Tasha Calvert - You Are Holy

June 10, 2026 | 27:29

The author of “Set Apart For More” explains the biblical idea of holiness and how God transforms us into holy people.

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| Tasha Calvert - You Are Holy | June 10, 2026

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Announcer: coming up, author and podcast host tasha calvert
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Challenges your perceptions of holiness.
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Tasha calvert: i think the biggest hurdle for most of us,
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Honestly, is just wrapping our minds around the possibility
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That we could be holy.
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You know, we are in christ.
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If we have surrendered our lives to him, he's declared us
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As holy.
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And so it's really arrogant for us to say, no, no, no, no, no,
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I, i, i can't be that.
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I, i don't live up to that.
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Randy robison: welcome to "life today."
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I'm randy robison.
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Blynda, how are you today?
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Blynda lane: i'm really, really happy to be here.
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Randy: i have a question for you.
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Blynda: yes.
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Randy: so there's this scripture in 1 peter, and he's
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Actually echoing, i think leviticus, you know, but he's
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Saying, you know, telling people that they should be holy as god
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Is holy, right?
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And have you ever read that and thought,
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"not a chance."
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Blynda: there's no way, i can't attain that at all.
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Randy: why would he tell us that, especially if it
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Wasn't possible.
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Makes me go, it's possible.
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I just don't know how or what it means.
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Blynda: in the christian life we can strive a lot, and
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Yet the way we can be the holiest is when
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We're surrendered.
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Randy: we better talk about this.
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Blynda: i know.
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I think we're gonna, and you know what, we have a really
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Awesome person who's gonna help us talk about this, the "set
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Apart for more."
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Tasha calvert, thank you so much for joining us today.
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Tasha: i'm so excited to have this conversation with you.
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Randy: we're glad to have you, you know, prestonwood
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Baptist, good friends of the ministry, jack graham, and
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You're on staff over there full time as well.
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Tasha: i am, yes, the women's minister there.
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Blynda: yeah, you said backstage for almost a decade.
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That's amazing.
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Tasha: that is good.
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Randy: i'm guessing this is a question that comes up a
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Lot, like, what does that really mean?
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What--holiness?
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Tasha: absolutely, and i hope it continues to come up a
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Lot because one thing i would say is,
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I feel like it does not get the prominence it deserves.
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Like when we look at scripture, even the cover of your bible
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Usually says holy bible.
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We serve a holy god, we sing about holiness.
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And yet when i would get in a room with a bunch of women and
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Say, "how many of you would describe a friend as holy?"
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Everybody kind of looks around, and then if i were to take it a
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Step further and say, "how many of you would describe yourself
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As holy?" i mean, that airspace was not being ventured into.
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And so i, like you, kind of did a deep dive in scripture and
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Said, okay, why would god call us to something if he wasn't
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Expecting that we could do this?
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And so, you know, as with most things that the lord does, he
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Took me through this book, the
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Message of this book first and kind of dealt with that in my
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Own life, but i became so passionate about what it looks
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Like to live surrendered to god and just how empowering and
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Enlivening that is, that it just became kind of the drum that i
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Beat for the women of our church and now more broadly, just
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People that will read this book.
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So i'm really excited about it.
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Blynda: isn't it so true in the christian life, it feels
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Like things are sometimes opposite.
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Like when you surrender the most is when you live in the most
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Freedom, and you would think that's opposite, to surrender
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Something, but so when we're surrendering to him to live this
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Holy life, that's probably when so much in your life really
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Became more free.
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Tasha: oh, 100% and it's so scary because i think we
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Think we have way more control over our life and our
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Sanctification than we actually do.
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And so surrender really is the key.
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I think the biggest hurdle for most of us, honestly, is just
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Wrapping our minds around the possibility that we could be
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Holy, you know, because we attribute holiness to god, and
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That's right.
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He has declared us holy.
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If we are in christ, if we have surrendered our lives to him,
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He's declared us as holy, and so it's really arrogant for us to
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Say, no, no, no, no, no, i, i, i can't be that.
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I, i don't live up to that.
