Ruslan KD - Godly Ambition

May 26, 2026 | 27:29

The singer and entrepreneur shares his rocky road to Christ and how he learned to direct his talents and passions in the right way.

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Life Today with James Robison | Ruslan KD - Godly Ambition | May 26, 2026

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Male announcer: the following program is sponsored by friends
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Of life outreach international.
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Ruslan kd: my mother and my father split up, they get a
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Divorce, and i'm raised without my dad in san diego in the '90s.
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And that led me down a pretty rough path of getting arrested
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And doing drugs and drinking alcohol, losing my virginity,
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All by the age of 11.
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Announcer: from criminal to entrepreneur, godly ambition
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Changed ruslan kd's life.
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Ruslan: a simple way to look at it is it's
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Stewardship, ultimately.
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So we're stewarding our time, our talent, our treasure onto
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The glory of god.
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[music]
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Randy robison: welcome to "life today," i'm randy robison.
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We've been having a good time, haven't we?
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Blynda lane: we have been having a good time.
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Kind of caught me off guard a little bit.
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Randy: i did a little bit.
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All right, so we have a wonderful guest today.
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His name is ruslan kd.
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And if you know who he is, well, you know who he is.
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If you don't, i really think you're gonna get to know him a
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Little bit and enjoy it.
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Now, you know, you won't get to hear all the music
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And all that kind of thing.
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You have to go online for that.
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But we're gonna talk about a concept that i think is
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Really helpful.
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It's the title of his book, "godly ambition."
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But you're also gonna hear his story, which is fascinating.
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Blynda: the story is fascinating, but what i love is,
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I mean, he's kind of overtaken like the youtube world
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A little bit, and so--
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Randy: if you don't know him,
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Your kids or grandkids, do, right?
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Blynda: somebody, i promise they do.
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Randy: right, so welcome, ruslan.
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Ruslan: what an introduction.
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Thank you, guys. that was awesome.
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Blynda: was it? yeah, i'm so glad.
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We're so glad that you're with us, and you really do have an
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Amazing story just even to be sitting in this chair today.
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So many god miracles that happened in your life.
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For the audience that maybe isn't as familiar with how you
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Have gotten to do what you're doing now, can you give us a
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Little background?
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Ruslan: yeah, so i'm ethnically armenian, but i was raised in
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Azerbaijan, baku, which is just east of armenia.
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And azerbaijan is just north of iran, north of iraq, very
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Peaceful part of the world, a lot of tranquility--no,
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I'm joking.
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There's been a lot of conflict there.
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Blynda: i was thinking, i'm not familiar with--
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Ruslan: yeah, yeah, that's my sarcastic humor.
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So, long story short, armenian christians in azerbaijan,
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Muslim state.
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Long story short, on the backdrop of this former soviet
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Union, on the backdrop of the armenian genocide of 1915, a lot
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Of tension, and so about half a million armenians were
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Ethnically cleansed from azerbaijan in the late '80s,
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Because it's called the pogroms of baku.
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And so they were spread all over the diaspora, and this has been
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Going on and on for a very long time in that part of the world.
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So me and my family came as refugees in 1991, a few months
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Before the fall of the soviet union.
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Randy: so, what, you guys are here because you escaped,
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Potentially, death, and you came to america?
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Okay.
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Ruslan: yeah, about 500 armenians were slaughtered, and
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There's a beautiful movie on this called "between borders,"
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That stars elizabeth from "the chosen," that tells some of
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The story.
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That recently came out.
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It was really cool to see my own story on the big screen, yeah.
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Blynda: but not only did you have that amazing part of your
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Story, but then, now you're in america having to create a whole
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New life, and your family life had some tension in it.
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And at this point, you don't know the lord.
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So what is the story there of getting you to not only where
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You know the lord, but now you're doing things for him in
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Your--that's your whole life's work, is to minister.
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Ruslan: about six months after coming to america, my mother and
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My father split up.
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They get a divorce.
