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Speaker 3: Well, what incredible time in God's presence this morning, and

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Speaker 3: if you're just now joining us, welcome to Elevation Church.

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Speaker 3: You know, we spent the last couple of minutes just

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Speaker 3: thinking about the faithfulness of God, and that's exactly what

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Speaker 3: we're going to do here today. Is we're going to

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Speaker 3: look back on twenty twenty three and just thank God

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Speaker 3: for all that He's done. We're going to talk about

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Speaker 3: some special moments and specifically some sermons that we are

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Speaker 3: still thinking about right now.

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Speaker 4: And it's not just me.

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Speaker 3: I have some other people here Chad, Britt and Jason,

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Speaker 3: and we also have some lovely people from some of

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Speaker 4: So thank you guys for being here today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it really has been an incredible year. It's

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Speaker 3: very hard to condense down into just a couple things

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Speaker 3: our church. But I thought before we dive into the sermons,

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Speaker 3: the things that really you know, we're still processing chat

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Speaker 3: If people have never been part of Coffee Fan before,

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Speaker 3: do you want to explain the format today?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So we're taking a little bit different format on

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Speaker 2: this last Sunday of the year where we typically talk

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Speaker 2: about the message. So, like Colleen said, each week we

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Speaker 2: get the opportunity to talk about the message that we

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Speaker 2: typically do that live on Wednesday morning at nine am.

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Speaker 2: And so a lot of you join in online on

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Speaker 2: YouTube or Facebook, and it doesn't matter if you go

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Speaker 2: these sermons. And I like to say I'm looking for

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Speaker 3: Makes you feel so much better to know like, oh,

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Speaker 4: And so yeah, we're excited to talk about all of this.

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Speaker 3: So before well, if you tuned into coffee Fan, we

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Speaker 3: like to we have to warm up the conversation a

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Speaker 3: let's hit just what is like a moment or two

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Speaker 3: for you guys that you look back on this here

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm tied between two.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, you got to all.

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Speaker 6: First of all, Bailmunt just had his first worship experience

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Speaker 6: December twenty fourth.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, normally known as Gaston, that's.

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Speaker 6: Right, formally non artist, formerly known as Gaston eleven years

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Speaker 6: the non permanent.

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Speaker 6: just it's been amazing. But I love about how our

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Speaker 6: Elevation Church.

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Speaker 5: I love it.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 7: Number one. It was not really a moment. It was

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Speaker 7: I also got to go with Love Week, I mean

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Speaker 4: Top moment for me twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: How about you, Chechah, I love that well.

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Speaker 2: I love the A few weeks back, we shared all

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Speaker 2: saying of like, it's not just in a building like this,

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Speaker 1: With Elevation Nights.

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Speaker 2: And Elevation Nights is something we've been doing for a

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Speaker 2: And we got the opportunity to do that a bunch

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Speaker 2: to thank So we're coming up on another Elevation Nights

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Speaker 3: The Northeast, We're coming your way. Get excited. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 3: I would echo everything you guys said. I'm just always

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Speaker 3: When I started coming here, we were meeting in a

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Speaker 3: Incredible to be hundreds of thousands of miles away, to

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Speaker 3: my best friends are in my E group, and you're like,

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Speaker 5: Off here, absolutely one of my favorite.

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Speaker 8: We had a couple of a words that pastors started

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Speaker 5: For context. The first one was the God of also.

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Speaker 6: God of again, you know in the crowds, shout it out.

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Speaker 9: So the first thing we have to understand when we

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Speaker 10: For those God for new He also predestined.

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Speaker 9: To be conformed to the image of his son Ah.

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Speaker 1: So God's calling is really about character.

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Speaker 5: Why is God, who is.

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Speaker 10: Holy, stooping down to call himself the God of Jacob.

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Speaker 10: Maybe he wants you to know that he doesn't just

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Speaker 10: want to be your God when you're living like a prince.

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Speaker 5: Maybe he wants you to know that he is also God.

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Speaker 9: When I've got it together, but he is.

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Speaker 1: When I don't stop hiding from God.

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Speaker 11: When you're feeling ashamed, come to Him and thank Him

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Speaker 11: that there's no shame on Jesus.

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Speaker 5: So there's no shame on me.

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Speaker 11: The biggest comfort in my life is that God knew

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Speaker 6: For me, it was about getting in to our character,

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Speaker 6: Pastor started with the character. He started with what's Moses?

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Speaker 6: Developed in your character this year. I want to see

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Speaker 6: I'm just you know, flowing no angels wings, I think,

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Speaker 5: But he developed my patience.

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Speaker 6: And so I really want to know from you guys, like,

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Speaker 7: I mean, well, let me start with this because you

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Speaker 4: All these things to mine. Absolutely, and I highlighted this.

