But i think that whole because jesus knew peter's calling in
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Just a couple of weeks, he was going to be leading
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The church.
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He's like, you're going to have to remember,
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And i love that his identity and his authority came through
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Who jesus was.
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- what i hear from all of you.
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In your own personal stories is the steady application of
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Truth.
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You don't just save it for the rainy day,
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You steadily apply the truth of god in your life, right?
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- every day you, you have to do it every day.
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It's a discipline.
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It's a walk of faith.
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- yes, in the good days and the bad days.
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And i remember studying, you know,
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Why the israelites didn't come into their promise,
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And i found this nugget.
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And i think it's psalm 107:6 and amplified.
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And it said told them three things they did wrong.
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And i'm like i want to get this right, so let me learn.
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The one thing is they did not marvel at the miracles or the
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Significance of the miracles of god.
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So and i think about the israelites,
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They saw the red sea part.
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They saw a pillar of cloud by day, fire by night.
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The scripture says that they left egypt was not a feeble
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One among them, you know.
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My thought on that my layman's view,
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I'm a former fitness person, so i'm like there were
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Herniated discs, there were parasites,
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There were torn meniscus.
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I know these people were injured,
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So for them to leave egypt with not a feeble one,
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My layman's view is that while the spirit of death was going
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Through the land of egypt.
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Life was happening under the blood.
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Because they were in their homes under the blood.
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There's no other explanation that that many people could
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Leave without any feebleness in their bodies.
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But anyway, they had front row seat to see all these
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Miracles, yet they shrugged their shoulders at the
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Miracles.
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And so my thought is when you're in that negativity,
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If you're in between miracles, borrow one.
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There's so many borrow one from your friend,
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Borrow faith, right, and meditate and stay in awe of
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The miracles because he's the same god.
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The second thing they didn't do.
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Was they were not in perpetual of his mercies.
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So and the scripture says they didn't earnestly remember his
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Mercies, and you think about golly,
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He sends us mercies every morning.
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Before we've even had a chance to blow it.
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I mean he's making so sure that we get home safely.
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That we have an ocean of mercies.
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I mean think of all the negative things you've said
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That you didn't get in trouble for.
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Now it's not to say your sin doesn't matter,
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But he doesn't punish us as our sins deserve.
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I mean, all the mercies of god, right?
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And the third thing they didn't do was they did not
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Imprint his loving kindness on their heart.
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Which is like i sat a long time with that.
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When you've gone through enough negativity,
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You will brace for impact.
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You will live waiting for the shoe to drop.
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You have to apply yourself to the loving kindness of god.
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And the israelites, bless their hearts,
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Because i'm prone to wander in the very same ways.
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All they could think about is what they didn't have.
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And when those three things confronted me in my
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Wilderness, i'm like i want to get this right.
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And as i started to apply myself to the miracles and the
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Mercies and his love.
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My perspective changed.
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Even my husband didn't know i was like privately applying
00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:05.603
Myself to this, and he said; your skin looks different.
00:42:05.603 --> 00:42:08.272
Your eyes look different.
00:42:08.272 --> 00:42:09.340
He said, what are you taking a new vitamin?
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I'm like, well, sorry, what's that?
00:42:11.375 --> 00:42:12.810
I didn't need to tell you.
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I mean, if you want to just, i just challenge you in jesus'
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Name to apply yourself to those three truths daily.
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It will change things for you because it sets you up to see
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God, to hear god, and to stay in awe of him, you know.
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- beautiful.
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-can you see it again, the three things.
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- yes, yes. they did not marvel at the significance of
00:42:28.592 --> 00:42:31.762
God's miracles.
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And i just think, you know, every time we get together we
00:42:33.063 --> 00:42:35.733
Should be sharing a miracle, a miracle story, right?
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They were not in earnest and perpetual all his mercies oh
00:42:38.636 --> 00:42:42.506
The mercies.
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It's the mercies of god that's, you know,
00:42:43.540 --> 00:42:44.842
It's the love and the mercy why we're not consumed, right?
00:42:44.842 --> 00:42:46.810
And then they didn't imprint his love on their hearts.
