Overcoming Life's Challenges: The Path to Spiritual Victory
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1. "And, you know, I think one reason why people can gravitate towards sports, and my brother had to acclimate me to that because, as you know, I was really always a nerd. He was the sports guy. But eventually I began to understand why people like it because it is a reflection of life, that, you know, in life there's hardships. In life, it's not an autobahn. It's not a freeway. It's a motocross, you know. You're hitting bumps, and you're hitting pits, and you have to navigate, and it's a challenge. But if you get over the mountain, it is so worth it." ([00:04:20] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "And so when you have that victory. It is thrilling. But how much more thrilling is the victory of spiritual success? How much more exhilarating is it to know that you have indeed overcome?" ([00:04:59] (18 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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3. "And therefore, if we are being Christians and we're being Christ -like and we're walking in holiness and we are pursuing divinity, then we might not be doing that for the entire world, but we're doing it in our world. That we are being lightbearers in our world. We are being promoters of healing and promoters of peace and promoters of understanding. You're being that person to sit by another, to be that comforting presence, to be that listening ear, to be that resounding voice." ([00:07:20] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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4. "And so God has designed things in such a way that the glory of God would have opportunities in your life to become manifest. That the sufferings of life, as difficult as it might be to begin, to even contemplate this, but the sufferings of this life are here for a reason." ([00:09:00] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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5. "And so what we want to do is be people who do not run from adversity, who do not try to flee discomfort just for our own personal comfort, because the enemy is not dumb, and he is going to create walls of conflict, of discomfort that will be between you and the opportunity of the manifestation of his glory in your life." ([00:09:57] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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6. "The grandfather looked at his grandson and said, grandson, it is the crawfish's nature to snap at whatever comes toward it. But it is my nature to seek and to save. And I am not going to allow the crawfish's nature to change my nature." ([00:12:51] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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7. "But if we do that, we are letting the nature of the world change who we are called to be and who we are. It takes courage to reach out. And sometimes the ones who wound us the most and the deepest are those who are closest to us." ([00:14:23] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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8. "And we have to remember how blessed we are because the Holy Spirit has been poured out to us. The prophet Joel talked about this. It says, Joel 2, beginning at verse 25, I will restore to you the years that the swarming locusts have eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my army, which I sent among you." ([00:15:25] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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9. "And if we have the courage to hold on to our Christian character, if we have a Super Bowl that we've set our eyes on and we're willing to hold on to that destination, and we're going to push on toward it, even when it doesn't feel good, then what happens is that is how God forms the Christian character in us to really make us genuinely like him." ([00:18:08] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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10. "You see, we are the beneficiaries by being agents of God, by being givers of what God has put in us out into others. We benefit as much as the recipients. It is to God's glory and to our purification and our Christian edification that we participate in the program of God by taking advantage of every opportunity he gives us to have your testimony ready, to be able to bring another person into the family of God and to help disciple them and grow them up in the ways of Christ." ([00:22:00] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "And so when you have that victory. It is thrilling. But how much more thrilling is the victory of spiritual success? How much more exhilarating is it to know that you have indeed overcome?" ([00:04:59] (18 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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3. "And therefore, if we are being Christians and we're being Christ -like and we're walking in holiness and we are pursuing divinity, then we might not be doing that for the entire world, but we're doing it in our world. That we are being lightbearers in our world. We are being promoters of healing and promoters of peace and promoters of understanding. You're being that person to sit by another, to be that comforting presence, to be that listening ear, to be that resounding voice." ([00:07:20] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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4. "And so God has designed things in such a way that the glory of God would have opportunities in your life to become manifest. That the sufferings of life, as difficult as it might be to begin, to even contemplate this, but the sufferings of this life are here for a reason." ([00:09:00] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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5. "And so what we want to do is be people who do not run from adversity, who do not try to flee discomfort just for our own personal comfort, because the enemy is not dumb, and he is going to create walls of conflict, of discomfort that will be between you and the opportunity of the manifestation of his glory in your life." ([00:09:57] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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6. "The grandfather looked at his grandson and said, grandson, it is the crawfish's nature to snap at whatever comes toward it. But it is my nature to seek and to save. And I am not going to allow the crawfish's nature to change my nature." ([00:12:51] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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7. "But if we do that, we are letting the nature of the world change who we are called to be and who we are. It takes courage to reach out. And sometimes the ones who wound us the most and the deepest are those who are closest to us." ([00:14:23] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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8. "And we have to remember how blessed we are because the Holy Spirit has been poured out to us. The prophet Joel talked about this. It says, Joel 2, beginning at verse 25, I will restore to you the years that the swarming locusts have eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my army, which I sent among you." ([00:15:25] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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9. "And if we have the courage to hold on to our Christian character, if we have a Super Bowl that we've set our eyes on and we're willing to hold on to that destination, and we're going to push on toward it, even when it doesn't feel good, then what happens is that is how God forms the Christian character in us to really make us genuinely like him." ([00:18:08] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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10. "You see, we are the beneficiaries by being agents of God, by being givers of what God has put in us out into others. We benefit as much as the recipients. It is to God's glory and to our purification and our Christian edification that we participate in the program of God by taking advantage of every opportunity he gives us to have your testimony ready, to be able to bring another person into the family of God and to help disciple them and grow them up in the ways of Christ." ([00:22:00] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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