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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving.

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Speaker 1: In your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: I think when you said to me, if you remove

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Speaker 2: the element of time, it takes away disappointment.

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Speaker 1: It took me five minutes to.

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Speaker 2: Realize how powerful it was what you said, because think

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Speaker 2: about it, we're going well, I thought God was going

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Speaker 2: to make a way, but he didn't.

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Speaker 1: How do you know yet? Right? How do you know

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Speaker 1: it wasn't the way? Right? You know?

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Speaker 2: We won't stay on the path. We just want to

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Speaker 2: get off on the next exit. And what does that mean?

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Speaker 2: Because again a metaphor, a metaphor, Well, when I say

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Speaker 2: pat and ecton, I'm talking about moving forward in the

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Speaker 2: last thing that God spoke to you to do, or

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Speaker 2: continuing to sow seeds in the place God has planted you.

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Speaker 2: Whether that means your prayers, your kindness, you're showing up,

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Speaker 2: your discipline, your diligence, whatever that means for you. The

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Speaker 2: mindset to get out of this mentality that says, if

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Speaker 2: I don't see the way right away, then I'm going

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Speaker 2: to turn around and try something else. It's the enemy

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Speaker 2: of your faith. And I'm not coming to you on

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Speaker 2: this saying that I've never done it before.

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Speaker 1: I have. I felt so frustrated.

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Speaker 2: It's a temptation for me to want to judge the

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Speaker 2: success of something based on the immediate impact that it makes,

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Speaker 2: based on the immediate feeling that it gives me, or

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Speaker 2: whether I can quantify it. That's why I loved my

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Speaker 2: little corny wordplay about suck seeds. It's like the seed

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Speaker 2: goes down into the ground, breaks apart, goes through trauma,

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Speaker 2: and comes back up after water and light and fertilizer.

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Speaker 2: And so so our faith is like that. That's the

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Speaker 2: way God germinates the things that he puts in our life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then what we do is we get in

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Speaker 3: trouble because we start saying, well, what if this turns

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Speaker 3: out and it's negative? And I want to jump back

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Speaker 3: in that because I think we usually add three things

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Speaker 3: that really ruin it for everybody, which is the first

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Speaker 3: one is associated with our fear of loss pain. Well,

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Speaker 3: what if I do this and I lose prestige, I

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Speaker 3: lose time. And so we start saying, well, what if

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Speaker 3: it now? And it's just and it's black or white thinking.

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Speaker 3: I'm what if I do it and it's loss, and

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Speaker 3: they're not thinking, well, what if I do it and

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Speaker 3: it's a gain. What if I do it and it

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Speaker 3: is planting that seed? What if I do it and

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Speaker 3: it has a positive impact. What if I do it

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Speaker 3: and I gain money? Well all the other external things

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Speaker 3: people think that they want. It really does change the brain.

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Speaker 3: So if you hear yourself saying what if negative and

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Speaker 3: it's lack, challenge yourself to balance your thinking.

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Speaker 1: This is a lot of part of maturities. You learn

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Speaker 1: to balance thinking.

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Speaker 3: And when you're younger it's black or white, and when

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Speaker 3: you get older you can apply nuance and you can say, oh,

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Speaker 3: what if.

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Speaker 1: What if this turns out terrible? It might okay? Could

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Speaker 3: What if it turns out well, well, I'd like it.

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Speaker 3: And so the first thing is we say what if loss.

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Speaker 3: The second thing is, wait, what if hardship? What if

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Speaker 3: I can't handle this. What if it's years of difficulty.

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Speaker 1: What if you know, I don't survive this.

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Speaker 3: What if I go through this and it's so painful

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Speaker 3: What if it's not just hardship. What if it's challenge

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Speaker 3: the thing that makes me stand out later again with time.

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Speaker 3: And the last one is what if the outcome is bad?

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Speaker 3: Like you know you said to Graham, well, what if

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Speaker 3: there's what if we drive all this way and it's

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Speaker 3: and you have to change it? And flip is said earlier,

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Speaker 3: But also what if the outcome is good, but it's

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Speaker 3: the decision to start the journey, hoping and trusting and

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Speaker 3: having faith that things turn out well later, not on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Like you start lifting. If I start lifting tomorrow, I

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, it's like you have to

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Speaker 3: give yourself this time. And I think that's where a

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Speaker 3: begin the longer journeys that have the bigger payoffs.

