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(Part 2) Enthusiasm That Endures: Do Not Despise the Small Beginnings With Jayme Elizabeth · She Speaks Life - Christian Women, Strengthen Your Faith, Bible Study, Grow Spiritually In Christ

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  Hey, welcome back to the second part of this two-part episode
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  that I have called enthusiasm that endures staying fervent,
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  bold and victorious by the Holy Spirit for our 2026.
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  If you haven't already listened to the first part of this
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  two-part episode, go ahead, check that out.
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  Listen to it to the end and then jump to the second part part of
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  the episode. If you've already listened to
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  the first part, then you're ready to hear Part 2.
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  So here it is now #3 is gratitude.
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  And this is a biggie. This also has the power to
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  change our lives and sustain us with that fire, that enthusiasm
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  in our lives. Expressing gratitude until we
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  have something to be thankful for is not how it works.
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  Gratitude is a past, present, and future.
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  It's saying thank you God for this that you did in my life.
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  Thank you God for what is in my hands today and thank you God
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  for what I'm going to be seeing in my future.
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  Gratitude is not just a response with good things happening in
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  our life. Yes, give em gratitude for that.
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  But most importantly, it's this daily heart posture.
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  Gratitude shifts our focus. It it makes us see the blessings
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  instead of burdens. It makes us see abundance
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  instead of lack. You know, recently when I was
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  putting this these points together, God gave me the story
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  about Elisha and the widow. And Elisha told this widow,
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  what, how much oil do you have? And she said, I have nothing but
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  this small jar of oil. And then Elisha instructed her
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  to go gather as many vessels as she can, borrow them from your
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  neighbors and bring them in. So the widow told her sons, go
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  and get as many vessels as you can.
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  And as she did, the oil got filled up and each vessel to the
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  brim and the oil did not stop until she ran out of vessels.
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  Now God had impressed it on me that there's two things to look
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  at here. The widow at first says I have
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  nothing but the small jar. She had kind of this lack
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  mentality going on right. She was going by what she what
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  she can physically see and I love how Elijah saw what God can
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  do. Elijah saw that God can
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  multiply. God was telling me this is how
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  we need to be looking at things. Look at things the way God sees
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  it. He will multiply whatever you
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  have in your hands. He doesn't see lack, He sees
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  abundance. And I know that this place of
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  gratitude, when we are automatically in a hard posture
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  of gratitude, we're going to look at the increase.
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  We're not going to look at, oh, this is just what I have.
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  No God looks at. This is what I'm going to do
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  with what you have. So thanking God and giving him
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  our praise now, not waiting for change is crucial.
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  Focusing on gratitude will have us start to see solutions and
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  breakthroughs of miracles. It's lifting our hands and
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  praise even when challenges are present.
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  It's declaring thank you God before we even see it.
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  It's about having a heart that is ready to receive and knowing
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  that He did it and gets the glory.
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  OK #4 is a word most of us are repelling against, but it's so
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  crucial if we want to fulfill what God has given to us, and
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  that is discipline. Discipline is the bridge of
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  where you are and where you want to be.
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  So many of us want this but aren't willing to do what's
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  necessary to get there. I know for me, I can easily fall
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  into this trap of just waiting until I feel motivated or I'll
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  wait for a sign to push me forward when really true success
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  is built into the unseen moments of daily discipline.
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  If we want to see the lasting change in our lives, we must
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  commit to discipline. Remember, motivation is
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  temporary. Motivation is good.
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  Great starters, but not the best at finishing.
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  Discipline is everlasting as long as we infuse it into our
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  lifestyle. Discipline is doing something no
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  matter how we feel or what we see or don't see.
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  It surpasses the senses, the physical senses.
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  It surpasses the eyes and the ears and the touch and the
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  taste. Discipline responds to the
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  spiritual knowledge. I think that's why we get so
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  tripped up with disciplines, because we think we need to
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  respond from our natural man, from our feelings.
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  Oh, I don't feel like it, so I'm not going to do it.
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  When really discipline responds from our spirit man for where
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  the Holy Spirit is inside us because we need the help of the
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  Holy Spirit. He is called our health helper,
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  our our teacher, our comforter, right?
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  And we need his help to be consistent.
