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Speaker 1: Mistakes says, Hey Granger, my name is Duke. I'm from

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Speaker 1: me give you an example. Last fall, I was sitting

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Speaker 1: there watching Texas A and M football. I was like, man,

426
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 1: I get so nervous before a game. I get all

427
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: stirred up and anxious, and then the game starts and

428
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: I get angry. And then as the game's going on,

429
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: I get joyful and then angry again. And the game's

430
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: over and they lose, and I have a bad night

431
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 1: and I'm affected by it. And it started hitting me.

432
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: This is last fall, guys started hitting me, you got

433
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Speaker 1: a problem. You love college football too much. You're addicted

434
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Speaker 1: to college football in a way that it is affecting

435
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: your emotions. I'm like, really, I recognize that old sanctification feeling.

436
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: And I told my tour manager Chris. I was like, man,

437
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: I think I gotta quit college football. He goes, what, like, yeah,

438
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: I think I'm feeling convicted to quit college football, to

439
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: quit watching it until I could rein it in where

440
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: I could just watch it casually and not be emotionally affected,

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00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: Like where it doesn't just start affecting my daily life.

442
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 1: And Chris is like, oh you think so, you think

443
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: that I watch college football. So I'm sinning. I'm like, no,

444
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: it's not there's nothing to do with you sinning. This

445
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: sanctification is different. Okay, So you see how I'm wrapping

446
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: this all up. So, buddy, you're addicted to anything, I

447
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: don't care if it's caffeine or, in this case, tobacco.

448
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: This kind of sanctification is up to you. If you're

449
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: addicted to caffeine, that's not against the law. But if

450
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: it's if it's controlling you in a way that you

451
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: you need it you have to function, that's a problem.

452
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: Then you gotta quit it. Tobacco, it's not illegal. You're

453
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: old enough to have it. You're twenty five years old,

454
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: you're old enough to buy it. It's not illegal. It's

455
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: not a problem unless it becomes a problem. I know

456
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: this problem personally, and I had to quit. I no

457
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: longer touch it. I could speak to this personally. I

458
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: had the same conviction you're having now, and I had

459
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: to kick it. You got me. Let's move on. Next question.

460
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: Subject line says talking with girls, Hey Grangeard like to

461
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: stay anonymous. I'm a sophomore in high school. I got

462
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Speaker 1: a girl that I've been talking to for a little

463
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: while now. She's extreme. She likes me, and she wants

464
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: to date me, but it seems like she's rushing into it.

465
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: All my friends think that she's cool, and she thinks

466
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: they are cool, and all trying to get me to

467
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: do stuff with her and ask her out. My main

468
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: problem is I have no idea what to talk about

469
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: with her right now. I don't know if I'm ready

470
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: to date her or not. I'm assuming very young here.

471
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: I'm assuming assuming you're talking. We're talking to a teenager here,

472
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: and you're talking. Oh you said it. You said I'm

473
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Speaker 1: a sophomore in high school. Okay, So what is that

474
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: sophomore in high school? You're sixteen, maybe seventeen. Let me

475
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: hand it to you, straight, sixteen year old. Straight. There's

476
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,959
Speaker 1: a girl you've been talking to. She likes you, she

477
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: wants to date you, she's rushing into it. All your

478
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: friends think you should do it because she's cool. Your

479
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: main problem is you don't know if you're ready or not.

480
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: Answer is you're not ready. That's it. It doesn't matter

481
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: what your friends think is cool. It doesn't matter if

482
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: she likes you a lot. You're not ready. How do

483
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: you know? Because you said it, I don't know if

484
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: I'm ready or not. That is the answer that you're

485
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: not ready. If there's a shadow of a doubt in there,

486
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: then you're not ready. Because the essence of being ready

487
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: is there's no doubt you're ready. There is no reason

488
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: to wonder if you're ready or not. You just are.

489
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: You just know it. You go, man, I like her,

490
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: no red flags. I'm in I want to ask her out.

491
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: I want to talk to her. It doesn't matter if

492
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: I don't know what to talk to her about. I'm

493
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: just gonna go up and say I like you, and

494
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: I don't exactly know how to say it. I don't

495
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: really know how to talk. I'm a little embarrassed because

496
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: you're so pretty. But all I do know is that

497
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: I like you. I'd like to maybe go on a

498
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: date with you. But if you're not ready, you don't

499
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: do that. Brother, You don't say that at all. You

500
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: tell your friends I ain't ready. Come on, man, she's cool.

501
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: I'm not ready. Okay, okay, okay, fine, man, we'll lay off.

502
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: You see her in the hallway. She's talking to you.

503
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: You say, I just want to be up front. If

504
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: you're thinking this is going somewhere like dating, I'm not

505
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: ready for that. It's not It's not something that you're

506
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: doing or not necessarily. I'm just I'm a little young,

507
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: and I'm not ready. Maybe one day I will be.

508
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: This is a different story, you know, if you're like

509
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: thirty years old, twenty five years old, but fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,

510
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: this is different. Okay, you're not ready. Let's grab another question.

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Speaker 1: Subject line on this next one straight into the queue

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Speaker 1: says tough decision. Hey, Grangel, my name is Ethan. I'm

513
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: twenty two from Colorado. Moved to Colorado a few years

514
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: ago because I felt like it was the right place

515
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,479
Speaker 1: to be at the right time. My time here has

516
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: taught me a whole lot about myself, and I've grown

517
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: on my own these last few years. I'm currently trying

518
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: to decide if I should move back to Tennessee or not.