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Speaker 2: We won't begin the longer journeys that have the bigger payoffs. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because I'm so focused on what's right in front of me,

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Speaker 2: or I'm holding on to something that was And don't

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Speaker 2: you think a lot of times what keeps us from

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Speaker 2: seeing the way God is making is the way He

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Speaker 2: did it last time, right, And so we're holding on

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Speaker 2: to the way God used to do it. And I'll

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Speaker 2: give an example of this.

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Speaker 1: Or we thought he did it. Oh yeah, we can

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Speaker 1: go there too. Which one should I go with? Let's see, I.

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Speaker 2: Like yours better the way that we thought he did it.

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Speaker 2: We have so many misconceptions about what God needs to

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Speaker 2: use to bless us or what we need to move forward, right, Like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I need a team, someone might say, and then I'll

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Speaker 2: I need this perfect church, or we get all this

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Speaker 1: Don't you think that a lot of what.

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Speaker 2: Keeps us from moving forward is what we won't let

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Speaker 1: I thought i'd be married.

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Speaker 2: And I'm twenty five and I was planning to get

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Speaker 1: Well, that's the way I thought God was going to make.

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Speaker 2: So I love what you said, like, not only what

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Speaker 2: was supposed to do. And now I can't go forward.

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Speaker 2: So let's have a little therapeutic coaching. I know you're

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Speaker 2: not an ist, a psychologist, or a nutritionist.

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Speaker 1: You know, I know that you're a coach.

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Speaker 2: So let's coach somebody in faith who won't let go

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Speaker 1: They can't even see right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think too often our vision becomes myopic on

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Speaker 3: be operating from is our potential and into our future

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Speaker 3: always tell people never limit your vision for who you

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Speaker 3: Because every great successful person there was that part of

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Speaker 3: their story where they were broke down and out struggling, and.

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Speaker 1: They just didn't choose to live there.

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Speaker 3: They choose to work through it because they believe something

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Speaker 3: good would happen. And so I think the first part

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Speaker 3: is going where is your vision and where are you

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Speaker 3: for the future you, which is what your book is about. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean that's really powerful. Where you operating and where's

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Speaker 3: these rhythms in our life where we choose to release

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Speaker 2: I love that rhythms where we choose to release our

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Speaker 1: So what are your rhythms of release? Write that down

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because what happens is, you know, inevitably stuff builds

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Speaker 3: and if we never release that. It's like a pressure cooker,

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Speaker 3: way for people. That's why therapy is so powerful. You

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Speaker 3: frustrations and your plans. But it can't just be releasing.

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Speaker 3: what's next. So I'm somebody I have to do this

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Speaker 3: every hour. I'm easily distracted. I'm so enthusiastic.

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Speaker 3: So every hour, no matter what's happening, when I'm working

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Speaker 3: And I might only do this for two four or

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Speaker 3: And I learned that in helping a lot of people

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Speaker 3: you're really struggling, what's the intention of the next hour?

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Speaker 3: You know what, I'm going to go pick up the

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Speaker 1: That's the intention for the next hour.

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Speaker 1: I teach people all the time.

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Speaker 3: If you're the one who goes to work and you

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Speaker 3: the chair back, close your eyes, do release meditation for

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Speaker 3: about five minutes, and say, what's my intention? Well, my

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Speaker 3: intention is go be a good dad, Go be a

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Speaker 3: good servant, whatever it is, and these little moments that

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Speaker 3: people carry a lot of tension and they get lost

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Speaker 3: in the tension unless you release that. You know, you

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Speaker 3: can use the metaphor releasing baggage, but I don't like

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Speaker 3: an intention. It's a constant recalibration into the future and

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Speaker 3: into your faith. And when you can recalibrate into my future,

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: What I love about this is how you broke it

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Speaker 2: with God, there's always a way by faith I will

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Speaker 2: next step. Yes, because if I'm looking that far out

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Speaker 2: to see, well, God's gonna make a way, and then

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Speaker 2: it's gonna lead to this, and this and this, we

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