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And so really this book is kind of my own wrestling through how
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Do i embrace what god has called me to be?
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How do i agree with his scripture, and then what are
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Some practical ways--like, i don't want to live in the, you
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Know, hypothetical.
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How practically do i join him and allow him to produce
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Holiness in me?
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And so that's kind of what we talk about.
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Randy: i'm guessing, and you correct me if i'm wrong.
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I'm guessing that part of the reason you get the resistance
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To, you know, "do you know someone who's holy," or "am i
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Holy, certainly not," is because we don't understand the term
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Properly, what would you say are some of the biggest
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Misconceptions we have about the idea of holiness?
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Tasha: i think we're really big even in christian
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Spaces at looking at the things that god produces in us, and we
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See what comes out outward, and so we just try and mimic that.
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Like a holy person never misses church.
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A holy person never says a bad word when they stump their toe.
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A holy person, you know, never has thoughts that are not holy.
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And really, that's the misunderstanding because it
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Keeps that onus on us.
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And we, i mean, there's part of us that's right to be reticent
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In embracing holiness because guess what, we're sinners.
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Like, we are not gonna drift towards holiness.
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So i think what we have to do is recognize that god is the one
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That is going to produce that holiness in us.
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And so i've kind of come up with a four-part framework in the
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Book, and i think that has really been helpful to me and
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Others in trying to wrap our minds around what it might look
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Like to embark on a journey of holiness.
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And so it's kind of four part, and it starts by saying that
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Holiness is a sacred otherness that originates from god.
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And i think that's the part we're all most comfortable with.
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But then the second part is, it is empowered and entrusted to us
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By his spirit.
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And that's the really important part for us as believers.
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We have been given a holy helper, and that's the
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Holy spirit.
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And so holiness is possible for us because his spirit lives
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In us.
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Now that's good news for us as believers, but it's also kind of
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Good news for people who don't know jesus,
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Because i can't expect somebody who does not know jesus
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To be holy.
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Yeah, there's just, it's not possible.
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Now, i would hope that they would come to know jesus, but
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This is for the believer.
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And then the third part is it manifests in our character, and
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I chose the word character because i think it was a big
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Enough word to encompass really all of the ways that god
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Transforms us.
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And that's such good news.
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Like, god isn't just gonna pick and choose some things and give
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You one or two things.
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Like, when he comes in and produces holiness in us, it
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Changes everything.
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And then the fourth part is that it is strengthened in
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Christian community.
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And i think that seems kind of obvious, but, you know, we're
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Looking around at culture right now and realizing that people
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Are more isolated than they've ever been.
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They're lonelier than they've ever been.
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They're more anxious than they've ever been, and so
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Understanding that god designed us for more and that holiness is
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Something that is going to be strengthened, buoyed when we are
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In relationship with other people, i think that is just
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Such a beautiful gift, especially to the church in this
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Cultural moment.
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Blynda: i think about like iron, it says iron sharpens
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Iron, and we know that sin left in the dark, that's where shame
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Is, that so when you are in community and you can maybe help
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Bring some of these struggles to the light, now the people around
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You are bringing you to a different level, so i can see
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How important that aspect of living holy is by also who you
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Surround yourself with.
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So earlier you said something about practical things that we
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Can do.
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Can you talk about some of the practical ways if somebody is
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Watching and they're like, okay, i mean, i know it's not a set of
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To do's, it's not a checkoff list, it's not that, but what
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Are some things though also that i could be kind of sharpening in
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My life?
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Tasha: yeah, i kind of like to posture it as like a
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Cooperation with the holy spirit, and we know how to
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Cooperate because god's word is kind of our rule book, but i
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Have four daughters.
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Blynda, i was telling you about that, and randy, you won't
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Relate to this but.
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Randy: i have two daughters.
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Tasha: okay, well, but did you give birth?
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That's what it is.
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Randy: pretty close to it.
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Blynda: oh, i think your wife, i'm sorry, she did that.
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Tasha: so when i would go into the hospital, i have two
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Granddaughters too, and my daughters have been way more
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Empowered, you know, like, okay, i'm gonna do this by myself, i
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Guess, bite down on leather or something.