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My dad remarries, has another family, and i'm raised without
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My dad in san diego in the '90s, and this is at the peak of like
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Gangster rap music, so this is, you know, n.w.a., snoop dogg,
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Dr. dre, tupac.
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These are the people that discipled me as a kid that was
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Very unsupervised.
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And that led me down a pretty rough path of getting arrested
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And doing drugs and drinking alcohol, losing my virginity,
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All by the age of 11.
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So i got arrested, at 11, for attempting to break into a house
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To get money to bail out my gang leader, all right?
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And oddly enough, the lord started using it because what
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Happened was, i had to do community service hours.
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And i waited till the last minute, in seventh grade, and
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The only way i can get them done is if i went to charlie and
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Willie's church, last minute, to do community service hours
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With them.
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They had became christians, and i had these kind of father
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Figures in my life that were telling me about jesus, sharing
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The good news with me, and telling me i was gonna do great
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Things for the lord someday.
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This is sixth, seventh, eighth grade-ish,
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And none of it stuck.
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I was still calling myself an atheist.
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I thought, there is no god, and if there is a god, he wants
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Nothing to do with me.
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And then the lord just kept sending people and sending
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People, and i started going to church because there was a girl
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I was dating.
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The only way i could see her over the weekends, over the
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Summer, is if i went to church with her and her family.
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That's when i really first heard the gospel.
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I kinda grew up in the oriental armenian church, orthodox
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Church, but never really heard the gospel.
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And then i kept hearing about this jesus, that he loved me,
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And then it all just kind of clicked.
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But then i went down the apologetics road, because then i
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Was dating a jehovah's witness girl, i have muslim friends, i
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Have buddhist friends.
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I had all these questions, so i read josh mcdowell's "the new
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Evidence that demands a verdict," and that kind of
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Sealed the deal for me.
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And so, towards the end of my high school years i surrendered
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My life, did a public profession of faith at a miles
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Ahead crusade.
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Miles mcpherson did these outreach kind of like billy
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Graham crusades, and so, yeah, it was july 4th of 2002 is when
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I gave my life to the lord, like public profession.
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But i'd been kicking and screaming for years.
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Randy: do you ever ask god, "why did i have to have such a hard
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Road to get to you?"
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Ruslan: no, because of the passage in romans, you know,
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"all things work for good for those who love god and are
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Called according to his purpose."
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The story of joseph, "that which you meant for evil god used
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For good."
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So no, i think all the weird things that have happened to me,
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The evil things that have happened to me and my family,
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I've seen god use it for good.
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Blynda: so you have this, and somewhat maybe you could call it
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Kind of a rags to riches story in the sense of--in the
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Spiritual sense that you really came here with nothing.
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Now you've established a really powerful and
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Successful business.
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You're kind of a cultural commentator, if you will, on
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Youtube, but from a biblical worldview.
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And i think that's the important part for the audience to know,
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You really have a voice in this area that is really unique.
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But to get there, i'm sure that there was a lot of ups and downs
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When you're getting a lot of followers and you're starting to
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Be successful, that you yourself could have been faced with,
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"look what i'm doing."
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And yet you wrote a book today that we're gonna talk about,
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Called "godly ambition."
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Can you talk about the difference between worldly
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Ambition and godly ambition?
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Ruslan: yeah, well, in the scriptures, the word ambition in
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The new testament is used five times, and two of the five times
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Is the selfish ambition, the worldly ambition, and that greek
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Word is called, it's eritheia.
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It's my means to get whatever it is that i want.
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And the scriptures forbid eritheia ambition.
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But then the other three times that ambition is used, it's used
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In a positive connotation, and what i would describe as
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Godly ambition.
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Paul writes about, he makes it his ambition to preach the
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Gospel where others haven't.
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In corinthians he writes that it's his aim or his ambition to
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Do what pleases god.
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And he's writing the church in thessalonica, and they're going
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Through it, and there's persecution, and they're ready
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For jesus to come back, and they're talking about all the
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Chaos in the world.
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And they've become so heavenly-minded that they're of
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No earthly good.
