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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswalk devotional. We're glad to have you

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Speaker 2: listening with us. Today's topic is on wanting so much

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Speaker 2: more and not realizing all that we really have. We'll

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Speaker 2: return with the devotional after a brief message from our sponsors.

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Speaker 2: More than Enough written and read by Cindy McManamon. You

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Speaker 2: have put gladness in my heart more than when they're

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Speaker 2: grain and new wine abound, Psalm four to seven, New

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Speaker 2: American Standard Bible, nineteen ninety five. I remember the day

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Speaker 2: we were driving home from a store and my teenage

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Speaker 2: daughter was complaining to me about all that she didn't

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Speaker 2: have a new car like the one being driven by

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Speaker 2: her sixteen year old friend who just got her driver's license.

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Speaker 2: Expensive homes her friends lived in, with more rooms than

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Speaker 2: their families needed, the latest electronic gadgets, brand name clothing,

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Speaker 2: and high priced handbags. Weary of constantly being reminded of

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Speaker 2: what we didn't have that her friend's families did, I

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Speaker 2: finally blew, do you realize what we do have? I snapped,

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Speaker 2: you have a roof over your head, and these days

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Speaker 2: that should be enough. Apparently my words struck a chord

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Speaker 2: with her. Her face fell and she sadly told me

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Speaker 2: of another one of her friends who was losing her

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Speaker 2: home due to her parents job loss. Immediately, my tones

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Speaker 2: softened as I realized my daughter had already been convicted

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Speaker 2: by her own words. We prayed for the family that

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Speaker 2: was losing their home, and then I silently prayed for

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Speaker 2: wisdom to turn that topic into a teaching moment. You know, sweetie,

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Speaker 2: I told her softly. As I continue to drive, a

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Speaker 2: lot of people around us are losing their homes. That's

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Speaker 2: why it's important for us to not only think about

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Speaker 2: what we have and be grateful for it, but to

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Speaker 2: focus on what we have that we will never lose.

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Speaker 2: She looked at me puzzled for a moment, and then

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Speaker 2: she got it. We immediately began to recount all that

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Speaker 2: we have that can never be taken from us. The

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Speaker 2: love we have from each other in our family, the

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Speaker 2: memories we've had in our three bedroom condo and the

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Speaker 2: small two bedroom home we owned prior to that, the

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Speaker 2: unconditional love of God, the gift of our salvation, a

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Speaker 2: promised mansion in eternity. I realized that day that my

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Speaker 2: daughter is not the only one who often wishes she

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Speaker 2: had more It's easy for me at times to look

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Speaker 2: at what others have and be envious. It's natural for

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Speaker 2: me to sometimes wish I had a little more money

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Speaker 2: to indulge in my desires. But so often I forget

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Speaker 2: all I do have and that it is more than enough.

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Speaker 2: So often we go through life looking at what others

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Speaker 2: have and wondering when our ship will come in. Then

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Speaker 2: we remember we have a God who owns the cattle

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Speaker 2: on a thousand hills Psalm fifty, verse ten, a God

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Speaker 2: who has gone to prepare a place for us, and

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Speaker 2: who will come again and receive us to himself, so

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Speaker 2: that where he is we will be forever. John fourteen three.

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Speaker 2: In Psalm four, David begins his song by asking God

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Speaker 2: for relief from his distresses. But then he must have

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Speaker 2: remembered what he had, because he finished his song with

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Speaker 2: a perspective of joy. You have put joy in my

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Speaker 2: heart more than when their grain and new wine are abundant.

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Speaker 2: In peace, I will both lie down and sleep for

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Speaker 2: you alone, Lord, have me dwell in safety Verses seven

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Speaker 2: and eight. In the Message translation, verse seven reads, I

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Speaker 2: have God's more than enough, more joy in one ordinary

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Speaker 2: day than they get in all their shoppingspacees that sounds

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Speaker 2: like a song I should be singing every day that

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Speaker 2: I begin to forget my blessings and start longing for more.

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Speaker 2: Intersecting faith in life, God is our true source of

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Speaker 2: security in an insecure world, and he is the only

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Speaker 2: one who satisfies in a culture where we can never

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Speaker 2: seem to get enough. When we have Him, along with

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Speaker 2: his promises for provision, protection, and peace, we have more

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Speaker 2: than enough. Can you draw strength from knowing that you

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Speaker 2: have God's more than enough, even if at times it

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Speaker 2: doesn't look like quite enough. Thank Him today for all

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Speaker 2: that you have, as well as for the blessings that

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Speaker 2: you don't yet see. The Bible says, if we belong

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Speaker 2: to Christ, God has blessed us in the heavenly realm

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Speaker 2: with every spiritual blessing in Christ Ephesians one to three.

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Speaker 2: And if we share in His sufferings, we are heirs

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Speaker 2: of God and co errs with Christ Romans eight seventeen,

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Speaker 2: joint heirs with God. Think about that we are heirs

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Speaker 2: of all that is his now. That's an inheritance, that's

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Speaker 2: a future, and that is more than enough. For further reading,

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Speaker 2: Sea Ephesians IE verses three through fourteen. For a daily

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Speaker 2: awareness of all you have in your relationship with Christ,

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Speaker 2: see my book The New Loneliness Devotional, Fifty Days to

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Speaker 2: a Closer Connection with God.

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