January 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Diary of a Worship Warrior is a series within the podcast A Worship Warrior's Podcast in which Sarah shares her many thoughts, beliefs, latest life events, and struggles in an informal and mostly impromptu way. She likes to call this series, Holy Spirit Lead Babbling. In this episode, she talks about her boldness with friends, living a simple life, and her love for avocado toast.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Worship Warriors podcast.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast.
My name is Sarah Lee, I'm the host here.
And yeah, this is a series that I literally just started on a whim.
And I think I, so I titled it Diary of a Worship Warrior.
But my name for it is Holy Spirit Led Babbling.
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Because it's literally like, so if you've listened to my other episodes, or like when
Anna was on the podcast with me, it was still somewhat informal, like it was still pretty
chill but like, there was a lot more structure to it.
And I'm still 100% gonna have those because the Lord leads me to do those.
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But right now, he's just leading me to talk to you guys about things that has been on
my mind, in my heart that he's shown me or still teaching me, maybe taught me, whatever
it is.
And sometimes it's like, oh, by the way, yeah, I forgot about this.
And then I just tell you on the spot.
Or like right now, I have a list of things that have been on my mind and heavy on my
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heart.
Some of them serious, some of them not so serious.
And we'll just see what the Holy Spirit leads me to talk about.
And I don't have like, like, structured formal notes on them.
It's literally just the topic.
And then I just start talking about it with whatever the Holy Spirit leads.
And yeah, so hopefully, this is fun for y'all.
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If not, it's okay.
It helps me to talk through these things.
Yeah.
All right, well, let's get started, I guess.
I hope you guys are having a good week.
When I'm recording this, it's January 3rd.
So it's a Friday, it's barely 2025, which is actually insane that it's 2025.
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I feel like everybody's saying that every single year.
It's insane that it's whatever year it is, which it is.
It's crazy.
It is so crazy that your life goes by so quickly.
It gives you like this urgency to I don't know, I don't I don't really know.
It's like, as a Christian, you have this urgency when you really start thinking about it, to
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go share the gospel with people.
Because it's almost like you never know when your last day is going to be right, right.
But then also along with that, your lifetime goes by so quickly.
Just think about how the last 25 years have flown by for those of us who are old enough
to know like, that like that is like I'm almost 25 years old.
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So that is my life.
But that has been, it's gone by so fast.
And you know, I don't even know where I was going with that.
It's just crazy to think about.
It's like it gives you this urgency like, oh my goodness, it's been 25 years since 2000,
almost for me.
And what have I done with my life?
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Like I know I've done stuff and I know the Lord has done stuff through me and shown me
things and I love my life.
But I'm just saying like, have I really done the best I can?
Probably not.
And you know, another 25 years is going to go by in the blink of an eye and who knows
when I'm going to die of this world.
And man, it just, it kind of just gives you this urgency to go out and preach gospel.
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But I mean, it's scary.
Maybe it shouldn't be, but it is to me at times.
I mean, just being transparent here, it's scary to me to think about preaching the gospel
to everybody.
I'm fine in a lot of situations to share Jesus, but then there's some situations where it's
really intimidating and it terrifies the crowd out of me.
And yeah, so you're not alone if you feel that.
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And is it right?
Absolutely not.
It's wrong.
Actually, why should I be fearing that?
I don't need to be ashamed of the gospel, but it's, it can be scary for sure.
Anyway, oh my goodness, that is so perfect.
I literally just placed out my notes and the first thing on here is being bold with friends
who you've known for a long time.
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That has been on my heart a lot lately.
And we were just talking about being bold in a way, you know, to be out, to go out and
with urgency to go preach the gospel.
Wow.
That's cool.
Way to go, God.
So yeah, no, that's been on my heart a lot lately because I have friends who our lives
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are just so different now because I follow Jesus and I have had the beautiful gift of
salvation.
I had that security for a very long time, but I went like through ebbs and flows in
my relationship with God and the down parts of my life were really down.
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Like they weren't just a tad bit down and they were really down and I'm ashamed of a
lot of the things that I had involved myself in or just, you know, the things that I supported,
you know, whatever it was.
And thankfully God still loves me.
I'm still secure in him and I absolutely am madly in love with him now.
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And so like also I just realized the bathroom fan is on and the door is open and you guys
might be able to pick up on that.
So I'm sorry.
Actually, you probably won't even notice if I hadn't said that.
So scratch that.
If I remember to take that out, great.
If not, my apologies.
Okay.
Anyway, um, what was I even saying?
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Oh yeah.
So I went through ebbs and flows, right?
Well, you know, whenever you're down and you're like very distant from God, maybe you have
no relationship with him.
You're not saved.
No Holy Spirit inside of you.
You know, nothing.
You have friends that are also living a similar lifestyle to you more than likely, or at least
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you have friends who believe similarly to you in the fact that you don't believe you
have to have God or you don't have to be close to him or whatever it is, you know, like insert
your situation there.
But then you do get saved.
You do have the Holy Spirit inside of you.
You do start exuding the power of the Holy Spirit.
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You do start talking to God daily.
You do start studying his word daily.
And naturally, like I was saying, the power of the Holy Spirit is going to be coming out
of you.
You will have the fruits of the Spirit coming out of you naturally if you are doing those
things.
And as time goes on, you will begin to lose friends and those friends are the ones who
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don't don't agree with you anymore and you don't agree with them because you're going
to find that it is just impossible to actually be the friend that they want you to be because
you're not the same person anymore and say like vice versa.
Like you they can't be the friend that you need and want because you guys don't agree
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anymore and as it should be like that is good.
That means that you are growing and that you are maturing in Christ and that is amazing.
But it's also so hard.
And something that comes along with this hardship is being bold with those friends.
Some people are like, no, I got all the way and they don't care.
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They do not care.
I mean, they care about people's feelings to a certain degree.
I'm not saying they're completely cold hearted because obviously if they're cold hearted,
well, then they're not being of God.
But also you have to think like a lot of people out there.
I've seen them.
I know some they're like, no, no, I'm sorry, but I don't agree with you anymore.
And it's hard, but we can't be friends anymore.
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It is so I can.
I am not that way.
It is so hard for me to just be like, sorry, I can't hang out like that anymore.
I can't do that with you anymore.
We can't talk about this anymore.
It is so difficult for me.
And I also know it's very difficult for other people out there too.
I know I'm not alone in that.
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Should I just be able to be bold about that?
Absolutely.
Am I working on that?
Yes, but it is so hard.
It is so hard, especially when they're close friends to you.
And I'm not saying you have to drop them completely.
Absolutely not.
There are times where I'm saying this from experience.
There was a time when I had a couple of friends and one of them, I really was broken hearted
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because I thought God was going to say that I didn't need to be friends with this person
anymore.
