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Cedric Pisegna - Seasons Have Reasons

August 3, 2025 | 28:25

Cedric Pisegna - Seasons Have Reasons
Father Cedric Pisegna is a Catholic priest. His program will inspire and encourage you to Live with Passion.
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Live with Passion with Father Cedric | Cedric Pisegna - Seasons Have Reasons | August 3, 2025
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  • Father cedric pisegna: you're about to come into a new and
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  • Better season.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: welcome to "live with passion."
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  • I'm father cedric pisegna.
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  • So glad that you tuned into the program.
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  • Going to talk about seasons in our life and how they all have
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  • Meaning, and i believe that you're going to come into a new
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  • And better season.
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  • This comes from ecclesiastes chapter 3. "for everything there
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  • Is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: time to be
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  • Born, time to die, time to plant, time to pluck up what is
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  • Planted, time to kill, time to heal, time to break down, a time
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  • To build up, a time to weep, a time to laugh, time to mourn,
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  • And a time to dance."
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  • I am producing a series called "we walk by faith and not
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  • By sight."
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  • And in this episode i want you to believe whatever season
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  • You're in, it could be a season of suffering, could be a season
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  • Of desolation, could be a season of depression, that you're going
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  • To come into a new and better season.
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  • We walk by faith and not by sight.
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  • We don't always see the seasons that are coming, but we can
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  • Believe for something new and something better.
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  • Grew up in massachusetts.
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  • We have all kinds of seasons there.
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  • And i saw a survey that said that people's favorite season,
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  • If you were to have an opinion in the survey, what would you
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  • Come up with?
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  • It's probably not winter, that finish last, and it's not
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  • Summer, that finished third.
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  • The favorite season that people have is fall, followed by
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  • Spring, and then summer, and then winter.
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  • I remember growing up in massachusetts i loved the fall
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  • Season because of the orangey leaves, and the pumpkin leaves,
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  • And the red leaves, and the fluorescent yellow leaves that
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  • We had.
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  • Loved to go leaf peeping.
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  • Then there would be the frosty, cold winters that would come,
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  • Gives way to spring and the blossoms and the birds, and
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  • Then summer.
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  • We would have summer just like they do in the south, get hot
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  • And humid.
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  • Farmers have seasons, for example.
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  • They have seasons of planting, sowing, growing, reaping.
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  • Health seasons, flu season.
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  • Covid was there for a season.
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  • By the way, a season can be a certain amount of time, but it
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  • Varies in length.
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  • You can have a cold for a week or you can have covid, long
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  • Covid for years.
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  • Those are seasons, but they don't necessarily all have the
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  • Same amount of time.
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  • So i want to express that right in the beginning.
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  • Of course, there's a tv season, fall season.
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  • You have the new episodes that come out.
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  • Sports, you have football season, baseball seasons.
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  • You've all heard of that.
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  • In the catholic church we have a multiplex of seasons.
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  • Starts off with advent in purple, different colors, go
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  • Into the christmas season with white, then we go into ordinary
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  • Time with green, go into lent with purple, easter with yellow,
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  • Then back to ordinary time with green.
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  • So seasons are different lengths of time.
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  • They're marked by different colors.
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  • I'm just trying to express to you that just like the
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  • Background of health, and the church, and farmers, and
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  • Weather, just like that, we have seasons too.
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  • We just heard from ecclesiastes 3, which by the way was set to
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  • Song by the rock group the byrds back in the 60s.
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  • Remember that song, it was called "turn, turn turn?"
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  • It was about a time to be born, a time to die, time to laugh,
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  • Time to cry, time to be happy, the time to be sad, time to
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  • Grieve, time to rejoice.
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  • The bible is telling us that we go through seasons.
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  • There's different times in our life.
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  • In a season in nature is demarcated by temperature,
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  • Season in the church is demarcated by time and color,
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  • And our seasons are demarcated by different beginnings
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  • And endings.
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  • I'll talk about that in a minute, but, first of all, i
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  • Wanted to tell you, what do our seasons look like?
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  • They're not all the same, but in the human makeup we all have
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  • Different seasons, for example, a season of emotions.
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  • Maybe you're up, maybe you're down.
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  • You have sad syndrome.
