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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswalk Diversional. We are so glad to

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Speaker 2: have you listening with us here today. Today's topic is

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Speaker 2: how God can use your weakness for your testimony. We

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Speaker 2: will be returned after a brief message from our sponsor.

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Speaker 2: Your weakness may be your testimony. Written by Lauren Fletcher,

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Speaker 2: read by Rochelle ALBERTI Bible reading each time he said,

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Speaker 2: my grace is all you need.

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Speaker 1: My power works best in weakness, So now I am

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Speaker 1: glad to boast about my weaknesses so that the power

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Speaker 1: of Christ can work through me. That's why I take

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Speaker 1: pleasure in my weaknesses and in the insult, hardships, persecutions,

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Speaker 1: and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I

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Speaker 1: am weak, then I am strong Tewod Corinthians twelve nine

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Speaker 1: through ten. I never thought positively about my weaknesses. They

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Speaker 1: were always something I tried diligently to hide, especially as

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Speaker 1: a teenager. As an adult, I've had times of embracing

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Speaker 1: them among grace field friends. I've also had times where

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Speaker 1: I didn't quite want to mention the job interview anyone.

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Speaker 1: When I was diagnosed with ADHD and severe OCD, it

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Speaker 1: hit me in a way I didn't expect. I was

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Speaker 1: emotional and self conscious severe I thought, though these diagnoses

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Speaker 1: were what my counselors and I suspected. When I had

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Speaker 1: the official word, give me some time to process, I

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Speaker 1: thought about my life and wondered, what does this mean

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Speaker 1: for my future? It all felt very heavy. I talked

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Speaker 1: with my friends for some support. They said things like

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Speaker 1: this is just a snapshot of what my symptoms were

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Speaker 1: like at the time of testing, and that in the

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Speaker 1: future the severity might change. Many of them also said

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Speaker 1: that's not who you are, and that who I am

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Speaker 1: is who I am in Christ. I am trying to

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Speaker 1: hold onto their words and perspective as I moved forward

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Speaker 1: and the light of the diagnosis. Which helped me was

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Speaker 1: realizing that God can work in and through my weaknesses,

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Speaker 1: that my weakness can become my testimony. I imagine my

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Speaker 1: future and how one day I could share with others. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I was diagnosed with ADHD and severe OCD, but look

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Speaker 1: at what God has done to my life. I spinally

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Speaker 1: had hope for the future. Intersecting faith in life. In

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Speaker 1: Second Corinthians, Paul talks about his weakness so to keep

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Speaker 1: me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in

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Speaker 1: my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and

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Speaker 1: keep me from becoming proud. Three different times I begged

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Speaker 1: the Lord to take it away. Second Corinthians seventeen seven

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Speaker 1: b through eight. Paul was dealing with something uncomfortable, something

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Speaker 1: he didn't want so much so that he brought it

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Speaker 1: before the Lord. Paul continues each time he said, my

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Speaker 1: grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness,

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Speaker 1: So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses

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Speaker 1: so that the power of Christ can work through me.

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Speaker 1: That's why I take pleasure in my weaknesses and in

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Speaker 1: the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ.

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Speaker 1: For when I am week that I am strong. Second

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Speaker 1: Corinthians twelve nine through ten. This morning, I was struggling

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Speaker 1: and questioned by the Lord called me to do something

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Speaker 1: that would require his help. It's as if he helped

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Speaker 1: me to understand to overcome the difficulty of OCD in

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Speaker 1: my life. I need God's help. I need to let

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Speaker 1: him help me, and I need to accept the help

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Speaker 1: he gives me through our counselor. I thought I was

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Speaker 1: supposed to try to figure it out and try hard.

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Speaker 1: The thing about weaknesses is that we need God. It's

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Speaker 1: an insufficiency in ourselves in finding what we need in Him.

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Speaker 1: We all do and will continue to have weaknesses. What

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Speaker 1: Paul's talking about in this scripture is actually delighting in

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Speaker 1: his weaknesses. Why Because it's in our weaknesses that the

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Speaker 1: Lord shows his power. That's something to rejoice in. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever had a circumstance that was difficult, a weakness

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Speaker 1: that was unculortable, or you didn't understand. Have you seen

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Speaker 1: any evidence of God working through it? Invite him into

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Speaker 1: these spaces, ask him, just show you how His power

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Speaker 1: works best in your own weaknesses. Second Corinthians twelve nine.

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Speaker 1: When we share about what God has done in our

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Speaker 1: lives through our weaknesses or in the midst of difficult circumstances,

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Speaker 1: we share our tests on with others, God can be

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Speaker 1: glorified through it. Drew us further reading.

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Speaker 2: First Peter born nineteen Romans eight twenty eight.

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