And I didn't know how to go about that because I had known both of those people, but that
person also.
Well, I had known one of them, I think longer or about the same time.
I can't remember exactly.
I think one of them I met like a year later.
But anyway, and so anyway, sorry, I totally was starting to go off track there.
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I was really, I really thought for a minute that God was going to be like, Sarah, I love
you.
But when you're around this person, there are old sin cycles that are slowly seeping
out in the way you speak and the way you think.
And that is not from me.
And that is not good.
And you need to be a good witness to this person.
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But you also need to be aware that you cannot put yourself in all these situations where
all these conversations are going to come up.
And if you're not going to be bold enough to speak up about it, then you know, I thought
he was really going to be like that.
So I was fully well, I wasn't fully prepared, but I was like mentally ready for this day.
It was like, okay, God, I know it's coming.
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I'm going to keep being friends with this person until you tell me to stop.
But Lord, this is hard.
Like this is so hard.
And I was so broken hearted.
And sure enough, as time went on, I really felt it coming.
But then I was wrong.
And what I actually felt coming was not what I thought it was something different.
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And I'm still able to be friends with this person.
But my mind shift was from instead of this person being just my friend, I'm going to
treat them like a friend.
But in my mind, I need to think of them as a ministry.
Because for me personally, if I think of you as a friend, I'm going to treat you differently
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than if I think of you as only a ministry.
And that may not make complete sense.
But that's just how my mind works with it.
So yes, this person, like we are friends to a certain degree, I do speak to this person
like a friend, I do treat her very much like a friend, same with the other friend that
I was talking about.
Like I treat like, if we're talking to each other, if we see each other, if I go drop
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something off at her house or whatever it is, I treat them as a friend.
But in my mind, all I'm thinking about is how can I clarify God in this moment?
How can I serve this person?
How can I do my best to plant seeds where one day they might come to know God so I can
live for eternity with them in heaven?
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And so if I'm just thinking, oh, I'm going to a friend's house, I'm not going to be thinking
I'm walking into a battlefield right now.
But if I'm thinking this is a ministry, I'm thinking I'm walking into a battlefield right
now.
I'm putting my armor on.
I am ready to suit up and fight if I need to.
And so it's still hard.
It's very hard at times, but it's needed in order for you to really plant seeds.
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You really just have to have this mindset of I'm in a battlefield when I'm with this
person and you're always in a battlefield.
Don't get me wrong.
Like you're always in a battlefield.
You're always you always need to be on guard.
Scripture tells us that be on guard.
But there are specific situations for all of us, I'm sure, where we struggle with maybe
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it's like this where you struggle to be bold, but you know you need to be or whatever it
is though.
So you just need to have that mind shift.
You need to have that mentality of I when I specifically go see this person, I specifically
go to this place when I specifically am doing this thing, I need to be thinking the whole
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time I am in a battlefield.
I am in a war.
This is a ministry.
How can I serve God the best I possibly can around these people in this place?
So that's been that's been tough for me, but it's been very also very eye opening and it's
brought me a lot of freedom and peace as I've gotten through this slowly.
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And God's probably like, you're taking your time here, Sarah.
You need to be more bold.
But just know like it's it's hard and I'm with you.
I kind of was stumbling a little bit there on my words, but I hope that made sense.
So anyway, some other things that have been on my mind lately.
Oh yeah, I have had my notes here.
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Something that is like something that I've really been thinking about a lot this year,
this past year, and it's living simply.
I don't really know what I was thinking of exactly at this moment.
I wrote this down on my notes.
That's why I said this is Holy Spirit led babbling.
Like I've got my note here, but I don't remember everything I was thinking.
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But living simply is very underrated and there are so many things I could probably say about
this.
Honestly, I could make like a whole series about living simply because the Lord has opened
my eyes to so many things or at least like one full episode about it because some of
the things that I could talk about are very practical, but the spiritual growth that those
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practical things brings me is astounding.
Like it's literally my absolute favorite topic to think about sometimes is just living a
simple life with a simple mind and not simple mind like you're stupid, but like a simple
mind as in, oh gosh, see that could be several things too.
Okay.
So the first thing that comes to my mind though, when I say simple mind, like how to explain
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one of the things I'm meaning with that term is you have a simple, you have simple things
going into your mind and as simple, well, no, that's not right.
A simple amount of things going into your mind.
Therefore your mind is not all over the place with a thousand things that you saw over here
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on social media and then you watched these videos on YouTube and then you read this book
last night and then you listen to this podcast today and then you went and talked to this
person on the phone for an hour and then you went to the store and you talked to the clerk
about this thing and then you were all over and you learned a bunch of things about your
kid because you spend a lot of time with them.
That's like a thousand things.
We are not meant to be able to keep all of those things all at once in one day in our
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minds.
What I'm saying is a simple amount, meaning you have things, like for instance, for me,
what this looks like is I don't have any social media.
I have some accounts out there, but I have not used them in over half a year probably,
or at least half a year, like five to six months, maybe more.
I don't know exactly.
I'd have to go on there and see whatever.
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But anyway, so like for me, what this simple amount of information going into my mind looks
like is I don't have social media.
I have restrictions on my phone.
I sometimes fail at them.
I'm not saying I'm perfect at this, but I also don't 24-7 keep YouTube on my phone.
So like I restrict myself and you're thinking that sounds miserable.
No, literally it is one of the absolute most freeing things I have ever done.
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The joy and peace that I have gotten, that I've got from this, like there are no words
to describe the amount of joy and peace I've got from not being on my phone doing those
things often.
So like I don't have those.
Whenever you are on those things, when you're constantly like you're listening to the news,
you're reading the news, you are listening and watching TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat,
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Facebook, literally all of those things, because I know a lot of you are probably on every
single one of those platforms.
We are scrolling through Pinterest looking for ideas, like all of those things.
You are constantly having information overload in your mind.
I'm not saying you need to exit out completely.
That's between you and God.
But what I am saying is you just need to be aware of how it's affecting you.
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And I guarantee you it's affecting you more than you may realize.
So all of that plus your daily things that you have to do, your responsibilities, the
places you go, the people you see, that is just so much in your mind.
And so whenever you are simple minded in this way, you just have a simple amount, a low
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amount of things going into your mind.
And that way you can focus on those things more.
And you can really hone in on, you know, upgrading your skills for those things or learning more
about those things and getting better at them, practicing those things, whatever it is, you
know, or maybe being more intentional with your kids or being more intentional with your
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spouse or your friend.
Or maybe you can really pour more time into a ministry at church because you are not having
information overload.
And another thing that goes along with that is, oh, well, so, okay, so for example, what
I was just talking about, I heard this thing earlier today and it was Ashley Hutherington
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and I was listening to her to a video while I was, so it was a video on YouTube, but I
was listening to it like a podcast while I was driving in my car.