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And then in 1 thessalonians 4, he says, "make it your ambition
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To lead a quiet life, minding your own business, working with
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Your own hands, so that you won't be dependent on anyone and
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So your daily life may win the respect of outsiders."
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And there's a practicality to how we're supposed to live lives
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Of godly ambition.
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Randy: so is it essentially kind of neutral?
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Just depends on what you do with it?
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Ruslan: yeah, i would say, and a simple way to look at it is it's
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Stewardship, ultimately.
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So we're stewarding our time, our talent, our treasure onto
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The glory of god.
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Randy: ah, okay.
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Now when you define it that way, ambition is not just for, you
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Know, those a-types or church leaders.
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Do we all have ambition to some degree?
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Ruslan: i think every single person in here has desires,
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Dreams, visions, hopes for their life, for their future, for how
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They want to be used by god.
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Randy: and we certainly all have time, talent, and treasure.
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Okay, so what would be some of the basic kind of things we need
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To know about how to steward those things?
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Ruslan: yeah, so my second chapter in the book, i get into
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The concept of identity.
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So i think foundationally what you believe about yourself, what
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You believe about the world is gonna determine how you behave.
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That's a famous craig groeschel quote.
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And so i think, one, who are you?
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Like, who are we really?
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And especially in today's society, so often our identity
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Is defined as, what can you do for the bottom line and the gdp
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Of society?
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So your identity is what you can deliver.
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So if you're an athlete, your identity is what are you
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Producing, and that's it.
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And so it's an outside-in identity.
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J. warner wallace kind of gave me some of the language
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For this.
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And then the other extreme is it's an inside-out identity.
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Whatever i feel, therefore i am.
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And then you get into all kinds of gender confusion, and your
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Identity is subjective to whatever you feel, and that's no
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Good either.
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But the good news is there's a third option, and j. warner
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Wallace has coined this idea of a top-down identity.
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It's not outside-in, it's not inside-out, it's who jesus is,
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I am.
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So i think foundationally we have to lay that as the
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First brick.
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Who am i, and why am i here?
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And then we get into purpose, and so i think a mistake we make
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Is we often conflate our purpose, which if you're a
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Follower of jesus, your purpose is to know god and make
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Him known.
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Every single christian, that's why we exist.
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But what we do is we often conflate our purpose with our
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Assignment, and our assignment is different than our purpose.
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Our purpose remains the same.
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I worked with adults with developmental disabilities.
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That was my last quote-unquote "real job," and it was one of
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The most fulfilling jobs that i've ever had.
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A forgotten community that people don't really pay
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Attention to, and i got to spend my days with them.
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My purpose remained the same, was to know god and make him
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Known to the three people that he entrusted me with.
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But my assignment was different.
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It didn't pay a lot of money, and sometimes it taught me a lot
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More than i was trying to teach them, and it was really good
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For me.
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So my assignment was different.
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So what we do is we often equate our assignment, or worse,
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What we do for money, with our purpose.
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And so we have to parse that.
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We say, "no, no, your purpose is the same.
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The assignment is different."
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My wife, when she was working outside of the home when we were
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Married, her assignment was very different now that we have kids,
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Now that we have a baby.
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Her assignment, i mean, she has a human attached to her for the
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Majority of the day, right?
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So her assignment changed, but her purpose is the same.
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And then i think what we're really trying to get after is
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This idea of calling, and calling is discovered.
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Your purpose is constant.
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Your assignment is seasonal, what's in front of you.
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Your calling is discovered through the process of being
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Faithful to what's in front of you and then taking inventory of
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Your gifts and your passions and the problems
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You could solve in the world.
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Randy: wow.
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Blynda: that's a lot to digest. it's so good though.
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This is such good material.
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So, okay, so the thought though there is, if i am--because i've
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Actually struggled with this.
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If i have identified some gifting and calling and i wanna
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Make a difference, i want to know that my time on earth here
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Was spent well, i didn't waste any time, yet i don't wanna be
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Perceived as somebody who's hustling or somebody
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Who's--you know?