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Speaker 7: It says before Moses ever called on God, Yes, God

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Speaker 7: there's times where and I'm not speaking for everyone, just

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Speaker 7: beautiful picture because I love this quote. Before Moses ever

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Speaker 7: Because Pastor, when he was preaching this, he pointed out, like,

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Speaker 7: Don't leave me hanging, make yourself known in the child.

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Speaker 7: But in all seriousness, our pastor preaches incredible messages every single.

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Speaker 4: Week that are life changing. Yes, that's right.

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Speaker 7: I've been under his teachings and preaching for eleven years

447
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Speaker 7: now and it really has changed my life. And with that,

448
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Speaker 7: we also have the amazing gifts of Hollyfordic as well,

449
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Speaker 7: and our first Lady Pastor Holly has preached some amazing

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Speaker 7: messages this year. But there is one in particular that

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Speaker 7: she preached on Mother's Day actually, and it was called

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Speaker 7: Sudden Strength, and it really is a beautiful picture of

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Speaker 7: how even in our weakest moments, when we look to

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Speaker 7: the right place where dependency. God will strengthen us even

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Speaker 7: in those times. And just as a little refresher, let's

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Speaker 7: take a look at this.

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Speaker 13: When we experience a difficult situation, we have two choices.

458
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Speaker 13: We can wonder why, or we can ask what next.

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Speaker 4: When I sit in.

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Speaker 13: My pain for too long, I get stale, and I

461
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Speaker 13: get bitter, and nobody.

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Speaker 1: Wants to be around me. But when I drag my

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Speaker 1: pain to.

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Speaker 13: The feet of Jesus, sometimes over and over again, when

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Speaker 13: I seek God, he answers.

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Speaker 5: We're not fighting in our own power.

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Speaker 13: That's the amazing thing, Paul said. Be strong in the

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Speaker 13: Lord and in his mighty power. It's his mighty power

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Speaker 13: that is at work.

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Speaker 4: On the inside of you.

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Speaker 13: But sometimes you gotta get up. If you want to

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Speaker 13: activate God's power in your life, you gotta move.

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Speaker 4: You got to seek.

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Speaker 13: Him again and again and again. You gotta arm yourself

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Speaker 13: so that you can stand against the enemy. Don't give in,

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Speaker 13: don't let him win, keep fighting even when you're tired.

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Speaker 4: Do you guys see why I love that so much?

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Speaker 7: Esphesian six. You gotta be armed, yes, But I really

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Speaker 7: do love so much the handles that she gave us.

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Speaker 4: Because she said this, she was.

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Speaker 7: Talking about how sometimes an unexpected fight does break out,

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Speaker 7: and for me, I can think of the times where, like,

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Speaker 7: you know, I was doing good, I was on my grind,

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Speaker 7: I was doing my thing, and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 7: out of nowhere, I'm like, where did this come from?

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Speaker 7: And because I was so unprepared, like I wasn't expecting it,

487
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Speaker 7: I went into.

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Speaker 4: Literal battle.

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Speaker 7: And I didn't know where to find my strengths. So

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Speaker 7: the tools that she gave us, I hope that we

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Speaker 7: all took to heart, and if not, it's fine. We're

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Speaker 7: going to unpack them a little bit more today so

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Speaker 7: we can really get these in our spirit going into

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Speaker 7: twenty twenty four. But here's the deal. She said this,

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Speaker 7: and this is kind of where I want to start.

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Speaker 7: She asked us the questions like when something does happen

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Speaker 7: in our lives, we can wonder why, or we can

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Speaker 7: ask what's next? And so I kind of wanted to

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Speaker 7: unpack and sit there for just a couple of moments

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Speaker 7: with like, can you guys think through a process through

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Speaker 7: like when something unexpected happens, like what is your default?

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Speaker 7: And then how do you navigate maybe out of what

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Speaker 7: your natural default might be?

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Speaker 3: Great Yasna say, well, do you want like the church

505
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Speaker 3: answer or like what I actually do?

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Speaker 4: I want a real.

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Speaker 3: So I think like for me, and I think this

508
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Speaker 3: even goes back to a little bit of Pastor's lest

509
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Speaker 3: sermon is I feel like when something like that happens,

510
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Speaker 3: I am very quick to like try to figure stuff

511
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Speaker 3: out on my own. I'll ask everyone of my friends

512
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Speaker 3: before I come to God, and I will I'll sit

513
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Speaker 3: in it for a minute and it's not good. But

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Speaker 3: like that was why her sermon was so helpful for me,

515
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Speaker 3: because I'm like it was such a good perspective shift

516
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Speaker 3: instead of like sitting there asking like like asking God

517
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Speaker 3: why and stuff and you're like no, like He's going

518
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Speaker 3: to use this, like what's next?

