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Healthy & Redeemed | Season One Reflection and Encouragemen · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  Welcome to the Healthy and Redeemed podcast hosted by Healy
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  Eicherd. Healy is a licensed counselor
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  with a passion for helping Christians live healthier lives
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  emotionally and spiritually. Each episode combines the truth
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  of God's Word with practical advice to help you in your
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  everyday life. Whether you want to grow
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  emotionally, strengthen your faith, or handles life
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  challenges with more peace, this podcast is for you.
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  We're so glad you joined us. Let's get started.
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  To God be the glory. Welcome back to the Healthy
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  Redeemed. Podcast I'm your.
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  Host Haley It is a good day in the neighborhood and this is
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  episode 25. It is our final show for Season
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  1. Oh my gosh, I'm acting so
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  official. I don't even know what seasons
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  mean so I don't know what I'm talking about but but.
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  Technically it is. I've, you know, podcast have
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  seasons, I guess like TV shows and so I don't even know where
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  the season starts and where it begins.
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  I mean where it ends and where it begins.
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  But I've decided that season one will end on episode 25.
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  I have talked a ton about mental health this season.
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  Oh my goodness, that sounds so funny to say.
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  But anyway, so I've talked a lot about mental health.
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  I, I did a few other things. I did a Christmas reading also
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  that it wasn't really mental health per SE, but so it's been
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  a fun 25 episodes. I hope that you have felt
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  encouraged and that even if you haven't technically taken any
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  action on anything, that I hope listening has been encouraging
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  for you and maybe have maybe it's made you think differently
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  about something, or at least the option of thinking different
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  about something. I hope that you've made some
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  changes in your life either to your thinking or or in
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  behaviors. And I want to remind you that if
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  you have been making changes that slow progress or small
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  progress is still progress nonetheless.
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  So if you have goals of wanting to be different in some area
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  that don't give up on that just because it's slow going or that
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  you have hit an obstacle or two. Remember, obstacles are going to
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  come in our journey. Hopefully we have a destination
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  in mind, but honestly, we are always on a journey in this
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  life, whether it's to be more mentally healthy, to be more
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  spiritually healthy or emotionally healthy or
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  physically healthy. It's a constant journey.
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  We can't just kind of get there and that be it.
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  That's, Can you imagine that physically, if that were true,
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  that we just go to the gym or or do stuff at home and we just get
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  in really good shape and then we're done.
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  You don't have to do it anymore. That would be great.
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  But I, I think our mental and emotional journey and spiritual
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  journey is the same as that. Like I don't think we just, we
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  suddenly arrive. I think that we learn stuff and
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  grow in all sorts of ways throughout our time, but it's a
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  constant one. We don't actually just arrive
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  and then we can sit on our tough.
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  I would encourage you maybe even to, if you are trying to make
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  some, you know, mental, emotional, spiritual changes in
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  your life that maybe you just sit down and think about how am
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  I acting different? How am I thinking different?
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  What has that look like from my perspective?
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  What has that look like from God's perspective?
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  What does that look like from other people's perspective?
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  People, my family, my friends, have they noticed sometimes some
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  of our deeper changes, others may not even notice.
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  They might notice something's different, but they don't
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  exactly know what. Because like if we're working on
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  something like anger, not everybody's actually going to
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  see that. So it may just be something that
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  we show a small amount of people.
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  So like our friends may not even know that we've worked on our
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  anger. However, they may notice that
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  our perspective has changed on things because, you know, our
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  perspective has to change. If we are thinking different
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  about anger or we're not as anxious as we used to be, maybe
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  they didn't know we were anxious about things, but our
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  perspective about life is a little bit different.
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  Our perspective about God and our trust in Him is different.
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  So they may notice things like that, but I would make note of
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  those things that you've changed.
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  That's one of the great things about going to see a counselor
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  that I hear my clients say sometimes is that, oh, I didn't
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  really realize that I had changed so much or just going,
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  yeah, I hadn't thought about it that way because sometimes I
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  always like to point out things that they are missing, that
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  they're not even noticing that they're doing different than
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  they had done before. And so that's a real joy to go,
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  hey, you are doing this. And they were like.
