Win The Spiritual Battle For Success (251)

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I want to welcome you to the Quality Christian Living Podcast.

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I am your host, David Friend.

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Today's topic is Win the Spiritual Battle for Success.

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We're in the middle of a series dealing with success and prospering and abundant living

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for Christians.

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And this particular podcast may be the most important one that I've prepared for those

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who are seeking God.

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I see people who seek success and that's wrong.

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But today we're going to talk about how to seek God and when we seek Him first we'll

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see success and prosperity and abundant living come into our life.

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I want to prove to Christians how to defeat the attacks that Satan brings on.

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We'll look at the things that will be some of our greatest challenges in life.

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And we're also going to look at why it is so important to know our true enemy.

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We're going to see why we must never seek success first and always seek God first.

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But before we do that, let's pray.

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Have any father?

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Once again I ask for your guidance, direction, your leading.

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I pray the Holy Spirit would bless everything that comes forward today.

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I pray that you would take over now.

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Take complete charge of what's taking place here.

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And for those who are listening in, I pray blessing upon them that they would receive

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your touch, Father, and your favor and your blessings.

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I thank you Lord for this wonderful opportunity that's been provided for us to be able to

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reach out to people, quite frankly, around the world.

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And I ask for your blessing and anointing in all that we do and always careful to give

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you all the praise for it.

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In Jesus' name I pray.

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Amen.

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When you talk about the subjects of success and prospering and abundant living for Christians,

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there's some people that just get turned off.

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They think that, well, that's just not of God and it's not something we should desire.

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Well, I agree it's not something we should desire first.

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But if we seek God first, as Matthew 6.33 tells us, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his

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righteousness and then all these things will be added unto you, evidently the word of God

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is telling us that something is going to be added to us.

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And I believe that's God's blessing, that's his goodness, his kindness, and that he can

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place success in our life.

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He can bring prosperity into our life.

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He can bring abundant living into our life.

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But we first have to abide by his guidance, his direction, and how he tells us to operate

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according to his word.

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You see, the Bible tells us why we face challenges and why so many people struggle just trying

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to keep their head above water, trying to keep themselves from filing bankruptcy or

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being in serious trouble spiritually or with their family or with their relationships.

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God has a plan that he can help us in all those areas.

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God's word not only gives us the keys and guidance and direction to receive success

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in our life and to live the abundant life, but his word also gives us the answers and

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the instructions to identify the source of all failure, anxiety, fear, negative thoughts,

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and anything that keeps us from success, prospering, and having abundance.

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The answer is found in the words of the apostle Paul as he was anointed by the Holy Spirit.

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So I want to read to you a scripture that is so wonderful.

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And remember, we're dealing with understanding where did the attacks come from?

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Why is it that sometimes we don't seem to get through and get the answers to prayer that

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we want or that we're desiring or that why do we struggle trying to have a little success

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here or maybe being some little, maybe more abundant life, a little more enjoyment, a

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little more fun in living the Christian life.

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And he gives us the answer to that and how we can come against these things.

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So I'm going to read in Ephesians chapter six and verse 12 in the new international

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version, just this one verse, and this kind of gets us started on discovering how we

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win the spiritual battle for success.

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Here's the words of Paul, for our struggle is not against flesh and blood.

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Now I'm going to stop right there.

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What Paul is saying is that the battles that we face and the trials that we have in life

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is not against people.

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It's against spiritual powers and in terrible places.

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And we're going to get more into that, but I'm just stopping for a second because if

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you're having a battle right now with an individual, we're not wrestling against that individual.

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We're wrestling against the spirit that is controlling that individual or directing that

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individual to take the actions that they're taking.

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You see, there's a lot of good people who are influenced by the negative influence of

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the devil himself.

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The devil wants to go around and what?

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Kill and still and destroy.

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So therefore that's what he's trying to do and he's trying to destroy our relationships

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with each other.

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I'm going to remember if we're in the midst of a conflict with someone, it's not the person.

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It's that spirit that's operating in them.

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The source of what's causing them to be like they are is a spiritual battle.

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Paul said, I'm not making this up for our struggle is not against flesh and blood.

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He said, but against rulers, against authorities, against the powers of this dark world and

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against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

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Now Paul is telling us there's a huge battle going on.

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And so if we want to have success in our life and we'd like to have abundant living and

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enjoy life a little bit more and have some of those things that God wants to bless us

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with, we've got to understand that our battle is not against the people we know, the people

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that are our friends, the people we associate with.