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  • Sad syndrome is a seasonal disorder.
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  • It could be your emotions, could be your mind.
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  • Maybe you're positive or not so positive.
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  • You've been in a season of negativity, and grumbling, and
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  • Mumbling, and complaining.
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  • That can happen.
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  • How about spiritually you can be in a season of consolation, but
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  • A lot of people are in a season of desolation.
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  • Now, i want to tell you that can change.
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  • I'll talk about that in a little while.
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  • Seasons change, by the way.
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  • Sometimes you can be stuck in a season for a while, but by the
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  • Grace of god you can move.
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  • There's one constant in life, and that's change.
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  • People physically can be in a season of suffering, sickness,
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  • Or maybe strength and health.
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  • Financially you could have a stable job or you could be
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  • Promoted, you could be looking for a job or maybe you can't
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  • Find a job.
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  • Those are all seasons too.
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  • Relationships have seasons.
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  • I noticed in community, depending on the makeup of the
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  • Community, it can be a community of peace, can be a community of
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  • Strife, you can have a good relationship with somebody,
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  • Tough relationship with somebody else.
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  • But even in a marriage you go through seasons, for example,
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  • The honeymoon phase and the faithful stage and the empty
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  • Nest stage.
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  • Different seasons and relationships.
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  • Your emotions, relationships, finances, all kinds of
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  • Different seasons.
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  • And then seasons start and they finish.
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  • There's demarcations that separate one season
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  • From another.
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  • As i said before, when it comes to fall, or winter, or spring,
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  • Or summer, temperatures demarcate the seasons.
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  • Length of time demarcates seasons in the catholic church.
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  • And for human beings, we have beginnings and endings also.
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  • There are different stages.
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  • I want you to try to identify the season that you're in.
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  • There's all kinds of different aspects of our being.
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  • As i said, intellectually, emotionally, relationship wise.
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  • How are you doing?
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  • How would you describe the season that you're in?
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  • If you're in a good season, yay, i hope it lasts a good, long
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  • Time, but as i said, seasons change.
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  • And if you're in a bad season or a hard season, seasons change.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: and i'm believing for something better for you.
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  • Gail sheehy wrote a book about stages and transitions and
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  • Seasons in our life and she talked about it in an
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  • Interesting way.
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  • She said that there are crisis moments in people's lives that
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  • Moves us from one season to another.
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  • And a crisis moment doesn't necessarily mean a hard or
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  • Bad moment.
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  • It could be something like an ordination of priesthood or a
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  • Wedding, new job, promotion, pregnancy, or grieving the loss
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  • Of a loved one, divorce, losing a job, a health problem.
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  • These crisis moments demarcate and move us.
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  • They can be a catalyst for moving us from one season to
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  • Another season.
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  • Think about when i was a young man and started college.
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  • I lived in massachusetts.
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  • I went to church very infrequently, but i got
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  • Into college.
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  • I got all these new ideas and meeting all these
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  • Different people.
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  • Finally ended up dating and had a break up with a girl, and i
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  • Started seeking god in my life.
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  • That break-up in college was a crisis moment for me.
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  • Started seeking god.
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  • And nothing happened right away, but then god moved in my life in
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  • A very beautiful way and i started having these religious
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  • Experiences and spiritual experiences that thrust me into
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  • The rest of my life.
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  • If you're struggling right now in your spiritual life, and
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  • Often times people get into desolation, i am praying that
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  • This episode right now will be a crisis moment for you.
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  • What i mean by that is that it will thrust you, will be a
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  • Catalyst to bring you into something new with god.
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  • God's grace is flowing right now.
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  • We walk by faith and not by sight.
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  • Believe in the grace of god to touch you right now, to somehow
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  • Bring about a manifestation of change in your life spiritually.
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  • As you read the bible you're going to understand.
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  • As you pray, it's going to get deeper.
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  • And i'm praying for graceful touches for you.
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  • So that happened to me in college.
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  • Wonderful.
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  • Another crisis moment for me is when my father passed away.
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  • I loved my dad, he loved me.
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  • I bear his name.
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  • I'm a junior, cedric junior.
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  • My dad was my best friend and biggest supporter.