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  Yeah, I am. It's like sometimes you just
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  need someone to point that out to you.
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  I was trying to think in ways that I've changed during the
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  podcast, like 25 episodes so that I started like nearly five
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  months ago. Or it'll be probably 5 months by
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  the time this episode hits. How have I changed?
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  And I know that one thing, like I'm always thinking about the
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  podcast, like I'm thinking about episodes that would be helpful
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  for people that listeners could resonate with and find helpful
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  information to integrate into their lives.
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  I noticed that that's on my mind a lot.
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  And it's kind of neat to be always thinking, I mean, I am a
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  counselor, so that's kind of my job to help people.
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  But to really be thinking all the time, how can I help or what
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  can I do to help? What can I talk about that might
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  be helpful? Because when I go to work, like
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  I go to work and I do leave it there if something is bothering
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  me or I told someone I would pray for them.
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  I do pray. Sometimes I pray for them and
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  they don't know it. But other than that, I normally
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  leave work at work. But with the podcast, I've known
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  it's, I've noticed that it's pretty consuming of my mind,
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  which is not a bad thing because it's consumed with what does God
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  want me to do? What does he want me to talk
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  about? And I don't always hear a clear
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  answer, but I do feel a leaning like if I can't get something
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  off my mind, that's probably where I'll I'll go.
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  I've recorded episodes and said that was bad.
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  I stay on the same topic, but I'll just kind of start all
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  over. So I did tend to, I waste a lot
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  of time. No wonder this is on my mind a
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  lot. The other thing that has helped
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  me, and I think this is with any endeavor I do is really helping
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  me stay focused on the calling God has of me.
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  So if it's something small or big.
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  So like, for example, I've written several books.
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  None of them are best sellers. I mean, they sell.
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  But like, you know, my dream would be I could have an income
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  with all the sales of the books I'm making or the the all the
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  books that I'm writing. But, you know, is that, yeah, I
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  have to go back to always, what has God called me to do?
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  And he doesn't promise results. Like sometimes if people answer
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  God's call, they'll know like, Oh yeah, God was really with me
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  because look at this and this and this way that he showed up.
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  But I'm not convinced that that's the only indicator God's
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  called you is success. Like I think that sometimes
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  things aren't going to be like I'm pretty much convinced I'm
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  not going to have thousands of followers ever in my life for
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  many reasons. I mean, I, I think just because
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  I know how God works with me after 20 years now, not to put
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  him in a box, but like I know what he's always trying to work
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  out in me. And so I know that, yeah,
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  probably being a success is not going to be helpful to my
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  integrity and things I'd like to think it would be, but I don't,
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  I don't know. I just don't know that that's
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  where God has called me and that's OK.
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  But so in that, I have to curb my visions of worldly success.
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  I have to remember and focus on what I think God has said or
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  called me to do and not worry about the results.
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  And this is like daily for me. So I don't know if you can
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  relate to that of just God calling you to something and it
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  didn't seem successful as as we would think successful looks
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  like. But I think anytime we do
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  something out of obedience to God, regardless of what the
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  result is that we are still successful.
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  And that's in air quotes successful because we've acted
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  out of obedience and and that's what matters at the end of day.
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  At the end of the day in our relationship with God is are we
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  obedient? Do we trust him enough to obey
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  him? And if the answer is yes, then
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  we don't care what the results are.
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  We let him take care of that. There is a scripture in Ezekiel
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  where God is calling Ezekiel to go preach to the Israelites and
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  he says, but they aren't going to listen.
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  That's a Healy paraphrase. So go preach to the people, but
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  they're not going to listen. Like that's, that's I'm glad God
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  doesn't give us the results of our call, you know, beforehand
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  because it might be like, Oh my gosh, like why am I going to go
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  preach to them if they're not even going to listen?
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  But there are people that listen.
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  Those people didn't listen, but hopefully we're listening.
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  We get to read the words. We get to be encouraged.
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  It's not about everything else. It's about our obedience because
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  our obedience speaks to trust and I don't have that all down
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  to a science in my life. I wished I was obedient every
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  time God told me to do something.