And she was saying something like for her personally, her opinion and her advice would
be for your New Year's goals, if you have those, to do one to eight goals for the year
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and no more.
Because if you have, I think she said, for example, if you have like 20 goals, then you're
probably not going to succeed at any if you do like very few of those goals.
And so, because if you only have eight goals versus 20, eight goals is much easier to really
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hone in on your skills and the process of doing well with each goal and the steps it
takes to reach that goal.
Whereas if you have 20, you're going to have like, say there's five steps per goal, you
have five times eight versus five times 20.
Do you see the difference of steps it takes to get to the goals total?
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Do you know how long a year is 365 days?
Do you really think you can perfect or reach 20 goals in 365 days?
I don't think you can very well, unless they're the tiniest and easiest goals in the world.
That being said, also with what I was saying, the fewer things you have going into your
mind on a daily and weekly basis, the more you can be intentional about those things
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going into your mind.
God can show you more, you have more room to listen to him, to know what you need to
prioritize and you have time and the mental capacity to be intentional about those things
that he is showing you and teaching you and telling you to do.
Okay, I hope that didn't jump around too much.
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Anyway, so that's what I mean by simple minded.
It doesn't mean that you're stupid.
It doesn't mean that you have, like you still have complex things going into your mind.
God shows me complex things that he really needs me to focus on often.
But what it means is it's the amount.
You're not overwhelming your mind and distracting it with things that are not what God wants
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you to be focusing on.
And so that is like the biggest thing to living simply.
Another thing though, like practically speaking, living simply for me is just making my home
simple.
At least simple to me, like functional.
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The functionality of it is simple.
And I'm not, maybe not every nook and cranny, you know, everything is simply organized,
but maybe it's a little overwhelming.
I don't know.
But like for instance, being a bit minimal about certain things helps like shoes.
My son has two pairs of shoes, so easy to keep up with.
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You know, we are pretty minimal.
Well, I'm pretty minimal about my clothes for the most part.
My husband on the other hand has about 30 freaking t-shirts that he doesn't need and
we went through them one day and I was like, okay, let's get rid of some.
And he was like, keep, keep, keep, keep.
Oh, we can toss that keep, keep, keep, keep.
He kept like literally 95% of his shirts.
I was like, dude, you don't even, at one point he was like, oh, I forgot about that one keep.
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And I was like, what?
So other than, other than his t-shirt hoarding, we are pretty minimal about clothes.
It's not because we're trying to be that aesthetic, minimal, whatever person.
Those minimal people do have quite like, they know what they're talking about though when
it comes to certain things.
Like if you have a minimal amount of clothes, it is so much easier to just get started with
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your day.
Also, not only that, but like you're not comparing, like if you just have these clothes and that's
it, you don't worry as often about making sure that you have this outfit because this
person looked really good in this and what if I don't look good?
So I need to wear this instead.
Well, maybe I should buy that, you know, no, like if you're just content with what the
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Lord has blessed you with, girl, you'll be fine.
Like it's just be minimal.
And like I'm not a super big minimalist, but I will say just simplifying your home.
Don't have an overwhelming amount of toys for your children.
Don't have an overwhelming amount of decor in your house.
Don't have an overwhelming amount of pots and pans and stuff that you're not going to
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use over half of them.
Just have what you need and maybe one extra if you really want more, you know, don't,
you know, just be simple about the way that you lay out your home or your room or whatever
your environment is.
Maybe it's your work office, whatever, because whenever it's simple, simply laid out and
simply organized, it's simple to keep together.
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It's easy to keep together.
It's easy.
It's simple to keep it functional.
And my home is very easy to clean up.
It's functional.
And it didn't used to be that way, but this year I have really, really focused on making
sure that my home is not overwhelming to look at, to clean, to reorganize.
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You know, it is just simple.
And again, not every area is perfect.
Like there's a couple of areas I haven't really gotten to, but for the most part, like 90
over 95, maybe like 95% of my home is just very simple in the way that it is laid out
because that's how we work best.
And I really think that it is, everybody could benefit from that, honestly.
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I really do believe that.
Yeah.
And also, like the way that you lay out your day, your priorities, your responsibilities,
I honestly say that simplicity goes into that too.
Like just lay it out in a simple way.
Don't overwhelm yourself with these crazy amounts of things that you need to get done,
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or you think you need to get done, I should say, on top of your responsibilities that
you already have, because it's just overwhelming.
Like just do what you need to do and have this backup list if you really think you need
to get those things done.
And then whenever you're done with all of your responsibilities, the things you really
need to get done, the top priorities, then get your to-do list out if you still have
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time in the day.
I really think you just need to simplify your day.
You know, don't make this whole schedule of each day to where you're getting up and you're
go go go until you go to bed, because then you're not going to really enjoy life.
It's overwhelming, it's stressful, and where's the time to rest with God?
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You need that.
That's something that I have worked on so much this year, and there are days where I'm
like, God, I failed today 100%.
And you know, every time he's like, all right, do better tomorrow, you know, or there's still
time in the day today, why don't you come hang out with me and then do better tomorrow?
And you know, that's just something I've really worked on this year is simplifying my life
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in all areas so that I can actually have some time to just sit down and be with God and
rest and have peace and be content and content content.
And my well in my world and to me personally, content equals peace.
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Like when I am content, I am the most at peace.
And I also have joy that comes from being content.
Confidence to you know, Philippians 413, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens
me.
That's about being content.
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You can do all things because you are content in Christ.
And you know, that's confidence, joy, peace.
Just live simply.
You don't need all the gadgets, all the gizmos of the world.
Oh, the laptop is you don't need all of that.
The trends, the aesthetics.
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I'm not saying never do like if you like a trend and you you know, whatever, like do
it, but don't just try to keep up with them because that's what the world does.
You know, same with the aesthetics, you know, just just live for God, you know, you don't
need all of that.
I was thinking about the first podcast episode of this year.
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So like literally just a couple days ago, I think I put it out of me babbling and I
was talking about how I didn't make a list this year and I didn't like 100% did not.
But you know, that doesn't mean I don't have goals.
So like I did say I mentioned in the first episode that that last episode that my goal
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this year is just just to be like just to have better self discipline because self like
everything comes from self discipline, you know, and so that is my main goal.
But I was thinking about how I failed to mention that along with that, I do have some goals
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in my mind, but they're not like I'm writing them down and by the end of 2025, I'm going
to be perfect at self discipline in this area.
It's nothing like that.
It's really just like I want to have self discipline in specific areas in my life.
But also, some of those areas are things that God may not care if I do those in six months,
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maybe it's just for a season that he wants to show me something through having self discipline
in that area.