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  • Having his funeral was very hard for me.
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  • He was married to my mom for over 50 years, raised
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  • 3 children.
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  • And having that funeral was like a rite of passage for me.
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  • I remember how hard it was, but through grace i got through it.
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  • And then i remember my mom.
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  • When my dad died, they'd been married for over 50 years.
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  • My mom was like jello.
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  • I was with her when he passed away very suddenly in his sleep.
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  • I was with her the next morning, and she was like jello.
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  • I remember hugging her and i had to hold her up.
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  • My mom, like many of us, was so dependent on dad.
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  • Because dad was so generous and so nice, she was so dependent on
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  • Him for everything, the banking and the housing and all the
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  • Stuff of life.
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  • Well, at first she was like jello, but i'm so proud of my
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  • Mom because by god's grace she came into a new season when my
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  • Dad passed away.
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  • She got strong, became her own person, stayed in the house, did
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  • The banking, did the shopping.
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  • And she did that for years upon years upon years after dad died.
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  • And i'm proud of her because she came into that new season and
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  • Really became her own person.
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  • I'm thinking any of you who may be grieving right now, going
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  • Through a hard time because you've lost a loved one.
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  • We grieve for a season, and then it gets better.
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  • We keep grieving, but the pain is less intense, and you
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  • Move on.
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  • Remember that song by celine dion in the movie "titanic" "my
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  • Heart will go on?"
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  • I am praying that your heart will go on and that the grieving
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  • Season for you will bring you to an even better season in your
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  • Life and like my mom you'll come to know yourself in a way that
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  • You never did before, embrace god in a new way because we walk
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  • By faith and not by sight.
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  • We don't always get to choose the seasons that come into our
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  • Life, but god is in them.
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  • He won't abandon us and he's going to use the seasons of our
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  • Life to raise us up.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: our seasons challenge us to grow, to mature,
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  • And to become all that we can be.
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  • God is interested in our character, our integrity and who
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  • We are as a person.
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  • He allows us to go through the ups and downs that seasons
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  • Inevitably bring because we're human and our experiences are
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  • The theater of growth.
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  • Don't be afraid of the seasons.
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  • Allow them to change you for better.
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  • It's important that no matter what season you have, up or
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  • Down, to walk by faith, faith believing that god is working in
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  • And through you.
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  • Friend of mine, she grew up in oregon, got married, had
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  • Four children.
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  • Her husband wanted them to move to california.
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  • She was used to living in oregon, didn't want to move
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  • To california.
  • 00:13:15.778 --> 00:13:17.513
  • Became a new season for her, demarcation, moving.
  • 00:13:17.513 --> 00:13:22.017
  • She got depressed, she cried because she had to move, got
  • 00:13:22.017 --> 00:13:26.222
  • Down to california, and then she started to meet people.
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  • Got involved in church.
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  • Kids went to school.
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  • Got involved in a bible study.
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  • And lo and behold, she really liked it.
  • 00:13:36.632 --> 00:13:39.969
  • They lived for years in california, and lo and behold,
  • 00:13:39.969 --> 00:13:43.672
  • They had to move back to oregon.
  • 00:13:43.672 --> 00:13:45.341
  • Then she got depressed again because they had to go back
  • 00:13:45.341 --> 00:13:47.509
  • To oregon.
  • 00:13:47.509 --> 00:13:48.878
  • The bottom line is that she went through different seasons in her
  • 00:13:48.878 --> 00:13:52.181
  • Life and she dreaded the seasons, but those seasons
  • 00:13:52.181 --> 00:13:55.651
  • Actually helped her to become a better person.
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  • And that's what i'm hoping for you.
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  • That the seasons in your life will actually form you and shape
  • 00:14:00.589 --> 00:14:04.660
  • You and help you to become all that you can be.
  • 00:14:04.660 --> 00:14:07.897
  • Remember it's important that we don't just go through seasons
  • 00:14:07.897 --> 00:14:12.034
  • But rather our seasons better us and help us to become everything
  • 00:14:12.034 --> 00:14:17.473
  • That we can be.
  • 00:14:17.473 --> 00:14:19.375
  • It's the sum of our seasons that shapes us and forms us into the
  • 00:14:19.375 --> 00:14:24.747
  • Person that god wants us to be.
