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Overcoming Doubt: A Journey to Self-Confidence · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Sometimes we struggle. Sometimes we doubt.
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  Sometimes we go through things where you just don't know what to do next.
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  I've been like Thomas the last couple of hours, maybe 48 to 72 hours.
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  I'm not ashamed to admit it, but I didn't do well in my last test.
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  The good news is that we dropped the last two lowest scores,
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  but deep down inside, you start feeling like, oh my God, am I a failure?
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  You know and the doubt starts to
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  set in now don't get me wrong i'm not feeling sorry for myself i'm
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  just very very hard on myself and i put pressure i know
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  we all do that but when do we or how do we i should say how do we overcome the
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  doubt that automatically sets in those whispers in our ears that say you're
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  not going to be able to do this it's just not possible i'm going to talk to you about that today.
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  Have Faith, Let It Begin. Tuesday edition starts right now.
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  Have Faith, Let It 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. Hi, Noah. Noah!
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  Happy birthday, Noah. Today.
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  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 light, I'm gonna let it shine. Let it shine. Let it.
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  So. Let it. So. Yeah.
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  Daddy, I'm so excited, but I have one question. What's your question?
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  I'm 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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  Good morning, everyone.
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  Have Faith Let It Begin is on the air, and we get right into it.
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  So as I stated, you know, I had a quiz this past Saturday and I took it and
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  you know, I didn't do well.
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  I don't want to make any excuses by all means. Okay. But I would like to let
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  all of you know, I've never really been the greatest test taker.
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  If you go back in the archives, you'll know that I tell you the stories of how
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  I try to overcome test taking when I was in college.
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  But yet this is the first time I'm doing online classes and the tests are timed.
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  So 30 minutes to complete five questions sounds like a lot of time,
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  but believe it or not, the way the questions are worded, and again,
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  I'm not knocking the teacher, I think I tend to overthink things.
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  And a lot of times when I change the answer that I have from the original thought,
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  I realized after I take the test, if I would have stuck to my instincts.
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  Then I would have probably passed the test then of
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  course when times come when I decide all right I'm gonna
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  go with my instincts I'm not gonna make the change but something
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  tells me I should make the change I put it through and I should have made the
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  change it's like I it's like I never went never can win this theory so yeah
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  I got a little I got a little down on myself I'm not gonna lie I was upset and
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  I said well you know not a big deal the last two lowest scores are going to get dropped.
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  So I got to just pretend like it never happened, but how can I, you know?
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  And then of course, right after I did that, it was like the doubts started to set in.
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  I could hear the voices in my head saying, you know, do you really think you're
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  going to be a minister if you can't even pass a five question test?
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  Do you really think that you're capable of doing this, you know,
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  with all the stuff that you're going through and all the, the extracurricular
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  activities and having children and, you know, and all this stuff, can you do it?
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  And that bothers me because I know I can do it.
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  I know I'm going to do it. But those insecurities that pop in your mind start
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  to really affect the way you think for a couple of minutes or hours.
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  And that's when you start to doubt.
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  And I think this applies to our everyday life, as I take a sip of my coffee,
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  I think that a lot of times we make choices or while we're making decisions,
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  we think of the negative first.
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  You know, I joke a lot about my good friend, Brian. I used to always be positive
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  with him and still do, but he always used to think of the negative before the positive.
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  And then he would find the negative in the positive. And I'd be like,
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  oh my gosh, how do you do that?
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  Where I was the kind of guy that I'll find the positive in a negative.
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  Henceforth, you know, I didn't do well in my test. No big deal.
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  Let me just work a little harder. And that's not going to count anyway.
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  So, you know, let's move forward. But it's those words and those whispers in
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  our heads, those insecurities that pop up and make you think you are not worthy.
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  Well, I guess I'm giving myself my own advice. Some, as I tell you the advice, we are all worthy.
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  And, you know, Jesus is with us. And no matter how bad things can get,
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  no matter how hard they get, always put God first.
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  Always remember that Jesus is our co-pilot. but always remember that he has
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  our best interest at heart.
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  Maybe today's message for me is quite simple. I'm not working as hard as I should.
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  Maybe I got a little bit laxed because I did well on a couple quizzes and I figured I can do this.
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  Well, nothing in life is easy. Let's be honest. We have to work hard to make things happen.
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  And when we slide or we take a step back, we have to re-evaluate.
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  We have to think ourselves and say, well, I am capable. and I am worthy and
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  I am willing to put the work in so that I can make sure I do my very best.
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  And that's really what I have for you guys today. I want you to send me a message
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  about things that maybe are going on in your life and quite honestly, share with me,
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  if you have situations like this or are going through situations like this and
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  I would love to know how you overcome the negativity, how you overcome all the
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  things that come up in our minds or in our thoughts or in our daily life and say, okay,
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  angel, this is what happens when I feel this way. I'd love to hear it because you know what?
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  The only way that I get better is by listening to others.
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  Respecting everybody's opinions, but more importantly, understanding the way
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  we all deal with our insecurities because if we can come together like one body,
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  because we all make up the body of Christ, right?
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  If we all can do that one way or another, we will be in a better place.
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  So with that being said, Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you today for Tuesday's message.
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  We thank you for allowing us to come together thanks to social media and podcast
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  platforms like Podbean, Apple, Spotify, all those places.
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  We thank you, Lord, for continuing to support our podcast.
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  We'll call it ministry today, our podcast that we do together.
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  We thank you, Lord, for all those that have been dealing with heartache and dealing with.
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  Situations that maybe they don't want to share with us on the show,
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  but they know, and you know, Lord, that they're having that in their minds and their hearts.
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  So we lift up in prayer Joanne as she continues to heal.
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  We pray for Rochelle. We pray for Nick and Diane, and we praise Cassandra for her new beginning.
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  We pray for Chip and Addison, for Mansa and Yesenia. We pray for Sigfredo, Selenia, and Savannah.
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  We pray for all of our friends like Carol.
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  And I know you could do it, Carol. I have faith in you. We pray for another
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  Diane that I know that's been helping me.
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  We pray for Pastor Jim and for Joe and Bunny and the consistory in our churches.
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  We pray for government officials to get along and for our president to figure
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  out a way to stop all the negativity. And it all starts with him.
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  Attitude reflects leadership. we continue to
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  pray for our military personnel
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  foreign and domestic we pray for children all
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  over the world for first responders fire and
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  rescue fire and police we pray for police officers and firefighters and first
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  responders and finally we pray for douglas kenneth for dr e we continue to lift
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  up in prayer clinton maria and her families and we just ask this of you lord
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  in the name of the Father,
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  the Son, and the Holy Spirit, because we know that you are the person that we
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  can trust and believe in.
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  And finally, we pray for our brothers and sisters, our nieces and nephews.
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  We pray for our children, for our aunts and uncles, grandparents, and parents.
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  We pray this unto you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In Jesus' name, we pray.
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  And we want to thank everyone for this opportunity as we come together,
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  and we thank you, Lord, each and every day.
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  And thank you so much. And never forget, have faith, let it begin.
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  We'll talk to you next time.
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  Thank you for listening to Have Faith, Let It Begin. We'll be back tomorrow.