Can pursuing the approval of others leave you unfulfilled and disconnected from your true self? In today’s episode, we promise a transformative journey as we unravel the tension between societal pressures and living authentically as a follower of Christ. We reflect on the traps of creating a false persona through social media and superficial accomplishments, and how embracing God’s acceptance can bring real fulfillment. You’ll gain insights into the concepts of humility, faith discovery, and the importance of unconditional love and respect in relationships, all while highlighting the immense freedom that comes from shedding the need for external validation and aligning your life with divine purpose.
Join us as we delve deeper into the journey of self-acceptance and unity in faith. We emphasize the importance of welcoming those weak in faith without judgment, encouraging personal growth beyond societal norms and past mistakes. Through reflective insights and inspiring analogies, we advocate for breaking free from self-imposed limitations to discover your true self through faith. Enjoy uplifting moments about life’s simple pleasures, while staying grounded in your spiritual journey. Ultimately, this episode invites you to push the boundaries of love and life to gain a deeper understanding of your purpose, asking the pivotal question: “Who are you?” God bless you.
Can pursuing the approval of others leave you unfulfilled and disconnected from your true self? In today’s episode, we promise a transformative journey as we unravel the tension between societal pressures and living authentically as a follower of Christ. We reflect on the traps of creating a false persona through social media and superficial accomplishments, and how embracing God’s acceptance can bring real fulfillment. You’ll gain insights into the concepts of humility, faith discovery, and the importance of unconditional love and respect in relationships, all while highlighting the immense freedom that comes from shedding the need for external validation and aligning your life with divine purpose.
Join us as we delve deeper into the journey of self-acceptance and unity in faith. We emphasize the importance of welcoming those weak in faith without judgment, encouraging personal growth beyond societal norms and past mistakes. Through reflective insights and inspiring analogies, we advocate for breaking free from self-imposed limitations to discover your true self through faith. Enjoy uplifting moments about life’s simple pleasures, while staying grounded in your spiritual journey. Ultimately, this episode invites you to push the boundaries of love and life to gain a deeper understanding of your purpose, asking the pivotal question: “Who are you?” God bless you.
For? Am I now seeking the approval of man or of God, or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. Very good, right, good morning Acceptance of who you are, or maybe it's the denial of who we are wanting to be. We have the false persona. We created its digital imagery. We're photoshopping the picture right, putting the hash catch lines and the hashtag behind it, and everybody's like, yeah, you look real nice. I'm like, yes, I'm getting somewhere in the world. But who are you created to be?
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For, if I'm now seeking the approval of man or of God, and is there a relevance, notice how there's a separation of the two. Right, we don't see them being hand in hand. There's different forms and formats of life. Some of it works and some doesn't. But that doesn't seem relevant because man belongs to God and so does woman. So if our possessiveness within the mortality of maybe it's more than just the image, could it be the way we talk, the way we think, the intellectual conception? I got the house, the crib, the whip? I'm not sure it could be that we're seeking approval of somebody else. I'm now seeking the approval of man or God, or am I trying to please man? We're trying to even please ourselves or please somebody else? It's almost impossible. I mean, if the shoe fits, they say, wear it, but then again I'm not really capable in any way, shape or form. So I think it's upheaving, trying to appease to wants and needs that are unrealistic. I get into discovery, discovery of Christ, the elements, the possessiveness, right, so many different disciplines and degrees, and while you're alive, the discovery, and of course within discovery, you fail, you're upheaved, I've hurt myself, I'm injured. I took it further than what's necessary. You're capable of finding God within that enactment. I took it further than what's necessary. You're capable of finding God within that enactment. Some cases, substances can provoke a better outcome, and maybe the word choice is wrong. Substances can provoke an outcome that is findable within God and Christ.
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Let's be reminded that restrictions and limitations are not of love and they're not included in the world that was given to us, but they're definitely in a world that man created. If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. Come, come back into my heart, soul and mind, receive me, save me, forgive me, redeem me, yes, of course. So why do we try to please other individuals, then? I'm not talking human nature Like I care. I care about the way you think, the way you feel. Yes, you're happy, you're not happy. No, I want to see you have the same that I have. I want you to have sustainment.