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And so it's like this thing of can a--i know a christian should
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Work hard, but i don't want it to be perceived as ambition, and
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So how do you help--though i don't also wanna be apathetic,
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Which i think is how the pendulum can swing.
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If i'm not gonna be ambitious, then maybe i become apathetic to
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What i'm supposed to do.
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How do you help that person who's kind of all over the
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Place, they're struggling with that thought?
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Ruslan: i think you're right in that apathy is often a way
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Bigger dream-killer than ambition, or misguided ambition,
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Especially in today's climate.
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I was doing a young adults ministry, doing a speaking
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Engagement, met a young man.
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I tell the story in the book.
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He's a visual artist, and he tells me, "check this out.
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I do this visual art."
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I'm like, "are you pursuing this?
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Are you posting it on social media?
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Are you doing anything with it?"
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He's like, "oh, no."
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And i'm like, "why not?"
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He tells me, "i'm just afraid i might become too successful."
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And it's like, "my brother in christ, you're in
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Your mid-twenties.
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You live with your parents.
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You're on the cricket family plan, and you're afraid you're
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Gonna become too successful?"
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And so i think we have to be careful to not--to solve for
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Problems of how may someone perceive me, or what if i become
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Too successful, or if i start going to the gym and i get too
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Jacked and i become a sex icon.
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And it's like, hold on, there's a spectrum.
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Randy: that's my concern.
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Ruslan: yeah, i've had people tell me this before, right?
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Or women don't wanna go to the gym because they'll get
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"too bulky."
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And it's like, there's a spectrum between where we are
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Right now and becoming too successful.
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And the reality is, in this climate, people need to learn
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How to work hard, how to be faithful, and how to make the
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Most of the things that they've been entrusted with.
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And so whether or not someone perceives you a certain way is
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Really none of your business.
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If you are being faithful to what's in front of you and
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You're not doing it at the expense of your health or your
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Faith or your family, then i think that's a beautiful thing.
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And seasons are different.
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Again, if you have little children, it's a very different
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Time in terms of how you're gonna pursue certain things
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Versus if you're young and you're single.
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But there's this zapping of the youth that's happened, where the
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Times they should be focusing and developing themselves, they
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Wanna "experience the college thing," or worse, they wanna be
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Mad at the world and be a victim.
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And it's like, man, those are those formative 18 to 25 years.
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You need to be establishing yourself, developing yourself,
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Having some useful skills.
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Randy: yeah, the interesting thing, though, and this crosses
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Every age, but when you talk about our purpose staying the
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Same, to know god and make him known, but our assignment, it
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Changes, right?
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We oftentimes try to get out of the assignment because we'll go,
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"well, that's not where god wants me to be."
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And maybe it's not, and i'm not saying that it's never the case.
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But what can we learn by embracing whatever assignment
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We have?
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If it's the low-paying job that no one notices, and going, "god,
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Where are you in this?"
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Ruslan: yeah, well, the proverb says, "humility precedes honor."
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And so i think jesus exemplifies that in being willing to wash
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His disciples' feet at the last supper, as he's telling them
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He's gonna go to the cross, and in stating communion, but he
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Washes their feet, and then he says wash each other's feet.
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And so the pathway to promotion is through humility.
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A lot of what i did is spent 20 years serving in a local church,
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Leading small groups, teaching the junior high, all the things
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No one wanted to do.
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I did those things, and then by the time i got on youtube, i had
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Done the thing privately for decades that when i finally had
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An opportunity to speak, it was like, "oh, we like you, we're
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Gravitating towards you."
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And it's not because i'm more gifted, per se, it's because of
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Repetition and privately serving for decades in areas that people
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Didn't want to serve.
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Randy: you were faithful in the little things.
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Ruslan: in the little things.
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Randy: and god says he's ready for the faithful in the lot, and
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I think people need to hear that.
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Yeah, it's critical.