  • 00:14:24.747 --> 00:14:26.982
  • Now, we've all been through a lot of seasons in our past,
  • 00:14:26.982 --> 00:14:30.185
  • We have seasons ahead of us, and we have to keep believing for
  • 00:14:30.185 --> 00:14:34.189
  • Better seasons.
  • 00:14:34.189 --> 00:14:35.557
  • God is at work.
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  • Believe for new and better seasons.
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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:14:40.596 --> 00:14:47.937
  • Father cedric: we can't always change the past,
  • 00:14:47.937 --> 00:14:50.606
  • But we can learn from the past and we can change the future.
  • 00:14:50.606 --> 00:14:55.811
  • And that's the thing about the new seasons to come.
  • 00:14:55.811 --> 00:14:59.148
  • They're times of change.
  • 00:14:59.148 --> 00:15:01.583
  • Live and learn from the past and live for the future, live for
  • 00:15:01.583 --> 00:15:06.355
  • The present because new seasons are coming.
  • 00:15:06.355 --> 00:15:09.391
  • Exposé, a rock group, sang a song and it was called
  • 00:15:09.391 --> 00:15:12.294
  • "seasons change."
  • 00:15:12.294 --> 00:15:14.129
  • And in the song they simply sang, "seasons change, feelings
  • 00:15:14.129 --> 00:15:19.034
  • Change, peoples change."
  • 00:15:19.034 --> 00:15:22.204
  • The only constant in life--and that's a metaphor.
  • 00:15:22.204 --> 00:15:27.343
  • It's ironic.
  • 00:15:27.343 --> 00:15:29.511
  • The only constant in life is change.
  • 00:15:29.511 --> 00:15:33.382
  • Don't be afraid of change and don't stay stuck.
  • 00:15:33.382 --> 00:15:37.586
  • The bottom line is that we're all going to be going into new
  • 00:15:37.586 --> 00:15:40.255
  • Seasons and we have to be open for it and we have to walk by
  • 00:15:40.255 --> 00:15:44.193
  • Faith, not by sight.
  • 00:15:44.193 --> 00:15:47.229
  • One of the simple ways of demarcation of a season is time.
  • 00:15:47.229 --> 00:15:53.302
  • And i read a book called "the fourth quarter of life."
  • 00:15:53.302 --> 00:15:57.439
  • And this book really touched me.
  • 00:15:57.439 --> 00:16:00.075
  • Because i think as we grow older we don't realize that we're
  • 00:16:00.075 --> 00:16:04.747
  • Moving into a new season.
  • 00:16:04.747 --> 00:16:08.050
  • First quarter of life, 1 to 20, in this book, second quarter, 20
  • 00:16:08.050 --> 00:16:13.188
  • To 40, third quarter, 40 to 60, fourth quarter, 60 and on.
  • 00:16:13.188 --> 00:16:21.730
  • As i film this, i'm in my 60s.
  • 00:16:21.730 --> 00:16:24.767
  • I didn't realize it, but i'm in the fourth quarter of life.
  • 00:16:24.767 --> 00:16:28.404
  • Most people don't.
  • 00:16:28.404 --> 00:16:29.772
  • Seventy is the new 50, right?
  • 00:16:29.772 --> 00:16:31.840
  • But still the bottom line is if you're 70, how many more years
  • 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:36.245
  • Do you have?
  • 00:16:36.245 --> 00:16:38.313
  • He talked about being in the fourth quarter of life and not
  • 00:16:38.313 --> 00:16:41.383
  • Resting on your laurels or not always looking back to what
  • 00:16:41.383 --> 00:16:45.521
  • You've accomplished, but finishing strong.
  • 00:16:45.521 --> 00:16:51.493
  • I want to encourage you, especially those who are in the
  • 00:16:51.493 --> 00:16:54.063
  • Fourth quarter of life, not to say, "oh, i'm old and my best
  • 00:16:54.063 --> 00:16:59.435
  • Years are behind me."
  • 00:16:59.435 --> 00:17:00.769
  • Rather, finish strong.
  • 00:17:00.769 --> 00:17:04.706
  • That's what happens in a football game or a
  • 00:17:04.706 --> 00:17:07.409
  • Basketball game.