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The battle comes from the spiritual influence that Satan has over people, including us.

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You see what this scripture is telling me.

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It tells us who is for us and that's God.

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And it too, it tells us who's against us and that's the devil himself and the people

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that we're having battles with.

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Many times there's something inside of them that's different.

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They're having a terrible time with a challenge with and that's something that we need to

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find help for them and lead them to the word of God to see where they can receive the help

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that they need.

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So we're going to talk about this today and very directly in dealing how we can win the

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spiritual battle that we face to have some success in our life.

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Now the scripture that I just read, it makes it easy for us to recognize the source against

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our success.

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But we cannot just move on in this podcast without completing the words that the apostle

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Paul wrote in Ephesians chapter 6.

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So let me read a little bit more and make some comments on that as we continue to read

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in Ephesians chapter 6 in the new international version starting at, let's go back and start

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at verse number 10.

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Paul says these words, finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.

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Put on the full armor of God so that we can take our stand against the devil's schemes

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for our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers, against the

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authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of

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evil in the heavenly places.

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Verse 13, therefore put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes

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you may be able to stand your guard and after you have done everything to stand.

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Verse 14, stand firm then with the belt of truth buckled around your waist with the breastplate

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of righteousness in place and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from

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the gospel of peace.

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In addition to all of this, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all

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the flaming arrows of the evil one.

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Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God and

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pray in the spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.

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With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

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That means for everyone that we know, for all the people that we know are believers in Jesus

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Christ we need to pray for them and pray for those who are not Christians because they

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are also going through the same battles.

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Verse 19 says, Paul says, listen to this, in all this advice he's given in direction,

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Paul's a smart man and he says in verse 19, pray also for me that whenever I open my mouth

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words may be given to me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel.

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In verse 20, for which I am an ambassador in chains, pray that I may declare it fearlessly

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as I should.

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That's just so much to talk about there.

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I almost sometimes wonder if I should have read all that or not but the bottom line of

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it is people have heard this but they don't understand or a lot of us don't understand.

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This needs to be part of our everyday living and our everyday actions in order to be able

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to defeat the attack that the devil has on us.

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You see when we get a terrible thought like maybe we're driving down the road and somebody

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cuts in front of us and we have a terrible thought to maybe scream out the window at

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them or make some kind of a terrible gesture or something, that's not us.

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That's not the spirit of God in us.

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That's the influence of Satan himself.

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Wants us to do something that makes us look foist, that makes us look angry and say something

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or do something that's really not us.

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And so that's the influence that's there.

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In order to be successful, in order to have some prosperity in our life, in order to have

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abundant living, we've got to move that stuff away and win this battle, this spiritual battle

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that's against us each and every day because Paul says we're not fighting against people

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but we're fighting against a spiritual battle.

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So our biggest challenge, our largest challenge to have success in our life is a spiritual

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one and that's the focus of this podcast.

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Now I'm not asking you to remember every word of Ephesians chapter 6 verses 10 through 20,

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but although I do know there are a lot of people that I've met recently who have that

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memorized and they go around quoting that and they claim it.

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They don't speak it out loud to people, people wouldn't understand that, but they drive their

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car and they claim those promises, they get out of bed and they say, I'm going to put

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all in the form of God today, I'm going to win the battle that is trying to mess me up

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and keep me from being blessed to the Lord.

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But I do want all of us to read these words before trials hit us.

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A lot of times we run to that scripture after they've hit us and sometimes that's a little

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late, but the bottom line of it is if we have to understand this, the spiritual battle going

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on, we can avoid the battle.

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If the spirit of God is so strong in us that when someone cuts us off in traffic, we can

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ignore it and just move on, then we won that battle.

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See when we're facing trials and when those trials come to defeat us and come up against

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us, we already need to be filled with the spirit of God, we need to have the shield

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of faith and we need to have those things operating in our lives to win those battles

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so they don't become a challenge to us and rob us of God's blessings.

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Then after all this takes place, we must thank the Lord for what he has done and for who

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he is.

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When we're in a battle and we pray and we see that this is calming down and we're walking

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in the spirit and not in our flesh, then we need to stop in the middle of that and thank

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God for what he's done, not what we've done.

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When we're walking in the spirit, we're not doing it our own, we're doing it because

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God has held the Holy Spirit.