But then the next season, who cares if I'm doing x, y, z, he doesn't really want me to
do that anymore because it doesn't align with his priorities for this next season of my
life.
But my main priorities are always going to stay the same.
Love God, live for God and share that with others.
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And those are my main priorities.
So everything else like I need to have my goals for 2025 should be I need to do better
at having self discipline in my relationship with God when I love him and live with him
and share that with others.
Everything else is just going to fall under that with whatever the Holy Spirit leads.
I'm not going to be able to hear anything that the Holy Spirit is saying to me if I'm
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not focusing on those top priorities that I just mentioned.
So really, my goals are just those two things.
And then the rest, I'm just going to let God lead.
And if I have self if my goal every day is just to have better self discipline than the
day before, and that is my goal every single day, while I may not have exact things that
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I'm working on, I don't know what things I'm going to be doing in a day in six months.
What I do know is that in six months, I'm still going to need to work on my self discipline.
And I still should want to work on my self discipline.
And that is still going to be my goal.
So that's kind of where I was going with that.
And maybe next year, I'll have a goal list or a prayer board or a vision board of some
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kind of vision board that turns into a prayer board, I should say.
But this year, I just I'm tired.
And I'm not like physically tired, but I'm mentally and emotionally and honestly spiritually
tired but I'm also beginning to be spiritually rejuvenated.
I'm just going through a very short season of exhaustion.
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And when I thought about like, I didn't even think at first actually about making a goal
list or a prayer board or a vision board or anything, because I was like, No, I just need
to live with God.
And so that's kind of God just really has been putting self discipline on my mind.
And rest, but rest has been on my mind for a couple years.
Self discipline is the big one right now.
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And so that's why it's my main goal.
Yeah.
Anyway, there's other things on my list here that I thought of when I was jotting down
some ideas.
But I think that's where I'm going to end it for now.
Although this one's very important, whoever invented avocado to or invented.
That's probably not the correct term.
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Whoever first came up with the idea of avocado toast is literally a genius.
You know, that was like such a trendy thing.
I feel like for so long for all these fitness and health girls, I don't know about guys
because I didn't watch any of their stuff.
But for sure the girls out there and they were like, Oh, yeah, so I got up and I drank
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my coffee and I I can't go to the gym on an empty stomach.
So I just had a small piece of avocado toast.
Sorry, I'm being rude, by the way, I'm saying that that's just how it came out.
But I didn't mean it that way.
But honestly, they know what's good.
Avocado toast is bomb.
And also, like, if you up your game and you mix your avocado with salt and garlic and
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onion powder, and then you top it with tomatoes and you put a fried egg on top that is over
medium, meaning the white is all the way cooked, but the yolk is ready.
Put that on top.
And girl, you got it good.
It is so good.
And then also not only that, but if you really want to get fancy, put just a little drizzle
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of Tabasco sauce if you like Tabasco sauce on top of that.
If you're in the mood.
Sometimes I'm not in the mood for it.
But sometimes I'm like, man, that Tabasco sauce would hit really good right now.
And so yeah, avocado toast.
It's bomb.
Okay, yeah, so.
And then the other one that I have that was stupid, but I wrote it down anyway, because
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I guess I was feeling it in the moment.
I can handle spice better now.
That's a reflection of this year.
I so I have always kind of at least as far as I can remember, I have liked a bit of spice.
Like I could eat jalapeno with my food or whatever.
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But then I reached like this certain jalapeno, though, like that's as far as I could go.
I reached this point.
I'm like, okay, I can't handle it anymore.
I don't enjoy this anymore.
I'm done.
And really the jalapeno, I don't even know if at first I was a big fan of it.
I think it was just like I knew I could handle the spice and I wanted to be cool.
You know, so you know, just being real here.
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But now my husband, for instance, the other day, he handles spice really well.
Me and my dad both and husband like a week or two ago, I can't remember, we had this
hot sauce and it's really hot.
Like it was I don't remember how many scovilles if you know what that is, but it's a lot like
a lot a lot.
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And he got it out.
I don't remember what we were eating, but I poured some on there and he was like, you're
just going to I just wanted to try it.
You know, I haven't tried it yet.
And so he was like, you're probably just going to want like two drops in your food and then
mix it up, like maybe just one or two.
And so I pour a couple of drops.
At least I was intending to pour a couple of drops and more came out than I meant.
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And it was like a whole full on drizzle of hot sauce.
And he was like, oh, good luck.
And I ate it.
And I mean, yes, it was spicy.
I'm not I'm not going to try to be whatever like, oh, it wasn't even spicy.
No, it was definitely spicy.
But I was enjoying it.
Like I actually liked it.
It wasn't so hot to me that I couldn't actually taste it.
You know, when it's so hot and your tongue feels like it's about to fall off and it's
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like, wow, this is literally horrendous and I'm going to die.
But no, I was actually enjoying it.
I could still taste the flavor of my food.
I could taste the flavor of the hot sauce.
And like my nose started running a little bit.
But I didn't like get super hot or anything.
Like it was good.
And I put some on my food this or today, too, for lunch.
And I was like, dang, I was thinking about it today.
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I was like, wow, I am so proud of myself because that is a big deal to me.
Some people are like, that's stupid.
But no, that is a big deal.
It's like, dang, I am a cool kid.
I can handle my spice now.
Um, I think that was like whenever I was pregnant with my son, I started wanting spicy food
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more and I started eating it more.
And then I was told that I don't need to be eating as much as I was because it was
like giving me major heartburn and I was uncomfortable.
And so I slowed down.
But I don't know why.
Maybe that's why.
Maybe the Lord somehow orchestrated my, I have no idea.
I have no idea how he did it, but something with my pregnancy, I think, did it.
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And yeah, so there you go.
There's that.
Okay.
Well, I hope you guys have an amazing week.
I don't know what day this is coming out.
It'll come out when it comes out.
And yeah, if you guys are listening to this though, and you made it to this point, please
share this with someone or share the, my website or something with people.
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My website is www.worshipwereyourlifestyle.com.
And we also have a few free resources on there and a blog.
I say we, it's just me, but God, me and God.
So we, um, so yeah, anyway, we have that.
And I always put the links and stuff in the description below the each episode or whatever.
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And the podcast is on pretty much any platform.
There's like a few minor ones.
It's not on Pandora and it's not on a couple other smaller ones, but it's pretty much on
everything else.
Like it's on the big ones of Spotify.
It's on, um, wow, where it's Apple.
It's on, oh, I don't even remember off top of my head, but it's on all of the big ones.
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And then some others.
So yeah.
And if you want a link or you want to see what platforms, like what sharing platforms
it is on, you can just go to my website and go to podcasts and scroll down to the bottom
and it tells you which ones it's on.