  • 00:17:07.409 --> 00:17:08.777
  • If you want to watch a basketball game, just watch the
  • 00:17:08.777 --> 00:17:10.646
  • Last 2 minutes.
  • 00:17:10.646 --> 00:17:12.014
  • That's usually what really matters.
  • 00:17:12.014 --> 00:17:13.882
  • And the team that wins is the team that finishes strong, and
  • 00:17:13.882 --> 00:17:17.453
  • That's so crucial.
  • 00:17:17.453 --> 00:17:18.887
  • And even though you can feel young when you're in the fourth
  • 00:17:18.887 --> 00:17:21.323
  • Quarter, oftentimes people, they retire and go on cruises all
  • 00:17:21.323 --> 00:17:27.029
  • The time.
  • 00:17:27.029 --> 00:17:28.363
  • And i'm not against cruises, but retiring and you start to
  • 00:17:28.363 --> 00:17:31.934
  • Atrophy and you don't become all that you can be.
  • 00:17:31.934 --> 00:17:35.270
  • When i look back on my life, i've accomplished a lot of
  • 00:17:35.270 --> 00:17:38.774
  • Different things, written books and produced and preached.
  • 00:17:38.774 --> 00:17:41.510
  • I'm really glad about that, but i don't want to rest on
  • 00:17:41.510 --> 00:17:44.246
  • My laurels.
  • 00:17:44.246 --> 00:17:46.882
  • It's not just the past.
  • 00:17:46.882 --> 00:17:49.718
  • I'm hopeful and believing--remember now, we walk
  • 00:17:49.718 --> 00:17:53.822
  • By faith and not by sight.
  • 00:17:53.822 --> 00:17:57.025
  • I'm believing--and i have this plaque on my bureau at home.
  • 00:17:57.025 --> 00:18:02.064
  • I'm believing that the best is yet to come.
  • 00:18:02.064 --> 00:18:05.434
  • We have to keep learning, growing, preparing not just for
  • 00:18:05.434 --> 00:18:11.340
  • Our death but for our future.
  • 00:18:11.340 --> 00:18:13.842
  • Who knows what good things god has for us?
  • 00:18:13.842 --> 00:18:17.880
  • And i want to keep expanding, learning, reading, reaching out
  • 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:23.652
  • To more people, influencing the best i can.
  • 00:18:23.652 --> 00:18:27.489
  • And i hope you're the same way.
  • 00:18:27.489 --> 00:18:28.857
  • You want to finish strong.
  • 00:18:28.857 --> 00:18:32.694
  • You want your best to be ahead of you.
  • 00:18:32.694 --> 00:18:35.531
  • When i run or jog or walk, usually i do some laps around
  • 00:18:35.531 --> 00:18:41.503
  • The school.
  • 00:18:41.503 --> 00:18:42.871
  • They have a track there.
  • 00:18:42.871 --> 00:18:44.273
  • And when i finish, i always do that last lap faster than all
  • 00:18:44.273 --> 00:18:48.076
  • The other laps that i've done because i want to finish strong.
  • 00:18:48.076 --> 00:18:50.679
  • I don't want to just barely make it, i want to be strong and
  • 00:18:50.679 --> 00:18:55.717
  • Finish strong.
  • 00:18:55.717 --> 00:18:57.052
  • And it's the same way in life when it comes to seasons.
  • 00:18:57.052 --> 00:18:59.821
  • Whatever season you're in, you have to progress.
  • 00:18:59.821 --> 00:19:06.094
  • You have to go forward.
  • 00:19:06.094 --> 00:19:07.462
  • That's what paul the apostle said.
  • 00:19:07.462 --> 00:19:08.830
  • He said forgetting what lies behind.
  • 00:19:08.830 --> 00:19:11.700
  • Paul had a lot of good things in his past too.
  • 00:19:11.700 --> 00:19:14.903
  • He said forgetting what lies behind.
  • 00:19:14.903 --> 00:19:17.272
  • He had a lot of bad things in his past too.
  • 00:19:17.272 --> 00:19:20.108
  • So that's good for all of us.
  • 00:19:20.108 --> 00:19:21.510
  • We forget the past.