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Speaker 4: What do I need to do? And so I love

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Speaker 4: when she.

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Speaker 3: Talked about like what you do today is giving you

522
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Speaker 3: strength for tomorrow. And so even what you said, Britt

523
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Speaker 3: is like you have to like you have to be

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Speaker 3: prepared daily to go into that. And so I think

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Speaker 3: the thing that I've learned about myself is like I

526
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Speaker 3: have to spend time with God.

527
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Speaker 4: I'm praying in.

528
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Speaker 3: My car, whether that's reading my Bible, whether that's journaling

529
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Speaker 3: things I'm grateful for I have to be filled up

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Speaker 3: in order to be prepared when that next thing comes.

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Speaker 3: And so am I good at it? Not all the time,

532
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Speaker 3: but I'm learning the things I need to do so

533
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Speaker 3: I am prepared when I.

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Speaker 1: Go into it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say I'm good at telling my kids

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Speaker 2: that this is preparation for what's next. Yeah, because that's

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Speaker 2: the way I see like my life. I mean, everything

538
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Speaker 2: I'm doing for my kids and it's like, well, what,

539
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Speaker 2: I don't want to do that now? No, no, No,

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Speaker 2: We're teaching you so that later on this you're gonna

541
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Speaker 2: you're gonna thank us later for this because we're helping

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Speaker 2: you to understand you got to clean up after yourself.

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Speaker 2: This will go well for you later in life. I'm

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Speaker 2: teaching you to be disciplined with the things that you're

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Speaker 2: committing to. This will go well for you later in life.

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Speaker 2: And they don't necessarily always love it, But when it

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Speaker 2: happens to me, it's very much different than that, because

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm a fighter in the moment when something's happened,

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Speaker 2: and I'm like, I don't like, there's got to be

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Speaker 2: a reason this is happening in this moment, and it's

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Speaker 2: for right now, and so I'm going to bring everything i.

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Speaker 1: Have at it. I'm going to fight it because I

553
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Speaker 1: want to fix things.

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Speaker 2: I want to make things right. I'm a fixer, you know.

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Speaker 2: I'm not one to sit back and be like, let

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Speaker 2: me just really believe and think, what is God trying

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Speaker 2: to teach me through this? Because that's that is so

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Speaker 2: difficult for me to do. That is such a difficult thing.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to sit here and talk about to just say, well,

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Speaker 2: just do it. One of the things I love that

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Speaker 2: Holly said, though, was you got to do the work.

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Speaker 2: You got to do the work, and you got to

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Speaker 2: do the work to dive in and even just sit

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Speaker 2: back and say, God, what are you showing me? That's

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Speaker 2: work for me, because it's not work to just get

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Speaker 2: up and I'm fighting, I'm going after this. That's not

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Speaker 2: really work for me. The work does come when I

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Speaker 2: have to sit back and say, God, Okay, what do

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Speaker 2: you want to show me through this?

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Speaker 1: What are you trying to teach me through this?

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Speaker 2: What are you trying to help me understand that this

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Speaker 2: is preparation for And that's tough, that's not easy.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's the discipline part of what you said is

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Speaker 3: because like I think we want it to be easy,

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Speaker 3: but I'm like, the discipline part's hard, Like I don't

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Speaker 3: always want to read my Bible every day. Like truthfully,

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Speaker 3: I'm like, but you have to like make yourself do

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Speaker 3: the things and to see like to see the progress

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Speaker 3: and to see it working.

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Speaker 4: And so it's not easy. But that's what discipline is.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, because normally under pressure, we respond so differently from

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Speaker 6: a psychological standpoint. They say it's three responses fight, flight

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Speaker 6: or freeze.

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Speaker 5: Yep, I would love.

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Speaker 6: To know which one where my flight people at fight freeze?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, sometimes all three. I don't know what to do.

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Speaker 6: But as a leader, I find myself always, like you, Chad,

588
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Speaker 6: wanting to solve it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: And I'm also a worst case scenario person, so I'm

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Speaker 6: not trying.

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Speaker 8: To solve the actual problem. I'm trying to solve the

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Speaker 8: worst case scenario.

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Speaker 5: Problem's going to help exists yet and.

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Speaker 6: I don't know why, And so I feel like my

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Speaker 6: imagination can get away from me and try to go

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Speaker 6: into mow. And so I love discernment because it teaches

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Speaker 6: us how to surrender even in a fight.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's really it's really kind of cool because the

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Speaker 7: story that Holly was preaching from it was like about

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Speaker 7: David and everything had been taken his wives, which we're

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Speaker 7: not going to talk about that right now, but everything

603
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Speaker 7: has been taken and they were all like at their

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Speaker 7: lowest point and they're like super weak, like they were exhausted.