Um, if you want to find a specific one or whatever, hopefully that made sense.
You get what I mean.
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So yeah, anyway.
All right.
I hope you have a great day and happy new year again.
Hey guys, welcome back to the Worship Warriors podcast.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast.
My name is Sarah Lee, I'm the host here.
And yeah, this is a series that I literally just started on a whim.
And I think I, so I titled it Diary of a Worship Warrior.
But my name for it is Holy Spirit Led Babbling.
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Because it's literally like, so if you've listened to my other episodes, or like when
Anna was on the podcast with me, it was still somewhat informal, like it was still pretty
chill but like, there was a lot more structure to it.
And I'm still 100% gonna have those because the Lord leads me to do those.
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But right now, he's just leading me to talk to you guys about things that has been on
my mind, in my heart that he's shown me or still teaching me, maybe taught me, whatever
it is.
And sometimes it's like, oh, by the way, yeah, I forgot about this.
And then I just tell you on the spot.
Or like right now, I have a list of things that have been on my mind and heavy on my
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heart.
Some of them serious, some of them not so serious.
And we'll just see what the Holy Spirit leads me to talk about.
And I don't have like, like, structured formal notes on them.
It's literally just the topic.
And then I just start talking about it with whatever the Holy Spirit leads.
And yeah, so hopefully, this is fun for y'all.
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If not, it's okay.
It helps me to talk through these things.
Yeah.
All right, well, let's get started, I guess.
I hope you guys are having a good week.
When I'm recording this, it's January 3rd.
So it's a Friday, it's barely 2025, which is actually insane that it's 2025.
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I feel like everybody's saying that every single year.
It's insane that it's whatever year it is, which it is.
It's crazy.
It is so crazy that your life goes by so quickly.
It gives you like this urgency to I don't know, I don't I don't really know.
It's like, as a Christian, you have this urgency when you really start thinking about it, to
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go share the gospel with people.
Because it's almost like you never know when your last day is going to be right, right.
But then also along with that, your lifetime goes by so quickly.
Just think about how the last 25 years have flown by for those of us who are old enough
to know like, that like that is like I'm almost 25 years old.
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So that is my life.
But that has been, it's gone by so fast.
And you know, I don't even know where I was going with that.
It's just crazy to think about.
It's like it gives you this urgency like, oh my goodness, it's been 25 years since 2000,
almost for me.
And what have I done with my life?
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Like I know I've done stuff and I know the Lord has done stuff through me and shown me
things and I love my life.
But I'm just saying like, have I really done the best I can?
Probably not.
And you know, another 25 years is going to go by in the blink of an eye and who knows
when I'm going to die of this world.
And man, it just, it kind of just gives you this urgency to go out and preach gospel.
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But I mean, it's scary.
Maybe it shouldn't be, but it is to me at times.
I mean, just being transparent here, it's scary to me to think about preaching the gospel
to everybody.
I'm fine in a lot of situations to share Jesus, but then there's some situations where it's
really intimidating and it terrifies the crowd out of me.
And yeah, so you're not alone if you feel that.
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And is it right?
Absolutely not.
It's wrong.
Actually, why should I be fearing that?
I don't need to be ashamed of the gospel, but it's, it can be scary for sure.
Anyway, oh my goodness, that is so perfect.
I literally just placed out my notes and the first thing on here is being bold with friends
who you've known for a long time.
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That has been on my heart a lot lately.
And we were just talking about being bold in a way, you know, to be out, to go out and
with urgency to go preach the gospel.
Wow.
That's cool.
Way to go, God.
So yeah, no, that's been on my heart a lot lately because I have friends who our lives
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are just so different now because I follow Jesus and I have had the beautiful gift of
salvation.
I had that security for a very long time, but I went like through ebbs and flows in
my relationship with God and the down parts of my life were really down.
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Like they weren't just a tad bit down and they were really down and I'm ashamed of a
lot of the things that I had involved myself in or just, you know, the things that I supported,
you know, whatever it was.
And thankfully God still loves me.
I'm still secure in him and I absolutely am madly in love with him now.
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And so like also I just realized the bathroom fan is on and the door is open and you guys
might be able to pick up on that.
So I'm sorry.
Actually, you probably won't even notice if I hadn't said that.
So scratch that.
If I remember to take that out, great.
If not, my apologies.
Okay.
Anyway, um, what was I even saying?
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Oh yeah.
So I went through ebbs and flows, right?
Well, you know, whenever you're down and you're like very distant from God, maybe you have
no relationship with him.
You're not saved.
No Holy Spirit inside of you.
You know, nothing.
You have friends that are also living a similar lifestyle to you more than likely, or at least
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you have friends who believe similarly to you in the fact that you don't believe you
have to have God or you don't have to be close to him or whatever it is, you know, like insert
your situation there.
But then you do get saved.
You do have the Holy Spirit inside of you.
You do start exuding the power of the Holy Spirit.
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You do start talking to God daily.
You do start studying his word daily.
And naturally, like I was saying, the power of the Holy Spirit is going to be coming out
of you.
You will have the fruits of the Spirit coming out of you naturally if you are doing those
things.
And as time goes on, you will begin to lose friends and those friends are the ones who
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don't don't agree with you anymore and you don't agree with them because you're going
to find that it is just impossible to actually be the friend that they want you to be because
you're not the same person anymore and say like vice versa.
Like you they can't be the friend that you need and want because you guys don't agree
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anymore and as it should be like that is good.
That means that you are growing and that you are maturing in Christ and that is amazing.
But it's also so hard.
And something that comes along with this hardship is being bold with those friends.
Some people are like, no, I got all the way and they don't care.
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They do not care.
I mean, they care about people's feelings to a certain degree.
I'm not saying they're completely cold hearted because obviously if they're cold hearted,
well, then they're not being of God.
But also you have to think like a lot of people out there.
I've seen them.
I know some they're like, no, no, I'm sorry, but I don't agree with you anymore.
And it's hard, but we can't be friends anymore.
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It is so I can.
I am not that way.
It is so hard for me to just be like, sorry, I can't hang out like that anymore.
I can't do that with you anymore.
We can't talk about this anymore.
It is so difficult for me.
And I also know it's very difficult for other people out there too.
I know I'm not alone in that.
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Should I just be able to be bold about that?
Absolutely.
Am I working on that?
Yes, but it is so hard.
It is so hard, especially when they're close friends to you.
And I'm not saying you have to drop them completely.
Absolutely not.
There are times where I'm saying this from experience.
There was a time when I had a couple of friends and one of them, I really was broken hearted
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because I thought God was going to say that I didn't need to be friends with this person
anymore.
And I didn't know how to go about that because I had known both of those people, but that
person also.
Well, I had known one of them, I think longer or about the same time.