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Help us to come into our life and comfort us and guide us and direct us and correct our

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thoughts and our actions and what we say and what we do.

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Often in our prayers, we thank God for a good result and we thank God when something wonderful

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happens like we're healed and we should or when we get a promotion or something or one

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of our kids do something good in church and they just turn out to be great kids and we

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just thank God for that, but we got to remember as we're going through the trials of life

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that we should always thank God regardless of what we're going through.

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Thank God for who he is, not always for what he does for us, but many times we should just

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stop and say, Father, I just thank you and praise you for who you are.

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Now, allow me to give you a word of caution on the spiritual battle that we face for success.

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We've talked about identifying the source of these battles and trials that come into our

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life and we know that the spiritual battle is always going to be there because devil

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just wants to come in and just wipe us out.

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He wants to cause all kinds of grief in our life.

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So we know that's the source of one of the battles we face, but we need to identify the

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source of our trial.

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You see, sometimes we must be held accountable that maybe it's because of something that

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we did.

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We either lacked wisdom or we didn't have the training or we didn't have the understanding

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or we didn't do what I call the due diligence, check things out before we take actions.

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Sometimes we go borrow money for a car and then we regret what we did a month later,

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got giant car payments and we make mistakes.

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We all make mistakes.

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I've made my share of mistakes and there's no question about it.

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So let me give you a couple of scriptures that helped me when facing trials and some

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of these trials are things that I made mistakes on and it wasn't just the devil himself.

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In Proverbs 13.10 it says wise people take advice.

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Well if we want to make good decisions, we should try and get advice from wise people,

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Christian peoples, believers in the Word of God.

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Let's not just do everything on our own.

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Let's bounce things off of other people and get their opinion or their thoughts on a situation

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before we take action and do something.

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Here's another guidance that the Lord gives us to understand how to deal with these trials.

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It's found in Proverbs chapter 2 and verse 6.

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The Lord gives wisdom.

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Once again, advice on getting wisdom.

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God brings wisdom into our life and we get that wisdom through the Holy Spirit, through

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the people that we know and through the Word of God.

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These are all sources of gaining wisdom and understanding for the decisions that we need

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to make in our life and we just can't go around blaming everybody else for the trials and

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challenges that we face because we've brought some of them on ourself.

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The devil tries to bring them on so we just need to understand how to deal with them and

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we need guidance and wisdom by the Holy Spirit to help us and also fill ourself with God's

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Word and good counsel from some good Christian godly people.

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Psalm 119, 66 says this, teach me wisdom and knowledge because I trust your commands.

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Once again, the Psalmist here is saying, I need help and I know that my best source of

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help comes from you.

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The Bible says that there's wisdom in the counsel that we receive from many people and

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I'm just a big believer in bouncing things off of people.

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What do you think about this or what do you think about that?

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I don't like to ask people what you think after I've already made a mistake, after I've

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already done something wrong.

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That's like when a person comes up to me and they say, oh, look at the new car I've got

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and they're driving this extremely expensive car and it's really beautiful and it's wonderful

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and I'll say, well, have you already bought it or is that something that you're thinking

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of buying?

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If they say it's something that they think they're going to buy, they're not sure what

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they should do, then I give them my thoughts.

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But if they say I've already bought it, they've already done that decision so there isn't

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a whole lot that you can do for a person like that.

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But if someone comes to you and you have some wisdom in this particular area for a question

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they have for you, then give them good, godly, spiritual, scriptural advice and that'll be

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a help to them because the Word of God tells us there is wisdom in seeking help and guidance

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from other people and that'll help us from falling into some of the trials and challenges

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that we'll face in our life.

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I hope that helps you because it's always helped me.

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I've been thinking a lot about this and how to kind of finish up the second half of this

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podcast today and so I made up a list of three, what I call the greatest challenges that

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we'll face when we're trying to be successful at something in our life.

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Here's the first one, never seek success.

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When I wrote that down it made me think of the advice I used to give my granddaughters.

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I would tell them never seek a husband.

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Wait for the Lord to bring him to you.

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You see, the man you marry must seek you and want you, wants to be with you not because

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you're pushing yourself on him or whether you're jumping in front of him all the time.

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But I used to tell him that.

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I know sometimes I'd get some terrible responses but you know later on as they were dating and

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they met guys and they date a few people and then they would break up and whatever and

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as time went on they understood that it was best to wait upon the Lord.

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Bible says they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, right?

