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Learning to Trust Again · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Good morning everyone and welcome to have faith let it begin my name
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  is angel quick programming note this sunday live
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  at 10 a.m eastern standard time i will be
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  back up at the church on the pulpit doing god's
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  not done with you yet but there is two streaming services that will be running
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  simulcast one on facebook and on tick tock live i hope that all of you will
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  join us and if you want please make sure you go to either or and sign up immediately
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  for the live event and you'll be there with me.
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  I'll be on actually five minutes earlier just to make sure everything is working well.
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  So with that being said, let's get into today's topic.
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  This one is actually pretty powerful because I wrote it as one of my assignments,
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  which actually right now I'm waiting to be graded.
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  And it's an assignment that I just turned in. We had to do something regarding forgiveness and trust.
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  So I wrote this one and it's still waiting for it to come back.
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  Maybe I'll get the grade as I'm sharing this with you this morning.
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  So I entitled it Learning to Trust Again. I hope you enjoy it.
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  So because we've all been there, we've all experienced moments when someone we trusted hurt us.
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  Maybe it was a friend who betrayed our confidence. Maybe a loved one who walked away.
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  Maybe even someone from your church family who disappointed you deeply.
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  The truth is broken trust cuts deep. Okay.
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  It shakes our faith, not just in people, but sometimes even in ourselves, and yes, even in God.
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  But today, I want to remind you, learning to trust again is not about pretending
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  the pain never happened.
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  It's about letting God heal what people broke.
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  You see, when we get hurt, our natural instinct is to build walls.
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  We tell ourselves, I'll never let that happen again. So we isolate,
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  we protect, and we shut down.
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  And while that might feel safe for a little while, over time,
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  those walls become prisons.
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  They keep out the hurt, but they also keep out love.
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  Maybe you're listening right now and you're saying, Angel, you don't understand
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  what that person did to me. You're right.
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  I don't know your full story, but I do know this. God does.
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  He saw the tears no one else saw. He heard the prayers that you whispered in the dark.
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  You know, as I'm reading Psalms, one points out to me, Psalms 34,
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  verse 18, and it says, the Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those
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  who are crushed in spirit.
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  So you may feel broken, but you're not beyond repair.
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  God's love is the glue that can mend what others have shattered.
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  So let's talk about forgiveness.
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  Forgiveness is so difficult, right? We've all been there. And we've all said
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  those words, I forgive you.
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  Because it's one of the hardest commandments. It's one of the hardest commands
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  that God gives us, especially when the wound is very fresh.
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  In Ephesians chapter 4, verses 31 through 32. 2.
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  Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, brawling, and slander,
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  along with every form of malice.
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  Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other,
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  just as in Christ God forgave you.
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  Now, forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting. Well, lower that.
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  It doesn't mean pretending it's okay, or it was okay.
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  Forgiveness means letting go of your right to hold on to the pain.
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  It means saying, God, I can't carry this anymore. So please, you take it.
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  Because when you hold on to bitterness, it doesn't punish the person who hurt you.
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  It punishes you and steals your joy.
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  And it poisons your peace. and it makes it impossible to see the blessings right in front of you.
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  So there was many seasons in my life when I struggled to trust again.
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  Someone who I cared deeply for let me down and carried that pain for I can't
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  remember how long and more than I'd probably like to admit.
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  But one day I realized something. As long as I kept focusing on what they did,
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  I could see what God was doing.
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  God was ignoring my pain.
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  He was using it to strengthen me to teach me compassion, and then to remind
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  me that my security doesn't come from people. It comes from Him.
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  So when people break your trust, it can feel like the end of something,
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  but sometimes it's actually the beginning of something greater.
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  It's God removing something unstable so that he can rebuild something solid.
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  So if you're struggling to open your heart again, you got to start small.
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  Start by trusting God again.
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  Let him be the first one that you talk to, the first one you talk to in the
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  morning, and the last one you lean on at night.
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  Tell him you're fierce. Tell him you're hurt. He always knows,
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  but he wants you to hand it over.
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  And when you do, when you do something like that, something incredible begins to happen.
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  The grip of bitterness begins to loosen. your heart starts to breathe again.
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  And little by little, you realize
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  that you can love again. You can hope again. And you can trust again.
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  Because trusting again isn't a site of weakness.
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  It's a sign that God's love is greater than the pain that tried to break you.
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  So think about that today. Let's pray.
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  Heavenly Father, today we lift up everyone who's listening, those who are carrying
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  wounds from betrayal, disappointment, or loss.
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  Lord, you know the hurt that's been buried deep inside of us.
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  We ask you to bring healing where there's pain, peace where there's anger,
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  and hope where there's fear.
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  Teach us to forgive, not because others deserve it, but because we deserve to be free.
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  Oh, I just got an update. Let's keep praying, sorry.
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  Remind us that you never fail and that you will never fail us.
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  You'll never abandon us and you'll never stop loving us. Help us to trust again, starting with you.
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  And we pray this in your precious name, in Jesus' name. Amen.
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  Well, guys, I just got an update. It looks like I got a hundred percent on that,
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  on this. So that's pretty cool.
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  I actually got it a few minutes ago, but I just had to like double take it.
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  So I'm excited. Now I got another exam to do this week. I want to thank you
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  for listening to Have Faith, Let It Begin.
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  And I'm actually glad that I came back when I was recording.
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  So that's kind of cool. You got to hear my reaction.
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  So if today's message spoke to your heart, share it with someone who needs it,
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  someone who needs to hear that healing is possible and that God's love still restores.
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  So remember, don't let anyone steal that joy. Always have faith and always believe
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  and trust that things will always work itself out.
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  Remember that because you matter.
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  And never forget, have faith, let it begin. Talk to you tomorrow.
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  Have faith, let it begin.