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The Power of Faith: Navigating Good and Bad Days · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Have Faith, Let It Begin, Friday edition, August 8th, 2025, starts right now.
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  When I think my faith isn't big enough to make this mountain move.
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  Music.
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  When my strength's finally given up, I've done all I can do. It's...
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  Hello everyone and welcome to Have Faith, Let It Begin. That is Jordan St.
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  Cyr and it's called No Matter What. It is the acoustics version.
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  A big shout out to Jordan St.
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  Cyr for the use of his song. No matter what, we will continue to play that.
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  I want to welcome each and every one of you to the Friday edition of Half Faith, Let It Begin.
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  My name is Angel and welcome as we do a live Friday edition of Half Faith,
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  Let It Begin. For those of you that are watching on TikTok, we are live right now at 6.29 a.m.
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  And for those of you that are listening to us on our podcast,
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  this will be replayed at 7.30 for you guys. So folks, I just want to welcome
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  you all in and say, listen, God is good all the time and all the time God is good.
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  We're going to start by talking about all the different things that I feel has
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  led us to this very moment when we talk about our faith and what we do with our faith.
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  As many of you heard that one of my episodes just recently, it was empowering.
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  A lot of people took to social media on my end, you know, praising me for talking
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  about differences of opinion when it comes to our faith.
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  And I want to thank you for basically reaching out to me and saying,
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  hey, I appreciate your honesty and your opinion about everything we do here on our podcast.
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  So let me let me bring the podcasters that are listening to our show right now
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  back and also the ones that are on TikTok.
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  So our faith is the most important thing. And one of the things that I'm always
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  encouraged to talk about with my faith is that I don't feel that is necessary
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  to push faith or religion on anyone.
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  Never been taught that way. Never been quote unquote spoon fed that way.
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  What I do is I let my actions speak for myself.
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  So what that means is I'm a very kind, courteous person. I try to be.
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  I am. My wife would probably tell you different and say that I'm a very stubborn
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  guy, except, you know, the kind courteous she would agree with.
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  And listen, I'm not perfect by any means.
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  It is through my actions it is through what i feel
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  is my my my gift that
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  god has given me and the gift that i believe god has given me
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  is the joy the happiness the the
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  ability to want to help people in need the people that are listening to me based
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  on my stories on my past history and all the things that i have gone through
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  and still do to make this world a better place is why i believe the podcast is so successful.
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  Why do I do TikTok? Why do I do social media? Because, you know,
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  there are so many venues out there where we do our very best to try and share
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  with others the joys that are inside of us,
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  the joys that we can share with others so that they can feel the Holy Spirit.
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  They can feel God's presence.
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  Now, hey, what's up, Nighthawk? Welcome in, buddy.
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  One of the things that I find amazing is just the other day,
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  I was listening to another creator and I overheard him saying that,
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  that with him and through him, God is everything.
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  And it was a total polar opposite of what I talked about the other day about
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  how a creator was on here saying, Hey, you know, there is no God.
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  There is nothing like that. And which was fascinating to me because we went
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  from one polar opposite to the other.
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  And again, no judgment by any means. I respect everybody's opinion.
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  That's one thing that I believe that our faith and our Christianity and all
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  the religions out there should strive for.
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  And that is just believing in what we believe in, not trying to push that on
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  anyone by any means, but allowing our actions and the way we live our life.
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  If people are in our presence and they say, wow, you know, you sound like a
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  really cool guy. You sound like a really fun person to be around.
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  What makes you so happy? You know, that is my opportunity that I will tell them the truth.
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  And the truth is, is that I believe that everything that I do,
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  everything that I, I believe in comes from my faith.
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  Let me pause real quick. Praise God healing well for Mr. Nighthawk. He had a surgery.
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  We were praying for Nighthawk and he's stating to us that his surgery went well.
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  God bless you, my friend.
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  So, you know, back to what I was saying, God is good.
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  And one of the things that I have dealt with in the last month and a half was
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  challenges, was these crazy situations that I've been in where I felt like I
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  was being attacked in so many different ways.
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  Attacked not by words. It was attacked by bills and bills and,
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  and, and, and, oh my God, everything you think about my home broke.
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  Everything I, and, and the cars broke down and, you know, my,
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  uh, water softener broke down.
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  Everything just kept happening and always, you know, you know,
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  this expression, every time you feel like you're getting ahead,
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  whammo, bammo, slappo, right?
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  Something happens and you say, oh my gosh, what do we do now?
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  What can I possibly do to get ahead?
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  What could I do? That's not going to put me in this situation.
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  Well, you know, you can sit here and say, well, you can give up, right?
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  You can say, okay, I've had enough. I don't want to do this anymore.
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  I want to just crawl underneath the bed and just kind of give up because I can't
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  believe all this negativity is happening around me. But you know what?
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  My faith doesn't allow it. My faith says, okay, let me reset.
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  Let me continue to pray to God. And I'm going to pray to God and thank him for
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  the good days and the bad days.
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  Because we always have these good days. We always have these bad days.
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  But what people fail, in my opinion,
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  what people fail to do is we fail to thank God even on the bad days.
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  And I know what you're thinking. You're like, how do you thank God for having
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  such a horrible day? Well, because I'm still here.
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  And when I think about all the ways that God has been a huge influence in my
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  life, when I think of all the good that he has provided me.
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  I have to still praise him for the bad days that I have because I don't blame God for the bad days.
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  I don't blame anyone for the bad days.
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  I don't even blame the guy downstairs because I give him no credit whatsoever
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  because the guy downstairs has no power.
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  He is no God and he has no power over me.
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  So what I do is I just thank God that we've gone through maybe a bad day and
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  that we've gone past it and that tomorrow's another day. And that's what I wanted
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  to emphasize this morning with all of you.
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  We all have our good days. We all have our bad days But
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  remember that no matter how good or bad our
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  days are We must remember to think about
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  all the things that has gotten us here today And all the things that god has
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  put in place for all of us Because i'll tell you right now God loves you God
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  believes in you god trusts you and god is never going to leave your side He
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  never has and he never will So I hope that each and every one of you on the podcasting industry,
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  and our Half Faith Let It Begin viewers that are watching us,
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  that are listening to us on our platform.
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  Know that the podcast episode for today is over.
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  We're gonna continue on on TikTok. So let me close out the podcast on the channel.
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  Heavenly Father, we thank you for today's episode. We thank you for giving us
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  the opportunity to come together.
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  Lord, when we stopped our podcast, we're gonna continue on with TikTok and we're
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  going to pray for those that are on with us as well.
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  We ask that you continue to comfort us, to bless us and to nurture us as we
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  finish up our week and get ready for another beautiful weekend.
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  And we remind you that the Crock Podcast for cancer survivors and thrivers is
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  on Sunday at 9 a.m. and that is Eastern Standard Time.
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  It's called Citizens Reunited to Overcome Cancer and it's called the Crock Podcast
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  and I am a co-host and producer of that show.
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  May God be with you. May he shine his light upon you and grant each and every
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  single one of you peace on earth.
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  Have faith, let it begin. Thank you for listening to Have Faith,
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  Let It Begin. I'll be back tomorrow.