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I don't know.
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I was the complete opposite.
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Blynda: give me the drugs.
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Tasha: yes, i went into the hospital and i would look at
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The nurse and say, okay, so nice to meet you.
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Here to have the baby.
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Listen, totally ready to cooperate.
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So if you tell me to push,
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I'll push to the best of my ability.
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If you tell me to breathe, i will breathe to the best of
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My ability.
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Whatever it is that you think would be helpful, to the best of
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My ability, i will do it.
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But at the end of the day it is your job to get this baby out.
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And that is really how i always thought about it.
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Like i am here to cooperate, but i do not feel like i've got what
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It takes to do this thing.
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Exactly.
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And that really is kind of our posture with holiness.
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It's looking at god every morning and saying, okay, i know
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You have a purpose for me.
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I know you have set me apart for something more than i can ask,
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Dream, or imagine, and i am going to do my best to
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Cooperate, but at the end of the day, if i do anything
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Worthwhile, if any holiness is produced in me, it's because
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Your spirit has enabled and enlivened that in me.
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And i think even just having that mindset as we go into the
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Day is so helpful.
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So a spirit of cooperation is part one.
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Blynda: it's so good.
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Randy: it is, and it's all the way through scripture.
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If you start looking for it, you see that god, as my dad says,
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Would use imperfect people to accomplish his perfect will.
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You know, and there are times where god just did something,
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You know, with paul on, you know, saul to paul kind
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Of thing.
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But there was the cooperation aspect i think is huge, and when
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You look at what jesus told people was, "believe in me,
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Believe in me," so when you were talking a minute ago about how,
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Yes, we're all sinners, we're not just gonna drift
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Towards holiness, at the same time, if we are born again,
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We have a new identity, we have a new heart.
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It's not as the old testament would describe as, you know,
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Wicked and corrupt because that's why we get a new
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One, right?
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That's the whole point.
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How much of just enabling the ability to step into holiness is
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Believing what god says about us and our identity?
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Tasha: for us to fully embrace our identity as someone
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Holy, we have to believe that god has the ability to bestow
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That upon us.
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I mean, i think of the old testament, you know, in the old
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Testament, the bible is all to be, you know, all of it is
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Useful for our instruction, but there are some differences.
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In the old testament, we kind of have this orientation where
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God's dealing with israel as a community.
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And so he shows up in different places and it's very personal
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When he does.
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And i think of two places in particular where he's speaking
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To joshua, and then one where he's speaking to moses.
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And he shows up, one of them, you know, both of them are
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Theophany of sorts and a theophany just for the listener
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Out there is just a physical manifestation of the presence
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Of god.
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And so it can look different, but he shows up and he tells
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Moses and joshua that they are standing on holy ground.
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Now, here's the cool thing about that.
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Minutes before that holy ground was dirt.
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What makes it holy is its proximity to god.
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And so when we enter into relationship, we have to enter
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Into the affirmation and belief that god can do with us because
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Of who he is with us.
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And so, yeah, belief, belief is certainly foundational to it.
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Absolutely.
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Blynda: there's these two things that exist at the same
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Time, this belief and then this striving to be good and to be
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Holy, and yet what i hear you saying that i think brings so
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Much freedom to the viewer is this is where we camp
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Out, right?
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We cooperate, yes, but it's the holy spirit doing the work in us
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Which is so beautiful.
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But you do talk about some secret weapons, some holy
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Habits, and i think those are important because we still do
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Have the role to play.
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We have the cooperation part, and sometimes for me the
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Cooperation part is, okay, i don't want to derail myself.
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I don't want to get off course.
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I want to always have my heart malleable.
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So what are some of those secret weapon holy habits?
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Tasha: so two foundations that i think are the
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Best place to start.
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In fact, i call them building blocks within the book, and it's
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God's word and god's people.
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And so i think though, that's a really good place to start as we
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Try and foster this spirit of cooperation with god.
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And god's word really is just that we need to be people who
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Are listening for what god says from his word.
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You know, for years, i grew up in a pastor's home.
