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Feeling Behind in Life Day 3 · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Welcome to Have Faith, Let It Begin. This is Ariel Santana.
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  Can you believe I'm seven years old already? I'm old enough now to introduce my dad.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, your host, my dad, Angel Santana.
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  Two thousand came and the spark was lit. A testimony raw, it wouldn't quit.
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  His mother's voice, a guiding thread.
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  Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Have Faith. Let it begin. It's a Wednesday.
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  We're on that Real Faith Week, and this is going to be a great week,
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  and it's just on fire. Thank you so much for all your feedback, everyone.
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  Today's episode is feeling behind in life. Yeah. So this is Angel,
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  and day three begins right now.
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  So I'm going to talk to you about something that quietly affects a lot of people,
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  especially younger people.
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  And that's called feeling behind in life.
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  Question. You ever scroll through
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  social media and suddenly feel like everybody else is ahead of you?
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  Somebody's getting married. Somebody bought a house. Somebody got promoted.
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  And somebody is traveling the world.
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  And meanwhile, you're just trying to figure things out.
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  I call that the comparison trap. I think comparison has become one of the biggest
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  emotional struggles of this generation.
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  Because now we don't just live our lives.
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  We watch everybody else's too. And we do it consistently.
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  And after a while, you start measuring your life against everybody else's timeline.
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  You start asking questions like, why am I not there yet?
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  Why am I doing at this moment? Or what am I doing wrong?
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  Did I miss my moment? And honestly, that pressure can become exhausting.
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  Because life starts feeling less like a journey, and more like a race,
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  more like a race that you think you're losing.
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  But there's reality to this. See, the reality is that nobody talks about it enough.
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  And just because somebody else's life is moving differently doesn't mean your life is failing. No.
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  God's timing looks different.
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  See, that's why today's scripture matters. Because sometimes we forget God's
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  timing doesn't work like social media timing.
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  No. God is not rushing your story. and just because something hasn't happened
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  yet doesn't mean it never will.
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  I think some of us have been so focused on where we're not that we forgot how far we've already come.
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  Growth. Growth doesn't even, growth doesn't always look dramatic, guys.
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  Sometimes growth is surviving hard sessions, hard moments, becoming emotionally
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  healthier, learning patience, healing quickly, and healing quietly,
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  getting back up on your feet again.
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  And none of those things usually go viral online, right? But they matter.
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  See, you're not late. Just understand that.
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  Can I say something? It's bothering me. Something that maybe somebody listening needs to hear today.
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  You're not late. and you're not forgotten.
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  And your life is not behind schedule. The pressure to have it all figured out
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  by a certain age is crushing people emotionally.
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  And honestly, most people are figuring things out as they go.
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  Guilty as charged. Even the people who look confident. Even the people posting success online.
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  Everybody struggles. And everyone has struggles you can't see.
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  Everybody has moments of uncertainty so stop punishing yourself because your
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  life doesn't look like somebody else's highlight real now your story is still
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  unfolding and sometimes the seasons,
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  or the motions or the days that we go on where you feel stuck are actually the
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  seasons the moments where God is building you up quietly.
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  If you've been feeling discouraged lately, please remember this.
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  Your worth is not measured by how fast your life moves.
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  You do not need to rush your healing, rush your goals, rush your growth,
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  rush your purpose, rush your future.
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  Some things take time. And maybe, just maybe, instead of obsessing over what
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  hasn't happened yet, you start appreciating what God is already doing in you right now.
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  Because one day, you're going to look back and realize the delay wasn't punishment. It was preparation.
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  Let's pray about that. Heavenly Father, help us to stop comparing our lives
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  to everybody else's around us.
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  Remind us that your timing is different from the world's timing.
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  When we feel discouraged, when we feel behind, when we feel forgotten,
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  help us to trust that you're still working in our lives.
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  Give peace to the person listening right now.
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  And give peace to that person that's listening right now who feels pressure
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  to have everything figured out. and remind us that our story is still being written.
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  In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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  That's what I got for you today. I hope you enjoy that.
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  I hope you know that we are going to be back yet again for God feels silent sometimes.
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  That'll be an interesting topic. And never forget, have faith.
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  Let it begin. See you guys later. Have faith.
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  Let it.