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Speaker 4: They couldn't have been ment or cry anymore.

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Speaker 7: And then like the strength of the Lord came to

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Speaker 7: David and that moment, and so what a beautiful picture

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Speaker 7: of even.

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Speaker 4: Like when we're going through some really difficult things.

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Speaker 7: And I mean, I don't know about everyone, but this

611
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Speaker 7: year I've hit some lows, you know, like if life

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Speaker 7: has been life in you know, like in all seriousness,

613
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Speaker 7: like you know, like difficult things like mommy is not easy,

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Speaker 7: and then you know, I've experienced loss. I've experienced a

615
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Speaker 7: lot of real things this year. And in those moments,

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Speaker 7: like when you're talking about all of those, I think

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Speaker 7: I do a little bit of all of it. But

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Speaker 7: one thing I do very practically in those moments.

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Speaker 4: And I don't know if this.

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Speaker 7: Is right or not, but I always give myself a

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Speaker 7: deadline to feel whatever I want to feel. So like

622
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Speaker 7: when I'm like and I'm like I can wile out,

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Speaker 7: I can say what I want.

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Speaker 4: Again, I'm not saying this is best.

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Speaker 7: I'm just saying I give myself permission to Maybe it

626
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Speaker 7: is like lamenting is fine, right, but like maybe not

627
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Speaker 7: some of the ways I do it.

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Speaker 4: But a normal deadline like how long are we talking? Okay?

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Speaker 7: It depends on what it is, okay. So like if

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Speaker 7: it's something like say like my son or my husband,

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Speaker 7: like make me mad, I'm gonna say, you know what,

632
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Speaker 7: I'm gonna go like, I'm literally gonna go take a

633
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Speaker 7: shower and just sit in my room for an hour

634
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Speaker 7: and then I have to get over it because I

635
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Speaker 7: gotta figure it out. Or if it's you know, a

636
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Speaker 7: friend thing, I might take the night and be as

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Speaker 7: angry as I want, and then I'm gonna come back,

638
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Speaker 7: you know, the next day and we're gonna figure it out.

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Speaker 4: We got to solve this thing. You've got to move

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Speaker 4: on from it.

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Speaker 7: Or if it's I don't know, it's so different depending

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Speaker 7: on I never.

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Speaker 4: Let myself sit in it though, too.

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Speaker 7: I'm typically one of the next I'm like, you're ready

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Speaker 7: for next twenty four hours or less than twenty four hours,

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Speaker 7: just because I know if I let myself go too long, right,

647
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Speaker 7: and it's gonna be really bad for me because then

648
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Speaker 7: I've started a spiral and everyone I'm not gonna be

649
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Speaker 7: able to get out. But then there's like different cycles

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Speaker 7: like grief. Yeah, maybe I can just do twenty four hours. Yeah,

651
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Speaker 7: but I'm gonna give myself twenty four hours to feel

652
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Speaker 7: everything and then I'm gonna do something. And then when

653
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Speaker 7: it hits me again like a wave, I'm going to

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Speaker 7: give myself another time period to just feel whatever I

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Speaker 7: need to feel and give myself permission and grace through

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Speaker 7: that season.

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Speaker 4: And so but it also in my mind, it.

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Speaker 7: Just triggers something like you get to be human, you

659
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Speaker 7: get to feel this, you get to experience this because

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Speaker 7: you guys know, like I really am a firm believer

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Speaker 7: of I know God gave us emotions, but then he

662
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Speaker 7: tells us things like you slow to anger.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, you literally gave me the thing.

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Speaker 7: I really believe that I read this devotional years ago

665
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Speaker 7: that just and it's always stuck with me. This is

666
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Speaker 7: maybe like ten to fifteen years ago about like emotions

667
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Speaker 7: are meant to catch our attention. So anytime you feel

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Speaker 7: like anger, frustration, like that is a signal to you

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Speaker 7: not to act out of that, but to bring that

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Speaker 7: to God because they caught your attention for a reason.

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Speaker 7: And so that is what I've been really working really

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Speaker 7: hard to be able to do. And I feel like

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Speaker 7: the strength piece though, that holl I taught about in

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Speaker 7: those moments is what's so powerful, because if you take

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Speaker 7: everything from me, I might be falling out on the

676
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Speaker 7: floor trying to figure it out. What am I going

677
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Speaker 7: to do because I feel some type of way. But

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Speaker 7: I love how she was like, no, God will strengthen you.

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Speaker 7: And then David went and he got back what was

680
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Speaker 7: his God had given him.

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Speaker 6: I love the example of David because in the Book

682
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Speaker 6: of Psalms you see him always expressing what he's feeling,

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Speaker 6: what he's going through and going to God and not

684
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Speaker 6: just saying it to his neighbors. So for me, I

685
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 6: love to complain. I don't know what my complainers are. Yeah,

686
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Speaker 6: I got a lot of issues.