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So their strength was renewed in being patient and waiting for the right person to come on

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and I would then smile when all of a sudden they would meet someone at church.

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They'd meet a nice Christian young man and they would realize that you know Lord, you

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brought him into my life and they kind of grin at me because I know that we had that

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conversation.

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Don't seek what you want.

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Allow the Lord to bring it to us and that applies to how we deal with situations in our own

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life and that's point number one and my suggestions to how to deal with greatest challenges is

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that never seek success.

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Seek God first.

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In 1 Corinthians chapter 16 verse 11 in the new international version it says, look to

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the Lord and his strength, seek his face always.

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In Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 13 it says in the new international version, you will seek

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me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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The word of God says over and over and over again that we need to seek him, right?

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So point number one, never seek success, always seek God first.

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Point number two, to have successful experiences in our life, always put our God first and

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our trust in him.

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Proverbs 3 verses 5 and 6, one of my absolute all time favorite scriptures in the new living

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translation says this, trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean or depend on

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your own understanding.

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Seek his will in all you do and he will show you which path to take.

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So step number two is always put our trust in God, not our trust in our own wisdom or

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own knowledge or own understanding.

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You know I've mentioned before that I was a home builder, my wife and I had a wonderful

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real estate development company and we would pray and ask God's guidance and direction

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and through that we had learned to develop a list of things that were the right steps

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to take to have success in buying property, building homes and selling them and making

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a profit because that was our intention was to make a profit or to be successful.

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However when we got away from those steps that were led to the Lord and we did things

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on our own understanding, we would have a problem with a house situation.

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We have a very difficult time being with a house that I didn't follow the guidance and

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the steps that the Lord gave us on the right steps to take.

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So it's one thing to say I'm going to trust in the Lord with all my heart, but it's another

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thing then to depend on our own background, our own understanding which is a violation

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of this word because it says do not depend on your own understanding.

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And this scripture says seek his will, not our will, well not what we think is best because

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God knows what's best.

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See God doesn't think or wonder what's best, God knows what's best for us.

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That's why we should ask him, seek him and we will then take the right step to have success

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in the things that we're trying to accomplish in our life.

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Alright, and step number three of the list of the three things I think that will help

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us see successes in our life is remember God is our source for blessing.

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That's the more important thing.

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Earlier in this, I mentioned in this podcast, I mentioned that we know the source of evil

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and the attacks in our life and we know where that all comes from.

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We should also then always remember that God is our source for every good thing that happens

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in our life.

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Proverbs 10 verse 22 in the New King James Version says this, the blessings of the Lord

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makes one rich and he adds no sorrow with it.

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See God is our source.

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God provides every good and perfect gift and it comes from heaven.

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Everything good in our life comes from God.

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So God is our source for all success, for all abundant living and all prospering.

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I feel like I may have gone through that just a little bit too quick.

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So let me do a very, very quick review of the three greatest challenges I think we have

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to success.

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Number one is to seek God first, not seeking our thoughts and our ideas first.

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And number two was to trust God and not to trust in only our understanding.

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Oh, it's fine to listen to our understanding on things that we really do and have a good

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solid foundation on.

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But remember God's ways are greater than our ways, as in Isaiah chapter 55, I think it's

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verse seven or eight, it says that God's ways are greater than ours.

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His thoughts are higher than ours and His ways are always better than ours is what it's

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saying.

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So therefore, even though we have understanding, we might want to take a moment and just a

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little extra time say, Lord, pray and just pray and say, is this good?

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Do you want me to do this?

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Is this something I should do?

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Don't just automatically do things over and over again and expect to see great results

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from it.

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And people have that challenge in their life to not want to seek advice or not seek direction

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from someone else, but they just want to lean on their own understanding.

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And that's good to a certain point, but there certainly comes a time in every one of us when

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we need to seek God's understanding and not lean on only our understanding.

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All right.

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And the third one was that God is our source and recognize that and show him the respect

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for it.

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You know, anytime something good comes into our life, I don't care if it's getting a

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parking space at a parking lot.

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You're going into a shopping center and cars are everywhere and all of a sudden you get

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a really good parking spot up close.

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I think we need to say God, thank you for that.

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Matter of fact, I go a little farther than that.

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Sometimes when I see a parking space pop up, I'll say, Lord, thank you for that.

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I know that you provided that for me.

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And you even spoke to the person who was in there to get out of that space so that I could

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have it.