  • 00:19:21.510 --> 00:19:23.345
  • We forget the bad thing.
  • 00:19:23.345 --> 00:19:24.713
  • We celebrate it.
  • 00:19:24.713 --> 00:19:26.048
  • We remember the good things.
  • 00:19:26.048 --> 00:19:28.317
  • Yeah, that's okay, but we let go of the past.
  • 00:19:28.317 --> 00:19:31.620
  • And all we have now is the present and the future.
  • 00:19:31.620 --> 00:19:36.959
  • You live and learn, and then you go forward.
  • 00:19:36.959 --> 00:19:40.729
  • And that's so crucial because god has good things for us.
  • 00:19:40.729 --> 00:19:44.566
  • We press on to the things that god has.
  • 00:19:44.566 --> 00:19:47.736
  • That's what i'm hoping for you my viewers, my partners.
  • 00:19:47.736 --> 00:19:50.672
  • Those of you who donate to my program, i'm so grateful for you
  • 00:19:50.672 --> 00:19:54.509
  • Because what you're doing is helping me to live my dream.
  • 00:19:54.509 --> 00:19:58.213
  • And my dream is to reach out to as many people as possible, in
  • 00:19:58.213 --> 00:20:03.685
  • As deep a way as possible with the gospel of jesus christ.
  • 00:20:03.685 --> 00:20:07.723
  • As many people as possible through television, radio,
  • 00:20:07.723 --> 00:20:11.693
  • Social media.
  • 00:20:11.693 --> 00:20:13.028
  • And you've helped me by your donations, and i so
  • 00:20:13.028 --> 00:20:15.664
  • Appreciate that.
  • 00:20:15.664 --> 00:20:17.032
  • And we are reaching a lot of people, but
  • 00:20:17.032 --> 00:20:18.367
  • I want to reach more.
  • 00:20:18.367 --> 00:20:20.502
  • It's not like i'm going to get to 70 years old and say, "okay,
  • 00:20:20.502 --> 00:20:23.005
  • That's it, i've done enough."
  • 00:20:23.005 --> 00:20:24.339
  • No.
  • 00:20:24.339 --> 00:20:25.807
  • It's--god puts that dream in your heart and god has given
  • 00:20:25.807 --> 00:20:28.744
  • You dreams.
  • 00:20:28.744 --> 00:20:30.279
  • And that's another way that we demarcate seasons.
  • 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:33.081
  • Sometimes we push ourselves.
  • 00:20:33.081 --> 00:20:34.850
  • Our dreams can be a catalyst that move us into new seasons.
  • 00:20:34.850 --> 00:20:41.323
  • I know it has been for me.
  • 00:20:41.323 --> 00:20:43.392
  • And i want you to keep pressing on, keep dreaming, reaching for
  • 00:20:43.392 --> 00:20:49.564
  • The stars.
  • 00:20:49.564 --> 00:20:51.066
  • And then part of my mission statement is to reach out to as
  • 00:20:51.066 --> 00:20:54.403
  • Many people as possible and as deeper way as possible.
  • 00:20:54.403 --> 00:20:58.173
  • What i mean by that is many of you are buying my books, and i'm
  • 00:20:58.173 --> 00:21:01.810
  • So grateful for that, or purchasing the dvd and the cd of
  • 00:21:01.810 --> 00:21:05.847
  • My programs.
  • 00:21:05.847 --> 00:21:07.215
  • This series is so good, has to do with walking by faith and not
  • 00:21:07.215 --> 00:21:12.287
  • By sight.
  • 00:21:12.287 --> 00:21:13.655
  • Because you know the way we are.
  • 00:21:13.655 --> 00:21:14.990
  • We all want to see it, then we'll do it, but there's no
  • 00:21:14.990 --> 00:21:18.226
  • Guarantees in the future.
  • 00:21:18.226 --> 00:21:21.029
  • When it comes to seasons, we don't know exactly what comes
  • 00:21:21.029 --> 00:21:24.700
  • Before us, but when you walk by faith, i love what it says in
  • 00:21:24.700 --> 00:21:28.870
  • The scriptures, proverbs, the path of the righteous grows
  • 00:21:28.870 --> 00:21:33.208
  • Brighter and brighter until the noonday sun.
