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I Never Saw This Coming — Becoming Who God Knew I Could Be · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Have Faith, Let It Begin.
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  It is a Tuesday, June 23rd. Holy cow.
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  We are off a huge weekend.
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  And just yesterday, I recorded with Dr.
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  I called him the professor, I should say. Professor Nick.
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  Nick L. is back with us, and we'll be airing that episode this week.
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  Hopefully, if not this week, it'll be Monday morning or Tuesday.
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  Look out for that. That's a programming note.
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  We're going to begin a brand new series. We're going to do it on a Tuesday,
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  and we're going to run this through.
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  This series is called Becoming, the person God always knew I could be.
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  And episode one, which is today for that series, is called I Never Saw This Coming.
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  It's kind of a little repeatish from the Cheated series, but fresh off the heels
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  of that series, I think a lot of you will understand where I'm coming from.
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  So if you don't know who I am, my name is Angel Santana. This is Have Faith,
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  Let It Begin. We are now officially federally trademarked and registered trademark,
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  and we are excited to be here with you.
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  So with that being said, let's begin a brand new series called Becoming the
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  Person Who God Always Knew I Could Be.
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  You know, over the last couple of weeks, we talked about betrayal.
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  We talked about heartbreak. We talked about disappointment. We talked about healing.
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  But now I want to talk to you about something different.
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  I want to talk about growth. Because we just recently started season nine and
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  we fast approached our beginning of our nine-year anniversary here at Have Faith Let It Begin.
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  And as I was celebrating that, I found myself reflecting on a question that came about.
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  What would you, meaning myself, what would the younger version of me think of,
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  if I could see myself today?
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  I had to think about that for a little while. I don't think the younger version
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  of me would have believed it.
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  Have faith, let it begin being a podcast, me hosting a podcast.
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  Now, if you told me 15 years ago that one day I would host a podcast that would
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  reach people all over the country, I would have laughed at that too.
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  If you told me that I'd be attending pastoral school, definitely would have
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  laughed at that even harder.
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  And if you told me people would come to me for encouragement,
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  prayer, advice, and support probably would have looked behind me and said,
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  okay, who are you actually talking about?
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  Because that's not how I saw myself. I saw a lot of flaws back in the day.
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  I saw mistakes, my mistakes, my fears. I saw my failures.
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  I saw everything I wasn't, but God saw everything I could become.
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  And that's amazing. It's an amazing thing about God. He doesn't see who we are today.
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  He sees who we're becoming You know long before we can even see it ourselves.
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  He knows I spent a lot of years doubting myself A lot of years questioning whether i'm capable of being.
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  The right person making a difference A lot of years believing that other people
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  were more talented More qualified more gifted more prepared,
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  While I was busy comparing myself to everyone else God was quietly preparing
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  me for things I couldn't even imagine.
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  Isn't it funny how life works? Sometimes we're asking God to change our circumstances,
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  while God is trying to change us.
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  Because the greatest miracle isn't always a changed situation.
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  Sometimes the greatest miracle is a changed person.
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  When this podcast started, I had no idea where it would lead.
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  I wasn't thinking about nine years. I wasn't thinking about thousands of episodes.
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  And I certainly wasn't thinking about ministry opportunities.
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  It was always in the back of my mind, don't get me wrong.
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  But I wasn't thinking about pastoral school. I was simply taking just one step
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  at a time One episode One conversation One act of faith And looking back now, I realize something,
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  Most of the biggest things God has done in my life Started with one small step Not certainty.
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  Not confidence Faith Just enough faith to take the next step One of my favorite
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  truths in scripture Is that God often chooses people who don't feel qualified.
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  Moses didn't feel qualified. Jeremiah didn't feel qualified.
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  Peter didn't feel qualified.
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  Gideon didn't feel qualified. Yet God used them anyway. Why did he use them?
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  Because God doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies the called.
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  And maybe somebody listening here today can relate to that.
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  I don't need everyone to have everything figured out, right?
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  You don't need to have everything figured out. You don't need to have all the answers. You don't need.
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  The perfect confidence. You simply need to trust the one who already knows where he is taking you.
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  So as we begin this series together,
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  I want you to think about your own life.
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  Where were you 10 years ago, five years ago? And who are you becoming today?
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  Because maybe God has been working in your life more than you realized.
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  Maybe you've grown more than you've noticed. Maybe you survived things that should have broken you.
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  And maybe, just maybe, you're becoming the person God always knew you could be.
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  Are you ready for that? Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for your ability to see who we are.
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  Thank you for seeing potential in us, even when we can't see it ourselves.
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  Thank you for every step, every lesson, every challenge, and every blessing
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  that helps help us shape who we are today.
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  Help us trust the process of
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  becoming and reminding us that you're never finished working in our lives.
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  We pray this unto you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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  We'll talk about the person in the mirror, because that's next.
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  That's tomorrow's episode.
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  And the person in the mirror, and discover the difference between who people
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  say we are, and who God says we are.
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  Until next time, never forget, have faith, let it begin.