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Speaker 1: Guys.

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Speaker 4: Therapy right now.

689
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Speaker 6: I feel so therapeutic. But I just want to complain.

690
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Speaker 6: But when I complain to my wife or my friends,

691
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Speaker 6: that causes.

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Speaker 5: Like fear or anxiety to them.

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Speaker 6: But when I complain in the presence of God, he

694
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Speaker 6: has answers, so and so, just like you, It's like,

695
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Speaker 6: I'll give myself a moment, but I'm like, okay, God,

696
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Speaker 6: how can we circle up?

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Speaker 8: This is what I'm really feeling. He's not afraid of

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Speaker 8: my doubt, my anxiety.

699
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Speaker 4: My space for all of that.

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Speaker 5: He said, Hey, come to me, you know.

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Speaker 8: And that's sometimes the hardest part is just to kind

702
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Speaker 8: of go to God.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, totally. It just seems so simple. You're like,

704
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Speaker 3: we'll know the thing to do, but we just don't

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Speaker 3: do it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

707
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Speaker 7: Wonder why or like Holly said, that's right, ask what's next?

708
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Speaker 4: What now? What would you have me do?

709
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Speaker 5: That's great, what's next?

710
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Speaker 4: Perfect?

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Speaker 3: We do have someone in the crowd as well who

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Speaker 3: has a takeaway from this message.

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Speaker 14: I resonated with this sermon so much because I was

714
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Speaker 14: in the middle of a battle of feeling like I

715
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Speaker 14: wasn't equipped to raise our teenage son and hearing her

716
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Speaker 14: say the enemy is out there and he wants you

717
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Speaker 14: to be too tired for the calling God has put

718
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Speaker 14: on your life really encouraged me. Really shot me in

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Speaker 14: the gut, if I'm being honest. But the pandemic really

720
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Speaker 14: rocked our teenager's world. He went through a really deep

721
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Speaker 14: depression and he was this kid that showed up for

722
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Speaker 14: church every weekend. He volunteered, he was baptized at our church,

723
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Speaker 14: and now he is questioning God and it's been a

724
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Speaker 14: really long battle. But just listening to the sermon reminded

725
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Speaker 14: me like I can't give up, Like I've got to

726
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Speaker 14: fight this for him. I have two more sons, so

727
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Speaker 14: I'm going to need that strength for them as well.

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Speaker 4: So but yeah, so good. Thank you for sharing that.

729
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Speaker 4: That's so powerful and that's so real, and.

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Speaker 7: I know that there's a lot of people that are

731
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Speaker 7: here today that can relate to that, And I just

732
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Speaker 7: thank you for being vulnerable and being in it right now,

733
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Speaker 7: because there's so many of us that are in it

734
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Speaker 7: right now. But I also love how the scripture says

735
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Speaker 7: that the strength comes suddenly, yes, right, And so wherever

736
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Speaker 7: you find yourself, that would be our belief in our

737
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Speaker 7: prayer for you, that the strength will come suddenly right now,

738
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Speaker 7: even in this moment, I believe that you'll be strengthened

739
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Speaker 7: just in the presence of what today means for us

740
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Speaker 7: and through this conversation and just knowing that God will

741
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Speaker 7: provide the strength that you need even in the hardest moments,

742
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Speaker 7: like like what Pastor Holly shared, let's start the sermon amazing.

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Speaker 3: All right, well, we have one more sermon that we're

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Speaker 3: going to get to talk about, Chad, one of your favorites.

745
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Speaker 2: We're going to Week two of this year where Pastor

746
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Speaker 2: rolled out Do the New You, and everybody's shaking their

747
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 2: head yes because they all pre ordered past this book.

748
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Speaker 2: Pastor just wrote a new book called Do the New Ye,

749
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Speaker 2: and it's based off of this message and some messages

750
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Speaker 2: beyond this.

751
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Speaker 1: But what I love so much.

752
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Speaker 2: Is this kind of ties in so much to everything

753
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Speaker 2: that we've already been talking about, is how the you

754
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 2: that really is inside of you, the you that God knows.

755
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Speaker 2: It's not always the me that I know, it's not

756
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Speaker 2: the me that that I see on a daily basis,

757
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Speaker 2: but but the me that God wants me to be

758
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Speaker 2: is inside of me. And it's really all about what

759
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Speaker 2: are the different steps that I.

760
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Speaker 1: Need to take in life to see that happens.

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Speaker 2: How do I need to really let that come out

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Speaker 2: and walk forward in what God has for me?

763
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Speaker 1: And So if if you missed it, I hope you didn't.

