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Tired of a Broken Heart? Do This! · Girl, Date the Good Guy ™ | Healing After Heartbreak & A Toxic Relationship

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  Welcome back to another episode of Girl Behind the Mic.
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  It's Friday, and I do have something special that I want to share with you today.
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  The last few weeks, God has been speaking to me about something so simple, yet so profound.
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  It's one of those truths that once you hear it, you can't unhear it.
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  And honestly, it explains so much about why so many of us feel tired,
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  confused, or empty, even when things look good on the outside.
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  So I want to talk to you today heart to heart.
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  A flower looks beautiful when it's first cut. You admire it,
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  you enjoy it, it even smells sweet for a little while, but slowly it dries up.
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  Not because it wasn't beautiful, not because it wasn't real,
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  but because it was cut from its source.
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  That's what happens when we chase the things of this world.
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  Flings, attention, validation, love that isn't rooted in God.
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  At first it feels fresh, new, exciting, but eventually it dies.
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  Why? Because nothing cut from its source can sustain life.
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  There's a scripture that has followed me through some of the hardest seasons
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  of my life. Jesus said, I am the vine, you are the branches.
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  Apart from me, you can do nothing.
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  And I remember being in prayer years ago, broken after I had lost almost everything,
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  a car accident, a court case that completely wiped me out financially.
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  My life as I knew it was falling apart.
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  That year, 2016, was actually the year I fully surrendered my life to Christ
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  and started walking with Him.
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  I decided I was done with the world and doing things my way.
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  I was tired of the heartbreak. God was calling me deeper.
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  And one day, while praying, I felt the Holy Spirit gently lead me outside,
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  specifically to my mailbox.
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  And sitting there, perfectly placed, was a dried-up branch.
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  The moment I picked it up, I heard the Holy Spirit say, I am the vine,
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  you are the branch. Apart from me, you can do nothing.
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  I will never forget that moment because at that time in my life, I felt like that branch.
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  Everything familiar, everything I thought was stable, everything I thought defined
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  me, God was stripping it all away.
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  And now I know none of it was ever truly sustaining me.
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  And my surrender didn't mean things suddenly got easier. contrary to what I
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  thought or believed, it actually got harder.
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  And that's what the stripping is all about.
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  Like a flower blooming again and again, it needed to happen that way until I finally understood.
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  God is my provider. God is my sustainer. God is my source.
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  I've lived through many years of just enough. And that was God teaching me that
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  nothing, no person, no relationship, no success could ever take his place.
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  Nothing else was going to sustain me but him. And everything good in my life came from him.
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  And God uses it all, all of it, the lack, the waiting, the stripping, the quiet seasons.
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  He's not punishing you. He's teaching you, growing you, helping you see life more clearly.
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  When you are disconnected from God, you dry up, like the flowers in the vase.
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  You start reaching for things that were never meant to sustain you.
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  Some of you listening right now feel dry, not because you don't love God,
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  but because you've been trying to live off something that was never meant to sustain you.
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  You've been chasing what looks good in a vase. Instead of staying connected
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  to the source that can only fill the void you so desperately want to fill with
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  things that will never, I mean never,
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  bring you lasting joy and happiness that only can come from your Heavenly Father.
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  You want lasting joy? You want healing? You want a healthy, happy, lasting love story?
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  Then return to your first love. You've been trying to heal without the healer,
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  discern without God's wisdom, love without letting God love you first.
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  Sis, set your eyes on Him again. And if your eyes are already on him, keep seeking.
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  Go deeper. Stay connected. Not perfect.
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  None of us are perfect. You don't even have to perform. Just bring your open
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  heart and honesty before him.
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  Pray when you don't have the words. Sit with God when it's uncomfortable.
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  Stay when everything in you wants to run.
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  Because apart from God, we can do nothing.
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  But connected to him we can live we can grow we can bear fruit even after loss
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  i love you sis have a good weekend and i'll see you next wednesday.