I can't remember exactly.
I think one of them I met like a year later.
But anyway, and so anyway, sorry, I totally was starting to go off track there.
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I was really, I really thought for a minute that God was going to be like, Sarah, I love
you.
But when you're around this person, there are old sin cycles that are slowly seeping
out in the way you speak and the way you think.
And that is not from me.
And that is not good.
And you need to be a good witness to this person.
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But you also need to be aware that you cannot put yourself in all these situations where
all these conversations are going to come up.
And if you're not going to be bold enough to speak up about it, then you know, I thought
he was really going to be like that.
So I was fully well, I wasn't fully prepared, but I was like mentally ready for this day.
It was like, okay, God, I know it's coming.
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I'm going to keep being friends with this person until you tell me to stop.
But Lord, this is hard.
Like this is so hard.
And I was so broken hearted.
And sure enough, as time went on, I really felt it coming.
But then I was wrong.
And what I actually felt coming was not what I thought it was something different.
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And I'm still able to be friends with this person.
But my mind shift was from instead of this person being just my friend, I'm going to
treat them like a friend.
But in my mind, I need to think of them as a ministry.
Because for me personally, if I think of you as a friend, I'm going to treat you differently
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than if I think of you as only a ministry.
And that may not make complete sense.
But that's just how my mind works with it.
So yes, this person, like we are friends to a certain degree, I do speak to this person
like a friend, I do treat her very much like a friend, same with the other friend that
I was talking about.
Like I treat like, if we're talking to each other, if we see each other, if I go drop
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something off at her house or whatever it is, I treat them as a friend.
But in my mind, all I'm thinking about is how can I clarify God in this moment?
How can I serve this person?
How can I do my best to plant seeds where one day they might come to know God so I can
live for eternity with them in heaven?
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And so if I'm just thinking, oh, I'm going to a friend's house, I'm not going to be thinking
I'm walking into a battlefield right now.
But if I'm thinking this is a ministry, I'm thinking I'm walking into a battlefield right
now.
I'm putting my armor on.
I am ready to suit up and fight if I need to.
And so it's still hard.
It's very hard at times, but it's needed in order for you to really plant seeds.
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You really just have to have this mindset of I'm in a battlefield when I'm with this
person and you're always in a battlefield.
Don't get me wrong.
Like you're always in a battlefield.
You're always you always need to be on guard.
Scripture tells us that be on guard.
But there are specific situations for all of us, I'm sure, where we struggle with maybe
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it's like this where you struggle to be bold, but you know you need to be or whatever it
is though.
So you just need to have that mind shift.
You need to have that mentality of I when I specifically go see this person, I specifically
go to this place when I specifically am doing this thing, I need to be thinking the whole
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time I am in a battlefield.
I am in a war.
This is a ministry.
How can I serve God the best I possibly can around these people in this place?
So that's been that's been tough for me, but it's been very also very eye opening and it's
brought me a lot of freedom and peace as I've gotten through this slowly.
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And God's probably like, you're taking your time here, Sarah.
You need to be more bold.
But just know like it's it's hard and I'm with you.
I kind of was stumbling a little bit there on my words, but I hope that made sense.
So anyway, some other things that have been on my mind lately.
Oh yeah, I have had my notes here.
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Something that is like something that I've really been thinking about a lot this year,
this past year, and it's living simply.
I don't really know what I was thinking of exactly at this moment.
I wrote this down on my notes.
That's why I said this is Holy Spirit led babbling.
Like I've got my note here, but I don't remember everything I was thinking.
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But living simply is very underrated and there are so many things I could probably say about
this.
Honestly, I could make like a whole series about living simply because the Lord has opened
my eyes to so many things or at least like one full episode about it because some of
the things that I could talk about are very practical, but the spiritual growth that those
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practical things brings me is astounding.
Like it's literally my absolute favorite topic to think about sometimes is just living a
simple life with a simple mind and not simple mind like you're stupid, but like a simple
mind as in, oh gosh, see that could be several things too.
Okay.
So the first thing that comes to my mind though, when I say simple mind, like how to explain
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one of the things I'm meaning with that term is you have a simple, you have simple things
going into your mind and as simple, well, no, that's not right.
A simple amount of things going into your mind.
Therefore your mind is not all over the place with a thousand things that you saw over here
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on social media and then you watched these videos on YouTube and then you read this book
last night and then you listen to this podcast today and then you went and talked to this
person on the phone for an hour and then you went to the store and you talked to the clerk
about this thing and then you were all over and you learned a bunch of things about your
kid because you spend a lot of time with them.
That's like a thousand things.
We are not meant to be able to keep all of those things all at once in one day in our
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minds.
What I'm saying is a simple amount, meaning you have things, like for instance, for me,
what this looks like is I don't have any social media.
I have some accounts out there, but I have not used them in over half a year probably,
or at least half a year, like five to six months, maybe more.
I don't know exactly.
I'd have to go on there and see whatever.
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But anyway, so like for me, what this simple amount of information going into my mind looks
like is I don't have social media.
I have restrictions on my phone.
I sometimes fail at them.
I'm not saying I'm perfect at this, but I also don't 24-7 keep YouTube on my phone.
So like I restrict myself and you're thinking that sounds miserable.
No, literally it is one of the absolute most freeing things I have ever done.
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The joy and peace that I have gotten, that I've got from this, like there are no words
to describe the amount of joy and peace I've got from not being on my phone doing those
things often.
So like I don't have those.
Whenever you are on those things, when you're constantly like you're listening to the news,
you're reading the news, you are listening and watching TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat,
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Facebook, literally all of those things, because I know a lot of you are probably on every
single one of those platforms.
We are scrolling through Pinterest looking for ideas, like all of those things.
You are constantly having information overload in your mind.
I'm not saying you need to exit out completely.
That's between you and God.
But what I am saying is you just need to be aware of how it's affecting you.
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And I guarantee you it's affecting you more than you may realize.
So all of that plus your daily things that you have to do, your responsibilities, the
places you go, the people you see, that is just so much in your mind.
And so whenever you are simple minded in this way, you just have a simple amount, a low
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amount of things going into your mind.
And that way you can focus on those things more.
And you can really hone in on, you know, upgrading your skills for those things or learning more
about those things and getting better at them, practicing those things, whatever it is, you
know, or maybe being more intentional with your kids or being more intentional with your
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spouse or your friend.
Or maybe you can really pour more time into a ministry at church because you are not having
information overload.
And another thing that goes along with that is, oh, well, so, okay, so for example, what
I was just talking about, I heard this thing earlier today and it was Ashley Hutherington
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and I was listening to her to a video while I was, so it was a video on YouTube, but I
was listening to it like a podcast while I was driving in my car.