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I'm not talking Rolls-Royce fandom either. Let's not take it there. That's a little bit expensive. I like the price tag, all those zeros that go somewhere, but I'm thinking more along the lines of things that can't be bought or purchased. But it's relevant, right. It maternalizes, I'm thinking, the heart, the soul, the mind.
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It belongs to God, though, doesn't it? You're giving it to him. It's a substance, it's the Trinity You're devoted within that glory, for I am seeking the approval. How many of us deny ourselves? I'm denying who I am, I'm denying my inner wants. Look, it's just a job. Don't take it seriously. Don't take it seriously and just put on the fake smile and go on and do what you got to do. That's a tough one, though, isn't it? When you do what you got to do, everybody's got to do something they don't want to. Sounds like man creature, maybe it's woman, I'm not quite sure. It started with a rib. Yes, of course.
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So the way that I serve Galatians 1, 10, by the way, forgive me is no more than me being that humble servant. What I seek for myself within sustainment, the forms of love that I'm receptive to, and how I'm capable of receiving them, goes directly back to what I would want for you. Every time that he gives for me, I'd like to see it so that you can have it. I don't have restrictions, I don't have limitations. To tell you the outright, the truth no still means no, it's blameless, there's no fault. How many of us are mature enough to be capable of living in a world to where we can receive an abundance of everything, and after that, an abundance of everything, guess what? We don't have to feel bad about it either. We can walk away. Let's say that y'all split up, had a child, and you split up. Things went one way. You can walk away with love, with respect, with serious intent. Think about what I'm saying. There's no blame, there's no fault. If it works, it works, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
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Sounds like life and death, though, doesn't it? Which is not a possessive form of what creature is actually capable of? For we advance and we seek and we find. Ye, shall find I think that's a good one. I'm not quite sure. Very good, but it takes shape and it takes form as it is concepted, and it grows within us. Right, it maternalizes. Before you know it, we're walking on the street with a new look, perry. I like that. It looks real nice. They were doing Olympics. I've seen all the rings. That's how, my goodness, help us.
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So we advance each and every day, because our devoted scripture not only is on the outside it's not the book that we're reading, but it's the DNA that's printed on us, it's in our veins, it's the pulse, it's the reason that we're alive, we're capable of receiving, we're capable of sending, and every bit of it is a form of love. Now, name one form of life which would be love that God is not accepting of. Wait, wait, wait. We got all these different forms of life that belong to creature, though right. Is that right? Or is it wrong? Or it goes back to him.
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Well, the segregation might be the separation and it might not boldly lead you, but I lead within my own life and I prefer to fail because I know when I fail, he's still shining down on me, I'm still saved, I'm still redeemed and I can continue to advance. Acceptance is the key. They said who are you? Some of us, we try awful hard to be somebody other than we're not. I've seen it taken to the point to where it's completely out of control. I'm going to make a dramatic change so that you realize who I am and a sense of acceptance so that you realize this is what's important to me, and I think that's terrible.
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There's nothing worse in the world than, yes, having a point to prove with nobody to prove it to. I mean, you might like. Fine, I'm going a little bit coarse here, don't be mad at me, it's just the way that I see things. As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. Romans 14.1. Seriously, I said that, didn't I? As for the one who is weak in faith and sometimes we get weak, we stumble, we fall, we're crawling down on the ground, we're returning to being humble bottle-fed, if you would, so you can be put on solids. Welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
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It's not our personal preferences, denominations or locations of demographics and that could be possessive within heart, soul and mind that define who we are. Rather, it is us being united within God's Christ, it's the anointment of all, it's the acceptance of, not the burden, but the holiness, the saving, the inheritance of heaven and eternity. I don't think that it can go anywhere. So personal preferences, personal preferences and opinions aren't really relevant unless they're relevant to you. But your eternal purpose in this world is no more than life or death. But how many topics have you embraced? As an individual, humble servant? You might have multiple social hats.
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I'm not quite sure that you are capable. You are competent. You've taken it to life and you've taken it to death. And you would say it's the institutionalization of society. No, no, no. The way you breathe, your breath span, it only goes so far. And then, after you exhale immediately, you have to return and breathe back on in. And I like good breath, I like to breathe right. I'm not mad. I think about good lungs, good hearts, veins, it's all very relevant. It's through the blood. Yes, of course, salvation. But how many of us are restricted and limited in forms of life? No, I was capable of taking it there. I found life or I found death. Because if you take it to what you're capable of, then you've learned that lesson, then you've matured. But if you never cross the finish line, and I don't know the checkered flag, I don't know what speedway, but of course you're running a race. If you never get across the finish line, then you probably never even started that race or that journey. And what were we referencing? Yes, the stairway we were going to eternity the gates and the yellow brick road and oh, it just sounds amazing. Seated at the right hand, of course.