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I really have never veered far from my faith, from the church,
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But i will tell you, it took me an unusually long amount of time
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To really understand that i could hear from god's word
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By myself.
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That i could sit in a chair all by myself with my bible and my
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Cup of coffee, and god could speak directly to me.
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For so many decades i was so faithful, but i was listening to
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The pastor and the bible teacher and the young marrieds minister
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And whomever else, dependent on them.
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God's word is the primary way that he speaks to us.
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So, if you're wondering, "i would love to cooperate.
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I don't know what god's telling me,"
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My next question to you would be, what does your reading in
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God's word look like?
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Like, what does your time in god's word look like?
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That's gonna be an easy place to start cooperating, and he will
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Be so faithful, surprisingly faithful to meet you on the
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Pages of scripture.
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But i want to caution everybody.
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Because we have to understand that god's word is a book
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About him.
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It will help us know him better.
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And if we keep that in mind, remembering that holiness is
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Something he defines, holiness is who he is.
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When we go to scripture, we get a better picture of who he is
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And what holiness looks like.
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And as we read scripture, it reads us and it helps us to look
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More like him.
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Randy: so what would you say sort of the personal payoff
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If i can use that term, the fruit, you know, of saying,
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"okay, god, i'm gonna believe that even though i'm dirt, if i
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Get close to you, i can be holy ground," right?
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What has that done for you personally?
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Tasha: i'm so glad you asked that question because i
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Will tell you part of what sparked this whole journey to
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Write this is that having been a believer all of my life, having
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Checked all the boxes, serving, going to church, doing all
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The things, i didn't feel like my faith was super effective.
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And, you know, at some point you wanna do what's right, but, you
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Know, you kind of start to think, why am i spending so much
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Energy on something that really is not giving me the confidence,
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The peace, the fulfillment that i need?
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And so what it has done for me is totally transform who i am
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And how i live.
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And what that means is all those things that i knew were in
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There, that i knew i was supposed to be feeling, the
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Peace of god that passes understanding, the love of god,
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Despite anything that i might feel personal shame about,
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The power of god, that, you know, that same spirit that
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Raised him from the dead, that's in me, and yet i so often
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Felt ineffective.
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When i began to transform myself, to put myself at his
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Feet and listen to his word and let him move in me,
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Those things became alive.
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Now, do i still have problems?
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A hundred percent.
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Are there still things that rattle me?
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Yes, but there is such beauty in knowing that i can trust god,
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Knowing that he has been faithful, knowing that he's not
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Gonna leave me or forsake me, and others see that.
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Others see that, and you know what?
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You see that in other people too.
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And so there's just something so beautiful about actually seeing
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The promises of god take root in your heart and transform you
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From the inside out.
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Randy: no doubt.
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I love it, and you know we were talking about the first half of
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Your title, "set apart for more," but the for more,
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That's--there's so much fun in the "for more," yeah,
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And that's beautiful.
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All right, so i would love for you watching right now to get
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The book, and you can get it where you get books, but we will
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Send it to you when you do a little more with us.
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Scripture says we were set apart for good works.
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That's one of the--part of the more, i believe, and we have
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Some opportunities right now before us, specifically mission
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Feeding, and this is the last week we'll be talking to you
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About this on the air, but this is an opportunity to be set
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Apart and do something more, and that is to bless somebody in
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Word and in deed with god's love.
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And actually i think that's a very good picture of what
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Happens through our mission feeding program.
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Mission feeding is a emergency food program, essentially.
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We often do it in schools, because when a child is focused
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On their next meal, they can't really get an education.
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When the children are having to work constantly in the fields to
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Provide, help provide the next meal, makes it hard to get
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An education.
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It makes it hard to get out of that cycle.
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Mission feeding gets children, villages, families out of the
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Cycle of poverty and starvation and hunger.
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That's what you're giving.
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When you give $50, for example, to help feed 5 children for the
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Next several months or $100 to help feed 10 children, you're
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Not just giving them food in a bowl.
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Yes, you are helping to provide that because that's what the
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Immediate need is, but you're also giving them a hope and a
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Future through an education.
