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Finding Strength in Faith and Overcoming Life's Obstacles · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Hello, every single person out there. My name is Angel, and this is Half-Faith. Let it begin.
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  And I'm excited to be here with you, and we're going to get started in just about two seconds.
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  I'm excited to be here with you, and I just cannot believe that we're coming
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  together, and we're going to do this together live.
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  I don't know about you, but I'm excited, And we're hoping that each and every
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  one of you will join us right here, right now.
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  Have Faith, Let It Begin starts right now.
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  Music.
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  Half Faith, Let It Begin is going to be live in a few seconds.
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  Hang tight. Now I trust you'll get me through,
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  When I'm kicking and screaming When I struggle believing God,
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  you are always faithful No matter what When my eyes cannot see That's right.
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  Half Faith, Let It Begin is here.
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  Welcome, everyone, to Half Faith, Let It Begin. We are excited to be with you,
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  and I cannot believe it. We're actually live for the very first time on Podbean.
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  If you don't know who I am, my name is Angel, and I am so excited to come into
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  your homes each and every weekday. And we do this, actually.
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  Sometimes we come on the air, and we're – it's so amazing that with the technology
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  today, the fact that we can come on and do things with you, it's just something
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  that I've always wanted to do.
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  But here's the cool thing. You know, our show is designed for you,
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  the Daily Commuter, and it's with motivational topics, inspirational stories
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  and personal testimonies.
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  We're set out to change the world and we can't do it without each and every one of you.
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  So I want to thank you for the bottom of my heart for being a part of our lives
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  and and also just allowing each and every one of us to.
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  Part of this as well. Well, I'm ready to go. We are officially live and ready
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  to go. So let's get started.
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  You know, one thing that we always talk about on the show is how often we are
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  out in the world and we deal with so many different people, right?
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  We deal with people that can come in and try to steal your joy.
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  We come in and try to meet people that will do everything in their power to bring you down.
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  They'll say things like, you know, you can't achieve anything.
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  You can't achieve your goals.
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  You cannot do certain things. But guess what? We can do anything and everything
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  if you put your mind to it.
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  But the most important thing that we can't do is allow others to sneak up and steal that joy.
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  Don't let anyone tell you that you cannot achieve something.
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  Don't tell someone that they can't do it.
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  And don't believe that others of what they're saying when they're so negative
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  that they are basically having an influence in the decision makings that you have.
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  It's not worth it, everyone. It's just not worth it.
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  So one of the things that I love about our show is we constantly talk about
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  different things, motivational parts. I want to share a story with you.
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  Back in my early 2000s when I was dealing with a depression,
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  my depression was really, really difficult because I had gone through a huge breakup.
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  And one of the breakups that I had really set me off in a depression for about
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  two years. and it was very difficult to overcome it because what happened was
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  I really didn't have that outlet.
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  I didn't have that person that at the time I felt like I can go to.
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  So many people had told me and warned me that this is not gonna work.
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  This way she's just not gonna materialize into anything.
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  She doesn't care about you. She's using you.
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  And of course, when you're in your early 20s, you think that you know everything.
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  You think you've found everything. You think you've accomplished everything.
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  But in reality is you don't know anything.
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  You think you do, but you just don't. So here I am trying to do all that I can
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  to make sure I make it work.
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  And, you know, of course, things went south and I got my heart crushed.
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  And at the same time I was dealing with that, I was transferring to another
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  state with the company that I worked for.
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  And quite honestly, it was a very eye-opening experience because I had never left home.
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  I've never left the state and I've never lived on my own for that matter.
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  And each day was just was more difficult than the next and then of course i went into my job and i,
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  had the worst uh manager that you can think of
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  who did not like me who didn't want me there he didn't want that transfer to
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  take place and he decided that it was going to be up to him to find a way to
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  discourage me to make me feel so angry and belittle me to the point where i
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  would probably They just quit and never return.
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  I stuck it out, but I dealt with a lot of torture, a lot of verbal torture,
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  a lot of sneaky tricks, a lot of things that just was really, really difficult.
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  And one of the things that I struggle with today is not knowing what the next day is going to bring.
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  Throughout all the difficulties that I went through in life,
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  I developed a trust in God.
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  And I started to believe and understand that God being a part of my life and
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  letting him again put me in a better mindset to understand that there was nothing
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  and no one that could penetrate the armor of God that I had already.
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  So I started to make friends. I started to go out.
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  I started to reinvent myself. myself
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  not because I didn't believe or
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  like who I was I never really got
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  a chance to know the real I never let my
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  real self in and out for that matter I just didn't know who to be I felt like
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  I had to be somebody that everybody needed to like I wanted to be the life of
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  the party I wanted to be that individual that that tried to share stories of
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  remarkable things that have happened.
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  I would share things that, and maybe even exaggerate too at times about things
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  that I was doing, which were, I don't want to say lies, just made it bigger than what it was.
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  So you sit back and you say to yourself, my goodness, what was I thinking?
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  Why did I allow those things to happen? Why did I allow myself to be someone that I wasn't?
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  So as I moved forward in life, and I started realizing that,
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  hey, I too can be an influence on others, I started to realize that God was
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  first in my life, and he will always be first.
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  And by doing that, it allowed me the opportunity to see things in a better light.
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  And even today, going to ministry school and dealing with the hardship of trying
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  to balance time, two kids, working wife of two jobs.
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  I worked three jobs, and still trying to find time to study is difficult.
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  But you know what was the most challenging part about being away for six years
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  and then finally coming home was finding that trust and the balance in meeting my now wife.
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  That I found her, I was at ease, I was at peace with myself,
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  and it would be the first time that I could actually talk to somebody and not
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  try to make a good impression,
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  not try to embellish or make myself to be bigger than I thought I was or that
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  I thought that I needed to be in order to be slow.
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  So hard to sit there and try to figure out what you want to be if you don't even know who you are.
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  If we just put our minds at ease and we trust in ourselves, we put our fate
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  first, our first foot forward, and allow others to see who we are.
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  And finally, just to end on this note, as you get older and you get wiser,
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  hopefully, right, you will encounter so many other people.
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  So many people that will not like for your personality, not like you for your
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  positivity, not like you for the way you choose to do things.
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  Don't put yourself in a position to lower your standards.
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  Treat them at a spot where they are.
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  Be proud of who you are. Be proud of where you come from.
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  And most importantly, respect all those that are around you and treat them the
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  way you want to be treated.
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  Because when it's all said and done, there's no reason for you to feel like you do not achieve.
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  So I want you to think about that today and hope that each and every one of
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  you continue to aspire to be a better person.
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  Always remember that God loves you, that God believes in you,
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  that God trusts you, and that God is never going to leave your side.
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  So on behalf of all of us here, may God be with us and never forget.
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  Happy? Let it begin Special thanks to Jordan Saint No matter what To the acoustic version Later.
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  Music.