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Now, I take a little bit farther than that.

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If I see a good space where I see someone pulling from a good space in front of me, sometimes

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as I drive by them, as they're today, they've taken a space that I was hoping to get.

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I'll say, Lord, I pray that you'll forgive them from taking my blessing from me.

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Now, I know that's kind of corny and kind of funny, but in reality, what it shows is

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that we just relate to God, that he's our source of every good, blessing anything good

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comes in our life.

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It's because of him.

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Anything bad comes in our life.

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It's because of bad decisions and things that the devil gets ahold of and tries to put

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some terrible things into our life.

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So with that, I hope that we'll seek God first, that we'll trust God always, and we'll

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understand that he is the source of every good and perfect blessing and gift that we

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have.

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Now, as a banker for 15 years and a pastor for 20 years, I set with hundreds, literally

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hundreds, most likely thousands of individuals, couples, business owners, young and old entrepreneurs,

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the wannabe entrepreneurs, and many of them have made mistakes.

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Lots of mistakes.

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I have.

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I have my share of them.

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Usually, the mistakes that they have made were made because they had not followed these

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three scriptural principles.

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Seek God first, trust God, and know that God's our source.

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And when we follow that direction, we know that God will direct us.

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Matter of fact, you could sum them all up just in one of my favorite scriptures, Matthew

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633.

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Seek, he first, the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and then all these things shall

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be added unto you.

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It's all about seeking God to see success come into our life.

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Now, may I suggest that you share this podcast with others who are struggling to obtain success.

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They might be seeking success, pushing for success, desiring for success, doing all that

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they can.

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I'm going to be successful.

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I'm going to do it.

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I'm going to do it.

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They need to stop for a moment and realize when they do that, they're on their own.

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God can't help someone who claims that they're all going to do it on their own.

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They're basically turning their back on God and not letting God be God and do what he

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wants to know and wants to do because it's always going to be what's best for that individual.

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These people, these principles, I should say, these principles of seeking God first and

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trusting God and knowing that God is our source, these principles apply to business.

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They apply to marriage.

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They apply to parenting.

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They apply to our careers, even to our health and most definitely to our peace of mind.

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There's a lot of folks come to me for prayer.

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Many times they'll start the prayer off by saying, before I pray with them, they'll say,

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Pastor, would you just help me?

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I'm struggling with having peace in my life.

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I just don't have peace.

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You can just see it's written all over them.

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It's because many of them are struggling on things that maybe mistakes they've made or

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other people have done things to them.

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Remember, it's not the people that did things to them.

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It's principalities and the spiritual things that got into that person that caused that

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person to do those things to these people.

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Bottom line, the people would come to me and say, I just can't get peace.

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I'm just going through so much stuff.

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Well, it's so important that we follow the words of the teaching of the apostle Paul,

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where he says, to be anxious for nothing.

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But everything through prayer, petitions with thanksgiving, make our requests made known

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to God and the peace of God that passes all understanding will guard our hearts and guard

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our minds in Christ Jesus.

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So let me pray for you.

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If you're struggling a little bit with some of these issues, let me pray that God will

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bless you on your traveling to seek God first and then anticipating and expecting God to

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bless us.

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Bless you in a very special way.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for those who've listened in today.

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I pray that you would bless them.

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As a matter of fact, I pray our blessing for them, Father, that they wouldn't be able to

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even hold on to it, that you would bless them abundantly above and beyond anything they

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can imagine or even think, Father.

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So I just believe that for them.

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I pray, Lord, as they're seeking you, Lord, that success will come into their life, that

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abundant living will enter into their life, and they'll have prosperity first in their

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spirit, that their spirit would prosper.

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And that then their body would prosper, their physical body, their mental body would prosper,

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and that then they would see a blessing, Lord, that would meet whatever need that they might

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have.

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I just thank you, Lord, that they're listening in and they're not listening in to get some

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quick fix, to get some little sprint race solution to what they're going through.

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But the people that are listening to these podcasts are in it as running in a marathon

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race.

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This is a race that takes time to go through the process.

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The Bible tells us that hasty speculation brings poverty, but steady plotting brings prosperity.

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It's one of your proverbs, Lord.

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And Father, I pray that for those who are listening in, that steady plotting are consistent

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following you and having a pattern of good works and doing those things, Father, that

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are pleasing to you, Lord, and then you will bless them, that, Lord, they'll never seek

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success but always seek you, Father, first, and that they'll always trust you, Lord, with

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all of their hearts, soul, and mind.