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Blynda: i also wanna talk about, because in the book it talks
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About being able to fulfill all that god has for you and
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Thinking that you can do it alone.
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How important is community and having people walk alongside you
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To help you fulfill that calling and purpose?
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Ruslan: oh, it is so important.
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I have a whole chapter in there on the local church, and i love
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Talking to churches where you have young people and you have
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Middle-aged people and you have, i call them mature people, and
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We have everyone together.
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Blynda: we fit into that. that's us.
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Randy: he's looking more at you than me.
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Ruslan: i think it's so essential because what happens
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Is there are areas in your life, for example, that you have
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Solved for, that you have a tacit knowledge.
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That's not just i'm giving you advice on abstract ideas.
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No, no, you have tacit knowledge, and you have young
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People, probably within your proximity, probably within your
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Local church, that are going through the very things that you
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Guys solved for decades ago, and they don't know how to navigate
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This stuff.
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And so when you start doing a life-on-life multigenerational,
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"hey, we're gonna build bigger tables, we're gonna open up our
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Homes, we're gonna have small group at our house," i think
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That that is where it all happens.
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And oftentimes this stuff is more caught than taught.
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Randy: yeah, and always prayer in all of that we do.
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I know you've made prayer a part of your life.
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I think we, especially in the church, kind of get a little bit
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Used to it.
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I think we can sometimes undervalue the power of prayer,
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But man, it's critical and it's real.
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Ruslan: yeah, yeah, i talk about prayer journaling in the book.
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I have a whole chapter on prayer, especially like ambition
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With prayer and how does this all work together.
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And you know, in the old testament you keep seeing god
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Having to remind the children of israel, you know, the
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Israelites, "i am the god that did this for you.
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I am the god."
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And so, what i think could be valuable for many people is,
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Hey, try journaling your prayers, because what it does is
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It stores it in a different part of your brain when you write
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Something down, and it reminds you that god is actually
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Answering your prayers.
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You're just too busy moving around and doing stuff, and
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You're not remembering the things you're praying for that
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He's actually answering.
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Randy: good. oh, man, this is so good.
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Blynda: it's so good.
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Randy: it's very practical. blynda: it's very practical.
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It's such good just life--like, very basic.
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It seems basic, yet i struggle with so much of understanding
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How to actually walk it out.
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And so thank you for that.
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But you know what i also appreciate, randy, is just when
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He talked about prayer and asking god to show how we can be
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A part of the bigger thing, i think.
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Randy: well, yeah, our purpose, right?
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To know god and to make him known.
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And there are ways that we can make him known.
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In fact, i'd love to put this book in your hands today,
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"godly ambition."
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You would benefit from it, but i bet you know someone who would
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Also--i'm thinking of my sons, frankly, because they're young
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Men, you know, they're ambitious, and you wanna lead
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Them in the right direction.
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But, look, there is an opportunity that blynda's
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Alluding to right now where we can make god known not just in
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Word but in deed.
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And i'm telling you it's a beautiful thing, it's a
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Beautiful outreach, we call it mission feeding.
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And we have saved lives, and we have changed lives.
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We have changed communities, countries even, and it's a huge
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Thing, but wow, it's a big thing.
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It's an honor to be a part of this kind of thing, but it's
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Only happened really for one reason and that's you, the
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Viewer, have been a part of it.
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And i've seen it for years.
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What do you think when you see that?
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You're making--i know you're kind of watching my dad through
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The generations.
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Blynda: i love seeing the generations, but what it tells
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Me is there's never a point where all the food is there and
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Now we can stop the work.
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It never stops, because there's new generations being born and
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They all have the same needs.
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So even though we can celebrate the decades that your dad and
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Your mom have been able to do this, it has to continue.
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We have to all continue banding together to do it
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For the work to continue.
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Randy: and because we've been doing it for so long, we are
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Able to go out quickly to the areas of need if we have all the
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Supplies that we need, if we have all the funds that we need
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To continue the mission feeding into these emergency areas.
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And don't forget the clinics.
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The clinics are so critical.