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  And if we don't intentionally invite him into those daily
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  disciplines, then it's just going to come from our own
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  strength. And when we do that, we fail to
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  execute. Discipline is being consistent
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  day in and day out. It can determine the course we
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  take in life. We've all been there, like I
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  said in the beginning of the message where we start out
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  excited about a goal or dream and that starts to fizzle out
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  because motivation is good at that initial excitement.
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  But motivation is fleeting, right?
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  And discipline will get us where motivation won't get us.
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  Discipline gives us progression and discipline is never easy.
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  Otherwise we'd all be having this ease in doing everything
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  possible because discipline is actually going against what our
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  flesh wants to do. The biblical discipline is the
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  fruit of self-control. That's why it can seem so hard,
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  because we're pushing against the flesh and then enforcing
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  order and obedience. It's saying no to certain foods.
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  It's saying no to idleness. It's saying no to certain movies
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  or shows and then it's saying yes that the things that will
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  will progress us, that will provide, that will be fruitful
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  in our lives. They'll get us where we want to
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  go. Having this ripened fruit of the
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  spirit of self-control controls our flesh.
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  It subdues our flesh from doing whatever it wants to do.
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  And having the self-control is a good thing to have.
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  It's it provides freedom. It provides liberty to live and
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  love the way God has designed us to live.
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  When I licked up, when I looked up the biblical definition of
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  discipline, it said this. It said discipline is training,
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  instruction, correction, fostering spiritual growth,
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  their development and holiness. It's aimed at helping people
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  become more mature in their faith, often containing rebuke
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  or painful experience for a greater good.
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  We got to understand that discipline can be hard work, but
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  the benefits always outweigh the effort eventually.
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  It's daily studying God's word. It's applying all these
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  principles daily like speaking life, surrendering, being still
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  to hear his voice, gratitude. It's also disciplining our mind.
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  I shared this verse earlier, Second Timothy 17, that God did
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  not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound
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  mind. Another version is but of power,
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  love and self-control. A sound mind is a discipline
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  mind. self-control restrains the mind to do whatever it wants,
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  whether it submits to the authority of God's word.
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  Paul was equipping believers here from shrinking back and
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  having this timidity by instructing us to pair all these
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  things up. God's power, love and a
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  disciplined self controlled mind and it will give us great
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  exploits to do in our life for the Lord.
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  A disciplined mind is a renewed mind of the Word.
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  It also parallels with first Peter 47 when he exhorts
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  believers to be clear minded to be in self controlled mind, be
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  sober so that we can pray, indicating that for an effective
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  prayer life we need to have a disciplined mind to fuel
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  effective communication with God.
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  Spirit given discipline enables us to choose what is necessary
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  over comfort or inconvenience. It's really showing up when no
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  one else shows up. It's waking up early instead of
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  feeling like sleeping in to study your Bible.
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  This was key for me when I had littles getting up an hour
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  before they got up so I could have my quiet time with the
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  Lord. When I did, I was fruit of the
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  Spirit was in operation. I was patient and I had peace.
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  The days that I decided to agree with my flesh and sleep, I
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  reaped the consequences. I was impatient.
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  I was a little short tempered. I was not displaying the fruit
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  of the spirit to my kids. I was cranky.
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  I was Moody. So disciplining is putting in
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  the work. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's
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  also doing it and not seeing immediate results either.
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  I love how Zechariah 4 says do not despise the small
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  beginnings. When we start something it
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  doesn't need to be perfect. Perfection will hold us back
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  from starting. We need to be good with learning
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  as we go mentality. That is how most of the time it
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  works. King David started as a
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  shepherd. He didn't know how to already be
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  a king. He learned as he went.
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  Gideon being chosen by God to fight a battle while he's
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  threshing wheat underground in a winepress.
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  So his to to hide from his opposition the media nights so
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  they wouldn't steal his harvest. The Angel of the Lord declared
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  in that moment. The Lord is with you mighty
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  warrior. Gideon hid underground in fear
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  and God called him a mighty warrior.
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  I love this story because God sees the end.
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  He sees what we will become if we will just start saying yes to
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  Him. Picture yourself the way God
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  sees you. What is that dream He has placed
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  in your heart? See yourself living that dream.
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  Get specific. You want to be an author and
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  vision the cover of the book. You want to be a store owner?
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  See yourself decorating the window with your products or
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  greeting customers. Whatever it is, picture yourself
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  there and don't despise the small beginnings to get there.
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  It's doing what God has placed in our hands today to create
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  something, to create something beautiful tomorrow.