00:42:46.810 --> 00:42:49.546
And the way i think of that is that my husband is just this
00:42:49.546 --> 00:42:52.316
Oak of righteousness, giant man,
00:42:52.316 --> 00:42:53.817
Steady eddie just does not lose his cool.
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I, i just don't know anybody like him.
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So if you were to tell me you saw him at the bar down the
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Block tying one on or something.
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I would tell you, you know, i think that's how they say it
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Anyway.
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I would say, well, you got the wrong guy because i know him.
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I've been married a long time.
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You know, if you tell me that he slept over and left his
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Clothes everywhere, well, ok.
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[laughing] - you're like, yeah, you got a case there.
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- but i know him, and i believe god wants us to so
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Imprint his character and kindness.
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So when the devil comes or even someone else comes,
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You got the wrong guy.
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I know my god.
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I know he's good, and i think that's how you forge, right?
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- that's so good, susie.
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I love that.
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- i think it is so important to remember what god has
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Already done.
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In fact, paul says to us in philippians,
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Be anxious for nothing, but in everything with prayer and
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Supplication, with thanksgiving,
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Present your request to god.
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So, thanksgiving and gratefulness,
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Remembering what god's already done.
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Begins to shift the not enough into more than enough.
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And i think negativity oftentimes is what we don't
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Have i can get in a negative headspace if i'm comparing
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Myself to somebody else.
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I'm scrolling on instagram or social media in some way.
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And i see what somebody else is being blessed with.
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And it feels like they have no battles and i have them all.
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But i've discovered that when i can take a few minutes to,
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To remind myself, like build a memorial.
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Remembering what he's already done,
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He's done way more than we could have ever imagined.
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And you may be in your room right now and you're like,
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I don't, i can't think of anything.
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Well, you're breathing, you're alive.
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And you still have a few more days to go.
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So just thanking god for those basic things.
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And it begins to awaken within us that he's more than enough.
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You know, because the bible tells us that his word is
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Inspired and that word inspired means breathed into.
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So you're really, you're, when you read it, even if it's,
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Even if it's genealogy.
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It has the essence of god attached to it.
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Like i decided in every, i have read through the bible.
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I mean, i've been following jesus for a long time.
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Many times, but many times i start, i get stuck.
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Because i'll read something, i'll be, oh,
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That's phenomenal.
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And then i've got 3 days of deep dive into whatever.
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And you're right, i can have the same level of, well,
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You promised god you're going to get through the bible.
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Well, it's going to be three years this time?
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- [indiscernible.] - yeah, exactly.
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And i think that's what i'm trying to say is if you've
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Tried to start reading the bible before and you got stuck
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Or you didn't finish.
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You know, two steps forward and three steps back doesn't
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Mean you stop.
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- there's no going.
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- exactly, exactly.
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- one of my guests on my radio show,
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Because there's so much legalism and i think at times
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Around your bible reading plan, it can get that way,
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Right?
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And he says, i just tell people,
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As long as you're reading somewhere between the front
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Cover and the back cover, you're good.
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He's like, you know, it's good to get a good context,
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But it's like get in the world.
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Just be in the word and--
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- yeah know who he is--like that.
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I mean at the end of the day, i think he's inviting us in to
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Know him.
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So when you open up his word you're getting to know your
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Father.
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I mean think about it like that.
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I spent years kind of tied up in some legalism around just
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Reading the scriptures, but when it shifted for me was
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When he said, i just want to know you.
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I want to know you.
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I want you to get to know me.
00:46:06.710 --> 00:46:08.078
And opening up the scriptures is getting to know his love
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And his mercy and that feels so much more life giving than
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I have to.
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I want to know the creator.
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I want to know the one.
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Yeah, i get to and it's an invitation to do that.
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- can you move god's words off your to do list and onto your
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Who i am.
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- absolutely.
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- that's beautiful because it's a love story.
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- it's an invitation, so good.
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- well, as we get ready to wrap.
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I just i'm still thundered by what you said, you know,
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How life shaking and like you knew that theologically,
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The truth that jesus won a sound victory.
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But it landed on you in a way that changed something--
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- your life.