  • 00:21:33.208 --> 00:21:36.044
  • That's hope.
  • 00:21:36.044 --> 00:21:37.479
  • That we can expect because we're believers, that as we go
  • 00:21:37.479 --> 00:21:42.150
  • Forward, it's going to get better, it's going to
  • 00:21:42.150 --> 00:21:44.886
  • Be brighter.
  • 00:21:44.886 --> 00:21:46.722
  • "i know the plans i have for you," says the lord.
  • 00:21:46.722 --> 00:21:49.358
  • That's jeremiah 29:11.
  • 00:21:49.358 --> 00:21:51.059
  • This is hope.
  • 00:21:51.059 --> 00:21:52.561
  • "plans for your welfare, not your woe, plans for hope,
  • 00:21:52.561 --> 00:21:57.566
  • A future full of hope."
  • 00:21:57.566 --> 00:21:59.835
  • That's why i wanted to talk about seasons in this episode.
  • 00:21:59.835 --> 00:22:04.573
  • That we move through seasons, that we're all in a season, and
  • 00:22:04.573 --> 00:22:09.211
  • That there are better seasons to come.
  • 00:22:09.211 --> 00:22:12.981
  • So one of the things that i do is write books.
  • 00:22:12.981 --> 00:22:16.785
  • One of the wonderful privileges that i've been given in my
  • 00:22:16.785 --> 00:22:21.490
  • Ministry is to write books.
  • 00:22:21.490 --> 00:22:23.258
  • I've written 25 and i'm planning on writing more so that i can
  • 00:22:23.258 --> 00:22:28.363
  • Continue to reach out to you in as deeper way as possible with
  • 00:22:28.363 --> 00:22:32.334
  • The cds, the dvds, with books, through social media, of course.
  • 00:22:32.334 --> 00:22:37.939
  • When i say as deeper way as possible, what i'm giving you in
  • 00:22:37.939 --> 00:22:41.109
  • This episode is the tip of the iceberg.
  • 00:22:41.109 --> 00:22:44.780
  • Get my book "seasons of life."
  • 00:22:44.780 --> 00:22:46.815
  • I'll talk about it at the end of the episode.
  • 00:22:46.815 --> 00:22:49.418
  • My book "seasons of life" will talk more
  • 00:22:49.418 --> 00:22:51.987
  • About how to move into a new season
  • 00:22:51.987 --> 00:22:55.524
  • And the blessings that the new seasons that we
  • 00:22:55.524 --> 00:22:58.693
  • Have before us and about finishing strong,
  • 00:22:58.693 --> 00:23:06.034
  • Not resting on your laurels, as good as that is.
  • 00:23:06.034 --> 00:23:07.602
  • And yeah, it's okay to celebrate your life and to look back in
  • 00:23:07.602 --> 00:23:10.539
  • The great things that we've done, but there's more to come.
  • 00:23:10.539 --> 00:23:15.577
  • God is a god of progression, and growth, and moving forward, and
  • 00:23:15.577 --> 00:23:19.781
  • Maturation, and he blesses us so that we can be a blessing to
  • 00:23:19.781 --> 00:23:23.919
  • Other people.
  • 00:23:23.919 --> 00:23:25.287
  • Really hoping that you're going to get that book "seasons
  • 00:23:25.287 --> 00:23:27.489
  • Of life."
  • 00:23:27.489 --> 00:23:28.924
  • The bottom line is that i continue to create and i will
  • 00:23:28.924 --> 00:23:33.395
  • Reach out to as many people as possible.
  • 00:23:33.395 --> 00:23:36.298
  • And then your relationship with god.
  • 00:23:36.298 --> 00:23:39.634
  • Talk about seasons of life.
  • 00:23:39.634 --> 00:23:42.270
  • It all has to do with growing in intimacy with god, that blessed
  • 00:23:42.270 --> 00:23:47.542
  • Assurance that comes through your relationship with the holy
  • 00:23:47.542 --> 00:23:50.879
  • Spirit and believing that god has new manifestations, new
  • 00:23:50.879 --> 00:23:55.617
  • Revelations, new illuminations and knowledge for you and for
  • 00:23:55.617 --> 00:24:01.256
  • Your heart.