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Speaker 2: You can certainly watch it on YouTube, and I would

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Speaker 2: encourage you to do that, but we have a little

766
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Speaker 2: recap to show you about it.

767
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Speaker 1: To take a look.

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Speaker 11: The way that you have been living that has been

769
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Speaker 11: limiting you. It is a product of the patterns of

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Speaker 11: the world that you have copied unconsciously. Until now, we

771
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Speaker 11: almost have elevated authenticity to the level.

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Speaker 5: Of ultimate authority in our lives.

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Speaker 11: To give ourselves permission not to make progress. What wind

774
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Speaker 11: are you cursing because you avoided dealing with the storms inside?

775
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Speaker 11: The awareness of how I start doesn't have to become

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Speaker 11: indicative of where I end.

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Speaker 1: I believe that.

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Speaker 10: There is a power in Christ for you to decide

779
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Speaker 10: that I don't want to be like what I can

780
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Speaker 10: I'm from.

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Speaker 5: I want to be like I was created for.

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Speaker 1: In the Lord.

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Speaker 5: You are being called this year to do the knew you.

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Speaker 11: But he said before you were born, before I formed

785
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Speaker 11: you in the room, I before any of the crap happened.

786
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Speaker 11: God said, I had intimate knowledge of your intellect, and he.

787
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Speaker 10: Brought me that sucks to tell me do it?

788
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Speaker 7: To know you?

789
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Speaker 5: I go back.

790
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Speaker 4: I got to go back.

791
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Speaker 1: I got to go back and watch it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that Pastor was was just sharing before

793
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Speaker 2: before we even knew us, he knew everything. And I

794
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Speaker 2: just feel like I said this just a minute ago,

795
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Speaker 2: but that that has just been flown throughout today, that

796
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Speaker 2: that before we even got to the place that we're

797
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Speaker 2: and God knew that we would be in the place

798
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Speaker 2: that we're in. God set us up to be exactly

799
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Speaker 2: where we're at. He gave us everything we need for

800
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Speaker 2: where we're at today. But one of the things that

801
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Speaker 2: Pastor said is what wind are you cursing?

802
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Speaker 1: And knowing that there's so much.

803
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Speaker 2: Going on and you may be saying, oh, man, I

804
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Speaker 2: hate that I'm in that position, or I hate that

805
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 2: I'm I'm dealing with this right now, or why are

806
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 2: they doing that again? Or why kids acting up this

807
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Speaker 2: way again? What's the wind in your life that you're

808
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Speaker 2: cursing that that if you stop to sit back and say,

809
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Speaker 2: wait a.

810
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Speaker 1: Minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, God.

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Speaker 2: Is that actually the thing that you're trying to do

812
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Speaker 2: in me right now? Is that the me is that

813
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Speaker 2: is that part of me today? And so everybody's been

814
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Speaker 2: asking questions, here's my question, What's what's the what's the

815
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Speaker 2: wind you're cursing today? Jason, what's the wind in life

816
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Speaker 2: that maybe maybe is something that God's put in your life?

817
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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel like the winding I'm cursing is I

819
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Speaker 6: always go back to my leadership because I leave so

820
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Speaker 6: many people.

821
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Speaker 5: And maybe you can relate to this.

822
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Speaker 6: There's always something to solve, and I'm like, why do

823
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Speaker 6: I have to carry this weight of solving this problem again?

824
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 6: You know, why do I have to continuously move this

825
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Speaker 6: up forward again? Because sometimes I feel tired. I feel

826
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Speaker 6: like I don't have the answers. People want solutions, they

827
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 6: want marriage counseling, They won't They want me to be

828
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Speaker 6: the source, and I feel empty sometimes and so it's like, God,

829
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Speaker 6: why are you bringing me all of this that I

830
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Speaker 6: have to carry the weight? And maybe you feel that

831
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Speaker 6: as a parent, maybe you feel that as a business owner,

832
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Speaker 6: like why am I under this weight? Why am I

833
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Speaker 6: here again looking for solutions?

834
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Speaker 5: And people are coming to me for solutions.

835
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Speaker 8: But I feel like that win has definitely put a

836
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Speaker 8: resilience in me to just keep going. Sometimes I may

837
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Speaker 8: not have the answer, and it's okay to be set

838
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Speaker 8: to tell people, Hey.

839
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Speaker 6: I don't know, but we're gonna pray about it. We're

840
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Speaker 6: gonna believe God for it, and not in a cliche way.