And she was saying something like for her personally, her opinion and her advice would
be for your New Year's goals, if you have those, to do one to eight goals for the year
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and no more.
Because if you have, I think she said, for example, if you have like 20 goals, then you're
probably not going to succeed at any if you do like very few of those goals.
And so, because if you only have eight goals versus 20, eight goals is much easier to really
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hone in on your skills and the process of doing well with each goal and the steps it
takes to reach that goal.
Whereas if you have 20, you're going to have like, say there's five steps per goal, you
have five times eight versus five times 20.
Do you see the difference of steps it takes to get to the goals total?
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Do you know how long a year is 365 days?
Do you really think you can perfect or reach 20 goals in 365 days?
I don't think you can very well, unless they're the tiniest and easiest goals in the world.
That being said, also with what I was saying, the fewer things you have going into your
mind on a daily and weekly basis, the more you can be intentional about those things
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going into your mind.
God can show you more, you have more room to listen to him, to know what you need to
prioritize and you have time and the mental capacity to be intentional about those things
that he is showing you and teaching you and telling you to do.
Okay, I hope that didn't jump around too much.
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Anyway, so that's what I mean by simple minded.
It doesn't mean that you're stupid.
It doesn't mean that you have, like you still have complex things going into your mind.
God shows me complex things that he really needs me to focus on often.
But what it means is it's the amount.
You're not overwhelming your mind and distracting it with things that are not what God wants
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you to be focusing on.
And so that is like the biggest thing to living simply.
Another thing though, like practically speaking, living simply for me is just making my home
simple.
At least simple to me, like functional.
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The functionality of it is simple.
And I'm not, maybe not every nook and cranny, you know, everything is simply organized,
but maybe it's a little overwhelming.
I don't know.
But like for instance, being a bit minimal about certain things helps like shoes.
My son has two pairs of shoes, so easy to keep up with.
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You know, we are pretty minimal.
Well, I'm pretty minimal about my clothes for the most part.
My husband on the other hand has about 30 freaking t-shirts that he doesn't need and
we went through them one day and I was like, okay, let's get rid of some.
And he was like, keep, keep, keep, keep.
Oh, we can toss that keep, keep, keep, keep.
He kept like literally 95% of his shirts.
I was like, dude, you don't even, at one point he was like, oh, I forgot about that one keep.
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And I was like, what?
So other than, other than his t-shirt hoarding, we are pretty minimal about clothes.
It's not because we're trying to be that aesthetic, minimal, whatever person.
Those minimal people do have quite like, they know what they're talking about though when
it comes to certain things.
Like if you have a minimal amount of clothes, it is so much easier to just get started with
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your day.
Also, not only that, but like you're not comparing, like if you just have these clothes and that's
it, you don't worry as often about making sure that you have this outfit because this
person looked really good in this and what if I don't look good?
So I need to wear this instead.
Well, maybe I should buy that, you know, no, like if you're just content with what the
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Lord has blessed you with, girl, you'll be fine.
Like it's just be minimal.
And like I'm not a super big minimalist, but I will say just simplifying your home.
Don't have an overwhelming amount of toys for your children.
Don't have an overwhelming amount of decor in your house.
Don't have an overwhelming amount of pots and pans and stuff that you're not going to
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use over half of them.
Just have what you need and maybe one extra if you really want more, you know, don't,
you know, just be simple about the way that you lay out your home or your room or whatever
your environment is.
Maybe it's your work office, whatever, because whenever it's simple, simply laid out and
simply organized, it's simple to keep together.
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It's easy to keep together.
It's easy.
It's simple to keep it functional.
And my home is very easy to clean up.
It's functional.
And it didn't used to be that way, but this year I have really, really focused on making
sure that my home is not overwhelming to look at, to clean, to reorganize.
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You know, it is just simple.
And again, not every area is perfect.
Like there's a couple of areas I haven't really gotten to, but for the most part, like 90
over 95, maybe like 95% of my home is just very simple in the way that it is laid out
because that's how we work best.
And I really think that it is, everybody could benefit from that, honestly.
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I really do believe that.
Yeah.
And also, like the way that you lay out your day, your priorities, your responsibilities,
I honestly say that simplicity goes into that too.
Like just lay it out in a simple way.
Don't overwhelm yourself with these crazy amounts of things that you need to get done,
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or you think you need to get done, I should say, on top of your responsibilities that
you already have, because it's just overwhelming.
Like just do what you need to do and have this backup list if you really think you need
to get those things done.
And then whenever you're done with all of your responsibilities, the things you really
need to get done, the top priorities, then get your to-do list out if you still have
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time in the day.
I really think you just need to simplify your day.
You know, don't make this whole schedule of each day to where you're getting up and you're
go go go until you go to bed, because then you're not going to really enjoy life.
It's overwhelming, it's stressful, and where's the time to rest with God?
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You need that.
That's something that I have worked on so much this year, and there are days where I'm
like, God, I failed today 100%.
And you know, every time he's like, all right, do better tomorrow, you know, or there's still
time in the day today, why don't you come hang out with me and then do better tomorrow?
And you know, that's just something I've really worked on this year is simplifying my life
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in all areas so that I can actually have some time to just sit down and be with God and
rest and have peace and be content and content content.
And my well in my world and to me personally, content equals peace.
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Like when I am content, I am the most at peace.
And I also have joy that comes from being content.
Confidence to you know, Philippians 413, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens
me.
That's about being content.
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You can do all things because you are content in Christ.
And you know, that's confidence, joy, peace.
Just live simply.
You don't need all the gadgets, all the gizmos of the world.
Oh, the laptop is you don't need all of that.
The trends, the aesthetics.
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I'm not saying never do like if you like a trend and you you know, whatever, like do
it, but don't just try to keep up with them because that's what the world does.
You know, same with the aesthetics, you know, just just live for God, you know, you don't
need all of that.
I was thinking about the first podcast episode of this year.
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So like literally just a couple days ago, I think I put it out of me babbling and I
was talking about how I didn't make a list this year and I didn't like 100% did not.
But you know, that doesn't mean I don't have goals.
So like I did say I mentioned in the first episode that that last episode that my goal
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this year is just just to be like just to have better self discipline because self like
everything comes from self discipline, you know, and so that is my main goal.
But I was thinking about how I failed to mention that along with that, I do have some goals
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in my mind, but they're not like I'm writing them down and by the end of 2025, I'm going
to be perfect at self discipline in this area.
It's nothing like that.
It's really just like I want to have self discipline in specific areas in my life.
But also, some of those areas are things that God may not care if I do those in six months,
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maybe it's just for a season that he wants to show me something through having self discipline
in that area.
But then the next season, who cares if I'm doing x, y, z, he doesn't really want me to
do that anymore because it doesn't align with his priorities for this next season of my
life.
