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NOTHING TO PROVE · THIS IS THE LIFE PODCAST

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  Speaker 1: As we settle in for our devotion time together today
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  Speaker 1: here on our podcast, the word comes straight from the
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  Speaker 1: Lord this morning, and I just want to begin by
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  Speaker 1: telling you what the Lord has laid on my heart
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  Speaker 1: this morning, that I believe really needs to speak to someone.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know who it is. You know, we broadcast in
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  Speaker 1: different places, different countries, different states, but you've got nothing
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  Speaker 1: to prove this morning. In Galatians chapter one and verse
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  Speaker 1: number ten, Apostle Paul writes a very powerful verse here
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  Speaker 1: that I believe, really deep down in my space, I
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  Speaker 1: know somebody needs to hear this this morning. I think
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  Speaker 1: we all need to hear it. I know I need
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  Speaker 1: to hear it myself from time to time just to
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  Speaker 1: remind me. But perhaps this will really speak to your
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  Speaker 1: heart this morning. In Galations chapter one and verse number ten,
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  Speaker 1: he says, for do I now persuade men or God?
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  Speaker 1: Or do I seek to please men? For if I
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  Speaker 1: yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: There comes a point in our life, particularly in our
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  Speaker 1: walk with God, when we have to could become very
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with this one special truth. You have nothing to prove,
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  Speaker 1: nothing to prove to people who misunderstands. You nothing to
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  Speaker 1: prove to the people who question your motives. There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: to prove to them those who think you should be
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  Speaker 1: further along in life, or doing something different in life,
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  Speaker 1: or living according to their expectations. Now, that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that we become arrogant or unwilling to listen. That's not
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It also doesn't mean that we don't
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  Speaker 1: care at all what people's view of us is. It
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  Speaker 1: simply means this that we stop allowing the opinions of
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  Speaker 1: others to determine our worth, our direction, and especially our peace,
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  Speaker 1: especially when God has told us who we are in
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. The truth is that we can. You could
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  Speaker 1: wear yourself out this morning. You could wear yourself out
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  Speaker 1: trying to prove that you are good enough, are defending
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  Speaker 1: decisions that God has already given you peace about. We
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  Speaker 1: are not called to compare our lives to someone else's
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  Speaker 1: life and wonder if we are doing enough, accomplishing enough,
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  Speaker 1: or becoming enough. Instead, today the Lord wants to remind
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  Speaker 1: all of us that we don't have to deliver some
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  Speaker 1: special performance to have a place at his table. I
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  Speaker 1: need to tell you this morning that Jesus already knows
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  Speaker 1: who you are. He knows your heart when others misunderstand it.
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  Speaker 1: He knows your intentions when others questioned them. He knows
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  Speaker 1: the battles that you have fought that nobody else saw
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  Speaker 1: you fighting. And he knows how far He has brought you,
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  Speaker 1: even when someone else only notices how far you have
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  Speaker 1: to go. I hope that speaks to you this morning,
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  Speaker 1: because if you remember, David spent years king. David spent
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  Speaker 1: years being overlooked, questioned, criticized, even pursued by people who
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  Speaker 1: misunderstood what God was trying to do in his life. Ah.
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  Speaker 1: But yet David didn't have to convince everyone that he
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be the king. God had already anointed
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  Speaker 1: him to be the king, and that was enough for him.
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  Speaker 1: And it should be enough for us to know who
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  Speaker 1: God says we are. That's where our peace should come from.
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  Speaker 1: What God has established and clarified does not require us
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  Speaker 1: to constantly explain it to other people. Not that we
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  Speaker 1: can't speak it, not that we can't talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, God has the
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  Speaker 1: final say of who we are, what our calling is,
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  Speaker 1: what our expectations are, You don't have to prove your calling.
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  Speaker 1: Just walk faithfully in your calling. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: prove your value to anyone, just because your value was
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  Speaker 1: settled upon Calvary when God gave his only begotten son
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  Speaker 1: for your life, and that ought to be enough. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to prove that God is working in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep walking with him and eventually the fruit will
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  Speaker 1: speak for itself. Maybe one of the most freeing prayers
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  Speaker 1: that we could pray this morning together is this, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: deliver me from the need to prove myself to people
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  Speaker 1: who does not see my true worth. Because when we
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  Speaker 1: know who we are in Christ, we can stop living
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  Speaker 1: for applause. We can stop fearing criticism, We can stop
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  Speaker 1: exhausting ourselves trying to convince people of something that God
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  Speaker 1: already knows. Today, walk humbly, love people, stay teachable, be faithful,
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  Speaker 1: be kind, but leave the proving part to God because
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  Speaker 1: you have nothing to prove this morning. Just do your
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  Speaker 1: best to be your best, and God will take care
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  Speaker 1: of the rest. Today. You be safe, you be strong,
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  Speaker 1: and you be blessed, and you be you. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to compare, you don't have to analyze, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to explain. Just be the best version of yourself
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  Speaker 1: that you can be, and God will take care of
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  Speaker 1: everything else. Lordouelle will see you back here again tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: and until then, have a great day.