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- yeah, i feel like that's what we should land with as i
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Get ready to praise.
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Because when you go to the idea of marveling at his
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Miracles, being all of his mercies and imprinting his
00:46:50.587 --> 00:46:53.223
Love.
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All of that is a testament to love came down.
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Love rescued us.
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Love blew the doors off of the devil's claim on us.
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And i think when we're in negativity maybe we go back to
00:47:01.164 --> 00:47:03.634
That truth to say not only did he win a victory,
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But he won a sound victory.
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Ok, so from that place i've got to live in the truth.
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And one last thing before we pray is that,
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We will face god and give an account someday.
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And there is a place where--you can almost be
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Rebellious and defiant in your determination to believe a
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Lie.
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I mean, that's what the israelites,
00:47:22.619 --> 00:47:23.754
A lot of scholars say their fear was rebellious.
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It started out understandable because they were slaves.
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But it became rebellious because they coddled their
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Fear more than they clung to the promises of god.
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So that's how i'm going to pray for our friends watching
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Today.
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Is that we could get a fresh revelation of actually what
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Jesus accomplished.
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And from that place then start dealing with the lies.
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- amen. let's do it.
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- father in heaven, we, we thank you so much for loving
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Us so much that you sent your son.
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And oh dear jesus that you would come.
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That you would be so content to be misunderstood.
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That you would live a sinless life,
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That you were accused and condemned and treated like a
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Criminal for us, lord, you died our death,
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You paid our debt, and then you blew the doors off of the
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Enemy's claim on us, lord.
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The word says you made a public spectacle of the powers
00:48:08.632 --> 00:48:12.669
That oppose us, that is amazing, father.
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And so we just humbly bow before you we call you king.
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We call you lord.
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And we say thank you that you are alive in us that you are
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Coming for a pure and spotless bride.
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And lord god, i just, i pray forgive us god for holding
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Fast to lies that feel true.
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Help us god to get a new activated feisty faith to
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Contend for the truth.
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To believe the truth, to receive it and walk in it.
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Lord, many people, someone once said 1000 people are on
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The other side of our obedience.
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They're waiting on the other side of our obedience.
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Help us, god, to rise up to the freedom,
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To the wholeness that you paid such a high price for.
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It is for freedom that you set us free.
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So may we refuse to be subject to a yoke of slavery ever
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Again.
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May we live free, walk free, speak freedom,
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And help others get free.
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In the mighty name of jesus, we pray.
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Amen.
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- amen.
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- connect with us on social media and let us know how our
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Team can pray for you.
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(music playing)
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- my favorite thing that god says about me is that i am his
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Beloved.
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I think about it all the time.
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And so much so that i talk about it to my kids too.
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I've got three kids and it's become kind of a way of life
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For us that i am god's beloved.
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Which means that i have been given a new identity,
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A new name, a new future, a new calling,
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And that goes for you too.
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- he's delighted in me.
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I love that he loves me.
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But the fact that he delights in me.
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That always blows my mind.
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In spite of my imperfections, in spite of the times i don't
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Do it right.
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That doesn't sway how he thinks about me,
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And that one thought that he's delighted in me really changed
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And shifted a lot of things in my life.
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- i think of ephesians 2:10.
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It says, for we are god's masterpiece created anew in
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Christ jesus so we can do the wonderful things he planned
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For us long ago.
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To be a masterpiece, to be a treasure.
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As someone who battles a lot of chronic health issues.
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It just reminds me that he doesn't make mistakes.
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And so whatever he allows he redeems and it doesn't
00:50:15.926 --> 00:50:19.062
Diminish my value so that means a lot to me.
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- my very favorite thing that god says about me is very,
00:50:22.065 --> 00:50:25.702
Very simple; i love you.
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Because honestly that changes everything.
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When you think about who it is, who's saying it to you.
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It's not like the woman who works in the coffee shop,
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Or you know, somebody who sits beside you in church.
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But god himself, the one who's holding the whole universe in
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Place right now.
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Would look at you and say i love you.
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Replace Negativity with Truth | Better Together Episode 1157

April 21, 2026 | S8 E1157 | 50:59

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