841
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Speaker 6: We're actually going to sit and pray and wait on

842
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Speaker 6: God to be there. And so I feel like that

843
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Speaker 6: win comes in moments that I you know, I hate

844
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Speaker 6: to go all the way back to twenty twenty. I

845
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,720
Speaker 6: hate we're going into a new year, but I feel

846
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Speaker 6: like that what that pressure is as a pastor or

847
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 6: as a leader, it just kept building and building. Okay,

848
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Speaker 6: how can we solve this problem? And this year will

849
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Speaker 6: be full of problems and I already know it, but

850
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Speaker 6: I believe that, you know, if I continue to keep

851
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 6: my eyes on the one that called me before he

852
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 6: knew me, before I knew, he knew I would be here,

853
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 6: he knew I would be under this weight? And so

854
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Speaker 6: how does guy want me to carry it? And so

855
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Speaker 6: I feel like that win for me, it's just constantly

856
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Speaker 6: solving what's next?

857
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Speaker 4: Love that, Yeah, it's really good.

858
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Speaker 7: I mean there's a few things that come to.

859
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Speaker 4: Mind that you're cursing.

860
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Speaker 7: Yeah, in a kind way. No, I think that, like

861
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 7: it's maybe not the same because actually I'm one of

862
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 7: those people that's energized by problems. I more so get

863
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 7: really annoyed with like what I feel like are barriers,

864
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Speaker 7: you know what I mean, And I just get so

865
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Speaker 7: like frustrated at it, and I'm like really like again,

866
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Speaker 7: or like why is this in the way? This could

867
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Speaker 7: be so great if just this or you know, whatever

868
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Speaker 7: that might look like. And so for me, I think

869
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Speaker 7: that's the thing. But you're right, You've already said a

870
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Speaker 7: lot of what I would say, like since you're asking

871
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Speaker 7: such great questions, Chad and forcing us to now process

872
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Speaker 7: this looking back, it really is beautiful how God uses

873
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 7: that to really like strengthen you and teach you perseverance

874
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 7: and not to give up. And you have to push

875
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Speaker 7: through that to achieve this for my glory and you know,

876
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 7: and that looks like all types of different things, but

877
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 7: like it is interesting, But like barriers are the thing

878
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 7: I'm always like for real, But maybe it's because I'm

879
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 7: like naturally like I like to be a go getter

880
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 7: and like so in some things I feel like it's

881
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 7: trying to stop me from doing that.

882
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Speaker 4: I get super frustrated and just like.

883
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Speaker 7: Oh, so for real, we're gonna we don't box that

884
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Speaker 7: we got square up right now?

885
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Speaker 4: Because why why are you you know what I mean?

886
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 4: But like it is that for me, I think right for.

887
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 3: Me, I think I the wind that I'm cursing as

888
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 3: you is. I have these like benchmarks I set for

889
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 3: myself where I'm like, I should be here by now

890
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 3: in this area of my life. I should be here

891
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 3: in this area of my life. So I think for me,

892
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,760
Speaker 3: it's like season of life where I'm in my head, I'm.

893
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 4: Like, I thought i'd be here. I thought i'd be

894
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 4: doing this. I thought, you know.

895
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 3: All these different things, and so I think it's very

896
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Speaker 3: easy for me to get I don't know, not like

897
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,919
Speaker 3: a I guess. I mean, yeah, sometimes I get upset

898
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,879
Speaker 3: about it, but I think like for me, I'm I'm

899
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 3: trying to figure out, well, one, these are self imposed

900
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 3: deadlines I've put on myself. Yeah, it's not like anything

901
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 3: God was like you were supposed to do this. I'm like, no,

902
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 3: this is like in my head what I thought. But

903
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 3: I think you said earlier, like there's so much that

904
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 3: I'm like he's teaching me in this season, and there's

905
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 3: so many things that I thought I wanted when I

906
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 3: was twenty, and I'm like, thank god I didn't get

907
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 3: that when I was twenty.

908
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 4: I would have ruined it. So that to me, I

909
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 4: think is where I struggle the most.

910
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's great, I would agree with that. I

911
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:52,240
Speaker 2: It's a both then for me because in it Pastor

912
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 2: talked all about putting off your old self. Yeah, and

913
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 2: so then I always feel like, well, if I'm putting

914
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 2: off my old self, then I'm growing toward toward my

915
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 2: new self. But like you said, it's all about the

916
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Speaker 2: timing and the timelines. And for me, I'm like, so,

917
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Speaker 2: I'm not there yet though, I'm not to what I

918
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Speaker 2: wanted to be. I'm trying to put off the old self,

919
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 2: but I just can't get there yet. And so when

920
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 2: I'm looking at these markers like you said that, it

921
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 2: was like, Man, I thought, by now this would look

922
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 2: this certain way. I thought by now i'd be done

923
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 2: with that. I thought by now i'd be hitting that

924
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,399
Speaker 2: gym five to six times a week, three times a week.

925
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: What is the problem?

926
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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right.

