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Overcoming Insecurity: Embrace Your Inner Strength · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Have Faith, Let Begin, when it starts right now.
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  Welcome to Have Faith. Let it begin. Here's your host, Angel Santana.
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  Ariel, can you say, have faith? Let it begin. Let it begin? Let it begin. Say, have faith.
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  Let it begin. Let it begin. No. No? No? Okay.
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  Hi, Noah. Noah! Noah!
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  Happy birthday Noah! I'm kidding. I'm getting lazy. That's what does that sound.
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  No. This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.
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  This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.
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  This little light of ray.
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  I'm gonna let it shine. Let it shine.
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  Let it shine. Let it shine. Let it shine. Yeah!
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  Daddy, I'm so excited, but I have one question. What's your question?
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  Are you going to be a pastor or a minister?
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  Good question. I don't know, but it is all in God's hands. Good morning.
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  You're listening to Have Faith Let It Begin, and it starts right now.
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  Hello, everyone, and welcome to Have Faith Let It Begin. Today is July 29th, 2025.
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  Today's episode is about not being afraid to stand up for yourself.
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  For many years, I was in a verbal abusive relationship.
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  And we're talking back in the early 2000s. And it was very difficult.
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  What is very difficult is when you're insecure.
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  And you think that that is the best thing that's happening to you at that moment.
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  And all the negative things that or happening surrounding what I thought was
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  the best thing for me masked and didn't give me the opportunity to realize that
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  what was happening was not good.
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  So what did I do? I dealt with it for many years and it hurt me.
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  It haunted me. And to this day,
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  I still have moments where I wonder if I should speak up or stay silent.
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  You have to be happy with your life. You have to be happy with decisions that you make.
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  And you certainly have to be happy with the choices that you make.
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  One of the hardest things that I go through in life, even today,
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  is not being able to want to speak up and allow others to know what your likes and dislikes are.
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  You know, sometimes you are put in a position where if you say something,
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  no matter how much it makes you feel good to stand up for yourself,
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  you are put down or you're ridiculed or you're looked down upon for thinking
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  about things that you believe is right.
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  And what I'm here to tell you this morning is always speak your mind,
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  tell the truth, don't allow others to bring you down.
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  Don't allow others to make you feel like you don't matter.
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  And this goes across the board.
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  Relationships, marriages, you name it.
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  And don't allow others to infiltrate your home and tell you or your significant
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  other or your spouse, you know, how to live your life without that other person.
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  I think a lot of times we are going through a lot of stuff and you'll find that
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  whether it's in-laws, friends, strangers will tell you how to live.
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  But more importantly, they feel like it's their duty to make you feel miserable
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  or make you feel as if the choices that you have made are wrong.
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  There's only two people in this world that can tell you where you should be
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  going and will guide you in the right path.
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  And that is God and yourself. But having a relationship with Christ and being
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  able to talk to him and saying, look, God, I'm not happy.
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  I lost my smile. People have been rude to me. People have made me feel insecure.
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  People have hurt me in ways that I can't describe.
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  My heart is just bleeding with sadness.
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  Help me find a way to move forward and away from all this negativity.
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  Don't allow anyone to steal that joy. I've said that many times.
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  And I'm telling you from personal experience that when you wake up and you feel
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  miserable, when you wake up and realize that you're just not happy.
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  It's not a life you want to lead. There's so much more out there and there's
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  so much more joy and there's so much more things that you can be doing to make your life better.
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  So as we move forward and we progress, we want to remember all that we have
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  to offer each other and the world and know that God loves you, God believes in you,
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  God trusts in you, and God is never going to leave your side.
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  If you remember all these things, you'll remember and know that God.
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  Is with you, and that God doesn't turn his back on you, and God will give you the answers.
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  Sometimes the answers that we get are not the ones we want to hear,
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  but when God helps you and tells you this is what you need to do,
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  as painful as it may feel,
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  you can best believe the light is at the end of that tunnel,
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  and the path to righteousness is just one detour away.
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  May God be with you. May he shine his light upon you and grant each and every
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  single one of you peace on earth.
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  And never forget, have faith, let it begin.
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  Don't forget, tomorrow, dear God, letter number 12.
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  hear what we have to offer.
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  Have a good day, everyone. Have faith, let it begin.
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  Thank you for listening to Have Faith Let It Begin. We'll be back tomorrow.