519
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: I don't have as much family here and not a

520
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities to go back home and see them. Okay,

521
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: and I don't have a lot of opportunities to go

522
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: back home and see them. Talking about the family like

523
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: I thought I was going to be able to I'm

524
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: really struggling right now, and I don't know if this

525
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: is just a season of life or if I'm really

526
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: starting to dislike it here. I've been praying about it

527
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: and still confused on what to do. Ethan, Ethan, thank

528
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: you brother, appreciate the question, and shout out to Colorado

529
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: and Tennessee, two beautiful places. Listen. The first thing you

530
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: got to establish here, Ethan, is that you make sure

531
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: this isn't just a wondering heart, because twenty two year

532
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: olds have it. It's contagious. At twenty two, I remember

533
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: having it. And what I'm talking about is just being

534
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: in a place where you're just not really content where

535
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: you are. You're searching, and it doesn't matter if it's

536
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: Colorado or Tennessee or Hong Kong, it doesn't matter. You

537
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: are not finding your contentment in the place that you're living.

538
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: I don't know from your email exactly why you moved

539
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: to Colorado. You just says your email just says it

540
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: felt like it was the right place to be at

541
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: the time. I don't know what that means. I don't

542
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,399
Speaker 1: know if that means you had a bad breakup in Tennessee.

543
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: If there was a girl in Colorado you're chasing. I

544
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: don't know. If have you had a buddy that go

545
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: to Colorado and you followed him and now he's not

546
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: there anymore. I don't know. But it doesn't I'm not

547
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: getting a clear picture by you just saying I lived

548
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: in Tennessee and I just moved to Colorado a few

549
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: years ago because it felt like it was the right

550
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: place to be at the time. If we're riding in

551
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: the truck together, I need to know a little bit

552
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: more information, so we'll go by what we have. You

553
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: thought you were going to move to Colorado and be

554
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 1: able to go back and see your family a lot.

555
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: That's what you said. You haven't had those opportunities. You're

556
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: trying to decide if you should just pack up and

557
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: move back to Tennessee. Now, we make these things, these

558
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: situations into huge problems when it's really not. As I'm

559
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: reading it on the podcast, I'm thinking, this is not

560
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: a huge problem. It is to you because you're in it.

561
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: You're in the middle of it. For me on the outside,

562
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, get out of your lease when it ends,

563
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: go stay on a couch in Tennessee or at your

564
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 1: family's house, whatever, and you don't have to do it

565
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: for ten years. Just go live on a couch for

566
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: a month in Tennessee, get out of your lease in Colorado,

567
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: and you're gonna know you're gonna be back in Tennessee, going, yeah,

568
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: this is right. It feels right to be back here.

569
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: I think through your email, you're leaving it doesn't feel

570
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: like Colorado has anything to offer you anymore. And you

571
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,399
Speaker 1: are saying, I'm struggling right now. I don't know if

572
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: it's just a season of life or if I'm really

573
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: starting to dislike it. I'm praying, but I still feel

574
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: very confused. What are you praying for? I always like

575
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: to ask that question. I always like to just at

576
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: least prick you a little bit and ask you what

577
00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: you're praying for. God, help me to make a decision,

578
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,720
Speaker 1: help me to follow my dreams. Like what are you saying?

579
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 1: Because I would recommend it sounds something like God. You

580
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: are sovereign, you are present, you are aware, you are purposing,

581
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: you're planning. You know every hair on my head, you

582
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: know every star in the sky. I will never question you.

583
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: Got it? I feel lost. I feel like I'm searching,

584
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: and I need to put that focus back on you.

585
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: Draw me to you, let me see you for who

586
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: you are. I don't know why I get so confused

587
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: and I get so caught up in this world, and God,

588
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that anymore. I want to

589
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 1: look to you. Guide me. Let me open my eyes

590
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: to see what is out that the doors that are

591
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: opened that I could walk through, and the doors that

592
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: are closed I need to turn away from. But wherever

593
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: I go, let it be your will, not mine. If

594
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: there's someone here in Colorado for me to see and

595
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: talk to, let me find them. It's someone back home

596
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: at Tennessee I need to be with, let me go

597
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: to them. But either way, wherever I go, let me

598
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:29,760
Speaker 1: find contentment in you. Just wondering, Eathan, if it's anything,

599
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: if I am even in the ballpark of the prayers

600
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: that you're praying when you're talking about moving, I don't know.

601
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: I was once your age and I was living in Tennessee.

602
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 1: I'd moved there from Texas, and after four years I

603
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: felt a little wild heart and I felt like I

604
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: needed to go back to Texas. I like, you didn't

605
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: get to visit my family that much. I thought I

606
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: was gonna get gonna get to see them more, and

607
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: I didn't. I know what you're going through. I feel this.

608
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,240
Speaker 1: Go back to your home state, that's where you belong.

609
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: But pray a prayer of wisdom to God that it's

610
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: not your will, it's his surrender. Give it over to him.

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00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: Things get better, all right, Love you guys, See you

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00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: next Monday. Thanks for joining me on the Grangersmith Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate all of you guys. You could help me

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Speaker 1: out by rating this podcast on iTunes. If you're on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: subscribe to this channel, hit that little like button and

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Speaker 1: a video. If you have a question for me that

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Speaker 1: gmail dot com. YII