But my main priorities are always going to stay the same.
Love God, live for God and share that with others.
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And those are my main priorities.
So everything else like I need to have my goals for 2025 should be I need to do better
at having self discipline in my relationship with God when I love him and live with him
and share that with others.
Everything else is just going to fall under that with whatever the Holy Spirit leads.
I'm not going to be able to hear anything that the Holy Spirit is saying to me if I'm
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not focusing on those top priorities that I just mentioned.
So really, my goals are just those two things.
And then the rest, I'm just going to let God lead.
And if I have self if my goal every day is just to have better self discipline than the
day before, and that is my goal every single day, while I may not have exact things that
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I'm working on, I don't know what things I'm going to be doing in a day in six months.
What I do know is that in six months, I'm still going to need to work on my self discipline.
And I still should want to work on my self discipline.
And that is still going to be my goal.
So that's kind of where I was going with that.
And maybe next year, I'll have a goal list or a prayer board or a vision board of some
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kind of vision board that turns into a prayer board, I should say.
But this year, I just I'm tired.
And I'm not like physically tired, but I'm mentally and emotionally and honestly spiritually
tired but I'm also beginning to be spiritually rejuvenated.
I'm just going through a very short season of exhaustion.
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And when I thought about like, I didn't even think at first actually about making a goal
list or a prayer board or a vision board or anything, because I was like, No, I just need
to live with God.
And so that's kind of God just really has been putting self discipline on my mind.
And rest, but rest has been on my mind for a couple years.
Self discipline is the big one right now.
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And so that's why it's my main goal.
Yeah.
Anyway, there's other things on my list here that I thought of when I was jotting down
some ideas.
But I think that's where I'm going to end it for now.
Although this one's very important, whoever invented avocado to or invented.
That's probably not the correct term.
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Whoever first came up with the idea of avocado toast is literally a genius.
You know, that was like such a trendy thing.
I feel like for so long for all these fitness and health girls, I don't know about guys
because I didn't watch any of their stuff.
But for sure the girls out there and they were like, Oh, yeah, so I got up and I drank
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my coffee and I I can't go to the gym on an empty stomach.
So I just had a small piece of avocado toast.
Sorry, I'm being rude, by the way, I'm saying that that's just how it came out.
But I didn't mean it that way.
But honestly, they know what's good.
Avocado toast is bomb.
And also, like, if you up your game and you mix your avocado with salt and garlic and
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onion powder, and then you top it with tomatoes and you put a fried egg on top that is over
medium, meaning the white is all the way cooked, but the yolk is ready.
Put that on top.
And girl, you got it good.
It is so good.
And then also not only that, but if you really want to get fancy, put just a little drizzle
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of Tabasco sauce if you like Tabasco sauce on top of that.
If you're in the mood.
Sometimes I'm not in the mood for it.
But sometimes I'm like, man, that Tabasco sauce would hit really good right now.
And so yeah, avocado toast.
It's bomb.
Okay, yeah, so.
And then the other one that I have that was stupid, but I wrote it down anyway, because
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I guess I was feeling it in the moment.
I can handle spice better now.
That's a reflection of this year.
I so I have always kind of at least as far as I can remember, I have liked a bit of spice.
Like I could eat jalapeno with my food or whatever.
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But then I reached like this certain jalapeno, though, like that's as far as I could go.
I reached this point.
I'm like, okay, I can't handle it anymore.
I don't enjoy this anymore.
I'm done.
And really the jalapeno, I don't even know if at first I was a big fan of it.
I think it was just like I knew I could handle the spice and I wanted to be cool.
You know, so you know, just being real here.
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But now my husband, for instance, the other day, he handles spice really well.
Me and my dad both and husband like a week or two ago, I can't remember, we had this
hot sauce and it's really hot.
Like it was I don't remember how many scovilles if you know what that is, but it's a lot like
a lot a lot.
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And he got it out.
I don't remember what we were eating, but I poured some on there and he was like, you're
just going to I just wanted to try it.
You know, I haven't tried it yet.
And so he was like, you're probably just going to want like two drops in your food and then
mix it up, like maybe just one or two.
And so I pour a couple of drops.
At least I was intending to pour a couple of drops and more came out than I meant.
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And it was like a whole full on drizzle of hot sauce.
And he was like, oh, good luck.
And I ate it.
And I mean, yes, it was spicy.
I'm not I'm not going to try to be whatever like, oh, it wasn't even spicy.
No, it was definitely spicy.
But I was enjoying it.
Like I actually liked it.
It wasn't so hot to me that I couldn't actually taste it.
You know, when it's so hot and your tongue feels like it's about to fall off and it's
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like, wow, this is literally horrendous and I'm going to die.
But no, I was actually enjoying it.
I could still taste the flavor of my food.
I could taste the flavor of the hot sauce.
And like my nose started running a little bit.
But I didn't like get super hot or anything.
Like it was good.
And I put some on my food this or today, too, for lunch.
And I was like, dang, I was thinking about it today.
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I was like, wow, I am so proud of myself because that is a big deal to me.
Some people are like, that's stupid.
But no, that is a big deal.
It's like, dang, I am a cool kid.
I can handle my spice now.
Um, I think that was like whenever I was pregnant with my son, I started wanting spicy food
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more and I started eating it more.
And then I was told that I don't need to be eating as much as I was because it was
like giving me major heartburn and I was uncomfortable.
And so I slowed down.
But I don't know why.
Maybe that's why.
Maybe the Lord somehow orchestrated my, I have no idea.
I have no idea how he did it, but something with my pregnancy, I think, did it.
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And yeah, so there you go.
There's that.
Okay.
Well, I hope you guys have an amazing week.
I don't know what day this is coming out.
It'll come out when it comes out.
And yeah, if you guys are listening to this though, and you made it to this point, please
share this with someone or share the, my website or something with people.
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My website is www.worshipwereyourlifestyle.com.
And we also have a few free resources on there and a blog.
I say we, it's just me, but God, me and God.
So we, um, so yeah, anyway, we have that.
And I always put the links and stuff in the description below the each episode or whatever.
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And the podcast is on pretty much any platform.
There's like a few minor ones.
It's not on Pandora and it's not on a couple other smaller ones, but it's pretty much on
everything else.
Like it's on the big ones of Spotify.
It's on, um, wow, where it's Apple.
It's on, oh, I don't even remember off top of my head, but it's on all of the big ones.
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And then some others.
So yeah.
And if you want a link or you want to see what platforms, like what sharing platforms
it is on, you can just go to my website and go to podcasts and scroll down to the bottom
and it tells you which ones it's on.
Um, if you want to find a specific one or whatever, hopefully that made sense.
You get what I mean.
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So yeah, anyway.
All right.
I hope you have a great day and happy new year again.
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