927
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 2: But even in those little things, though, is when I

928
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Speaker 2: start to get discouraged, because I feel like, man, well, God, like,

929
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 2: if I'm building and working towards who You've created me

930
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 2: to be, if I'm trying to keep you at the

931
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 2: center of my life, then I thought things would look

932
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Speaker 2: a little bit different by now, and so that can

933
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 2: be discouraged, But it really is trusting that, like we've

934
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Speaker 2: been saying, that God placed me right here.

935
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Speaker 1: He knew that I'd be exactly where I.

936
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Speaker 2: He knew that I'd be in the position that I

937
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 2: am right with the people, that I am right with

938
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Speaker 2: the people that were not. Just all of the different

939
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 2: situations that you find yourself in and believing that God,

940
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 2: this was your plan, this is what you had emotional law.

941
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Speaker 6: I love what all bringing up because I felt like

942
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 6: this year I had to abandon the image of who

943
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 6: I thought I needed to be.

944
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Speaker 5: I had to abandon the image and I go back.

945
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 6: This year I got the opportunity to preach in a prison.

946
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 6: We do a prison ministry here at Elevation Church. I

947
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 6: think it's incredible and preaching the inmates that are, you know,

948
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 6: just locked up for life sentences or twelve years. I mean,

949
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 6: what do you say to them? You know, how do

950
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 6: you encourage them in such a hard place. But this

951
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 6: year I experienced the loss of my mom and sharing

952
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 6: with them that I had to abandon the image that

953
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 6: God was going to do what I thought he was

954
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 6: going to do in my life. But once again he

955
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 6: was doing something in me and I could stand and

956
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 6: share my pain on my grief with them and say, hey,

957
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 6: God still can be faithful in a difficult situation.

958
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Speaker 4: That's great.

959
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 8: So the image of me this year was like, I'm

960
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 8: gonna be strong, I'm gonna be a great leader, I'm

961
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 8: gonna do all these incredible things. But guy saw me

962
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 8: being more vulnerable that extending more hope through the Gospel

963
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 8: of Jesus Christ and not through my life, but what

964
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,439
Speaker 8: he's done so abandon The image for me was how

965
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 8: the new me kind of came forth, but I didn't

966
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Speaker 8: think it was coming forth through something so hard.

967
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

968
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Speaker 2: I mean, as we wrap up this year, I just

969
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 2: can't think of a better sermon to just reflect on.

970
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Speaker 1: When you think back to.

971
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Speaker 2: The beginning of the year when you first heard this

972
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Speaker 2: and it was like, Okay, this year, this is what.

973
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Speaker 1: I'm going to do.

974
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Speaker 2: Then if I'm going to do the new me, this

975
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 2: is the thing that I'm Since you start putting things

976
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Speaker 2: in place, and now we're at the end of the

977
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 2: year and we're like, wait, wait, but here's one thing

978
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Speaker 2: that I love. The pastor said in the message, she

979
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 2: said it is in obedience, that potential is realized.

980
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: And I think that as we.

981
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Speaker 2: Look back this year, if we can look back and say, God, man,

982
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 2: it definitely doesn't look like I thought it was going

983
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 2: to ruk. But what I can say is I've tried

984
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 2: to be obedient. I've tried to just follow what it

985
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 2: is that you've put in front of me, step by step.

986
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Speaker 2: If you've closed the door, then you've closed the door.

987
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 2: If you've opened the door, I've tried to walk through it.

988
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Speaker 5: God.

989
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 2: I've tried to make new habits and just understanding that

990
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 2: there's grace for those that are just saying God, I

991
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 2: just want to.

992
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: Be obedient to you this year.

993
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 2: And it may not have ended up the way that

994
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 2: I thought, but if you're being obedient, Pastor said, that's

995
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 2: where your potential is realized.

996
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: And I really believe that.

997
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 2: God respects that, and He's like, man, I see you trying.

998
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 2: And as we look forward to a new year, it's

999
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 2: exciting just to believe God.

1000
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Speaker 1: For what's next.

1001
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 2: You know, Hey, maybe those things didn't happen this year,

1002
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 2: but God, all in your timing.

1003
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely happen. That's right.

1004
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 3: And I think when you do look back on this year,

1005
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 3: whether you know we're doing this here as a church,

1006
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 3: but like collectively, like look back on your own life,

1007
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 3: like what has God done for you?

1008
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Speaker 4: And I think hopefully it'll get as excited for.

1009
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 3: What He going to do next year as we continue

1010
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 3: to press in to Him and you know, keep circling.

1011
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 4: Some of the same stungs at a higher level.

1012
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Speaker 1: Exactly.

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1014
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1015
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1017
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Speaker 15: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation.

1018
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1019
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1020
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1021
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1022
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1023
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Speaker 5: God bless you.