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It is day four of our ADHD
friendly advent study.

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If you are new here.

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Hi, my name is Rachel.

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I'm an ADHD and a Jesus lover
and I help fellow women with

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chaotic brains seek, find and
live the abundant life that

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Jesus offers us.

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If you are just finding it
today, you are not behind.

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This study is specifically
designed to be low effort while

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being high impact.

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It is study or it is created
rather for ADHD brains.

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So even if this is your first
day seeing this study, you are

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in the right place.

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Let's get into it.

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But real quick there is a free

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workbook that goes along with

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this.

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You can download that at the
link in my bio.

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Okay, let's dive in for today.

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If you have not listened to this
week's song, which is O come, O

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come, Emmanuel, I would highly
recommend taking a second going

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and listening to that.

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The skillet version that just
came out is fantastic.

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Um, so if you have not done
that, go ahead and listen.

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Otherwise we can just get going.

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Today we've got a short passage
of scripture and only one

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And just for those who are new,

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there is a suggested schedule in

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the study.

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Uh, in the workbook, it's listed
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If you are the type of person

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who thrives on a little bit more

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structure, awesome.

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It's there for you.

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Otherwise, you are free to
consume whatever parts of the

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study that week that you want,
in whatever order you want.

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It is designed to be accessible
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your brain works.

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Because God designed your brain
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He meant it to be like that.

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So we're working with it.

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Okay, so today's scripture

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passage, we are still in Luke

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I am in the ESV.

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We are reading verses twenty one
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Uh, let me find twenty one.

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Where is it?

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Ah, and the people were waiting

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for Zechariah, and they were

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wondering at his delay in the

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temple.

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And when he came out, he was
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they realized that he had seen a
vision in the temple.

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And he kept making signs to them
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And when the time of his service
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After these days his wife
Elizabeth conceived, and for

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five months she kept herself
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has done for me in the days when
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reproach among the people.

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previously, the reproach she's

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She and her husband had been

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barren for all of their adult

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lives, which had multiple

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implications, especially in that

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Number one, you know, your kids
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If you didn't have children to

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care for you, you basically had

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no one to care for you when you

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aged out of being able to care

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So on a very practical level, it
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It was introduced a lot of
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question your morality very,

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very, very heavily in that

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If you were not able to have
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punishing you for something.

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And typically the woman, um,
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your morality questioned, your
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just like we see in the story of
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birth that Jesus healed, people
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what did you do?

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disability that you have very
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Um, in the case of infertility,
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be, okay, well, what did you do
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is not how God operates, and

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this is such a beautiful picture

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of how he had a plan for their

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There was purpose in their pain.

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So they had been facing this

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reality of infertility, which is

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such an incredibly heavy thing

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to experience.

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And he ultimately had a plan for
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They had to still have their
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lives to get to this point.

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So this was not a quick
resolution for them, which is

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something we at least I very
much struggle with not knowing

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how long this season is going to
last, not knowing how long this

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difficult thing is going to go
on for can be an incredibly,

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incredibly difficult thing.

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Let me know if you can relate.

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And finally, you know, the third

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point is infertility is is

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incredibly difficult.

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So Zechariah and Elizabeth, even
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just wanting and longing to be
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And so we see this angel come to
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you're gonna have a baby.

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And they get that?

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Yes, from God.

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They've been just crying out to
God for so long.

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They've been just desiring in
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have a child.

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And they get that.

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Yes.

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And Zechariah's immediate
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that gonna happen?

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Like he goes, how shall I know
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For I am an old man and my wife
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He's like, uh, you're gonna have
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Which is the wrong answer.

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Now, before I dig too deeply in
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the third Scripture journaling
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journaling prompt that is on the
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When you receive a yes from God,
what is your typical response?

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Do you automatically accept it
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Or do you like Zechariah, have a
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questioning God's motives?

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And again, all of these
journaling prompts, along with

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everything you need to complete
the study, is in the workbook

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that you can download for free
at the link in my bio, so

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definitely go do that.

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I am doing this study for free,

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so if you would like to support

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me and buy me a coffee, you can

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also do that at the link in my

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bio.

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That would be very much
appreciated.

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But the workbook is free, the
study is free.

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All of it's free.

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It's at the link in my bio.

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Go download it now.

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I don't know about you.

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First pause.

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Take a minute.