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You're also giving them the gospel because the gospel is
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Embedded in everything that we do.
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So as we wrap up this television campaign, i want you--to let
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You know that the mission feeding will continue with
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Your support.
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We need to hear from you.
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This isn't the last week we'll be talking about it on the air
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During this campaign.
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Some of you could perhaps give $1000 to help feed 100 children,
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Maybe even more.
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I'm telling you right now, we will make a difference with
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Your help.
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It's worked in the past.
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It's working.
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We want it to continue working in the future.
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Will you join us today?
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Will you go online, go to the phone, make the best gift
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You can?
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Be the hands and feet of jesus to reach out to those who have
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An immediate and desperate need and say, "you know what?
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We're gonna share the love of god with you and this is how
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We're gonna show it."
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So please, again, go online, go to the phone, make the best gift
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You can.
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Care about.
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Please call, write, or make
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Your gift online.
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Randy: we do need to hear from you now.
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Let's do this.
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We can continue feeding those kids, and i'm telling you it's a
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Blessing for them as well as for those of us who are part of it.
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So pick up the phone, go online, make the best gift you can, and
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Don't forget today if you request tasha calvert's book,
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We'd love to send it.
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I know it's gonna bless people.
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Blynda: you have such an amazing way of presenting really
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Complex things that can be like holiness into something
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Really practical.
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So i love that and i know people would want to hear more
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From you.
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Where can they hear more from you?
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Tasha: oh, that's so kind.
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Well, obviously i serve my local church and we make our studies
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Available through right now media or prestonwood women, so
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We would invite anybody to check that out.
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I have a podcast where i talk with people just about how to
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Take what we're learning in scripture and how to live that
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Out on the daily, and it's called "digging in" with tasha
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Calvert and so you can listen to that wherever you listen to
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Your podcasts.
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And then, of course, tashacalvert.com is where kind
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Of i'm home.
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Blynda: amazing.
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So thank you, tasha, so much for being with us.
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We've so enjoyed it, and thank you for being with us today too.
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We can't wait to have you back with us.
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See you soon.
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♪♪♪
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Andy mcquitty: hello, my name is andy mcquitty, and it's my
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Privilege to share some words of wisdom, words of life with you
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This morning.
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And the words of life that i'd like to share with you this
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Morning are from john chapter 15 in verse 7 where our lord gives
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Us a wonderful promise about prayer.
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That promise is simply this.
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Jesus says to all of us, his disciples and followers, "ask
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Whatever you wish and it will be done for you."
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I don't know about you, but in these tumultuous and chaotic
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Days in our world and in our nation, i have many wishes in my
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Heart for the world and for our country, for my family, for my
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Friends, for our lives in these days.
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And when i hear jesus make such a promise, it is overwhelming
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And it's wonderful and it's joyful, but it raises some
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Questions in my mind that maybe it raised in your mind too, like
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How could god make such a carte blanche offer that anything we
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Wish will come true?
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Well, i didn't read the first part of the verse.
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The first part of the verse gives us the conditions for
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Jesus's carte blanche promise to answer every wish
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That we might have.
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Let me go back and read the first part of the verse.
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"if you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask
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Whatever you wish and it will be done for you."
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"if you remain in me," jesus is saying, "if you are seeking me
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Out on a daily basis, if you're spending time with me in my
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Presence, in prayer, and my words remain in you, and you're
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Studying the word, and you're obeying the scriptures," jesus
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Says, "if those two things, then i can make the carte blanche
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Promise that whatever you wish will be done for you because
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Whatever you wish, if you are remaining in me and obeying my
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Word, whatever you wish is what i wish, and i will never say no
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To what i wish."
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And so jesus says you enter into what i call the god's
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Never-say-no zone whenever you commit to daily remaining in him
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And meeting with him and walking with him and obeying his word.
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See, god wants to answer the prayers of those whose hearts
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Are completely his, so if that's you, my friend, make your heart
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Completely his and you can ask for whatever you wish and it
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Will be done for you.
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Tasha Calvert - You Are Holy

June 10, 2026 | 27:29

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