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And I pray, Father, that they will remember that you are their source for every good and

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perfect gift.

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Now, bless them, Father, and keep them may your face shine upon them, Father.

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Be gracious to them, Father, and give them peace, Lord.

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I believe for that, and I'll thank you for it in advance.

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In Jesus' name I pray, amen.

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Well, I hope this has been a blessing to you.

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And if you would like to know more about quality Christian living, you can go to my webpage

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at davidcfriendauthor.com.

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And when you get there, the front page will show you a link to my podcast.

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And if you would like, you can go ahead and press that, and that would take you into the

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251 now podcasts that are in there that I've done over about maybe two and a half years

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now.

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And those podcasts discuss so many different topics.

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We're talking now about success and prospering and abundant living, but there was a wonderful

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series for people in business, or want to get into business, so 20 podcasts, I believe,

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on that.

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There's a wonderful series there where the Lord showed me how to talk about the gifts

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of the Spirit and the manifestations of the Spirit, how to operate in the gifts of the

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Spirit and to have the fruit of the Spirit in our lives.

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It also, there's a list of podcasts there dealing with faith and having faith for miracles

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and having faith to trust God for everything.

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And just the podcast, Lord, that you put on my heart, I kind of approached this podcast

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as I would pastoring my church.

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For 20 years, the Lord had my wife and I pastor a church in North Scottsdale that we founded,

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that our dear pastor Barnett introduced us to and gave us the opportunity to take that

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project on and to work it and build it and pastor it.

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And when I think about that, every week I approached the sermons in prayer and asking

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for guidance and direction on where do we go next?

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What do the people need?

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What do I need to share with them?

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What do they start dealing with?

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What are the challenges they're facing with?

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And that's the way this podcast is done, is that we go through an extensive list of topics

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and subject matters.

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We probably had, I would say, at least 25 different topics that we've done series on

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through this two and a half years we've been doing this.

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So if you're interested in knowing more about quality Christian living, what we're doing,

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what we're speaking about, then you can go to my webpage and you'll get that information.

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When you pull the webpage up, you might want to scroll down just a page and you'll see

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a reference to a number of books that I've written.

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I've written several books.

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I'm working on my seventh right now and it's a book on faith that really was inspired by

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a series that I talked about on faith here on these podcasts.

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But I have several books there, one on how to get out of debt, another one to how to

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help veterans with the challenges they're facing, another one on faith, another one on

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generosity, and another one on just being able to believe for things that are not happening

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in your life that they will happen.

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And that book is entitled, Receive Everything from What We Call Nothing.

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So I don't want to spend a lot of time on that, but those books are available and I hope

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that you would find them interesting to you.

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If you would like to subscribe to my podcast, you can do that by going to cpnshows.com,

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wherever you listen to my podcast.

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In addition to that, the next podcast series we're going to do, it's only going to be

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two podcasts, Dealing with Veterans.

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I'm going to be talking about the challenges that veterans face and how to receive help.

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And every year, about this time, the first week or so in November, I do a couple of podcasts

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for veterans.

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I was a veteran.

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I served in the United States Army and the Republic of Vietnam and was so blessed to

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be able to come home from that and God spared my life there.

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And so I want to be able to help veterans and give them some hope and encouragement in the

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life they're facing because a lot of veterans, a lot of people don't know this, but in America

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today, there are 21 to 22 veterans every single day in America who are committing suicide and

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they're taking their lives because they're hurting.

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And so the Lord put up on my heart to address the issues for veterans.

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That's why I've written two books on veterans to help veterans.

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Also I've spoken to literally thousands of individuals who are veterans over the years

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and God has given me a platform to help them.

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So that's going to be exciting.

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Well, I hope that you'll tune in for that.

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In addition to that, I just want to thank you for listening into my 251st podcast of

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Quality Christian Living.

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This podcast was entitled, Win the Spiritual Battle for Success.

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So let me close with these words.

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May the Lord bless you and keep you.

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May his face shine upon you.

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May he be gracious to you and give you peace.

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May you prosper in being good health, even as your soul prospers.

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So until next time, I pray that God will richly bless you.

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May he give you the desires of your heart and may your desires line up according to

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God's will and God's purpose for your life.

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Once again, thank you for listening to Quality Christian Living.

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I am your host, David Friend.