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  Through this podcast and through a writing books, I have just
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  learned that I will always or that I always want to trust God.
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  I want to do that better and better every day because I'm
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  convinced that most of our lessons in life is about
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  learning to trust him more because it seems like this is a
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  constant theme throughout Scripture.
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  Trust me, trust me. No, not trust me, Healy, but
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  trust me God, that God says that to us.
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  He wants us to trust him. And I talked a little bit about
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  in the last episode about, you know, when he says things like
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  do not fear for I am with you that that is saying basically,
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  trust me, I've got you. I know I say that a lot, but but
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  but that's, that's true. And I want to get to a place
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  where that is really true in my life.
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  And I hope in yours too. I hope that if you feel like God
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  is calling you to something, maybe just do a heart check to
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  make sure that isn't your own vain self.
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  Because man, that little part of our self always sneaks up and is
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  trying to intervene in our life. But if you feel like it's God,
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  seek him, seek him, seek him. And when you really feel like,
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  OK, yes, he's calling me to this particular ministry or this
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  particular thing to do, then do that and don't worry about the
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  results. And if you need encouragement,
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  let me know. Does your child ever have big
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  worries? My newest children's book, The
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  Worried Little Goat, is a sweet and educational story about
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  Asher, a curious newborn goat with so many questions about the
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  world around him with each answer from his loving maw.
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  Asher learns. Not only about life on the farm,
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  but also about trust, love, and finding peace in the care of
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  their loving goatherd. I hope you will make this book a
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  part of your child's reading library.
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  Get your copy at any online bookstore today.
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  I'm going to end today's episode with some encouraging scripture,
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  at least what I think is encouraging.
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  Our first scripture comes from Psalm 23 three.
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  You'll probably recognize that as the Psalm of David.
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  It says he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right
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  paths for his name's sake. Gosh, that's so beautiful.
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  It is the Lord who refreshes our soul, and it is he who guides
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  us. And where is he going to guide
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  us? Along right paths.
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  And that's so encouraging that we follow, oh God, we follow a
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  God who wants to refresh our soul.
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  We serve a God who guides us and wants to guide us, and he wants
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  to guide us down right paths. We can't say that for everybody
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  that we have in our life, right? There are some people that want
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  to lead us down right paths, but there's some people that are
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  focused on guiding us down wrong paths, maybe because they're
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  going down the wrong path. Who knows?
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  But we serve a God who loves us so much that He refreshes our
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  soul and He guides us along right paths.
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  Why? Because for His name's sake, as
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  it says, that'd be because He is God, and that's what He does.
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  Proverbs 4. And I may read the whole last
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  part of this chapter because I was going to read just a couple
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  verses, but I think it will all be encouraging.
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  It says, my son, pay attention to what I say.
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  Turn your ear to my words. Do not let them out of your
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  sight. Keep them within your heart, for
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  they are life to those who find them and health to 1's whole
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  body. Above all else, guard your
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  heart, for everything you do flows from it.
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  Keep your mouth free of perversity.
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  Keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
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  Let your eyes look straight ahead.
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  Fix your gaze directly before you.
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  Give careful thought to the paths for your feet, and be
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  steadfast in all your ways. Do not turn to the right or the
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  left. Keep your foot from evil.
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  Oh friends, isn't that good? We can focus on God's Word.
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  We keep His words within our heart, and they will give life
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  to us. Not just life, but health.
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  Health to our body. And researchers found that to be
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  true. And then He gives us guidance on
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  how to keep our paths straight, how to keep our gaze fixed on
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  Him. We're going to give careful
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  thought to things. How do we stay on those right
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  paths? We allow God to guide us, and
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  He's given us direction on how to stay on those paths.
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  What a loving God we serve, a God that is so loving.
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  He pursues us because of His love for us.
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  Not even it is not anything we have done.
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  He pursues us because of His own love for us.
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  Nor Isaiah 26 verse four. Trust in the Lord forever, for
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  the Lord the Lord Himself is the rock eternal.