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Why and how could we live in a world, or concede giving consent to a world, where inequity is our only option? I'm not capable, I'm not able, I'm not given that opportunity, I'm not having my voice being heard. Well, they said, if you want your opinion or voice to be heard, that you should vote. And what good does that do me? You're running a world that doesn't work. You have statutes and codes and limitations, restrictions, amendments that clearly don't provide sustainment.
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Somebody said it comes down to numbers and figures. I'm not quite sure. That was quite a few zeros that was behind it. I'm not mad at you. So we advance, but not to quarrel over opinions. Do you know why? Because my personal preference doesn't define who I am, nor does it incarcerate you.
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My view in this world right, whether it is outlooking or whether it is self-conceiting and I don't like limits, I don't like labels. It still goes back to God. Emotional attachment to a personal preference of this world might be relevant. There you go. We've got that Excellent. So we need to be capable of getting over the hump. We mature right. You know I'm walking away from this relationship. It's okay, there's no fault, there's no blame, and life goes on. But if it didn't work back then, if you were to start that car and the service engine lights on, the dome lights on, you're like whew, door's falling off, I'm all right, I got it. Woo. As long as it gets from point A to point B and it doesn't really work that good Would you continue to start that motor? Would you start that engine? Would you continue to run the same race?
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Sometimes the directive of our past, our own wants and our needs are no more than I need a derogatory. You know I'm going to go crooked here for a little bit. Y'all have to forgive me, walk away, look the other direction. I have a feeling I have a calling from up above and he's sending me within this directive. You see, if it's only what you want for me, or what I think I want for myself or the image that I could project, then I might not find that humble safe haven to where I'm plateaued out and I'm fulfilled intellectually, emotionally, physically, spiritually, intimately, in every aggressive form, way of life.
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But yes, of course, creature does not own life. I'm reminded of the giver, the creator, the taker. I like it. I like sweets. I'm terrible. I try to diet often, but I really get into sweets. I got to have at least like one a day. I'm terrible, I try to diet often, but I really get into sweets. I gotta have at least like one a day. It's extreme and it works. Trust me, it really does. I get a little bit calmed and just good to go.
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In no way shape or form the cup that I'm drinking, the view that I'm seething, what I'm hearing, what I'm saying, what I'm proclaiming, or the actual testament of where my foot pressure is Is left. I cannot be upheaved, denied in any way shape or form. Do you know why? Because my life continues to advance. Spend your whole life seeking for acceptance and the only person that needs to accept you is you. Because now and forever becomes relevant within the grasp of his reach. He finds you, he seeks you, he knows you, he abides by you, you abide by him, and vice versa. If you give him a ton of generosity, he's giving you a ton of generosity back.
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And, by the way, who you were created to be, it could be some stereotypical mindset of what society finds to be a norm, and God reminds you there are no norms. There's nothing wrong with you, by the way, for goodness sakes. Why would you want to act like you're going to be condemned? And that's a form of life that you need to believe in. I believe in advancing. I like fulfillment. You know what I mean.
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Where are you at? I think a little bit different. When I see an opportunity for God and Christ to shine in my life, I'm saluting on the way. I'm hitting the light switch. You know what? I'm starting that engine and I'm hoping and if I can't, lord forgive me we might have some issues. So advance yourself in life. Stop looking at the restrictions, the limitations. Eliminate the norms, right. The variables cannot be the presence of what's tolerable. Rather, it's for you to define, because discovery of the heart, soul and mind is truly going to lead to one of the biggest levels of sustainment and fulfillment that you've ever seen, if you haven't took love and life to life and death right to the limits, then you're really not sure what it's like or what it's about. But then again, none of our opinions are relevant to the only person other than you. Well, god bless you. Thank you for listening. A testament of the truth, accepting who you are, and today's title of this talk is who Are you? God bless you. Have a very good day.