  • 00:24:01.256 --> 00:24:02.624
  • And that's what really is a catalyst in my prayer life.
  • 00:24:02.624 --> 00:24:06.595
  • That i don't believe that those touches that god gave me in
  • 00:24:06.595 --> 00:24:09.631
  • College or all along the way were just for yesterday, but
  • 00:24:09.631 --> 00:24:13.235
  • There are new ones to come and it's going to be good.
  • 00:24:13.235 --> 00:24:16.872
  • That god will continue to move us into new seasons, especially
  • 00:24:16.872 --> 00:24:21.309
  • In our relationship with him.
  • 00:24:21.309 --> 00:24:23.245
  • Let me sum up now.
  • 00:24:23.245 --> 00:24:26.214
  • We're used to seasons.
  • 00:24:26.214 --> 00:24:28.250
  • They're all over the place, weather, tv, sports world,
  • 00:24:28.250 --> 00:24:32.487
  • Health world.
  • 00:24:32.487 --> 00:24:34.089
  • Seasons come and seasons go.
  • 00:24:34.089 --> 00:24:35.824
  • The bible tells us that there's a time, time to be born, time
  • 00:24:35.824 --> 00:24:39.528
  • To die.
  • 00:24:39.528 --> 00:24:40.862
  • That we all have seasons in our life.
  • 00:24:40.862 --> 00:24:42.430
  • And whatever age you are, whatever season you find
  • 00:24:42.430 --> 00:24:45.867
  • Yourself in, we walk by faith and not by sight, believe for a
  • 00:24:45.867 --> 00:24:50.906
  • New season.
  • 00:24:50.906 --> 00:24:52.440
  • Believe for something better, especially if you're going
  • 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:54.676
  • Through a hard season right now, and believe that god is with you
  • 00:24:54.676 --> 00:24:57.913
  • In the season, walking, helping, growing, and manifesting his
  • 00:24:57.913 --> 00:25:02.617
  • Grace to you.
  • 00:25:02.617 --> 00:25:04.219
  • We walk by faith and not by sight.
  • 00:25:04.219 --> 00:25:07.789
  • And i'm believing right now for myself and for you that the best
  • 00:25:07.789 --> 00:25:12.193
  • Is yet to come, that you're about to experience a new and
  • 00:25:12.193 --> 00:25:16.031
  • Better season.
  • 00:25:16.031 --> 00:25:17.399
  • And don't just live, live with passion.
  • 00:25:17.399 --> 00:25:19.901
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:25:20.335 --> 00:25:25.106
  • Father cedric: got an email from a woman in canada.
  • 00:25:25.106 --> 00:25:27.142
  • "father cedric, your episodes have made a difference in
  • 00:25:27.142 --> 00:25:29.311
  • My life.
  • 00:25:29.311 --> 00:25:30.645
  • I'm a different person today compared to 5 years ago."
  • 00:25:30.645 --> 00:25:34.816
  • Wow.
  • 00:25:34.816 --> 00:25:36.251
  • Talk about seasons of life.
  • 00:25:36.251 --> 00:25:38.587
  • I want to interest you in a book that i wrote called "seasons
  • 00:25:38.587 --> 00:25:41.790
  • Of life."
  • 00:25:41.790 --> 00:25:43.124
  • This book will help you, will be a catalyst to move
  • 00:25:43.124 --> 00:25:46.461
  • You into a new season, move you into a season
  • 00:25:46.461 --> 00:25:47.896
  • Full of hope, move you into a better season.
  • 00:25:47.896 --> 00:25:53.134
  • "seasons of life."
  • 00:25:53.134 --> 00:25:54.469
  • Whatever season you're in right now,
  • 00:25:54.469 --> 00:25:55.804
  • It's going to get better.
  • 00:25:55.804 --> 00:25:57.372
  • All you have to do to get this book,
  • 00:25:57.372 --> 00:25:59.174
  • Call 844-fatherc, go to my website
  • 00:25:59.174 --> 00:26:02.877
  • Frcedric.org,
  • 00:26:02.877 --> 00:26:05.080
  • Or write me in houston, texas 77024.
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