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  And we have to implement those good daily disciplined habits so
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  that we can have a new year that's filled with progress and
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  not regress. I don't want the same year as
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  last year. I want a new year with new
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  blessings. I'm going to be on a new level.
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  But I won't get that if I'm not allowing the Holy Spirit to
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  ignite this, this fire, this enthusiasm and apply principles,
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  daily things to produce that, to produce that that fire in me
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  that I need to apply in my life to, to accomplish those
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  assignments and those dreams that He has placed in my life.
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  If we want a deeper relationship with God, then we need to take
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  the time out to be still and listen and be in His presence,
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  Read His word every single day. Most of us, that's an issue in
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  itself. We're not starting our day out
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  right. We're not doing the daily
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  surrender because when we do the daily surrender, all weight, all
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  pressure is off of us. It's on.
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  We give it over to the Lord. So when we come away from that
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  daily surrender, we're enlightened, we feel light,
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  we're like in Christ. I can, right?
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  And so if we want it, same with health.
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  If we want better health, we can't ignore the foods that we
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  eat. We can't ignore exercise.
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  We can't expect results where we haven't planted the seeds.
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  And one of the greatest enemies, hear me now, one of the greatest
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  enemies of discipline is excuses.
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  I'm guilty of this. I'm putting together a
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  devotional book, and I hired an editor and I gave her three
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  devotional entries. And then I allowed every excuse
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  in the book in the latter part of last year from writing more.
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  We say things like, I don't have time, I'm busy.
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  Oh, this happened in my life. But these words keep us in the
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  same place. Excuses keep us in the same
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  place. And I don't know about you, but
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  I don't want to be in the same place as I was in 2025 because
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  the fact is, there will always be an excuse.
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  We'll always find one. We'll always find a reason to
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  delay or procrastinate to avoid taking action.
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  And if we wait for those perfect conditions, we've heard this
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  before, then we'll never get there.
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  And it's true, we have to take action despite challenges or
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  obstacles because discipline, it's never about convenience,
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  but it's about commitment. It's committing ourselves to
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  obey what God has spoken to our hearts.
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  We must choose His voice over the sacrifice.
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  He looks at obedience over sacrifice any day.
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  And I don't know about you, but when I face Him in heaven, I
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  don't want anything left undone. We have to stay anchored in Him.
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  We have to stay anchored in His purpose for our lives.
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  Then then how we're feeling and the emotions because feelings
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  changed and when we are rooted in purpose, that doesn't change.
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  Then we understand why we are doing what we are doing.
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  And then we can remain disciplined even in those hard
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  days throughout the year and beyond.
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  So choose discipline, choose daily relationship fellowship
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  with Him, choose that daily surrender, choose daily
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  gratitude, choose words of life, truth and spirit.
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  And this will sustain us and propel us with those dreams that
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  God has given to us well beyond 2026.
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  So take a moment, this little homework assignment, take a
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  moment after you hit stop on this episode and ask yourself,
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  what are those dreams, visions, or assignments He's given to
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  you? You may already know as you were
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  listening to this episode, you may need to start up again.
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  And that's OK. There is no you can't start up
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  again. You did not fail.
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  You just get up and you apply these principles to get to where
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  God wants to take you. And then out of the four points
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  that we talked about, what action do you need to take?
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  Implement these points in your life in your daily walk with Him
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  and you'll experience this enthusiasm to do what He's
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  called you to do like never before.
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  Let me just pray with you guys right here, right now before we
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  close. Heavenly Father, we just thank
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  you so much for our friend. That's listening.
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  Lord, you know exactly what you have placed in her heart.
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  And I just thank you, God, that this enthusiasm, she's going to
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  be stocking this fire, this holy fire well through 2026 to
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  achieve and accomplish the dreams, visions, assignments
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  that you have given her. I thank you, Lord, that she's
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  going to flow in a grace and an ease that she's going to do her
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  daily surrender so she will not be frustrated, but she will come
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  out with clarity, God, as to what that next step is for her.
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  I thank you for blessings. I thank you for increase.
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  I thank you for fruitfulness, Father, as you just display this
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  in her 2026 throughout every day of the month of this year.
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  I thank you that your word never returns void and that it always
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  accomplishes what you will. We praise you, we honor you, we
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  love you and Jesus mighty name, Amen.
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  Until next time, God bless. Hey there, thank you for
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