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  Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord Himself is the rock
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  eternal. I know we talked about last
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  episode also looking at life through the eternal perspective.
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  So we're not focused on the earthly things, but we're
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  focused on the eternal things. And when we trust the Lord, we
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  are focused on the eternal things because we know it
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  doesn't matter what's going on here.
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  We're focused on eternity and that's what matters.
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  That's for eternity. And God himself is the rock
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  eternal. Our final scripture comes from
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  third John chapter one verse 2. Verse 2 says, dear friend, I
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  pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well
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  with you even as your soul is getting along well.
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  This scripture is what I pray for you.
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  I pray that you would enjoy good health, not just good physical
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  health. But I hope you do mental.
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  Good mental health, good spiritual health, good emotional
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  health. I wish those things for you,
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  because when we enjoy good health, things will go well for
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  us in our heart and our soul and in our mind.
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  Just like John said that all may go well with you even as your
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  soul is getting along well, your soul is getting along well.
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  You might feel emotionally distraught, your circumstances
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  are crumbling around you, your physical health may be
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  deteriorating, but your soul is doing well.
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  If you've accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior and you've
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  surrendered your life to Him, and you trust in Him, your soul
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  is getting along well. It is well with my soul.
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  How can we sing that? It's because our soul is well.
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  And even if everything else is happening around us, that
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  doesn't change what's happened to our soul.
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  And so, friends, I do want you to enjoy good health, and I hope
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  that I can be a little bit a part of that in your life.
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  And I thank you if you've shown up just this episode or you've
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  shown up other episodes. I appreciate so much you sharing
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  your time with me and trusting me a little bit, even though you
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  don't really know me. Thank you for trusting me, and I
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  will promise to do my best to be a trustworthy servant of Jesus
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  Christ. Now let's go live healthy and
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  redeemed, reflecting Jesus Christ rightly in all that we
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  do. Lord willing, I'll see you next
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  time. Thank you for listening.
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  The information provided is to be used as a resource.
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  If you have a serious mental issue, we would encourage you to
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  contact the therapist in your state.
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  Hey, it's me again. Before we close out this season,
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  I wanted to ask for your help. If you've enjoyed this season of
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  the podcast, would you mind sharing that with someone else
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  who might get some benefit from it?
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  That would be such a blessing. It would also be a blessing if
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  you could leave a podcast review wherever you listen to this
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  podcast, or you could also send me some personal feedback
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  through the texting option located in the show notes.
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  I also have an e-mail address on my website, writtenbyhealey.com.
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  Hey, thanks again for joining me and I look forward to meeting
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  together again. In season 2, Proverbs 3, verse
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  5, it says trust in the Lord with all of your heart.
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  Have you ever thought, well, that sounds nice, but how do you
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  actually practice doing that? How do I walk that out?
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  Hi, I'm Haley, the host of the Healthy and Redeemed podcast.
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  And in season 2, we're going to talk about what it means to
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  trust in the Lord with all of your heart.
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  Trusting God brings real benefits to our daily life, like
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  peace even if we're in the middle of chaos.
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  It can bring us wisdom when we have a lots of unknowns in our
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  life. It can help us manage our fear
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  and anxiety. It can give us joy when our
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  circumstances are discouraging. It can even give us strength to
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  make it through the hard times. When we choose to trust God, we
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  are not just holding on to our faith.
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  We are deciding where we stand on our firm and eternal rock.
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  Isaiah 26, four says trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord
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  God is an everlasting rock. Each episode in season 2 will
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  offer biblical encouragement and practical steps to help you grow
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  in your trust. Because I believe trust is God's
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  universal call to all believers, and it is viable in deepening
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  our relationship with God. Trust will help us walk in a way
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  that we know pleases Him. Wherever you are in your faith
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  journey, I hope you will join me.
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  New episodes begin next week, so please don't forget to
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  subscribe. And if this series sounds like
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  something a friend might need, please share it with them too.
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  Let's walk this road together, learning to trust in the God who
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  never fails. Lord willing, I will see you
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  next week as we begin the exciting and sometimes scary
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  journey of trust.