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Go answer the journaling prompt
for yourself.

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So pause this video, go do that
and then come back.

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But for me, I want to be
vulnerable here and share that I

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am very much like Zechariah.

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I tend to when God gives me a
yes or a prayer is answered or a

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blessing comes my way, I'm
waiting for the yes and I'm

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waiting for kind of the flip
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I'm waiting for the lesson.

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It's very difficult for me to

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just accept something as a gift

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from God.

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I have a very anxious brain and
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spinning, going, okay, what's
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This is a wonderful thing.

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Yeah, but nothing is ever truly
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So if nothing's ever truly
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to refine us and make us better.

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What is the bad part of this
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make me better?

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Because in my experience,

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refinement is a can be, can be

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and has been for me, a very

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painful process.

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I've been in a season of
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half years now, pretty much
since my son was born.

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Um, and it's been really
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It's been really brutal.

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beauty in this season as well, I

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am now married to a wonderful

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man.

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I have two other incredible

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kiddos whom I love very, very

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We have a wonderful home.

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I even have the chickens that
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There's so much beauty that came

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as a result of God's yeses to me

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in this season, but it is still

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very dark.

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It is still very challenging.

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There are still so many
unanswered questions.

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And so if you are in a similar
place where getting a yes from

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God, receiving something you've
been praying for, hearing that

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door finally creak open, that
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knocking at for so long.

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You are in a very normal place
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If that door creaking open leads
to more questions and leads to

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hesitation, we see here in the
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not the correct response.

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So we are, you know, called to
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We are called to rejoice in the
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He has a plan to prosper us and
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But that is not a promise of
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Gospel.

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God challenged me to go look at
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today, and I ended up reading an
article from the Bible Project

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on Jeremiah twenty nine eleven.

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And how, yes, it promises peace

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and prosperity and all of these

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wonderful things.

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But it is in the context of
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God is telling the Israelites

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promised land, and now you've

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been pulled out of the Promised

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The land was very much part of
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again had been pulled out of
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They were oppressed.

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this is only going to last two

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years, two years, and you guys

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are out.

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You'll be good to go.

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That was not the truth.

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sent to the the people who were
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Golly, can you tell I'm about to
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circumstances do not change,
there is so much that we can do

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to experience God's beauty for
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that ultimately leads to his
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We can still experience that

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now, even in the midst of exile,

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even in the midst of the darkest

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season imaginable in the midst

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of whatever you are dealing

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with.

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If it is cancer, if it is job
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plate right now.

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If it is the loss of a child, if

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it is the destruction of a

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marriage, if it is just a season

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of melancholy and you're not

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sure why.

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Whatever you are struggling
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deeply about it.

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And he has a plan for your good
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down roots in this season, and

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that is something that I am

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wrestling to come to terms with

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here.

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And I am working on preparing my
heart so that when that next yes

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comes, when that next door
starts to creak open, that I'm

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knocking at, my response can be
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So I invite you to join me in
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I would love to hear from you in
the comments what you are

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wrestling with right now.

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I would love to give you some
encouragement, whether that's,

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you know, talking through it in
the comments, whether that's

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responding to you in a video,
you can always email me.

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My email is Rachel at Rachel.

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I read all of my emails.

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I respond to all of my emails as
long as they are not from AI

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bots, that's a whole thing
that's going on.

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It's really annoying.

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I swear.

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I create a new email account and
boom, the next day it's filled

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up with just like AI garbage.

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But anyways, that is besides the
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I am here as a resource to you.

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I am here as an encouragement to
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You are welcome here.

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You are in the right place.

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You are never behind when you
are seeking God.

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When you are in step with him,
you are always in the right

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place at the right time.

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So that is all I have for you
today.

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I would love to hear your
thoughts in the comments.

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These episodes are available on
my podcast, The True Grit

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Podcast with Rachel Grit.

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You can find the link to that in
my bio.

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So if you would prefer an audio

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forward format that is available

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to you as well, make sure you

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follow.

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Make sure you like.

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Comment.

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Share this video with a friend
who needs to hear it.

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Feel free to go back and watch

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the other days, the goal is to

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keep it short and accessible

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again.

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We're going for low effort, high
impact.

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That is the sweet spot for ADHD
brains.

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But thank you so much for
joining me today and I will see

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you in the next one.

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Bye.