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Unfortunately, when people don't have food and their children get
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To a critical point, they have to come into a clinic.
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We want the clinics to be stocked.
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We want the staff to be there and ready and available.
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And again, you have saved so many lives as you have supported
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Mission feeding over the years.
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Let's not stop.
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Randy: i really do hope you'll join us.
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My parents' hearts.
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I mean, come on.
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Today, if you request ruslan kd's book "godly ambition,"
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We'd love to send it to you.
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I know it'll bless people. he's blessed us today.
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Blynda: such a blessing.
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Where can someone find you if they want to watch more of what
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You're doing?
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Ruslan: yeah, ruslankd.com is the easiest place to go that has
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Some of our website stuff, and then if they just search my name
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On any platform, ruslan, r-u-s-l-a-n, kd, it'll pop right
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On up.
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Randy: great conversations with a lot of different people.
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You're on tour, yeah, so the music's all there, too, man.
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It's been fun.
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I appreciate you taking time to hang out with us.
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Ruslan: yeah, thank you guys so much for having me.
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Randy: we appreciate all you guys out there watching.
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Jonathan pokluda: the scripture says a lot about the heart.
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And i think often when it talks about the heart of man or the
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Heart of mankind, men and women, it's talking about the emotional
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Quotient of an individual, like the place that
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Stores our feelings.
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And what the bible teaches us is that we're to guard our heart
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More than we guard anything, more than we protect our money,
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More than we protect our car, more than we protect our house,
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More than we protect our children, that we're to protect
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Our heart.
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It says, "above all else guard your heart, for it is the
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Wellspring of life."
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Or it says, "in all things, keep your heart with all vigilance,
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For everything you do flows from it."
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And this is proverbs 4:23.
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What does it mean that we're to protect our heart
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Or guard our heart?
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It's a military term.
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It's a hostile language that in the same way that roman soldiers
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Might guard a tomb or protect an individual, it says that in this
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Way we're to protect our heart.
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What does that mean?
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I think it means that we're to be careful what we let in it.
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Now, we can hear that as christians and think, "okay, i'm
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Gonna be--protect--be careful of what i let in my heart, but how
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Do i let things in my heart?"
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Well, as the proverb progresses, it says, "be careful where you
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Set your eyes, what you listen to, where you walk, and who you
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Hang out with."
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And so, all of these things that we do,
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They're feeding our heart.
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They're telling us to do something.
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Every now and then i'll speak somewhere, and a young woman
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Will come up and say, "pastor, i need your help.
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I have a lot of relationship struggles.
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It seems that i'm only attracted to guys that hurt me or that are
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No good for me.
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They don't treat me well."
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And i respond to that with, "well, what kind of music do you
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Listen to?"
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And she's always confused.
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She, you know, she's like, "well, no,
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I'm looking for dating advice."
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I say, "great, hear me out.
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What are your favorite tv shows?
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What are you watching?"
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Because i don't think we understand that through the
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Music that we're listening to and the shows that we're
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Watching, that we're taking our heart to a university of what to
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Be attracted to.
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We're informing our heart.
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Our heart works like a bloodhound.
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It gets on a scent, and then it follows it.
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Our heart works like netflix or amazon, these search engines
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That when you look to watch a show, it suggests other shows
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Similar to that show you watched
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Or when you look to buy an item, it suggests other items similar
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To that item that you bought.
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Our heart works in a really similar way, that when you feed
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It something, you're telling it what to look for, what to seek
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Out in the world, you're giving it cravings and urges to pursue.
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And so, "above all else, guard your heart, for it is the
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Wellspring of life."
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"keep your heart with all vigilance, for everything you do
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Flows from it."
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If you don't like where you're going, pay attention to what you
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Pay attention to because we feed our heart through our minds, our
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Thoughts, our experiences.
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Our brain feeds our heart, and our heart takes us places.
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So, above all else, guard your heart.
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Ruth chou simons: what causes us to struggle in our dependency,
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Struggle in trusting the lord, is that we don't have a higher
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View of god.
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